How To Build A Fire (June) @ Open Source Gallery
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 full of every possibility, inviting all ideas. Just like the June theme of How to Build a Fire: “Scope,” inviting many stories. How far, wide, deep does your imagination range? How do you wrap your arms and hearts around the grand scope of your one wild and precious life? (Thank you, always, Mary Oliver.) Join us at Open Source Gallery on the 22nd for How to Build a Fire and hear four fabulous stories.
* The next exhibit goes up a week after HTBAF.
Barak Ziv:
Barak Ziv is an Israeli born, NYC based Comedian. He performs at various clubs, local independent shows, and is the producer of the Jest Kidding Comedy at QED Astoria and Comedy and Cartoons in Harlem. In addition to stand up, he is an illustrator and a cartoonist, using his skills to create funny cartoons and news parodies.
Justin/juvy$mooth:
Justin/juvy$mooth makes and produces music. He’s into all things art, loves meeting new people and creating making and experiencing new experiences and pushing the culture forward however and any way possible. ☮️ ✌️ ?
Kate Robards:
Kate Robards is an award-winning writer, actor, comedian, and director. Her standup can be seen at clubs around NYC and she’s been a featured comic at SF Sketchfest and Oak City Comedy Fest. She has written for the TIME 100 Gala on ABC, a variety hour for Meta, The Shorty Awards and for acclaimed talent like Kathy Griffin, Pheobe Robinson, Busy Phillips, Stacey Abrams and others you may have actually heard of. Kate’s autobiographical solo shows have been described as “hilarious” (Washington Post) and noted for their “wry wit” (San Francisco Chronicle). She’s appeared on VICE, Netflix, Discovery + and indie movies on YouTube and Vimeo.
David Hellman:
David Hellman is the Executive Producer and Lead Writer of the NYCTV educational drama series, We Speak NYC, a coproduction of The City University of New York and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. A former Peace Corps volunteer, refugee camp worker, educator with the US-Indochina Reconciliation Project, and CUNY Language Immersion Program instructor and curriculum developer, David has worked in adult and ESL education for more than 40 years. He has an MA in Southeast Asian Studies and an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, where he received the Hopwood Award for poetry. His poems have been published in Grand Street, Field, AGNI Online, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, and elsewhere.
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 Evans and Lana Siebel will be co-curating and co-hosting.
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
