Our Last Show At Modern Times Bookstore. SF Queer Open Mic.

Please join us for our last show ever at the legendary Modern Times Bookstore. You have probably all heard that Modern Times Bookstore, after decades of being in San Fracisco is going to close in November. This means that this San Francisco Queer Open Mic Show, on October 28th will be our last show at the store. After years and years of being housed by wonderful SF institution we are no longer going to be able to do the show there. This has been very painful to process, Modern Times Bookstore is our home. We have grown as show there, have felt safe, have felt welcome, and most importantly have provided a space for queer artists to explore themselves. We are currently not certain where our next venue will be or even if The San Francisco Queer Open Mic will go on as a show, we are talking with several venues and several young queers who might want to stop on and help us keep running the show at another venue. But aside from all of that, we need your help to make this Friday the 28th, the best SFQueer Open Mic ever! Please come. Please come and bring your friends, tell those friends to call their friends and please ask them to come to the show so we can go out with an amazing queer bang. Our feature is MAGGIE TOKUDA -HALL, she is an incredible writer who has read her work all over the bay area and is a brand new author of a children's book. Same queer times, same queer rules, Sign Ups are at 7 PM, show is at 7:30 PM. The show is free and you get 5 minutes to do one piece and one piece only. That means one piece you guys, not two, you only get to read one poem, or do one song, Baruch has been nice, recently but please don't break the rules. ALSO, please come and if you sign up, share a quick story with us, if you have loved the SF Queer Open Mic, if you have loved it being at Modern Times Bookstore, come share a story with us. Your favorite SFQOM memory, let us know, tell us about it. Help us say good bye because it is going to be hard. No tears, but this may be our last show ever. It may not, we might keep going, if we find a new venue, if we find a new queer to jump in and help us run the show, if the community shows us that this show is still needed, then yes, we may keep going. We love you all. NOW MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURE! Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from University of San Francisco, 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" that will "inspire kids to imagine a story of their own." She's the winningest writer of The Booksmith's competitive erotic fan fiction contest, Shipwreck, and a contributor to the Loose Lips anthology.