Quirkyalone: It’s a mindset

The FIFTH annual International Quirkyalone Day is coming up! Our alternative February 14 celebration (a celebration of all kinds of love: friendship, romantic love, self-love, family love, etc.!) has now been celebrated in more than 30 cities around the globe. If you want to organize your own IQD gathering, head over to the online community forums and suggest a time and a place.

Here in San Francisco, the celebration will be TWO-FOLD on Wednesday, February 14 (the actual day!).

COMMONWEALTH CLUB: “SOLO IN THE CITY”
6 pm
First please join me at “Solo in the City,” a panel discussion on being single iin San Francisco at INFORUM, the Commonwealth Club’s division for people in their 20s and 30s. I’ll be on the panel along with Jane Ganahl, the singles columnist at the Chronicle, Ethan Watters, author or Urban Tribes, and Emily Morse, of Sex with Emily.

There will be a wine reception at 6 pm, and the program starts at 6:30.

This event will be at 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco. For more information and directions, go here.

THEN, for the official IQD party, we will be gathering at 8 pm at JACK’s. JACK’s is an old-man bar turned hipster bar and now we’re turning into IQD HQ for 2007. It should be a low-key but super-fun night of playing QA tunes on the jukebox and celebrating the night away. Come on down for a beer, pear cider, hot toddy, or seltzer. See you there!

JACK’S
2545 24th St (Cross Street: Utah Street)
San Francisco, California
Close to 24th Street Mission BART–take BART and walk down 24th Street toward Potrero, or take the 48 Bus from BART and get off at Potrero
No need to RSVP, just show up . . .
FREE!

Note: One of our fellow quirkyalones, William Poy Lee (whom I interviewed in the Quirkytogether chapther of the Quirkyalone book) will be in the house. William has a truly amazing book that just came out in January. It’s called The Eighth Promise and it’s an unusual memoir told through his voice and his mother’s voice about their experiences immigrating from Toisan China to the United States. I read it and fell in love with it–you should check it out too:
http://www.theeighthpromise.com/

Related posts:

1. Countdown to IQD
2. An Often Asked Question: Are There Any Quirkyalone Events Near Me?
3. Your Nominations Please, for the Quirkys
4. Party Photos from IQD SF 2007
5. IQD Radio Greetings