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SUMMARY:TELL 63: My Body
DESCRIPTION:TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nMy Body is the theme of the 63rd TELL\, on Saturday\, July 18\, 2020\, 6 to 7:15 PM (EST). Featuring Carla Gaskins-Nathan\, Vie Paula\, and Brian Belovitch. \nThe event will take place on Zoom. \nThis is a free event\, but you must register on the Eventbrite page in advance of the event in order to receive the Zoom meeting link. \nDonations for the performers are much appreciated!\nMake a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page. \nhttps://tinyurl.com/yadq4fm6 \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCarla Gaskins-Nathan (pronouns she/they) is the Brooklyn and now resides in Harlem. Carla is the founder and CEO of Zelah LLC\, which includes their private massage practice\, Rooted Bodywork. Carla is a consultant\, educator and healing artist that believes true holistic wellness must be rooted in healing\, social and racial justice. \nCarla preformed and curated while living in Minneapolis in the 90s and 2000s. Their performance work includes spoken word\, drag\, DJ\, VJ and performance art. Carla has preformed at Twin Cities Black Pride\, the main stage of Twin Cities Pride\, Intermedia Arts\, Patrick’s Cabaret and other LGBTQIA events. \nCarla’s work is open to all that see the importance of holistic wellness with a focus on loving Blackness and working with LGBTQIA+ communities of color. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSouth Bronx bred\, performance fed\, Vie Paula is a Caretaker\, Thing Maker\, Singer/Songwriter\, and Licensed Massage Therapist striving to learn how to tell the whole truth and spend as much time as possible with their roommate’s cat. With night life entertainment in the far away past and a recent foray into all things extra\, Vie wants to see you and be seen by you. They are currently working on staying connected and engaged\, figuring out what fun is\, and creating a life worth staying awake for. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBrian Belovitch\, author\, activist and longtime resident of NYC also has a storied career as a writer and gender outlier. He’s appeared on New York stages for more than three decades. Recently he was featured on The Moth Storytelling hour on NPR relating a story from his recently published memoir\, Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man. In 2019\, Brian was a recipient of the Acker award for writing that is given annually to East Village\, NY avant-garde artists. As a playwright\, his Off-Broadway play\, Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick\, was honored with a 2000 GLAAD nomination. This June\, Brian was named one of the 50 most influential LGBTQ authors of all time by Barnes and Noble and invited to participate in the 50th anniversary of Stonewall Gay Pride Parade in New York City. In November 2019\, Brian was the subject of a documentary film debuting its world premiere at DOC NYC titled I’m Gonna Make You Love Me directed by Karen Bernstein. As a long- term survivor of HIV Brian lives proudly as a beloved gay man\, advocating on behalf of the LGBTQ community in all its wondrous expressions. \n 
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SUMMARY:Author Matthew Burgess Discusses Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bureau online for a conversation about Keith Haring’s life\, art\, and lasting cultural influence with author of Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring\, Matthew Burgess\, and special guest\, author Tom Eubanks (Ghosts of St. Vincent’s). \nThis event is free\, but registration on Eventbrite is required. We will send out the link to the event on the day of the event. \nRegistration link: https://tinyurl.com/yc5zcdxk \n  \nAbout the book: \nDrawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring  \nMatthew Burgess\, Author \nJosh Cochran\, Illustrator \nEnchanted Lion Books\, May 19\, 2020\, Hardcover\, $18.95 \nTarget Age Group: 5 to 13 \nPurchase Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring from Enchanted Lion Books \n  \nFrom the publisher: \n“Truly devoted to the idea of public art\, Haring created murals wherever he went. \n“From Matthew Burgess\, the much-acclaimed author of Enormous Smallness\, comes Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring. Often seen drawing in white chalk on the matte black paper of unused advertising space in the subway\, Haring’s iconic pop art and graffiti-like style transformed the New York City underground in the 1980s. A member of the LGBTQ community\, Haring died tragically at the age of thirty-one from AIDS-related complications. Illustrated in paint by Josh Cochran\, himself a specialist in bright\, dense\, conceptual drawings\, this honest\, celebratory book honors Haring’s life and art\, along with his very special connection with kids.” \n  \n“Thirty years after Keith Haring’s death of AIDS-related complications\, this vibrant picture book brings the iconic pop artist’s work and story to the hearts of a new generation. Often featuring a bold black line\, Cochran’s painterly illustrations drive the narrative–bursting with movement and color–utilizing a wide variety of perspectives and both spot and full-bleed illustrations to dance around the text in a suitably neo-expressionist tribute to the subject. Stylized and simplified figures fill the pages with smiling faces in a broad spectrum of skin tones and body types\, opening the door on Haring’s passionately held belief that ‘Art is for everybody.’ Without erasing or dwelling on any particular aspect of Haring’s personal life\, author Burgess outlines Haring’s relationships with art\, with children\, and with his partner\, Juan DuBose\, in straightforward\, accessible language–from his childhood in Pennsylvania to his ‘final mark’ in Pisa\, Italy (five months before his death)–with the same bold honesty and vibrance visible in his subject’s art career. Biographical\, author’s\, and illustrator’s notes back up the book\, supplementing the broad strokes of the text with finer detail and more individual perspectives on Haring’s personal\, political\, and artistic legacies. An inspired\, and inspiring\, continuation of Haring’s intention.” –Kirkus \n  \nMatthew Burgess is an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College. He is the author of a poetry collection\, Slippers for Elsewhere (UpSet Press\, 2014)\, and three children’s books: Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings (Enchanted Lion Books\, 2015)\, The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon (Knopf\, 2019)\, and the newly released Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring (ELB\, 2020). He has edited an anthology of visual art and writing titled Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space (Secretary Press\, 2016)\, as well as a recent collection titled Spellbound: The Art of Teaching Poetry (Teachers & Writers Collaborative\, 2019). More books are forthcoming\, including The Bear and The Moon (Chronicle\, 2020)\, Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent (ELB\, 2021)\, and Bird Boy (Knopf\, 2021). A poet-in-residence in New York City public schools since 2001\, Matthew also serves as a contributing editor of Teachers & Writers Magazine. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Genevieve Hudson & Alden Jones: A Virtual Reading with the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bureau online for a reading with Genevieve Hudson (Boys of Alabama) and Alden Jones (The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir) on Saturday\, July 25th\, 6 to 7 PM EST. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required. Register below: \nhttps://tinyurl.com/y9k2ty4f \nGenevieve Hudson will read from her new novel\, Boys of Alabama. Melissa Febos says of Boys of Alabama: “This novel is a love song to outsiders of all kinds\, a queer love story about the ways we find to heal ourselves and each other\, and proof that there can be magic amid the burdens of masculinity. Hudson’s prose is perfect and I will remember her Boys of Alabama for a long\, long time.” \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGenevieve Hudson’s previous books are the critical memoir A Little in Love with Everyone\, and Pretend We Live Here: Stories\, which was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, The MacDowell Colony\, Caldera Arts\, and The Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Portland\, OR. genevievehudsonwriter.com \nAlden Jones will read from her new bibliomemoir\, The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir. Alex Marzano-Lesnevich says of The Wanting Was a Wilderness: “Alden Jones intended to write a reckoning with a contemporary literary classic — but she has written far more than that. To carefully dissect Wild\, she finds she must consider her own quests: her own time in the wild; her self-discoveries as a queer woman; and how she can both live and tell an authentic story. This is a beautiful\, lyric\, unexpected book about the power of memoir and how desire both leads us into the wilderness and makes for us a map. The Wanting Was a Wilderness is a book for readers\, true readers\, to treasure.” \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlden Jones’s previous books are The Blind Masseuse\, a finalist for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogal Award\, and Unaccompanied Minors\, winner of the New American Fiction Prize and a finalist for a Lambda and a Publishing Triangle Award. She teaches at Emerson College and is core faculty in the Newport MFA. aldenjones.com \n  \nThis event is free\, but the authors and the Bureau ask attendees to make a donation of $10 or more to NYC’s LGBT Community Center if you have the means to do so. \nRSVP on Eventbrite in order to receive the link to the Zoom meeting (required).\nOrder Hudson’s Boys of Alabama (Liveright Publishing\, May 19\, 2020\, hardcover\, $26.95) from the Bureau. Send us an email with “Order Hudson’s Boys of Alabama” in the subject line at contact@bgsqd.com. Please include: \nName: \nShip-to address: \nPhone number: \nVenmo or PayPal handle: \n(or we can take your credit card info over the phone) \n  \nOrder Jones’s The Wanting Was a Wilderness (Fiction Advocate\, May 12\, 2020\, paperback\, $19.95) directly from the publisher: \nhttps://fictionadvocate.com/afterwords/the-wanting-was-a-wilderness/ \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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