How To Build A Fire (April) @ Open Source Gallery
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 series where a diverse group of individuals share real-life, personal narratives centered around a different theme each last Thursday of the month. At times funny, at times sad, their stories weave together a broad illustration of the human experience. How To Build A Fire will takes place at Open Source Gallery -a welcoming, nurturing, intimate, safe environment- where, monthly, one can see a new exhibition installed by an array of up-and-coming and established visual artists.
How To Build a Fire was founded by Terence Degnan. This year Stacie Evens and Lana Siebel will be co-curating and co-hosting.
Liz Michelle
Liz is a fierce and fearless woman who has used her diverse background and life experiences to carve out a thriving career in comedy. With her distinct style and quick wit, she has left audiences in stitches at some of the most renowned comedy venues across the country, including Caroline’s, Gotham Comedy Club, and The Stand, to name a few. As the Founder of Hard Headed Comedy™, Luz has brought her passion for the art form to the forefront, producing live and streamed showcases that feature a dynamic mix of established and emerging comedic talent.
JC Best
JC is a comedian and writer based out of LA known for completely disregarding the limits. His interesting take on life comes from being an ex-preacher within a strict sect of Christianity, an ex-husband, and an ex-corporate drone. This “fall from grace” as he calls it, allows him to be refreshingly honest about everything from his ambiguous sexuality to his controversial political views.
Mai Lauren Hoang
Mai Lauren Hoang is a memoirist and travel writer who lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She’s a board member of the literary nonprofit Pen Parentis and an events coordinator for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network in New York.
Stacie Evans writes in long hand. With a fountain pen. Because she’s that girl: the wannabe homesteading, selectively Luddite girl who is addicted to her phone and regularly overshares online. She met James Baldwin in Paris … which will ever and always be the most glamorous and dramatic thing about her. Her writing has appeared in New South, After Ferguson, Bellingham Review, and The Rumpus.
Lana Siebel performs all over the US, including NYC, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, NJ, and Washington DC. She was selected as a featured comedian at The Connecticut Comedy Festival along with comedians such as Gilbert Gottfried, The Headliner Series in NY, The Punch Line Comedy Club in Philadelphia, as well as the Fairfield Comedy Club in Connecticut. As an actress, Lana is featured in numerous films and off Broadway plays. She studied acting at Lee Strasberg Institute and HB Studios with Austin Pendleton. Lana was also a competitive International Latin style Ballroom dancer ranked internationally and 7th in the US! She immigrated as a refugee from Kharkiv, Ukraine when she was seven years old with her family to Brooklyn, NY where she grew up and now resides.
This program is supported by the Puffin Foundation
