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:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171008T213000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170828T114027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114027Z UID:28603-1507201200-1507498200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos DESCRIPTION:Join Irish and local authors for 4 days of poetry and fiction readings\, writing workshops\, panel discussions\, exhibitions and performances at various venues in Los Gatos California. URL:https://litseen.com/event/irish-writers-festival-los-gatos/ LOCATION:Los Gatos CA\, Los Gatos\, California\, CA\, 95030 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Culture Bay Area":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170828T114306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114306Z UID:28619-1507381200-1507388400@litseen.com SUMMARY:New Irish Poetry: Daring Us to Act DESCRIPTION:Representing a new generation of voices in Irish literature\, meet Stephen Connolly\, Stephen Sexton\, Caroline Bracken\, Simon Lewis and Kathy D’Arcy. St. Mary’s College professor Raina Leon moderates the session\, helping us examine how a writer’s work reflects the dynamic and diasporic experiences of nostalgia\, resistance\, and home connectedness\, through language that defies erasure of self\, and dares us all to act. \nStephen Connolly is a Belfast-based poet and a postgraduate student at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University.\nSimon Lewis’s Hennessy Award-winning poetry collection\, “Jewtown\,” chronicles the experiences of  Jewish settlers in Cork.\nBelfast native Stephen Sexton’s poem “The Curfew” recently scooped the UK National Poetry Society Competition Award.\nCaroline Bracken’s poems have been published in The Irish Times\, Hennessy New Irish Writing among several other publications.\nRaina Leon’s fellowships and residencies have included Cave Canem and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. She is Associate Professor of Education at St. Mary’s College of California. URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-irish-poetry-daring-us-to-act/ LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170915T015518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T015518Z UID:28747-1507383000-1507388400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Filipino American Literary Readings DESCRIPTION:There are three Filipino American Literary Readings at the Filipino American International Book Festival\, which will be held at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, Civic Center\, SF\, CA 94102. \nFirst reading is on October 7 at 1:30-3 p.m.; \nSecond one at  4:20- 5:30 p.m.; \nThird reading on 8 at 1:45-3:05 p.m. URL:https://litseen.com/event/filipino-american-literary-readings/ LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170902T053107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T053107Z UID:28706-1507384800-1507388400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Sim Warkov DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading\, interview\, and Q&A when Sim Warkov visits Claremont. Sim was born in Chicago\, raised in Manitoba\, and educated in New York and Connecticut. Warkov has four books of poetry\, a new one out this year\, Island Dreams (with Margaretta K. Mitchell)\, and three earlier books\, Reaching\, Thin Soils\, and Grandchildren. Host: Glenn Ingersoll URL:https://litseen.com/event/sim-warkov/ LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170816T001033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001033Z UID:28309-1507388400-1507395600@litseen.com SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂 URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-2/ LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170828T114342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114342Z UID:28623-1507388400-1507395600@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Long-Winded Lady: Maeve Brennan\, Forgotten Irish Writer DESCRIPTION:Sinéad Gleeson and Robert West discuss the life and work of Irish writer and journalist\, Maeve Brennan. Born in Dublin in 1917\, Brennan moved to the U.S. with her family in 1934. She worked at Harper’s Bazaar\, and in the 1950s and 1960s at The New Yorker where she wrote under the pseudonym “The Long-Winded Lady.” Brennan’s short stories and New Yorker collections have been unearthed in recent years\, with 2017 editions published by The Stinging Fly in Ireland. \n“Brennan is\, for a new generation of Irish women writers\, a casualty of old wars not yet won.” – Anne Enright URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-long-winded-lady-maeve-brennan-forgotten-irish-writer/ LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170817T044740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T044740Z UID:28404-1507395600-1507399200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Paradigm Lost at Adobe Books DESCRIPTION:Paradigm Lost is a collection of radical verse & visuals for the shift. A book that seeks to manufacture dissent through collaborative art and poetry. \nPoet and creative activist Eleanor Goldfield will perform a few pieces from the book as well as discuss the role of art in movements. \nBooks will be for sale and available for signing. \nFor more information on the book\, please visit artkillingapathy.com URL:https://litseen.com/event/paradigm-lost-at-adobe-books/ LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T203000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20171007T014749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014749Z UID:29047-1507402800-1507408200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poet\, Musician Improvise Against Racism + Mass Incarceration DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin in collaboration with drummer/composer and writer Marshall Trammell\, of the duo Black Spirituals\, appear in a first-time improvised duo performance at The Green Arcade. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center at SF State. Tongo Eisen-Martin\, a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States\, has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African- American Studies at Columbia University. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self- determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is the latest from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series. Marshall R. Trammell is the founder and Chief Investigator of Music Research Strategies\, an interdisciplinary artist performing-ethnomusicology\, political education\, and social engagement platform working with video\, sound\, music\, text\, geography\, and data collection environments. Trammell’s work combines re- imaginings of ‘narratives of fugitivity\,’ tactical media and solidarity economics of the Underground Railroad for today’s political landscape. Trammell is the percussionist in Black Spirituals\, an interdisciplinary\, electro-acoustic artist collective. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-musician-improvise-against-racism-mass-incarceration/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T213000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170621T233458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233458Z UID:27576-1507404600-1507411800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Cisper\, Cole\, + Lin DESCRIPTION:Mary Cisper\, Norma Cole and Jane Lin read from their latest poetry collections. URL:https://litseen.com/event/cisper-cole-lin/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T210000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T223000 DTSTAMP:20260501T154229 CREATED:20170828T115141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T115141Z UID:28663-1507410000-1507415400@litseen.com SUMMARY:David Nihill: “A Mother\, A Son\, A City” DESCRIPTION:At the heart of many an Irish story is an Irish mammy-usually doing something pretty entertaining. Join us for an evening of comedic storytelling with David Nihill\, one of the funniest storytellers around\, who actually had an Irish mammy. This show is not to be missed! \nBorn and raised in Dublin\, David is a bestselling author\, whose work has been featured on NPR\, and in the Huffington Post\, Forbes\, and The Irish Times. He was recently part of the Irish Kings of Comedy Tour\, San Francisco Sketchfest\, the Ventura Comedy Festival and the Kansas City Irish Festival. A multiple Moth Storyslam winner\, Grandslam finalist and occasional host\, David has also told tales at Porchlight\, The Naked Truth\, The Marsh\, Fireside and LitQuake. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-nihill-a-mother-a-son-a-city/ LOCATION:C. B. Hannegan’s\, 208 Bachman Ave\, Los Gatos CA\, 95030 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR