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SUMMARY:Bespoke for Lunar New Year for All (online event)
DESCRIPTION:This inaugural (virtual) BESPOKE NEXT GEN will feature readings by four fabulous writers\, including poet/playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes\, novelist Nawaaz Ahmed\, fiction/comic writer and playwright Emma Horwitz\, and poet Beth Hightower\, plus a small Q&A to follow. \nAs per past Bespoke events\, our 02/02/2022 reading will serve as a fundraiser for “NYC Lunar New Year for All\,” a community organization devoted to the safety and wellness of the queer AAPI population in celebration of the upcoming lunar new year. \nPlease make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. 80% of donations will go to “NYC Lunar New Year for All” and 20% will go to support our host\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nFor utmost safety\, the event will be hosted via Zoom and live-streamed via the Bureau’s YouTube channel! \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to gain access to the event on Zoom. All who register for the event can join by clicking on “access the event” on the event page on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives (Counterpoint\, 2021\, hardcover\, $27) from the Bureau. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s Stepmotherland (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $15) from the Bureau. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nNAWAAZ AHMED is a transplant from Tamil Nadu\, India. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and is a former Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow. “Radiant Fugitives\,” his first novel\, was longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2021) and the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize. @nawaazonthenet \n  \nWhile at the University of California-Berkeley\, BETH HIGHTOWER (Chinese/White) won the Joan Lee Yang Memorial Poetry Contest and received an honorable mention for the Academy of American Poets’ University and College Poetry Prize. They have read at UC-Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series\, Spoonbill Studio’s Poetry 99\, and the Home School. @bethtinshow \n  \nDARREL ALEJANDRO HOLNES is an Afro-Panamanian American writer and the author of Migrant Psalms (Northwestern University Press\, 2021) and Stepmotherland (Notre Dame Press\, 2022). He is the recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize\, the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize\, and an NEA Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry). He is an assistant professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and a faculty member at New York University. @blackboytraveljoy \n  \nEMMA HORWITZ is a writer and educator from New York City. Her plays have been produced and/or supported by The Playwrights Realm (2021-2022 Writing Fellow)\, Williamstown Theater Festival (2020 Playwright-in-Residence)\, Page 73 (Semifinalist 2021 Playwriting Fellowship)\, Clubbed Thumb\, New Georges etc. Her work in fiction and comics have been published in print and online at Spiral Bound\, Moon Missives\, Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Sunday Stories\, Joyland Magazine\, Two Serious Ladies\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, etc. BA: Bard College\, Written Arts. MFA: Brown University\, Playwriting. @e_horwitz
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SUMMARY:Lance Ringel Reads from His Latest Novel\, Floridian Nights\, with Chuck Muckle (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:Lance Ringel’s latest novel\, Floridian Nights\, unfolds against a background that at times\, surprisingly\, can feel as distant as the World War I France of his award-winning debut novel\, Flower of Iowa. \nAugust\, 1988 – the hottest summer in more than a century in New York\, a city shadowed by the AIDS epidemic. Gary Gaines is 35 years old and three years past losing\, in the most sudden\, unexpected\, terrible way\, the love of his life\, Becker Barnes. And then again\, he is not past it at all. One night\, to forget their mutual pain\, Gary and his best friend Julia Stern\, an even more recent widow\, venture out to a funky East Village restaurant. There Gary meets\, in the most unlikely circumstances\, Rick Fennell\, a 22-year-old waiter freshly moved from the Midwest. Despite the generation gap between them\, a relationship slowly begins to develop. But Gary cannot bring himself to take Rick seriously\, and his tight circle of family and friends\, all of whom adored Becker\, share his skepticism. Abruptly\, circumstances cause Gary to decamp from New York to his parents’ home in Florida. As the days and nights pass\, he is forced to face the consequences of his paralyzing grief\, and make decisions about the future. \nFloridian Nights captures a unique moment in time – a pre-digital age\, when easy public affection and equality in marriage remain faraway dreams\, but an organized community has finally emerged into the sunlight\, and a gay man can find complete acceptance within his own family. The terror and tragedy of a killer epidemic stalking the land will be all too familiar to contemporary readers\, even as they enjoy a culture-clash romance that ricochets between the unexpectedly comic and the deeply poignant. \nReading followed by a Q&A \n  \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 this page. 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\n \n  \nPurchase Lance Ringel’s Floridian Nights (Distant Mirror Press\, 2021\, paperback\, $16.95) from the Bureau’s online store! \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \n  \nLance Ringel’s debut novel Flower of Iowa\, an epic love story between two soldiers in the First World War\, won book awards spanning multiple categories. His recently published second novel\, Floridian Nights\, is a generation-gap gay romance set against the backdrop of the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Ringel’s works for the theater include the plays In Love with the Arrow Collar Man\, based on the true story of famed illustrator J.C. Leyendecker and his lover Charles Beach\, and the current production Flash/Frozen\, also based on true historical events. \nwww.lanceringel.com \n  \nChuck Muckle (director/playwright/actor/composer) directed IN LOVE WITH THE ARROW COLLAR MAN and MOURNING BECOMES RIDICULOUS at the New York New Works Festival. MBR was previously chosen as one of four finalists in the Manhattan Theatre Mission’s second annual musical showcase\, where it won awards for best book\, lyrics\, actor and actress. He appeared in the National Tours of SOUTH PACIFIC and CAMELOT with Robert Goulet\, the Eastern Tour of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with John Astin\, and was in the feature film THE NIGHT BEFORE with Seth Rogen.
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SUMMARY:Craft Class & Reading with Kai Coggin (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Kai Coggin \n  \nCraft Class will run from 11 AM-1PM EST. Followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM. \nRegistration on this page required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nOnce you have registered on this page you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to this page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n$10 suggested donation for the instructor (not required) \n  \nThe Open Letter: What is an open letter? \nAn open letter is a letter\, often critical\, addressed to a particular person or group of people\, but intended to be widely distributed to a wider audience. The letter does not usually get a reply\, but it is written to shed light on a subject\, an individual\, or a group as a form of protest or grievance. It can also be used for praising and honoring something or someone. \nIn this workshop\, Office Hours writers will read a selection of poetry with examples of the Open Letter. We will discuss various aspects of form\, craft\, and attention to figurative language used by the different poets in the packet\, and finish with time to write an open letter poem from a selection of prompts provided by Kai. There will be time for sharing at the end. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Kai Coggin’s Mining for Stardust (Flowersong Press\, 2021\, paperback\, $18) from the Bureau. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nKAI COGGIN (she/her) is the author of MINING FOR STARDUST (FlowerSong Press 2021)\, INCANDESCENT (Sibling Rivalry Press 2019)\, WINGSPAN (Golden Dragonfly Press 2016)\, and PERISCOPE HEART (Swimming with Elephants Publications 2014)\, as well as a spoken word album SILHOUETTE (2017). She is a queer woman of color who thinks Black Lives Matter\, a teaching artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council and Arkansas Learning Through the Arts\, and the host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry. Recently awarded the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award and named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times\, her fierce and powerful poetry has been nominated four times for The Pushcart Prize\, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015\, and Best of the Net 2016 and 2018. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY\, Cultural Weekly\, SOLSTICE\, Bellevue Literary Review\, TAB\, Entropy\, SWWIM\, Split This Rock\, Sinister Wisdom\, Lavender Review\, Luna Luna\, Blue Heron Review\, Tupelo Press\, West Trestle Review\, and elsewhere. Coggin is Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review. She lives with her wife and their two adorable dogs in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park\, Arkansas. \n  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. The workshop fellowship 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 womxn-identified. Our Craft Classes are free and open to the public with RSVP. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Underground Rebel: The Secret Lives of Lorraine Hansberry (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:Afro-American scholar James Wright will be presenting recent revelations concerning Lorraine Hansberry\, famed author of A Raisin in the Sun. The focus of the talk will be Hansberry’s political activism as a member of the Communist Party and her authorship\, using a pseudonym\, of short stories depicting lesbian characters.  \n  \nBooks by and about Lorraine Hansberry on the Bureau’s online store and in the Bureau’s physical 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\n \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/underground-rebel-the-secret-lives-of-lorraine-hansberry/
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SUMMARY:Anatomies of Want: Daniel W.K. Lee\, Travis Montez\, and Stephen S. Mills (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:Poets Daniel W.K. Lee\, Travis Montez\, and Stephen S. Mills guide us through the terrain of wanting—from carnal to familial\, satiation to longing—reading from their oeuvres including works from their most recently published books Anatomy of Want (Lee)\, Objects In This Rearview Vol 03: Home/Again (Montez)\, and Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (Mills). \nThis is an in-person event taking place at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, NYC. \nIf you are unable to join us at the Bureau\, you can live-stream the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on this page. \nThanks for your support! \n  \nCopies of Anatomy of Want (Lee)\, Objects In This Rearview Vol 03: Home/Again (Montez)\, and Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (Mills) will all be available for purchase at the event\, and both Lee’s and Mills’s books are available for purchase on our online store. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Daniel W.K. Lee’s Anatomy of Want (Queer Mojo\, 2019\, paperback\, $12.95) from the Bureau’s online store. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Stephen S. Mills’s Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2018\, paperback\, $18) from the Bureau’s online store.\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nReaders’ biographies: \nBorn in Kuching\, Malaysia\, Daniel W.K. Lee is a third-generation refugee going back to China via Vietnam and Malaysia. Raised in Chicagoland\, Daniel moved to New York City in 1996 where he earned a BA at NYU and an MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry at The New School. Daniel relocated to Seattle in 2014 and after a little over five years in the Pacific Northwest\, he and his whippet Camden moved to New Orleans in December 2019 soon after the publication of his debut collection of poetry Anatomy of Want by Queer Mojo/Rebel Satori Press. Find out more about him at danielwklee.com \n  \nTravis Montez is a writer\, poet\, professor and juvenile rights attorney\, representing children in the Family Court system of New York City. Born and raised in Nashville\, Tennessee\, Montez came to NYC in the late 90s to attend NYU where he pursued degrees in Journalism and Africana Studies. It was there that he was first introduced to spoken word poetry. Since then\, Travis Montez has performed in venues all over the world\, released seven collections of poetry and a spoken word album. His latest release\, Objects In This Rearview Vol 03: Home/Again is now out and will be available for purchase at the reading. \n  \nStephen S. Mills (he/him/his) is the author of the Lambda Award-winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (2012) as well as A History of the Unmarried (2014) and Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (2018) all from Sibling Rivalry Press. He earned his MFA from Florida State University. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Columbia Poetry Review\, The Antioch Review\, PANK\, The New York Quarterly\, The Los Angeles Review\, The Rumpus\, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award and the 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction. Two of his books were placed on the Over the Rainbow List compiled yearly by the American Library Association. An excerpt from his play Men Like Us was featured as part of Pride Plays in June of 2020. He is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Goddard College. He lives in New York City with his partner and two schnauzers. Website: stephensmills.com
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SUMMARY:Bushwick Book Club presents WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER by Hugh Ryan (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:Come hear new songs\, dance new dances and eat new snacks inspired by Hugh Ryan‘s WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER –– a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn\, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II\, and beyond. \nAuthor Hugh Ryan will give a reading\, and 14 songwriters\, performance artists and choreographers will perform new work celebrating this book and Brooklyn’s queer history. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer (St. Martin’s Griffin\, 2020\, paperback) from the Bureau’s online store. \nPromo code for 15% off: 091GYWU69FUK \nRegularly $17.99 / $15.29 with promo code! \nClick on “redeem your code” underneath the total at checkout. \nEnter the code and hit “Apply” \nWhen Brooklyn Was Queer is also available at the Bureau’s physical store — just mention the event to the volunteer when checking out for the 15% account. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nPERFORMERS: \nJIM ANDRALIS \nPENNY ARCADE \nRAY BROWN \nRALPH DENZER \nPETER DIZOZZA \nSEA GRIFFIN \nSUSAN HWANG \nJULIE LAMENDOLA \nSTEPHANIE LARIERRE \nST. LENOX \nJOE MCGINTY \nRISA MICKENBERG \nCHARLES NIELAND \nTROY OGILVIE \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nPlease arrive by 7 PM to make sure you get in–the performances begin at 7:30 PM.\nWe are limiting the number of audience members to 40.\nFirst come first served!\n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the performers (80%) and the Bureau (20%). \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on this page. \n  \nHugh Ryan is a writer and curator. His first book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, won a 2020 New York City Book Award\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice in 2019\, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association. In 2019-2021\, he worked on the Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in U.S. History curricular materials for the NYC Department of Education. \n  \nThe Bushwick Book Club is a literature-inspired performance series and podcast that invites local songwriters and artists to plumb the depths of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing – a new song (or visual art\, dance\, film or snack). All songs are then performed at a live show. The Bushwick Book Club now has several branches all over the world\, including Seattle\, Portland\, Oakland\, Los Angeles\, Santa Barbara\, New Orleans\, Greenville\, NC\, London and Malmö\, Sweden. The Bushwick Book Club podcast is available on iTunes and SoundCloud.
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SUMMARY:TELL 78: Overcome (in-person event)
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\, making this TELL the eight-year anniversary edition! \nOvercome is the theme of the 78th TELL\, taking place in-person at the Bureau on Saturday\, February 19\, 2022\, at 7 PM! \nGuest-hosted by Calvin Cato and featuring storytellers Glo Butler\, Anthony Oakes\, Lois Thompson\, and Elsa Eli Waithe. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau.\nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation.\n\nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n\n\nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n \nGlo Butler has performed all over the country\, and was most recently featured in the New York Comedy Fest and Black Women In Comedy Festival. She was listed in 2019 Time Out Mag: “LGBTQ POC Comedians You Should Know” and Gold comedy “comedians to watch in 2022. She currently hosts and produce a bi-weekly POC/queer comedy show called Glo In The City live at Daily Press in Brooklyn. She also hosts Black Grits: a POC/queer comedy\, burlesque and drag show once a month in Brooklyn. \n \nCalvin S. Cato has performed all across the United States and has even crossed the border into Canada. His television appearances include the Game Show Network\, Oxygen’s My Crazy Love\, National Geographic’s Brain Games\, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. His work has been featured in numerous festivals including San Francisco Sketchfest\, Brooklyn Pride\, Gotham Storytelling Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. In addition\, you may have heard him on Sirius XM or on the popular podcasts RISK!\, Guys We F*cked\, Las Culturistas\, and Keith and the Girl. In 2017\, Calvin was named one of Time Out New York’s Queer Comics of Color to Watch Out For. In 2021\, Calvin contributed to Kweendom\, an anthology of essays written by queer comedians. \n \nHailing from North Carolina\, Anthony D. Oakes is a District of Columbia resident who is taking the comedy scene by storm. He is the winner of the 2021 DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Performance. Anthony was a participant in the 2021 DC Comedy Festival and 2021 Sixth City Comedy Festivals\, and 2021 Memphis Urban Laughs Festival. \n  \n \nFor the past eight years\, Lois Thompson has produced and hosted Blacklight Comedy Show at The Brooklyn Moon. Always an all-female line-up\, Blacklight has become a must-do stage for NYC and visiting comedians alike. Since 2016\, she has also produced the comedy portion of the Brooklyn Pride Celebration. When she not busy finding funny people\, Lois helps people find their place in the world of real estate where she is a top-producing veteran of 18 years. \n \nElsa Eli Waithe is a Comedian\, Actor\, and Motivational Speaker from Norfolk\, Virginia. She’s won the Virginia Beach Funnybone’s Clash of the Comics three times\, has been featured on This American Life\, and is a recurring guest on TELL.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-78-overcome-in-person-event/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inhaling life: poppers and bodies\, queer history and art (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Paul Moreno and writer Adam Zmith in a discussion about poppers and queer culture in their respective work. The vapors that escape an open bottle of poppers recall the dark rooms where queerness both hid and thrived. The image of the bottle alludes to the dreamy eyes and relaxing bodies of men at play. That half empty bottle at the back of your nightstand connects you to a history of queers\, leaving the dark room and marching in the streets. Paul and Adam will explore this connection between pleasure and political resistance\, as well as their influences and ambitions as makers who are intent on inhaling life. \n\nEvent image features a detail of Paul Moreno’s Mano poderosa. 2020. 20″ x 29”. Mixed media on wood \n\n\nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link: \nClick here to register\n\nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.\nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau! \n\nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \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 event page on Eventbrite 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\n \n\nPurchase Adam Zmith‘s Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures (Repeater\, 2021\, paperback\, $14.95) from the Bureau’s online store!\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nPaul Moreno‘s solo exhibition Problem Areas is on view at the Bureau through February 27\, 2022. \nAdam Zmith is a writer. He was the recipient of the London Writers Award 2019-20\, and is the author of several shortlisted and published short stories. He is also one of the producers of The Log Books podcast\, winner of Gold in the Best New Podcast category at the British Podcast Awards 2020. \nPaul Moreno is a self-taught artist who grew up in Sparks\, Nevada. Paul studied Literature and Critical Thought at University of San Francisco and NYU. About the title\, Problem Areas\, Paul states “I took the title from the old adage that art-making is largely a process of problem solving. However\, the title is also meaningful in that when I choose subjects for my work\, I try to look at something that I have complex or unresolved feelings about. By spending time with the subject\, against the background of parsing it into formal elements that serve the picture\, I find spiritual resolution can also present itself. In this way\, the problem\, as it were\, is not a negative\, but an opportunity to expose the beauty in the subject to myself and hopefully the viewer.”
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/inhaling-life-poppers-and-bodies-queer-history-and-art-online-event/
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