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:399060 DTSTAMP:20260418T232827Z SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks with Sarah Ladipo Manyika! DESCRIPTION:San Francisco's longest-running spoken word variety show f eatures the amazing Josh Kornbluth as a guest MC, plus an all-star lin e-up! When: Saturday, August 9, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6 :30 PM Who: Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Anne Leonard, Madison Young, Myriam Gurba and guest MC Josh Kornbluth! How much: $5 to $10, all proceeds b enefit the Center for Sex and Culture Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 2 2nd. St., San Francisco About the readers/performers: Guest MC Josh Kornbluth is a prolific monologuist and performer, whose monologues in clude Love and Taxes, The Mathematics of Change, Ben Franklin Unplugge d, Citizen Josh, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, and Sea of Reeds. He hosted the Josh Kornbluth Show on KQED. He's also made three movies: Haiku Tunnel, Red Diaper Baby, and Strange Culture, plus an appearance in Teknolust. Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has liv ed in Kenya, France, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the Universit y of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches literature at San Fra ncisco State University. Her writing includes essays, academic papers, reviews and short stories. Sarah's first novel, In Dependence, is pub lished by Legend Press (London) and Cassava Republic Press (Abuja). M yriam Gurba's books are Dahlia Season (Manic D), Wish You Were Me (Fut ure Tense), menudo & Herb (self-published), and A White Girl Named Sha quanda (self-published). She blogs at Lesbrain.Wordpress.com and RADAR Productions. Madison Young's serves as the Artistic Director of the forward thinking non-profit arts organization, Femina Potens Art Galle ry. Young's writings have been published in The Ultimate Guide to Kink , Baby Remember My Name, Rope, Bondage, and Power, Best Sex Writing of 2013, and Johns. Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks as well as her recen t memoir, \"Daddy: A Memoir\". She serves as the Director of Programmi ng at the DIY maker space Hacker Moms in Berkeley. Anne Leonard has b een writing fantasy and other fiction since she was fourteen and final ly, after a career with as many detours as Odysseus, published her fir st novel, Moth and Spark, in February. She has a lot of letters after her name that are useful when trying to impress someone. She has worke d in libraries, academia, and the legal field, and before becoming a f ull-time writer was a practicing attorney. About Writers With Drinks : Writers With Drinks has won numerous \"Best ofs\" from local newspa pers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, Spin Magazine and one of Armistea d Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show i ncludes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, my stery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewhe eling format.\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/even ts/writers-with-drinks-with-sarah-ladipo-manyika DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140809T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140809T213000 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":https://trueskool.com/profile/Charl ieJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR