Thank you everyone!

Thank you so much to the excellent audience and amazing performers who made Sassy fat Girls such a wonderful event. We promise to keep you posted on about when we will be having another event!  In the mean time we’ll be uploading video over the next week to youtube.com/teamwonderdave ! Check out some highlights from Sassy Fat Girls as well as previous That’s What She Said Events! Special thanks to Tatyana Brown of The Lit Slam for filming for us.

If you are wondering where you can see these awesome ladies again head over to the Archive section where we have links to their websites and such! See you next time.

art courtesy of Laura J. Martin

Sassy Fat Girls! This Saturday!

We’re super stoked about this Saturday’s show!  Here’s some helpful information for you about what’s going on.

First off you can save money by purchasing your tickets in advance online http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/275504   so go forth and buy some advance tickets!

Now Here is the basic show information:

Sassy Fat Girls

Sept 29^th 8pm

The Garage

715 Bryant St

San Francisco CA

or maybe you need a graphic to remind you:

look at that awesome art by Laura J. Martin! and again a reminder that it’s less than $12 if you buy tickets in advance online.

Next a few posts ago we introduced 3 of the awesome ladies in our line up: Denise Jolly, Lydia Popovich and Rachel Wiley if you haven’t checked out the entry on them yet you should (unless of course you want their awesomeness to be a surprise). You can get full bios of all the awesome ladies in this show by checking out the performers and hosts section of this website

Now I’d like you to meet a few of the other exciting gals who shall be gracing our stage

starting with our special guests from Rubenesque Burlesque: Kitty Von Quim and Miss Magnoliah Black!

Want to know more about Rubenesque Burlesque here’s a snippet from their official facebook page “Rocking the world with our fuller figured beauty … These women have challenged the fat-phobic sizest standard and inspired audiences across the country with their ample asses and attitudes! From San Francisco’s World Famous Hubba Hubba Revue to New York’s Slipper Room from Los Angeles’ Monday Night Tease to Oakland’s First Friday Follies, they give it to you hot and heavy, pound for pound and always with a ton of fun.”

We here at TWSS are delighted to add these two awesome women to our line up! It’s also worth noting that Sassy Fat Girls marks the first ever appearance of Burlesque performers in our show.

We’ll also be welcoming opening comedian Jennifer Dronsky!

Winner of the first Alameda Comedy Competition, Jennifer Dronsky is an up and coming, comic with San Francisco queer charm. Originally from southern California, Jennifer Dronsky fled to San Francisco at the sweet age of seventeen to pursue her passion for fashion. After creating two lines; Fashions for the Living Skeletons (a line for anorexics) and Baby, I mean Business (business clothes for babies), Jennifer Dronsky sought a new target market for her creative mind. Despite being a newcomer, Jennifer has been drawing focus with her charismatic style and gorgeous foul mouth. Follow her on Twitter @JennDron

And last but certainly not least we are thrilled to introduce the co-hostess with the mostest Bawdy Storytelling’s Dixie De La Tour! Dixie is a card-carrying pervert who sports both Southern charm and a mouth that would make a Sailor blush and she’s earned her Ph.D in sex-positive culture.

Dixie founded San Francisco’s ‘blue personal narrative’ movement almost five years ago in a Burning Man warehouse. The off-color nature of her life was at odds with her diehard love of storytelling until she decided to create Bawdy Storytelling, a place for other people with poor self-control to share their antics, too.

WOW if the line up wasn’t stellar enough before now it’s more out of this world than the Star trek Voyager!

We can’t wait to see you this Saturday at 8!

Buy tickets online and save money!

Sassy Fat Girls Tickets now available online!

Howdy Folks!

We’re very excited about the upcoming show! Be sure to check out our previous entry for bios on some of our great performers. Save money by getting your tickets online at  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/275504

Also be sure to join our facebook event and invite your friends!

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements about our line up! We’ve got some sweet surprises lined up for y’all.  See you on Sept 29th!

Sassy Fat Girls!

That’s What She Said is proud to present it’s first ever ode to body positivity SASSY FAT GIRLS! 

Sept 29th  8pm  @ The Garage 

715  Bryant St San Francisco

This Show will star the awesome talents of DENISE JOLLY, RACHEL WILEY, LYDIA POPOVICH and More! Join our event page on facebook

Rachel Wiley is a bad ass all the way Columbus, OH. She represented Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam in the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2011 where she was the 4th place finalist. She was the 2011 Grand Slam Champ for the Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam team that went on to place 4th at the 2011 National Poetry Slam. Rachel has self published 3 chapbooks and 1 cd. She is seriously considering becoming a mermaid.

DENISE JOLLY is an amazing lady direct from the East Bay. She is a member of Salt Lines Spoken Word Collective, has served as Executive Director of Seattle Youth Speaks, co-host and facilitator of the Seattle Poetry Slam, Poetry Curator for The Round (a live multidisciplinary collaborative arts show), Eleventh Hour Productions Board of Directors and Vice President of Stronghold Productions. Denise was the 2009 San Francisco Grand Slam Champion and member of the 2009 San Francisco Slam team who ranked 3rd in the nation. She has performed, taught, and/or collaborated in venues as large as Coachella and as small as Cook County Detention Center, Cleveland High School, and Seattle Youth Speaks writing circle. She likes doing great things with amazing people and being moved by art, community and how the two work together. Enjoy her poem The Ritual featured in the above video from the Seattle Poetry Slam.

Lydia Popovich is a SF-based comedian and blogger. Her website, Hater Tuesday founded in 2003 garners thousands of weekly visits from friends and family around the world. You can see her performing on stages all over the Bay Area including her favorites the Punchline and Rooster T Feathers.

Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters once touched her arm and said, “Hey, you’re pretty funny.” That was the best day of her life.

Stay Tuned as we announce more awesome Sassy Fat Women in the days leading up to the show!

The Super Hero art above was created by the very talented Jay check out more of her work on tumblr http://jaysinkpen.tumblr.com/

The Sketch below was drawn by Laura J. Martin share it with your friends!

Thanks folks see you soon!

Big Thanks to all the performers and audience members that made our Pride show a wonderful evening please check out our performer archives and see what these fine ladies are up to and support their Creative endeavors.

Also stay tuned as That’s What She Said! starts it’s official run as an ongoing series at the Garage in September! For our official kick off show as an ongoing series we are pleased as punch to bring you Ohio’s spoken word poetry phenom Rachel Wiley!

Rachel Wiley is a native of Columbus, OH. She graduated fromCapital University in 2006 with a degree in Theatre Studies.
Rachel represented Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam in the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2011 where she was the 4th place finalist.
She was the 2011 Grand Slam Champ for the Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam team that went on to place 4th at the 2011 National Poetry Slam.

She was the 2012 WOWPS rep for Writing Wrongs as well as a member of the 2012 Writing Wrongs National Slam team.

She has self published 3 chapbooks and 1 cd.

She is seriously considering becoming a mermaid.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates! We look forward to seeing you in September.

Queer Arts Festival Edition June 26th at the New Garage!

Happy Pride Everyone!  We hope your weekend is full of sunshine and awesome times!

That’s What She Said! is very excited for our show this Tuesday evening at 8pm Join us on facebook and invite your friends!

We’re proud to present our absolutely stellar line up: musician Julie Indelicato storyteller Holly Fogelbach, comedian  Natasha Muse,  folk duo American Nomad, poet Maisha Z. Johnson and of course our hosts Caitlin Gill and Wonder Dave.

This episode of That’s What She Said! is not to be missed.

Purchase your tickets in advance online http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/230465

See you at the Garage 715 Bryant St SF

Happy Pride!

Queer Arts Festival Show Part 5! June 26th.

Ladies, Gentleman, Senators, Doctors, and esteemed Colleagues of all gender pronouns!

Thus far we have presented our stellar cast of Characters including Natasha Muse, Julie Indelicato, American Nomad, Maisha Z. Johnson,  and of course your hosts Caitlin Gill and Wonder Dave. Now That’s What She Said is proud to present the final member of our line up storyteller, blogger and butch about town Holly Fogelbach!

Holly performing at Bawdy Storytelling.

After a killer performance at Bawdy Storytelling Holly seemed destined to appear in the TWSS Queer Arts festival show. You can follow Holly’s Exploits on Twitter @BiblioButch or check out her blog Butch in the City.

We can honestly say this is the most exciting That’s What She Said yet! We are thrilled to be a part of the Garage’s block of Queer Arts Festival programming. Join us over on facebook and invite your friends to the event.

Finally for you convenience a list of upcoming That’s What She Said! Show Dates at the Garage 715 Bryant

Saturday Sept 29 (with Ohio’s Rachel Wiley!), Tuesday Dec 18th and Tuesday Jan 22nd 2013!

See you on June 26th for the Queer Arts Festival!

That’s What She Said June 26th meet the performers continues with American Nomad! (part 4!)

June 26th at 8pm we’ll be going to the Garage’s new location at 715 Bryant Ave. This show is going to be hella Queer! Tickets are $12 at the Door.

We’ll slowly be be publishing the names in our line up in the days leading up to the show! In our last post we met stand-up comedian Natasha Muse and poet Maisha Z. Johnson , musician Julie Indelicato and now we’d like to introduce our 2nd musical guest:

American Nomad!

American Nomad is a new acoustic group fronted by Shiloh Parkerson and Hassan El-Tayyab. Rooted in Americana and folk/swing traditions, their carefully crafted original music maintains a modern relevance. Smart songwriting, catchy lyrics, tight rhythms, rich harmonies, and strong musicianship have already begun to earn American Nomad a reputation as a band that intrigues listeners from a wide variety of musical tastes and backgrounds. Keeping in line with the ancient troubadour tradition, American Nomad draws from the spirit of travel and authentic life experience.

You Can Check them out online at http://www.americannomadmusic.com/

Alright folks stay tuned for our final line up announcement!

Join us over on facebook and invite your friends to the event.

Finally for you convenience a list of upcoming That’s What She Said! Show Dates at the Garage 715 Bryant

Saturday Sept 29 (with Ohio’s Rachel Wiley!), Tuesday Dec 18th and Tuesday Jan 22nd 2013!

See you on June 26th for the Queer Arts Festival!

http://www.americannomadmusic.com/

June 26th Queer Arts Festival! Part 3

June 26th at 8pm we’ll be going to the Garage’s new location at 715 Bryant Ave. This show is going to be hella Queer! Tickets are $12 at the Door.

We’ll slowly be be publishing the names in our line up in the days leading up to the show! In our last post we met stand-up comedian Natasha Muse and poet Maisha Z. Johnson now we’d like to introduce our musical guest:

Julie Indelicato

photo by Tommy Corey photography

“Julie Indelicato, an original 16th and Mission performer, has a cult following in her native San Francisco. Part Ella Fitzgerald, part Amanda Palmer, coupled with Ani DiFranco style guitar chords and Bon Iver slides, Julie is unlike anyone in today’s spotlight. … She brings a musical theatre air to each performance, often charming the audience so that one feels as if they’ve known her forever—or wants to start now. “ –Maureen Bee, (Litseen)

“Julie Indelicato combines charisma and musical gusto to captivate a room. To see her live is to be focused on the beauty of musical nuance and entertained by a master performer all at once” -Wonder Dave (host of a many Bay Area performance events including this show)

How can you not want to see her!

Also as always your Gracious hosts Caitlin Gill and Wonder Dave will be returning their bios along with all the other performers’ info can be found by clicking on the Performers and the Hosts tab on the page header (or I  linked it cause who has time to scroll up).

    Pictured above your hosts caught canoodling.

Stay Tuned as the announcements keep coming!

and feel free to join our facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/events/367438023312723/

Also the Write Bloody contest is still happening and we still are encouraging you to click like on our volunteer of much awesomeness Baruch’s video! Head over to youtube and click like you can sign in with a gmail or youtube account!

Finally for you convenience a list of upcoming That’s What She Said! Show Dates at the Garage 715 Bryant

Thursday July 19th , Saturday Sept 29 (with Ohio’s Rachel Wiley!), Tuesday Dec 18th and Tuesday Jan 22nd 2013!

See you on June 26th for the Queer Arts Festival!

Queer Arts Festival Edition June 26th! Part 2

June 26th at 8pm we’ll be going to the Garage’s new location at 715 Bryant Ave. This show is going to be hella Queer! Tickets are $12 at the Door.

We’ll slowly be be publishing the names in our line up in the days leading up to the show! In our last post we met the lovely stand-up comedian Natasha Muse!

This time allow me to introduce you to:

Maisha Z Johnson

Maisha Z. Johnson is a writer, an activist, and a troublemaker. As a queer black woman of Trinidadian descent, she has never been able to stick to the status quo. Instead, she spends time writing about the view from the outside in by lifting up the voices of those who are often silenced. She spends her days working at Community United Against Violence (CUAV), developing transformative approaches to healing and organizing LGBTQ communities to end the violence they face. She spends her nights making trouble on the page, exploring the relationship between writing and social change, which she chronicles on her blog, Inkblot. Maisha is earning an MFA in poetry at Pacific University, and she’s been a featured reader at Bay Area events including Harlem’s Poetic Rebellion, The Color of My Spirit and New Poetry Mission. She’s thrilled to bring her strange, honest, untamed poems back to That’s What She Said!
www.maishazjohnson.com

Stay Tuned as the announcements keep coming!

and feel free to join our facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/events/367438023312723/

Oh yes and the Write Bloody contest is still happening and we still are encouraging you to click like on our volunteer of much awesomeness Baruch’s video! Head over to youtube and click like you can sign in with a gmail or youtube account!

Finally for you convenience a list of upcoming That’s What She Said! Show Dates at the Garage 715 Bryant

Thursday July 19th , Saturday Sept 29, Tuesday Dec 18th and Tuesday Jan 22nd 2013!

See you on June 26th for the Queer Arts Festival!