HTBAF: Steady on! Those Candles are Wanted!
When: Friday, October 24, 7-9pm
Where: Open Source Gallery (306 17th St., Brooklyn, 11215)
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From Edgar Allan Poe to Lovecraft from Stephen King to Brian Evanson and everything in between, even those childhood moments, maybe at summer camp around a fire when someone told the dumbest thing you’ve heard but it still made your skin crawl, we have always loved a good ghost story. This spooky month for How to Build a Fire we’re digging in to what has made the hair stand up on the back of our necks, goosebumps, phobias, nightmares, the first time you saw a horror movie, etc. Have you come across the supernatural? And when were you most afraid?
Storytellers:
Jude Treder-Wolff is a storyteller, comedian, singer/songwriter, improviser, and storytelling coach. She is host of the Improv In Real Life podcast, a Moth winner, has been featured on Generation Women at Joe’s Pub, Ex Fabula in Milwaukee, WI, Story District in Washington, D.C. The Story Collider live show and podcast, Love Hurts podcast, The Armando Diaz Experience at Magnet Theater in NYC, Funny Over 50 at West Side Comedy Club, RISK! live show and podcast multiple times, PBS Stories From The Stage, The Women’s Storytelling Festival in Fairfax VA and many others. Her solo show This Isn’t Helping was performed at The Examined Life Conference at Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, IA,m Arts In Health Care conference at NYU, Arts In Prevention at Rugers University, Stonybrook University, The Studio Theater Workshop in NYC, The Whitefire Solo Theater Festival in Sherman Oaks, CA and other venues around the country. She designs and facilitators improv classes and workshops for personal and professional development.
JD Davids is a disabled/chronically ill transgender queer “illder,” longtime HIV activist and member of the At Louis Place writing community and the iconic What Would an HIV Doula Do collective. He pens The Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness: Strategies for Health and Wellness in Sick Times. He is writing Sick F-cks and Love Bombs, a memoir about queer activist history and becoming a Sex God during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a part of the MA Biography and Memoir program at CUNY Graduate Center.
Linda Benjamin is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist who’s works ranges between visual art to spoken and written word. She received her BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2012, and in 2022 published Interim Illuminated, the companion guide to her 2020 hand illustrated tarot deck. Though Benjamin’s work varies in format and material, common themes revolve around fluidity, interstitial spaces, and the crux of the abject and sublime.
Emilee Lord is a visual and performing artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her art, lectures, and reflections investigate the multiple ways through which a drawing can be made, performed, and defined. Her dance theater works and drawings have been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally and her current research explores ideas of accumulation, imperfection, solitude and memory. Publications of her work include, Passing Notes NYC Crit Club, Hot House exhibition catalogs, and Emergency Index Vol. 10, Ugly Duckling Presse. She writes, edits, and serves on the editorial board for Thinking Dance out of Philadelphia.
