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Saturday Night Special, An “Animal” Open Mic
Saturday Night Special is ready to put 2016 to sleep and wake up in a shiny new 2017. (As a reminder, December is our one hiatus of the year, but we’re excited for a fresh and sexy January reading).
Get out your grrr and your fur, your teeth and tails, your fierce and feral hearts; our theme for January is ANIMAL!
As always, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems, stories, comedic sketches, songs, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic).
Our January features are: MK Chavez and Alexandra Kostoulas
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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!
After the reading, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm
Saturday, January 28th, 2017
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
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BIOS
Oakland based writer, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks, including “Mothermorphosis.” “Dear Animal,” was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, curator of Fruitvale Friday Readings in Oakland, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she was awarded an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award.
ALEXANDRA KOSTOULAS is an award-winning writer of poetry, fiction and journalism. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute and publisher of the Mid-Market News. She has performed her work on stage locally and nationally at Santa Barbara Book & Author festival, Los Angeles Festival of Books, UC Berkeley, Beyond Baroque Bookstore in Venice, CA, Mills College, the Lit Symposium at UC Santa Barbara, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley, Books and Books in Miami, and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and more.
She has just finished a book of poems called Leaving Los Angeles about a young poet’s coming-of-age. She is currently working on finishing up her novel, “Persephone Stolen,” which weaves in tales of the Persephone myth, the immigrant experience and stolen artifacts.
She teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day at methodwritingsf.com and http://