| Date & Time: | Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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8:00 PM |
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| Location: |
Magnet 4122 18th St. and Castro San Francisco, CA view map |
| More Info: | www.magnetsf.org |
Free.
SMACK DAB : an open stage hosted by Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts.
Feature: Mark Abramson.
Mark Abramson is the author of the new book "Beach Reading," the first
of a new series of books set in San Francisco.
Mark Abramson was a Minnesota farm boy who joined the gay migration to
San Francisco in the 1970s.
His writing has appeared in the gay press as far back as Christopher
Street, Fag Rag, Gay Sunshine, Mouth of the Dragon and more recently
in Lethe Press' acclaimed anthology Charmed Lives, gay spirit in
storytelling.
He is best known locally as a bartender and a co-producer with the
late Jim Cvitanich of "MEN BEHIND BARS, the bartenders' folly" an
annual AIDS benefit, as well as "PIER PRESSURE" and "HIGH TEA" both
mega-dance parties on the piers of San Francisco.
In addition to the Beach Reading series, he is busy editing a
memoir,Castro Street Diaries recounting true tales from the great gay
Mecca in the years before AIDS - including adventures with old friends
such as John Preston, Rita Rockett and Al Parker.
beachreading.net
All ages, all genders, all the time.
If you'd like to perform at the open mic, please bring five minutes or
less of your unsolicited advice, writing, music, dance, performance,
cooking suggestions or whatever it is you want to share. Musicians, one
song. Prose writers: that's about two and a half double spaced pages of prose.
7:30 pm signup, 8 pm show.
Presented by Army of Lovers, a project of the Queer Cultural Center
SMACK DAB : an open stage hosted by Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts.
Feature: Mark Abramson.
Mark Abramson is the author of the new book "Beach Reading," the first
of a new series of books set in San Francisco.
Mark Abramson was a Minnesota farm boy who joined the gay migration to
San Francisco in the 1970s.
His writing has appeared in the gay press as far back as Christopher
Street, Fag Rag, Gay Sunshine, Mouth of the Dragon and more recently
in Lethe Press' acclaimed anthology Charmed Lives, gay spirit in
storytelling.
He is best known locally as a bartender and a co-producer with the
late Jim Cvitanich of "MEN BEHIND BARS, the bartenders' folly" an
annual AIDS benefit, as well as "PIER PRESSURE" and "HIGH TEA" both
mega-dance parties on the piers of San Francisco.
In addition to the Beach Reading series, he is busy editing a
memoir,Castro Street Diaries recounting true tales from the great gay
Mecca in the years before AIDS - including adventures with old friends
such as John Preston, Rita Rockett and Al Parker.
beachreading.net
All ages, all genders, all the time.
If you'd like to perform at the open mic, please bring five minutes or
less of your unsolicited advice, writing, music, dance, performance,
cooking suggestions or whatever it is you want to share. Musicians, one
song. Prose writers: that's about two and a half double spaced pages of prose.
7:30 pm signup, 8 pm show.
Presented by Army of Lovers, a project of the Queer Cultural Center
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