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SUMMARY:Adam Savage comes to Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's most outrageous word festival features the
  Mythbusters co-host, plus science fiction, literature, erotic storyte
 lling, and more!  When: Saturday April 9 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, door
 s open 6:30 PM Who: Adam Savage, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Isabel Yap, Pr
 incess Kali and co-host Annalee Newitz! How much: $5 to $20, all proce
 eds benefit the CSC Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Fran
 cisco, CA  About the readers/performers:  Adam Savage was the co-host 
 of the TV show Mythbusters. Savage worked for years in the special eff
 ects industry, honing his skills through more than 100 television comm
 ercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The 
 Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Quest, Ter
 minator 3, A.I. and the Matrix sequels. Savage also teaches, lectures 
 and consults on a variety of topics to students, business folks and ev
 eryday Joes. Somehow he also finds time to devote to his own art -- hi
 s sculptures have been showcased in over 40 shows in San Francisco, Ne
 w York and Charleston, West Virginia.  Miriam Bird Greenberg is the au
 thor of In the Volcano’s Mouth, which won the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starr
 ett Prize. She's been recognized with fellowships from the NEA, the Pr
 ovincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Poetry Foundation. She is th
 e author of two previous chapbooks—All night in the new country (Six
 teen Rivers) and Pact-Blood, Fevergrass (Ricochet Editions)—and her 
 work has appeared in Poetry, the Missouri Review, and the anthologies 
 Best New Poets 2014 (Samovar) and The Queer South (Sibling Rivalry). A
  former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Are
 a, where for many years she collaboratively developed site-specific pe
 rformances for very small audiences.  Isabel Yap writes fiction and po
 etry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in M
 anila, she currently works in London. Her writing has recently appeare
 d in The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005–2010, Tor.com, 
 Interfictions Online, Stone Telling, and Nightmare Magazine.  Princess
  Kali is the author of Enough to Make You Blush: Exploring Erotic Humi
 liation. Her dynamic and engaging style of presenting has been welcome
 d at more than 150 venues including kink events such as Dark Odyssey, 
 Fetish Fair Fleamarket, Kink in the Caribbean, and IMsL as well as mai
 nstream venues such as Harvard University and SXSW. As the founder of 
 Erotication.com, she pioneered the model of the “kinktrepreneur”, 
 creating sites such as Kink Academy, Passionate U, and Fearles Press f
 or easy access to adult sex and BDSM education.  Co-host Annalee Newit
 z is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survi
 ve a Mass Exctinction. She's also the author of Autonomous, a novel co
 ming in 2017 from Tor Books. She is the Tech Culture Editor at Ars Tec
 hnica, and the founding editor of io9. She was the recipient of a Knig
 ht Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT.\n\nFor more information visit
  http://trueskool.com/events/adam-savage-comes-to-writers-with-drinks
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160409T193000
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CATEGORIES:san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:http://makeoutroom.com
URL:http://makeoutroom.com
CONTACT:415-647-2888
ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli
 eJaneAnders
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