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SUMMARY:Starting Points Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Starting Points Open Mic is excited to announce that January’s feature is Dawn Bratton! \nDawn Bratton lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she’s found a quiet corner to write poetry and prose orbiting the image of eyes and theme of perception. During 2021 – 2023 she volunteered for WordSwell literary nonprofit and online journal based out of Oakland\, CA\, where she served as secretary and then as vice president on the board of directors. In 2023\, she co-founded Moon Blossom Collective\, an arts and wellbeing collective\, from which she currently manages Lunar Light and serves on the board of directors. Her poetry and prose has appeared in literary journals like The Bloom\, Fjords Review\, Oracle\, Matter\, The Opiate\, Modern Literature\, The Metaworker\, Global Poemic\, and Disquiet Arts\, among others. You can visit her at dawnbratton.com. \nAfter Dawn’s amazing feature\, there will be as always open mic. We can’t wait to see you on January 5th. Let’s kick off the New Year right with a great Starting Points Open Mic! \nIf you buy an Eventbrite ticket\, you’ll receive a discounted drink. Buy your ticket now at the following link: https://shorturl.at/CLOiS
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, December 1st\, Starting Points Open Mic is excited to feature Diana Helmuth.\nDiana Helmuth is an award-winning nonfiction author\, exploring modern spirituality\, the outdoors\, and other millennial culture trends through humor. Her first book\, “How to Suffer Outside\,” won the National Outdoor Book Award for best instructional\, and her second book\, “The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft” was a Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Memoir.\nAfter our amazing feature\, we’ll have an open mic. Poetry\, prose\, music\, stand-up comedy: everything is welcome. We can’t wait to see you there!\nCWC-Berkeley President Keith Gaboury hosts Starting Points Open Mic.\nIf you buy an Eventbrite ticket\, you’ll receive a discounted drink. Buy your ticket now at the following link: https://shorturl.at/CLOiS
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-open-mic-4/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, November 3rd\, Starting Points Open Mic is excited to feature Anastasia DiFonzo.\nAnastasia DiFonzo is an Oakland-based poet and author. She is a three-time Best of the Net nominee\, and her most recent chapbook\, Girl.\, was published by Gnashing Teeth Publishing in September of 2024.\nWhen she’s not writing\, she can be found having coffee with her cats.\nAfter our amazing feature\, we’ll have an open mic. Poetry\, prose\, music\, stand-up comedy: everything is welcome. We can’t wait to see you there!\nCWC-Berkeley President Keith Gaboury hosts Starting Points Open Mic.\nIf you buy an Eventbrite ticket\, you’ll receive a discounted drink. Buy your ticket now at the following link: https://shorturl.at/CLOiS
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for an in-person open mic? Come on out to Summer Bar & Lounge for a Starting Points Open Mic sponsored by the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club. At three minutes per person\, everyone is welcome to share their poetry\, prose\, and all forms of creativity.\nFor more than a hundred years\, the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club (CWC-Berkeley) has educated writers of all abilities in the craft and business of writing. Our purpose is to promote fellowship and to provide practical information that supports writer in achieving their publishing goals. The Berkeley Branch is the founding branch of the statewide Club\, which now has 22 branches and around 2000 members throughout California. Learn more about CWC-Berkeley at cwc-berkeley.org.
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, September 1st\, come on out to Summer Bar & Lounge to hear two feature poets and an open mic. The feature poets will be Nazelah Jamison and Zouhair Mussa.
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary Reading,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Monthly Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come on out to Summer Bar & Lounge to hear August’s two featured poets: Keith Gaboury and Alexandra Kostoulas. After the featured poets read\, there will be an open mic where everyone is welcome to participate.
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-monthly-open-mic/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary Reading,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next reading\, Sunday\, July 7th at Summer Bar & Lounge\, featuring Gaia Patience Veenis and Jan Steckel And as always\, our fabulous Open Mic!
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Spring has sprung and it’s time for another edition of Starting Points! Come and hear these two features then stay for the Open Mic and some Cinco de Mayo themed drinks at Summer Bar.\n\nMEET OUR FEATURES\nTaneesh Kaur (“Core”) is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco\, a social justice advocate who uses nature to understand and dismantle systems of mental and physical oppression. Her full-length debut collection\, Thawing: A Poetic Memoir\, was released in March 2024 by Collapse Press. Taneesh has a Master’s in linguistics from San Francisco State University\, and is a first year in the MFA program at University of San Francisco. More of her work can be found in English and Spanish at www.TaneeshCantos.com.\n\nRae Diamond is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist\, educator and nature advocate who inhales life and exhales poems\, music\, and other creations. They are the author and artist of floating bones (First Matter Press)\, the author of The Cantigee Oracle (North Atlantic Books)\, and the founder of the Long Tone Choir. Rae is a student and teacher of Qigong\, and harbors equally deep loves for the transcendent and the absurd. Find them online at raediamond.com and @raediamond on Substack.
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary Reading,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Reading Series & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:With co-host Keith Gaboury\, join us on Sunday\, April 7th at Summer Bar & Lounge where we’ll feature Lauren Parker and Daphne Gottlieb. After the two features\, there will be an open mic.\n 
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary Reading,Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:With co-host Keith Gaboury\, join us for our next reading\, Sunday\, March 3rd at Summer Bar & Lounge\, featuring Karla Brundage and Alie Jones! And as always\, our fabulous Open Mic!\nKarla Brundage is a Bay Area based poet\, activist\, and educator with a passion for social justice. She believes that in order to restore balance and to reclaim our humanity racist structures must be dismantled. A Pushcart Prize nominee\, she is the author of Swallowing Watermelons and Mulatta- Not so Tragic co- co-authored with Allison Frances. Her work is found in Konch\, Hip Mama\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, and MiGoZine amongst others. She is the founder of West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange and thrives on her work with youth and across the African diaspora. She is super excited about her newest book\, Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) which she will be reading from tonight\, and which challenges the idea of racial purity by exposing how language can shape our realities.\nAlie Jones is a self-care advocate\, writer\, artist\, and Creole mermaid. She is Co-founder and Director of Black Freighter Press\, a revolutionary press committed to the exploration of liberation\, using art to transform consciousness. Alie graduated with her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Mills College. She is the host of the podcast called Chit Chat with Aliecat \, a platform to explore self-care practices and journeys of self-love in community.
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-reading-series/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Starting Points Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:At Summer Bar & Lounge\, start the year off right with sets by captivating poet and curator Giovanna Lomanto and the notorious Mimi Gonzalez\, making a special trip back from Detroit to grace us with her lyrical stylings! After the two featured poets read their poetry\, there will be an open mic where Poet Keith Gaboury will be one of the readers.
URL:https://keithgaboury.com/event/starting-points-open-mic/
LOCATION:Summer Bar & Lounge\, 526 8th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary Reading,Open Mic
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