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SUMMARY:Shanghai Faithful: Jennifer Lin
DESCRIPTION:Former China correspondent Jennifer Lin dramatizes 150 years of her family history in her new book\, Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family\, (Rowman & Littlefield\, March 2017). A reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer for 31 years\, Lin used her skills as a reporter to weave oral history and archival resources into a narrative spanning five generations. Shanghai Faithful presents a poignant portrait of a family as well as a vivid history of Christianity in China\, stretching from the 19-century mission outposts of South China to the cathedrals of war-torn Shanghai and today’s thriving house churches at the heart of China’s unprecedented religious revival.  The program will be conducted in English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanghai-faithful-jennifer-lin/
LOCATION:Chinatown Meeting Room\, 1135 Powell Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Call & Response: Readings by 100 Days Action Poets
DESCRIPTION:Action by: 100 Days Action \nDate/Time\nDate(s) – 04/29/2017\n2:00 pm – 3:30 pm \nLocation\nClarion Alley\nClarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110 \n\nACTION: ON THE 99TH DAY THERE WAS POETRY\n100 Days Action comes to Clarion Alley\n\n\nIn these turbulent months\, its the poets who have carried our thoughts. 100 Days Action has published poems by more than a dozen poets since the Inauguration. For our closing\, we bring these unique voices to the historic Clarion Alley reading series for an afternoon of solidarity\, joy\, grim resilience\, and a way forward. In addition to the poetry\, CAMP’s community partner\, The San Francisco Poster Syndicate\, will be live silk screening posters of resistance. \nFeatured Poets:\nHeather Bourbeau\nJosh Wilson\nAndy Sano\nMk Chavez\nYvonne Campbell\nCyrus Armajani\nMaw Shein Win\nJason Wyman\nRaina J. León\nAmos White\nCaitlin Myer\nChristine No\nBonnie Kwong \n“Call & Response” is curated by Maw Shein Win and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. More information about can be found on our Facebook page\, or by contacting Maw Shein Win at maw@redbridgepress.com. \n\nWant to hear about more events and updates? Sign up for our newsletter below!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/call-response-readings-by-100-days-action-poets/
LOCATION:Clarion Alley\, Clarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop: Writing Home
DESCRIPTION:RAWI is excited to launch it’s second In Solidarity: RAWI Creative Writing Workshops in San Francisco! \nPlease join us for a poetry workshop\, “Writing Home” led by Deema K Shehabi at the Presidio Branch Library Community Room. \nWorkshop: Writing Home \nHaving lost our way home through dystopia\, exile\, and creeping environmental degradation\, how is it possible to reconstruct and/or recreate the idea of home through writing? By reading and studying a mix of contemporary poets who write about this theme\, this workshop will seek to place participants in a space where they can negotiate their identities through language and explore the relationship between the cultures\, histories\, and geographical locations of their original national and ethnic group. \nThe workshop includes a discussion and featured readings by Nathalie Khankan\, Lena Khalif Tuffah\, and Priscilla Wathington. \nRegister for free here.\n(Note: this program is not sponsored by San Francisco Public Library) \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-workshop-writing-home/
LOCATION:Presidio Branch Library\, 3150 Sacramento St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:Michael Chabon joins us on Independent Bookstore Day to read from his new novel\, Moonglow. The classic arcade game Moon Patrol will also be available to play! \n\nPraise for Moonglow \n\n“Elegiac and deeply poignant … Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that’s as complicated\, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet…. Chabon is one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists…. In Moonglow\, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervor.” — Michiko Kakutani \n\n“Mix[es] in generous dollops of meaning\, a sprinkling of fancy metaphors and an abundance of beautiful sentences so that it becomes a rich and exotic confection. Too strict a recipe would have spoiled the charm of this layer cake of nested memories and family legends.… This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott \n\nA flamboyantly imaganitive work of fiction dressed in the sheep’s clothing of autobiography….His most confident and complex performance….Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation.” — Sam Sacks\, The Wall Street Journal \n\nAbout Moonglow \n\nMoonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness\, of war and adventure\, of sex and marriage and desire\, of existential doubt and model rocketry\, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury\, and\, above all\, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother\, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. \nFrom the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany\, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison\, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century\,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth\, a work of fictional nonfiction\, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir\, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: An "Elevator Pitch" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:We’re locked in an elevator together. For the next three minutes (or less) I am your captive audience. What will you try to sell me? Give me your best elevator pitch. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, dances\, or sales pitches on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur April features are: K.R. Morrison & Robert Andrew Andres Perez Jr\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, April 29th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nWhen she’s not writing poems or drumming in an all-girl garage rock band\, K.R. MORRISON teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to inner city high school students at Galileo in San Francisco\, CA. Writing for many years\, she finally reads at open mics around the Bay Area\, including many Saturday Night Specials. K.R. Morrison has been featured twice in Bay Area Generations\, and her first publication “When in Mexico” appeared in Switchback Magazine in July\, 2016. She’s currently working on a poetry collection entitled\, “From Her Wrist\,” and hopes to have it published by someone awesome once it’s done. \nBorn in Manila & raised in the sprawling outer edges of Los Angeles County\, ROBERT ANDREW PEREZ moved to the Bay Area to earn his BA from Berkeley & MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California\, where he occasionally teaches. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His first poetry collection\, “The Field\,” was released in fall 2016 from Omnidawn. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, Eleven Eleven\, The Laurel Review\, The Cortland Review\, and Fourteen Hills. His poetry was also featured in Public Pool and Vinyl Poetry. He’s a 2017 guest editor for the online journal The Elephants. Currently\, he’s in the throes of finishing a feature-length comedy about a divorce and wine tasting called “Stone Fruit.” More at robertandrewperez.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-elevator-pitch-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE 14
DESCRIPTION:THERE\n\n\nNEXT THERE: THERE 14 – Saturday\, April 29 \, 2017 – short story writer and SF Chronicle columnist Caille Milner\, Oakland author Margaret Lee\, Oakland poet Emma Catherine Perry\, and for halftime entertainment\, the world premiere debut of the new East Bay band The Braxton Hicks! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015! \nMaxine Hong Kingston & Earll Kingston reading at THERE 5\, 3/18/16\n\n \nClaire Perry reads at the launch of THERE\, 10/16/15 \n\nWe’ve featured such celebrated authors as Maxine Hong Kingston\, Yiyun Li\, Yaa Gyasi\, Carolina DeRobertis\, Grant Faulkner\, Frances Dinkelspiel\, Janis Cooke Newman\, Zac Unger and many more\, THERE emphasizes fiction but also includes non-fiction\, memoir and poetry. \nTHERE debuted October 16\, 2015 with guest authors Claire Perry\, Cynthia Salaysay and Rosa del Duca\, live music by Rosa del Duca and Doug Sovern\, and special guest Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-14/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen Welcomes BACS
DESCRIPTION:Lone Glen welcomes BACS\, April 29th!\nApril 10\, 2017\n\n\nLone Glen presents The Bay Area Correspondence School Variety Show and Art Extravaganza! \nOn Saturday evening\, April 29th at 7:30 pm\, come help us celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Bay Area Correspondence School with an evening of poetry\, music\, dance\, and art. We’ll have interactive mail-art activities\, copies of our new chapbook\, tasty refreshments\, and an epistolary-themed variety show. The evening will feature performances and art by Ramsay Bell Breslin\, Joe Cha\, MK Chavez\, Pat Dienstfrey\, Amber DiPietra\, Tiff Dressen\, Patrick Duggan\, Gloria Frym\, Margit Galanter\, Erin Heath\, Evan and Miles Karp of Turk and Divis\, Kristin Kong\, Raina Leon\, Alexandra Mattraw\, Sarah Rosenthal\, Heidi Smith\, Adam Thorman\, Marissa Bell Toffoli\, Della Watson\, Jessica Wickens\, Valerie Witte\, and more! \nJoin us at Lone Glen’s home: 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Bring a friend\, a beverage (if you have the means)\, and an open mind. When you arrive\, look for signs pointing you to the side entrance for our garden and garage performance space. \nThe Bay Area Correspondence School (BACS) is a project that explores experimental writing through online and offline communications\, including mail\, email\, and social media. Mail art and other work by our network can be viewed on our page: https://www.facebook.com/BayAreaCorrespondenceSchool/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-welcomes-bacs/
LOCATION:Lone Glen\, 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Lone Glen":MAILTO:anoncheval at gmail.com
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