BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
BGSQD
TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.
Without a Net is the theme of the fifth installment of TELL.
Penny Arcade aka Susana Ventura occupies a unique position in the American counter-culture and the American avant-garde. She is an internationally respected writer, poet, and she is one of the handful of artists who created contemporary text based Performance Art beginning in the 1980’s. She has continued to define Performance Art for nearly three decades, She is particularly known for her high content, complex, long form performance pieces. Her contributions to American experimental theatre began in her teens and she has left her mark on every decade from the 1960’s to the present. Her work has always focused on the human condition , on the other and the outsider, giving voice to those marginalized by society. Her decades long focus on creation of community and inclusion as the goals of performance and her efforts to use performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original. Many of her theatrical devices, not to mention her one liners , have passed into the mainstream. Her unique voice, marked by a great articulation of complex ideas still forming in the collective consciousness and her magnetic stage presence have given her mainstream career recognition far beyond America’s shores. In 2010 Semiotext(e) published a hard cover book on Penny Arcade’s Performance work Bad Reputation.
www.pennyarcade.tv pennyarcadenyc twitter pennyarcadesuperstar FB
Drae Campbell is a writer, actor, director, story teller, dancer, and nightlife emcee. Besides winning the 2011 Miss LEZ title, Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland, NYC, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in fesivals globally. Drae was dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell throws a monthly party in Brooklyn called PRIME. Check her out online and around town. www.draecampbell.com
Cecilia Gentili is a Trans-Latina originally from Argentina by way of Miami. She is currently the Trans* Health Program Coordinator at APICHA community health center. Cecilia has worked at the Gender Identity Project at the LGBT Center since 2011, as a volunteer, intern, and now consultant, facilitating groups, organizing, and working on prevention, harm reduction and self-empowerment, focusing mostly on undocumented Trans-Latinas, a reality she lived for many years. Ms Gentili is also a board member of “Transbodies” a nonprofit organization about to published a trans-resources guide book for trans-folks. She received her education at the National University of Rosario in Music studies and worked as a music teacher for special needs children.
Rosa Jurjevics is a writer, multimedia specialist, and product of New York City. Currently the owner/principal of the tiny-but-mighty Big Creature Media, Jurjevics spends most days editing video, animating critters, and removing (live-action) cats from the desk.
Elsa Waithe is a 26 year old comedian from Norfolk, Va. She’s a 3x winner of the ViRginia Beach Funnybone’s Clash of the Comics. Comedian, Actor, Motivational Speaker, Epicenter of every awesome party, and Inventor of the Nike Swoosh.