SPD Bee-In: May 18th, 2009 Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco

Tickets are selling fast for the third annual BEE-IN, A Spelling Bee to Benefit Small Press Distribution.  Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event!

THE BEE-IN is an old-fashioned spelling bee but with alcohol and more fun! Cocktails are courtesy of Craft Distillers, pouring Hangar One Vodka and providing tastings of delicious artisan spirits. Proceeds support the work of SPD, the nation's only remaining non-profit distributor of literary small press books.

Doors open at 6:30 (Bee starts at 7:30 and lasts for about an hour)

Emcee: Josh Kornbluth, TV personality & Host of the Josh Kornbluth Show.
Judge: Berkeley arts activist & cultural leader Penny Cooper. 

(Please list all guest names in the "comments" section during order checkout.)  

$30 Ticket

$75 Ticket

$125 Couples' Ticket (2 Guests on 1 Ticket)

$250 Patron Ticket (Includes Priorty Seating & Special Acknowledgment)
  

Charlie Anders, writer, editor, publisher & satirist, Choir Boy, impresario of Writers with Drinks
Susie Bright, sexologist, blogger, editor, The Best of American Erotica
Sylvia Brownrigg, novelist, Morality Tale, The Delivery Room
Jon Carroll, well known columnist for the SF Chronicle
Joshua Clover, poet, music critic, teacher, The Totality for Kids, The Matrix (BFI Modern Classics)
Kate Coleman, activist, journalist, author, The Secret Wars of Judi Bari
Stephen Elliot, novelist, Happy Baby, The Adderal Diaries (forthcoming)
Leah Garchik, popular SF Chronicle San Francisco columnist & author of San Francisco: The City’s Site and Secrets
Barry Gifford, author, poet, screenwriter, Lost Highway, and forthcoming The Imagination of the Heart
Lyn Hejinian, poet, scholar, publisher and teacher, My Life, Saga/Circus
Kevin Killian, novelist, poet, winner of last year Bee-In, Little Men, Action Kylie
Marc Lecard, crime novelist, Vinnie’s Head and Tiny Little Troubles
Greil Marcus, music & cultural critic, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice
Laura Sydell, NPR commentator
Catherine Wagner, artist whose works are represented at Museum of Modern Art N.Y., the Whitney, SF MOMA, among many other museums
Ted Weinstein, literary agent

Crown Point Gallery
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105