HTBAF: Coffee Klatch

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

Welcome to Season 10 of How to Build a Fire! Season 10! Hundreds of stories have been shared around the Open Source campfire, and this new season will continue the tradition of sharing and love created by poet Terence Degnan and fostered by Monika Wuhrer 

HTBAF: Stitches

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

How To Build A Fire: Stitches When: May 30th, 7pm Where: Open Source Gallery RSVP Now! What holds us together, binds us to one another? What dissolves us into side-aching laughter? How do we put ourselves back together after trauma or tragedy or adorn ourselves 

HTBAF: Transformers

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

How To Build A Fire: Transformers When: June 21, 2024 Where: Open Source Gallery RSVP Now! For June, we'll be in the gallery with Zé Kielwagen’s BAFO! Beauty Temple, an exploration, a celebration, an installation, a veneration. Our theme is Transformers, and we’ll be surrounded 

HTBAF: Beauty is as Beauty Does

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

HTBAF: Beauty is as Beauty Does When: Friday, July 26, 7pm Where: Open Source Gallery (306 17th St, Brooklyn) RSVP Now! Mirror, mirror on the wall ... What do you see when you look at yourself? Do you see your shine, your cleverness, your empathetic 

HTBAF: It’s Hot Out Here

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

Friday, August 23, 7pm The dog days of summer ... and of civilization as we know it? Well, maybe that's a bit heavy for a Friday night, but the temps are high, the oceans are rising, the reefs are bleaching, the golden frogs are nearly 

HTBAF: How We Evolve

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

RSVP Now! “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.” – Octavia Butler Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are the pieces of our pasts that we carry 

HTBAF: More than a Job

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

RSVP Now! This month, we’re in the gallery on the eve of Marlene Hausegger’s exhibit, “Scabby: A Rat About Town.” Scabby, the giant rat who stands as herald, as town crier outside non-union work sites. Inspired by Scabby, our theme this month is “More than 

HTBAF: Exploitation

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

RSVP Now! For November How to Build a Fire is, once again, in the gallery with Marlene Hausegger’s exhibit, “Scabby: A Rat About Town.” Scabby, the giant rat who stands outside non-union work sites to flag for us the ways some employers see us as 

HTBAF x Open Kitchen: In Communion / In Community

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

HTBAF: In Communion/In Community When: December 19 @7pm Where: Open Source Gallery, 306 17th St., Brooklyn RSVP Now! "Without community, there is no liberation." - Audre Lorde We're breaking bread this month at HTBAF. Come join us for an Open Kitchen edition, share a meal prepared 

HTBAF: Impending…

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, New York

HTBAF: Impending... When: January 31st @7pm Where: Open Source Gallery, 306 17th St., Brooklyn RSVP Now! Here we are, friends and neighbors, waist deep in the big muddy, as Pete Seeger sang. Caligula 2.0 will have come online by the time we meet for How to