Dear Open Huggers, if you have any Russian River Writers' Guild archives, please leave a comment. We are missing most Open Hug flyers for 1985. We suspended publication of the Hug for the summer of 1986 (and offered a quarterly rebate on $5—which no one took up, TG). But one more Hug appears in 1987—so the bitter demise of the Hug was greatly exaggerated. Otherwise, there are vast holes in the timeline. Checks fill in some gaps. We are missing most flyers from 1985 (but I have the poems from the flats)—and we are missing flyers from 1987 onward to the last reading. When was it? It would be fab if someone actually knew when the series actually ended..... Years 1991 to 1993 are MIA, was that when we were at Higher Grounds, then Mudd's? When did we move to the Johnny Otis Club? No flyers at all from those years...I was a long term emcee, then David Bromige, et al...
In January of 1982, the Russian River Writers' Guild began its journey towards becoming an official incorporated 501c3 Non-Profit Organization with the state of California in order to apply for California Arts Council grants. The RRWG wrote, and received a CAC grant in 1984-85. I have no idea what the CAC grant award was, somewhere between $2000 and 3500. But I do remember that it required a lot of paperwork, filing taxes, and ultimately the responsibilities required, foundered the organization. But during 1985, we were able to pay visiting poets decent reading fees—one of our goals. This was before Poets & Writers had reading stipend grants for visiting poets.
After years of inactivity, the Russian River Writers' Guild as a legal 501c3 non-profit entity, was officially and legally dissolved with the state of California on January 31, 2001.
I've created a database list below the year entries. It should pull up every event for each featured poet. See far right column.
RRWG VENUES
- 1976 (1) Odd Fellows Junction/Brothers
- 1978 (2) May, Garbo's
- 1980 (7) Garbo's
- 1981 (8) Garbo's
- 1982 (10) Garbo's, March-Copperfield's
- 1983 (7) Copperfield's, Franklin St. Clubhouse
- 1984 (6) Franklin St. Clubhouse, March-Burbank Activity Center
- 1985 (2) Burbank Activity Center
- 1986 (4) Burbank Activity Center
- 1987 (1) Burbank Activity Center
- 1988 (4) Burbank Activity Center
- 1989 (1) Burbank Activity Center
- 1990 (3) Burbank Activity Center
- 1994 (2) 91-93 MIA (Higher Grounds, Mudd's?), Johnny Otis Club
- 1995 (3) Mudd's (Looks like we bounced around a bit
- 1997 (1) Copperfield’s
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