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SUMMARY:Closed July 4th and 5th
DESCRIPTION:The Center will observe holiday hours on both Thursday\, July 4th\, AND Friday\, July 5th: 5 PM to 9 PM. \nThe Bureau will be closed on both dates: July 4th and July 5th. \nThe Bureau will be open on Wednesday\, July 3rd; Saturday\, July 6th; and Sunday\, July 7th: 1 to 7 PM.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/closed-july-4th-and-5th-2/
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 July 4th and 5th
DESCRIPTION:The Center will observe holiday hours on both Thursday\, July 4th\, AND Friday\, July 5th: 5 PM to 9 PM. \nThe Bureau will be closed on both dates: July 4th and July 5th. \nThe Bureau will be open on Wednesday\, July 3rd; Saturday\, July 6th; and Sunday\, July 7th: 1 to 7 PM.
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SUMMARY:A Good Sport Signing with Soizick Jaffre (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:French cartoonist Soizick Jaffre will be signing copies of her graphic memoir A Good Sport at the Bureau\, on Wednesday\, July 10th at 7:00 PM. Jaffre will discuss her work and her experiences representing France in the 2018 Gay Games. She will also read excerpts from her latest work. \nA Good Sport is a graphic memoir written and drawn by Soizick Jaffre\, detailing her participation in the 2018 Gay Games\, her lifelong love of athletics\, and her own personal search for freedom. This memoir is visually rich with Jaffre’s colorful\, expressive illustration style that runs the gamut from realistic portrayal to eye-popping surrealism. A Good Sport deftly balances both personal and world history to paint a picture of feminist triumph and queer self-determination. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of A Good Sport (Stacked Deck Press\, 2024)\, please write to contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of A Good Sport for July 10” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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  \nSoizick Jaffre is an author and comics artist born in Angoulême\, France in 1978. She has published fiction\, poetry\, comics\, and autobiographical stories in various independent publications in North America and Europe\, such as ALPHABET (Stacked Deck Press) and Drawing Power (Abrams Books). Her typical style combines strong colors and surrealistic details.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-good-sport/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lost & Found (in person literary workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Lost & Found is a literary workshop designed to provide an opportunity for writers to read\, review\, and receive constructive criticism of their work\, especially projects or pieces that are still works-in-progress or have hit a roadblock. Participants are required to bring one page (up to both sides) of material of any genre they’re working on to read aloud. Then\, as a group\, we workshop the piece—asking questions\, providing feedback\, offering solutions\, and so on. The goal is to provide writers with a framework for creative development and a consistent network of feedback. \nThis will be the fourth of six sessions scheduled on alternating Sundays. \nFuture sessions will take place on: 7/28\, and 8/11 \nRSVP here for the fourth session!\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\nQuestions? Contact moderator Mark Alan Burger here:\nmarkalanburger@gmail.com\n\n  \nModerator bios: \n\nMark Alan Burger is a writer\, poet\, publisher\, and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Fallible House. His work has appeared in Hello Mr.\, Interview Magazine\, and Vanity Fair\, and has received support from FAWC. He lives in Brooklyn.\n\n  \n\nCortez is a poet and short fiction writer living in Brooklyn\, New York. She is a current MFA candidate at Stony Brook University where she also teaches an undergraduate section of Intro to Creative Writing. She was named a finalist in the 2023 Honeybee Literature Prize in Fiction\, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail and The Good Life Review.
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SUMMARY:Poetry for the Apocalypse (In Person & Live Streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 18th (6pm) for Poetry for the Apocalypse—a celebration of art making in the face of destruction to commemorate the publication of C. Russell Price’s “oh\, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems” (Northwestern University Press). From the New York Times: “This debut by an ‘Appalachian genderqueer punk writer’ is as playful and provocative as you might guess: One poem is titled ‘My Sexual Identity Is a Toaster in a Bathtub.’” Price will be joined by NYC darlings of the literary scene Omotara James\, Joseph Osmundson\, Anthony Thomas Lombardi\, and Robert Wood Lynn. A $10 suggested donation to the Bureau is greatly appreciated and punk af. \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  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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 \nC. Russell Price is originally from Glade Spring\, Virginia\, but now lives in Chicago. They are a Lambda Fellow in Poetry\, a Ragdale Fellow\, a Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree\, an essayist\, and a poet. They are the author of a chapbook\, Tonight\, We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other. Their work has appeared in the Boston Review\, Court Green\, DIAGRAM\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, Lambda Literary\, Nimrod International\, PANK\, and elsewhere. Their debut collection oh\, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems was published by Northwestern University Press. They are a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center and work with the Ragdale Foundation\, Story Studio Chicago\, and The Anarchist Review of Books. Their current project Bisquick: Seance Poems is about a ghost cowboy and his ghost\, blue horse. \nOmotara James is a writer\, editor and visual artist. She is the author of the chapbook Daughter Tongue\, selected by African Poetry Book Fund\, in collaboration with Akashic Books\, for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, she is a recipient of the 2019 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. She earned her BA from Hofstra University and received her MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, The Paris Review\, The Academy of American Poets\, and elsewhere. She is a fellow of Lambda Literary and Cave Canem Foundation. Born in Britain\, she is the daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants and currently lives in New York City. \nJoseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer based in New York City.  He has a PhD from The Rockefeller University in Molecular Biophysics. His book of essays\, VIROLOGY\, is forthcoming in 2022 from W.W. Norton.  His research has been supported by the American Cancer Society\, published in leading biological journals including Cell and PNAS\, and he’s currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU.  His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, TIME Magazine\, The Village Voice\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Gawker\, The Kenyon Review\, The Rumpus\, The Lambda Literary Review\, and The Feminist Wire\, and elsewhere\, too.   \nAnthony Thomas Lombardi is a Pushcart-nominated poet\, editor\, organizer\, activist\, and educator. He is the founder and director of Word is Bond\, a community-centered reading series partnered with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop that raises funds for transnational relief efforts\, bail funds\, and mutual aid organizations\, and currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship\, his work has appeared or will soon in the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica\, Guernica\, Black Warrior Review\, Gulf Coast\, Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Massachusetts Review\, North American Review\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat\, Dilla. \nRobert Wood Lynn is a writer from Virginia. His debut poetry collection Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press) was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New York Times and the New York Public Library. His chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact was published by Button Poetry in 2023. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, his writing has appeared in American Poetry Review\, The Atlantic\, Ploughshares\, Poetry Magazine\, New Ohio Review and other journals\, as well as been included in the Southern Poetry Anthology: Virginia. A 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow\, he splits his time between in Rockbridge County\, Virginia and New York City\, where he co-hosts the DGN Reading Series. He teaches creative writing at Juilliard and at Brooklyn Poets.
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SUMMARY:Lost & Found (in person literary workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Lost & Found is a literary workshop designed to provide an opportunity for writers to read\, review\, and receive constructive criticism of their work\, especially projects or pieces that are still works-in-progress or have hit a roadblock. Participants are required to bring one page (up to both sides) of material of any genre they’re working on to read aloud. Then\, as a group\, we workshop the piece—asking questions\, providing feedback\, offering solutions\, and so on. The goal is to provide writers with a framework for creative development and a consistent network of feedback. \nThis will be the fifth of six sessions scheduled on alternating Sundays. \nThe final session will take place on: 8/11 \nRSVP here for the fifth session!\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\nQuestions? Contact moderator Mark Alan Burger here:\nmarkalanburger@gmail.com\n\n  \nModerator bios: \n\nMark Alan Burger is a writer\, poet\, publisher\, and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Fallible House. His work has appeared in Hello Mr.\, Interview Magazine\, and Vanity Fair\, and has received support from FAWC. He lives in Brooklyn.\n\n  \n\nCortez is a poet and short fiction writer living in Brooklyn\, New York. She is a current MFA candidate at Stony Brook University where she also teaches an undergraduate section of Intro to Creative Writing. She was named a finalist in the 2023 Honeybee Literature Prize in Fiction\, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail and The Good Life Review.
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