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SUMMARY:4th Annual Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Tens of thousands of book lovers meet hundreds of acclaimed authors over an exciting weekend in downtown Berkeley\, California. \nWhether you’re a fan of science fiction or history\, of fiction or memoir\, of poetry or food writing\, of children’s literature or science\, come experience one of the best book festivals on the planet! \nThe Bay Area is teeming with readers\, writers\, creators\, and thinkers. We have harnessed the power of this community to create a premier literary experience. The Festival is a two-day event complete with sessions presenting top authors from this region\, the nation\, and the world\, along with an outdoor fair with hundreds of literary exhibitors. We also offer art installations\, events for kids\, and writing contests. We even have a mini film festival — a series of ten films on literature — with BAMPFA. We transform vibrant Downtown Berkeley into a literary utopia where readers of all ages and interests can find kindred spirits. \nHighlight reel from last year’s festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6hkT9R8cY
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LOCATION:Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Book Festival-one of the world’s premier celebrations of writers\, readers and the written word-will take place April 28 and 29 in downtown Berkeley. Nearly 500 authors and exhibitors-from the Bay Area\, nation and world and from across the spectrum of genres\, traditions and inspirations-will come together with tens of thousands of book enthusiasts for the fourth annual two-day celebration featuring presentations\, panels\, keynotes\, films\, performances\, participatory activities\, exhibits and a lively outdoor fair. \nThe literary program will satisfy fans across many interests\, from science fiction\, history\, mysteries\, memoir\, poetry\, food writing\, children’s literature and more\, with special tracks this year on women\, Native storytelling and youth literature-all within overall themes of the power of books to create a better world. Literary sessions take place in venues throughout the downtown area and on outdoor stages.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-book-festival/
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Playing Hamlet Roulette: EXIT Press spotlight and Mark Jackson book release party
DESCRIPTION:Join EXIT Theatre’s publishing arm EXIT Press to celebrate our eighth year\, and the recent publication of our 24th book\, Mark Jackson’s Playing Hamlet Roulette: Failure\, Expectation\, Possibility & Democracy! \nJust over two years ago\, Shotgun Players company member and EXIT Theatre alumnus\, Mark Jackson\, undertook one of the biggest challenges of his career: staging a production of Hamlet\, at the Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage\, in which every performer drew their role from Yorick’s skull five minutes before showtime\, their lines and character for that evening’s performance determined by chance—and months of rigorous rehearsal preceding the run. At the end of 2017\, Jackson\, a four-time author with EXIT Press\, published an investigation and summary of the project\, and the themes that emerged from its creation: failure\, expectation\, possibility\, and democracy. \nWe’ll be celebrating with a reading by Jackson\, and a panel discussion/open conversation with performers from Jackson’s hit experiment\, Hamlet Roulette\, as they discuss the creative roles that failure\, expectation\, possibility\, and democracy played in relation to creating the work that brought them together\, the willingness to embrace them as part of the creative process\, and the implications of artistic risk. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, no reservations required. Jackson’s books\, and our other EXIT Press titles\, will be available for purchase.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/playing-hamlet-roulette-exit-press-spotlight-and-mark-jackson-book-release-party/
LOCATION:EXIT Theatre\, 156 Eddy Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Georgeanne Brennan at Mrs. Dalloway's
DESCRIPTION:Join James Beard Award winner Georgeanne Brennan as she reads from her newest book\, Windows on Provence: Musings on the Food\, Wine\, and Culture of the South of France. \nGeorgeanne Brennan evocatively renders an insider’s knowledge of Provence’s villages and their ancient customs and traditions. Through rich essays\, each examining a unique facet of Provencal culture\, she shares her view of the southern region of the country. Brennan’s engaging text\, together with alluring photographs\, takes the reader on an unforgettable tour\, from the sun-drenched Cote d’Azur to the craggy mountains of Haute Provence; to lavender\, poppy and wheat fields; through markets full of richly-hued fabrics\, antiques and seasonal specialties; to harbors filled with fishermen selling the morning’s catch; over hills covered in vines; and into centuries-old buildings and castle ruins\, all brought to life through the author’s eyes. \nGeorgeanne will be reading from Windows on Provence\, signing\, and answering questions; enjoy wine and snacks and be whisked away for a Provençal afternoon. \nCall (510) 704-8222 to reserve your seat and purchase a copy of Windows on Provence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/georgeanne-brennan-at-mrs-dalloways/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Knots of Wonder: Masatsugu Ono at the Bay Area Book Fest
DESCRIPTION:Masatsugu Ono\, winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize\, will be at the Bay Area Book Festival to discuss his novel\, Lion Cross Point\, coming this spring from Two Lines Press. Get tickets. \n\nKnots of Wonder: Stunning Short Fiction with Gunnhild Oyehaug\, David Hayden\, Masatsugu Ono \nShort stories and novellas are like knots: compact on the surface\, but containing intricately woven ideas that\, when unraveled\, point to something much larger. How do writers do it? These three authors are world-class exemplars of the form: Norwegian short story writer Gunnhild Oyehaug\, who can “produce stabs of emotion\, unexpected ghost notes of feeling\, from pieces so short and offbeat that they seem at first like aborted arias” (in a profile of her by The New Yorker); Irish writer David Hayden\, whose short stories The Guardian calls “brilliantly disturbing and unclassifiable”; and\, coming to us from Japan\, Masatsugu Ono\, whose jewel-like novella mixes the surreal with the profound in a story of a shy\, traumatized boy overcoming the shame\, anger\, and sadness that silence him. \nSponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation\, with additional support from the Norway House Foundation\, NORLA – Norwegian Literature Abroad\, Culture Ireland\, and Transit Books. \nGet tickets
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LOCATION:Hotel Shattuck Plaza\, 2086 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Betty Reid Soskin: Sign My Name to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Author Betty Reid Soskin shares insights about her memoir\, Sign My Name To Freedom\, as part of Independent Bookstore Day and the Bay Area Book Festival at Pegasus Books Downtown. \nFree to attend. Seating is on a first-come basis. \nBetty Reid Soskin has been a home-front war-years worker\, a singer-songwriter and performer\, a writer\, a legislative aide\, a National Parks ranger\, a national icon\, and an honest and tireless fighter\, both against discrimination of all forms and for the growth and triumph of the human spirit and values that would benefit us all. In her blog\, CBreaux Speaks at cbreaux.blogspot.com\, she writes\, “Life has never been richer\, nor more abundantly lyrical\,” and “I’ve grown into someone I’d like to know—were I not me already!” \nBlending together selections from many of Betty’s hundreds of blog entries with interviews\, letters\, and speeches collected throughout her long life\, Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself\, the nation\, or the world with fresh eyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betty-reid-soskin-sign-my-name-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Almost Butterflies Reading by Sarah C. Jimenez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of bringing characters to life! Sarah C. Jiménez’s young adult novel\, Almost Butterflies\, follows the lives of three teenage cousins on the precipice of adulthood when they unexpectedly find themselves pregnant. \n  \nArtist bio: Sarah C. Jiménez is a queer Latinx writer obsessed with the glory and growing pains of adolescence. Originally from Chula Vista\, San Diego’s border-town to Tijuana\, Jiménez’s work is deeply embedded with her bicultural identity\, like the accent from her pocha tongue. Jiménez received her MFA in Fiction & Creative Writing from Mills College in 2015\, and is a Lambda Literary alumna and returning writer-in-residence. She has been a featured writer at several events across the Bay Area\, and performed at countless open mics\, but credits her start with Galería de la Raza’s Lunada series. Currently\, she is a community college English instructor where her core values as a teacher and writer intersect; representation matters.\nReaders TBA.\nWe hope to see you there!\n  \nStigmatized by their family and community\, each opt for a different option—abortion\, adoption\, and motherhood—all while learning the most invaluable lesson of all: the importance of love and family. Join us for an intimate glimpse of this works-in-progress as three readers bring the characters to life with direct scenes and excerpts from the novel. This project is made possible through an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. \nArtist bio: Sarah C. Jiménez is a queer Latinx writer obsessed with the glory and growing pains of adolescence. Originally from Chula Vista\, San Diego’s border-town to Tijuana\, Jiménez’s work is deeply embedded with her bicultural identity\, like the accent from her pocha tongue. Jiménez received her MFA in Fiction & Creative Writing from Mills College in 2015\, and is a Lambda Literary alumna and returning writer-in-residence. She has been a featured writer at several events across the Bay Area\, and performed at countless open mics\, but credits her start with Galería de la Raza’s Lunada series. Currently\, she is a community college English instructor where her core values as a teacher and writer intersect; representation matters. \nReaders TBA. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/almost-butterflies-reading-by-sarah-c-jimenez/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release: The Edge of Fruitvale by Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Rohan DaCosta’s first full-length photography / poetry collection\, The Edge of Fruitvale! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by Mk Chavez\, Vernon Keeve III\, Nazelah Jamison\, Cyrus Armajani\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the star of the evening\, Rohan DaCosta. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-the-edge-of-fruitvale-by-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Dating
DESCRIPTION:Spring is in the air and other clichés\, and people are swiping right and left like crazy! Whether you’re single or coupled or thrupled up or “it’s complicated” you’ve got a sick or sexy or funny story to tell. And here at SNS\, we want it all! Tell us the truth; lie to us; sing to us; tell us a story; write a poem for us. Give us your DATING inspirations\, real or imagined\, past\, present\, or future. Best and worst. First or last. Hot or horrible. Let’s do this! \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur featured readers for April are Don Gonzales Filmmaker & Jan Steckel\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 28\, 2018\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 \nDonny Gonzalez is the result of what happens when you get fed cocaine while teething. Raised in the inbreeding Capitol of California\, Modesto aka Methdesto. A place where people have more tattoos than teeth\, and the line outside the methadone clinic looks like the line outside Walmart on Black Friday. Donny began writing poems to stay sane & as an alternative to murdering his neighbors. These neighbors would be the focal point of Don’s bizarro poetry. Don left Modesto in 2015 and is now a booth mopper at an all male peepshow in San Francisco. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-dating/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Spring Lecture Series: Madeleine Albright
DESCRIPTION:Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright closes the 2018 Spring Leadership Lecture Series at Dominican University of California on Saturday\, April 28\, at 8 p.m. \nThe series is presented by Dominican in partnership with Book Passage. \nAll lectures will be held in Dominican’s Angelico Concert Hall. Doors open one hour prior to the programs. Free parking is available in the Conlan Center parking lot at the intersection of Acacia and Grand avenues. \nAlbright returns to Dominican for the first time since 2013. Her new book\, “Fascism: A Warning\,” draws on the former Secretary of State’s experiences as a child growing up in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi and Communist regimes and how it presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice today since the Berlin Wall fell. \nIndividual event tickets are $40 and include an autographed copy of “Fascism: A Warning.” Tickets can be purchased by calling (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 or visiting bookpassage.com/dominican. Or follow this link:http://bit.ly/2qMUh7y \nThe speaker series\, a cooperative effort between Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage\, features some of the country’s leading figures from the worlds of business\, politics\, entertainment\, academia\, and literature. The series has entertained and educated thousands of Marin County and San Francisco Bay Area residents for the past 14 years. \nThe Institute for Leadership Studies’ Spring 2018 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean\, the oldest and largest privately-held wealth management firm in Marin County. Private Ocean’s commitment to community service has been a driving force behind its support of the lecture series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-lecture-series-madeleine-albright/
LOCATION:Angelico Hall\, Dominican University\, 20 Olive Ave\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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