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Saturday Night Special: A “Sullied” Open Mic
May 28, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm UTC+0
This month at SNS, we’re celebrating the sullied. The damaged, the impure, the tainted, tarnished, spoiled, polluted and defiled. Bring us your filthy poems, your ruined stories, your glorious poisonous words. We want to eat them up.
As always, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems, stories, comedic sketches, songs, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic).
Features: Tim Donnelly & Barbara R. Saunders
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First come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm)
Each reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages.
PLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS, we turn on the disco lights! So, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance!
Saturday, May 28th, 2016
7 – 9:30 pm
Nick’s Lounge (21+)
3218 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA
1 block south of Ashby BART
Between Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way
FREE!
But bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!)
Hosted by Hollie Hardy & Tomas Moniz
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BIOS
Barbara R. Saunders is a writer from New York, living in Berkeley. She has been a featured storyteller at The Monkey House and has performed original solo work at the Marsh, where she studies with director David Ford. Barbara works as a freelance writer and editor and has won national awards for scholastic nonfiction and communications. In poetry, she is drawn to musical sounds and biographical themes.
TIM DONNELLY has lived in downtown Berkeley since 1991. Before that he was an LA poet. He is a Special Education paraprofessional in the Berkeley Unified School District and a seasoned Union negotiator.
Recent poetry publications include Eleven Eleven, The Dead Animal Handbook, Saturday Night Special, The Oakland Review, Sparkle & Blink, Poems on the Emery-Go-Round, & Cross Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco.