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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:Have a Poet for Lunch: Jocelyn Saidenberg
DESCRIPTION:Hear Bay Area poet Jocelyn Saidenberg present work in dialogue with the exhibition “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Many of the poets speaking in this bi-weekly series are rooted in the New Narrative tradition\, an experimental writing movement and theory that evolved in San Francisco. \n“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen” presents the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist\, Surrealist\, and activist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892-1972) in dialogue with ten contemporary artists to examine the complex and empowered representation of fluid identity. \nJocelyn Saidenberg is a Bay Area writer and performer\, whose books include “Mortal City\,” “Cusp\,” “Negativity\,” “Shipwreck\,” and “Dead Letter.” Her most recent book is “kith & kin” (The Elephants\, 2018). She is one of the editors of KRUPSKAYA Books and she teaches at University of California\, Berkeley and San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-jocelyn-saidenberg/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop: a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, lead by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill. Get your copy and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III (more TBD) and live music by Azuah Melara at 7pm. Emceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. FREE! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop (a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, led by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill). \nGrab your copy of the anthology and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III\, James Cagney\, Darius Simpson\, Leila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, the authors published in the anthology (Samuel Getachew\, Nicos Hubbard-Riley\, Julian Khalil Allen\, Elijah I. Hynson\, Damion Evans\, and Charles Hall)\, and live music by Azuah Melara starting at 7 PM. \nBoots Riley will speak at the beginning of the event about the importance of Black Joy. \nEmceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. DJ XCAIROCITOSX will weave together sounds and Two Mamacita’s pop-up kitchen will be on site. Tiny book making on the theme of “Joy” will be happening throughout the evening. On-site photography by Robbie Sweeny and Rohan DaCosta. Oh\, and did we also mention it is Oakland First Fridays?! \nThis event is FREE and open to all! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release-2/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy\, D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her new collection\, The Octopus Museum. Also featuring readings by D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago. \nAbout The Octopus Museum \nThis collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction\, racism\, sexism\, and divisive politics. \nInformed by Brenda Shaughnessy’s craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother\, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages\, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents\, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable\, specific\, and multiple: school shootings\, nuclear attack\, loss of health care\, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future\, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind\, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking\, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves\, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization. \nAbout The Poets\nBrenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa\, Japan\, and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of four books of poetry\, including So Much Synth\, Human Dark with Sugar–winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award–and Our Andromeda\, which was a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University\, Newark. She lives in New Jersey.\nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He lives in San Francisco\, California. \nRoberto F. Santiago is a poet\, translator\, musician\, and performer. He earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence and MFA from Rutgers University. His first collection of poetry\, Angel Park (2015)\, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry and long-listed for an Able Muse Poetry Prize. Santiago is the recipient of an Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Lambda Foundation and Sarah Lawrence; in 2016\, he was named a Community of Writers fellow. He currently lives in Oakland and works in San Francisco as an educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-shaughnessy-d-a-powell-and-roberto-santiago/
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:Bronze Age Greece: Mycenaeans & the Origins of Western Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Discover the magnificence of the Mycenaeans. Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars to present talks uncovering the Mycenaean story\, from ancient tales to the latest archaeological finds\, in an effort to deepen our understanding of the roots of Western Civilization. When the Bronze Age ended\, oral tales of the Mycenaeans remained and were composed half a millennium later by Homer in the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Most assumed these Homeric tales and the society they described largely were fiction\, until a few 19th-century archaeologists took those tales seriously and have come to proved the existence of these brilliant predecessors of the ancient Greeks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bronze-age-greece-mycenaeans-the-origins-of-western-civilization/
LOCATION:Marine’s Memorial Theater\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series featuring Terry Taplin\, William "Endlesswill" Davis\, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 3rd\, featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, and Caroline O’Connor Thomas!\nPlease join us on Friday\, May 3rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, \nand Caroline O’Connor Thomas! \n***** \nauthor bios & photos below. \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nTerry Taplin is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at Saint Mary’s College. Terry serves as Poetry Editor for MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, Co-Editor of Baest\, and is the Social Media Manager at speCt! books. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \nWilliam “Endlesswill” Davis\, 2016-2018 poet laureate of Hillsborough\, NC\, and author of Broken Perception and Falling Apples\, is a spoken word artist who is dedicated to continuing the tradition of poetry in living form. Ambitious in his craft and performance\, Endlesswill offers audiences unforgettable performances that evoke thoughtfulness\, introspection\, and connection as a community. William is a publisher\, graphic design artist\, basketball coach\, and radio host\, and manages to juggle all of that under the umbrella of being a father and a husband.  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer who lives in Oakland\, California.  Her poetry has appeared in 580 Split\, Tin House\, Sixth Finch and others. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag\, 2018) and a graduate of the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California. https://carolineoconnorthomas.com \nPosted by Casey at 9:09 PM No comments: 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-featuring-terry-taplin-william-endlesswill-davis-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bronze Age Greece: Mycenaeans & the Origins of Western Civilization
DESCRIPTION:May 3\, 7:30-9:30pm\, and May 4\, 10am-4pm \nHumanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars to present talks uncovering the Mycenaean story\, from ancient tales to the latest archaeological finds\, in an effort to deepen our understanding of the roots of Western Civilization. \nWhen the Bronze Age collapsed\, all signs of state-level society disappeared from Greece\, and Mycenaeans disappeared from history. Yet\, their oral tales remained\, composed half a millennium later by Homer into the Iliad and the Odyssey. Most scholars came to assume the Homeric tales and even the society they described largely were fiction. Then a few 19th-century amateur archaeologists took those tales seriously and brought these brilliant predecessors of the ancient Greeks back from obscurity. \nThe program opens with an illustrated talk exploring the great tales of the Iliad and Odyssey\, along with other Mycenaean-derived myths that provided a look into this ancient society long before 19-century archaeologist would prove its existence. The Friday program includes a special lecture-performance-demonstration of Mycenaean literature\, music\, and performance culture. \nOn Saturday\, presentations delve further into Bronze Age Myth discussing how the Mycenaean legends and stories have become accepted as reality\, as science rises to claim authority away from literature through the archaeological findings. Finds from new excavations\, including the discovery of the grave of the so-called “Griffin Warrior\,” shed light on early Mycenaean culture and suggest that the myths and legends of the Homeric poems were already in circulation at the dawn of the Mycenaean civilization. \nThe program explores what life was like at a Mycenaean palatial center\, highlighting the everyday experiences of a bustling world with monumental architecture\, large-scale craft production\, and religious ritual\, and provides a growing picture of a trans-Mycenaean society in the north Aegean. \n$25-$80. \nPresented by Humanities West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bronze-age-greece-mycenaeans-the-origins-of-western-civilization-2/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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