Our theme this month is ENOUGH! So it's going to be rockin'!
Come on down to the Modern for a lovely, smart, wise, story-filled summer evening in August. Modern food and drink will be available all night long, and make your table reservations here to ensure a great seat -
https://www.themodernbar.com/reserve.
FREE and OPEN and plenty of great patio seats and spots around the fire pits, so come down early to get your spot dialed in!
OUR ARTISTS
Diana Dineman -
Diana Dinerman is a writer and performer, based in Los Angeles. Diana has been called “One to watch” by TribeLA magazine, was featured in Broadway World, The British Comedy Guide and The List UK. Her solo show DETOUR: A Show About Changing your Mind, was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her short film, The Last Word, has premiered at LA Shorts International Film Festival.
Tracy Burt -
As she travels a healing path, tracy burt finds solace and growth through creativity, connection and compassion. Tracy became a tenured professor after a meandering, integrating path as a preschool teacher, actress, domestic violence counselor, improvisor, writer, activist and collage artist. Tracy's current work in progress and first foray into a full-length novel, Convergent Evolution, explores love when despite all efforts to the contrary, two lovers find themselves caught in intergenerational cycles of trauma. Her chapbook, the light in the dark, the dark in the light, was published in 2020 and updated in 2025.
Building community centered around love, transformation, and justice drives Tracy's presence in the world. When she’s not writing, reading or teaching, you can find her dancing in the kitchen, wrestling with her son or hanging with friends in San Francisco.
Kirk Read -
Kirk Read is a writer, performer, teacher, and analog collage artist. He is the author of the memoir How I Learned to Snap, which was an American Library Association Honor Book. His essay was recently published in the book “Witch” edited by Michelle Tea. He created and performed the solo shows This is the Thing and Computer Face, for which SF Weekly called him the "Freak Prince of San Francisco." He co-leads the Pacific Northwest Collage Collective and facilitates writing and collage workshops. His collage has been published in Cut Me Up, Contemporary Collage Magazine, RFD, and Khora. He recently had a solo art show at Replicant in Portland and co-organized NO/STALGIA, an international collage exhibition with 85 artists. He won a Bronze award in the 2024 Contemporary Collage Magazine awards. He works as a public health nurse, helping homeless folks detox from street drugs. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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