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SUMMARY:Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)
DESCRIPTION:Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O’Neal and Janae Johnson. \nEvery Wednesday | March 20th – May 22\n5:00pm – 7:00pm\nat Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin St\, Oakland\, CA 94607 (near 19th Street BART) \nThis LGBTQIA+ centered workshop will explore personal and historical narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language\, sexuality & gender. Participants will be encouraged to write\, learn performance techniques\, and create the dopest space imaginable. \nSign-Up: https://goo.gl/forms/OWMXtikx5RvHzBnB3 \n**First time and/or experienced writers are encouraged to attend. This is intended to be a space where your authentic self is not only welcomed- it’s celebrated.** \nNote: This is a FREE youth-centered (13-19 years old) Workshop\, and anyone can join! 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queeriosity-writing-performance-workshop-youth-centered/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:James Sturm
DESCRIPTION:James Sturm discusses his new graphic novel Off Season. \n\nPraise for Off Season \n“James Sturm’s Off Season is a big-hearted meditation on the shifting sands of family and manhood in our uneasy era—I swallowed this book whole and I’ll be pressing it on anyone who asks me for a great read this year.”—Emily Bazelon\, Cohost of Political Gabfest \n“A haunting examination of the inner life of men in the age of Trump. Off Season is the kind of novel we need in this moment\, forcing us to confront the personal despair at the heart of our national destiny. I was mesmerized by every image\, every word.”—Steve Almond\, Chost of Dear Sugars and author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country \n“Mr. Sturm knows when to let the images speak for themselves.” —New York Times \n“James Sturm’s graphic narratives are strongly grounded in American history\, drawing upon this history to tell fictional stories with ongoing relevance.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Sturm’s… words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale\, the fable.” —NPR \n\nAbout Off Season \nRage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see\, taste\, and feel. \nHow could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season\, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton\, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump\, and the disorienting months that followed. \nWe see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in from the car\, Christmas-morning anticipation\, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum—and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief\, rage\, loss\, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation\, Off Season is unaffected and raw\, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. \nA truly human experience\, Off Season displays Sturm’s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate\, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless\, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sturm/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Cory Doctorow / Radicalized
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and co-editor of BoingBoing Cory Doctorow for his new book Radicalized\, a collection of four new\, urgent sci-fi novellas of America’s present and future from one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nConnected by social\, technological\, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near\, near future\, the stories are: \n“Unauthorized Bread” is a tale of immigration\, the toxicity of economic and technological stratification\, and the young and downtrodden fighting against all odds to survive and prosper. \nIn “Model Minority”\, a Superman-like figure attempts to rectifiy the corruption of the police forces he long erroneously thought protected the defenseless…only to find his efforts adversely affecting their victims. \n“Radicalized” is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife’s terminal cancer. \nThe fourth story\, “Masque of the Red Death”\, harkens back to Doctorow’s Walkaway\, taking on issues of survivalism versus community. \n— \nPraise for Walkaway \n“Is Doctorow’s fictional utopia bravely idealistic or bitterly ironic? The answer is in our own hands. A dystopian future is in no way inevitable; Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless\, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control\, we’re going to have to fight for it.”  — Edward Snowden \n“The darker the hour\, the better the moment for a rigorously-imagined utopian fiction. Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle. A wonderful novel: everything we’ve come to expect from Cory Doctorow and more.” — William Gibson \n“The Bhagavad Gita of hacker/maker/burner/open source/git/gnu/wiki/99%/adjunctfaculty/Anonymous/shareware/thingiverse/cypherpunk/LGTBQIA*/squatter/upcycling culture…zipped it down into a pretty damned tight techno-thriller with a lot of sex in it.” — Neal Stephenson \n— \nCanadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Little Brother\, and the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. His other YA novels include Pirate Cinema andHomeland (2013)\, the sequel to Little Brother. His adult novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has been named one of the Webs twenty-five influencers by Forbes Magazine and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. \n  \nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Radicalized\, and/or any of Cory’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-cory-doctorow-radicalized/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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