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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:Monica Youn
DESCRIPTION:Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems\, most recently BLACKACRE (2016)\, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award\, and longlisted for the National Book Award. Her book IGNATZ (2010) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship\, among other awards. She teaches at Princeton and in the MFA programs at NYU and Columbia. She is a former lawyer\, a daughter of Korean immigrants\, and a member of the curatorial collective The Racial Imaginary Institute.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monica-youn/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Women* Bike Book Club: Back in the Frame
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to read Back in the Frame by Jools Walker for our November meeting. \nJools Walker\, the writer behind the blog VeloCityGirl\, rediscovered biking in her late 20’s after a ten-year absence from the saddle. Through blogging\, a whole world opened up – but it’s hard to find space in an industry not traditionally open to women – especially women of color. \nHer memoir of “bikes\, blogs\, and riding through depression” is a deeply personal and highly relatable story. From the intro: \nThis book isn’t going to tell you how to become a ‘proper’ cyclist. The truth is\, that doesn’t exist. I’ve had cycling do’s and don’ts rammed down my throat and I’m tired of it. […] So instead\, this book is about celebrating cycling! Riding a bike is one of the most joyful things you can do\, so any rules or restrictions are to be banished. Cycling should be for absolutely everyone\, without barriers. \n<3 <3 <3 \nPick up a copy now at Golden Gate! \nQuestions? Please call 510-597-5023 or email esanders@oaklandlibrary.org. \nWomen Bike Book Club is a collaboration between the Oakland Public Library and Bike East Bay. More info on their Women Bike program here. \nWhen\n\n\nThursday\, November 7\, 2019 – 6:00pm – 7:30pm\n\nWhere\nGolden Gate Branch\nLower Level Auditorium (please use rear entrance\, and feel free to bring your bike inside!) \n\n\n\n\n\n5606 San Pablo Ave.\nOakland\, CA 94608 \nPhone: (510) 597-5023
URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-bike-book-club-back-in-the-frame/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Golden Gate Branch\, 5606 San Pablo Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, José Antonio Villarán
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year\, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary small publisher Cardboard House Press\, dedicated to work in translation from Latin America and Spain\, and its offshoot\, Cartonera Collective\, “a team of book makers devoted to the production of bilingual book art from Latin American authors.” This event at The Poetry Center is co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies\, SF State. The following evening the poets will be reading and conversing at The Green Arcade\, on Market at Gough\, in San Francisco. Both events are free and open to the public. Please come! \n• For this occasion\, Tripwire journal will be producing a new Cardboard House/Cartonera Collective volume in its Tripwire Pamphlet Series! \nGiancarlo Huapaya (Lima\, Peru) has published three collections of poetry\, the most recently\, Taller Sub Verso (Sub Verse Workshop) (2011\, 2013). His poems and translations have appeared in the anthologies 4M3R1C4 (Chile)\, Aguas Móviles (Peru)\, Cholos (Guatemala)\, OOMPH! (US)\, and in the journals Erizo (Mexico-EEUU)\, Buenos Aires Poetry (Argentina)\, Poesía (Venezuela)\, Zunái (Brazil)\, Jacket2 (US)\, Anomaly (US)\, Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM (México)\, among others. He is Founder and Editor of Cardboard House Press\, a nonprofit publishing house for Latin American and Spanish literature in translation. As a curator of visual poetry\, he has presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco and the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. In 2016\, he edited the anthology Pulenta Pool: Peruvian Poets in the United States for Hostos Review. As literary translator\, he has translated into Spanish work by C.D Wright\, Susan Briante\, Ross Gay\, Carmen Giménez Smith and Alli Warren. Currently\, he is MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso. \nOmar Pimienta is a writer/artist who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity\, trans-nationality\, emergency poetics\, sociopolitical landscape and memory. He has published four books of poetry in U.S\, México and Spain. Album of Fences\, translated by José Antonio Villarán\, was published by Cardboard House Press in 2018. He won the Emilio Prado 10th International Publication prize from the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 Malaga Spain. His work as a visual artist has been recently shown\, at the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc\, and was part of the Getty Foundation\, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. In 2017-18 he was awarded an Art Matters Grant. More here. \nJose Antonio Villarán (parent/writer/teacher) is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (Matalamanga\, 2006) & el cerrajero (Album del Universo Bakterial\, 2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences\, by Omar Pimienta (Cardboard House Press\, 2018); and creator of the AMLT project\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship\, which was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2019. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California San Diego\, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-cardboard-house-press-cartonera-collective-giancarlo-huapaya-omar-pimienta-jose-antonio-villaran/
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:Give Us The Word
DESCRIPTION:Give Us The Word\, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom\, words of resistance\, words to inspire\, words that heal. Words that help QTPoC folks get to the other side. We need US. QTPOC writers\, readers\, singers\, talkers\, storytellers and thought makers speak to our lives\, loves and desires in this world and in this crazy moment. Our very Special Guest: Blackberri Singer\, Chibueze Crouch\, Mason Jairo\, Carolyn Wysinger and Dazie Grego-Sykes. This is A Free Event \nQueer Rebels is supported by The California Arts Council\, SFAC\, The Zellerbach Foundation Grants for The Arts and Intersection For The Arts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/give-us-the-word/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \n· A uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\n· Covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\n· Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has brain cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-scheeres-hosting-q-a-with-author-mary-merv-ladd/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:CHRIS HUGHES In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin
DESCRIPTION:In 2002\, Chris Hughes met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard\, in his freshman year\, and the two co-founded what would become Facebook. In 2007\, Hughes left Facebook to volunteer for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign\, and went on to found his own non-profit social network organization\, Jumo. He later purchased a majority stake in The New Republic and became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In May of 2019\, Hughes published an Op-Ed in the New York Times\, entitled “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook\,” calling for government regulation of the platform\, and reflecting on the troubling directions that he believed Facebook to have moved since his departure. Hughes is also the author of Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality\, an exhortative book arguing for a guaranteed income for working people\, to be paid for by one percenters like himself. \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 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/chris-hughes-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:Eves at the Beat: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis months Eves at the Beat is curated by the fabulous Thea Matthews And MC’d Shelley Wong \nReaders for this event: \nAudrey T. Williams is a Poet|Writer|Activist. In 2018\, she earned her MFA in Writing from CCA. She writes through a lens of Black\, multi-cultural ancestry infused with flights of fantasy. Current projects: Of Chutneys and Chitlins: Stories from a Multi-cultural American Girl and Liberation Spells: What to Say to Center Yourself. \nMarguerite Munoz writes mostly in East Bay and from her sickbed when she has a cold. Her 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. Under the sponsorship of Alley Cat Books and Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia\, she co-curates the six-year-old multilingual reading series Voz sin Tinta\, which is committed to showcasing writers whose voices may otherwise go unheard. \n@Katie Aliferis is the Poet Laureate of feta cheese and Greek seas. She has been a featured performer at Greek Writers Night\, the SFSU Center for Modern Greek Studies\, VelRo’s Global Voices: A Celebration of Translation and International Creative Writing\, and other events. Find Katie (in person) to commune over Greek coffee or (online\, if that’s your thing) at KatieAliferis.com and @Katie_Aliferis (Twitter and Instagram). \nConnie Zheng is a project-based artist\, writer and filmmaker who was born in China\, grew up in the Northeastern United States\, and is currently based out of Berkeley\, California. Her work is interested in developing new language around the apocalypse\, the difference between “disaster porn” and “disaster erotica”\, diasporic place-making\, and the political potentials enabled by fantasy as a means of community- building amidst climate change. She received an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley\, as well as a BA in Economics and English (Creative Nonfiction) from Brown University. Currently\, she is a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. \nLisa Galloway is a queer San Francisco-based poet\, Litquake’s Elder Project Director\, and Foglifter Press’ Development Director. She is a graduate of Pacific University’s MFA program in Poetry and was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow. She is the author of Liminal: A Life of Cleavage from Lost Horse Press. In her free time\, she enjoys riveting conversations with her best editor\, a wily\, orange\, polydactyl cat named Snacks. \nAmanda Moore‘s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA\, Cream City Review\, and Best New Poets\, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is a Contributing Poetry Editor at Women’s Voices for Change\, a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center\, a 2019 Fellow at The Writers Grotto\, and a new recipient of the Brown-Handler Writer’s Residency through the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Amanda is a high school teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter. More at http://amandapmoore.com \n@Yeva Johnson\, a Black American Jewish queer Lesbian feminist mother and musician\, is an emerging poet whose day job is in the health professions. \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-2/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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