How to Build a Fire: Energy

Friday, January 31st, 2020

8PM

Energy is “the strength and vitality required for sustained physical and mental activity.” It’s the power needed to generate light and heat. It’s the sheer force of will needed to go to work every day, to read the news, to keep fighting all the good fights. How do we produce energy? How do we sustain it in the face of all the everything that’s happening around us? Where, how, and with whom do we recharge?

For January’s How to Build a Fire, there’s no installation in the gallery. The space will be a blank canvas, as is the year ahead. And we’ll be telling stories around the theme of “ENERGY,” about physical and mental activity, about light and heat, about the force of our will, about all the good fights, about the power of beauty, about magic, about love … about all the things “energy” can be. We’ve started a new year, and there is so much to do, so much energy to be spent in so many directions. Come sit around our virtual campfire and breathe deeply with us, work with us to hold this soul-deep-hum of a space where we can all replenish our reserves.

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How to Build a Fire was created by poet Terence Degnan. Each month, four diverse individuals share personal narratives centered around a theme. Their stories weave together an illustration of the human experience. This year’s hosts are Christina Marks and Stacie Evans.

How to Build a Fire takes place at Open Source Gallery — a welcoming, nurturing, intimate, safe environment, a participant-driven art initiative that provides space, community and conceptual context for creative play and critical commentary.