BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20160101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Denver
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
DTSTART:20160313T090000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:MST
DTSTART:20161106T080000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
DTSTART:20170312T090000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:MST
DTSTART:20171105T080000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
DTSTART:20180311T090000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:MST
DTSTART:20181104T080000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T233000
DTSTAMP:20260414T211747
CREATED:20170429T031921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170510T173954Z
UID:26502-1494442800-1497223800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170514T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T211747
CREATED:20170503T115920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T002820Z
UID:26644-1494610200-1494763200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Rewrite Your Life
DESCRIPTION:REWRITE YOUR LIFE WEEKEND IMMERSIVE\nA HEALING CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP\nLearn how to write the book you’re meant to write in this weekend workshop. You’ll be introduced to the powerfully therapeutic value of creative writing and taught to transform your life experiences into healing fiction with the bones to be the next great American novel. Class size is limited. \nIn this 3-day intensive\, you will be shown: \n\nthe science behind the healing power of transforming fact into fiction\na simple yet powerful model for sifting through pivotal life experiences to select the one you most need to write about\n\n\npractical guidance in plumbing your past to create memorable characters and to craft a compelling plot\ndirection on how to use the power of smell\, sound\, taste\, and touch memories to access your past as well as craft cinematic setting\nthe POP method\, a wildly effective tool for pulling all your words together and crafting a novel in one year’s time\nhow to set and keep personal writing and self-improvement goals in your everyday life
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rewrite-your-life/
LOCATION:Grace Cathedral\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T211747
CREATED:20170502T004501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T004501Z
UID:26471-1494613800-1494622800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:StageWrite presents Mirrors\, Smoke\, & Getting Woke: Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:StageWrite presents Mirrors\, Smoke\, & Getting Woke: Short Plays by Short People \nCome see a multimedia production of original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… Mirrors reflect our nature\, ideas have other ideas\, the rebellion starts on Powell Street\, legacies lurk in the shadows\, and money falls out your wazoo!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-mirrors-smoke-getting-woke-short-plays-by-short-people/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="StageWrite":MAILTO:elana@stagewrite.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T211747
CREATED:20170422T005049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170422T005940Z
UID:26203-1494615600-1494622800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard Reads from Chien Lunatique
DESCRIPTION:Love\, Modernity\, and the Internet Just who\, or what\, is le chien lunatique? \nThe poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems – profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing – distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new – the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nPre-publication Comments on\nChristopher Bernard’s\nCHIEN LUNATIQUE \n“An extraordinary\, and extraordinarily strange\, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends.”\n– Jack Foley \n“. . . poems of diamond-like brilliance\, filled with despair\, passion\, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage\, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness.”\n– Mary Mackey\, author of Sugar Zone and\nthe novel The Village of Bones \n“Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority\, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling.”\n– Ernest Hilbert\, author of Caligulan \n“An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection.” – Simon Perchik \n“ ‘The Wife of the Painter’ . . . takes my breath away . . . . ‘Midnight’ is . . . a masterpiece\, yet so modest as to almost escape notice.”\n– Curt Barnes \n“In this provocative collection of poems\, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness.”\n– Philip Fried
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-reads-from-chien-lunatique/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T211747
CREATED:20170430T022319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T022319Z
UID:26519-1494615600-1494622800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays Presents: Ariel Gore + Sara Marinelli
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Ariel Gore and Sara Marinelli\, with music by Nkechi. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nAriel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest\, The End of Eve\, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nBorn in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer\, translator\, and educator. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories appear in New American Writing\, Blue Mesa Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and many Italian publications. For her fiction\, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, and BANFF Center for the Arts. Sara teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She is working on a novel about family grief\, set in a superstitious and religious Naples. She curates Hazel Reading Series\, and all-women literary salon. \nNkechi is a singer-songwriter whose evocative voice explores a wide range of music territory\, including acoustic soul\, folk rock and pop in a signature inspirational and lyrical sound called soul rock. Nkechi’s rich vocal textures and knack for improvisation make live performances a dynamic one-of-a-kind experience. She delivers conscious messages through verse\, rhyme and melody and has been blessed with an amazing roster of musicians who together form Nkechi Live! Band (NLB) the performing platform for her original soul rock music. NLB has performed at music venues and festivals on the west and east coasts. Nkechi is also a painter and performing actor in film and theater. The website for her creative happenings is http://www.nkechi.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-presents-ariel-gore-sara-marinelli/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T211747
CREATED:20170504T002206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T002206Z
UID:26677-1494615600-1494622800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:THERE 15
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 15 – Friday\, May 12 \, 2017 – award-winning East Bay author Cecile Barlier\, local author Katie Moulton\, and another writer TBA. \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!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-15/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR