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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
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LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T150000
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SUMMARY:Redress: Book Talk with Author John Tateishi
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 27 at 3pm\nRSVP with Eventbrite to access the Zoom link. \nAuthor John Tateishi discusses his book\, Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations\, in conversation with Patricia Wakida\, editor of Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. \nBooks are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose ship to home or pick up in store at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave. Berkeley\, CA 94704. \n—\nAbout the Book:\nThis is the true story of the Japanese American Citizens League’s fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100\,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi\, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years\, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community: for many\, the shame of “camp” was so deep that they could not even speak of it; money was a taboo subject; the question of the value of liberty was insulting.\nBesides internal discord\, the American public was largely unaware that there had been concentration camps on US soil\, and Tateishi knew that concessions from Congress would only come with mass education about the government’s civil rights violations. Beyond the backroom politicking and verbal fisticuffs that make this book a swashbuckling read\, Redress is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens; how to restore honor; and what duty it has to protect such harms from happening again. This book has powerful implications as the idea of reparations shapes our national conversation. \nAbout the Speakers:\nJohn Tateishi\, born in Los Angeles\, was incarcerated from ages three to six at Manzanar\, one of America’s ten World War II concentration camps. He studied English Lit at UC Berkeley and attended UC Davis for graduate studies. He played important roles in leading the campaign for Japanese American redress\, and as the JACL director\, used the lessons of the campaign to help ensure that the rights of this nation’s Arab and Muslim communities were protected after 9/11. \nPatricia Miye Wakida is a fourth generation Japanese American artist\, writer\, and community historian. For the past fifteen years\, she has worked with numerous cultural institutions such as the Japanese American National Museum\, Discover Nikkei\, the Oakland Museum of California\, and the Densho Encyclopedia project. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Library\, UCB\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, Asian Pacific American Student Development\, UCB
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Summer" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos of this moment in time\, or go back in history or memory to a time when summer felt different\, or imagine a new kind of summer for the future. Travel or stay home\, either way\, we’ll be right here. Put on a summer hat and join us for a summer open mic. Online. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJUNE FEATURES: Tess Taylor and Alia Volz \nSaturday\, June 27\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on June 20. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. To sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature again and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 956 8283 0985\nPassword: 474874 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/95682830985?pwd=Vk5MWHhPK3N4Mzk2Skp4Q2NOcDRnQT09 \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 \nSNS misses its home at Nick’s Lounge and hopes to return soon. Meanwhile\, please support Nick’s Lounge on GoFundMe: \nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nicks-lounge-karaoke-support-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nTess Taylor is the author of the chapbook The Misremembered World\, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship\, The Forage House\, which was a finalist for the Believer poetry prize\, and Work & Days\, which was named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by The New York Times. Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed her as “the poet for our moment.” In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: Last West\, part of Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition at the MoMA\, and Rift Zone\, from Red Hen Press. She is a poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, The Threepenny Review\, and many other publications. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air.
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