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SUMMARY:MandoMeet
DESCRIPTION:Join CHSA for a chance to learn Mandarin with specialist Kathy Yang! Kathy is an expert Mandarin teacher. For our MandoMeet sessions\, all levels of adult learners are welcomed. New learners are always welcomed\, check out our MandoMeet page for past lessons and learning materials. \nTo join\, make sure to RSVP. As there is limited space is available for the class\, only sign-up for MandoMeet if you are able to attend the session live. Recordings of the lesson are not available. Please contact CHSA if you have any questions about registration. \nChoose between a free ticket or provide a donation to support free programming by the Chinese Historical Society of America. There is a suggested donation of $5. \nFeel free to join the program at 12:50pm for a check-in with Kathy prior to the lesson beginning. Online access information will be sent out 2 hours and 10 minutes before the lesson begins. \nWhile no materials are required for the lesson\, colorful sticky notes and markers are highly encouraged. Similar writing material is also beneficial to participant learning. We also recommend learners check their microphones and cameras before coming to class.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Claire Marie Stancek with Dan Beachy-Quick & Jennifer Firestone / wyrd] bird
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Claire Marie Stancek for her new book of poems\, wyrd] bird. She’s joined by Dan Beachy-Quick and Jennifer Firestone. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of wyrd] bird here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nIn times fraught with ecological and individual loss\, Claire Marie Stancek’s wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen\, a dream journal\, a fragmentary notebook\, a collection of poems\, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary\, mythical\, and historical figures from Milton’s Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats’s hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading\, cross-questioning\, and upsetting some of that tradition’s central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic\, wyrd] bird searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body\, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning\, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips\, stubbornly\, onto love. \nIn addition to wyrd] bird (Omnidawn Publishing)\, Claire Marie Stancek is the author of two previous poetry books\, Oil Spell (Omnidawn Publishing) and MOUTHS (Noemi Press). She earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from University of California\, Berkeley\, where she currently works as a staff writer. With Jane Gregory and Lyn Hejinian\, she co-edits Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, she now lives in Oakland\, California. \nDan Beachy-Quick is a poet\, essayist\, and translator. His most recent books include Arrows (Tupelo Press) and Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions)\, a collection of translations from the ancient Greek. Recently long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry\, his work has been supported by the Monfort\, Lannan\, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University\, where he is an University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. \nJennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry: Story (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books])\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books) and Holiday (Shearsman Books). She is currently collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - David Harris (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:David Harris’s newest release\, My Country ‘Tis of Thee: Reporting\, Sallies\, and Other Confessions is a wide-ranging and incisive anthology conveying the spirit of the 1960s and ’70s. \nDavid Harris is a reporter\, a clear-eyed idealist\, an American dissident\, and\, as these selected pieces reveal\, a writer of great character and empathy. Harris gained national recognition as an undergraduate for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. His writings trace a bright throughline of care for and attention to outsiders\, the downtrodden\, and those who demand change\, and these eighteen pieces of long-form journalism\, essays\, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection of writings by an always-independent journalist follow Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War\, through regular contributions to many publications\, including Rolling Stone and the New York Times\, and on into the twenty-first century. \nPeter Coyote is the author of the 1960’s counter-culture memoir Sleeping Where I Fall\, which received universally excellent reviews and has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book\, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education\, about mentors and the search for wisdom\, was nominated as one of the top five nonfiction books published in California in 2015. His third book is forthcoming\, Unmasking Your True Self (the Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha)\, which combines 50 years of Buddhist practice and acting and uses masks and improv exercises to foster liberation experiences and teach people “how to get out of their own way.” Peter has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films. An ordained Zen Buddhist priest and transmitted teacher\, Peter is currently giving live weekly dharma talks on Facebook and preparing for a fourth book called Vernacular Buddhism.
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