How To Build A Fire: Coil, Spring, Helix
When: Friday, March 21st @ 7:00 PM
Where: Open Source Gallery, 306 17th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Last month we heard stories about the whirlpool of events in our news feeds, about our efforts to hold onto our hearts and spiral upward. It’s a month later, and we’re still here in the gyre of political and social movement. We’re also still in the gallery with Yu Shuk Pui Bobby’s “Genetic Salon,” which poses questions about reconfiguration, about the codes of our DNA. So, as the season turns and the vernal phase comes back around, we’re keeping our focus on cycles, on reorientation, on the chance to begin again and keep going.
Our theme for this March edition of HTBAF is: Coil, Spring, Helix. Can we channel the active meditations of the dervishes to achieve greater connection to our truest selves, to each other, to the orbiting cosmos? Join us on the 21st for some rites of spring!
We are excited to host our storytellers this month: Heather Osterman, Russel P. Langsam, Renee Keitt, Kanav Kathuria, Terence Degnam. Learn more about some of our storytellers below.
KANAV KATHURIA’s work lies in the intersection of abolition, public health, and food and land sovereignty. He is currently a PhD student in geography as well as a teacher, facilitator, and land steward. Kanav was also a co-founder of the Maryland Food and Prison Abolition Project, a community-based organization that interrogates food conditions in carceral facilities to explore the use of food as a tool for resistance.
RUSSEL LANGSAM, son of, and father to, Brooklyn natives, missed out on growing up in this great borough, although appreciated his early days living in the woods of Northern Westchester Country. He’s spent a long career in the nonprofit sector, alternating between internationally-focused stints in community development and intercultural exchange and domestic education access and success endeavors. A strong believer in volunteerism, he’s invested time, talent and treasure with organizations including the American Red Cross, Clark University, Amigos de las Américas and PennPAC. Russel, his better half, Anne Sherman, and rescue mutt Stella are currently empty-nesting in Sunset Park and are fascinated watching the journeys of Ben (21) and Claudia (18).
RENEE KEITT is a grower, seed saver, and master composter. She weaves connection sharing knowledge and resources to create, engage, support, and maintain communities as a member of Chenchita’s Garden, Lydia’s Magic Garden, La Finca del Sur, New Roots, Garden Manager of Kelly Street Garden and steward of a rooftop garden, Seeds to Soil at Prime Produce – The Guild for Good. Renee is a graduate of Farm School NYC, and studies housing, community organizations and organizing, nonprofit leadership, and public policy at the CUNY School of Labor and Union Studies. Her interest is the intersection of food, housing , nature and the built environment
