Reminder: Queer Open Mic at Borderlands Cafe @ Fri Mar 23 7:30pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Queer Open Mic at Borderlands Cafe http://queeropenmic.com/ March 23rd:San Francisco Queer Open Mic featuring Jacks McNamara and special guest Sean Patrick Mulroy! COME ON DOWN TO BORDERLANDS CAFE for our third Queer Open Mic of 2012 and show us your stuff! This month we are happy to be at the Borderlands Café right on Valencia in the Mission. 870 Valencia st. (between 19th and 20th streets) San Francisco CA 94110 Our feature is the radical, the amazing JACKS MCNAMARA! Also that night, there will be a special performance spotlight from the incredible touring spoken word poet SEAN PATRICK MULROY! Friday March 23rd, SAME QUEER TIME 7:30 SAME QUEER LIST list goes up at 7:00pm folks, it fills up fast so get there on time. SAME QUEER RULES signing up gets you a slot to do 1 piece and 1 piece only. That's 5 mintues to perform 1 piece and 1 piece only. We will stop you if you go over time. Here's more about our feature and the special guest! JACKS MCNAMARA Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer poet, artist, activist, educator, performer, and healing practitioner based in Oakland. Jacks has performed poetry and facilitated workshops on madness in a mad world across the US, Canada, and Europe, at venues ranging from the US Social Forum to the UK Feminist Health Gathering. The co-founder of The Icarus Project, a radical mental health support network and media project, Jacks's life and work are the subject of the poetic documentary film Crooked Beauty. Co-author of the underground classic Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, and co-editor of Turning Wheel Media, Jacks has published writing in numerous anthologies, magazines, blogs, journals, as well as self-publishing 5 zines. Lung Seed, their first book of poetry and prose, is due out from Deviant Type Press in Autumn 2012. SEAN PATRICK MULROY Sean Patrick Mulroy (aka Sean Patrick Conlon) born and raised in Southern Virginia. He is the author of The Pornography Diaries a poetic study of love and sex as seen through the lens of media study and film analysis. He also stars in a one-man show of the same name, combining original rock music and the poems from the book in a critically acclaimed multimedia tour-de-force. He has toured extensively in North America, participated in 6 national spoken-word competitions, written and recorded 3 albums of music, and has released over 10 chapbooks of original poetry. Sean has been published in both online and print journals, and has featured at literary festivals for universities and arts organizations all over the United States. More about Jacks McNamara's new book Lung Seed: Part love song, part howl, part incantation, Lung Seed is the first book-length collection of Jacks McNamara's poems, essays, and hybrid experiments in the neon vernacular of being alive. Mapping out radical trajectories through loss, violence, and queer desire, McNamara creates a luminous archive of survival and resilience in a self-destructing world. A visual artist as well as a writer, the author relies heavily on the unexpected image to chronicle the impossible journey through body, family, and history–towards home. From the borderlands of madness to the unpredictable shape of peace, Lung Seed bears unflinching witness to a rarely charted geography, offering the reader a resonant poetics of insurrection and grace. Free with a suggested donation. No one turned away from lack of funds. This space is a queer space for trans folks, queer gender folks, gays, lesbians, bi-sexual folks and all supporting straight identifying friends, hell if you live in San Francisco you're a little bit Queer! All are welcome. List fills up fast. No Divas. No jerks please. The Café is wheel chair accessible and has a nice big bathroom. Peace and Cupcakes Baruch! The San Francisco Queer Open Mic Featuring JACKS MCNAMARA! Special guest SEAN PATRICK MULROY! Sign ups at 7pm SHARP (get there on time, list fills up fast) Show at 7:30pm @Borderlands Cafe 870 Valencia st. (between 19th and 20th streets) San Francisco CA 94110 When Fri Mar 23 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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