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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar
DESCRIPTION:THE RACKET READING SERIES:\nTOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR\nZOOM LINK TO COME!\nWe’re doing a weekly reading series.\nAnd this week\, oooooh weeee\, are we excited. Hector Tobar – author of Deep Down Dark and The Last Great Road Bum and much\, much more – is joining us for TOTAL RECALL. It’ll be a night of nostalgic\, memory\, tricks of memory\, not being able to remember things and so on and so on.\nDoors @ 7:00PM. Show @ 7:15PM.\nLINK TO COME.\n\nTHE READERS (for now):\nHéctor Tobar\nSage Curtis\nClaire Calderón\nDanielle Truppi
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book\, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \nAbout Erosion: Essays of Undoing\nTerry Tempest Williams’s fierce\, spirited\, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America’s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?” \nWe know the elements of erosion: wind\, water\, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here\, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy\, science\, compassion\, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which “oil rigs light up the horizon.” And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction\, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and\, at times\, within herself. \nThese essays are Williams’s call to action\, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional\, geographical\, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered\, worn\, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nErosion is a book for this moment\, political and spiritual at once\, written by one of our greatest naturalists\, essayists\, and defenders of the environment. She reminds us that beauty is its own form of resistance\, and that water can crack stone. \nAbout Terry Tempest Williams\nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah.
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SUMMARY:ACCENTED | She Who Has No Master(s): Would That
DESCRIPTION:The She Who Has No Master(s) Collective will discuss their virtual exhibit “Would That” at the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery \nThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora \, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers\, poets\, artists\, actors\, filmmakers\, scholars\, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. \n—\nThis installation of ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora will be Friday\, October 16th\, 2020 at 7:30pm PST \, hosted by the She Who Has No Master(s) Collective\, featuring Dao Strom\, Diana Khoi Nguyen\, Sophia Terazawa\, Vi Khi Nao\, and Vina Vo. The conversation will center around the collective’s ongoing virtual exhibit in collaboration with Salt Lake City Community College and the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery. \nShe Who Has No Master(s) : Would That gathers into poetic concert the voices of: Angie Chau / Lan Duong / Vi Khi Nao / Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen / Diana Khoi Nguyen / Hoa Nguyen / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud / Aimee Phan / Abbigail N. Rosewood / Dao Strom / Sophia Terazawa / Stacey Tran / Julie Thi Underhill \nAs women/womxn of the Vietnamese diaspora\, our bodies hold many would thats: hungers\, silences\, absences\, wonder(ings)s\, and wound(er)ings. There are many things we might wonder would that be\, would that have been\, would we be—other/not Other(ed) than we are or have been? However\, in the Vietnamese language—which we stem from but here do not write in—there is no such thing as the subjective tense\, which\, if it is to be conveyed in Vietnamese must rely on the context—the surrounding environment—of its adjoining words; what surrounds the action or description places it in or out of time. Which may be to say\, what surrounds us is what places us in relation to: history\, inheritance\, the present\, possible futures. We have migrated through time and across geographies\, and time and contexts in varying ways have migrated with and within us. As bodies\, we know ourselves to be repositories of no-longer-present actions and events\, of many layers of witness and memory\, of inheritances both evident and abstract\, of potential futures too—desires\, fears\, unknowns. But what if we dis-place our (kn)own bodies from the seeable backgrounds\, and what if we re-make those bodies? What if we absent our enfigured selves and ask you instead to (learn to) read anew the spaces left behind? This exhibit explores those spaces of the self\, and self-conception/s\, and challenges how you will read us\, how you will see us\, as a cohesive yet collective\, diasporic\, multi-voiced\, Vietnamese-feminine descended entity. \nAbout the Guests: \nDAO STROM is the author of the poetry collection\, Instrument (Fonograf Editions\, 2020)\, and its musical companion piece\, Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records\, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book\, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press\, 2018); a memoir\, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People\, and song cycle\, East/West (2015)\, and two books of fiction\, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys (2006) and Grass Roof\, Tin Roof (2003). She has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation\, Literary Arts\, RACC\, NEA\, and others. She is co-founder of the art collective\, She Who Has No Master(s). \nA poet and multimedia artist\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018)\, which was selected by Terrance Hayes. In addition to winning the 92Y “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest\, 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and Colorado Book Award\, she was also a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. A Kundiman fellow\, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. \nSophia Terazawa is the author of two chapbooks: I AM NOT A WAR (Essay Press) and Correspondent Medley (Factory Hollow Press)\, winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona\, and her favorite color is purple. \nVI KHI NAO is the author of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press\, 2019) Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit\, 2018)\, Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913\, 2017)\, The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014)\, & of the short stories collection\, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize)\, the novel\, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press\, 2016). Her work includes poetry\, fiction\, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. \nShe Who Has No Master(s) is a project of multi-voiced collectivity\, hybrid poetics\, encounters\, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through a collaborative art and writing process this project brings together voices of women/womxn writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. She Who Has No Master(s) initiated in 2015 as a group of Vietnamese women writers (and we include in this designation: cis\, queer\, trans\, nonbinary) who in coming together aim to express the diversity and complexity of our diasporic experiences and perspectives. This collective-collaborative process roots itself in the literary art form\, but expresses the literary in hybrid and multiple modalities to create “multi-voice” and hybrid-poetic artworks. Each piece and/or series will always engage different formations and numbers of “voices” with the belief that this poly-vocality\, while honoring the nuances of individual visions and beings\, also expresses the dynamic plurality and connectivity that exists within our diaspora. // She Who Has No Master(s) is a project of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). \nAbout the Host: \nVina Vo is a writer\, storyteller\, community building consultant and facilitator living in the Bay Area. She is the co-editor of the anthology this is my body (Nomadic Press\, 2019). She is consistently envisioning a world where people can create their way to freedom through her community work and also her work as co-founder of the Novalia Collective: novaliacollective.com \nAbout the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nDVAN is partnering with Eastwind Books of Berkeley for all book sales and shipping\, and books from featured authors will be available on https://asiabookcenter.com for a discounted price. \nAll funds raised for ACCENTED will go towards supporting DVAN’s mission to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora and connect them to diasporic communities all over the globe. \nThis program is sponsored by the DVAN@SFSU Project of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. \nFor more information about the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) please visit our website at https://dvan.org or follow us on Instagram (@weare_dvan) \nDVAN believes that the stories\, imaginaries\, and poetics of a thriving Vietnamese diaspora can unite our global community. Our mission is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese voices. DVAN presents nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora and to promote understanding and dialogue within our community\, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees\, immigrants\, survivors\, and descendants\, and our stories must be heard.
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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