UPCOMING QUEER OPEN MIC

SEPTEMBER QUEER OPEN MIC

When:
Friday September 10th and 24th
Sign up @7:15, Show @ 8pm

Where:
Three Dollar Bill Cafe
1800 Market@Octavia

Who:

9/10 Lynnee Breedlove

Breedlove, who can't concentrate for long, wrote the novel Godspeed for and about the ADD generation. Shim's fronted the dyke/trans punk band Tribe 8 for 14 years and wears herms baggiest sweats to perform in the homohop duo SLAMB (Stop Looking at My Boyfriend). Breedlove is the headmaster of Unka Lynnee's Skool 4 Boyz, a columnist for On Our Backs Magazine, and the former owner of Lickety Split, an all-girl bike messenger company.

 

9/24 Daphne Gottlieb

San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the author of Final Girl (Soft Skull Press, 2003), Why Things Burn (Soft Skull Press, 2001) and Pelt (Odd Girls Press, 1999). Final Girl was named one of the The Village Voice's Favorite Books of 2003.Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition — Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001.

 

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$1-$5 donation – no one turned away for lack of funds

QUEER OPEN MIC @ Three Dollar Bill Cafe is here again – flushed and flirty from the enthusiastic support of writers, singers, performers and audiences that are packing the joint every second and fourth Fridays of the month! As always there are prizes for every reader and a free raffle for one lucky audience member.

In only it’s second month, QUEER OPEN MIC has already been hailed as  “an incredibly supportive environment” by the up and coming Goddess Barbara; compared to the iconic Josie’s Juice joint by Joyce Slaton of the SF Weekly; and has featured amazing surprises by such local luminaries as Horehound Stillpoint, Jen Collins, Monique Everhart, Fresh! White, Guy Gayle and upcoming feature Daphne Gottlieb on the open mic!

 

Scheduled upcoming featured readers include:Erin O’Briant (10/8); Miriam Sachs-Martin & Sherilyn Connelly (10/22); and Kirk Read (11/12)

QUEER OPEN MIC happens on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month at the THREE DOLLAR BILL CAFÉ on the first floor of the SF LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER at 1800 Market @ Octavia in SF and is hosted by Cindy M. Emch.

Open Mic sign up begins at 7:30, readings start at 8pm. $1-5 donations benefit the Femina Potens (www.feminapotens.com) and The Center (www.sfcenter.org) in an effort to encourage more queer radical art in our community. No one turned away for lack of funds. (Open mic readers get 5 minutes, one poem or 3 pages of prose, whichever fits the material best)