SPD Bee-In: May 16th, 2011 Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco
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Tickets are now available for the fifth annual BEE-IN, A Spelling Bee to
Benefit Small Press Distribution. Don't miss your chance to attend
this exciting event!
DRINKS, NIBBLES & SPELLING
THE BEE-IN is an old-fashioned spelling bee but with alcohol and more fun! Thank you to Crown Point Gallery for providing the beautiful setting for this event. Proceeds support the work of SPD, the nation's only remaining non-profit distributor of literary small press books.
6:30: Drinks & Auction
7:30: Spelling Bee
Emcee: Sedge Thomson of KQED and West Cost Live!
Judge: Geoffrey Nunberg, NPR commentator, professor at UC Berkeley, and board member of the American Heritage Dictionary.
TICKETS
(Please list all guest names in the "comments" section during order checkout.)
$30 "Starving Artist" Ticket
$75 Ticket
$125 Couples' Ticket (2 Guests on 1 Ticket)
$250 Patron Ticket (Includes Priorty Seating & Special Acknowledgment)
SPELLERS
Charlie Jane Anders, writer, editor, publisher & satirist, Choir Boy, impresario of Writers with Drinks and writer for io9.com
Sylvia Brownrigg, reigning SPD Queen Bee, novelist, Morality Tale, The Delivery Room
Kevin Killian, poet, novelist, critic and playwright, Impossible Princess, short fiction, is just out
LOCATION
Crown Point Gallery
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(click here for directions)
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