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:673309 DTSTAMP:20260421T023849Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring MK Chavez and Maggie Tokuda Hall DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop, the most exciting new spoken word extravagan za in which great writers, poets and comedians write about pop culture , is taking over Writers With Drinks for the month of March. Featuring superstar host Wonder Dave! When: Saturday, March 10, 2018 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM Who: MK Chavez, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Kelly Anneken, Natalia Vigil, Amanda Muniz, Sam DiSalvo and guest hos t Wonder Dave! How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center fo r Sex & Culture Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisc o, CA About the readers/performers: Oakland based Latinx writer, MK Chavez is the author of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis an d Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press) which received the 2017 Pen Oakland Jos ephine Miles Award. Chavez’s poem The New Whitehouse, Finding Myself in The Ruins, was selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. Chavez is also co-founder/curator of the reading se ries Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, a fellow with CantoMundo and a writer in residence at Alley Cat Books. Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from University of San Fran cisco, and a tendency to spill things. She splits her time writing for kids and for adults and her debut children’s book, Also an Octopus, has been called “wickedly absurd” and “a perceptive how-to” t hat will “inspire kids to imagine a story of their own.” Her debut Young Adult novel is due out in 2019. She also hosts the Drunk Safari podcast, which features animal facts as brought to you by drunk dilet tantes of zoology. Kelly Anneken is what happens when Kim Kardashian looks like Bette Midler and tweets like Roseanne. This Oakland-based f unny person and all-around swell gal performs standup comedy and is a regular at the Punch Line San Francisco, Cobb’s and Rooster T. Feath ers.  Natalia Vigil is a queer Xicana writer, multimedia curator, an d big sister of six, born and raised in San Francisco. She is the prou d co-founder of Still Here San Francisco, a performance and community dialogue centering the experiences of queer and trans people raised in the city and a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow.  Amanda Muñiz English Lit. certified, side hustler, and amateur writer. Poblana turned immig rant at the age of eight. Writer of anecdotes, chismes, and made-up st ories. Inspired by her parents, the migrant experience, and the land s he has trekked over. Sam DiSalvo is a San Francisco-based comedian. S he performs all over the country and has been featured in SF Sketchfes t. She’s the co-creator and producer of the monthly showcase More Fu n at Blondie’s, the only Monday comedy show that features free cake. Sam;s style has been described as “brave” and “maybe too honest ” by her mother. Wonder Dave is a comedian and writer from Minneapo lis, MN, now living in Northern California. He has toured the country performing at schools, cabarets, sci-fi and comic conventions, burlesq ue shows, strip clubs and bowling alleys. Dave is the co-host of the l ong running Oakland variety show Tourettes Without Regrets. He has bee n featured on the Risk Podcast and is a regular debater on the comedy debate podcast Nerd Rage: The Great Debates, and co-hosts Ring Awarene ss a podcast about Women’s Profressional Wrestling. Dave is also the mastermind of the show/podcast Literary Pop! Which gathers writers, c omics and storytellers to share work about the pop culture that has in fluenced their lives.\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool. com/events/writers-with-drinks-featuring-mk-chavez-and-maggie-tokuda-h all DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180310T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180310T213000 CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", 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":https://trueskool.com/profile/Charl ieJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2248006252?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR