Stories & Beer/Haiti Fundraiser
Tuesday | Iron Post | 5 p.m. | Free (kinda)
Ladies and gents, there’s nothing better than drinking for a cause, and this Tuesday, you’ll be able to do just that. This, our fourth Stories & Beer, will be a fundraiser for Helping Hands in Motion, a non-profit faith based group working to rebuild Haiti.
So let’s cut to the chase: as always, we’ve got a badass lineup of writers sure to rock your face off with awesomeness, but not as always, the more booze you drink (or food you eat) between 5 and 7 p.m. will directly benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake as the Iron Post will donate 10% of its sales to Helping Hands. What’s more is that we’ll be raffling off strange and exotic items throughout the night — most notably a bottle of pineapple tequila (known more affectionately as Contusion) generously donated by the Esquire Lounge. Hell, we might even toss in a bag of peanuts.
And now, to announce our readers!
Kyle Minor is by all accounts a pretty awesome guy and sorta the reason we’re raising money for Haiti.
Harriett Green originally hails from the plains of Kansas, but fled as soon as possible to points north and east. Despite her best efforts, however, she now finds herself to be a librarian in a small Midwestern city. In other words, she has turned into her mother. When not contemplating the implications of this fact, she plays a semi-fierce game of Scrabble and is plotting the Great Bike Ride of Possibly This Summer.
Philip Graham was born in Brooklyn. He considers it a career high that he will be a warm up act for Kyle Minor.
Okla Elliott loves literature like a midget loves stilts. He is a leftist-narcissist-existentialist, which basically means he cares a lot about the world even though he ultimately knows it has no real value, except that it matters to him, which is the most important thing. Various evidence of his narcissism and willingness to force his ego onto the world can be found in many literary journals and anthologies.
Sean Karns is from Springfield, OH, spent the better part of his twenties working for a living. Before all this education, he worked in various vocations: construction in high school and thought that to be too much work in the hot Midwest summers, and then started working at the Kroger Co. when he turned 18 because of air conditioning. This was a mistake. Not knowing there were other ways to stay cool, he worked there till he was 28. How he has ended up where he is today is still a mystery.
This one’s gonna be a blast, folks — see you there!
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And (as always) a big thanks to the Urbana Arts Grants Program, your money makes it so we can do this little shindig.