SciFi Reading Hour Philosophy (Patreon)

As I've been reaching out to future (pun intended) collaborators to Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour, I've been thinking about why I'm doing this and slowly forming a narrative that I'm sending to people.

Prior to this, I had kind of a short thing that said, 

"New Science Fiction from local luminary Cole Sarar and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Come, hear futures you never imagined with local talents. Be transported to places you've never been, see yourself and your world in new ways, and be transformed."

The thing I'm sending to performers includes this paragraph, which I'd like to incorporate somehow into my description- because the "why" is important.

My event is a "reading hour" that occurs every other month at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Two writers (myself and one other writer-poet? novelist? playwright? experimental writer? other? as long as it's SciFi) and one musician who underscores the readings with complementary sounds (music? sound effects? up to the musician!) The event is focused on Science Fiction because we need to be thinking of the future as a society, for a multitude of reasons: we need to be seeing and talking about ourselves and each other in new ways- seeing women, queer folks, and BIPoC in the future- showing folks in positions of power, showing different ways of leading, etc. Society also needs to think about the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also to envision new ways of doing things (or imagining old ways of doing things in the future). SO! Kind of lofty goals, but SciFi can also be super fun, fucking cool, ridiculous, and wry.

I'm only doing this event every other month- feeling out how much is easily doable, how many connections I have at the moment, how much of an audience I have, etc.  I haven't reached out to a lot of the artists I know, just because I'm feeling out how things work. Are there people you think would be a good fit for this? Give me names.