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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Jane Goodall & Peter Wohlleben
DESCRIPTION:Join the renowned Dr. Jane Goodall and New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben for an uplifting conversation on the natural world. \nDetails and ticket information here!\nBookshop Santa Cruz joins Books & Books and bookstores across the country for this exclusive conversation and book launch of Wohlleben’s The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature. \nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees returns to his and his readers’ favorite subject—trees—in this powerful\, timely new book. \nDrawing on new scientific discoveries\, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature\, exploring the language of the forest\, the consciousness of plants\, and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna. Wohlleben shares how to see\, feel\, smell\, hear\, and even taste your journey into the woods. \nAbove all\, he reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are a part of nature\, and where conservation is not just about saving trees—it’s about saving ourselves\, too. \nMultiple Ticketing Options: \n\nBundled with book; signed bookplates will go to the first 50 registrants. Choose in-store pickup or have it shipped to you\nGeneral entry (without a book) is also available for $5.\nOnce you make your purchase\, we will send you a link and unique password to access the event\n\nAbout the Event: \nPeter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally-friendly woodland in Germany\, where he is working toward the return of primeval forests. He is the author of numerous books about the natural world including the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees\, The Inner Lives of Animals\, and The Secret Wisdom of Nature\, which together make up his bestselling “The Mysteries of Nature” Series. He has also written numerous books for children including Can You Hear the Trees Talking? and Peter and the Tree Children. \nDr. Jane Goodall\, DBE\, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in July 1960 in what is now Tanzania. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals. \nIn 1977\, Dr. Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute\, which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The Institute is widely recognized for innovative\, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa\, and Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots\, the global environmental and humanitarian youth program. \nDr. Goodall founded Roots & Shoots with a group of Tanzanian students in 1991.Today\, Roots & Shoots is active in more than 60 countries and since its inception has greatly impacted participants of all ages in over 100 countries. All of whom take action to make the world a better place for people\, animals and the environment. \nModerator Donna Seaman is Editor for Adult Books for Booklist. She is also a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum\, and a recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award and the Louis Shores Award for excellence in book reviewing. Her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books\, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Julia Alvarez\, Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies\, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón about Alvarez’s most recent novel\, Afterlife\, now available in paperback. This event is cosponsored by Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be ordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nIn Alvarez’s first adult novel in almost fifteen years\, Antonia Vega\, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife\, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband\, Sam\, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears\, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant\, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack—but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. \nAfterlife is a compact\, nimble\, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust\, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families\, including—maybe especially—members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost? \n“A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is\, and always has been\, in a class of her own.” —Elizabeth Acevedo\, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X \nJulia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels\, three books of nonfiction\, three collections of poetry\, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and\, until her retirement in 2016\, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition\, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute\, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature\, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine\, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters\, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies\, with over one million copies in print\, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program\, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. \nSylvanna M. Falcón is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, Director of the Research Center for the Americas\, and founder/director of the Human Rights Investigations Lab at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activists inside the United Nations\, [University of Washington Press\, 2016; winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Award] and the co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor\, Migration\, and Noncitizenship [Rutgers University Press\, 2021] and New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights [Routledge\, 2011]. She is a former UN consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. \nFounded in 1992\, the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz is the first in the UC system to advance a broad program of interdisciplinary research that brings together Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American Studies.
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SUMMARY:CWC Speaker Series Panel: Race as Context: BIPOC California Writers
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to offer a unique opportunity for members to join in this timely discussion. Panelists are California BIPOC writers from many vantage points including: \nA Millenial with his first complete manuscript. \nAuthors with years of experience helping others in their craft. \nA recent award-winning MFA graduate newly arrived to California. \nA mid-career writer publishing fiction prose for the first time. \nAnd\, San Francisco’s 7th Poet Laureate\, whose work and life have shone like a high beacon illuminating the country from here in the Bay. \nPlease come enjoy an illuminating conversation between Alex Sato\, Gabriel Campbell\, Jhon Valdes Klinger\, and Kim Shuck\, moderated by member Ellen McBarnette. This diverse and talented group of writers and poets will share their perspectives on race as context\, and inspire discussion and exploration for others. \nEllen McBarnette is a CWC Berkeley member and active in the Afrosurrealist Writers Workshop of Oakland and the Women’s National Book Association SF Branch. Learn more about Ellen at about.me/ellenmcbarnette. \nJhon Valdes Klinger is an Afro-Latinx writer born in Colombia and raised in New York. He holds an MFA from The New School. His work has been published in the 12 Street Journal\, Ipstori App\, Monsters of the Bronx\, and Acentos Review. \nKim Shuck served as the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco. Shuck is author of seven books\, editor or assistant editor of a handful of anthologies\, and appears in a few dozen anthologies edited by other people. Learn more about Kim at KimShuck.com. \nGabriel Campbell graduated with a minor in Creative Writing. He has completed his first novel\, Love\, Legends\, and Legacies\, Book One of The Keita Daze and is seeking representation. He lives in Oakland. \nAlex Sato’s short stories and novels are often placed in Northern California where he’s lived for his entire life. His preferred genres are horror\, fantasy and sci fi. Learn more about Alex at QuantumKatana.com. \n$10 General Admission\, $5 For Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Meaning and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival.\n\nA presentation of readings by a diverse\, intergenerational\, cross-section of writers\, who include visual artists\, educators\, activists and professionals from the AAPI community\, who will share their stories and poems\, ranging from immigration stories and family memoir to gender and racial oppression\, anti-Asian hate and police violence\, written during the course of a writing workshop conducted by poet-playwright\, Genny Lim. The online APICC workshops have met every week\, throughout the pandemic. These memoir pieces were written in response to weekly writing prompts provided by Genny Lim. All levels and ages\, from emerging to advanced writers\, were welcomed and encouraged to explore and develop their individual voices and craft in a safe and communal atmosphere that allowed for constructive critique\, dialogue\, mutual support and growth.\n\n::READERS::\nLeila Beltran\nSharleen Boummer\nVickie Ya Rong Chang\nCarole Chinn Morales\nSusan Hayase\nSusan Kitazawa\nMei Lam\nMirah Lucas\nGrace Morizawa\nShizue Shikuma\nLeon Sun\nCasimiro Tolentino\nLeslie Yee-Murata\n\nABOUT GENNY LIM\nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Lim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S.\, Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award and an anthology of Senior Asian American memoirs\, Window: Glimpses of Our Storied Past. She has worked with past Jazz legends\, such as Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Eddie Marshall and long-time collaborators\, Jon Jang\, John Santos\, Francis Wong and Del Sol String Quartet.\n\nABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF ASIAN AMERICA FESTIVAL\nThis year’s 24th annual United States of Asian American Festival (USAAF) presents over 20 different programs reflecting the artistic accomplishments and cultural diversity of San Francisco’s Pacific Islander and Asian American communities. USAAF showcases artists representing a diverse range of ethnic and cultural groups and aims to heighten the visibility of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) artists working in all disciplines – theater\, music\, dance\, film\, literature\, visual arts\, and more! Our goal is to nurture and empower these groups to be self-sufficient while providing the support they need to grow.\nThis year’s theme\, Forging Our Futures – SoMa & Chinatow n\, explores how we are fostering recovery\, resilience and regeneration in our communities\, what place-making and community building looks like\, past\, present and future and how we’re imagining and manifesting empowered future for ourselves and our communities.\n\nUSAAF 2021 is funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission \, San Francisco Grants for the Arts \, California Arts Council \, Fleishhacker Foundation \, Zellerbach Family Foundation \, startsmall and National Endowment for the Arts .
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure: East Coast Memorial & Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Please join The Poetry Project and City Lights as we celebrate and remember Michael McClure\, poet and beloved friend. \nFeaturing readings and remembrances from: Ammiel Alcalay\, David Brazil\, Garrett Caples\, Francesco Clemente\, David Henderson\, Bob Holman\, Mary Norbert Korte\, Filip Marinovich\, Amy Evans McClure\, Jackson Meazle\, Uche Nduka\, Lee Ranaldo\, Ed Sanders\, Declan Spring\, Amber Tamblyn\, and Jeffrey Yang \nEvent is free but requires registration. \n(Register Here) \nMichael McClure (1932-2020) was an award-winning American poet\, playwright\, songwriter\, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man\, he was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem “Howl.” A key figure of the Beat Generation\, McClure is immortalized as Pat McLear in Jack Kerouac’s novels The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He also participated in the 60s counterculture alongside musicians like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. He taught for many years at California College of the Arts and lived with his wife\, Amy\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nThis event follows a series of celebrations for Michael McClure’s life and work. Here is the registration link for the launch of Michael McClure’s final book on May 8 with Anne Waldman and Eileen Myles; and here is the registration link with West Coast celebrants and friends in tribute to McClure on May 9. \nPlease note you must be logged in to your Eventbrite account to access the event’s zoom link. We will begin letting people into the reading from Eventbrite a few minutes before the start of the event. Please also note that if you are not logged into Eventbrite\, you will receive a notification reading “You don’t have access to this event” when you click on the event link. This is an automatically generated notification indicating that you need to login\, using the email address with which you registered for the event. You can do so using the button located directly below the notification. If you have any questions\, have trouble accessing your Eventbrite account\, or have trouble accessing Zoom after the event’s listed start time\, please contact Poetry Project staff directly at info@poetryproject.org \nThe Poetry Project is committed to making our event programming inclusive and accessible for individuals with different experiences\, and are continuously working to improve and expand upon accessibility measures. Our online broadcasts feature live transcription and are presented on broadcasts compatible with most screen readers. If you have a question about either of these resources\, or an accessibility measure we haven’t described\, please contact us at rm@poetryproject.org.
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