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SUMMARY:Community Roundtable: Christmas Holiday
DESCRIPTION:Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is to keep the community united during the time apart through our online\, roundtable discussions. We will be hosting online roundtables every-other-week with different topics to engage with the CHSA community. \n\n\nHere is our upcoming schedule! Feel free to join all topics* of interest to you: \n\nDecember 9th-Christmas Holiday. A hearty discussion about the Christmas holiday with the CHSA community and your favorite holiday memories.\nJanuary 13th-Miss Chinatown. A discussion about memories of the Miss Chinatown pageant in preparation for the Chinese New Year celebration.\n\nInterested in joining? Click here to register! \nPlease note: this is an interactive event. We encourage everyone to check that their microphones and cameras are working so that they can engage in the discussion. Space is limited to encourage participation among attendees. \n*Topics and discussion dates are subject to change depending on current events and interest.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Paige Peterson (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Belvedere and Tiburon are located just across the Bay from San Francisco\, but they seem to exist in another time. In Growing Up Belvedere-Tiburon\, Paige Peterson’s memories of her magical childhood and the archival photographs that trace the history of these small\, lovingly protected communities combine to transport readers to a real-life Brigadoon. \nPaige is an American artist\, author\, and photojournalist who has written extensively about the Middle East. As a journalist\, she has contributed to Marin Magazine\, New York Social Diary\, and the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations. As an illustrator\, she has collaborated on A Christmas Carol\, adapted by Jesse Kornbluth\, and Blackie: The Horse Who Stood Still\, which she co-authored with Christopher Cerf. She and her two grown children live in New York.  She splits her time between New York City and Belvedere\, California. \nJesse Kornbluth writes books and plays and edits a cultural concierge site.  As a magazine journalist\, he has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and New York\, and a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. As an author\, his books include Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken\, Pre-Pop Warhol\, and two novels\, Married Sex and JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story. His play about Henri Matisse\, The Color of Light\, has been produced in California and New York. On the Web\, he co-founded Bookreporter.com. From 1997 to 2003\, he was Editorial Director of America Online. In 2004\, he launched HeadButler.com.
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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the 2020 Poetry Fellows with a year-end reading featuring: Menat Allah El Attma\, Nathalie Khankan\, Gracia Mwamba\, Rusty Morrison\, Beth Piatote\, Jared Robinson\, Alex Saum-Pascual\, and Jenif(f)er Tamayo. This event is part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses initiative generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation. \nARC’s Poetry fellows have spent the past 11 months in conversation\, production\, feedback\, support\, and critique; they will be sharing work produced during their fellowship. This remarkable cohort has weathered pandemic\, political and social upheaval\, and personal crises\, and bravely continued to be present\, hold space for their peers\, and navigate their relationship to the work. When we think of what we want to carry forward or with us in an emergency\, their voices are at the top of the list. \nPoetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement\, research\, and collaboration. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley\, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis\, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care\, mindfulness\, and resistance. \nThe theme for 2020 was\, aptly\, emergency. Motivating questions have included\, what kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency\, sudden harm\, life-threatening violence\, and extreme circumstances\, but embedded within it is the word “emergence;” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal\, as ruptures that signal massive—if painful—change? \n  \n\nFellows\n\n\n\n\nMenat Allah El Attma\nUndergraduate Student Fellow\nMenat Allah El Attma is an Egyptian Muslim woman\, educator\, writer\, and visual artist. Menat graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English literature and is pursuing her Master’s and credential at USC Rossier School of Education. She is a logophile and linguaphile\, working to affect a similar love for words/languages in her students through the practice and art of storytelling. She believes art is in the telling of the story as much as the story itself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGracia Mwamba\nUndergraduate Student Fellow\nGracia Mwamba is a visual artist\, composer and writer from DRCongo\, by way of South Africa. Currently in her final year of a BA in Art Practice\, Gracia works interdisciplinarily to communicate through her work. Upon graduation\, she hopes to pursue credentials to become a licensed Art Therapist and strong advocate for art as an accessible means of healing and social change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJared Robinson\nGraduate Student Fellow\nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN. He is a poet and scholar in the UC Berkeley English department. In his scholarship\, he interrogates the relationship between the transatlantic slave trade and Enlightenment philosophy through careful attention to early African-American literature and its reception. In his poetry\, he attempts an understanding of everything else. He does not care for this California weather. He is glad to greet you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJenif(f)er Tamayo\nGraduate Student Fellow\nJenif(f)er Tamayo is a queer\, migrant\, formerly undocumented poet\, essayist\, and performer. Her poetry collections include [Red Missed Aches] (Switchback\, 2011)\, YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017) and her latest publication\, TO KILL THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT (Green Lantern Press\, 2018). Currently\, JT lives and works on Ohlone and Patwin lands and is pursuing her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Her research explores how contemporary Black and Indigenous poets use vocal practices to counternarrate histories of colonial violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathalie Khankan\nCommunity Fellow\nNathalie Khankan is the author of quiet orient riot (Fall 2020)\, winner of Omnidawn’s 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize\, selected by Dawn Lundy Martin. Her work appears in the Berkeley Poetry Review\, jubilat\, The Volta\, and Crab Creek Review. Straddling Danish\, Finnish\, Syrian and Palestinian homes and heirlooms\, Nathalie currently lives in San Francisco. She teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRusty Morrison\nCommunity Fellow\nRusty Morrison is the co-founder and co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com) since 2001. Her five books include After Urgency (won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize) & the true keeps calm biding its story (won Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize\, James Laughlin Award\, N.California Book Award\, & DiCastagnola Award from PSA). Her recent book: Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta; finalist for the NCIB Award & NCB Award) She teaches in MFA programs as a visiting poet\, workshops through Omnidawn and elsewhere. Offering private consultations. www.rustymorrison.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Piatote\nFaculty Fellow\nBeth Piatote is author of two books: a mixed-genre collection\, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019); and a scholarly monograph\, Domestic Subjects: Gender\, Citizenship\, and Law in Native American Literature (Yale 2013)\, as well as numerous essays and short stories stories in journals and anthologies. Her recent work\, The Beadworkers\, has been long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. She is currently associate professor of Native American Studies\, where she specializes in Native American literature and law; Nez Perce language and literature; Indigenous Language Revitalization; and creative writing. She earned a PhD from Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Saum-Pascual\nFaculty Fellow\nAlex Saum-Pascual is a digital artist\, poet and professor. She is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she teaches Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture (20th and 21st Centuries) and Electronic Literature (Digital Humanities). She is also part of the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the board of directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. Her academic work on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world has been published in Spain\, Mexico and the United States. Her digital artwork and poetry has been exhibited in galleries and art festivals in the United States\, Canada\, Mexico\, Spain\, Norway and the UK. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Engaging the Senses Foundation.
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SUMMARY:JENNA WORTHAM & KIMBERLY DREW
DESCRIPTION:JENNA WORTHAM & KIMBERLY DREW\nin conversation with Ashley C. Ford\nWednesday\, December 9\, 2020\n6:00pm Pacific Time\n\nTICKETS \n\n\nWhat does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together a new collection of work\, entitled Black Futures—images\, photos\, essays\, memes\, dialogues\, recipes\, tweets\, poetry\, and more—to tell the story of the radical\, imaginative\, provocative\, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. \nJenna Wortham is the co-host of The New York Times arts and culture podcast Still Processing\, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Wortham was previously a tech writer for The New York Times\, and now writes on a multitude of subjects ranging between arts and culture\, technology\, and social media\, with a focus on the contributions of Black\, queer women. Wortham is also a sound healer\, reiki practitioner\, herbalist\, and community care worker oriented toward healing justice and liberation\, and is working on a book about the body and dissociation for Penguin Press. \nKimberly Drew is a writer\, curator\, and activist. Drew received her B.A. from Smith College in Art History and African-American Studies. She first experienced the art world as an intern in the Director’s Office of The Studio Museum in Harlem. Her time there inspired her to start the Tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art\, sparking her interest in social media. Drew’s writing has appeared in Vogue\, Glamour\, W\, Teen Vogue\, and Lenny Letter\, and she has executed Instagram takeovers for Prada\, The White House\, and Instagram. Drew recently left her role as the Social Media Manager at The Met. \nAshley C. Ford is a writer\, editor\, and critic in Brooklyn by way of Indiana. Ford hosts The Chronicles of Now podcast\, co-hosts The HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio\, and is the former host of seasons one & three of Mastercard’s Fortune Favors The Bold\, as well as the video interview series PROFILE by BuzzFeed News\, and Brooklyn-based news & culture TV show\, 112BK. Her memoir\, Somebody’s Daughter\, will be published in June 2021. \nPre-order Black Futures today from Marcus Books\, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore\, celebrating its 60th year. All Bookshop orders ship directly to you. If you are interested in arranging in-person pickup please call Marcus Books at (510) 652-2344 or visit in Oakland\, CA at 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
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SUMMARY:Author Scott James Discussing TRIAL BY FIRE
DESCRIPTION:Author Scott James Discussing TRIAL BY FIRE | Wed. 12/9 @ 7 PM PST | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Wednesday\, December 9\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion with author Scott James in conversation with journalist and author Frances Dinkelspiel discussing his Scott’s new book\, TRIAL BY FIRE: A DEVASTATING TRAGEDY\, 100 LIVES LOST\, AND A 15-YEAR SEARCH FOR TRUTH. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85496974190. \n(Order your copy of TRIAL BY FIRE at https://bit.ly/GGPTrialByFire.) \nTRIAL BY FIRE reopens the case of The Station nightclub fire that killed 100 when the rock band Great White ignited fireworks inside a small roadside club in tiny Rhode Island. It’s one of the deadliest fires in American history\, and it became of the nation’s deadliest criminal cases. But there were never any trials. \nAuthor Scott James spent ten years investigating what happened\, and discovered there was much more to the disaster than what the public had been led to believe. \nHere’s what’s been said about TRIAL BY FIRE so far… \nIn a starred review\, Publishers Weekly called it “Gripping… essential reading for true crime fans.” \nAnd New York Times bestselling author Raj Patel said\, quote\, “This is journalism as it is meant to be. Scott James does for Rhode Island what Truman Capote did for Kansas.” \nScott James is a veteran journalist and the author of Trial by Fire. Since 2009 Scott’s reporting has appeared in The New York Times\, and he is the recipient of three Emmy Awards for his work in television news. He’s also the author of two bestselling novels\, SoMa and The Sower. \nFrances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning veteran journalist\, co-founder of the news organization Berkeleyside and author of two books\, Towers of Gold and the New York Times bestseller Tangled Vines.
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