HTBAF: Alignment

Friday, July 31, 2020
8pm (EST)
On Zoom
Meeting ID: 966 0570 2153

Still on lockdown, watching the numbers across the US climb in all the categories we need and want to see them decrease … Black folks suddenly turning up hanging in trees and law enforcement insisting they’re suicides not lynchings … the presidential election is getting closer and Caligula and his masters and minions are working overtime to disenfranchise as many of us as they can. Nothing about any of this feels like alignment!

Except … This time has brought so many of us closer to our loved ones, has pushed us to focus on getting our houses in order, has shown us new ways to make time for our passions and our work, has distilled our day-to-day into a clear focus. Isn’t this a kind of alignment? And isn’t there alignment in our fight for safety during the pandemic — in the face of a federal government that seems entirely uninterested in our lives? Haven’t the BLM protests churned us into a new alignment?

How have the last several months strengthened or created alignment for you? In what ways are you aligned today that you weren’t at the start of the year? Who or what are you aligning with? What differences are those alignments making for you?

Season six of How to Build a Fire is drawing to a close, and we are reflecting on alignment. We invite you to join us!

STORYTELLERS:

Shawnee Benton Gibson
Sheryll Durrant

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.

Once it’s safe to be out and about again, How to Build a Fire will take 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.