QOM was good

The 2nd to last QOM was grand. elusis came and gave me the best necklace ever! Katrina Recto and the open mic-ers seriously kicked very large amounts of the ass. and mollena - omg dude you are so the best ever. amazing that i kept going even as i was losing my voice. the show must go on right?

mo got one onf my favorite tattoo pics ever.

come to cindy's last qom because the readers will knock your SOCKS OFF!

i am hoping you fellow accordion /banjo / kazoo folks will show up and help me blow the roof off for my last show!!!!

JUNE 27, 2008
Queer Open Mic featuring local literati Daphne Gottlieb and special guest from Seattle - Sarah Katherine Lewis.

On June 27th Queer Open Mic is marking a big change in the show. Founder, curator and co-host Cindy Emch will be taking an indefinte hiatus to focus on her bands Vagabondage and Rhubarb Whiskey. In her stead will be Mollena Williams (existing co-host and local award winning performance artist) and Sarah Dopp (member of the New Hampshire Slam team and founder of thewrit.org).

To celebrate Cindy's last show she'll be playing some special accordion tunes. The night features local literati Daphne Gottlieb. Daphne is the author of KISSING DEAD GIRLS, WHY THING BURN, JOKES & the UNCONSCIOUS, FINAL GIRL, PELT and editrix of FUCKING DAPHNE and HOMEWRECKER.

QOM is also proud to feature special guest Sarah Katherine Lewis on tour from Seattle. A contributor to Gottlieb's newest anthology FUCKING DAPHNE and author of the awesome INDECENT and SEX & BACON, she is not to be missed.

High Res versions of the below pics are available upon request.
Full bios of performers below.

Queer Open Mic
@ Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe
1800 Market Street, SF CA
730 sign up , 8pm show
$1 - 5

  


FULL BIOS
Daphne Gottlieb
San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of the poetry books Kissing Dead Girls, Final Girl, Why Things Burn and Pelt, as well as the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa.


Sarah Katherine Lewis is the author of Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That are Very, Very Bad For Me (Seal, 2008) and Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl For Hire (Seal, 2006) and has contributed to several anthologies, including Fucking Daphne: Mostly True Stories and Fictions (Seal, 2008). A ten-year veteran of the adult industry in Seattle, Portland, and New Orleans, she now spends her time maintaining her popular blog, at SarahKatherineLewis.com, writing, and playing with food in Seattle, Washington. An outspoken (and often outrageous) feminist activist, she works to promote global revolution and dreams of a world where all women feast like Vikings.

Cindy Emch
Cindy Emch is addicted to poetry, road trips and muscle cars. She can often be found writing highway poems and playing the accordion for one of her two bands, Vagabondage and Rhubarb Whiskey.  Cindy's writing has been been published in the Can I Sit With You project, LodeStar Quarterly, There Journal, It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion, Beauty and Personal Style edited by Michelle Tea, and numerous chapbooks. She co-hosted the Aunty Cindy and Unka Lynnee show with Lynn Breedlove on Pirate Cat Radio from 2004 to 2007, and has been a curator for the National Queer Arts Festival since 2005. Emch is also the founder and co-host of San Francisco's twice-a-month Queer Open Mic, which has been hosting performers and freaks at the Three Dollar Bill Cafe since 2004.

Mollena Williams
Mollena WIlliams is a founding member of the Crowded Fire Theatre Company, former Mentor Director for the Society of Janus and co-host of Queer Open Mic. She has been acting and performing in the SF Bay Area for years and years and has been named Best Local Actress in the SF Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay.

 

 

 

lets get warm and fuzzy - from amarama and huskypapi

Amarama says "I am sick of all of my friends hating themselves! I know everyone is down on themselves because the world is bad and mean to all of us, a lot. However, I can think of a million things I love about everyone who is my friend. I'm going to write some things I love about myself, and then I want you all to reply with ten things you love about yourselves, too. Yes, it's a little like group therapy. However, you need to do it! Do it!"  I have to agree. Somehow this morning this feels like the hardest thing evr.

Things I love about my own self:

1. How much I care about people making and prioritizing their art.

2. My love of lakes.

3. The songs I am writing. It's a talent I didn't know I had and it feels like a huge gift.

4. My diplomacy and concern - honest concern - for other people's feelings

5. My rhubarb pie creations

6. My ability to drive and drive and drive and drive

7. My general desire to be kind to people

8. I can create a place that is homey and welcoming with two sticks and some dirt

9. I am a good friend with a lot of love in my heart regardless of my frequency of socializing or calling

10. i am a vicious protector of who and what i love

Now your turn!!

Just a reminder

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xoxo

maybe its just a mushy morning

aw you guys - i am getting all sentimental
join me?

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