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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:In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez\, Marguerite Muñoz\, and René Juarez-Vazquez\, reading at Voz Sin Tinta
DESCRIPTION:For the concluding program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2019\, we are very pleased to present poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez\, visiting from El Paso\, Texas\, to read from his newest novel\, All They Will Call You\, and present his research in relation to the Mexican workers who were killed as they were being deported by the U.S. government in the 1942 “plane wreck at Los Gatos\, memorialized in Woody Guthrie’s song. Following an early afternoon reading at The Poetry Center\, where Hernandez will be joined after reading by poets Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Valdez in conversation\, we’ll move to the Mission the same evening for a reading featuring all three writers\, presented in conjunction with Voz Sin Tinta (to be followed by the Voz Sin Tinta open mic). Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nTim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning writer and performer. His work includes poetry\, fiction and non-fiction\, and he is the recipient of numerous awards\, most notably the American Book Award\, the Colorado Book Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, C-Span\, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Public Radio International hailed his book\, Mañana Means Heaven\, as one of their top picks of the year in 2013. The book is based on the real life story of Bea Franco\, “Terry\, The Mexican Girl” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In 2011\, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America\, and he was a finalist for the inaugural Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for his research and work on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon\, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name. The result of this work is the basis for his latest book\, All They Will Call You\, the first installment of a trilogy he continues to write and research. Hernandez holds a B.A. from Naropa University and an M.F.A. from Bennington College. He is a full time Assistant Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual M.F.A. in Creative Writing Online. \nMarguerite Muñoz writes “on the border of Berkeley & Oakland.” For the past four years and under the sponsorship of Alley Cat Books and former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia\, she has co-curated Voz Sin Tinta\, a monthly bilingual showcase and open mic that provides a safe\, supportive space for emerging writers and community voices that often go unheard. Marguerite’s work speaks to interconnectedness sensed through spirit\, blurred boundaries between inner and outer worlds\, and the nameless desires she holds as a woman surviving in today’s modern world. Her poems and creative non-fiction have been featured at Get Lit\, Liminal\, Poems Under the Dome\, Jingletown Reading and Open Mic\, City Limits Gallery\, and the Cante Jondo Series\, and she is honored to have poems published in The Haight Asbury Journal and Cipactli. \nRené Juarez-Vazquez is a Bay Area Native\, writer\, and educator. He is a professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University and holds degrees in English and Creative Writing. With Marguerite Muñoz\, he co-curates Voz Sin Tinta\, a multilingual reading series in the San Francisco Mission District. His book\, The Planet of The Dead\, is available from Nomadic Press. Follow him on Twitter @FKA_RENE \nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nTim Z. Hernandez\nreading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez\nThursday MAY 9\n1:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, SF State\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nIn Common Writers Series Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with\, for the most\, local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading and in conversation with their paired guest writer and the audience. Then\, moving off-campus\, both writers read their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified region. Details on our six 2018-19 programs and featured artists here. \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center and Voz Sin Tinta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-tim-z-hernandez-marguerite-munoz-and-rene-juarez-vazquez-reading-at-voz-sin-tinta/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez\, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez
DESCRIPTION:For the concluding program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2019\, we are very pleased to present poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez\, visiting from El Paso\, Texas\, to read from his newest novel\, All They Will Call You\, and present his research in relation to the Mexican workers who were killed as they were being deported by the U.S. government in the 1942 “plane wreck at Los Gatos\, memorialized in Woody Guthrie’s song. His reading will be followed by a conversation with poets Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Valdez\, who also co-curate Voz Sin Tinta\, the community based reading series at Alley Cat Books on 24th Street. After our afternoon event at The Poetry Center\, we’ll move to the Mission this same evening for a reading featuring all three writers\, presented in conjunction with Voz Sin Tinta. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nTim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning writer and performer. His work includes poetry\, fiction and non-fiction\, and he is the recipient of numerous awards\, most notably the American Book Award\, the Colorado Book Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, C-Span\, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Public Radio International hailed his book\, Mañana Means Heaven\, as one of their top picks of the year in 2013. The book is based on the real life story of Bea Franco\, “Terry\, The Mexican Girl” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In 2011\, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America\, and he was a finalist for the inaugural Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for his research and work on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon\, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name. The result of this work is the basis for his latest book\, All They Will Call You\, the first installment of a trilogy he continues to write and research. Hernandez holds a B.A. from Naropa University and an M.F.A. from Bennington College. He is a full time Assistant Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual M.F.A. in Creative Writing Online. \nMarguerite Muñoz writes “on the border of Berkeley & Oakland.” For the past four years and under the sponsorship of Alley Cat Books and former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia\, she has co-curated Voz Sin Tinta\, a monthly bilingual showcase and open mic that provides a safe\, supportive space for emerging writers and community voices that often go unheard. Marguerite’s work speaks to interconnectedness sensed through spirit\, blurred boundaries between inner and outer worlds\, and the nameless desires she holds as a woman surviving in today’s modern world. Her poems and creative non-fiction have been featured at Get Lit\, Liminal\, Poems Under the Dome\, Jingletown Reading and Open Mic\, City Limits Gallery\, and the Cante Jondo Series\, and she is honored to have poems published in The Haight Asbury Journal and Cipactli. \nRené Juarez-Vazquez is a Bay Area Native\, writer\, and educator. He is a professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University and holds degrees in English and Creative Writing. With Marguerite Muñoz\, he co-curates Voz Sin Tinta\, a multilingual reading series in the San Francisco Mission District. His book\, The Planet of The Dead\, is available from Nomadic Press. Follow him on Twitter @FKA_RENE \nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series with Voz Sin Tinta\nTim Z. Hernandez\, Marguerite Muñoz\, and René Juarez-Vazquez\nThursday MAY 9\n7:00 pm @ Alley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, free and open to the public\nco-sponsored by Voz Sin Tinta and The Poetry Center\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nIn Common Writers Series Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with\, for the most\, local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading and in conversation with their paired guest writer and the audience. Then\, moving off-campus\, both writers read their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified region. Details on our six 2018-19 programs and featured artists here. \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-tim-z-hernandez-reading-and-in-conversation-with-marguerite-munoz-and-rene-juarez-vazquez/
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:StageWrite presents: WORD! Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where…Dragons feast on negative words\, smart phones keep it real\, books fight to exist\, dance speaks louder than words\, cigarettes get fired up\, lost languages are found & pigeons speak out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-word-short-plays-by-short-people/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez\, Marguerite Muñoz\, and René Juarez-Vazquez\, reading at Voz Sin Tinta\nThursday\, May 9 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\nAlley Cat Books\, 3036 24th Street (at Treat)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFor the concluding program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series for Spring 2019\, we are very pleased to present poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez\, visiting from El Paso\, Texas\, to read from his newest novel\, All They Will Call You\, and present his research in relation to the Mexican workers who were killed as they were being deported by the U.S. government in the 1942 “plane wreck at Los Gatos\, memorialized in Woody Guthrie’s song. Following an early afternoon reading at The Poetry Center\, where Hernandez will be joined after reading by poets Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Valdez in conversation\, we’ll move to the Mission the same evening for a reading featuring all three writers\, presented in conjunction with Voz Sin Tinta (to be followed by the Voz Sin Tinta open mic). Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nTim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning writer and performer. His work includes poetry\, fiction and non-fiction\, and he is the recipient of numerous awards\, most notably the American Book Award\, the Colorado Book Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, C-Span\, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Public Radio International hailed his book\, Mañana Means Heaven\, as one of their top picks of the year in 2013. The book is based on the real life story of Bea Franco\, “Terry\, The Mexican Girl” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In 2011\, Hernandez was named one of sixteen New American Poets by the Poetry Society of America\, and he was a finalist for the inaugural Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for his research and work on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon\, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name. The result of this work is the basis for his latest book\, All They Will Call You\, the first installment of a trilogy he continues to write and research. Hernandez holds a B.A. from Naropa University and an M.F.A. from Bennington College. He is a full time Assistant Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual M.F.A. in Creative Writing Online. \nMarguerite Muñoz writes “on the border of Berkeley & Oakland.” For the past four years and under the sponsorship of Alley Cat Books and former San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia\, she has co-curated Voz Sin Tinta\, a monthly bilingual showcase and open mic that provides a safe\, supportive space for emerging writers and community voices that often go unheard. Marguerite’s work speaks to interconnectedness sensed through spirit\, blurred boundaries between inner and outer worlds\, and the nameless desires she holds as a woman surviving in today’s modern world. Her poems and creative non-fiction have been featured at Get Lit\, Liminal\, Poems Under the Dome\, Jingletown Reading and Open Mic\, City Limits Gallery\, and the Cante Jondo Series\, and she is honored to have poems published in The Haight Asbury Journal and Cipactli. \nRené Juarez-Vazquez is a Bay Area Native\, writer\, and educator. He is a professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University and holds degrees in English and Creative Writing. With Marguerite Muñoz\, he co-curates Voz Sin Tinta\, a multilingual reading series in the San Francisco Mission District. His book\, The Planet of The Dead\, is available from Nomadic Press. Follow him on Twitter @FKA_RENE \nRelated event:\nIn Common Writers Series\nTim Z. Hernandez\nreading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez\nThursday MAY 9\n1:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, SF State\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nIn Common Writers Series Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with\, for the most\, local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading and in conversation with their paired guest writer and the audience. Then\, moving off-campus\, both writers read their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified region. Details on our six 2018-19 programs and featured artists here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA's Art Issue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon \nwith Cate Lycurgus\, Dean Rader\, Jordan Kantor\, Rusty Morrison\, and Mira Rosenthal \nZYZZYVA’s newest issue features fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry on the theme of art. Come celebrate the release of this stunning issue with an event featuring readings by five of its contributors. Hosted by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. \nCate Lycurgus is the Interviews Editor at 32 Poems and is an instructor at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in many publications\, including Gulf Coast\, The Iowa Review\, and Tin House. \nDean Rader is the co-editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon Press)\, and also writes about poetry and visual culture for a variety of publications. He is a professor at The University of San Francisco. \nJordan Kantor writes on a wide range of contemporary art subjects\, and holds a professorship at California College of the Arts\, where he teaches artistic practice and theory and currently serves as Chair of the Painting/Drawing Program. \nRusty Morrison is the co-publisher of Omnidawn. Her most recent book is Beyond the Chainlink (Asahta Press). \nMira Rosenthal’s most recent book is The Local World (Kent State University Press). She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Cal Poly. \nZYZZYVA publishes the best prose\, poetry\, and visual art produced by West Coast writers and artists—along with the occasional piece from east of California. Since 1985\, they’ve published such writers as Sherman Alexie\, Raymond Carver\, Aimee Bender\, Po Bronson\, F.X. Toole\, Haruki Murakami\, Richard Rodriguez\, and Daniel Handler; poets such as Kay Ryan\, Adrienne Rich\, Matthew Zapruder\, Czeslaw Milosz\, W.S. Di Piero\, and Francisco X. Alarcon\, and have featured work from such artists as Ed Ruscha\, Sandow Birk\, Laurie Anderson\, Richard Diebenkorn\, and Wayne Thiebaud. Visit: www.zyzzyva.org \n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyvas-art-issue-celebration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Strange
DESCRIPTION:Aren’t the strangest experiences often the most relatable—the most memorable? Join Why There Are Words on May 9\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for an extraordinary night of uncanny readings as six spectacular authors read on the theme of “Strange.” \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nKate Hope Day is the author of the debut novel If\, Then (Random House\, March 2019). She was an associate producer at HBO and lives in Oregon with her husband and their two children. www.katehopeday.com \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  \nMelissa Duclos is the author of the novel Besotted (7.13 Books\, March 2019). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post\, Salon\, and Bustle\, among others. She is the founder of Magnify: Small Presses\, Bigger\, a monthly newsletter celebrating small press books\, and co-founder of Amplify: Women’s Voices\, Louder\, a series of writing retreats aimed at putting woman-identifying writers on the path to publication. melissa-duclos.com \n  \nDevi S. Laskar’s debut novel\, The Atlas of Reds and Blues\, was published by Counterpoint Press in February 2019. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from such journals as Fairy Tale Review\, Rattle\, and Tin House. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Gas & Food\, No Lodging and Anastasia Maps\, both published by Finishing Line Press in 2017. www.devislaskar.com \n  \nCheryl A. Ossola is the author of the debut novel The Wild Impossibility (Regal House Publishing\, May 2019). Her work has been published in Fourteen Hills\, Switchback\, and Dance Magazine\, among others. A member of the San Francisco-based Writers Grotto\, she now lives and writes in Italy. www.cherylaossola.com \n  \nAmos White is an awarded American haiku poet and author\, producer\, and civil rights activist. He is founder and host of the Heart of the Muse: a creative’s salon\, and executive producer and host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show\, and president of Bay Area Generations literary reading series. \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, and now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)(3) non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-strange/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Denise Bergman and Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Denise Bergman discusses her new poetry collection\, Three Hands None\, with Dean Rader. \nPraise for Three Hands None \n“Fearless\, unsparing\, Denise Bergman probes a violent\, sexual assault to expose the personal and social consequences of ungovernable\, masculinist culture. ‘Home is the coat that can’t keep me warm or dry / buttons and holes I can’t align\, ‘ the poet declares\, struggling to rebuild a coherent self. A book-length narrative poem\, THREE HANDS NONE reveals how ‘materials for this story’ also account for domestic and international tragedies: ‘the single-eyed babies born in Fallujah’ and ‘strip-mined flattened hills.’ A single sequence–of narrative\, fragment\, and image–this original work will leave you breathless\, changed.”–Robin Becker \n  \n“To read Denise Bergman’s THREE HANDS NONE is to inhabit an intimate accounting of a sexual assault in her bed by a stranger that reduced the writer to ‘barebones nothing.’ The accounting is obsessive\, almost Steinian in its use of repetition to render the ripping of self that occurred during and after the event\, the long days and nights when she ‘sweated inside matted wool terror filthy as a sheep.’ The poems that compose the volume read like the raw data of a mind working nonstop to parse the violence that severed her from ‘a body once her own.’ They collapse the distance between past and present\, silence and speech\, material and the metaphor\, inside and out. The journey is not for the timid; images climb inside and rake your chest. But Bergman’s supple intelligence–whose ‘home is the range of one’s instinct’–and mastery of her craft carry her and her reader through: ‘Word on the street is she still lives there.'”–Lee Sharkey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-bergman-and-dean-rader/
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:Foucault in California: David Wade in Conversation with James Penner
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nJoin David Wade and University of Puerto Rico Rio Pedras professor James Penner for a night of philosophy and discussion of the late Simeon Wade’s last book\, Foucault in California.  \n  \n \nAbout the book \nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.’” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.\nSimeon Wade (1940-2017) \n \nIn all parts of his multi-dimensional life in Southern California\, teaching at Claremont Graduate School\, Otis College of Art and Design\, and Samra Acupuncture School and practicing as a psychiatric nurse at the Ventura County Psychiatric Ward\, Simeon stressed the teachings and practices of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze\, even living his life in a Deleuzian revolutionary framework.\nDavid Wade (born 1951) \n \nSimeon Wade was the life long mentor of his youngest brother David in all things from Foucault and Deleuze to yoga and acupuncture. David took his own “Death Valley Trip” with Simeon in 1977. In his other life\, David is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and practiced as a business trial lawyer for 42 years in cities very large (NY\, LA) and very small (Eugene).\nJames Penner \n \nDr. James Penner is the author/editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (Park Street Press\, 2014) and Pinks\, Pansies\, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (Indiana University Press\, 2011). He is also a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. He will be reviewing Simeon Wade’s Foucault in California (Heyday Books\, 2019) for LARB in April of 2019. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 9\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foucault-in-california-david-wade-in-conversation-with-james-penner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:You're Going To Die
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…\n\nThursday\, May 9\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: http://bit.ly/YG2D_May9\nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is Cash Only at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-3/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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