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SUMMARY:Unholy Trinity: A Lovecraft Triptych
DESCRIPTION:Thursday – Saturday @ 8PM\, until November 2 \nInspired by the supernatural fiction of HP Lovecraft\, an early 20th century writer known for creating his own mythos\, Unholy Trinity is San Francisco writer/director Stuart Bousel’s adaptation and staging of “The Dunwich Horror\,” “Nyarlathotep\,” and “The Dreams in the Witch House.” Celebrate the Halloween season with these unholy works of classic horror. \nFeaturing Adrian Deane\, Ellen Dunphy\, Kyle Goldman\, Tirumari Jothi\, Brian Martin\, Kyle McReddie\, Sarah Negron\, & Ron Talbot. \n  \n this event repeats Thurs-Sat\, 8pm\, until November 2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unholy-trinity-a-lovecraft-triptych/
LOCATION:EXIT Theatre\, 156 Eddy Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
DESCRIPTION:Seth Donnelly’s new book The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neolilberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically\, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Donnelly analyzes just how global poverty\, rather than being reduced\, is reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as global environmental catastrophes cannot be resolved within capitalism\, rooted as it is in mechanisms of exploitation and plunder\, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.” \nSeth Donnelly is a public school teacher and long-time radical activist. He will be speaking about The Lie of Global Prosperity and discussing the current situation in Haiti (a primary focus of his book) with Pierre Labossiere of the Bay Area-based Haiti Action.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-lie-of-global-prosperity-how-neoliberals-distort-data-to-mask-poverty-and-exploitation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière
DESCRIPTION:Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière\nTuesday\, October 22\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nreading from new poetry \nA Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems \nby Gillian Conoley \npublished by Nightboat Books \nand \nWorks of Love & Terror \nby Donna de la Perrière \npublished by Talisman House \nAbout A Little More Red Sun On The Human: New and Selected Poems: \nGillian Conoley’s selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work\, comprising narrative\, lyric\, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film\, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. \nA Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems forms a completely new trajectory through decades of poetic work\, including three collections previously out of print. In a career that began by chronicling the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood\, Conoley’s work spirals outward toward an inquiry into spirit and matter\, the relation between the individual and the state. Throughout\, one can trace Conoley’s obsessions and concerns: democracy\, metaphysics\, motherhood\, gender and race\, futurity and history. Conoley’s new work posits an inquiry into the coming shifts of human consciousness and perception as she imagines the next world––flush with artificial intelligence\, an ever-arriving\, shape-shifting technology––and the possible communities we may yet forge between human life and a compromised planet. \nPraise for Gillian Conoley \n“Conoley’s poems have a singular energy like an organ solo or a shotgun resorting to storytelling. She adds tool handles to our histories; a set list for our waking souls. And an instrument of self-reflection that a landscape might ponder itself with. On her page\, our natures get away with nothing. All cradled by a ruthlessly loving dance of language; in her poems we meet our twins.” ––Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“Nimble\, inquisitive and intelligently elegant\, the poems in this much anticipated volume reorient phenomena to make meaning with it: personal\, inviting\, knowing\, and necessary. The range of Gillian Conoley’s attention is a marvel.”––Hoa Nguyen \n“Here we find the peculiarly American matter-of-factness of the small town exotic coming face-to-face with intellectual high-brow energy. Carson McCullers meets Gertrude Stein. Perhaps Jane Bowles is an appropriate comparison.”––The Antioch Review \n“Masterfully composed in the hot spaces and so rhythmic sounds Americans have put to their times. ‘Like gold into scar/ a twister in the skull.’”––Alice Notley \nAbout Donna de la Perrière \nDonna de la Perrière is the author of SAINT ERASURE (2010) and TRUE CRIME (2009)\, both from Talisman House. The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry award\, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-conoley-and-donna-de-la-perriere/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amanda Yates Garcia: Initiated
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Yates Garcia discusses her new memoir\, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch. \nPraise for Initiated \n“Mythic journeys to the underworld\, goddesses\, ecstasies\, fairy tales\, ghosts\, love\, sex\, female empowerment\, challenging the patriarchy: Initiated is full of my favorite things\, told with savage grace by my favorite oracle\, the powerful and devastatingly enchanting Amanda Yates Garcia. This book will change your life.”—Francesca Lisa Block \n“I see Amanda Yates Garcia realizing a kind of magic choreography here: reaching back through millennia\, dragging forth darkness by the handful\, recalling ancient women misremembered\, denied\, hounded and destroyed\, holding the pain of misogyny and changing it with intention\, into light.”—Grace Krilanovich\, author of The Orange Eats Creeps \n“Yates Garcia takes us on a sweeping\, expansive\, generous\, and beautifully intuitive journey into feminine power in Initiated. She leads us fearlessly into the dark underworld of patriarchal oppression\, intergenerational trauma\, loss and grief\, where\, she says\, every witch must go to find her magic. This book is a powerful political protest and a call to return to first principles as a nation\, a society\, and a people. Come to it seeking your own artistic and intellectual path\, and leave trusting yourself\, trusting others\, and trusting in the unconditional love you will find in the collective soul of the world.”—Sarah Gerard\, author of Binary Star \nAbout Initiated \nSmoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this haunting\, mystical memoir about finding meaning\, beauty\, and power through a life in witchcraft. \nAn initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia’s mother\, a practicing witch herself\, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old\, Amanda’s real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own. \nDescending into the underworlds of poverty\, sex work\, and misogyny\, Initiated describes Amanda’s journey to return to her body\, harness her power\, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows\, seduced by magicians\, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy\, Amanda’s quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch’s trials – healing ancient wounds\, chafing against cultural expectations\, creating intimacy – all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology\, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history\, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart\, this book speaks to the question: is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it’s dying? \nDeclaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself\, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their wands: stand up\, be brave\, describe the world they want\, then create it like a witch.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amanda-yates-garcia-initiated/
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:LAUNCH for Mimi Lok / Last of Her Name\, w/Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Mimi Lok‘s debut story collection\, Last of Her Name. She’ll be in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up). Please save the date and join us! \nLast of Her Name is an eye-opening novella and story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, Mimi Lok’s debut features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nThe title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, Lok artfully presents unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance. \n\nMimi Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize\, and a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she co-founded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Mimi currently lives in San Francisco\, CA. Find her online at mimilok.com. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up. Her writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. She lives in San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Last of Her Name\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of Rita’s book\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-mimi-lok-last-of-her-name-w-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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