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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling ‘BEST FIENDS’
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 20th\, 2019 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of ‘That came outta nowhere!’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes from Good Vibrations – yeah\, baby! \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #Sin&Tonic #Rimjob \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. As a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Esquire.com as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No refunds or exchanges. \n• Theme and Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \n( photo by the talented Andrew McDonald )
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-best-fiends/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold
DESCRIPTION:Megan Griswold joins us to discuss her new book\, The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies.\n \nPraise for The Book of Help \n“Griswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.”\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n\nAbout The Book of Help \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-griswold/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Returns to Booksmith! Mary Poppins Edition
DESCRIPTION:Shipwreck Returns! \nJoin us for a Very Special One-Off event as San Francisco’s premier Literary Erotic Fanfiction Competition gets the band back together: Amy hosts\, Baruch reads\, and Casey records. \nHop on that East Wind: we’re doing a Mary Poppins adaptation that’s sure to be even worse than the 2018 Emily Blunt vehicle (probably). Join us to get all those chimney sweep jokes out of your system. Costumes encouraged. Get scared. \n  \nFeatured writers: Returning champs Joe Wadlington & Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, plus Kirstie Haruta\, Alan Leggitt\, Amanda Rosenberg\, Molly Sanchez\, and more TBA. \n  \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on one notable Thursday this June at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back at some point to defend their title. \n\n\n \n\n\n—\n \n\nCritics are saying: \nwait\, they’re still doing that? \n\n… the most despicable literary event possible. \n\nI’m so lost and so scared \n\n… an affront to literature. \n\nwonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting. \n\ncome if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before. \n\nShipwreck will bring you to madness and you may never return. \n\nI do not care for this. \n\n…lovingly rendered artisanal small batch nightmares…\n \n\n\n— \n\nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-returns-to-booksmith-mary-poppins-edition/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime PRIDE
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime PRIDE\, featuring Nona Caspers (The Fifth Woman)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, Eddie Jen\, and others\, will occur at Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday June 20th\, 7.30-9.30 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-pride/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nicole Dennis-Benn
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Dennis-Benn\, author of Here Comes the Sun\, discusses her new novel\, Patsy. \nPraise for Patsy \n“Nicole Dennis-Benn is an exquisite writer who paints scenes with words so vivid you might as well be walking through it as a character\, not a reader. In Patsy\, she addresses motherhood\, sexuality\, racism\, and colorism; turning her prodigious talents to the timely story of an undocumented immigrant straddling two worlds while learning that love isn’t a choice\, but the beat in one’s blood.” – JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things \n“A stunningly powerful inter-generational novel about the price―the ransom really― women must pay to choose themselves\, their lives\, their value\, their humanity. Frank\, funny\, salty\, heartbreaking\, full of love\, Dennis-Benn is a map-maker to those places in the heart held so closely\, the holder may not know even they’re there.” – ALEXANDER CHEE\,author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel \n“Beautiful\, shattering\, and deeply affecting. Patsy’s story ultimately makes for a novel that is destined to endure.” – CHIGOZIE OBIOMA\, author of The Fishermen \n“An aching meditation on motherhood\, sacrifice\, and what it means to look truth in the face in order to fully become oneself. A beautiful book\, as heartbreaking as it is restorative.” – CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“A novel that splits at the seams with yearning\, elegantly written and deeply felt. Dennis-Benn leads the reader through Patsy’s life with empathy and grace.” – ESME WEIJUN WANG\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \nAbout Patsy \nBeating with the pulse of a long-witheld confession\, Patsy gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first–not to give a better life to her family back home. Patsy leaves Tru behind in a defiant act of self-preservation\, hoping for a new start where she can be\, and love\, whomever she wants. But when Patsy arrives in Brooklyn\, America is not as Cicely’s treasured letters described; to survive as an undocumented immigrant\, she is forced to work as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile\, Tru builds a faltering relationship with her father back in Jamaica\, grappling with her own questions of identity and sexuality\, and trying desperately to empathize with her mother’s decision. \nExpertly evoking the jittery streets of New York and the languid rhythms of Jamaica\, Patsy weaves between the lives of Patsy and Tru in vignettes spanning more than a decade as mother and daughter ultimately find a way back to one another. \nAs with her masterful debut\, Here Comes the Sun\, Nicole Dennis-Benn once again charts the geography of a hidden world–that of a paradise lost\, swirling with the echoes of lilting patois\, in which one woman fights to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her. Passionate\, moving\, and fiercely urgent\, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood\, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-dennis-benn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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