HTBAF: Season 6 Finale

Friday, August 28, 2020
8pm (EST)
On Zoom

August gives us the heat of summer flowing into the start of harvest season, the time to reap the fruits of the preparation, tending, weeding and working of the farmer. Harvesting this year’s crop ensures that we are sustained and readies the soil for next year’s growth, fertilizing soils with unwanted stalks and leaves, highly desirable five star hotels for the rhizomes, the microbes, the mites and bugs that are the foundation of our world. Seen from their perspective, these yearly cycles are enormous – transitions of elemental proportion! Yet from the stompy boot of the farmer, they are simply the timetable of the year.

Season 6 of How To Build A Fire comes to a close with an event like never before. As Stacie Evans and Christina Marks looked back to the magnetic hosts of Season 5, and forward to the fresh faces of the upcoming Season 7, it felt like time to have a harvest party for the folks who have tended the field of this community. The Grand Finale of season 6 will be a feast of stories from hosts past, present and future, spinning tales around the theme of TRANSITION.

We hope this season How To Build A Fire has warmed you, given you a place to toast your marshmallow of joy until it burst in catharsis. We know next season will yield a lush and sustaining crop of stories, and can’t wait to witness them with you!

STORYTELLERS:
Terence Degnan
Kate Hill Cantrill
Jackie Reason
Lily White
Phillip J. Ammonds
Emily Ray Reese
Matthew Barbehenn
Dennis Earl Norris II
Christina Marks
Stacie Evans

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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.