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SPD Bee-In

May.07.2008

Tickets are selling out fast for THE BEE-IN, A Spelling Bee to Benefit Small Press Distribution. Don't miss your chance to attend this exciting event with even more spellers added to the roster!

THE BEE-IN is an old fashioned spelling bee but with alcohol and more fun! Proceeds support the work of SPD, the nation's only remaining non-profit distributor of literary small press books.

Drinks, Nibbles and Spelling!

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

Spellers (with more to come!):

* "Writers with Drinks" diva & last year's Queen Bee Charlie Anders (Choir Boy )
* Cookbook Guru Mollie Katzen (The Enchanted Broccoli Forest )
* San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll
* KQED host of Forum Michael Krasny (Off Mike: A Memoir of...

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