Verdi Club: Bawdy Storytelling’s 20th Anniversary
Doors at 7, Stories at 8 PM
Tickets on
Plura: https://heyplura.com/events/bawdy-storytellings-20th-anniversary
Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/bawdy-storytellings-20th-anniversary
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“The Moth for Pervs”
– LA Weekly
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This month’s Theme: Lust or Bust!
This Huge Celebration of curated True – & NSFW! – Stories, Songs & Community includes:
❤ Hosted by Bawdy’s Creator, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour
❤ Living Kink/LGBTQ+ Legend Race Bannon
❤ NPR Snap Judgment Storyteller of the Year Don Reed
❤ First Person Story Jam’s Harriett Jernigan
❤ Trans Storyteller & Best of Bawdy Winner, Matthew Beld
❤ Music by our Songwriter-in-Residence, Jefferson Bergey
❤ Dirty Dance Party by DJ Justin Credible !
❤ Over-the-Top Extras to Celebrate 20 Years
❤ Play Bang-O to make new Friends (& FWBs) 💋
❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails that sound Dirty – but taste Delicious!
❤ Magically Delicious Prizes from the Original Magic Wand
❤ Clever Wickedness from SportSheets
❤ Kinktastic Goodies from The Kink Store
❤ Prizes & Giveaways from Uberlube
❤ Prizes & Giveaways from Momotaro
Performer Bios:
❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Story/Communication and Performance Coach, a Podcaster, professional Storyteller, an Impresario, Community builder and most of all, a Change Agent.. She is also the Founder, Curator & Host of the Award-winning storytelling series, Bawdy Storytelling (called “The Moth for Pervs” by the LA Weekly, and “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” by Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational, relatable, and empowering performances.
This story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe, reduce social anxiety and build connection. In addition to story coaching and public speaking coaching (for TEDx, Women in Technology, and her own Bawdy Storytelling & BawdySlam series), Dixie offers both one-on-one private story coaching and her workshops: ‘How to be Bawdy: Dixie’s Secret System for Uncensored Storytelling’ (that’s the dirty one) and ‘How to be Fascinating: Dixie’s Secret System for Brilliant Storytelling’ (this one helps you ace that job interview, and feel more self-expressed and understood by others in your everyday life). Dixie now coaches for the Job Search and has a new workshop, Storytelling for Job Seekers. Plus Dixie has also been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame, and in her free time, she enjoys being a Muppet.
Her beloved live grassroots stage performance series, Bawdy Storytelling, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this month!, the Bawdy Storytelling podcast has hundreds of 5 star reviews and millions of downloads – plus we’ve won ‘Best Of’s from Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Mashable, Buzzfeed, GQ Magazine, Marie Claire, Uproxx, Women’s Health, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Esquire Magazine and more.
About Bawdy Storytelling: Bawdy is a beloved live grassroots Stage performance series, an award-winning Podcast and a Livestream. Bawdy uses true stories of sex, kink, gender and body image to reduce stigma, eliminate shame, and build open-minded community. You’ll make friends and feel like you’ve found your people at this live ‘real people and rockstars’ stage show and community event, guaranteed. Play Bang-O to share to inspire your own stories, and Win WILD Prizes for being brave and talking to strangers.
Remember, Stories help you find your people!
❤ Race Bannon is a Living Legend. Starting in 1973, Race Bannon has at various times been an organizer, writer, publisher, educator, commentator, commentator, leader, speaker, and activist in the leather and kink communities as well as in the LGBTQ rights, polyamory
awareness, and HIV/STI prevention realms.
Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of Kink Aware Professionals, a referral service dedicated to providing the community with a listing of psychotherapeutic, medical, legal, and other professionals who have stated that they are knowledgeable about and sensitive to
diverse expressions of sexuality; leader of The DSM Project that began to change
how psychotherapy professionals view kink sexualities; author of the bestselling
Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder
of Daedalus Publishing Company, the first company dedicated to publishing
nonfiction leather/BDSM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice
columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show, Bound To
Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF),
Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities
(CARAS), NLA International, and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA
Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club, The 15 Association, and
Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of Governors for the Leather Hall
of Fame and has been inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is
featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent, Out of the Darkness: The Reality
of S&M, and Folsom Forever. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered
numerous speeches including keynote addresses at many events. He has been
awarded: the 1991 and 1993 Southern California Regional Pantheon of Leather
Community Service Award; the 1995 Large Nonprofit Organization of the Year, Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, The DSM Project, as Project
Leader; the 2006 National Leather Association International's Lifetime
Achievement Award; 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement
Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award; the 2011 Philip M.
Turner Lifetime Achievement Award; the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award; the 2014 San Francisco Bay
Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie); the 2015 “Key to Folsom Street
Fair” from Folsom Street Events in recognition of service to the community; the
2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award; the 2016 Southwest
Leather Conference Leatherman’s Heart Award; the 2018 Race Bannon Advocacy
Award from NCSF; the Palm Springs Pride 2021 Spirit of Stonewall Lifetime
Achievement award; and Anomaly Certificate of Appreciation presented at FROST
Gala 2022. Race is currently working on a documentary and book project, Kink Is
My Superpower, about the world of kink, BDSM and fetish.
Over the course of seven years, Race published 165 columns as the leather columnist for the Bay Area Reporter, America’s longest continuously published and highest circulation
LGBTQ newspaper. Early on when pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was first
introduced to prevent HIV infection, Race was a national advocate for its adoption
and community uptake. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic Race was a
founding Steering Committee member for the SF Bay Area Queer Nightlife Fund
(QNF), a nonprofit collective of nightlife organizers, producers, entertainers, venue
owners, and nonprofit community leaders working to provide resources and
opportunities to promote and support those in queer nightlife in the San Francisco
Bay Area during the pandemic, distributing $400,000 in grants to struggling queer
nightlife workers. Race is especially proud to have been sainted by the Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence bestowing upon him the name Saint Daddy Daedalus,
Seriously Sensual Scribe and Sentinel of Sound Minds and Sadomasochism. Most
recently, Race was given The Academy SF 2022 Diane Jones Solidarity Award.
Race is one of the collective authors of a new book highlighting kinksters from
around the world set to be published by Unbound Edition Press in September 2024.
You can currently see him in a new online video series, On Guard Cigar Salon.
You can find out more about what Race is up to and where to read his writings at this link:
https://linktr.ee/BannonRace
❤ Don Reed was born and raised in Oakland, CA with no intention of becoming a comedian and storyteller, but life had other ideas. Don is an NPR Snap Judgment Storyteller of the Year and a newly minted Simon & Schuster author. His 9 solo storytelling shows have won and been nominated for multiple Theatre Bay Area, Off Broadway, and San Francisco Theatre Critics Circle awards. He was triple nominated for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Bay Area Awards for Best Solo Performance/Best Play/Best Director. Reed was also the longtime opening act/warm-up comedian for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He recently partnered with Johnny Carson’s – Carson Entertainment Group for his multi-media one man show “The Never Too Late Show”, sharing producing duties with Seinfeld writer Pat Hazell. Don is the host and creator of Marin’s Redwood Nights: Storytelling Under the Stars – sharing producing duties with friend and entertainment partner Mike Ghiringhelli.
❤ Matthew Beld (they/them) is a trans storyteller and writer living in San Francisco, CA. They have performed for shows like Happy Endings, StoryCorps, Literary Speakeasy, About Last Night, and The Racket. They write and teach sketch comedy for the SF troupe Killing My Lobster. And every third Tuesday of the month they co-host the Strut Queer Open Mic in the Castro. But what Matthew really wants you to know is they’re just a stupid slut bottom trying to make it in this crazy world.
❤ Harriett Jernigan is a writer and live storyteller who splits her time between the Bay Area and Germany. When she finished her dissertation on BDSM, she taught herself how to be a pastry chef for fun. Harriett is an 8 Time Moth Slam Winner & Moth Grand Slam finalist who’s been featured on the Moth Podcast and the Moth Radio Hour, she has collaborated with Naked Truth, Radium Runway, Simply Said, and Backfence PDX. She is also the founder and producer of First Person, a live storytelling workshop and event that platforms underrepresented and marginalized performers. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s either baking or fencing.
❤ Jefferson Bergey is musically promiscuous. The Oakland-based singer-songwriter, MC, game-show host, and professional vocalist at-large has been writing and performing for Bawdy Storytelling! for ten years. In the realm of comedy and variety shows he’s been seen at Punchline SF, San Jose Improv, SF Sketchfest, Ruckus and Rumpus Revival, and has written custom songs for San Francisco’s MUNI Diaries and Laughs For Life.
As a solo act Bergey has been “negotiating covers” for the past decade as a live-looping solo act at private parties, weddings, corporate events, and music venues all over the greater Bay Area. He’s the namesake of Chef Matt Woods’ Bergey Burger, voted three-times “Best of the Bay”, currently served at Scopo Divino in San Francisco where he recently completed a 250 show residency.
You can see him fronting the Allman Brothers Tribute: Freestone Peaches, Crosseyed & Painless: The Music of Talking Heads, as a virtual game show host for WEVE (The Go Game), and featuring with Jazz Mafia’s Grateful Brass and Fog City Swing. When he isn’t performing, he’s flying all over the west coast and Hawaii to give lively presentations on leading bands on high-pressure events based on a manual he wrote from his colorful experiences as a wedding singer over the last decade.
In 2024 he became obsessed with the music and story of Frank Sinatra and has sold-out multi-show runs in Sacramento, L.A., and Oakland for Pure Soul Presents, Concerts Under the Stars, and Candlelight Concerts. He produces and performs a quarterly song/storytelling show called Sinatra Saloon; A Tale & A Tune.
Thanks to his supporters on Patreon, Bergey is currently recording a sonic-graphic-novel set to songs and narration. His most recent single release, ‘W.Y.D.O.T.D. pt. 1’ (originally written for Bawdy Storytelling) is one of the songs from that gritty story and can be found on your favorite streaming service (Listener Discretion Advised!)