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SUMMARY:The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project
DESCRIPTION:Join the Tenderloin Museum for the opening reception of our Matchbook Map Exhibit\, featuring a searchable\, interactive touchscreen map that connects matchbook imagery to historical info on the associated business and address\, and links to information about the present day site. We’ll be presenting this new permanent exhibit in conjunction with a temporary exhibit\, the Tenderloin Ephemera Exhibition\, featuring historical Tenderloin ephemera from the 1920’s-1950’s — including bar signs\, glassware\, postcards\, menus\, matchbooks et al. These small\, seemingly ordinary mementos beautifully encapsulate the Tenderloin’s colorful\, vibrant past. Join us and travel back in time through the neighborhood’s material culture. \n— \nThis event is part of The Tenderloin Match Book: Historical Ephemera Project a multi-faceted project that also encompasses the publication of The Match Book: Vintage Matchbooks from San Francisco’s Tenderloin\, an artfully designed history book of the Tenderloin featuring the matchbooks of local businesses and cultural institutions. \nThrough the everyday act of picking up a matchbook and striking a match\, one is transported to another place and time; the past is remembered through a pedestrian interaction with a tangible object. Matchbooks are emblems of local culture: accessible\, utilitarian ephemera that functioned as the chosen form of advertising for small businesses in an era before plastic lighters and health concerns about smoking. These ritual objects exist at a fascinating intersection of material culture\, local history\, and design art; matchbooks (and other local business ephemera) are striking populist artifacts that serve as portals to places and people in a neighborhood’s past. The Tenderloin Match Book: Historical Ephemera Project presents an illuminating new perspective on the Tenderloin’s often overlooked history\, enriches the detail and depth of the neighborhood’s narrative\, and encourages the Tenderloin community’s historical imagination. \nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-match-book-tenderloin-historical-ephemera-project/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Circle @BPL Claremont
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Circle at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library features you and what you like. Come with a favorite poem — or find one here! If you write poetry\, share one of your own\, too. We will be taking turns in a reading circle. Listeners welcome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-circle-bpl-claremont/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190110T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-22/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:NYMBC Presents KIERSTEN WHITE & ADRIENNE YOUNG at Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club presents New York Times-bestselling author Kiersten White in celebration of Slayer–book one in her brand-new series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kiersten will be in conversation with Adrienne Young\, author of the much-buzzed debut fantasy Sky in the Deep. \n\nAbout Slayer: Into every generation a Slayer is born…\nNina and her twin sister\, Artemis\, are far from normal. It’s hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher’s Academy\, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers–girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Nina’s mother is a prominent member of the Watcher’s Council\, Nina has never embraced the violent Watcher lifestyle. Instead she follows her instincts to heal\, carving out a place for herself as the school medic.\nUntil the day Nina’s life changes forever.\nThanks to Buffy\, the famous (and infamous) Slayer that Nina’s father died protecting\, Nina is not only the newest Chosen One–she’s the last Slayer\, ever. Period.\nAs Nina hones her skills with her Watcher-in-training\, Leo\, there’s plenty to keep her occupied: a monster fighting ring\, a demon who eats happiness\, a shadowy figure that keeps popping up in Nina’s dreams…\nBut it’s not until bodies start turning up that Nina’s new powers will truly be tested–because someone she loves might be next.\nOne thing is clear: Being Chosen is easy. Making choices is hard.\n\nAbout Sky in the Deep: A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman\, part Vikings–and all heart.\nOND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.\nRaised to be a warrior\, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient\, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield–her brother\, fighting with the enemy–the brother she watched die five years ago.\nFaced with her brother’s betrayal\, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki\, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy\, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend\, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family.\nShe is given no choice but to trust Fiske\, her brother’s friend\, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together\, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske\, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nymbc-presents-kiersten-white-adrienne-young-at-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:ALISON HART at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Renowned local poet and writer Alison Hart shares her stunning work of literary fiction\, Mostly White. This special event will include a Reader’s Theater performance featuring Alison Hart\, Lady H a.k.a. Haninah Abdullah\, Cynthia Onetta Toliver\, Robert Fisher\, Gloria Fisher\, and Keith Grier. \nA family saga: four generations of mixed-race African American\, Native American\, and Irish women experience intergenerational trauma as well as the healing brought by nature and music\, leading to triumphant resilience. \nMostly White begins in 1890 when Emma\, a mixed-race Native American and African American girl\, is beaten by nuns and confined in a closet for speaking her language at an Indian Residential school in Maine. From there\, a tale that spans four generations of women unfolds. Emma’s descendants suffer the effects of trauma\, poverty\, and abuse while fighting to form their own identities and honor the call of their ancestors. \n\nAlison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American\, Passamaquoddy Native American\, Irish\, Scottish\, and English woman of color. Her poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015\, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2016) and elsewhere. Hart lives in Alameda\, California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 10\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alison-hart-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paul Skenazy\, Temper CA
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, JANUARY 10\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have ADA accommodation requests for this event\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 8th. \nJoy Temper grew up wandering the woods of Temper\, CA\, a Gold Rush town her family helped establish in the 1840s. When she returns to Temper for her grandfather’s funeral\, she discovers that the stories she’s long traded on about her hippie upbringing have little to do with reality. Her struggles to face who she once was\, and what she now desires\, force her to confront family secrets and long-suppressed memories in a novella both familial and romantic\, contemporary and historical. \n“Paul Skenazy’s fiction misbehaves. It swerves\, it revisits ground and digs deeper\, it confounds expectations. He has the gift of creating characters who are sympathetic not in spite of their prickliness but because of it\, and of depicting human bonds that are all the tenser for being so strong.”—Jonathan Franzen \n“This elegant and unforgettable novella pulls us into the secrets and desires of Joy Temper\, a woman carrying the weight of her family and a fair share of California history on her shoulders. Skenazy reminds us that our deepest wounds often make us most receptive and alive.”—Elizabeth McKenzie \n“This is a beautiful and fascinating book\, a skillfully constructed and dramatic story about hatred and profound affection within a difficult family. It’s a mystery tale about redefining a childhood and rediscovering many aspects of love. I was moved deeply throughout\, and consider Temper CA a small\, truly insightful and courageous masterpiece.”—John Nichols \nPaul Skenazy grew up in Chicago\, studied at the University of Chicago and Stanford\, and taught at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He has published essays\, stories\, and reviews in a range of newspapers and magazines\, as well as critical work on James M. Cain and other noir writers. He lives in Santa Cruz with the poet Farnaz Fatemi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-skenazy-temper-ca/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Thomas Kohnstamm: Lake City
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers welcomes Thomas Kohnstamm to discuss his new new book Lake City. He will be in conversation with Broke-Ass Stuart Schuffman. The novel’s setting is Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood during the 2001 holiday season. In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy and at the peak of Seattle’s first wave of tech-boom gentrification–a wave that never quite made it to his neighborhood–Lane Beuche schemes how to win back his wife (and her trust fund). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-kohnstamm-lake-city/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents a Special Celebration: WTAW 9th Anniversary!
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on January 10\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration: Our 9th anniversary! A spectacular line up of authors will help us ring in the new year and kick off another year of Why There Are Words: Nisha Batsha\, Jack Boulware\, Lydia Kiesling\, Dickson Lam\, Huda Al-Marashi\, Caille Millner Nayomi Munaweera\, and Jeremy Vasquez. \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nNishant Batsha‘s fiction and essays have been published in TriQuarterly\, The Offing\, and The Caribbean Review of Books\, among others. He is currently revising his novel trilogy. www.nishantbatsha.com \n  \nJack Boulware is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, journalist\, and author of three books\, including the Bay Area punk oral history Gimme Something Better (Penguin Books\, 2009). He is a co-founder and Executive Director of San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival. www.jackboulware.com \n  \nLydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State (MCD\, September 2018)\, which was longlisted for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. She is the editor of The Millions and her writing has appeared at outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, and Slate. www.lydiakiesling.com \n  \nDickson Lam is the author of Paper Sons: A Memoir (Autumn House Press\, March 2018). His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, The Kenyon Review Online\, The Rumpus\, and others. He is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College. dicksonlam.net \n  \nHuda Al-Marashi is the Iraqi-American author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story (Prometheus Books\, November 2018). Other writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, the LA Times\, al Jazeera\, and elsewhere. www.hudaalmarashi.com. \n  \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification (Penguin Press\, 2008). Her fiction has been published in Zyzzyva\, Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories. Her essays have been well published and listed in Best American Essays. She is a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. www.caillemillner.com \n  \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel\, Island of a Thousand Mirrors (St. Martin’s Press\, 2014)\, won multiple awards and was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. Munaweera’s award-winning second novel\, What Lies Between Us\, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016. She has work forthcoming in the Anthology\, What I Don’t Talk About With My Mother\, (Simon and Schuster\, 2019). \nJeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, activist and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist he has performed at many community events and correctional facilities. With his latest published book\, Unshackled\, he has been called to free people through story-telling and vulnerability. www.jeremymichaelvasquez.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S..The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, www.wtawpress.org. For more information visit www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-a-special-celebration-wtaw-9th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Raise the Bay: In Her Voice
DESCRIPTION:Speak Your Truth presents its fourth event\, “Raise the Bay: In Her Voice” on January 10\, 2019. Raise the Bay will highlight female-identifying singer/songwriters and spoken word artists in the Bay Area. \nAll of the proceeds from this event (and all of our Speak Your Truth events) directly benefit our education programming\, which aims to diversify the next generation of music industry professionals. \nSpeak Your Truth takes place every other month on our Tier One stage (the top tier of The UC Theatre)\, a 250 capacity nightclub space that provides a platform for emerging local artists to share their talents on stage. For more information\, or to donate directly to the Speak Your Truth event series\, please visit this page. \n$10.00. \nPresented by The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raise-the-bay-in-her-voice/
LOCATION:The UC Theatre Taub Family Music Hall\, 2036 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:ANGELA Y. DAVIS & IBRAM X. KENDI
DESCRIPTION:ANGELA Y. DAVIS & IBRAM X. KENDI\nIn Conversation with Jeff Chang\nThursday\, January 10\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nA teacher\, writer\, scholar\, and activist\, Angela Y. Davis first received national attention in 1969\, after being removed from her teaching position at UCLA for her social activism and membership to the Communist Party. In 1970\, she was placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” on false charges\, which culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. During her sixteen-month incarceration\, a massive international “Free Angela Davis” campaign was organized\, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance\, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison-industrial complex\, and the author of books including Freedom is a Constant Struggle and Women\, Race & Class. \nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s next book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, will be published in 2019. \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, music critic\, and the author of Who We Be\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\, and We Gon’ Be Alright. He is the former Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and currently serves as Vice President of Narrative\, Arts\, and Culture at Race Forward.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/angela-y-davis-ibram-x-kendi/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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