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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:Bawdy Storytelling's Folsom Street Fair AfterParty (9/29\, SF)
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 29th\, 2019 \nRemember: Games & Cocktails at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM – but we’ll party till Late! \nat the Re-bar Seattle\, 1114 Howell Street\, Seattle WA \nWant a sample? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Over-the-Top Folsom Street Fair Afterparty event includes: \n❤  Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O (& Sniff Test! & OKPervert!) & make new friends \n❤  Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action – Get yours in advance \n❤  Custom Cocktails like the C.B.T.\, the Ethical Slut\, Bawdy Got Me Laid & More! \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n\nPerformers to come – Stay Tuned \n\nAnd for One Night Only\,  join us for a rousing game(s) of \n❤ OKPervert – It’s like an Analog Craigslist Casual Encounters\, but everyone’s right there in the room with you #NoSpammers \n❤ Sniff Test – Bring your you-scented unmentionables and join us for a little pheromone dating. Man\, you smell GOOD \n❤ and Bang-O\, Bawdy’s trademarked way to make new friends and hear inspired stories from strangers \nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! This evening of stories features brand new bawdiness\, and recaps of winning stories. Our Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone\, cause this show is gonna SELL OUT. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s Original Sex and Storytelling series – a dozen years ago\, knowing that the world needed a place for people to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender.This multi-city live storytelling event (and Podcast!) welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-folsom-street-fair-afterparty-9-29-sf/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ANI DiFRANCO presents NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM
DESCRIPTION:ANI DiFRANCO presents NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\nTickets available now! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents an evening with pioneering DIY artist\, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco for her new memoir\, No Walls and the Recurring Dream\, in which she recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom\, combining personal expression\, the power of music\, feminism\, political activism\, storytelling\, philanthropy\, entrepreneurship\, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank\, honest\, passionate\, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman’s eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. \nAni’s coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence — from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station\, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals\, to releasing her first album at the age of 18\, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label\, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages\, as in life\, she never hesitates to challenge established rules and expectations\, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has impressed many and challenged more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist\, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams. \n—\nAni DiFranco is a Grammy-winning musical artist and feminist icon recognized for her poetry and songwriting which pierces social convention and challenges the status quo\, as well as for her social activism and political engagement. One of the first artists to create her own label in 1990\, she is the mother of the DIY movement and has sold over 5.5 million albums on her own Righteous Babe Records\, and recently released her twentieth studio album. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger\,” her music has embraced many genres and collaborators ranging from Bob Dylan to Chuck D to Prince. She lives in New Orleans. \n​\nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details: Ani will be pre-signing 300 books for us. The first 300 people with tickets will get a signed book. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ani-difranco-presents-no-walls-and-the-recurring-dream/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:All poetry is local\, specific to one place and one person\, writing into the universal void\, but join with us to celebrate National Poetry Month Monday\, April 29\, 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Neighborhood poets Helen Dannenberg and Jeff Kaliss/Writer are the featured readers\, but anyone who lives\, works\, or goes to school in Noe Valley is invited to share poetry they’ve written or a favorite poem by someone else for 5 minutes at a time at the open mic. Sign up by oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or at 6:45pm on the day. \nHere’s information on our featured poets:\nHelen Dannenberg has written with OWL (Older Writers Lab) this past year and participated in workshops with Sally Love Saunders. She has also received choreography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as support from the California Arts Council. As a choreographer/performer\, she used spoken word in her pieces. She will have a poem in the upcoming Inpluse Magazine. \nA longtime entertainment journalist and author specializing in music\, Jeff Kaliss has more recently published poetry and other genres in journals and periodicals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and hosts the Poetry for the People Podcast at City College of San Francisco. He frequents open mics and concertizes poetry with jazz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Schulman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her book \nStrange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine\, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College\, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \nHow did Schulman maintain the independence\, solitude\, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? “In my experience\, the phrase ‘happy marriage’ is a term of opposites\, like ‘friendly fire’ or ‘famous poet.’ My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . ” Strange Paradise looks at this\, Schulman’s remarkable career\, her friendships with great writers\, her work as an historic impresario at the Y\, her religious and philosophical leanings\, and her grand love affair with New York―all in her magical prose. \nPraise for the writing of Grace Schulman: \n“One of the permanent poets of her generation.”—Harold Bloom \n“Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”—Wallace Shawn \n“In a graceful\, engaging memoir\, Schulman . . . writes candidly about her marriage to virologist Jerome Schulman\, her literary aspirations\, and her grief following her husband’s recent death. . . . An affecting recollection of a life rich in literature and love.” ―Kirkus Reviews \nGrace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry\, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Her seventh collection of poems is Without a Claim\, (Mariner\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2013). In prose\, her 2018 memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point)\, and her collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures (U of Michigan Press\, 2010). \nAmong her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry\, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems\, Harold Bloom has written\, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” And Wallace Shawn has said\, “When I read her\, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to lose any of it.” \nEditor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking\, 2003)\, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College\, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center\, 92nd Street Y\, 1974-84\, and former poetry editor of The Nation\, 1971-2006. She lives in New York City and East Hampton\, N. Y. \nThe Hudson Review was one of the first literary journals to publish her poems\, essays\, and translations\, which have subsequently been published here and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-schulman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SAMIN NOSRAT & LINDY WEST In Conversation with Allison P. Davis
DESCRIPTION:SAMIN NOSRAT & LINDY WEST\nIn Conversation with Allison P. Davis\nMonday\, April 29\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\n\nSamin Nosrat is a cook\, teacher\, and author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Salt\, Fat\, Acid\, Heat. She is an Eat columnist at The New York Times Magazine and the host and executive producer of the Netflix original documentary series based on her book. Nosrat learned to cook at Chez Panisse\, alongside Benedetta Vitali and Dario Cecchini in Italy\, and at the former restaurant Eccolo in Berkeley. As an undergrad at UC Berkeley\, Nosrat studied poetry with Bob Hass\, Shakespeare with Stephen Booth\, and journalism with Michael Pollan. \n\nLindy West is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of the New York Timesbestselling memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman\, as well as the forthcoming essay collection The Witches Are Coming. In 2018 West adapted Shrill as a half-hour comedy for Hulu. Set to air in 2019\, the show stars Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant.  West’s work has also appeared in This American Life\, The Guardian\, Cosmopolitan\, GQ\, Vulture\, Jezebel\, The Stranger\, and others. She is the founder of I Believe You\, It’s Not Your Fault\, an advice blog for teens\, as well as the co-founder of the reproductive rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. \nAllison P. Davis is a senior culture writer for New York Magazine’s The Cut\, and a contributor to GQ.   She’s profiled artists ranging from Lena Dunham to Michael B. Jordan\, and written on subjects ranging from the first female rapper to sex robots. Davis is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley School of Journalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samin-nosrat-lindy-west-in-conversation-with-allison-p-davis/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America. \nPraise for We Speak for Ourselves \n“D. Watkins is uniquely equipped to communicate our political and social challenges of urban America\, not only through the lens of academia but through empirical knowledge as well. He is the voice of the future seamlessly blending the wisdom of the streets and intellectual prowess in a way I have never experienced before.” —Jada Pinkett Smith \n“Reading We Speak for Ourselves\, I can’t help but admire D Watkins. He is not another elite voice for the voiceless. He is\, this book is\, an amplifier of low income Black voices who have their own voices and have no problem using them. He dares us to listen.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  \n“In a time of blunt-bladed posturing and hyperbolized impact\, We Speak For Ourselves\, is a sharp gash into the psyche of America. Written as a relentless slice of his own life\, Watkins avoids pretense as he puts language to his jagged experiences\, not to encourage voyeurism\, but to instead push people to grapple and wrestle with the real lives so many talking heads attempt to muzzle\, then fictionalize. Watkins has come to remind us\, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves. Everyone.”  – Jason Reynolds\, New York Times bestselling author & National Book Award finalist\, Long Way Down \n“We Speak for Ourselves is full of insight into the America that serves as grist for the American dream. Its pages are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love\, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine.Over and over again\, I found myself saying ‘yes\, yes\, he’s right’ and ultimately finished feeling inspired to do better\, to be more. D Watkins proves\, once again\, why he isn’t just a writer of the people but a people’s literary champ for the here\, now\, and tomorrow.” –Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \nAbout We Speak for Ourselves \nFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn\, with searing conviction and full compassion\, D. Watkins\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw\, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening\, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen\, feel\, and create a course toward change that starts right where we are. \nWatkins introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods—“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race. \nUnapologetic and sharp-witted\, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools\, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption\, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats\, journey from trap house to university lecture\, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen. \nWatkins shares the lessons he has learned while navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of prominent black thinkers and public figures—serving hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-watkins/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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