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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Broadside Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Office Hours Poetry Broadside Fundraiser Event! We’ve paired up eight LGBTQ+ poets with visual artists to craft unique broadsides showcasing their remarkable poems. All broadside sales go toward funding the Office Hours Poetry Workshop fellows. The event will include both a poetry reading and a Q & A with the visual artists moderated by Founding Director\, Sarah M. Sala.\n\nThe broadsides will be available for purchase on the Office Hours virtual gallery\, launching on the day of the event.\n\nSuggested donation for this event is $5 to $10. All are welcome to join\, with or without donation. All donations and broadside sales go towards funding Office Hours Poetry Workshop fellows.\n\nRegistration required.\nClick here to register\n\nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop provides post-MFA poets continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are femme-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, and creatives who continue to thrive in the margins of academia.\n\n  \nFeatured Poets: CAConrad\, Marty Correia\, Alexis Garcia\, Benjamin Garcia\, Omotara James\, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado\, Christina Quintana (CQ)\, and Crystal Valentine.\n\n\n  \nFeatured Visual Artists: Reba Billips\, Esteban Delgado\, Sy Klipsch-Abudu\, Brandon Menke\, Meesh Nah\, Umang Antariksh Sagar\, and Sherie Weldon\n\n\n  \nCheck out books by or including the featured poets on the Bureau’s online store!\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“[Omotara James’s] limited-edition chapbook was selected by Kwame Dawes\, Chris Abani\, and the African Poetry Book Fund\, in collaboration with Akashic Books\, for the 2018 New-Generation African Poets Box Set\, and I am tickled pink for its release this month. James’s voice is so unique and genuine; she’s definitely a poet to have on your poetdar\, and I’m sure this whole collection will be stellar.”\n–The Coil\, Omotara James’s “Daughter Tongue” included in Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 and Most Anticipated April 2018 Books \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nAnd Marty Correia’s Pigeon Mothers (paperback\, $15) is available from Triple Decker Press! \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 69: Blow It
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL 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. \nBlow It is the theme of the 69th TELL\, on Saturday\, January 16\, 2021\, 6 to 7:30 PM (EST). Featuring Dusty Childers\, Sammie James\, and Joey Kipp. \nThe event will take place on Zoom. \nThis is a free event\, but you must register on the Eventbrite page in advance in order to receive the Zoom meeting link on the day of the event. \nDonations for the performers and the Bureau are much appreciated!\nMake a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page. \nClick here to register\n  \nThe Bureau will send out a link to the Zoom meeting to all who have registered on the day of the event. \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\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. \nDusty Childers (Dust Tea Shoulders/ @duddylynn) is a multi-disciplinary artist (and self proclaimed style icon) who directs\, provides dramaturgy\, curates\, hosts\, conjures costumes\, styles\, speaks their truth in front of audiences\, drags it up\, dances\, twirls flags and fans\, and instructs the future via the public school classroom. Dusty’s body and body of work has graced the likes of Sundance\, SXSW\, True/False\, The Guggenheim\, St. Anne’s Warehouse\, The Whitney\, BAM\, Parsons\, International Center of Photography\, Signature Theater\, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia\, Town Hall\, Joe’s Pub\, Abrons Art Center\, NY Live Arts\, The Wild Project\, Dixon Place\, Irving Plaza\, The Knockdown Center (Bushwig)\, The PIT\, Don’t Tell Mama\, Rockwood Music Hall\, The Slipper Room\, Judson Memorial Church\,The MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival\, La MaMa\, Metropolitan Bar\, Sid Gold’s Request Room\,The Delancey\, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, Starr Bar\, Wise Men\, Governor’s Ball\, Club Cumming\, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, This n’ That\, C’mon Everybody\, Nowhere Bar\, House of Yes\, Bushwick Bazaar\, Drom\, The Deep End\, and the Soho Playhouse (NY Fringe Festival). He has worked alongside MacArthur Genius Taylor Mac\, acclaimed writer/performer Justin Sayre\, performance artist Machine Dazzle\, artist Nayland Blake\, pop star and DJ Ana Matronic\, director Silas Howard\, Bitch (of Bitch and Animal)\,drag artist Charlene Incarnate\, performance artist/puppeteer Glenn Marla\, rapper Mister Wallace\, singer Big Dipper\, director Stephen Winter\, performance artist/writer Dan Fishback\, filmmaker/drag performer Sequinette Jaynesfield\, choreographer/singer Miguel Gutierrez\, burlesque star World Famous *BOB*\, professional clown Eric Schmalenberger and singer Amber Martin (among countless others). Dusty and his work have appeared in Art In America\, Artforum\,OUT Magazine\, Electric Dirt (by Queer Appalachia)\, TimeOut NY\, Velour Magazine\, Next Magazine\, Aljazeera\, NY Times\, OutThere Magazine (UK) and Ud & Se (Dutch) \n  \nSammie James is a comedian and story teller from New Jersey; where she hosts and produces The LGBT showcase Queerly Comedic. Sammie also hosts the podcast All Of My Friends Are Animals and The NYC Trans Variety show We Are Trans. She performs all over the country; including past appearances at Cinder Block Comedy Festival\, Charm City Comedy Festival and Bechdal Test Fest; and she is soon to be your favorite disabled\, nerdy\, butch trans woman in comedy. \n  \nJoey Kipp is an NYC Dancer and performer. \n 
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