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SUMMARY:You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful storytelling event\, award-winning performer Kimberly Dark shares stories from her new book\, FAT\, PRETTY\, AND SOON TO BE OLD (AK Press\, 2019)\, in order to remind us: “You don’t owe anyone pretty\,” and “We are creating the world\, even as it creates us.” \nIn this moving and hilarious show\, Kimberly Dark invites her audience to live in the experience of the body\, not the appearance of the body. Drawing from her own experience as a fat\, queer\, white-privileged\, recently disabled\, inevitably aging\, gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face\,” Kimberly Dark deftly blends storytelling and social analysis to reveal the presence of everyday appearance privilege (and stigma). Join her to explore how the architecture of this social world constrains us and how we might help one another break free. \nTuesday\, December 10\, 7pm at Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102\n$15 suggested donation\, with no one turned away due to lack of funds.\n\nThere will be a book signing after the event. \n— \n“Sexy and often fearless and real … Kimberly Dark is hilarious and heart breaking.” —Terese Mailhot\, NYT bestselling author of Heartberries \n“Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self—mind\, body\, and spirit\, full throttle\, without apology … Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan \n“Dark explores the real of her own stories to question the currency of beauty and appearance. What have we actually been sold? What have we bought into about our bodies? Has the exchange ever really been worth the price?” —Sonya Renee Taylor\, author of The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love \n— \nKimberly Dark is a writer\, sociologist and raconteur\, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay\, poem\, and story at a time. The author of three books\, ten plays and numerous essays\, she’s been touring internationally for more than twenty years. More at kimberlydark.com \nThis venue is ADA accessible. For further info\, visit: https://www.counterpulse.org/visiting/ \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/you-dont-owe-anyone-pretty/
LOCATION:Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An evening with Kal Spelletich
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Kal Spelletich\nTuesday\, December 10\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nin conversation with Catharine Clark \ndiscussing his new project \nSignificance Machines and Purposeful Robots \n‘Significance Machines and Purposeful Robots’ is an exhibit of work by Kal Spelletich at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art through December 2019 that includes life size praying robots\, photos\, sound machines\, drawings\, videos and interactive sculptures which explore the question: can technology do spiritual work? Via audience operated robots that are meditative and violent\, Spelletich’s work enacts a liberated awareness and pushes his audience to a creative response to in their own lives. \nCity Lights celebrates the release of the catalog for this show. The catalog is enshrined inside a unique artifact produced in a limited edition. The artifact is composed of a suitcase shell that contains a mechanized spinning stone Buddha\, LED lights\, sound recording of spiritual music\, a speaker\, laser cut text on acrylic\, caliper measuring tool\, assorted photos\, drawings and prints\, a thumb drive with videos photos and texts\, pen\, paper\, laser cut marble\, folded sculpture\, monograph\, and whiskey. The catalogue was organized by Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art curator\, April Bojorquez\, with a forward by Lauren MacDonald\, and an interview by Catherine Clarke that provide perspectives on the work and the artist in relation to contemporary art and technology issues. \nKal Spelletich builds interactive machines and robots. He scours the world for industrial items in which the technology can be repurposed. Spelletich has collaborated with artists all over the world though his home base is in San Francisco. Kal works with bio-morphic sensors\, (sometimes uncontrollable) that trigger his robots and provide viewers with a hands-on interactive experience. His work mines the space between what robots and humans can and cannot do. Recent exhibits of his work have been held in Namibia\, Lubjianna\, Berlin\, Vienna\, New York\, India\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. A monographic exhibit of his work will be presented at Saint Mary’s College in August 2019. Spelletich’s practice is across genres and his work extends to curating exhibits and activism. His projects have been featured in the NY Times\, PBS\, and in other critical journals and media. \nCatharine Clark is the founder of the Catharine Clark Gallery\, established in 1991. The internationally acclaimed gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition\, they also curate changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room. New exhibits open every six weeks. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary dealer for an acclaimed roster of international artists: Sandow Birk\, Lenka Clayton\, Chris Doyle\, Al Farrow\, Nina Katchadourian\, Kara Maria\, Deborah Oropallo\, Stephanie Syjuco\, Josephine Taylor\, Masami Teraoka\, and Wanxin Zhang. In 2016\, Catharine Clark founded BOX BLUR\, an initiative to bring visual and performing art into dialogue within the non-proscenium-based space of the gallery. To learn more visit: https://cclarkgallery.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-kal-spelletich/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking\, Remaking\, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos\, 2019). \nFederici surveys the paradigms that govern how the body is conceived and the disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist writer\, teacher\, and militant. Her books include Witches\, Witch-Hunting\, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University and co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-book-launch-of-beyond-the-periphery-of-the-skin/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo\, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation\, made history this year when she became the 23rd US Poet Laureate\, making her the first Native American poet to hold the honor. \nHarjo has championed the art of poetry – “soul talk\,” as she calls it – for over four decades. To her\, poems are “carriers of dreams\, knowledge and wisdom\,” and through them\, she tells an American story of tradition and loss\, reckoning and myth-making. Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct\, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are. \nHarjo is the author of several poetry collections including Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings\, She Had Some Horses and An American Sunrise. Her memoir\, Crazy Brave\, won the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, among other honors. Also a renowned musician\, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally\, solo and with her band\, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning albums including Red Dreams\, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way\, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/us-poet-laureate-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T193000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Room For Dessert
DESCRIPTION:The perfect ending to the year and any good meal. We’re satisfied. We’re bloated. We’ve got those full-belly-bedroom-eyes. But you know what\, Sunbeams? We still need a little sweetness\, some decadence\, some hospitality\, some whipped cream on top of this 10-year-long-year. \nJoin us to make your final course of 2019 sweet. ♥ \n___ \nHAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions. \nThis month’s writers are: \nBridget Callahan\nCasey Childers\nKimberly Gomes\nTomas Moniz\nSteve Wilson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-room-for-dessert/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Open Mic at the Black Rep
DESCRIPTION:Music\, Comedy and Spoken Word \nEvery 2nd & 4th Tuesday \nSign-Ups @ 7:30 PM \nGeneral Admission: $5 Per Person \nTickets available online and at-the-door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-at-the-black-rep/
LOCATION:Black Repertory Group Theater\, 3201 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T193000
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SUMMARY:YG2D: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Dec10\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \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/yg2d-poetry-prose-everything-goes-the-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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