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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories: Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted byMy Life\, My Stories and sponsored by Blurb Books! \n  \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of seniors in our community. We match a volunteer with one senior\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give seniors a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. \nWe’ll be feeling all the love this evening. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner\, we’re asking our senior speakers to tell a story about their love for family\, a partner\, the city of San Francisco… you name it! You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \n  \n\n6:00pm: Doors open\n6:30pm-8:00pm: Four unique seniors tell their stories and MLMS volunteers talk about their experience working with their author\n8:00pm-8:30pm: Q&A\n\n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. All ticket sales from the event will go directly to My Life\, My Stories to help more seniors preserve their legacy. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nDoors open at 5:30pm. Show starts at 6pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Trust\, Betrayal\, Cheetos
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a new monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a single prompt. (“Happy Endings” is a loooose directive for each writer to do with what they will.) A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and the panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Trust\, Betrayal\, Cheetos \nThis month’s participating writers: Jenny Xie\, TBDs\, and January’s winner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-trust-betrayal-cheetos/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer-sf/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:reading from here new novel \nHazards of Time Travel \npublished by Harper Collins \n\n\nAn ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society\, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates \n“Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”—but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel  is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-7/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join Sunnyvale-Cupertino Branch for an interesting panel discussion by “Sisters in Crime.” Refreshments will be served. Books will be available to purchase. Proceeds go to the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund. This year’s panel is: \nJoAnn Ainsworth who writes thrillers and suspense stories with a paranormal twist. \nNancy Tingley who has had extensive experience as a scholar of Asian art. \nDiana Chambers whose background includes an Asian importing business\, costume design and script writing in Hollywood. \nJudith Newton\, Professor Emerita in Gender\, Sexuality\, Women Studies at UC Davis. \nAndrew MacRae who writes “Cozy Noir” stories. \nDonation $15 to Legal Advocacy Fund. \nPresented by AAUW Sunnyvale-Cupertino.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sisters-in-crime/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church\, 728 Fremont Avenue\, Sunnyvale\, 94087
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. \n\nPraise for Wild Geese Sorrow \n“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet\, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced\, affecting\, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice to the Angel Island poets\, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”— David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace \n“Jeffrey Leong’s Wild Geese Sorrow is a marvelous translation of the wall poems written by Chinese held at Angel Island\, California\, from 1910-1940\, during their immigration review. His keenly nuanced translations follow the lineation of the original poems and juxtapose images that show their classical poetic lineage. Most importantly\, he humanizes each speaker by articulating the emotional pressure behind each poem. In a time of antiimmigrant sentiment\, this book is important reading for all Americans.”—Arthur Sze\, author of The Red-Shifting Web \n“This beautiful book is haunted by the sad and angry presence of nameless men who carved their feelings into Angel Island walls. Leong’s translations and sequencing\, footnotes\, and historical contextualization gift us with a glimpse into a world we might otherwise never know. Why did these men leave home? What were their thoughts about families and villages they left behind? How did they view their detention\, jailers\, and interrogators? Leong unveils the diversity of their personalities and social backgrounds. These poems are at the foundation of Asian American literature and are an essential contribution to American literary history.” — Elaine H. Kim\, Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\nAbout Wild Geese Sorrow \nWild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island by Jeffrey Thomas Leong is the first new translation in almost 40 years and takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by the Chinese immigrant detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate the detainee experience\, the poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, deportation. Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, so essential to our contemporary policy debates. \nWild Geese Sorrow presents Leong’s 20+ years of writing experience into a moving collection that offers readers: \n• 70 newly-translated Angel Island Chinese wall poems presented in the original Chinese characters and with their English translations on facing pages\n• Brief foreword by David Wojahn\, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet\, tying Angel Island poetry to the great World traditions of protest literature\n• A robust introduction contextualizing these poems with Chinese immigrant history at Angel Island\, classical T’ang poetry\, literary expressions of personal and political outrage\, and the difficulties of translation for the 21st century American reader\n• Extensive endnotes which provide essential cultural\, historical and linguistic context for the work\n• A small glossary of places\, names and terms\n• A full bibliography of resources on Chinese American immigrant history\, T’ang era poetry\, and the practice of literary translation\n• A complete finding list for the mostly untitled and anonymously-written poems\n• Chapter heading photographs of wall poems in situ\, historical events\, and physical site \n“But what purpose did these wall poems serve to their original authors? Given the basic education received by these new immigrants\, their act of writing poetry was transformational; by taking hardship and expressing it artistically\, they elevated it to the archetypal\,” says Leong. “An expression of personal feeling may be therapeutic in a Western sense\, but for these immigrants it was also communal\, literally on the walls of the barracks in which they were detained and for all their compatriots to see.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-leong-on-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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