BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:489677 DTSTAMP:20260423T025055Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Andy Weir and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz! DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks features the author of The Martian and one of the most important voices in indigenous studies! When: Saturd ay, Dec. 13, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: Andy Wei r, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Shelly Oria, Vanessa Hua, Megan Geuss and Kat ie Gilmartin! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francis co About the readers/performers: Andy Weir is the author of The Mart ian, the bestselling novel which is being turned into a movie by Ridle y Scott. He was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects l ike relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is the author of An Indigenous Peo ples' History of the United States, as well as Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 196 0-1975, The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation an d its Struggle for Sovereignty, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980 and Indians of the Americas: Human Ri ghts and Self-Determination. Shelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, a book of stories about gender and sexuality. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Quarterly West, and fi vechapters among other places, and won the Indiana Review Fiction Priz e and a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria among other aw ards. She curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in the East Village. She is the recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Ja mes D. Phelan literary award. A recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Wr iting at San Jose State University, she is working on a novel, a colle ction of short stories, and memoir. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Yorker online,Sa lon, Pacific Standard, and Newsweek, among other publications. Her fic tion has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, ZYZZVA, Crab Orch ard Review, Daily Lit,Calyx, American Literary Review, River Styx, Hop kins Review, and elsewhere. She is the first-place winner of The Atlan tic student fiction contest,and has received scholarships from the Bre ad Loaf Writers’ Conference and Aspen Summer Words. Megan Geuss is a staff editor at Ars Technica and a native Californian. Prior to Ars, she was a features editor at PCWorld, and before that she worked as a freelancer writer for various publications and as a fact-checker at W ired Magazine. Katie Gilmartin is the author of Blackmail, My Love, a n illustrated noir mystery set in San Francisco in 1951. A printmaker, she also runs Chrysalis Print Studio, where she teaches linocut and m onotype classes. She founded City Art Cooperative Gallery, a thriving artspace on Valencia Street, and the Queer Ancestors Project, which is devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young LGBTQ people an d their ancestors. About Writers With Drinks: Writers With Drinks h as won numerous \"Best ofs\" from local newspapers, and has been menti oned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes genres to raise mo ney for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.\n\nFor mor e information visit http://trueskool.com/events/writers-with-drinks-wi th-andy-weir-and-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141213T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141213T210000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, bay, area, sf, california LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA WEBSITE:http://www.makeoutroom.com URL:http://www.makeoutroom.com CONTACT:415-647-2888 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli eJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR