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SUMMARY:Reimagine Candlelight Vigil with Author Armistead Maupin
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 9 \n12:00pm-1:30pm PDT \n\nAt this month’s Reimagine Candlelight Vigil\, our special guest is “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin. Let’s honor our loved ones and celebrate the transformation of loss into creativity.\nReimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils throughout the pandemic in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we’ve lost. At this special gathering\, “Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin will discuss living through two pandemics (AIDS in the 1980s and COVID-19 today)\, LGBTQ+ aging\, legacy\, and the power of writing and creativity. Our additional guest is Wilfred Labiosa\, the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nArmistead Maupin \nLaunched in 1976 as a groundbreaking serial in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series has since blazed its own trail through popular culture – from a sequence of globally best-selling novels\, to a Peabody Award-winning television miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney\, to an ambitious new musical that had its world premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in 2011. The series now encompasses nine hugely popular novels: Tales of the City\, More Tales of the City\, Further Tales of the City\, Babycakes\, Significant Others\, Sure of You\, Michael Tolliver Lives\, and Mary Ann in Autumn. The final Tales novel\, The Days of Anna Madrigal\, was released in January 2014. It premiered at #3 on the Independent Bestseller list and #7 on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2019 Netflix will be airing a new series based on the novels titled Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. \nMaupin’s 1992 novel\, Maybe the Moon\, which followed the serio-comic adventures of a dwarf actress working in Hollywood\, was named one of the ten best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly. The Night Listener (2000)\, a psychological suspense novel inspired by an eerie episode in Maupin’s own life\, became a 2006 feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. In 2017 he wrote a memoir titled Logical Family which grew out of his critically acclaimed one-man show of the same name. Neil Gaiman said this about Logical Family; “Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers\, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating\, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” \nIn 1997 Maupin received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle of New York. In 2002 he was honored with the Trevor Project’s Life Award “for his efforts in saving young lives.” Maupin was the first recipient of Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award for his literary contribution to San Francisco. In 2012 he was awarded Lambda’s Pioneer Award which is bestowed on individuals who have broken new ground in the field of LGBT literature and publishing. In 2014 he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He also received the Visionary Award from the 2014 Outfest Legacy Awards for his collected novels and their “…diverse\, interconnected community of San Francisco bohemians — which shaped our collective fantasy of what LGBT life is and could be….” Maupin is the subject of a new documentary titled Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. He lives in London with his husband Christopher Turner\, a photographer. \nWilfred Labiosa \nWilfred Labiosa\, PhD\, (he/him/él) has been a community leader for more than thirty years. He has been working in the public health field for more than 25 years with marginalized communities such as the Latino and LGBT communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. He has published extensively his research with the dually-diagnosed Latino community\, mental health and a substance abuse diagnosis; works as a consultant and/ or supervisor on state\, national and international projects that focus on mental health\, HIV/AIDS prevention\, homeless\, youth\, Latinos\, LGBTQ+\, people with dual diagnosis or evidence-based treatment modalities. He has worked with LGBT and HIV organizations locally\, nationally and internationally for many years\, as a mentor\, mental health provider or evaluator. Born and raised in Puerto Rico; He graduated with a doctorate degree from Simmons University\, School of Social Work\, and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University’s Department of Counseling Psychology\, and a graduate certificate from Suffolk University’s management of non-profits. His Bachelor’s degree is from Boston University. He is currently the CEO of Waves Ahead Corp\, a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico focusing on the elder and LGBT+ community. \nSAGE \nSAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City\, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBT older people and their caregivers. \nTYPE:\nRITUAL & CEREMONYTALK\, PANEL\, & CONVERSATIONWRITING & LITERATURECOMMUNITY GATHERINGCELEBRATION & REMEMBRANCE\nTRACK:\nARTS & ENTERTAINMENTCOVID-19 \n\nThis is a digital event. You should receive information in your ticket or from the host about how to join online. \n\nFree\nRSVP
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Claire Luchette and Helen Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, August 9th at 6pm PT when Claire Luchette joins us to discuss her debut novel\, Agatha of Little Neon\, with Helen Ellis on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_a1ZP3ZfGTBO12osWiJnR7Q \nPraise for Agatha of Little Neon \n“Full of small devotions\, pith and vigor\, and a bounty of tender feeling for a world that is not quite as full of grace as it could be\, this bold debut shines with a light all its own.” —Alexandra Kleeman \n“Claire Luchette is so wildly talented that I would follow her anywhere . . . A novel that’s blazingly original\, wry\, and perfectly attuned to the oddness—and the profundity—of life.” —Cristina Henriquez \nAbout Agatha of Little Neon \nClaire Luchette’s debut\, Agatha of Little Neon\, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood\, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t)\, and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self. \nAgatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together\, laugh together\, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet\, purposeful life. \nBut when the parish goes broke\, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket\, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house\, where they live alongside their charges\, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school\, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women\, the church\, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? \nDisarming\, delightfully deadpan\, and full of searching\, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about sisterhood\, friendship\, and devotion\, about figuring out how we fit in (or don’t)\, and about the unexpected friends who help us find our truest selves. \nAbout Claire Luchette \nClaire Luchette has published work in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Millay Colony for the Arts\, Lighthouse Works\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette’s first novel. \nAbout Helen Ellis \nHelen Ellis is the author of Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light\,Southern Lady Code\, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama\, she lives with her husband in New York City. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Poetry & Poetic Prose"
DESCRIPTION:August 9 at 7pm Pacific\, the Odd Mondays reading series brings you an hour of poetry and poetic prose on Zoom. Paul Corman-Roberts reads from his new poetry collection BONE MOON PALACE\, Penny Mickelbury from her historical novel TWO WINGS TO FLY AWAY\, and Tamsin Spencer Smith from her political thriller XISLE. Get the Zoom link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy all three books at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
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