Monday, February 22, 2010

Porchlight Presents "La Petit Mort: The Sex Show"

It's everybody's favorite subject. Well, besides the mortgage crisis, healthcare, Brangelina , American Idol, and Proposition 8. But seriously, what would sex be without a little humor, irreverence, pain, humiliation, and inimitable array of sounds. We can't promise tonight's show is going to be sexy, but we do guarantee at least someone in the audience might shift in their seat a little, or possibly even blush.

Storytellers include:

Bawdy Storytelling series maven Dixie de la Tour
"Accidentally on Purpose" author Mary Pols
White-hot performance shaman Kirk Read
Multi-lauded poet Arisa White
and more!

This special edition of Porchlight is a benefit for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library's participation in this summer's FestivalandCo literary immersion in Paris.

In partnership with Mayor Gavin Newsom , the Consul General of France , the French American Cultural Society, the San Francisco International Poetry Festival and Shakespeare & Company, a special delegation will travel to France June 17 - 22 for a literary immersion in Paris.  The centerpiece of the exchange is FestivalandCo, the renowned Anglophone and bilingual literary festival sponsored by Paris' beloved Shakespeare and Company bookstore.  Now in its fourth year, FestivalandCo brings together 30 of the world's most celebrated writers, storytellers, poets and filmmakers for a three day festival held across from Notre Dame and in various venues around Paris, including the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Hôtel de Ville. 

DETAILS:

Monday, February 22, 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco

Purchase tickets in advance here. Tickets may also be available at the door. (Sliding scale for this benefit: $15 - $20 ticket price; Tickets return to $12 price next month).

Ages 21 and up.

STORYTELLER BIOS:

Dixie De La Tour is a dirty girl. Unlike the rest of the people in this line-up, she's written no books, not has she been awarded any fellowships. She does, however, have a Ph.D in sex-positive San Francisco culture after more than a decade of hosting, promoting & throwing underground sexy events. The off-color nature of her life was at odds with her diehard love of storytelling until she decided to create Bawdy Storytelling 3 years ago. Bawdy is now *the* spot to get dirty from a distance, to listen to juicy tales by those with poor impulse control …and to live vicariously through the stories onstage. There is no safer sex! When she's not being an Urban Prankster or curating dirty storytelling events, Dix holds down a day job in Women's Marketing for an Adult Dating & Hookup site, and is working on building a pornsite aimed at women's sensibilities.

Kirk Read is the author of "How I Learned to Snap." He cohosts two open mics, Kvetsh and Smack Dab. He is working on his next full-length show, "Computer Face," and a novel about San Francisco .

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and holds a MFA from the University of Massachusetts , Amherst . Factory Hollow Press published her chapbook Disposition for Shininess in late 2008. In 2009 she was awarded the your word fellowship from the Atlantic Center for the Arts , received a Poets & Writers grant in 2008, and the 2007 Pavel Strut Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Western Michigan for a month-long residency in Prague . In 2006 she received the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her poem "Who Invited the Monkey to Omen's Party" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005. She is featured on the CD, WORD , with the Jessica Jones Quartet. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, Shampoo , Third Coast, The Drunken Boat, Gathering Ground: Cave Canem 10th Anniversary Reader , Meridians , Softblow, Snowvigate.com , Failbetter.com , A Gathering of Tribes , and African Voices . Additionally, her poems are featured in the anthology and staged production of a Fingernails Across A Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora.

More storyteller bios coming soon.

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Porchlight Open Door: Monday, March 1st

More details coming soon.