BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210301T014642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T014714Z
UID:62423-1615024800-1618056000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/using-invented-and-foreign-languages-as-tools-for-world-building-a-fiction-workshop-with-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,South Bay,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/142308044_4217588954936449_3219415922055430691_o.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210107T054248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210107T054248Z
UID:61438-1616518800-1616526000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Melanie Challenger
DESCRIPTION:Melanie Challenger is joined by Paul Greenberg for a conversation about her new book\, How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human (Penguin Books). \n“With this book\, Melanie Challenger fearlessly plunges into the biggest question of our time: how can we rediscover our animal selves\, before it is too late? How can we discover our true place in the wider world we are destroying? Each of us has to answer this question for ourselves. This book is a guide for you on the journey.” —Paul Kingsnorth\, author of The Wake \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast Channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout How to Be Animal\nHuman are the most inquisitive\, emotional\, imaginative\, aggressive\, and baffling animals on the planet. But we are also an animal that does not think it is an animal. How well do we really know ourselves? \nHow to Be Animal tells a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our existence is a profound struggle with being animal. We possess a psychology that seeks separation between humanity and the rest of nature\, and we have invented grand ideologies to magnify this. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this mindset evolved\, Challenger’s book examines the wide-reaching ways in which it affects our lives\, from our politics to the way we distance ourselves from other species. We travel from the origin of homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions\, the age of the internet\, and on to the futures of AI and human-machine interface. Challenger examines how technology influences our sense of our own animal nature and our relationship with other species with whom we share this fragile planet. \nThat we are separated from our own animality is a delusion\, according to Challenger. Blending nature writing\, history\, and moral philosophy\, How to Be Animal is both a fascinating reappraisal of what it means to be human\, and a robust defense of what it means to be an animal. \nAbout Melanie Challenger\nMelanie Challenger works as a researcher on the history of humanity and the natural world\, and on environmental philosophy. She is the author of On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature. She received a Darwin Now Award for her research among Canadian Inuit and the Arts Council International Fellowship with the British Antarctic Survey for her work on the history of whaling. She lives with her family in England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melanie-challenger/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/how-to-be-animal.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210217T020906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T020906Z
UID:62241-1616522400-1616526000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Tui Sutherland with Jennifer L Holm
DESCRIPTION:She’s also the author of the Menagerie trilogy and the Pet Trouble series. But did you also know that she helped the group collectively known as “Erin Hunter” develop the long-running Warriors series and took a turn writing as Erin Hunter on the Seekers series? She was also a two-day champion on Jeopardy! \nJoin us to hear the very talented New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tui Sutherland as she talks about her newest book\, The Dangerous Gift (Wings of Fire\, Book 14)  \nSnowfall didn’t expect to be queen of the IceWings at such a young age\, but now that she is\, she’s going to be the best queen ever. All she has to do is keep her tribe within IceWing territory\, where it’s safe — while keeping every other tribe out\, where they belong. It’s a perfect and simple plan\, backed up by all the IceWing magic Snowfall can find. That is\, until a storm of unidentified dragons arrives on her shore\, looking for asylum. The foreigners are completely strange and\, Snowfall is certain\, utterly untrustworthy. But as she escorts the miserable new tribes out of her kingdom\, Snowfall is forced to reconsider her plan. Maybe she can only keep her tribe safe . . . if she’s willing to risk everything. \nTui will be chatting with Jennifer L Holm\, the much loved New York Times bestselling author of The Fourteenth Goldfish and The Lion of Mars. She is the recipient of three Newbery Honors for her novels Our Only May Amelia\, Penny From Heaven\, and Turtle in Paradise and the co-author (with her brother Matthew) of the Eisner Award winning Babymouse series and the bestselling Squish series and the Sunny series. \nDon’t wait – RSVP early to guarantee your spot in this webinar. This will be so much fun and is bound to sell out early. \nTickets include a copy of The Dangerous Gift\, a signed book plate\, and a fun swag item.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tui-sutherland-with-jennifer-l-holm/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dangerous-gift.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210301T021011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T021011Z
UID:62452-1616522400-1616526000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Mindfulness & Medicine with Larry Brilliant & Jack Kornfield
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Mindfulness & Medicine\nwith Larry Brilliant & Jack Kornfield\nTuesday\, March 23\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 04/04/2021\, 04/06/2021\, 04/07/2021\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nConversations on Science & Health: A Miniseries \n \n\n\n\nA man who has always been in the right place at the right time\, Larry Brilliant has engaged with some of the most prominent thought leaders\, spiritual masters\, heroes\, and icons in the world–including Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji)\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Steve Jobs\, Mikhail Gorbachev\, Wavy Gravy\, the Grateful Dead\, the Dalai Lama\, and Barack Obama. Brilliant’s life’s journey across continents has resulted in the direct involvement of some of the most significant medical\, spiritual\, and social achievements of the past century: the eradication of smallpox in India\, curing blindness in over 4 million people\, introducing the teachings of the Maharajji to the Woodstock Generation\, launching Google’s philanthropic enterprises\, and more. In a new book\, Sometimes Brilliant\, he reflects on his remarkable life and his extraordinary experiences as a doctor\, innovator\, philanthropist\, and cultural revolutionary. \n\nJack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand\, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and was one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967\, he joined the Peace Corps and worked on rural health and tropical medicine teams in northeast Thailand\, which is home to several of the world’s oldest Buddhist forest monasteries. After returning to the United States\, Kornfield co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. He is also a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre\, California. Over the past 40 years\, Kornfield has taught in centers and universities worldwide\, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama\, and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a father and activist. His many books include The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology\, A Path with Heart\, and After the Ecstasy\, the Laundry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mindfulness-medicine-with-larry-brilliant-jack-kornfield/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Brilliant.Kornfield.web_.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210112T234615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T234615Z
UID:61510-1616522400-1616529600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear - The Consequences of Fear (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation\, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain’s war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series. \nOctober 1941. While on a delivery\, young Freddie Hackett\, a message runner for a government office\, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house\, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address\, he’s shocked to come face to face with the killer. \nDismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime\, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help\, she must maintain extreme caution: she’s working secretly for the Special Operations Executive\, assessing candidates for crucial work with the French resistance. Her two worlds collide when she spots the killer in a place she least expects. She soon realizes she’s been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill—reasons that go back to the last war. \nAs Maisie becomes entangled in a power struggle between Britain’s intelligence efforts in France and the work of Free French agents operating across Europe\, she must also contend with the lingering question of Freddie Hackett’s state of mind. What she uncovers could hold disastrous consequences for all involved in this compelling chapter of the “series that seems to get better with every entry” (Wall Street Journal). \nJacqueline Winspear is author of the New York Times bestsellers A Lesson in Secrets\, The Mapping of Love and Death\, Among the Mad\, An Incomplete Revenge\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Journey to Munich\, In This Grave Hour\, To Die But Once\, and her latest in the Maisie Dobbs series\, The Conseqeunces of Fear; as well as What Would Maisie Do?\, a non-fiction book based upon the series; and her memoir\, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing. In addition\, her recent published essays include “Writing About War\,” for which she interviewed writers including Kate Atkinson\, Rhys Bowen\, Jeff Shaara\, and Adam Hochschild\, exploring the impact of writing about war on the author; and “Women On Fire\,” about women working in wildfire management. Her essay on writing the historical mystery will appear in the upcoming anthology/handbook from Mystery Writers of America\, How To Write A Mystery\, edited by Lee Child (April 2021). Winspear has won numerous awards for her work\, including the Agatha\, Alex\, and Macavity awards for Maisie Dobbs\, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Notable Book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-the-consequences-of-fear-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/consequences-of-fear.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210127T175420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T175420Z
UID:61818-1616522400-1616529600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Nicola DeRobertis-Theye / The Vietri Project
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Nicola DeRobertis-Theye and her debut novel The Vietri Project. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Vietri Project here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nWorking at a bookstore in Berkeley in the years after college\, Gabriele becomes intrigued by the orders of signor Vietri\, a customer from Rome whose numerous purchases grow increasingly mystical and esoteric. Restless and uncertain of her future\, Gabriele quits her job and\, landing in Rome\, decides to look up Vietri. Unable to locate him\, she begins a quest to unearth the well-concealed facts of his life. \nFollowing a trail of obituaries and military records\, a memoir of life in a village forgotten by modernity\, and the court records of a communist murder trial\, Gabriele meets an eclectic assortment of the city’s inhabitants\, from the widow of an Italian prisoner of war to members of a generation set adrift by the financial crisis. Each encounter draws her unexpectedly closer to her own painful past and complicated family history—an Italian mother diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized during her childhood\, and an extended family in Rome still recovering from the losses and betrayals in their past. Through these voices and histories\, Gabriele will discover what it means to be a person in the world; a member of a family and a citizen of a country—and how reconciling these stories may be the key to understanding her own. \n\nAbout the author\nNicola DeRobertis-Theye was an Emerging Writing Fellow at the New York Center for Fiction\, and her work has been published in Agni\, Electric Literature\, and LitHub. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, she received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina\, Wilmington\, where she was the fiction editor of its literary magazine Ecotone. She is a native of Oakland\, CA and lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-nicola-derobertis-theye-the-vietri-project/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/VIETRI-final-cover.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210203T052703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T052703Z
UID:61980-1616522400-1616529600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chris Colin and Rinee Shah with Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, MARCH 23 AT 6PM FOR THE LAUNCH OF CHRIS COLIN’S OFF: THE DAY THE INTERNET DIED: A BEDTIME FANTASY WITH DANIEL HANDLER AND ILLUSTRATOR RINEE SHAH ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83945098586\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83945098586#  or +12532158782\,\,83945098586#\nWebinar ID: 839 4509 8586\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb3D3OG8kI \nPraise for Off \n“So funny and so necessary. For humanity to stay sane\, this must be read like the Bible.” –Dave Eggers\, author of The Captain and the Glory \n“A beautiful\, hilarious children’s book (for grownups). It’s funny and smart and if you don’t like it you must still have dial-up. OFF is the bedtime story our Internet-addled brains dream of. I love this book.”–Wendy MacNaughton\, artist/illustrator/journalist\, Salt Fat Acid Heat\, The Gutsy Girl\, and Meanwhile in San Francisco. \n”I did not know how badly I needed this weird and hilarious book until I read it. I laughed harder reading this than I do at most things. And\, honestly\, I’m a pretty hard laugher.” –Carson Ellis\, author and illustrator\, Home and Du Iz Tak? \nAbout Off \nOne day all the screens went dark—and we couldn’t even post about it. \nWe all dream about it: a life free of scrolling\, tweeting\, liking\, faving\, streaming\, replying\, apologizing for not replying\, and other assaults on our poor\, saturated brains. But what would an analog world actually look like? Chris Colin\, author of What to Talk About\, paints a picture that’s a little Edenic and a little demented. Un-barraged by celeb gossip and political news\, we begin to notice nature again. We take walks\, stare at the clouds\, and listen to podcasts consisting of our own thoughts. Snapchatting gives way to endless rounds of Go Fish. Minecraft is a game involving sticks and leaves. We talk to our neighbors—not about the TV shows we’re streaming—and occasionally we fall in love. Delivered in a pitch-perfect\, tongue-in-cheek biblical style\, this little book imagines an alternate reality that will hit home in our tech-addled worlds. Rinee Shah’s playful illustrations perfectly capture the absurdity of life reflected in our screens. Whether you’re addicted to tech or not\, you’ll see something of yourself when you put down your phone and pick up this smart\, funny book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-chris-colin-and-rinee-shah-with-daniel-handler/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/internet-died.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210223T161155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T161155Z
UID:62324-1616522400-1616529600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:David Thomson in conversation with Jonathan Kiefer
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the book launch of \nA Light In The Dark: A History of Movie Directors \npublished by Alfred Knopf \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. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nFrom the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film–an essential work on the preeminent\, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged\, and continues to forge\, the landscape of modern film. \nDirectors operate behind the scenes\, managing actors\, establishing a cohesive creative vision\, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions on-screen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production–to say nothing of their having marshaled a script\, a studio\, and other people’s money. David Thomson\, in his usual brilliantly insightful way\, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and\, through their work\, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments\, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic directors such as Orson Welles\, Alfred Hitchcock\, Jean Renoir\, and Jean-Luc Godard\, as well as contemporary powerhouses such as Jane Campion\, Spike Lee\, and Quentin Tarantino. He shrewdly interrogates their professional legacies and influence in the industry\, while simultaneously assessing the critical impact of an artist’s personal life on his or her work. He explores the male directors’ dominance of the past\, and describes how diversity can change the landscape. Judicious\, vivid\, and witty\, A Light in the Dark is yet another required Thomson text for every movie lover’s shelf. \n\nDAVID THOMSON is the author of more than twenty-five books\, including The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, Sleeping With Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire\, biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick\, and the pioneering novel Suspects\, which was peopled with characters from film. He was born in London in 1941 and educated at Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. He worked in publishing\, at Penguin; he directed the film studies program at Dartmouth College; he did the series Life at 24 Frames Per Second for BBC radio; he scripted the film The Making of a Legend: Gine with the Wind; and he was on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. He has been called the best or the most imaginative or reckless writer on film in English\, but he presses on. His residence is in San Francisco\, but he lives in his head. \nJONATHAN KIEFER is a film critic\, film editor\, and filmmaker. He is a member of both SFFILM’s filmmaker residency program and the SF Film Critics Circle\, and the former editorial director of Fandor. His debut film Around the Sun has appeared at numerous film festivals. He has served as a reader for Zoetrope: All-Story. \nPraise for the work of David Thomson \n\n“Thomson’s own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history\, without shying away from the controversial. Cinephiles seeking provocative arguments will appreciate his work.” \n—Lisa Henry\, Library Journal  \n  \n“Compulsive reading: thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure. David Thomson’s knowledge is comprehensive and his response to all films humane and entirely uncorrupted by the conventional hagiography of so much writing about film. He’s engagingly unafraid of challenging received opinion.” \n—Richard Eyre\, director  \n  \n“David Thomson has spent his life thinking hard and deep about cinema\, and so he’s uniquely placed to write this lovely\, brutal book about the glory of being a film-maker and vainglory of being an auteur.” \n—David Hare\, screenwriter and playwright  \n  \n“A Light in the Dark took over my life for two days. It is a summary of cinema and a requiem. Love and sadness. A prodigious masterwork.” \n—John Boorman\, director\, The Tailor of Panama \n  \nFounded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997\, Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly print magazine of short fiction\, one-act plays\, and essays on film. Among the most celebrated literary periodicals in the world\, it has won every major story award\, including four National Magazine Awards for Fiction\, along with a number of design commendations. The magazine’s contributors comprise the most promising and significant writers of our era: Mary Gaitskill\, Colum McCann\, Rachel Cusk\, Jim Shepard\, Elena Ferrante\, Daniel Alarcón\, Karen Russell\, Yiyun Li\, Jonathan Lethem\, Wes Anderson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Mamet\, Ha Jin\, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Margaret Atwood\, Pedro Almodóvar\, Ethan Coen\, Yoko Ogawa\, Charles D’Ambrosio\, Neil Jordan\, Haruki Murakami\, and many more. \nZoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine—the editors invite a different artist to design each edition in its entirety. Past guest designers include David Lynch\, Zaha Hadid\, William Eggleston\, Agnès Varda\, Kara Walker\, David Bowie\, Ed Ruscha\, Iggy Pop\, Guillermo del Toro\, Abbas Kiarostami\, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte\, PJ Harvey\, Elizabeth Peyton\, Gus Van Sant\, Tom Waits\, Laurie Anderson\, Julian Schnabel\, Mary Ellen Mark\, David Byrne\, Helmut Newton\, Lou Reed\, and John Baldessari\, among others. \nThe magazine is published quarterly in March\, June\, September\, and December and printed in California. \nTo learn more visit: Zoetrope: All-Story \n  \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the City Light Foundation
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-thomson-in-conversation-with-jonathan-kiefer/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/a-light-int-he-dark.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210323T203000
DTSTAMP:20260509T003202
CREATED:20210223T161855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T161855Z
UID:62292-1616526000-1616531400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Michael Eric Dyson: Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present: \n  \nMichael Eric Dyson: A Zoom Event \nLong Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America \nHosted by Sabrina Jacobs \n  \nBuilding on Tears We Cannot Stop\, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to Redemption\, Michael Eric Dyson’s new book\, LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five chapters-each addressed to a contemporary martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney-Dyson traces the genealogy of antiblackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life-and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. \n  \nThe night of May 25\, 2020 changed America. George Floyd\, a 46-year-old black man\, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral\, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd’s death was certainly the catalyst\, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit a powder keg that has been filling since America’s promising but perilous beginning. In LONG TIME COMING\, Dyson examines the cultural imperatives of black death\, the plague of police brutality\, the white theft of black bodies and opportunities. \n  \nMICHAEL ERIC DYSON – Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies\, College of Arts & Science\, and of Ethics and Society\, Divinity School\, and Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt University- is one of America’s premier public intellectuals\, and the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. \n  \nSABRINA JACOBS is the producer and host of KPFA’s popular show “A Rude Awakening.” \n  \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \n  \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-eric-dyson-sabrina-jacobs-reckoning-with-race-in-america-tickets-137147695449
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-eric-dyson-long-time-coming-reckoning-with-race-in-america/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR