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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Armistead Maupin And Alia Volz For Rakestraw Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Alia Volz and Armistead Maupin. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). She is a MacDowell Colonist and a Ucross Foundation Fellow. Other writings appear in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, and Dig If You Will The Picture: Remembering Prince. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan from weedy hippie stock. \nArmistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Rakestraw Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Alchemy of the Reset with Natalie G. Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Alchemy of the Reset is a conversation series hosted and created by Senior Fellows Brett Cook and Liz Lerman and YBCA Chief of Program Meklit Hadero. The Senior Fellows program centers interdisciplinary artists and curators who are interested in developing systems and structures that catalyze artist-driven change as leaders in our organization and in the life of our community. \nIn the wake of current social crises\, including both COVID and ongoing racist police violence\, our society must do the work to leap forward\, to transform. Already\, we are seeing glimmers of this. Over several weeks\, Cook\, Lerman and Hadero will be dialoguing with thought leaders\, including artists\, scientists\, educators and more whose work points us to some of these new systems. In line with the characteristic community building backgrounds of Cook and Lerman\, this is about a heart and human centered approach\, with opportunities for audience connectivity and engagement. \n  \nNatalie G. Diaz\nNatalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles\, California\, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection\, When My Brother Was an Aztec\, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship\, the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, a Hodder Fellowship\, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency\, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at Arizona State University. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley\, Arizona\, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language. \nHosts: \n\n\n\nBrett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His public projects often involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy along with contemplative practices\, performance\, and food to create a fluid boundary between art making\, daily life\, and healing. \nTeaching and public speaking are extensions of Cook’s social practice that involve communities in dialogue to generate experiences of reflection and insight. He has taught at all academic levels in a variety of subjects\, and published in academic journals at the Maryland Institute College of Art\, and Columbia and Harvard Universities. In 2009\, he published Who Am I In This Picture: Amherst College Portraits with Brett Cook and Wendy Ewald through Amherst College Press. \nCook has received numerous awards\, including the Lehman Brady Visiting Professorship at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and the Richard C. Diebenkorn Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute. Recognized for a history of socially relevant\, community engaged projects\, he was selected as a cultural ambassador to Nigeria as part of the U.S. Department of State’s 2012 smARTpower Initiative and an inaugural A Blade of Grass Fellow for Socially Engaged Art in 2014. Cook’s work has been featured in private and public collections including the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery\, the Walker Art Center\, and Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeklit Hadero is an Ethiopian American vocalist\, songwriter\, composer and cultural activist making music that sways between cultures and continents. \nHer innovative take on ethio-jazz has taken her around the world\, from her home base of San Francisco to her home city of Addis Ababa (where she is a household name). Hadero has founded and led many creative and cultural initiatives\, from musical collaborations to performance series. She is a National Geographic Explorer\, a TED Senior Fellow\, former codirector of the Red Poppy Art House\, and has served as an artist in residence at New York University and Harvard University. \n\n\n\nLiz Lerman is a choreographer\, performer\, writer\, educator and speaker\, and the recipient of numerous honors\, including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant\,” a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance\, and the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists\, construction workers to ballerinas\, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory\, relevant\, urgent\, and usable by others. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011. She was an artist-in-residence and visiting lecturer at Harvard University in 2011\, and her most recent work\, Healing Wars\, toured across the US in 2014-15. Lerman conducts residencies on Critical Response Process\, creative research\, the intersection of art and science\, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institutions as Harvard University\, Yale School of Drama\, Wesleyan University\, Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, and the National Theatre Studio\, among others. Her collection of essays\, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer\, was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press and released in paperback in 2014. In 2016 Lerman was named the first Institute Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University\, where she is building a lab focused on creative research.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Armistead Maupin And Alia Volz For Rakestraw Books
DESCRIPTION:It’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Alia Volz and Armistead Maupin. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). She is a MacDowell Colonist and a Ucross Foundation Fellow. Other writings appear in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California\, and Dig If You Will The Picture: Remembering Prince. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan from weedy hippie stock. \nArmistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Rakestraw Books. Shop online now! \n\nJune 17 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Matt Ortile\, Nicole Chung and Cinelle Barnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday June 17th at 5:00pm PDT for Matt Ortile discussing his new book\, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I’ve Made About Race\, Resistance\, and Romance with Nicole Chung and Cinelle Barnes. \nZoom Login \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82645267456 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82645267456#  or +12532158782\,\,82645267456#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799\nWebinar ID: 826 4526 7456\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcncUD1CD1 \nPraise for The Groom Will Keep His Name \nMatt Ortile’s ardent and precocious collection sets the page aflame with its explosive mixture of passion and politics\, cultural analysis and self-examination. Cruising through virtual and nocturnal circuits\, Ortile riffs like a guitar savant on what it means to be a young wanderer in the city today with astute carnality and endearing candor. The Groom Will Keep His Name is a daring brown and queer manifesto that proclaims to everyone making our way in the world: never bow to the false gods of whiteness and normalcy.—Meredith Talusan\, author of Fairest \nAbout The Groom Will Keep His Name \nA riotous collection of “witty and captivating” (Bitch Magazine) essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America learning that everything is about sex–and sex is about power\nWhen Matt Ortile moved from Manila to Las Vegas\, the locals couldn’t pronounce his name. Harassed as a kid for his brown skin\, accent\, and femininity\, he believed he could belong in America by marrying a white man and shedding his Filipino identity. This was the first myth he told himself. The Groom Will Keep His Name explores the various tales Ortile spun about what it means to be a Vassar Girl\, an American Boy\, and a Filipino immigrant in New York looking to build a home. \nAs we meet and mate\, we tell stories about ourselves\, revealing not just who we are\, but who we want to be. Ortile recounts the relationships and whateverships that pushed him to confront his notions of sex\, power\, and the model minority myth. Whether swiping on Grindr\, analyzing DMs\, or cruising steam rooms\, Ortile brings us on his journey toward radical self-love with intelligence\, wit\, and his heart on his sleeve.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Laila Lalami\, The Other Americans
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with author Laila Lalami to discuss her latest book now out in paperback\, The Other Americans.  This timely\, powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant\, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. The Other Americans is at once a family saga\, a murder mystery\, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\nLate one spring night\, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California\, he is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui’s daughter Nora\, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she’d left for good; her mother\, Maryam\, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efrain\, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy\, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman\, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets; Anderson\, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters—deeply divided by race\, religion\, and class—tell their stories\, each in their own voice\, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts its secrets\, a town faces its hypocrisies\, and love—messy and unpredictable—is born. \nLaila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits\, Secret Son\, and The Moor’s Account\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and which won the American Book Award\, the Arab American Book Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s Magazine\, and The Guardian. In 2019\, she was awarded the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize for her body of work. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside\, she lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-laila-lalami-the-other-americans/
LOCATION:CA
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