HTBAF: How We Evolve When: September 27 @7pm Where: Open Source Gallery, 306 17th St., Brooklyn 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 …
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: 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
STORYTELLING Thursday, February 29th, 7-9pm @ Puffin Cultural Forum 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666-4111 (167 Bus from Port Authority) Register now! Themes: Leap of Faith and Leap into the Void It’s the final show for Season 9 of How to Build a Fire. …
STORYTELLING Thursday, January 25th, 7-9pm @ Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 January at Open Source feels like hibernation. There is no show in the gallery this month, so we look inward, wrapping ourselves in our stories and ideas. The theme for …
STORYTELLING Thursday, December 21st, 7-9pm @ Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Theme: Kujichagulia: Self Determination December at Open Source is How to Build a Fire and Open Kitchen, a simple dinner for community members spiced up with storytelling! The HTBAF hosts …
STORYTELLING Thursday, November 30th, 7-9pm @ Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Theme: Grace This month, How to Build a Fire will be surrounded by Gwenyth Chao’s, Compos(t)ing Spaces. Chao is interested in biomaterials, in taking what is seen as refuse and …
STORYTELLING Thursday, October 26th, 7-9pm @ Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Theme: Compose This month, How to Build a Fire’s stories will be told as Gwenyth Chao’s project, Compos(t)ing Spaces is installed in the gallery. The exhibition will include an experimental …
STORYTELLING Thursday, September 28th, 7pm-9pm @ Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Theme: Unity – I Am You, and Vibrations The exhibit at Open Source this month is “Valley of Unity,” which is based on a passage from Attar of Nishapur’s The …
Thursday, August 17th, 7pm-9pm Where: Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 What: Theme: hiatus/ breathe 4 x 15 min Stories This month, the gallery is an open space – no installation, just us and our tall tales. It’s August, there’s a chunk …
Thursday, July 27th, 7pm-9pm Where: Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 What: Theme: Evolution 4 x 15 min Stories This month, the gallery is all about “Precipitate,” a project by SCOPE, and our HTBAF theme is “evolution.” How will the future unfold? …
Thursday, June 22nd, 7pm-9pm Note: HTBAF happens USUALLY every last Thursday of each month! Just this month it is a week earlier. Where: Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 What: Theme: Scope 4 x 15 min Stories An open gallery.* A space …
Thursday, May 25th, 7pm-9pm Note: HTBAF happens every last Thursday of each month! Where: Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 What: Theme: Interwoven 4 x 15 min Stories We continue to find ways to push back against the isolation and separation created …
Thursday, April 20th, 7pm-9pm Note: Usually, HTBAF happens every last Thursday of each month! Only April is a week earlier! Where: Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 What: 4 x 15 min Stories How to Build a Fire is a community storytelling …
When: Thursday March 30th, 7pm-9pm Note: HTBAF happens every last Thursday of each month! Where: Open Source Gallery 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 What: 4 x 15 min Stories How to Build a Fire is a community storytelling series where a diverse group of …
When: NOTE: corrected date: Friday Feb 24th, 7pm-9pm Where: Puffin Cultural Forum 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666-4111 (167 Bus from Port Authority) What: 4 x 15 min Stories How to Build a Fire is a community storytelling series where …
WHEN: Sept 30TH, 2022 8PM (LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH) WHERE: IN PERSON AT OPEN SOURCE GALLERY ON ZOOM (Meeting ID: 814 6461 8804) WHO: Denver Butson and Malcolm Allen Note: There is unfortunately a small break in Malcom Allen’s story due to internet problems. …
WHEN: August 26TH, 2022 8PM (LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH) WHERE: IN PERSON AT OPEN SOURCE GALLERY AND ON ZOOM (MEETING ID: 848 7269 0991) but you will miss out on zoom – in person is so much better !!! WHO: Andrew Steiner Andrew Steiner won Best …
WHEN: July 29TH, 2022 8PM (LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH) WHERE: IN PERSON AT OPEN SOURCE GALLERY AND ON ZOOM (Meeting ID: 896 8777 0185) WHO: Malcolm Allen Malcolm Allen manages a production warehouse in Brooklyn. where he lives with his wife, Sara, and daughters Ruth …
WHEN: JUNE 24TH, 2022 8PM (LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH) WHERE: IN PERSON AT OPEN SOURCE GALLERY AND ON ZOOM (MEETING ID: 820 9151 4253) WHO: Erin Parsons Erin is a Real Estate Agent and Entrepreneur in Brooklyn. She spent fourteen years in event management, the restaurant …
WHEN: May 27TH, 2022 8PM (LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH) WHERE: IN PERSON AT OPEN SOURCE GALLERY AND ON ZOOM (Meeting ID: 886 4482 5773) WHO: Keisha-Gaye Anderson I am Jamaican-born poet, writer, visual artist, and communications and marketing strategist based in Brooklyn, NY. My debut …
