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:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20160101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T095101
CREATED:20170721T235649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T235649Z
UID:28076-1503514800-1503518400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowicz
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rex Renee Leonowicz to the store to perform from when there is no one and there is everyone\, on Wednesday\, August 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: The multimedia performance acts as a touring funeral party\, using drag\, poetry\, music\, and visual art/digital media to create a kind of live memorial/archive that animates the book and brings its story to life to chart the personal\, political\, and cultural moments that are living\, dying\, and rebirthing in the book. Rex will perform poems from the book and drag versions of songs that influence the text. A video collage of drawings\, art maps\, and photos will stream in the background\, along with a soundtrack of music that influenced the work. The point of the music\, visual art\, maps\, and ephemera interspliced is to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, and triumph present in the work\, as well as to show evidence of communities that often are invisible or displaced. Part history lesson\, part mixtape\, part memorial\, part celebration\, the project blends genres to honor and illuminate resistance movements\, our heroes\, our experiences\, failures & successes in solidarity\, art\, and community love. \nABOUT THE BOOK: when there is no one and there is everyone is a full-length collection of poetry and illustrations set for release in Summer 2017 by Magic Helicopter Press. The collection is experienced as a collage-like mixtape of techniques\, influences\, pop references\, and city cultures that explores the messiness of identity\, relationship\, and resistance in an unjust world. Its biggest concern is with landscapes of public and private space\, specifically how gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out on the intimate geographies of bodies\, minds\, and cities Beyond this\, it’s a celebration of friendship\, freakdom\, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: Rex Renee Leonowicz is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other. S/he holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Mills College and a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies & Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowicz/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T095101
CREATED:20170805T004425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170805T004425Z
UID:28228-1503514800-1503518400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents Dispatches From Lesbian America
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents readings by Joan Annsfire\, Xequina Maria Berber\, and Giovanna Capone from the anthology DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA on Wednesday\, August 23\, 7pm at the Nomadic Press: Uptown performance space\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland. Free refreshments and door prizes. A discussion of the anthology and book signing will follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/137277350195017 \nINFORMATION ON THE READERS: \nJOAN ANNSFIRE is a writer\, poet\, and retired librarian who lives in Berkeley. Her piece in Dispatches From Lesbian America is non-fiction\, based on her experience working at the San Francisco Water Department in the early Eighties. \nJoan’s memoir pieces have appeared most recently online in Identity Envy\, Read These Lips\, Aunt Lute Press\, and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness. She has also been published in Lavender Review\, Sinister Wisdom\, The 13th Moon\, Bridges\, The Evergreen Chronicles\, and The Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly\, among other publications. \nHer poetry is in an upcoming anthology\, 11/9: The Fall of American Democracy\, as well as Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival\, and The Times They Were A- Changing. Headmistress Press published a chapbook of her poems\, Distant Music. \nIn her blog\, “Lavenderjoan\, somewhere under the rainbow\,” the personal and the political meet. \nXEQUINA MARIA BERBER is a storyteller\, writer\, artist\, former law librarian\, and now elementary school librarian. She came out during early middlessence and makes up for lost Gay time through her creative endeavors: short stories and comic strips celebrating Lesbian personalities and themes. She also rewrites songs to honor Dyke culture\, which are then performed for the community with her drag king partner “Johnny Magnolia.” \nShe is the author of two books\, Santora: The Good Daughter\, a Latina novel\, under the psuedonym Resurrección Cruz\, and The Mermaid Girl\, a tween and teen book\, published under her first name\, by Bedazzled Ink. She is also one of the editors of Dispatches From Lesbian America. A collection of her lesbian short stories and memoir\, The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis\, is due to come out this year. Many of her stories were inspired by her girlfriend’s life. \nXequina is also an artist and paints traditional Mexican retablos (miracle stories) and santos\, as well as themes of Mexican Magical Realism. She has degrees in literature\, art\, Women’s Spirituality\, and Library and Information Science. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their two bad cats. \nGIOVANNA CAPONE is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian-American neighborhood in Mt. Vernon\, New York\, whose strong Neapolitan influence still resonates in her life. \nHer work has appeared widely in various publications\, including Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent; Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood; Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry; Avanti Opolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; Queer View Mirror 2\, Lesbian & Gay Short Fiction; What I Want From You: An Anthology of East Bay Lesbian Poets; and Fuori: Essays by Italian/American Lesbians and Gays. \nMost recently Giovanna edited the collection Words on Fire! An Anthology of Teen Voices as part of her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. \nGiovanna’s first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna See Women’s Performance Project\, in their first Dyke Drama Festival. She is also a mixed media collage artist and has exhibited her visual art in venues throughout the Bay Area.\nShe lives in Oakland\, where for many years she has taught poetry writing workshops to children and teens through California Poets in the Schools. Find out more at www.giovannacapone.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-presents-dispatches-from-lesbian-america/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR