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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:Book Launch of "On Blossoming"!
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Gia Lynne’s first book: On Blossoming! \nA bit about the party:\nLocated in the heart of the Mission District of San Francisco\, join us for a lively evening of book launching\, live music\, libations\, all things pleasure-positive\, and for talks by local activists focusing on the important subject of pleasure-focused education for all. Speakers and artists to be announced. \nA bit about the book:\nThis is not your typical sex ed book. Instead of typically puritanical views on sex and puberty\, On Blossoming focuses on incorporating the principles of pleasure into sex education for our youth and creates a new paradigm of human sexuality. This book takes on a taboo topic in our culture\, backed with a compelling mixture of research and personal experience. \nA bit about the writer:\nGia Lynne is a pleasure-positive writer\, educator\, and personal coach who is dedicated to researching and teaching the craft of pleasurable living and healthy sexuality. Fascinated by human sexuality and how that connects to our quality of life\, she offers a unique perspective on pleasurable living. \nTickets for this event are FREE unless you’d like to reserve a copy of the book to pick up at the event itself (and get it signed by the author!). All tickets reserved through Eventbrite provide admission to the event as well as entrance into the drawing for the door prizes given away during the event. \nLight bites will be available throughout the event and drinks will be available for purchase at Manny’s bar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-of-on-blossoming/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON SAN FRANCISCO: SPITE
DESCRIPTION:ODD SALON SAN FRANCISCO: SPITE\n\nMAY 7 @ 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM\n$15 – $25\n\nEvent Navigation\n\n« San Francisco: Brainstorming for June\nOdd Salon NYC: BOWERY »\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nJoin us at Public Works SF for six tales of ill-will and bad-blood\, pernicious maliciousness and rancorous intent\, and the festering resentment that inspires vengeance\nODD SALON SF: SPITE\nTuesday\, May 7th 2019 \nFeaturing: \nAvani Gadani ~ Never Kill Just One: Lessons from Phoolan Devi\nAaron Doran ~ Church\, State\, and a Lotta Hate: The Investiture Controversy\nCourtney Brown ~ Two Wrongs Make a Spite: The Evolutionary Biology Dispute\nRobbin Arcega ~ Shuunen-bukai: Spirits of Spite\nMatt Mills ~ Edison’s Malice in the War of the Currents\nRaina Bird ~ Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Crocker’s Spite Fence \nCurated by Marci Bennett \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \nGET TICKETS>\n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT\n\n\nDetails\n\nDate:\nMAY 7\nTime:\n\n6:30 pm – 10:00 pm\n\nCost:\n$15 – $25\nEvent Category:\nPublic Works SF\nEvent Tags:\n2019\, Salons\, SF\nWebsite:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=57570441741\n\n\n\nOrganizer\n\nOdd Salon\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\nPublic Works SF\n\n161 Erie Street\nSan Francisco \, CA 94103 United States+ Google Map\n\nPhone:\n415 496 6738\nWebsite:\nhttp://publicsf.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-spite/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chia-Chia Lin
DESCRIPTION:   celebrating the release of her new novel \n                                                    The Unpassing \npublished by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \n \nOne of Esquire\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Literary Hub and Electric Literature‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 \nA searing debut novel that explores community\, identity\, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska \nIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel\, The Unpassing\, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. The father\, hardworking but beaten down\, is employed as a plumber and repairman\, while the mother\, a loving\, strong-willed\, and unpredictably emotional matriarch\, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school\, he falls into a deep\, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected\, too. She did not survive. \nRoutine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father\, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death\, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank\, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos\, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. \nWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness\, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful\, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality. \nChia-Chia Lin is a graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review and other journals. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Unpassing is her first novel. \nAdvance Praise for The Unpassing: \n\n\n\n“In this spare\, deeply felt debut novel\, Lin resists received wisdom about the American dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home.” —Adrienne Westenfeld\, Esquire \n“Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing is a searing\, open wound of a book\, marvelously alive and\, quite simply\, remarkable. Traversing the oftentimes brutal frontier of an isolated family living in an isolated environment\, I can’t think of another novel as of late that relentlessly tackles headlong our deepest struggles for a sense of place\, of home\, and belonging. How do we push through grief? How do we find peace with not only our loved ones but ourselves? What sacrifices must we endure for friendship and connection? This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any other.” —Paul Yoon\, author of The Mountain \n“The Unpassing is a devastating debut\, igneous\, aching as if with the glow of the great northern skies beneath which it is set. More than meditation on grief; more than immigrant saga\, or bildungsroman; more than new American gothic: here\, Chia-Chia Lin has written a novel of such strange\, brittle beauty as to resemble nothing else so much as living\, itself. Her prose—at once poetic and lucid\, by turns darkly comic and haunting—achieves something like the peculiar grammar of loss. I turned the last page with heartache and wonder\, a feeling of having been undone and remade.” —D. Wystan Owen\, author of Other People’s Love Affairs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Kerschen reads from The Warm South
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 07\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store.\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPaul Kerschen was born in 1978 and grew up in Arizona. He studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he received an Iowa Arts Fellowship and Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship\, and earned a doctorate in English literature at UC Berkeley. He has written for Music & Literature\, The Times Literary Supplement and others. The Drowned Library (Foxhead\, 2011) is a collection of short fiction. The Warm South is his first novel. He lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-kerschen-reads-from-the-warm-south/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ANAND GIRIDHARADAS In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin
DESCRIPTION:ANAND GIRIDHARADAS\nIn Conversation with Courtney E. Martin\nTuesday\, May 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAnand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World\, which explores the ways in which the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” through philanthropy preserve the status quo and obscure their own role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. His past books include India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking and The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas\, which has been adapted into a film\, to be released in 2019. He is also an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC\, as well as a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times\, as well as for The Atlantic\, The New Republic\, and The New Yorker. \nCourtney E. Martin is the author of five books\, including Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists and The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream. She is also the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network and has collaborated with a wide range of organizations\, including TED\, The Aspen Institute\, and the Obama Foundation. She won the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics and holds an honorary doctorate from ArtCenter College of Design.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anand-giridharadas-in-conversation-with-courtney-e-martin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 7\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Saint Mary’s College of California MFA in Creative Writing : Graduate Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the SMC MFA program on May 7\, 2019\, at the SMC campus in Moraga\, for a night of electrifying readings from our very own MFA candidates. The evening’s stellar authors include: Emily Alexander\, Michael DuBon\, Jordan Galerkin\, and Joanne Weber. \n  \nThe event will be hosted on campus at De La Salle Hall in Hagerty Lounge. Doors open at 8:00pm; readings begin at 8:15. The event will include delectable treats and adult beverages. \n  \nEmily Alexander is a writer\, a novice baker\, and a part-time jogger. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hobart Pulp\, Crab Creek Review\, and Glass. \n  \nMichael DuBon is a first-generation Nevada native of Guatemalan descent. He is a MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College of California\, graduating in May. His poetry has appeared in The Meadow. He is currently working on his memoir: The DuBonicles: A Guide to Exile. \n  \nJordan Galerkin writes short fiction & is currently working on a novel. She hopes to sell all the books so her pets can live their best lives. \n  \nJoanne Weber writes essays and children’s stories. When she’s not reading\, she likes to hike and bake bread. \n  \nThe Graduate Student Reading Series is hosted by the GSR Committee: Victoria Billings\, Michael DuBon\, Zoë Loos\, and Terry Taplin. \n  \nThe SMC MFA in Creative Writing offers students a campus environment that feels like a writing retreat within the bustling Bay Area. We have a stellar faculty that includes Marilyn Abildskov\, Brenda Hillman\, Lysley Tenorio and Matthew Zapruder\, as well excellent Visiting Writers. Our two-year program combines a studio writing workshop component with an analytical component\, offering concentrations in creative nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry. For more information visit www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-saint-marys-college-of-california-mfa-in-creative-writing-graduate-student-reading/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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