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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed through January 4th
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed from December 20th through January 4th due to The Center’s restricted hours during this period. \nWe will resume regular hours\, Wednesdays-Sundays\, 1 to 7 PM\, on Wednesday\, January 5\, 2022. \nHere is the updated from The Center: \n“Due to the rising COVID rates\, we are seeking to reduce the density and people traffic at The Center.  One way we are achieving this is by having all non-essential staff working remotely from now until January 2nd.  This means we will be offering mostly virtual programs/services.  We will also be expanding our Holiday schedule.  We will be observing Holiday Hours from Thursday\, Dec. 23rd through Sunday\, January 2nd\, 2022; on these days we will only be open from 5pm-9pm.”
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SUMMARY:Bureau resumes regular hours
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, January 5\, 2022\, the Bureau resumes regular hours: Wednesdays-Sundays\, 1 to 7 PM.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL 77: Lost (ONLINE EVENT)
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. \n\nLost is the theme of the 77th TELL\, on Saturday\, January 15\, 2022\, 6:30 to 8:30 PM (EST) on Zoom! Featuring: Nonye Brown-West\, Shane O’Neill\, and Rachel Garbus.\n\n\n\n\nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link.\n\nClick here to register\n\n\nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers.\nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite.\nThank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL!\nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation.\n\n \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \n \nNonye Brown-West is a Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe’s Rise column as a Comic to Watch\, NPR\, PBS\, ABC\, Sway In The Morning\, and the New York Comedy Festival. Nonye has two animated web series\, Fairytales with Nonye and Gayby Jesus. \n  \nRachel Garbus (She/Her) is a writer and performer based in Atlanta\, Georgia. She’s the co-producer of the Atlanta LGBTQ+ History Project\, which employs photography\, archival material and oral history to share the incredible stories of Atlanta’s queer communities. Her fiancée is a primatologist and her dog is professionally anxious. \n  \n \nShane O’Neill is a reporter and video maker for The New York Times. He is also the creator and performer of The Jane Johnson Convention with Jill Pangallo. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for John Keene's Punks: New & Selected Poems (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us online to celebrate the book launch of John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems\, featuring poetry readings by John Keene and Reggie Harris.  \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nClick here to register\nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite  you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems (Song Cave\, paperback\, $20) from the Bureau’s online store! \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n(Book cover includes a detail of a photograph by Alvin Baltrop: The Navy (three men)\, n.d. (1969-72) \n  \nJohn Keene author photo by Nina Subin copy\nJohn Keene is a writer\, translator\, professor\, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. In 1989\, Keene joined the Dark Room Writers Collective\, and is a Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops. He is the author of Annotations\, and Counternarratives\, both published by New Directions\, as well as several other works\, including the poetry collection Seismosis\, with artist Christopher Stackhouse\, and a translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. Keene is the recipient of many awards and fellowships—including the Windham-Campbell Prize\, the Whiting Foundation Prize\, the Republic of Consciousness Prize\, and the American Book Award. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. \n  \nReginald Harris won the 2012 Cave Canem/Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. A Pushcart Prize Nominee\, recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council\, and Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for 10 Tongues: Poems (2002)\, his work has appeared in numerous journals\, anthologies\, and online. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner where he pretends to work on another manuscript.
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