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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rewrite Your Life
DESCRIPTION:REWRITE YOUR LIFE WEEKEND IMMERSIVE\nA HEALING CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP\nLearn how to write the book you’re meant to write in this weekend workshop. You’ll be introduced to the powerfully therapeutic value of creative writing and taught to transform your life experiences into healing fiction with the bones to be the next great American novel. Class size is limited. \nIn this 3-day intensive\, you will be shown: \n\nthe science behind the healing power of transforming fact into fiction\na simple yet powerful model for sifting through pivotal life experiences to select the one you most need to write about\n\n\npractical guidance in plumbing your past to create memorable characters and to craft a compelling plot\ndirection on how to use the power of smell\, sound\, taste\, and touch memories to access your past as well as craft cinematic setting\nthe POP method\, a wildly effective tool for pulling all your words together and crafting a novel in one year’s time\nhow to set and keep personal writing and self-improvement goals in your everyday life
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rewrite-your-life/
LOCATION:Grace Cathedral\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T160000
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SUMMARY:Anne Lammott: On Writing
DESCRIPTION:Join Anne Lamott\, the bestselling author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life\, for an afternoon that includes an onstage interview\, a lecture\, and a Q&A session. Anne Lamott offers advice on the writing process\, while also touching upon the experiences of the writer and the writing life. Writers working at all levels are encouraged to learn from one of the great writers of our time. Anne Lamott taught the first Book Passage writing class almost two decades ago. It’s a joy to welcome her back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-lammott-on-writing/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T133000
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SUMMARY:"Say her name!": Writing the poetry of witness
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay\, Patricia Smith\, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection\, creative response\, and action. You will also read the news and be guided in the spiritual and humanizing practice necessary to write poetry of witness. At the end of the workshop\, those who are ready\, will be encouraged to record and submit their poems to Black Poets Speak Out or Voluble. This workshop is open to writers of all backgrounds and stripes\, and at any stage of their process. \nAbout the instructor\, poet Raina J. León: \nRaina J. León\, member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, Cave Canem\, Macondo\, and CantoMundo\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate(2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of LatinX arts. Raina is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nReserving a Space: You may reserve a space by purchasing a ticket on a sliding scale\, $5-10\, first-come-first-serve. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. There are 15 five dollar tix available\, and 15 ten dollar tix available. The class caps at 30\, so reserve your space now! \nLocation: Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609. TAC studio can be accessed via wide ramps and also features a wide bathroom equipped with multiple handrails.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/say-her-name-writing-the-poetry-of-witness/
LOCATION:Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T163000
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SUMMARY:Butchertown Book Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:BUTCHERTOWN BOOK RELEASE PARTY: At Stookey’s Club Moderne \n“One Bad Weekend in One Bad Town . . . Butchertown.” \n“A darkly fascinating novel. Butchertown is incendiary”— David Corbett\, award-winning author of Mercy of the Night. \n“Burchfield rounds up a great cast of gangsters and gunsels to bat his wide-eyed hero around.”—Don Herron\, author of the Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs and The Dashiell Hammett Tour \n“A sexy\, violent non-stop thrill ride deep into the seedy underbelly of post-World War I San Francisco!” Critic’s Report\, The BookLife Prize\, sponsored by Publishers Weekly. \nOakland\, CA\, 5/5/2017 – The first official book release party for Butchertown\, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay will be held this coming Saturday May 13\, 2017 at Stookey’s Club Moderne\, 895 Bush Street (at Taylor) from 3:00-4:30 PM\, with doors opening at 2:30. The author will read from Butchertown\, plus an excerpt from an upcoming novel and will provide signed copies of Butchertown for sale. \nButchertown tells the story of Paul Bacon\, ex-Navy boxer\, Jazz-Age playboy and junior city attorney\, who’s moved to California expecting sunshine and sandy beaches. But all he’s found is lonely misery in the chilly fog-choked canyons of 1920s San Francisco. \nThen\, one foggy night\, he meets Molly Carver. Alluring\, irresistible\, mysterious\, she lures Paul across San Francisco Bay to her hometown of Evansville\, to what she claims is the California promised in the travel brochures. \nBut Molly’s promise is only camouflage for a dangerous game. Evansville is no paradise but a whirling sewer of sin and perdition; a wilderness of slaughterhouses\, factories\, oil refineries\, gambling dens\, brothels\, and speakeasies even more decadent than San Francisco. And within its grimy\, gritty heart\, a gang war smolders\, ready for someone to throw a match. \nThey don’t call it Butchertown for nothing. \nABOUT THE VENUE: Stookey’s Club Moderne\, located at 895 Bush at Taylor\, between Nob Hill and Union Square\, is a lounge evoking the style of post-prohibition San Francisco (1930-1940). \nThe bar’s classic cocktails and Streamline-Moderne design\, brings its guests back in time and into the mood of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco. \nContact:\nThomas Burchfield\namblerhouse@att.net\n(510) 817-4432\nhttp://amblerhouse.blogspot.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/butchertown-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Stookey’s Club  Moderne\, 895 Bush St. at Taylor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Museum Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:The Tenderloin Museum marks its 2nd anniversary in the midst of an important year in the history of San Francisco – it’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the 100th anniversary of the “anti-vice” Tenderloin neighborhood shutdown. On Saturday\, May 13\, the Tenderloin Museum is inviting its friends and neighbors to celebrate the Tenderloin’s unique contributions to San Francisco history with daylong free museum admission and free public programs from 4 pm to 9 pm\, featuring accounts of the “Invisible Circus” from the Diggers\, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist David Talbot\, the first-ever reading of the new play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, and a dynamic jazz night by SF Recovery Theater. We’re excited to show off the best the neighborhood has to offer and celebrate the 31 square blocks we call home. \n Programming Schedule: \n4pm\, The Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Remembered \nCome hear what the Summer of Love was like in the Tenderloin. Judy Goldhaft (original participant in the Diggers) and Eric Noble (Diggers archivist) talk with LisaRuth Elliott (Shaping San Francisco’s co-director) about who the Diggers were\, and their radical anti-capitalist philosophy and activities. They will share archival materials and personal experiences from the Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Happening at Glide Church on February 24\, 1967. Stories about the “Invisible Circus” became legend in San Francisco’s hip community for years. Originally billed as a 72 hour event\, participants were thrown out within 24 hours. See the poster from the event and hear stories of the spectacle from the Diggers themselves. \n5pm\, David Talbot on the Summer of Love\, Season of the Witch\, and the Tenderloin \nAuthor of the best selling book on San Francisco’s Summer of Love and its aftermath\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Talbot gives his unique perspective on this seminal time in history. \n6pm\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot \nJoin us for the first-ever reading of scenes from a new play about Tenderloin history\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, based on events surrounding the United States’ first-ever anti-police riot by the LGBTQ community. Followed by dazzling drag performances by co-authors Donna Personna & Collette LeGrande\, and joined by Olivia Hart (all featured in James Hosking’s film about Aunt Charlie’s bar\, Beautiful by Night). The play is being co-produced by the Tenderloin Museum and writer Mark Nassar\, co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, and will premiere this fall in the Tenderloin. \n7:30\, SF Recovery Theater: Night at the Black Hawk \nJoin us for a raucous tour-de-force performance of some of the best musical talent in the neighborhood! Night at the Black Hawk is a live jazz concert\, part of an ongoing series that reflects on the lives and stories of the artists\, musicians\, and residents that lived in the shadow of the Black Hawk Jazz Club. \nParticipant Bios \nA former member of the Diggers\, Judy Goldhaft is an activist who has used art\, theater and education to further social change in urban and rural locations to promote community empowerment and bioregional ecological education. Judy has performed dance\, street theater\, life acting\, multispecies theater and single person performance pieces. Judy has been a guiding force with the ecological educational nonprofit Planet Drum Foundation since its inception in 1973\, serving currently as its director. She also gardens\, and is a maker\, repairer\, and reuser. \nAfter reading a copy of the Digger Papers while living in Ohio in 1968\, Eric Noble dropped out of college and made his way across the country to find the Diggers. From 1968 to 1971 he lived a peripatetic existence in lots of different communes along the way. Once in San Francisco in 1971\, he moved into the Kaliflower commune\, an offshoot inspired by the Diggers. Learning about how prolific the Digger movement had been in terms of written material\, he collected whatever he could find and became known as the Digger archivist\, so named by Peter Berg. His project\, the Digger Archives have been online in some form since 1995\, and continue to inspire people all over the world. \nShaping San Francisco is a participatory community history project dedicated to uncovering and sharing the overlooked and forgotten histories of the City. Through Free Public Talks\, Walking and Bicycle History Tours\, and our digital archive at Foundsf.org\, Shaping San Francisco seeks to make history together\, recognizing that “History is a Creative Act in the Present.” shapingsf.org\, foundsf.org\, diggers.org\, planetdrum.org \nDavid Talbot is a bestselling author\, journalist\, media entrepreneur and political activist. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pioneering online publication Salon and a former senior editor of Mother Jones magazine. In recent years\, he has built a reputation as a popular historian with books such as the national bestseller Season of the Witch and the New York Times bestsellers The Devil’s Chessboard andBrothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Talbot has written for Time magazine\, The New Yorker\,Rolling Stone\, and other publications. He is currently a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also a cofounder of San Francisco Vision\, a progressive coalition that fights for “San Francisco values.” \nMark Nassar along with Tenderloin Museum director Katie Conry conceived of the idea of an interactive play based on the Compton’s Cafeteria riot\, inspired by the Tenderloin Museum’s exhibits on the subject. Nassar\, in collaboration with long-term Tenderloin drag queens Donna Persona and Collette LeGrande\, has spent the past year writing the play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. He boasts an impressive record of artistic success\, having written plays and screenplays\, and has also acted in theater\, TV and film. Mr. Nassar is also the co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, the longest running Off-Broadway comedy in New York City history. More recently\, he wrote the screenplay\, A Line in the Sand\, a film directed by Jeffrey Chernov\, in which he also had a principal role. In 2008\, the film won Best Feature and the Audience Award at numerous film festivals\, as well as the Grand Jury prize at the Canada International Film Festival. He also attended the Djerassi Artists Residency in Woodside\, California\, where he completed a new play\, Shouting in the Wilderness\, and is currently playing Sal the owner in San Francisco’s immersive hit – The Speakeasy. \nCollette LeGrande is the twice former Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has raised funds for charity in the Tenderloin for 30 years\, supporting AIDS Emergency Fund\, Magnet\, Mama Reinhardt’s Toys for Tots\, and many others. She has worked at Aunt Charlie’s since 1998 and organizes her own bi-weekly drag show\, the Dream Queens Revue. \nDonna Personna is an artist and performer\, who first hit the stage with the legendary Cockettes. She was the subject of the 2013 Iris Prize-winning short “My Mother\,” by Jay Bedwani\, and is currently in production with Bedwani on another documentary film. She serves on the board of directors committees for Trans March and the Transgender Day of Remembrance\, working to gain wider visibility for transgender rights. \nOlivia Hart is a chef by day and performer by night. She is the current Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has organized and hosted numerous events to benefit the LGBT community and\, in particular\, organizations that support addiction recovery and sober living. \nThe San Francisco Recovery Theatre is a grassroots organization with a lot of local and some municipal support. It is funded by grants from the art and health community in San Francisco with no full time staff\, but with a core group of dedicated actors\, composed mainly of people in recovery. Its mission is to meet people where they are\, provide a medium of communication and deliver a message of hope\, consequence and solutions. http://sfrecoverytheatre.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-museum-turns-two/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T193000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Author Deborah Fleming \nAward winning hippie/Vietnam War novel Without Leave published by Black Mountain Press. Winner of the 2013 Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press\, the novel Without Leave places brave people into the hippie experience and turbulent antiwar movement of the 1960s and addresses the existential question of freedom of the will. \nPublished 47 years since the “Summer of Love” and 49 years since the troop surge that ushered in the full-scale American commitment to the Vietnam War\, Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70. David Shields goes AWOL from the Navy where he’d hoped to find training and focus for his life but instead finds boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco in 1967 he meets and falls in love with an artist\, Diane Cavanagh\, who drops out of college after a brutal rape and the death of the black man she loved. Through turmoil and separation\, they find they cannot escape their past.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fleming/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
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SUMMARY:Mama Says: QTPOC Lineage + Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:MAMA SAYS: QTPOC Lineage and Storytelling\nMay 13\, 2017\nGaleria de la Raza\nshow @ 6pm\nafter party @ 8pm\n$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds) \nFeaturing…\nIndira Allegra\nMyriam Gurba\nRoberto F. Santiago\nGrace Rosario Perkins\nJosé Iñiguez\n \nIndira Allegra is a recipient of the Oakland Individual Artist (2015) and Queer Cultural Center grants (2014) and has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award (2014)\, Lambda Literary Fellowship (2012) and Windgate Craft Fellowship (2015). Allegra’s commissions include works for the SFMOMA\, de Young Museum\, The Wattis Institute\, Petty Biennial\, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival\, the City of Oakland and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her time-based works have screened at festivals such as MIX NYC (2013)\, Perlen Hannover LGBT Festival (2010)\, Bologna Lesbian Film Festival (2010) and Outfest Fusion (2009).Allegra’s writing has been widely anthologized\, she has contributed works to Cream City Review\, HYSTERIA Magazine\, make/shift Magazine\, Konch Magazine and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art and Thought among others. In 2014 she was the Dr. and Mrs. Ella Tag Lecturer at East Carolina University and a Lylle Parker Women of Color Speaker at the University of Oregon. Allegra has completed workshops and residencies at The Banff Centre in Canada (2012) Ponderosa Center for Movement and Discovery in Stolzenhagen (2016) and Takt in Berlin (2016). She is a 2017 Artist in Residence at Djerassi Residence Arts Program and the Headlands Center for the Arts. \nMyriam Gurba\nMyriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word artist\, visual artist\, and writer from Santa Maria\, California. She currently lives and teaches in Long Beach\, California. Her most recent novel\, Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories\, explores Mexican stories and traditions from a feminist lens. \nRoberto Santiago\nRoberto F. Santiago is a poet\, translator\, and lead singer in a solo act who produces his own music\, and dances rips into his pants. Roberto received an MFA from Rutgers University\, BA from Sarah Lawrence College\, and is the recipient of the 2011 Alfred C. Carey Prize for Poetry. Currently\, he works as College and Career Coordinator at a high school in San Francisco. Be it pedaling past the canals in Amsterdam or the smell of rain in rural Québec\, he has begun to rewrite his own passport. Roberto also writes and produces his own music\, and has been known to dance until he rips his pants. His frst full-length collection of poems\, Angel Park\, will be released April 2015 by Lethe Press. His poetry has been published in such anthologies/journals as Assaracus – Sibling Rivalry (2014)\, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action(2014)\, Hypothetical: A Review of Everything Imaginable(2014)\, and Te Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep you Company – CavanKerry (2013). \nGrace Rosario Perkins\nCapturing feeling through her artwork in a multitude of ways\, Grace Rosario Perkins creates visionary pieces by evoking thought\, feeling and language onto mediums that allow us to create our own thoughts\, feelings and language. Coming from a line of artists and having spent a majority of her time living on the Akimel O’odham Indian and on the Navajo Nation reservations\, Grace’s upbringing has affected her artwork greatly through the years\, and has created a unique spin on the way language and artwork come together. Repetitive motifs of women\, mountainscapes\, abstract patterns and shapes all built from a consciousness in which memory\, familial identity\, pop culture and obsessive mark-making are paired with texts. \nJosé Iñiguez\nJosé Luis Iñiguez is a Central Valley artist currently based in Oakland\, California. He received his Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in San Francisco\, California. Trained as a ceramist; yet\, his practice is not solely that\, he infuses his visions with tactile procedures and assemblage\, utilizing found objects and waste. Iñiguez’s work is encircled with many planes of his identity. His recent investigation immersed his practice into a spiritual quest\, weaving in his Roman Catholic upbringing with the occult.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mama-says-qtpoc-lineage-storytelling/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir featuring at Frank Bette\nHosted By: Deborah Ledvick and Jeanne Lupton \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more. \nIngrid Keir is a poet\, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty\, a long-running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum\, The Beat Museum\, City Hall\, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. Ingrid has lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry\, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. She also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004)\, Toward the Light (2007) and recently released a new book of poetry in September 2016\, The Choreography of Nests\, published by Feather Press. Ingrid has been published in many literary journals including: Two Hawks Quarterly\, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. She was also shortlisted in the 2016 Litquake poetry contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-ingrid-keir/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T001255
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SUMMARY:Chris Higgs\, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, + Cassandra Troyan
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-higgs-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-cassandra-troyan/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T001255
CREATED:20170417T112205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T112205Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 13\, 2017:\n \nLindy West (Shrill)\nJulia Vinograd (Graffiti: Poems\, Suspicious Characters: Poems)\nMeg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\nGeorge Higgins (There\, There)\nZahra Noorbakhsh (#GoodMuslimBadMuslim) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-4/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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