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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:SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join on First Friday. \nBook description:\nSoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents\, channels\, and writes from the many physical\, cultural and economic changes the Bay Area has undergone since 2015. \nAbout the author:\nJosé Vadi is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and producer based in Oakland\, California. His previous poetry chapbooks include Marrow (Discantbelife Press). His work has been featured by the PBS NewsHour\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, McSweeney’s\, New Life Quarterly\, and Catapult. (josevadi.com | @vadiparty)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Project Kalahati\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book\, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a small reading and a big party. \n“Whether writing about dry-cleaned gorilla suits or stillborn infants\, cigarettes or hammers\, moonshine or ashrams\, Sarah Kobrinsky balances with grace on a tightrope strung between the human platforms of the ridiculous and the sublime. Honest\, lyrical\, irreverent\, and profound\, these are poems honed by the blade of awareness and engraved with empathy. ” \n-Elizabeth Rosner\, author of Survivor Cafe\, and the Speed of Light
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nighttime-on-the-other-side-of-everything-book-launch/
LOCATION:Jered’s Pottery\, 5743A Horton St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Word for Word Presents: “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…  A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Presents:\n“EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…\nA Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage  \nSUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED\nNovember 1-7 \nHaving transformed short stories verbatim to the stage for the past 25 years\, Word for Word now wants to extend this singular experience to writers throughout California. The selected short stories reflect many points of view\, from a rich diversity of California’s writers. Festival activities will include a writers salon featuring Greg Sarris (Grand Avenue\, Watermelon Nights\, How A Mountain was Made) and Amy Tan (“The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “The Joy Luck Club”) and other activities. The festival will culminate in staged readings of five jury selected short stories by adults and six jury selected stories by teens\, performed in Word for Word’s signature Off the Page style.  \nClick Here to see a full list of winners\, including picture and bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFESTIVAL SCHEDULE\nLaunch of the Festival Of Short Stories\nwith Greg Sarris and Amy Tan\nFriday November 1\, 7 PM\nJewish Community High School of the Bay\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco 94115 \nKick of the festival with a writer’s Salon with two of Word for Word’s favorite authors\, Greg Sarris and Amy Tan! These two luminaries will speak about the nature of the short story and their experiences with having Word for Word bring their works to the stage. \nWord for Word will revisit snippets the companies past productions of “Citizen” (Sarris) and “Immortal Heart” (Tan). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I am so in love with Word for Word and what they do. I come from a community who generally does not read. After my American Indian community had seen Slaughterhouse\, they were inspired to read.”  \n–Greg Sarris \nGreg Sarris is a Native American author whose books include Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Word for Word is a marvel. While respecting the author’s every word\, the company also manages to create something completely new\, going well beyond the page into an art that has no words. I was completely bowled over by the acting\, the stage\, the costumes\, the choreography—the sheer power of the experience of watching words come to life.” \n–Amy Tan \nAmy Tan is the celebrated author of The Joy Luck Club\, The Bonesetter’s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and other novels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO FESTIVAL LAUNCH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #1\nFeaturing “Arithmetic” by Michael Alenyikov\, “The 14 Mission” by Anita Cabrera”\, “The Ruins” by Lindsey Crittenden \nSaturday\, November 2\, 8 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #2\nFeaturing “Blue Ruin” by Katherine Lieban\, “Cancer Poems” by Kim Addonizio \nSunday\, November 3\, 5 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeen Winners\nFeaturing”Middle School Advice” by Kenzo Fukuda\, “Atop the Saltback Mountain” by Tess Horton\, “Here’s a Theory Darling” by Sofi Orkin\, “The Magnolia Man” by Stella Pfahler\, “Matter of the Heart and Mind” by Charlotte Pocock and “Cancer” by Maya Reihanian  \nThursday\, November 7\, 7:30 PM – Children’s Creativity Museum at Yerba Buena Gardens \nThis program features staged readings from our teen category. Come out and revel at our next generation of writers! \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO TEEN WINNERS\n\n\n\n\nStand with the bear! Be a literary champion and support California writers by sponsoring or partnering with “Exactly!” They Said…\nSponsorship / Partner benefits available.\nContact Vanessa Flores at vflores@zspace.org or at 415. 659.8134 to learn more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-exactly-they-said-a-festival-of-short-stories-by-california-writers-brought-straight-to-the-stage/
LOCATION:various venues\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mikhal Dekel: Tehran Children
DESCRIPTION:Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book\, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. \nPraise for Tehran Children \n“A revelatory history\, a saga of flight and welcome\, of death and head-down survival\, a powerful narrative built for this moment. Dekel’s sweeping storytelling is marked by heartbreaking restraint and historical sensitivity.”—Charles King\, Georgetown University\, author of Odessa and Midnight at the Pera Palace \n“Though their story is seldom told\, most Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust did so by taking the road east\, into the Soviet Union. In tracing the harrowing journey of her father’s escape\, Mikhal Dekel provides a multi-layered and nuanced account. . . . Her exploration of the peculiar refugee world in 1940s Tehran — especially the tense relations between Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees in that city – makes the book an important and timely addition to the literature of the Holocaust and modern refugee history.” — Tom Reiss\, author of The Orientalist and The Black Count \n“In this brilliantly conceived narrative\, Mikhal Dekel reconstructs her father’s and grandmother’s circuitous journeys by land and sea through Iran on the way from Poland to Palestine in the years of the Holocaust. Retracing their lives as she lives her own\, in turn she illuminates a series of unexpected places absent from many maps of the refugee experience of the era. A striking book.”—Samuel Moyn\, Yale University\, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World \nAbout Tehran Children \nAuthor Mikhal Dekel’s father\, Hannan Teitel\, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries\, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there\, Dekel’s father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated via Polish military transport to Iran\, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community celebrating familiar rituals in unfamiliar ways. Months later\, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine\, where\, at the endpoint of their 13\,000 mile journey\, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the “Tehran Children” was far from straightforward\, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel. \nBeginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father\, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story\, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague\, a Polish PiS politician\, a Russian oligarch\, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity\, of fate and destiny\, of hospitality and of cruelty\, of love and hate. The experiences her father and aunt endured\, along with so many others\, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers\, profoundly and permanently\, during and after the war. \nWith literary grace\, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust\, whose governing symbol is not the concentration camp\, but the refugee\, and whose center is not Europe\, but Central Asia and the Middle East. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhal-dekel-tehran-children/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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