201 Salon Series
499 Alabama St. #201, San Francisco, CA
December 6 at 7pm
An evening w/ Alexandra Kostoulas
Poetry Reading Discussion & Mini-workshop
Founder of SF Creative Writing Institute
RSVP Info coming soon!
The golden thread is a single strong line that holds everything together and helps both reader and writer find meaning.
Whether it be in Ariadne’s meandering thread to escape the Labyrinth, literally weaving a golden thread into a piece fabric, writing copy that conveys a central message, crafting a central theme or narrative plotline that runs through a story, creating a guiding principle that runs through a legal process, or creating a core value, or a metric that leads to or measures success, the golden thread is what gets us there.
This workshop applies the concept of “the golden thread” to writing, especially poetry.
In this interactive poetry reading, poet, storyteller and teacher, Alexandra Kostoulas, reads poetry written during different aspects of her own life and shows the golden thread in her own work, and invites the audience/participants to find their own golden thread that weaves throughout their life and through looking at key pivot points in their own lives and see how they wove their way in and out, and through them.
Artist’s Bio:
Alexandra Kostoulas is the Founder and Executive Director of the SF Creative Writing Institute.
She is a poet, short story writer, novelist, nonfiction writer and sometimes ghostwriter. Her writing has won awards, and her poetry has been studied by students at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the current writer in residence, 2025-26 Hellenic Research Fellow at CSU Sacramento for her fiction. She has coached many writers to publication and performance of their work. (You can work with her too!) Learn more about her or join her mailing list here: https://linktr.ee/sfcwialexandra
Past Salons
October 11 at 7pm
Los Little Guys: Cloud Gazing
September 12 at 7pm
Adrienne Simms: A night of art and activism.
May 2 at 7pm
NAKA Dance Theater
Debby Kajiyama and José Ome Navarrete Mazatl
April 11 at 7pm
Gabriele Christian with Styles Alexander
March 7 at 7pm
Sara Shelton Mann
Moving Alchemy Book Launch
February 7 at 7pm
Jesse Zaritt: no edge of detail
The 201 Salon Series is made possible by the San Francisco Arts Commission.