[Cancelled] The Big Comeback!

Friday, January 23rd

at the Verdi Club

2424 Mariposa, San Francisco

Doors at 7, Stories at 8 PM

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"The Moth for Pervs"

- LA Weekly

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This Evening of curated True - & NSFW! - Stories, Songs & Community features:

❤ A Brand New Story from Bawdy's Creator, Dixie De La Tour

❤ Writer, Editor, and Performer Kristen Cosby

❤ Music by Bawdy's Songwriter-in-Residence, Jefferson Bergey

❤ Play Bang-O to make Friends (& FWBs) 💋

❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails that sound Dirty - but taste Delicious!

❤ Magical Prizes from Magic Wand

❤ Prizes & Giveaways from Uberlube

This month's Theme:

The Big Comeback!

“The Big Comeback” is a night where your true stories pulse with laughter and the raw honesty that only San Francisco can deliver. This infamous sex and storytelling event gathers its community of dreamers, lovers, and risk-takers once again, ready to share how they’ve returned—after heartbreaks, reinventions, and sweet, sweaty triumphs.

It’s a celebration of resilience and desire, of the ways we lose ourselves and find something even better: a truer sense of who we are and what we want. From wild first loves to bold rediscoveries of pleasure, every tale promises a spark of hope wrapped in heat.

In a city that thrives on second chances, Bawdy Storytelling reminds us that no setback is final, and no pleasure too small to savor again. Expect stories and songs that are vulnerable, hilarious, and gloriously unfiltered, each one weaving a gorgeous narrative of transformation and connection. You’ll feel the electricity of a beloved community coming home to itself—proof that even after the hardest chapters, the heart can always finds a new rhythm.

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). 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 next 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 and inspire your own stories, and Win wild Prizes for being brave and talking to strangers. Remember, Stories help you find your people!

❤ Kristen Cosby is a freelance writer, editor, and educator. Her writing has received support from the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), Can Serrat (Spain), the Corporation of Yaddo (USA), the MacDowell Artist Colony (USA), and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (USA), and garnered the Normal Prize in Nonfiction and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. Previous works have appeared in The Normal School, The Normal School Online, Kenyon Review Online, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Pitt Med Magazine, Proto, Lodestars, and have been anthologized in The Pleasure Principle, The Moment, and The Spirit of Disruption.

For much of her childhood, Kristen drifted off the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire aboard a thirty-nine-foot sailboat with her parents, brother, and dog. She has lived as an expat in Budapest, Hungary, and a hermit in Maine. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and the MFA program at the https://plra.io/m/the-big-comebackUniversity of Pittsburgh, she now lives and works in San Francisco. Learn more at https://kristencosby.com/

❤ 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!)