How to Build a Fire: Migration/Transformation

STORYTELLERS:
Miz Sequoia (Derrick Miller Handley)
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Inspired by Bronx Latino artist Ronnie Quevedo works, who believes, “A Latino Rebel is someone who is constantly defying what’s in front of them, through study, and rigorous investigation despite the possibility it could easily be erased; burned to the ground. You do it anyway and if it’s erased, at least you did it.”

As we migrate through space and time, it is inevitable that one will transform. How have you changed since/if you departed your point of origin? What things have you inherited from your guardians, that haunt you? What have you inherited that fortifies you? How has your perspective changed since you began? What is stirring in you right now?

Created five years ago, 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 month. At times funny, at times sad, their stories weave together a broad illustration of the human experience. How to Build a Fire 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. Every year, poet and event founder Terence Degnan partners with Open Source Gallery to select two new co-hosts/curators of HTBAF. This year’s curators are poets Shafina Ahmed and Phillip J. Ammonds.

Can’t be with us in person? Watch on Livestream: http://livestream.com/opensource