3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown
Cookies, tea, and some plum wine
Poetry Reading with LaborFest features and an open mic.
About this Event
Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 3 pm.
LaborFestWriters
Writing by and for working people since 2005
Who We Are:
"The corporate-controlled media amplifies the voices of the powerful and diminishes the voices of working people. We are dedicated to overcoming that."
The LaborFest Writers grew out of a single afternoon in July 2005 — a writing workshop at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco's Tenderloin, led by labor writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Eight or nine people sat around a few tables in a dark little café and wrote about their first jobs. By the end of the day they had agreed to exchange email addresses.
Twenty years later, the group still meets — now weekly on Zoom, since the pandemic. We are rabble-rousers, activists, leftist radicals, union members, immigrants, native-born and plain old trouble-makers — outside the literary mainstream and committed to staying there. Our writing spans memoir, fiction, and poetry.
This is an unfinished and marvelous history.
From Our History:
"Roxanne had told us that everyone has the capability to tell a story and write it down — that it is a basic human ability, like singing and dancing... We found strength and power in gathering every second Saturday to read our work, discuss it, and expose it to peers — for their perusal and reflection."
— Keith David Cooley, LaborFest Writers History
Parking tip:
$8 all-day parking at St. Mary’s Square Garage.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 7.18
