WORRIED ABOUT FINDING THE VENUE? It's easy: we're using a community room in a lower east side apartment building co-op. The address is 266 East Broadway (probably less than 200 steps from the F East Broadway station); as you walk in, ask the security guard for the community room, there will be signs. Also you can just follow the huge heap of queers filing in. Plus we will have a direct a queer service.C'mon you all found COLLECT POND in its original incarnation and you had to climb through a win...
WORRIED ABOUT FINDING THE VENUE? It's easy: we're using a community room in a lower east side apartment building co-op. The address is 266 East Broadway (probably less than 200 steps from the F East Broadway station); as you walk in, ask the security guard for the community room, there will be signs. Also you can just follow the huge heap of queers filing in. Plus we will have a direct a queer service.C'mon you all found COLLECT POND in its original incarnation and you had to climb through a window to get in there.
As always 5-15 bucks sliding scale but NO ONE TURNED AWAY!
Queer Memoir is New York's first and longest running LGBT storytelling series; giving voice to our collective queer experience and preserving and documenting our complex queer history. We host some of New York's best known queer performers, and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives!
With our storytellers:
HARVEY KATZ
SOPHIA VAZQUEZ-PAZOZ
LENNY ZENITH
DAN HORRIGAN
RED DURKIN
JENNY AISENBERG
HARVEY KATZ
Harvey Katz is a poet and story teller digging his roots into the Brookyln sidewalks after more than a decade in the deep south. He is best known for his Spoken Word performances under the name Athens Boys Choir which he started in 2003 in Georgia because telling the people in your small southern city that you are transgender is much easier from a stage where people are forced to clap for after you pour your heart out. These days he mostly works with Universities bring his unique performance poetry, stories, and homo hop to campus audiences. During his off time you can find him in a dank private karaoke room working his way though the StandUp Magazine
by Me soundtrack. Discover more at www.athensboyschoir.com
SOPHIA VAZQUEZ-PAZOS
Sophia Vazquez-Pazos is a contradiction on just about every expectation. An introvert that plays on social media (nycphoenix on twitter). A non-writer with professional publications, a now silent blog and notebooks of angsty poetry. An infertile from a community known for its fecundity. A sober drunk for the past seventeen years. A sexy fat girl in a world of size 4 supermodels. A married bisexual queer girl who loves drag, disco, show tunes and classic Hollywood and goes to church more often than Pride events. A radical social worker playing nice with the system for now. Sophia lives with these contradictions quite happily in Washington Heights with her butch husband Maribelle and her two kittehs, Florencio and Talula.
LENNY ZENITH
Lenny Zenith is a writer and musician from New Orleans, who currently lives in NYC with his wife, Anne and their cat, Seymour. He identifies as a Latino queer transman and his new band, Tenterhooks (http://tenterhooks.bandcamp.com), will release its debut EP in November. "The Car Song", by his 90's band Jenifer Convertible, was featured on the Trans-Genre CD compilation. Over the years, he's shared the stage with Gang of Four, Iggy Pop and U2 among others. He was profile on Vice.com. He is putting the finishing touches on his memoir "Before I Was Me".
DAN HORRIGAN
A writer, director and storyteller, Dan's solo show The Big "A", hilariously chronicling his experiences of living with HIV has been twice produced in New York City. Dan is psyched to be returning to Queer Memoir!
RED DURKIN
Is a hilarious comic with lots of poignant beautiful hilarious horrible stories. This will be her last Queer Memoir while living in NYC. Major frowny face.
Queer Memoir is New York's first and longest running LGBT storytelling series; giving voice to our collective queer experience and preserving and documenting our complex queer history. Every month, we host some of Queer New York's best known performers, and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives and bring them together to celebrate the ritual and community building value of storytelling.
JENNY AISENBERG
Jenny Aisenberg is a dreamy-headed pisces with an MA in Digital Media and a penchant for baking elaborate treats in the kitchen. She currently works with the disabled community in the Orthodox Jewish enclave of South Brooklyn, where she is beloved for her challah baking despite her status as a weird and wacky Park Slope hippie Jew. She lives with her two fabulous cats and two equally fabulous roommates in Prospect Park, and can usually be found belting out a classic rock tune at Branded Saloon on Karaoke Thursdays with Mr. Wonderful.
5-15 bucks sliding scale NO ONE EVER TURNED AWAY
Queer Memoir was founded by comic storyteller Kelli Dunham and playwright Genne Murphy in January 2010. In four years they have created more than 85 Queer Memoir events, drawing in over 7200 audience members and 365 different storytellers. Queer Memoir has collaborated with 13 arts organizations in four states, conducted almost a dozen storytelling workshops and used nearly a hundred venues including the MTA, sharing stories on both the A and Q Train