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SUMMARY:Allen Barnett’s The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories World AIDS Day Celebration (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:The Library of Homosexual Congress is proud to reissue Allen Barnett’s 1990 collection The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories. Among the finest short stories in the gay literary cannon in particular\, and American fiction in general\, Barnett’s record of the then-burgeoning AIDS crisis is unparalleled in its poignant humor amidst compounding loss. Please join an array of writers on World AIDS Day as we celebrate the return of Allen Barnett’s work to print for the first time in decades. \nCopies of The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories (Rebel Satori Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $19.95) will be available for purchase. \nTo reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of The Body and Its Dangers for Dec. 1 event” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n\n\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\n\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 on Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nChristopher Bram is the author of twelve books including the novel that became the movie Gods and Monsters. He teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. \nGerard Cabrera is the author of short fiction\, poems\, and the novel\, Homo Novus\, published by Rattling Good Yarns Press in 2022. His writing has appeared in literary journals such as the Acentos Review\, JONATHAN\, Kweli\, Apricity\, Digging Press\, and Angel Rust. A naturalized Brooklynite\, Gerard hails from the Puerto Rican community of Springfield\, Massachusetts\, the birthplace of Dr. Seuss\, basketball\, and the first American dictionary. He is a member of the Publishing Triangle Board of Directors. \nJP Howard is a poet\, educator\, literary activist\, curator\, and community builder. JP is a Learn with Lambda Literary 2023 workshop facilitator and was the Spring 2023 Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. Her debut poetry collection\, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System)\, was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*)\, Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy\, Healing & Revolutionary Poems (Harlequin Creature) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians–We Are the Revolution! JP has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem\, VONA\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, and Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and her poetry is widely anthologized. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women’s Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online. http://www.jp-howard.com \nWalter Holland is the author of four books of poetry “Reconstruction” (Finishing Line Press\, 2022)\, “Circuit” (Chelsea Station Editions\, 2010)\, “Transatlantic\,” (Painted Leaf Press\, 2001)\, “A Journal of the Plague Years: Poems 1979-1992” (Magic City Press\, 1992) as well as a novel\, “The March” (Chelsea Station Editions\, 2011). Some of his recent poetry credits include: “Exquisite Pandemic\,” “HIV Here and Now\,” “Cutbank Literary Journal\,” “About Place Journal\,” and “Mollyhouse.” His reviews appear regularly in “Rain Taxi\,” both print and online editions. A three-part essay series on queer\, Black\, millennial poetry is forthcoming online on the “Lambda Literary Review” website. He lives in New York City. For more information visit: www.walterhollandwriter.com. \nRon Caldwell is a writer\, editor\, and educator who was born in Texas and studied English literature at Rice University. He received a Masters degree in Creative Writing: Poetry from Boston University\, where his teachers were George Starbuck\, Christopher Ricks\, and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Ron has taught at Parsons School of Design since 1996\, and is currently the coordinator of Integrative Seminar in the First Year program. He lives in Allen Barnett’s apartment. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Writing About\, With\, and Through AIDS (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:As part of this year’s World AIDS Day programming\, explore the continuing literary legacies of the AIDS crisis with us through readings of their own works and the poems of the late Haitian-born poet\, Assotto Saint\, whose Sacred Spells: Collected Works was recently published in August 2023\, and the late working-class Italian-Polish-American poet\, Walta Borawski\, whose Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski won the Publishing Triangle 2023 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. \nHow is rage\, loss\, grief\, humor\, love\, and survival expressed? How does race\, class\, language\, religion\, and national origin play out in these works? How do we preserve the collective knowledge and experiences of our diverse communities? How do we define “survival” today? \nFeaturing Gerard Cabrera\, Philip Clark\, Reginald Harris\, Charles Rice-González\, and Steven Riel. \nCo-Sponsored by The Publishing Triangle OUTSpoken Series \n\n\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \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 on Venmo @bgsqd \n\n  \nGerard Cabrera is from Springfield\, Massachusetts\, the birthplace of the first American dictionary\, Dr. Seuss\, and basketball. His debut novel\, Homo Novus\, was published in October 2022\, by Rattling Good Yarns Press\, and was supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Bread Loaf Bakeless Foundation fellowship at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis\, France. Other writing has appeared in Gay Community News\, Acentos Review\, Angel Rust\, Apricity\, JONATHAN\, Kweli\, and Digging Press. An attorney\, he lives and works in New York City. Visit him at www.gerardcabrera.com. \n  \nPhilip Clark is the co-editor of Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski (Rebel Satori\, 2022)\, winner of the 2023 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.  His previous books are Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton.  The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship\, he is completing a biography of H. Lynn Womack\, a pioneering gay publisher from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.  He lives near Washington\, D.C. \n  \nBorn in Annapolis\, Maryland\, and raised in Baltimore\, poet and librarian Reginald Harris was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for his first book\, 10 Tongues\, and won the 2012 Cave Canem /Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council\, his work has appeared in numerous journals\, anthologies\, and online including Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide\, Lambda Literary Review\, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call\, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender and Queer Literature of the United States\, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and The Spaces Between Us: Poetry\, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS. He and his partner live in Brooklyn. \n  \nCharles Rice-González\, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx\, is a writer\, LGBTQ activist\, co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and an Assistant Professor at Hostos Community College. His novel\, Chulito\, received recognition from the American Library Association and the National Book Critics Circle\, he co-edited From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction\, and his play I Just Love Andy Gibb was published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology. His writing’s been published in nearly a dozen anthologies including Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (University of Wisconsin Press 2011)\, Love\, Christopher Street (Vantage Point 2012)\, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (Syracuse University 2016)\, and his article on Culturally Relevant Pedgogy will appear in Teaching Black (University of Michigan Press 2020). His honors include the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award in 2014\, an award from the New York City Council in 2016\, the Men(cion) Award from 100 Hispanic Women in 2017 and a Gay City News Impact Award in 2017 for his activism and contributions to advancing the lives of LGBTQ people\, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship in 2018. He’s the chair of the board for The Bronx Council on the Arts and The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and is on the advisory board of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. \n  \nSteven Riel is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Edgemere and Fellow Odd Fellow. His chapbook Postcard from P-town was published as runner-up for the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review and International Poetry Review. He edits the Franco-American journal Résonance. Recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant\, Riel was also named the 2005 Robert Fraser Distinguished Visiting Poet at Bucks County (PA) Community College. \n 
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SUMMARY:Banned Books OUT LOUD Louffa Press 13th Anniversary Louffapalooza (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:This event is a 13th anniversary celebration for Louffa Press and open forum on the epidemic of book-banning\, and is hosted by Louffa Press  on Sunday\, December 3\, at 3pm at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nParticipants* include: \nBEATRIZ ALBUQUERQUE\, ROBERT ANTHONY GIBBONS\, JEE LEONG KOH\, MATTHEW LANSBURGH\, PACO MARQUEZ\, CLAUDIA SEREA\, TRIPHOBIA \nCurated by DAVID MOSCOVICH  \nAfter the readings\, we will have a dialogue with the audience centered on the current trend of book-banning\, particularly the banning of books by LGBTQ or POC authors; the reason is that 41% of content being banned or challenged is LGBTQ\, and 40% of the books have protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color. \nWe need these your voice to help stop this. \n(The source on these statistics and be found at the following link from PEN America: https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/) \n*Author books will be available at the event. \nThis event is made possible in part through funding by Poets & Writers. \nLOUFFA PRESS was founded in 2010. Based in Morningside/Harlem\, New York City\, LOUFFA PRESS is a micropress that focuses on printing limited edition chapbooks using letterpress technology. \nTHE MISSION behind Louffa Press is to foster a venue for limited edition\, collectible\, handmade chapbooks and art books by a wide array of authors and artists whose voices must be heard; to introduce new and innovative flash fiction\, short stories\, poetry\, and those forms less easily classified; to put forth into the world precious artifacts that embody in their physical form a meticulously tailored and individualist aesthetic. www.louffapress.net \n\n\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\n  \nBeatriz Albuquerque has received numerous awards including the Breakthrough Award for the 17th Biennial Cerveira; Myers Art Prize Award from Columbia University\, New York; and the Ambient Performance Series Award\, PAC / edge Performance Festival\, Chicago. Her written work has been published in Performatus\, ArtCapital Magazine\, Cerveira Nova Journal\, Studies in Digital Heritage Journal\, among others. She has been anthologized in several books\, such as Internet y Performance\, Negociaciones entre Cuerpo\, Virtualidad y Telepresencia (2011)\, Ediciones Al Margen\, NIAM Publications; The Growth of Art Anthology (2015) Columbia University Press; Art School Critique 2.0 (2017) Columbia University Press; Performances no Contemporaneo (2019)\, FLUP Press; O Lado oculto da investigação (2023) ESE Press and RoadWork\, which is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. She is the author of four books of research and non-fiction: Art + Internet + Performance = beginning of the 90s\, Video Games + Glitch = Learning: Video Games Vs. Teachers\, Super Mario World + Glitch = Adult Learning and Game Glitch + Learning = Aesthetics. Design. Preservation. (www.beatrizalbuquerque.com) \n  \nRobert Anthony Gibbons has been nominated for a Pushcart for his poem\, “a self taught genius” by Great Weather for Media. Robert has been published in hundreds of literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits includes Killens Review\, Tribes\, Involuntary Magazine\,Peregrine\, Expound\, Promethean\, Turtle Island Quarterly\, Killer Whale\, and Suisun Valley Review\, Voices of Lefferts and the Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts. Robert’s first collection\, Close to the Tree was published by Three Rooms Press\, 2012\, and his chapbook\, Flight\, published by Poets Wear Prada in 2019. His latest is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artist Amy Williams\, titled\,  Some Little Words (2022). It is a collection of erasure and ekphrastic poems in tribute to Zora Neale Hurston. \n  \nJee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet)\, named a Best Book of the year by the Financial Times in the UK and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the US. His hybrid work of fiction Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His latest book is Inspector Inspector from Carcanet. \n  \nMatthew Lansburgh’s collection of linked stories\, Outside Is the Ocean\, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in journals such as One Story\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, New England Review\, and Alaska Quarterly Review\, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series. He lives in Manhattan and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell. \n  \nPaco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan\, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His poetry has appeared in Fence\, The Literary Review\, Apogee\, Philosophy and Global Affairs and Huizache\, among others. As Spanish Editor\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepuscualrio\, for the first time into English as Book of Twilight with William O’Daly (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). Originally from León\, México\, Paco immigrated with his family to Sacramento\, California at age 13. He studied philosophy and literature at UC Berkeley and\, after working for over a decade in varied fields\, acquired an MFA in creative writing at NYU. His work has been supported by The Center for Book Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and New York University. Paco has served as poetry editor at Washington Square and OccuPoetry\, and currently at 128 Lit. www.pacomarquez.net \n  \nClaudia Serea is a Romanian-American poet\, translator\, and editor with work published in Consequence\, The Southern Review\, Field\, New Letters\, Prairie Schooner\, Oxford Poetry\, among others\, as well as featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is the author of seven poetry collections\, most recently In Those Years\, No One Slept (Broadstone Books\, 2023). Serea won a Pushcart Prize\, the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia\, and the New Letters Readers Award for her poems. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month\, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets\, and co-hosts their monthly readings. \n  \nEsther Marveta Neff is the founder of PPL. They are a performance-maker\, organizer\, librettist\, and theorist. Publications include operating manual Embarrassed of the (W)Hole (Ugly Duckling Press\, 2023) Institution is a Verb (Edited\, The Operating System\, 2022)\, Any Size Mirror is a Dictator (BAC/BIPAF\, 2015) and many zines. Book chapters have been included in the Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (with Yelena Gluzman)\, The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminist Performance Art\, In the Wake (LiveArt UK)\, and various of forms of writing have appeared in PAJ\, Paradigm\, CAESURA\, Ice-Hole\, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies\, CONTENT\, and elsewhere. Neff is currently an adjunct at Hunter College and a member of the group Triphobia with 3dward g sharp and Noah Ortega. https://estherneff.wordpress.com/ \n  \nDavid Moscovich is publisher of Louffa Press and author of You Are Make Very Important Bathtime (JEF Books\, 2013) and LIFE+70[Redacted]\, a print version of the single most expensive literary e-book ever to be hacked (Lit Fest Press\, 2016.) His novels Blink If You Love Me (2019) and his newest\, Manhattan Other (2023)\, are available from Adelaide Books. www.louffapress.net
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday presents: Queer Footprints A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History (online only)
DESCRIPTION:The Center in partnership with the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division welcomes Dan Glass to discuss his recently published work Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History. \nThis event will take place online only! To join the event on Zoom\, please click on the following link at 7 PM Eastern Standard Time. \nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82380673724?pwd=VThxckpZU1FVWUxMWHUwWnVyZ3R6Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 823 8067 3724\nPasscode: 588120 \n  \nOR WATCH THE LIVESTREAM ON THE BUREAU’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL: \nYOUTUBE.COM/@BGSQD.COM \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nThis groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous\, hilarious\, and empowering events of London’s queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists\, such as those who marched in London’s first Pride parade in 1972 or witnessed the 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. \nAccompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic and unsung legends of the movement\, readers can walk through parts of East\, West\, South\, and North London\, dipping into beautifully illustrated maps and extraordinary tales of LGBTQIA+ solidarity\, protest\, and pride. The shadows of gentrification\, policing\, homophobia and racism are time and again resisted. \nFrom the Brixton Fairies to Notting Hill Carnival to world-changing protests in Trafalgar Square\, Rebel Dykes to drag queen communes\, Queer Footprints celebrates the hidden histories of struggle and joy. Including an accessibility guide and a list of these gems for your pleasure – queer spaces\, clubs\, networks and resources galore. \n  \nABOUT DAN GLASS \n​​Dan Glass is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist\, performer\, presenter\, and writer. Dan has been recognized as ‘Activist of the Year’ with the Sexual Freedom Awards and was announced a ‘BBC Greater Londoner’ for founding Queer Tours of London – A Mince Through Time. His book United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow was Observer book of the week. Dan recently founded self-defense empowerment program Bender Defenders and Queer Night Pride to confront rising hate crime. Follow him @danglassmincer. \n  \nTo purchase Dan Glass’s Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History (Pluto Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $19.95) from the Bureau\, please write to us contact@bgsqd.com with your address and phone number and preferred payment method. We can take payment via Venmo\, PayPal\, or credit card over the phone. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
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LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 101\, New York\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Fall 2023 Showcase Reading (hybrid in-person AND online event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, December 15th\, 2023 at 7:00 PM EST for the Office Hours Fall 2023 Showcase Reading\, a hybrid event (both in person readers & virtual). In person readers will gather at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and virtual readers will appear on a screen. Fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making\, community building\, and surviving in difficult creative times. \nReaders:\nDina Abdulhadi\nAbba Belgrave\nRyan Dzelzkalns\nJ. Freeborn\nAshley Harris\nEmily Hockaday\nCarrie Hohmann\nHolly Mitchell\nSarah M. Sala\nShakeema Smalls\nNoel Sikorski\nRyan Dzelzkalns \nTo join the event on Zoom please click on the following link at 7 PM EST on Friday\, December 15\, 2023: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84592169421?pwd=UlFSeXdIWCtSQlU3eEFjVmpUa3E0UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 9216 9421 \nPasscode: 905896 \nOr you can watch the livestream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n\nIf attending in person\, no registration is necessary. Seating is first come first served. Any donations will go to Palestine Legal. \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.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-fall-2023-showcase-reading-hybrid-in-person-and-online-event/
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SUMMARY:TELL 89: Eating It (in person & live-streaming)
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. \nThe theme of the 89th TELL is Eating It. Featuring storytellers Ashil Lee\, Phoebe Brooks\, Mindy Raf\, and Buzz Slutzky. \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nWe ask all attendees to please wear a mask at this event. We will provide masks for those who need them. Thank you!\n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \nDRAE CAMPBELL’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub opening for a punk band. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of Arts in Philadelphia. Some Theater credits include: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater)\, Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Ricochet Collective)\, Non-Consensual Relationships with Ghosts (La MaMa)\, My Old Man (Dixon Place)\, Oph3lia(HERE). TV includes “New Amsterdam\,” “Bull ” and “Dinette ” (web series\, directed by Shaina Feinberg). Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for more than 9 years which is now a SILVER Signal Award-winning podcast of the same name. www.draecampbell.com \n  \nAshil Lee (they/he/she) NYC-based actor\, playwright\, and sex educator. Korean-American\, trans nonbinary\, child of immigrants\, and bestie to blind dog Hux. 2023 Lucille Lortel nominee (Outstanding Ensemble: The Nosebleed) Selected acting credits: The Nosebleed (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater\, Woolly Mammoth)\, world premiere of Gina Femia’s The Virtuous Fall… in rep with Measure for Measure (Spicy Witch Productions)\, Juliet+Romeo (Pocket Universe)\, theatrical premiere of Dogville (dir.Robert O’Hara). Playwriting credits: Clubbed Thumb’s 2023-2024 Early Career Writer’s Group. Finalist: Playwright’s Realm Fellowship (23-24). Semi-finalist: Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship (23-24). Echoes Emerging Writer’s Group 2022-2023 (Primary Stages) and Pataphysics 2020\, led by Clare Barron. NYU: Tisch. BFA in Acting\, Minor in Youth Mental Health. In their spare time\, Ashil squeezes in courses toward their Master’s in Mental Health and Wellness (NYU Steinhardt: 20eventually)\, with intentions of incorporating mental health consciousness into the theatre industry. www.ashillee.com \n  \nPhoebe Brooks is a theatre creature interested in establishing a Theatre of Joy for artists and audiences alike! Recent work includes Charles Ludlam’s Der Ring Gott Farblonjet\, LOVE (Among Dreamers) by Greg Nanni and Jyoti’s Bridge by Kanika Vaish. Upcoming Projects: The Fantastical Fellowship: Final Quest for the Crisis Crystal XXVII (Frigid Fest)\, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show (Edinburgh Fringe). Phoebe is also a performer\, a dramaturg-about-town\, the recipient of a brand new MFA from Columbia University and the Programming Director for Spicy Witch Productions. Check out her interactive Chekhov adventure\, Dyadya Vanya: Files From A Dacha With 26 Rooms\, featuring Ashil Lee and available online at www.phoebebrooks.com. \n  \nMindy Raf is a comedian\, actress\, writer and musician based in Brooklyn\, New York. Mindy has contributed to MTV’s GIRL CODE\, COLLEGEHUMOR\, TNT\, VH1\, The Daily Comedy Network\, and is a published  author with Penguin Random House. Her critically acclaimed solo comedy show NOT THE ONE: a love story was named an “LGBT Best Bet” by Time OutNew York\, “hilariously quirky” by Theatre Is Easy\, “Barrier Breaking” by The Edinburgh Reporter\, and “cheeky and infectious” by Ed Fest Magazine. Not The One has played to a sold out run Off Broadway at 59E59\, garnered 4 star reviews the Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, and has sold out Brooklyn’s Cloud City as well as its guest production residency at NYC’s Theaterlab. \n  \nBuzz Slutzky is a non-binary transgender artist\, writer\, and performer whose practice incorporates drawing\, painting\, sculpture\, and video. Their visual art and writing often play between autobiographical and historical content. Lately\, they’ve been drawing mashups between instructional manuals. As a performer\, Buzz has mixed stand-up comedy and musical comedy under the persona Stoni Butchell\, among others. They currently teach film and art to 18 year olds at CUNY College of Staten Island and SUNY Purchase College. \n 
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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:Closed on December 24
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SUMMARY:Closed on December 31
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed on\nDecember 24 and 31.\nHappy holigays!
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