Gemini Ink Presents David Berkeley

San Francisco-based singer songwriter David Berkeley to give free concert at Gemini Ink (513 S. Presa), on Monday, Sept. 12, 7:30pm.

Gemini Ink Presents David Berkeley as Part of its Fall Semester

SAN ANTONIO, August 31, 2011 ----- San Francisco-based singer songwriter David Berkeley will be faculty member and performer as part of Gemini Ink's Fall Semester lineup taking place September 3-December 2. Berkeley will head up The Song and The Story workshop at Gemini Ink (513 S. Presa), Monday, September 12 , 5:30-7 p.m., which will be followed by a FREE concert and reading at 7:30 p.m.

Called a "musical poet" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Berkeley has a deep love of words and music. Armed with a literature degree from Harvard, he released four critically-acclaimed studio albums garnering accolades from the New York Times, Boston Globe, Paste Magazine and Huffington Post among others. Berkeley has performed on countless TV and radio programs including This American Life. He has toured with Dido, Ben Folds, Billy Bragg, Ray Lamontagne, Don McLean and many more. Most recently, Berkeley combined his interests, authoring a memoir, 140 Goats and a Guitar, written while living in Corsica in a remote and mysterious mountain village of only 35 people, which tells the stories behind each song on his latest album, Some Kind of Cure. For more information go to www.davidberkeley.com.

In his workshop, Berkeley will explore the relationship between stories and songs, words and music, prose and lyrics, and reality and creativity. Discussion and exercises will engage participants in writing a flash fiction piece imagining a story behind one of Berkeley's songs. After the workshop, Berkeley's FREE concert and reading will open with local artists-musicians Bett Butler and Joël Dilley. Space is limited for both the workshop and concert so reservations are required.

To make reservations for the concert and/or register for this and other Gemini Ink Fall Semester workshops, contact us at 210.734.9673 or go online at www.geminiink.org.

Gemini Ink is a grassroots non-profit literary arts center that nurtures readers and writers and builds community through literature and the related arts. For more information on the organization and its programs, visit www.gemininink.org or call 210.734.9673.