HTBAF: Displaced

When: Friday, February 27, 7-9pm
Where: Open Source Gallery (306 17th St., Brooklyn, 11215)
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Stories about being out of place or moved from where you expected to be. We can be physically, emotionally, culturally, or religiously displaced or pushed out in ways we might struggle to describe. Maybe it’s the quiet perhaps disturbing feeling of no longer fitting in where we once belonged.   These stories explore loss, adaptation, reinvention, and the strange in-between space of not quite here and not quite home.

Storytellers:

Tom Toomey has worked in international education for over thirty years, running youth programs in many countries. His work has taken him to places like Russia, Afghanistan, India, Uzbekistan, Turkiye, Ethiopia, Senegal, and many more. In his travels he has collected many stories to share. Brooklyn is his home base where he has enjoyed living on the same block for 29 years. Besides traveling and storytelling, he enjoys yoga, gardening, cooking, and bringing people together.

Bryan Berlin is a storyteller and educator based in Brooklyn. He’s the host of the Love Hurts podcast and is a Moth StorySLAM winner.

Avital Rimon a multimedia artist, storyteller, curator, and events producer dwelling in Harlem.  My stories are my vehicle, driven by inquiry and further propelled by the use of reflexive narrative. I lean heavily on writing  in the process of prototyping and post mortem. I develop projects utilize audio stories, assembled manual and lasercut fabrications, drawing, IoT, site-specific production design, and accessible ritualistic interactivity. As of late, I have returned to more performance art and my current project is producing and implementing access measures for SKYHOOK, a new play premiering at the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Grace Lobo is stand up comedian based in NYC and the co-host of the Hill to Die On podcast.

How to Build a Fire is generously funded in part by the Puffin Foundation.