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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:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic
DESCRIPTION:Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic\n\n\n\n\n\n05/17/2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Nonfiction\n\n\n\n\nReading/Talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the age of nineteen\, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest\, toughest horse race”\, an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1\,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim\, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia\, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. \nRiders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby\, a course that recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan\, and many fail to finish. Prior-Palmer had no formal training. She was driven by her own restlessness\, stubbornness\, and a lifelong love of horses. She raced for ten days through extreme heat and terrifying storms\, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration\, exhaustion and bruising falls\, she decided she had nothing to lose. Each dawn she rode out again on a fresh horse\, scrambling up mountains\, swimming through rivers\, crossing woodlands and wetlands\, arid dunes and open steppe\, as American television crews chased her in their Jeeps. \nTold with terrific suspense and style\, in a voice full of poetry and soul\, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead\, against all odds\, to become the first female winner of this breathtaking race. \nLara Prior-Palmer was born in London in 1994. She studied conceptual history and Persian at Stanford University. In 2013\, she competed in the 1\,000-kilometer Mongol Derby in Mongolia\, sometimes described as the world’s toughest and longest horse race\, and became the first woman to win the race\, and the youngest person ever to finish. Rough Magic is her first book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage San Francisco \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lara-prior-palmer-rough-magic/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emma Bland Smith
DESCRIPTION:Emma Bland Smith discusses her new children’s book To Live on an Island. \n\nAbout To Live on an Island \nWhen you live on an island\, things are different. Sometimes harder. Sometimes sweeter. Sometimes quieter. Experience a day in the life of a child growing up on a Pacific Northwest island in this beautifully written and illustrated picture book. \nOff the coast of Washington State rise hundreds of small islands. Some are lush and green. Others are rugged and rocky. And each has its own personality. \nMany islands are home mostly to deer\, but quite a few have farms and fields\, schools and stores\, and people.  \nWhat is it like to live on an island?  \nAward-winning author Emma Bland Smith explores what it’s like to grow up on an island in the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of a young boy\, who wakes up to the sound of a ferry horn\, hikes through the woods to get to his bus stop\, drops crab pots for dinner\, and falls asleep counting orcas instead of sheep. \nThis book celebrates what’s special about island culture and includes a brief nonfiction element on each spread that relates to the narrative. \n  \nAbout the Author \nEMMA BLAND SMITH is a librarian and writer living with her family in San Francisco. Her children’s book debut\, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7\, the Most Famous Wolf in the West\, won the 2017 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature\, and the 2017 Cook Prize\, which honors the best STEM picture book published for children aged eight to ten. She has written a nonfiction book for adults\, San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights (Arcadia)\, and has contributed to Sunset and other magazines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emma-bland-smith/
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:Cliterary Salon: Mothers and Monsters of May
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we dig into all that is May: flowers\, fantasy\, mothers\, monsters\, poetry and pettiness. Hosted at Perdita in the Haight\, this is a spring literary event you won’t want to miss! \nLineup TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cliterary-salon-mothers-and-monsters-of-may/
LOCATION:Perdita\, 323 Divisadero Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Tony Horwitz: Spying on the South
DESCRIPTION:The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America’s greatest landscape architect\, Frederick Law Olmsted. Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Tony Horwitz for a discussion and book signing of his long-awaited new release\, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. \nFree to attend. \n \nAbout Spying on the South \nIn the 1850s\, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift\, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey\, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. \nFor the Connecticut Yankee\, pen name “Yeoman\,” the South was alien\, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months\, by horseback\, steamboat\, and stagecoach\, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners–white and black\, free and enslaved\, rich and poor–were revelatory for readers of his day and have endured as classic texts for the study of America on the brink of cataclysmic break-up. \nYeoman’s remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape. As a rebuke to the caste-bound ideology of the South’s master class\, Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted’s path-breaking career as America’s foremost landscape architect. \nTony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the angry discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers\, and his own adventures\, Horwitz follows Olmsted’s tracks and often his mode of transport: through Appalachia\, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers\, into bayou Louisiana\, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. \nVenturing\, as Olmsted did\, far off beaten paths\, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges of the Cotton Kingdom and strange new mutations that have sprung from its roots. Spying on the South is also a penetrating and poignant study of Olmsted\, whose destiny was forged by his Southern odyssey. Horwitz’s wise\, intrepid\, and often hilarious journey\, through an outsized American landscape\, is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains\, Bad Land\, and the author’s own classic\, Confederates in the Attic. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 17\, 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/an-evening-with-tony-horwitz-spying-on-the-south/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling ‘UNICORNFEST’
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 17th\, 2019 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of ‘That came outta nowhere!’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes from Good Vibrations – yeah\, baby! \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #Sin&Tonic #Rimjob \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \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! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. As a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Esquire.com as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No refunds or exchanges. \n• Theme and Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & 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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \n( photo by the talented Andrew McDonald )
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-unicornfest/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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