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SUMMARY:8th Annual “I Got Bank!” Financial Literacy Contest
DESCRIPTION:ONEUNITED BANK ANNOUNCES 8TH ANNUAL “I GOT BANK” URBAN YOUTH FINANCIAL LITERACY CONTEST \nTen Middle School Age Children Are Eligible to Win $1\,000 for Essays or Art!\nOneUnited Bank\, the nation’s largest black-owned bank\, is proud to announce its 8th Annual “I Got Bank!” Financial Literacy Contest where ten children will win a $1\,000 savings account. The contest includes the best essays and the best art projects that represent the “I Got Bank!” theme. OneUnited Bank partners with BMe Community to celebrate #IAmBlackGenius and #MakeBlackHistory by showcasing financial literacy. \nStudents from across the country between the ages of 8 and 12 are encouraged to read a financial literacy book of their choosing\, and either write a 250-word essay or create an art project to show how they would apply what they learned from the book to their daily lives. Submissions must be emailed or postmarked by June 15\, 2018. The Bank will choose ten winners and award a $1\,000 OneUnited Bank savings account by August 31\, 2018. For more information\, please visit: www.oneunited.com/book.
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SUMMARY:FEEL 6 Bookstore (AT THE CRANEWAY PAVILION)
DESCRIPTION:We are really thrilled to be showcasing our books and a curated selection of others as part of the FEELS 6 shop! \nFEELS is a local Bay Area festival and showcase for radical imagination\, featuring live performances\, DJ sets\, and artwork from boundary-pushing creatives working in a wide variety of mediums. It is put together\, as always\, by our brilliant friends at Wine & Bowties\, and features a museum-style shop with a variety of merch from artists\, retailers\, presses\, and music labels. You might find us at the shop or just up at the Craneway Pavilion having a great time. You need tix in advance\, so get them now!
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LOCATION:The Craneway Pavillion\, 1414 Harbour Way S\, Richmond\, CA\, 94804\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning and Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the fourth annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! \nART: Curated by Modern Eden\nREADINGS: Curated by Quiet Lighning\nREACTIONS: Empowered by ArtSpan \nThis Artist Mixer showcases writers from Quiet Lightning as they share literary creations inspired by the artwork at Modern Eden. The audience will be equiped with sketch books and drawing materials from ArtSpan to react with drawings.\n\nPLUS MUSIC: A performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album is a mixtape of mixtapes. For music\, visuals\, and pre-orders: turkanddivis.com. \nDon’t forget snacks\, beverages\, and mingling with fellow artists! \nON DISAPLY ART MODERN EDEN GALLERY: \nBaby Mama: Portrait Invitational VI\, June 8–July 6\, 2018 \nModern Eden Gallery proudly presents the 6th edition of our portrait show. Baby Mama\, is inspired by medieval and renaissance religious depictions of the Madonna and Child. A hand-selected lineup of top contemporary figurative artists will bring this archetype into a modern context\, using present-day imagery and iconography to put a new twist on the classical icon\, and interpreting Madonna and Child through the modern lens. \nQUIET LIGHTNING READERS/WRITERS:\n> for author links: http://quietlightning.org/baby-mama/\n \n  \nLinda Norton: Linda is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome\, 2007) and The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a hybrid work of poetry and non-fiction and a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her second book\, Wite-Out (Love and Work)\, is scheduled for 2018-2019 publication. In 2014 Norton received a Creative Work Fund award and a Dickey Fellowship at SF State. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and other poets\, and have been exhibited at the Dock Arts Centre in Ireland.\n \n  \n \n\nThea Matthews: Born and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black and Mexican American awarded poet\, spoken word artist\, activist\, curator\, bruja\, revolutionary\, collaborator\, and researcher. She writes on the complexities of trauma\, grief\, resiliency\, and ultimately\, the triumph over trauma. Her work can be found in For Harriet’s Soar\, Rag Queen Periodical\, as well as SoundCloud\, YouTube\, and Ello. As a seasoned performer\, Thea frequents the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene; and has featured at literary festivals such as Beast Crawl Oakland\, Lit Crawl San Francisco; and reading series such as Paseo Artístico\, Lyrics & Dirges\, Nomadic Press’s First Fridays and Get Lit\, as well as performances hosted by Still Here San Francisco. Currently\, Thea is working on her first volume of poetry–– a thematic collection incorporating flower medicine and city life. She will be at the Berkeley Poetry Festival this upcoming September. \n  \n \nCarla Trujillo: Carla is the editor of two anthologies published by Third Woman Press\, Living Chicana Theory and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About\, winner of a Lambda Book Award & the Out/Write Vanguard Award. Her novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press 2003)\, won the Marmol prize focusing on human rights\, along with the Paterson Fiction Prize\, the Latino Literary Foundation Book Award\, Bronze Medal from Foreword Magazine\, Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Meyers Books Award\, and was a LAMBDA Book Award finalist. Her latest novel\, Faith and Fat Chances (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press 2015)\, was a finalist for the PEN-Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nChristine No: is a first-generation Korean American writer and filmmaker. She believes in the power of Radical Vulnerability and that Magic exists in all strange places. Christine is an advocate for ridding the stigma surrounding mental health; and creating education and dialogue in its place. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee [2015 & 2017] and Best of the Net 2017 nominee. Her work can be found in The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas and Alice\, Vagabond Lit\, The Brooklyn Quarterly\, and various anthologies. She is a cohort of the Winter Tangerine Workshop\, the Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab\, and sits on the board of Quiet Lightning\, a literary non-profit based in San Francisco. Christine is an Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus. \n  \n  \n  \n \nNatasha Dennerstein: Natasha was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and North American Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKim Shuck: Kim is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco; her books include the poetry collections Smuggling Cherokee and Sidewalk NDN and the book of poetic fiction Rabbit Stories; her heritage is Tsulagi\, Sauk\, Fox\, and Polish. She is the first Native American poet laureate of a major American city. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWith a musical performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 and June 16 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album — their second — is a mixtape of mixtapes. \n————————–—- \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Modern Eden Gallery: Modern Eden is located in San Francisco’s historic North Beach Neighborhood since June of 2010. The gallery features monthly exhibitions of established and emerging artists. The gallery’s contemporary aesthetic ranges from realism to surrealism with a strong focus on illustrative painting and representational sculpture. \nAbout Quiet Lightning: A literary nonprofit based in San Francisco\, QL created the literary mixtape and since December 2009 has produced 120 events featuring 1200 readings by 800 authors in 80 venues\, from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks. \nAbout ArtSpan Artist Mixers: ArtSpan produces Artist Mixer events throughout the year to give San Francisco artists a chance to meet\, mingle\, and make art with each other. Past events have included mixers at artist studios\, a Crochet Jam at a cafe\, a literary reading and sketchfest at a gallery\, a figure drawing session in the Dogpatch\, and much much more! All events are free and open to the public.
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LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange presents his debut novel\, THERE THERE (w/ R.O. Kwon)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome Tommy Orange to discuss his jaw-droppingly good debut novel\,There There on Friday\, June 15th at 7pm. Tommy will be in conversation with R. O. Kwon. \n“We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy\, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid–tied to the back of everything we’d been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead\, there will be screams and unbearable silences\, forever-silences\, and a kind of time-travel\, at the moment the gunshots start\, when we look around and see ourselves as we are\, in our regalia\, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We’ll go back to where we came from\, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable\, that we’ve been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people\, modern and relevant\, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.” \nJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle’s memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions–intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. \nFierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking–Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, dislocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. Her debut novel\, The Incendiaries\, is forthcoming this summer from Riverhead. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, June 15\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere There (Hardcover)\n\nBy Tommy Orange\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780525520375\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Knopf Publishing Group – June 5th\, 2018
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta Presents: Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books on 24th Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District\, June 15 at 7 pm to hear the poetry of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro–Mexican literary outsider to the extreme. Anti-establishment with a punk rocker attitude\, Mario Santiago has gone virtually untranslated into English until now with the publication of Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth. \nArturo Mantecón will read the translations contained in the new book (to be for sale at the bookstore).\nMaceo Montoya\, Chicano master artist\, and novelist will give a brief presentation on the 10 original paintings he created to serve as illustrations for the book.\nArturo Balderrama\, multi-talented musician\, will provide musical backup for the reading. \nAn open mic follows this once in a lifetime presentation and performance! Bring a poem and friend! \nCurated by René Vazquez and Marguerite Muñoz!\nJune 15\, 7 pm\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-presents-poetry-comes-out-of-my-mouth/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Arturo Mantecon will be reading from his new translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poetry. \nFeaturing artwork by Maceo Montoya.
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LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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