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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:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:Seven Stories and City Lights present \nBarry Gifford \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights Trilogy: Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels\, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side\, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career\, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir\, part-picaresque\, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Library Association\, the Writers Guild of America\, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon: SAN FRANCISCO: BRAINSTORMING FOR JUNE
DESCRIPTION:MAY 2 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nFree! \n\n\n\n\n \nOnce again we come together to pool brains ! Bring your mathematical quandaries\, sweet solutions\, high octane spirits and tales of sleuthing genius for Odd Salon PROOF\, curated by Isolde Honore. \nBrainstorming sessions are free open to all! Come out and grab a drink\, meet the Oddlings\, and share your ideas around the table. \nThursday\, May 2nd at 7pm.\nWe’ll be in the back room at Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, drinking and thinking. Just a couple of doors down from the 24th and Mission BART stop. \nNo formal RSVP needed  – just come out and join us! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-brainstorming-for-june/
LOCATION:Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara\n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada”\nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nFor the concluding event as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center for Spring 2019\, Juliana Delgado Lopera will be reading and in conversation with novelist Joseph Cassara\, author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, an acclaimed debut novel that “follows the lives of the major players in New York’s 1980s drag ball scene\, made famous by Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film Paris Is Burning.” (full review at The Guardian) Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. \n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada” (*) is the title for Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Mazza Residency with The Poetry Center. Prior to this evening with Joseph Cassara\, she’ll by joined by special guest Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\, for an “afternoon of literary drag\,” Saturday April 27 at The Bindery\, annex of The Booksmith and just across Haight Street\, and will be visiting multiple classes at SF State\, in Women and Gender Studies\, Sexuality Studies\, and Creative Writing\, throughout the week of April 22. \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker\, and performance artist based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo!\, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. She’s the recipient of the 2016 Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Magto name a few. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. Much more at julianadlopera.com \n• Make sure to check out Juliana Delgado Lopera’s recent Ted Talk\, “The Poetry of Everyday Speech\,” which took place early this year at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. \nJoseph Cassara is the author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, which won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018\, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, and was chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers selection. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently lives in Fresno\, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University\, Fresno. More at josephcassara.com \n(*”but my tongue is salty”) \nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nJuliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\nan afternoon of literary drag\nSaturday APRIL 27\n3:00 pm @ The Bindery (door + bar at 2:00 pm)\n1727 Haight Street (at Cole)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-juliana-delgado-lopera-with-joseph-cassara-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miriam Toews and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Toews discusses her new novel\, Women Talking with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Women Talking \n“This amazing\, sad\, shocking\, but touching novel\, based on a real-life event\, could be right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.” –Margaret Atwood\, on Twitter \n“An astonishment\, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I’ve read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment\, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come.” —Lauren Groff\, author of FATES AND FURIES and FLORIDA \n“I am in awe of this novel. In Toews’s brilliant design\, eight women in a Mennonite hayloft manage to lay bare the rancid global root system of patriarchy. Their story is terrifying\, joyful\, gruesome\, and magnetic. What a reckoning–and what a gift.” Leni Zumas\, author of RED CLOCKS \n“A flawless\, ferocious work of art. I have yet to read a more scathing indictment of patriarchal violence\, or a more illuminating quest to comprehend the most vital contours of the human experience: what is agency\, what is meaning\, what is justice\, what is love. This is the kind of novel that changes you. Get ready.” —Laura van den Berg\, author of THE THIRD HOTEL \n\nAbout Women Talking \nOne evening\, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years\, each of these women\, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony\, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community\, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. \nWhile the men of the colony are off in the city\, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home\, these women–all illiterate\, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in–have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they’ve ever known or should they dare to escape? \nBased on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium\, Toews’s masterful novel uses wry\, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miriam-toews-and-lydia-kiesling/
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:Tony Perrottet: Cuba Libre! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nTONY PERROTTET\nCUBA LIBRE! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History \nAdvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nMost people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959. It was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures\, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Their movement successfully overthrew the island nation’s US-backed dictator\, Fulgencio Batista\, and has remained to this day an intense socialist provocation to the massive imperial capitalist country only ninety miles north of Cuba. \nTony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries-many of them kids just out of college\, literature majors and art students\, including a number of extraordinary young women-who defeated 40\,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details. He describes how Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sanchez kept the male guerrillas disciplined\, and he portrays a few of the North American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels. He gained access to private letters\, diaries\, videos\, and other documents no other historian has seen. Perrottet has used these as well as countless interviews to describe the years of guerrilla fighting throughout the Sierra Maestra mountains\, the final victory march into Havana\, the gradual building of a socialist state\, and\nthe accompanying Cold War tensions. \n“Perrottet takes us far beyond the basic facts of the Cuban Revolution to the juicy details that remind us that history is deeply human.” – Chris Ryan\, NY Times bestselling author \nTony Perrottet\, author of five previous books\, is a regular guest on the History Channel. \nSteve Wasserman is Executive Director of Heyday Books. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-perrottet-cuba-libre-che-fidel-and-the-improbable-revolution/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM\nDuring Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nTHURS. MAY 2ND\, 7:30PM\nFeaturing: \nSHELLEY WONG\nTHEA MATTHEWS\nJENNY QI\nROSA DE ANDA\nJENNIFER HASEGAWA\nAISHWARYA VARDHANA\nCurated by Cassandra Rockwood-Rice\nMC’d by Nicole Noel \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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