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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:Eve Bunting\, Little Yellow Truck
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 17\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced children’s 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 and sitting areas are usually set up for open seating about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 15th. \nEver feel too small\, not adequate enough\, or worried about what role you play in an important task? Little Yellow Truck did too. As lumberyard owner Riley gears up for a busy day and a new project\, he assigns tasks to his many trucks. A dump truck\, a flatbed truck\, a concrete mixer\, and a little yellow truck all stand by ready to help. From hauling trash to pouring concrete\, one by one they are all assigned tasks\, except for Little Yellow Truck. Is there nothing he can do to help? \nThere’s no reason for Little Yellow Truck’s worry as Riley has just the right task and an important role at that! Written by acclaimed children’s author Eve Bunting\, this story reinforces the message that even the smallest helper can make a lasting impact and that sometimes waiting is the hardest part. Social emotional learning can be explored through this title because feelings of disappointment and uncertainty can lead to discovery—specifically Little Yellow’s  discovery of belonging. \n\nEve Bunting has written over 250 children’s books\, winning numerous awards and honors. One day\, as she was passing a builder’s yard\, she saw several large trucks—and one little yellow truck\, all by itself among the big guys. “I’m going to write a story about that little truck”\, she thought\, “and I’ll show that it’s important too.” Sometimes that is how story ideas originate. Her books include Ghost Cat and Mr. Goat’s Valentine. She lives in Pasadena\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eve-bunting-little-yellow-truck/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Chris Nealon / with Jessica Laser
DESCRIPTION:READINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-nealon-with-jessica-laser/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190417T190000
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SUMMARY:Oliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub
DESCRIPTION:City Lights inconjunction with the Goethe Institut and Verso Books present \nOliver Nachtwey in conversation with Adrian Daub \n \ndiscussing the subject of Oliver Nachtwey’s new book \nGermany’s Hidden Crisis:Social Decline in the Heart of Europe \nfrom Verso Books \nTranslated by Loren Balhorn and David Fernbach \nRecipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing. \n\nUpward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state\, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis\, bought their first homes\, and sent their children to university. Not so in today’s Federal Republic\, where the gears of the so-called “elevator society” have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday\, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in postwar German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result. He concludes that although the country has managed to muddle through thus far\, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system’s stability in the years to come. \n>visit this link to read an interview with Olver Natchwey< \nOliver Nachtwey is Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel\, and a fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. His research interests include labour and industrial sociology\, political sociology\, the comparative study of capitalism\, and social movements. \n\nAdrian Daub is Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University\, where he directs the Program in Feminist\, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is the author of Tristan’s Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art (2013)\, Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth Century Culture (2014) and (with Charles Kronengold) The James Bond Songs: Pop Anthems of Late Capitalism (2015). His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit in German\, and in n+1\, The New Republic and the Los Angeles Review of Books in English.” \nThe Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. They promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. They convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural\, social and political life in our nation. Their cultural and educational programs encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility. \n\n\nWhat has been said about Germany’s Hidden Crisis: \n“A true masterpiece. Focusing on the case of Germany—which has long been mispresented and misperceived as a paragon of economic success and political stability—Oliver Nachtwey offers a detailed account of the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Moving at the forefront of leading theories of political economy\, the book develops an empirically grounded synthetic perspective on ‘regressive modernity\,’ a concept of which much can be expected for future progress in the study of capitalist development.” \n– Wolfgang Streeck \n\n\n\n“A major critical review of Europe’s most important country\, its socio-economics\, its politics\, and its self-diagnoses.” \n– Göran Therborn \n\n\n“In this comprehensive sociological study\, the author assembles sobering news from Germany\, a country the elites of which routinely pride themselves of presiding over a stable\, prosperous\, and socially inclusive society. To which there is even some truth\, comparatively speaking. Yet capitalism thrives on credible promises and on hopes being redeemed. As elsewhere in the West\, German elites are increasingly distrusted and hopes frustrated\, giving rise to virulent fears and anxieties. As private and public debt\, near-stagnation and growing inequality shape gloomy perceptions\, a disjunction occurs between ongoing technical and economic modernization\, on the one hand\, and the notion of ‘progress’ that used to be associated with it. This is a condition for which Nachtwey coins the term ‘regressive modernity’. Among its characteristics are a decline of collective action and public goods production and the ‘de-institutionalization’ of social and economic conflict. Instead of anything resembling organized class struggle\, we see symptoms of diffuse and ‘anomic’ rebelliousness ranging from short-lived ‘occupy’-style mobilizations to the outbursts of rightist mobs. Nachtwey has written a lucid analysis highlighting the social causes of our current perplexities.” \n– Claus Offe \n\n\n“It needs at once sociological imagination\, an interpretive sense for statistics and explanatory sharpness to be able to decipher the anxious and conflict-laden atmosphere in a country that looks extremely well-ordered\, affluent and healthy from the outside. Oliver Nachtwey\, impressively combining these three talents\, has managed to prompt such a necessary change of perspective with regard to contemporary Germany: In his fascinating study he not only informs us about how downward mobility\, precariousness and polarization have grown over the last decades in Germany\, but also about how people suffering from these developments fight against the downgrading of their lives—be it by inventing new forms of protest\, be it by joining nationalist movements. A must to read for everyone interested in the dark side of the economic wealth of Western countries.” \n– Axel Honneth \n\n\n“Oliver Nachtwey has written an empirically grounded book of great topicality. He focuses on Germany\, but his analysis is of much wider relevance. Nachtwey reveals that the ‘elevator effect’\, which reduces the significance of social distinctions\, is finished. A ‘downward escalator effect’ now makes class disparities visible again. Growing insecurity\, increasing inequality and swelling precarianization lead to a renaissance of both left-wing revolts and right-wing authoritarianism.” \n– Marcel van der Linden \n\n\n“An insightful account of the crises threatening German stability.” \n–Morning Star
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oliver-nachtwey-in-conversation-with-adrian-daub/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro: The Future of Cannabis
DESCRIPTION:Cannabis is here to stay. While it’s still blacklisted by the federal government\, recreational marijuana is legal now in ten states\, Washington DC\, and the Northern Mariana Islands. And the market for CBD – the non-psychoactive pot ingredient touted for relief of stress\, epilepsy\, and countless other ills – is expected to hit 22 million dollars in three years. Meanwhile\, regulation of cannabis for both getting high and for medical treatment lags hopelessly behind its use. Who’s going to make the rules if the feds sit this one out? And with inroads made by major corporations into what had been a thriving underground market\, what becomes of the old mom and pop operations\, and the criminal cartels that capitalized on prohibition? \nKLF’s news and culture series This Is Now goes to pot for one night\, welcoming two experts to break this down for us:\nDavid Downs is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who covers cannabis policy and legalization. As the cannabis editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, he founded GreenState.com. Downs is the co-author of the new crop science book Marijuana Harvest (2017) by Ed Rosenthal and David Downs. He has guest lectured at Loyola Law School\, and UC Berkeley Extension\, and shared in a 2018 Scripps Howard Award for Breaking News for his “Wine Country Fires” reporting. \nDr. Danielle Ramo is Director of Research Operations at Hopelab\, where she oversees the design and implementation of research efforts across Hopelab’s projects. Danielle is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC San Francisco and a licensed psychologist. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Being Adept prevention intervention program (Beingadept.org)\, and regularly speaks to teens\, parents\, and school administrators throughout the Bay Area about adolescent substance abuse.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-the-future-of-cannabis/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 17\, 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 17\, 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-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pamela Nadell
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Nadell discusses her new book\, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today. \n\nAbout America’s Jewish Women \nWhat does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative\, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people–from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter\, poet Emma Lazarus\, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\, to scores of other activists\, workers\, wives\, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. \nThe twin threads binding these women together\, she argues\, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries\, fighting for suffrage\, trade unions\, civil rights\, and feminism\, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity\, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pamela-nadell/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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