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SUMMARY:Santa Clara University Osher: Exciting Adult Learning Zoom Classes
DESCRIPTION:Fall Quarter Open Now through December 4th\, 2020 \nOLLI@SCU: Enjoy learning from home with exciting Zoom (virtual) classes taught by instructors who design their varied courses for curious audiences like you. Join and take advantage of our classes\, events\, and programs (currently remote until safe to be in-person) designed for adult learners who love learning. We offer more than 15 thought-provoking courses each quarter\, on a variety of topics including history\, science\, art\, current events\, law\, literature and culture – all without homework\, tests or grades. There are member-only Special Interest Groups exploring such topics as food\, genealogy\, Italy\, mystery books\, memoir writing\, photography and contemporary issues. OLLI@SCU is here for you\, now. Join us! \nMembership is $55; course fees vary from $50 – $110 depending on length. \nPresented by Santa Clara University Osher Lifelong Learning.
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Walk with Obi: Coast Redwoods on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Take a once-in-a-lifetime virtual walk with Obi Kaufmann as he explores habitat recovery & restoration of a burned coast redwood forest. \nPRESENTED BY HEYDAY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SEMPERVIRENS FUND. Books provided by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe story of the coast redwood is the story of a genetic lineage that stretches back to a time before the dinosaurs. Having evolved over the past several hundred million years to emerge as we find them today\, the tallest tree to ever have lived on planet earth\, coast redwoods are responsible for unique habitats that harbor a wealth of biodiversity found nowhere else. Although California’s mighty redwood forests can survive fire\, flood\, and a slew of other natural stressors\, the onslaught of climate breakdown and a cacophony of other human-made threats presents unprecedented challenges to these precious\, irreplaceable ecosystems. \nJoin Obi Kaufmann\, author of The Forests of California (Heyday/September 2020)\, as he journeys into an old-growth redwood grove\, one owned and managed by Sempervirens Fund that burned just a few months ago\, to reveal the ecological mechanisms already at work repairing the battered forest. Despite the compounded injuries of fire\, fragmentation\, climate\, and poor-policy\, Obi’s profound message of good stewardship and hope as an actionable tool is an important and timely perspective\, not only towards the conservation of the forest\, but to the future of our own human residency in this beautiful and perilous place\, California. \nLive Q&A with attendees following the event. \nCLICK HERE FOR TICKET INFORMATION.
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SUMMARY:Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Tune in at 5:00pm PT on 11/17/20 to watch the public live stream of this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter or Long Now Live. \nNadia Eghbal is particularly interested in infrastructure\, governance\, and the economics of the internet – and how the dynamics of these subjects play out in software\, online communities and generally living life online. \nEghbal\, who interviewed hundreds of developers while working to improve their experience at GitHub\, argues that modern open source offers us a model through which to understand the challenges faced by online creators. Her new book\, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software\, is about open source developers and what they tell us about the evolution of our online social spaces. \nEghbal sees open source code as a form of public infrastructure that requires maintenance\, and that offers us a model through which to understand the challenges faced by online creators on all platforms.
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SUMMARY:FREEMAN'S: Best New Writings on LOVE
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman with Robin Coste Lewis\, Tommy Orange\, and Matt Summell \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by Litquake and City Lights as part of the LITQUAKE 2020 Festival on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nJohn Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love\n\nFREEMAN’S: Best New Writings on LOVE\nEdited by John Freeman\nPublished by Grove Press\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse\, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series\, Freeman’s Love asks this question\, bringing together literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange\, Anne Carson\, Louise Erdrich\, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging writers such as Gunnhild Øyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinović. \nMehmedinović contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the aftermath of his wife’s stroke\, describing how the two reassembled their lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo’s charming and painful “Good People” introduces us to two sets of married professors who have been together for decades\, and for whom love still exists\, but between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami tells the tale of a one-night stand that feels like a dying sun. \nTogether\, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the complexities of love\, tracing it from its earliest stirrings\, to the forbidden places where it emerges against reason\, to loss so deep it changes the color of perception. In a time when we need it the most\, this issue promises what only love can bring: a solace of complexity and warmth. \n\n\nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages.  \nRobin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. In 2015\, her debut poetry collection\, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf) won the National Book Award in poetry––the first time a poetry debut by an African-American had ever won the prize in the National Book Foundation’s history\, and the first time any debut had won the award since 1974. Lewis’s writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, such as Time Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Transition\, and Best American Poetry. \nTommy Orange is an American novelist and a writer from Oakland\, California. His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Orange was also the recipient of 2019 American Book Awards. Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. \nMatt Sumell is a graduate of University of California\, Irvine’s MFA programme\, and his fiction has since appeared in the Paris Review\, Esquire\,Electric Literature and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles\, California. \n\nAbout LITQUAKE: \nSan Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival was founded by Bay Area writers as a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers\, complete with cutting-edge panels\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999\, the festival has presented close to 1400 author appearances for an audience of over 32\,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco’s thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature\, perpetuate a sense of literary community\, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city’s music\, film\, and cultural festivals. \nwww.litquake.org
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SUMMARY:Shannon Messenger with Roshani Chokshi
DESCRIPTION:We are absolutely thrilled to invite you to celebrate the launch of Unlocked\, Shannon Messenger’s latest novel in the New York Times\, USA Today\, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series\, which follows Sophie\, a girl who discovers she’s from another world that exists side by side with ours—and one that has given her amazing abilities. \nIn this extra special installment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series\, the story picks up right from Legacy’s particularly devastating cliffhanger. But chapters alternate between Sophie and Keefe’s perspectives to give readers deeper insights into both beloved characters. New powers will be discovered. Hard truths from the past will come to light. And all of your favorite characters will find themselves tested in ways they never imagined. Unlocked also includes a comprehensive guide to the world of the Lost Cities\, featuring new character and world details that have never been revealed before—plus fun bonuses like Keeper-themed recipes\, a detailed map of the Lost Cities\, and gorgeous full-color illustrations. \nShannon will be chatting with Roshani Chokshi\, the author of the instant New York Times best-selling first book in the Pandava series\, Aru Shah and the End of Time\, and its sequels\, Aru Shah and the Song of Death. and Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes. She also wrote the New York Times best-selling YA books The Star-Touched Queen series and The Gilded Wolves series. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. Shannon’s presentations are always so much fun and sell out early.
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SUMMARY:Ishmael Reed with Tennesee Reed
DESCRIPTION:Each reading from their new books of poetry published by Dalkey Archive \nWhy The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nby Ishmael Reed \nCalifia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nby Tennessee Reed \n——— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n————- \nPurchase Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \nPurchase Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019  (CLICK HERE) link to be posted soon \n————- \nabout Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues \nThe poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around the house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. “Moving Richmond” was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem\, in huge letters forged into weathering steel billboards greets passengers who enter the new Bay Area mass transit hub in Richmond. Other poems were commissioned by musicians. “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was performed by Gregory Porter. “Red Summer\, 2015” appeared in print first and then was set to music by David Murray. The longest poem in the book\, “Jazz Martyrs\,” was begun when I learned about the number of black Jazz greats who didn’t live past the age of forty. I have been fortunate to live beyond the age of 80. I’ve found out who my best friends are. The ones who got me there. \nabout Califia Burning: Poems 2012-2019 \nA new collection of poems from the poet Tennessee Reed produced between the years 2012 and 2019. \nIshmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, The Last Days of Louisiana Red\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. In 2003\, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater. His most recent essay collection\, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico\, was published in 2019 by Baraka Books of Montreal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\nA graduate of UC Berkeley\, Tennessee Reed is Secretary of Oakland PEN\, and the author of the collections Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books)\, Electric Chocolate (Raven’s Bones Press)\, and Airborne (Raven’s Bones Press). She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2005.
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #66 (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-66-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
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