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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in Body and Story w/ Sharon Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Two Workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nLifting Scars with Sharon Coleman  \nA somatic writing and movement workshop by Sharon Coleman. 2-3pm \nResilience depends on the quick scarring over of wounds\, both psychic and physical. And they remain with us usually forever. They are emblems of what has touched us. They mend muscle and thought but leave tissue that interferes with movement and neuro-plasticity. In this workshop\, we’ll use movement and writing to explore the shapes left by scars and to find movement\, resilience\, and determination from what has marked us. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen. \nBIO: Sharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She has taught poetry\, creative writing and composition for fifteen years at Berkeley City College. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks (Paper Press 2016.) \nThe Composer’s Notebook with Tongo Eisen-Martin \nIn this workshop from 3-4pm\, community worker and poet\, Tongo Eisen-Martin explores how engagement in community can be channeled into music\, innovation\, and poetry. \nBIO: Born in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nYOUR ENGAGEMENT WILL AFFECT OTHERS! \nA portion of proceeds from these workshops will be donated to East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \nFrom East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s website: “Founded in 1982\, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is dedicated to offering sanctuary\, solidarity\, support\, community organizing assistance\, advocacy\, and legal services to those escaping war\, terror\, political persecution\, intolerance\, exploitation\, and other expressions of violence.” \nFrom the SURJ website: “SURJ IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZING WHITE PEOPLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. Through community organizing\, mobilizing and education\, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships\, skills and political analysis to act for change. We envision a society where we struggle together with love\, for justice\, human dignity and a sustainable world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-body-and-story-coleman/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Maya Chinchilla
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-maya-chinchilla/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T160000
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in Body and Story w/ Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Two Workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nLifting Scars with Sharon Coleman  \nA somatic writing and movement workshop by Sharon Coleman. 2-3pm \nResilience depends on the quick scarring over of wounds\, both psychic and physical. And they remain with us usually forever. They are emblems of what has touched us. They mend muscle and thought but leave tissue that interferes with movement and neuro-plasticity. In this workshop\, we’ll use movement and writing to explore the shapes left by scars and to find movement\, resilience\, and determination from what has marked us. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen. \nBIO: Sharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She has taught poetry\, creative writing and composition for fifteen years at Berkeley City College. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks (Paper Press 2016.) \nThe Composer’s Notebook with Tongo Eisen-Martin \nIn this workshop from 3-4pm\, community worker and poet\, Tongo Eisen-Martin explores how engagement in community can be channeled into music\, innovation\, and poetry. \nBIO: Born in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nYOUR ENGAGEMENT WILL AFFECT OTHERS! \nA portion of proceeds from these workshops will be donated to East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \nFrom East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s website: “Founded in 1982\, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is dedicated to offering sanctuary\, solidarity\, support\, community organizing assistance\, advocacy\, and legal services to those escaping war\, terror\, political persecution\, intolerance\, exploitation\, and other expressions of violence.” \nFrom the SURJ website: “SURJ IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZING WHITE PEOPLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. Through community organizing\, mobilizing and education\, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships\, skills and political analysis to act for change. We envision a society where we struggle together with love\, for justice\, human dignity and a sustainable world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-body-and-story-w-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Raina J. León
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T210000
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SUMMARY:Cedar Sigo\, Peter Burghardt\, Anne McGuire
DESCRIPTION:A night of poetry with Cedar Sigo reading new works from his new books\, Peter Burghardt launches his new chapbook\, and Anne McGuire presents a mix of music and poetry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cedar-sigo-peter-burghardt-anne-mcguire/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Reading in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus
DESCRIPTION:Steve Arntson Presents:\nAn Evening in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus (or\, What You Wanted All Along) \nBay Area writers and artists gather to create some good frickin energy. \nThe Lineup: Toreadah Mikell – Nazelah Jamison – Richard Loranger – Victor James Smith – Julian Mithra – Alison Luterman – Tom Stolmar – James Cagney – Allie Marini – Christine No \nAnd jazz with Karen Sudjian on voice and Jim Davidson on keyboards. \nHosted by the road demon himself\, Steve Arntson \nRefreshments will be served \nFree of charge \nPlease do stop by for a levitational experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-support-of-the-rehabilitation-of-venus/
LOCATION:East Bay Media Center\, 1939 Addison St\,\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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