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SUMMARY:PADC Community Nite
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the values of diversity and inclusion at PADC’s 7th annual Community Night featuring our sellout lineup: Headliner Mingus Amungus\, led by Piedmont resident Miles Perkins\, builds on the complex bebop\, funk and classical rhythms of virtuoso bass player and composer Charles Mingus and adds their own modern twist. They are joined by Together We Slam\, a group of Piedmont high school and middle school students performing a provocative set of written word pieces on how we view and experience differences.
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LOCATION:Impact Hub Oakland\, 2323 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets at Wolfman: Garnett\, Poppick\, Crawford\, + Ross
DESCRIPTION:Callie Garnett! Daniel Poppick! Marisa Crawford! So exciting! Poets at Wolfman! Saturday night! All three poets have new books! All three are from Brooklyn! And their first names all have six letters in them! What?! It’s fate! Come down to the bookstore and say what up to your destiny! Who knows\, we might even add a local poet to the mix! And stop using exclamation marks! Maybe! Eventually! \nOh wait! We did add a local poet! It’s Margaret Ross! She’s the author of A TIMESHARE\, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She lives in Berkeley and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nCallie Garnett is the author of the chapbook Hallelujah\, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, a collaboration with illustrator Tallulah Pomeroy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prelude\, Public Books\, Jubilat\, and The Literateur. She lives in Brooklyn and works as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. \nDaniel Poppick’s first book of poetry\, The Police\, is out this year from Omnidawn. His work has recently appeared in BOMB\, Granta\, the New Republic\, Hyperallergic\, and Fence. He lives in Brooklyn\, where he co-edits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib. \nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (Switchback\, forthcoming 2017) and The Haunted House (Switchback\, 2010)\, and the chapbooks 8th Grade Hippie Chic (Immaculate Disciples\, 2013) and Big Brown Bag (Gazing Grain\, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and other publications\, and is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia\, 2016). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website WEIRD SISTER. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-at-wolfman-garnett-poppick-crawford-ross/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: Get Off My Lawn
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, we invite you to explore our theme: “Get off my lawn.” Because kids today\, am I right? And none of us is getting any younger. But also because tresspassing and guns and violence. Or childhood summers and sprinklers. And those pesky garden gnomes. You decide. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur March features are: QR Hand & Paul Corman-Roberts\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 25th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-get-off-my-lawn/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Swan Day Feminist Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers falls on SWAN day! Support Women Artists Now! Wear anything with swans on it!!! \nFeaturing:\nGinger Cuervas\nEmily Butterfly\nAqueila M. Lewis\nSteffi Drewes\nLeslie Absher\nNana K. Twumasi\nNatalie Devora\nSara McAulay\nKathryn Kruse\nAi Ebashi\nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nMarguerite Munoz \nGinger Cuervas \nArt3mis//\nMother\, Emcee\, Painter\nAfro Borinquen\, carrying on the spirit of my grandmothers\nHija del sol y la agua\nThe Projects raised me\nHeart full of Brooklyn\nFeet planted in Oakland \nEmily Butterfly is an interstellar story teller who lives to delight children with her magically unique form of puppetry\, storytelling and song. She has had the honor of creating shows and performing for thousands and thousands of preschoolers and elementary school students and feels blessed to have the abilities to create her own puppet friends\, write and perform inspirational tales. Her voice has dazzled ears through her voice over career with Free Range Graphics and Cartoon Network and a three year stint as the producer and hostess of a children’s radio program.Her wide vocal range\, uniquely magical ideas and intuitive approach to entertaining young children has bloomed her into a very successful edutainer.\nShe loves the stage and aspires to delight and inspire millions with her magic.\nwww.emilybutterfly.com \nNana K. Twumasi lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. An alum of California College of the Arts MFA Program in Writing\, her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Sou’Wester Journal\, Ballyhoo Stories\, and Eleven Eleven. She is the co-editor of Monday Night\, a journal of new literature. \nSara McAulay grew up in Virginia and did time in New Jersey\, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of short fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Arroyo Literary Review\, Black Warrior Review\, California Quarterly\, The Literary Review\, Lodestar Quarterly\, North American Review\, Third Coast and ZYZZYVA\, among others. She edited the online journal Tattoo Highway from 1998 – 2013. Sara has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. From 1984 to 2008 she taught creative writing and literature at CSU East Bay. She is now retired\, a state that suits her very\, very well. Ten years ago she took up the sport of dog agility. Weekends often find her pretending to be much younger and much less politically engaged than she really is\, chasing after her two fast Australian Shepherd dogs. Sara has two grandchildren in Portland OR\, and a step-granddaughter in college in Hawaii. In 2014\, after 21 years together\, she and her partner made honest women of each other at last. \nAi Ebashi is a writer-translator-illustrator who is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at San Francisco State University. Originally from Japan\, she has spent the majority of her adult-life living in various parts of the United States as well as in Istanbul\, Turkey\, where she received her MA in English Literature and worked as a journalist\, translator/interpreter\, children’s book author\, yoga instructor and olive cracker (volunteer.) In 2015\, she decided to settle down in the Bay Area and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is currently a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Her playwriting credits include One Day(Breach Once More\, Fringe\,) Puppet Show (GreenHouse Festival\, SFSU Fringe-Goes-Long\,) The Pursuit of Happiness (SFSU Fringe) Reversi and Reincarnation (Berkeley Rep School of Theater\,) and her publications include Öykü Denizi (National Geographic) and Colors\, translations of Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poetry (New American Writing.) \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula. Their first book\, The Easy Body\, is due to be published this spring by Oakland press Timeless Infinite Light. They live in San Francisco.
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LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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