Page Street Partnership Performance
Hosted by Natacha Ruck and Janis Cooke Newman
7:00 p.m. at The Marsh Berkeley
Everyone on stage tonight is connected to Page Street, the Berkeley and San Francisco based co-working Spaces exclusively for writers. Page Street is much more than a co-working space, it’s also a community. Members meet for craft groups, have lunch together, toast each other during monthly happy hours and share stories at public events.
Music
The Furious Tits
These jaded punks will have you quitting your job, kissing a stranger and saving the planet by the end of their set. www.thefurioustits.com
Stories
Eddie Scher, Ukulele: What’s the Big Idea?
Explore the deeply personal, political, and musical question — what is the sound of a ukulele? The story is real. The soundtrack is live. The instrument is small. And the answer is a journey through harmony and dissonance. Plus songs from a long century of American popular music.
Abbey Glover, I’m a Businessman, Man (excerpt)
Abbey is on a quest to become the ultimate businessman. She just has to change a few things about herself, but how hard can it be?
Linda Norton, “Talking with that accent made us sound like we wanted to beat someone up” : On meeting Eileen Myles and Reading CHELSEA GIRLS for the First Time
I was on my knees the first time I met Eileen Myles, queer poet, novelist, and write-in candidate for President in 1992. Eileen was a rock star in my New York world then, famously photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe. Now Eileen Myles has an international audience and they are known as the poet-muse of the popular Amazon series Transparent. So how come they talked like my mother and all 73 of my cousins in Boston?
About the Performers
The Furious Tits hail from both sides of the Bay, and in case you didn’t know, they’re your new favorite punk band. Call them Queercore, call them Climatecore, The Furious Tits bend genre like guitar strings. Their lyrics are snarky, their bass lines are funky, their drum beats are rhythmic catnip, and their guitar licks will melt your face. www.thefurioustits.com
Eddie Scher co-leads Parlor Tricks, the world’s first and foremost industrial ragtime band and writes for Ukulele magazine. Eddie is also a public advocate with the California Public Utilities Commission, a recovering communications director, and an editor who has collaborated with astronauts, actors, artists, political leaders, and other superheroes.
Abbey Glover is a San Francisco-based writer and performer whose work explores themes of self-expression and vulnerability with wry insight that “wouldn’t be out of place in either a Greta Gerwig film or a Peanuts comic strip” (The Scotsman). Her first solo show, Abbey’s Box, premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, earning multiple 4- and 5-star reviews from publications such as The Scotsman and Broadway World. www.abbeyglover.com
Linda Norton is the author of three books: The Public Gardens: Poems and History (finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Wite Out: Love and Work, and Cloud of Witnesses: Essays, Poems, Collages. Find her collages, essays, and excerpts from her work in progress at The Ruins on Substack. lindanortonwriter.com
Page Street co-working spaces for writers gathers community-minded writers who are supportive of each other and serious about their own writing. Whether you’re writing at our San Francisco location at 297 Page Street, or our Berkeley location at 2508 San Pablo Avenue, Page Street is like working at your favorite neighborhood cafe… only better. www.pagestreet.org
Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning historical novels. As the founder of the juried writers conference Lit Camp, the online community for writers Creative Caffeine Daily, and the Page Street co-working spaces for writers, she is committed to helping other writers get their work out into the world.