How to Build a Fire: Season 5 Finale

June 28, 2019
8:00pm

STORYTELLERS:
Alex Scelso
Jossie Ortiz
Jose Lopez
More storytellers TBA

Inspired by artist Monica Jahan Bose whose works revolve around our bond with nature, our footprint both carbon and journeys of immigrants and refugees; and the interconnected essence of communities. Bose – “Water is an enduring theme, speaking to life, climate, sustenance, death, and renewal.”

Spring is a time to return to abundance, the warmth of the weather and our souls; the awakening of things that drive us to be out doors , commune with each other and nature. It is the beautiful propagation of life.

What is your spiritual bond with nature? Has it influenced/changed your carbon footprint? what are some habits/practices/thoughts/projects/rituals, i.e. walking a dog , singing in the rain, you will renew this spring? How will it revive you? How will it uplift and move forward into a season, promote joy, togetherness, fucking and bees? What have you learned from storms? Has the openness and wildness of Mother Nature defines/redefined your gender? Does the little boy/girl within you dream beyond the clouds?

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.