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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Douglas Kearney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reese Jones
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Ingrid Contreras Rojas \ndiscussing his new book \nViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move \nfrom Verso Books \nA major new exploration of the refugee crisis\, focusing on how borders are formed and policed \nForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade\, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. \nReece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional\, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization\,” he writes\, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.” \nIn Violent Borders\, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world\, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization\, the wealthy travel without constraint\, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures\, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change\, environmental degradation\, and the growth of global wealth inequality. \nReece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa\, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States\, India\, and Israel. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds. \nCrtitical praise for the work of Reese Jones: \n“I’d like an endless supply of Reece Jones’ Violent Borders to hand out to all the people I meet who flirt with an anti-refugee sensibility. This book is the antidote to the world of walls that we live in\, an argument for a world of humanity.” \n– Vijay Prashad\, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South \n“A much-needed counter to a thousand newspaper columns calling on us to secure our borders\, Reece Jones’ Violent Borders goes beyond the headlines to look at the deeper causes of the migration crisis. Borders\, Jones convincingly argues\, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue.” \n– Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia\, Extremism\, and the Domestic War on Terror \n“From early modern land enclosures through Westphalian state formation to the current fortification of the US–Mexico frontier\, Reece Jones explains what a boundary is\, and how national sovereignty is being reinforced\, in an age of capital mobility\, by the crackdown on human movement across borders.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World \n“With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news\, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n“In an era of terrorism\, global inequality\, and rising political tension over migration\, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse\, not better.” \n– Boston Globe \n“Reece Jones\, a professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa\, believes that borders are essentially tools of violence used to constrict and sometimes entirely stop flows of humanity. And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion…This book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweeping the privileged nations of the Northern Hemisphere.” \n– Darwin BondGraham\, East Bay Express
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reese-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome contributors of Oakland Noir to the store to celebrate this new release on Wednesday\, April 12th at 7:00 pm. The participants for this evening include editors Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller and authors Dorothy Lazard\, Nick Petrulakis\, and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder . \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJerry Thompson is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the co-author of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nEddie Muller\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nDorothy Lazard grew up in West Oakland and was an early fan of the library. She has worked at the Oakland Main Library since 1983 and is now the reference librarian of the Main Library’s Oakland History Room. \n  \nNick Petrulakis is a bookseller and self-taught mixologist –  what could be a more natural pairing? Inspired by books\, characters\, settings\, and authors\, he uses all of these elements for inspiration when creating a new drink. Check out his blog\, Drinks with Nick to see his latest cocktails. \n  \nKeri Miki-Lani Schroeder is a visual artist and writer based in Oakland. A fan of all things odd\, experimental\, or transgressive\, Schroeder creates artist books and dark short fiction. After earning an MFA in book art and creative writing from Mills College in 2015\, Schroeder now works for Flying Fish Press\, an independent publisher of limited-edition artists’ books\, and teaches book art workshops and classes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yrsa Daley-Ward
DESCRIPTION:Yrsa Daley-Ward contemplates her role in the world in which she lives and loves\, reading pieces from Alice Walker and other writers. The entire evening features open dialogue with audience members\, and opens with a reading by Oakland writer\, Christian Johnson. \nDUENDE\nWednesday\, April 12 • 7PM\nhttp://matatu.eventbrite.com/ \n__________\nYrsa Daley-Ward was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England\, and is of mixed West African and West Indian heritage. After moving to London\, Yrsa began a full-time career in modeling and acting\, visible on runways and magazine covers in Angola\, Cameroon\, Nigeria and South Africa. In 2013\, her first collection of stories ‘On Snakes and Other Stories\,’ was published while living between Cape Town and Johannesburg\, followed up with Yrsa’s widely acclaimed\, ‘Bone.’ \n__________\nBorn in Oakland\, California\, Christian Johnson is a writer\, image maker\, and film curator. His work aims to create multi-layered revolutionary images of the black body in motion. Johnson is one half of the brain trust behind last years Black Atheistic film series\, and as the artist in residence at E.M. Wolfman he is in preproduction on the short film “A Moment of Truth + Sin.” A forthcoming book of essays on last years film series entitled “Black Asthetic Season 1” will be released later this year. \n__________\nThe Kenyan matatu\, the Thai tuk-tuk\, and the Brooklyn dollar van are means of public transport used by people around the world. MATATU replicates these vehicles as a mode of collective and publicly accessible transportation\, rooted in local community and global diasporas\, that shuttles audiences from one arthouse experience to the next. \nMATATU is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts\, and supported by KQED\, East Bay Express\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more about us at www.matatufestival.org/weare
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yrsa-daley-ward/
LOCATION:DUENDE\, 468 19th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. \nIn this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town\, while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, keenly observed portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely—but with great empathy—confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Brushes with Fame
DESCRIPTION:Fame is such an odd thing. Everybody wants a piece of it\, though many who get it\, ultimately regret it. This month\, Fireside brings to the stage six storytellers to tell true tales about their brushes with fame: whether it’s encounters with famous people\, or finding themselves in the middle of their 15 minutes of fame — or infamy. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-brushes-with-fame/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Paramour'
DESCRIPTION:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWednesday\, April 12th\, 2017\n\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling #Unedited #TheRealDeal\n\n\n\nThis Evening of “Love stories includes:\n\n\n❤ Online Dating Prankster Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n❤ YOU! Pitch your story to Dixie!\n\n\n\n❤ Musical act to come (do songs about sex? Email Dixie!)\n\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action\n\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n❤ Hosted by Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nSexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour brings her true dirty storytelling show back to the Verdi Club’s stage and this month\, we intertwine Love and Sex. : stories of wild abandon that left to true love\, tales of the search for more than orgasm or finding that you\, on your own\, are what you’ve been looking for all along. Hey… isn’t that your story?! Let’s find out: email Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com and pitch her your story to be part of this show. Bawdy Storytelling promises you a Wednesday night of true\, funny\, poignant\, shocking tales – each told without notes by the sexual adventurer who lived to tell the tale. \n\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n\n❤ Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award winner and was named “Best Bay Area Comedian” by the SF Weekly\, Bay Area Reporter and The SF Bay Guardian. Robin Williams called her “Amazing..a lesbian Lenny Bruce.” Gomez’s comedy has been featured on HBO\, LOGO\, Showtime\, Comedy Central and PBS. She is also the author/performer of twelve solo plays which have been presented Off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Gomez can be seen in season two of the Netflix series “Sense8” She has been a guest on leading comedy podcasts Marc Maron’s “WTF\,” “The Keith and The Girl Show” and Kevin Allison’s “Risk.” Her website is margagomez.com\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Ash Fisher is a comedian\, actor and writer. She is not a comedienne\, an actress or a writeress. She co-hosts the popular Oakland comedy show “Man Haters\,” named 2016 Best Comedy Show by East Bay Express. She was the 2012 Newcomer Runner-Up in Ladies of Laughter at Gotham Comedy Club NYC\, won the Oakland Storytelling Showdown\, won the Shipwreck Erotic Fan Fiction Competition\, and performed in San Francisco Sketchfest 2016 and 2017. She writes for Wear Your Voice Mag and has been published in The Huffington Post and The Advocate. She does illustration and voiceovers whenever someone lets her. Ash holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, and Sallie Mae will never let her forget it. Find her at ashfisherhaha.com & on twitter & instagram: @ashfisherhaha\n\n\n\n❤ Online dating prankster & Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey).\n\n\nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-paramour/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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