Conspiracy of Beards is confirmed for a show at the F.S.C. Barber shop on Valencia St. this coming October as part of this year’s Lit Crawl, a city-wide, one night literary event that happens at venues all over San Francisco. In preparation for that event, a small ensemble of Beards will be performing this coming Friday, July 19th, at Lit Tease: A Sneak Preview and Fundraiser for Litquake’s Lit Crawl, at The Swedish American Hall. The event kicks off  with the Beards at 8pm.

Come support and catch some lovely entertainment including comedy, music, poetry, and literary readings with master of ceremonies author and ever-hilarious comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh, the music of Mark Growden Trio as well as a cross-section of 2013 Lit Crawl curators, including Dorinda Vassigh reading for The Day My Nipple Fell Off, AfroSurreal‘s D. Scot Miller, Keith Ekiss from Translate This: Contemporary Writing in Translation, Hyphen magazine’s Brynn Saito, Kelly Luce for A Strange Object, Barbara Mossberg reading for Tupelo Press, Casey McAlduff for the International Poetry Library, and Michelle Tea reading for McSweeney’s.