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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:Lynn Breedlove
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \n45 Thought Crimes \nfrom Manic D Press \n45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver’s seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years\, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the political climate to focus on his own self destruction. When that didn’t work\, he got sober and committed his life to art. After publishing his first two books and spending a career on tour\, life took an unexpected turn. Breedlove spent the next decade caring and grieving for his mother\, and founding / running a nonprofit to serve his LGBT community. But when the world threatens to end\, the only moment that matters becomes now. Breedlove began writing this book the morning after the 2016 election\, at the dawn of the coup. Newly in love and acutely aware of what was at stake\, he questioned and confirmed life lessons learned\, with Prince\, Bowie\, Leonard Cohen\, and his ancestors as muses. \nLynn “Lynnee” Breedlove is the author of the novel Godspeed\, was the singer for the band Tribe 8\, and was the writer/performer of Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show\, a comic solo show on gender and the ensuing book\, which won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the transgender category. He is the entrepreneurial founder of Homobiles\, the indie non-profit startup that’s a ride service for the LGBTIQQ community and its allies\, which\, along with his creative work\, won him the 2012 Harvey Milk LGBT Club Award for Activism. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynn-breedlove/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:April in Paris: Springtime in Blossom
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: James Cagney\, Sara McAulay\, George Korolog\, Lucille Lang Day. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-in-paris-springtime-in-blossom/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:RACHEL KLEINFELD at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rachel Kleinfeld discusses her comprehensive work\, A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. \nThe most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs\, organized crime\, political conflict\, corruption\, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless\, yet some places–from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia–have been able to recover. \nIn this powerfully argued and urgent book\, Rachel Kleinfeld examines why some democracies\, including our own\, are crippled by extreme violence and how they can regain security. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research–interviewing generals\, former guerrillas\, activists\, politicians\, mobsters\, and law enforcement in countries around the world–Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens. \nTaking on existing literature and popular theories about war\, crime\, and foreign intervention\, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones\, and a blueprint for what we can do to help. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 3\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kleinfeld-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MARGARET DUMAS at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Local author Margaret Dumas shares the first book in her humorous mystery series\, Murder at the Palace: Movie Palace Mystery #1. \nWelcome to the Palace movie theater! Now Showing: Philandering husbands\, ghostly sidekicks\, and a murder or two. \nWhen Nora Paige’s movie-star husband leaves her for his latest co-star\, she flees Hollywood to take refuge in San Francisco at the Palace\, a historic movie theater that shows the classic films she loves. There she finds a band of misfit film buffs who care about movies (almost) as much as she does. \nShe also finds some shady financial dealings and the body of a murdered stranger. \nOh\, and then there’s Trixie\, the lively ghost of a 1930’s usherette who appears only to Nora and has a lot to catch up on. With the help of her new ghostly friend\, can Nora catch the killer before there’s another murder at the Palace? \n– – – – – – – – – – – – – \nMURDER AT THE PALACE by Margaret Dumas A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one\, you’ll probably like them all. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 3\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-dumas-at-books-inc-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:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:A star at the heart of our literary constellations for decades\, from the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to McSweeney’s\, Dave Eggers returns to Kepler’s for the release of his latest fiction work\, The Parade. \nEggers is a staunch supporter of independent bookstores\, the founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia in San Francisco\, and a writer who consistently champions humanist ideals through empathetic literature. His characters– deeply realized\, flawed\, and driven by extremes– offer readers moral complexity alongside careful critique into modernity. Distinct\, meaningful\, enjoyable… Eggers is\, in short\, the perfect read\, noted for his postmodern and deeply sincere approach. \nJoin us on April 3rd to hear Dave Eggers speak about a powerful piece of new writing. \nThe Parade has already garnered positive reviews for its tight\, beautiful prose: a spare portrait of two very different men attempting to lay a roadway in an unnamed country long rent by civil war\, it uses specific characters in ambiguous yet familiar settings to highlight present-day concerns. For this style\, Kirkus describes Eggers as “the only living American writer for whom the term Hemingway-esque meaningfully applies.” \nHow often do we have the opportunity to hear the living embodiment of future western canon\, in person? \nAt least once\, on April 3rd at Kepler’s Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 3\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 3\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank: The Long Honduran Night in the Aftermath of the Coup
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church present: \nDANA FRANK\n“The Long Honduran Night: Resistance\, Terror\, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup” \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nAs the United States continues to tear-gas and imprison asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border\, we wonder why so many Hondurans are fleeing their homeland\, now one of the most violent countries in the world due to a devastating drug war and a political crisis stemming largely from a U.S.-backed coup. Dana Frank’s powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya overthrown in 2009. Told through first-person experiences layered with deeper political analysis\, this narrative weaves together two perspectives; first\, the broad picture of Honduras since the coup\, including the coup itself and its continuation in two repressive regimes; secondly\, the evolving Honduran resistance movement\, plus an emerging solidarity movement in the United States. \nWhile full of disturbing incidents\, this narrative directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless sobbing mothers cry over bodies in the morgue. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges and the inspiring collective strength with which people can face them. \nDana Frank\, Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, is the author of Baneras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, The Baffler\, Los Angeles Times\, Miami Herald\, and many others\, and she has testified before both the US Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nDiana Martinez is KPFA’s senior producer for Letters and Politics. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-the-long-honduran-night-in-the-aftermath-of-the-coup/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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