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 since February 2014.

Blow It is the theme of the 69th TELL, on Saturday, January 16, 2021, 6 to 7:30 PM (EST). Featuring Dusty Childers, Sammie James, and Joey Kipp.

The event will take place on Zoom.

This is a free event, but you must register on the Eventbrite page in advance in order to receive the Zoom meeting link on the day of the event.

Donations for the performers and the Bureau are much appreciated!
Make a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page.

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The Bureau will send out a link to the Zoom meeting to all who have registered on the day of the event.

Drae Campbell is a writer, actor, director, story teller, dancer, and nightlife emcee. 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 with Rebecca Drysdale, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com.

Dusty Childers (Dust Tea Shoulders/ @duddylynn) is a multi-disciplinary artist (and self proclaimed style icon) who directs, provides dramaturgy, curates, hosts, conjures costumes, styles, speaks their truth in front of audiences, drags it up, dances, twirls flags and fans, and instructs the future via the public school classroom. Dusty’s body and body of work has graced the likes of Sundance, SXSW, True/False, The Guggenheim, St. Anne’s Warehouse, The Whitney, BAM, Parsons, International Center of Photography, Signature Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Town Hall, Joe’s Pub, Abrons Art Center, NY Live Arts, The Wild Project, Dixon Place, Irving Plaza, The Knockdown Center (Bushwig), The PIT, Don’t Tell Mama, Rockwood Music Hall, The Slipper Room, Judson Memorial Church,The MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, La MaMa, Metropolitan Bar, Sid Gold’s Request Room,The Delancey, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, Starr Bar, Wise Men, Governor’s Ball, Club Cumming, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, This n’ That, C’mon Everybody, Nowhere Bar, House of Yes, Bushwick Bazaar, Drom, The Deep End, and the Soho Playhouse (NY Fringe Festival). He has worked alongside MacArthur Genius Taylor Mac, acclaimed writer/performer Justin Sayre, performance artist Machine Dazzle, artist Nayland Blake, pop star and DJ Ana Matronic, director Silas Howard, Bitch (of Bitch and Animal),drag artist Charlene Incarnate, performance artist/puppeteer Glenn Marla, rapper Mister Wallace, singer Big Dipper, director Stephen Winter, performance artist/writer Dan Fishback, filmmaker/drag performer Sequinette Jaynesfield, choreographer/singer Miguel Gutierrez, burlesque star World Famous *BOB*, professional clown Eric Schmalenberger and singer Amber Martin (among countless others). Dusty and his work have appeared in Art In America, Artforum,OUT Magazine, Electric Dirt (by Queer Appalachia), TimeOut NY, Velour Magazine, Next Magazine, Aljazeera, NY Times, OutThere Magazine (UK) and Ud & Se (Dutch)

Sammie James is a comedian and story teller from New Jersey; where she hosts and produces The LGBT showcase Queerly Comedic. Sammie also hosts the podcast All Of My Friends Are Animals and The NYC Trans Variety show We Are Trans. She performs all over the country; including past appearances at Cinder Block Comedy Festival, Charm City Comedy Festival and Bechdal Test Fest; and she is soon to be your favorite disabled, nerdy, butch trans woman in comedy.

Joey Kipp is an NYC Dancer and performer.