A Bar Of One's Own
5pm-7pm
Readings at 5:30 and 7pm
FREE!

A happy hour for the famous, infamous, private, public and secretive writers of the Bay along with their scribe-amorous admirers.

This month we are featuring Claudia La Rocco!

Claudia La Rocco is the author of the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited) and the novel petit cadeau (The Chocolate Factory Theater). animals & giraffes, her duo with musician/composer Phillip Greenlief and an ongoing roster of collaborators, has released two albums: July (with various musicians; Edgetone Records) and Landlocked Beach (with Wobbly; Creative Sources). Her poetry and prose have been published in 6X6 #34: I Like Softness (Ugly Duckling Presse), Imagined Theatres: Writing for a theoretical stage (Daniel Sack, ed; Routledge), On Value (Ralph Lemon, ed; Triple Canopy), and her work has been presented by The Walker Art Center, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum of American Art, et al. She has received grants and residencies from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, the Center for New Music, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and has bylines in numerous publications, including ARTFORUM, BOMB, and The New York Times, where she was a critic from 2005-2015. claudialarocco.com