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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with Europa Grace\, M.I.\, Miyuki\, and Gabriel Christian.
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LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Your Art Will Save Your Life launch at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 25\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the launch of YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE with Beth Pickens and Tammy Johnson! \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \nBeth Pickens reminds us that art makes us want to be alive. It lets us know that we are not alone in this world no matter how isolated we feel. And in this oppressive political climate\, art is more important now than ever. \nWritten in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and drawing from Pickens’s extensive background in art fundraising and consulting\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE empowers emerging and established artists alike to balance activism and financial concerns while nurturing their own creative processes. \nFrom exercises designed to quiet inner critics to advice on navigating institutional funding\, Pickens helps artists create foundations for healthy and sustainable expression no matter the medium. Reminding us art has always been a tool of the resistance\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE provides simple yet powerful lessons on how to keep creating at a time\nwhen art is more necessary than ever. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nTammy Johnson is a dancer\, writer\, and equity analyst living in Oakland\, California. As a highly visible and effective community organizer in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, she directed campaigns on economic justice\, electoral reform and public education. Johnson’s gift for strategy development and ability to nurture strong relationships with groups on the ground led to a decade at Race Forward. She is also a principal partner of Art/Work Practice\, a firm that advances cultural strategies with a through an equity-based approach. For over a decade Johnson and Etang Inyang performed as the award-winning Egyptian Bellydance duet\, Raks Africa\, and co-directed Girls Raks Bellydance and Body Image program. She is currently the director the Northern African Berber inspired culture production company\, Project Aiwa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-art-will-save-your-life-launch-at-wolfman-books/
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:Brynn Saito
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties grant. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine\, Poetry Northwest\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Saito is the Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry at Saint Mary’s College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brynn-saito/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
DESCRIPTION:“She meticulously and convincingly argues that U.S. gun culture-and the domestic and global massacres that have flowed from it- must be linked to an understanding of the ideological\, historical and practical role of guns in seizing Native American lands\, black enslavement\, and global imperialism.”- Clarence Lusane \nThe U.S. loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James to the NRA and Seal Team 6\, gun culture has colored the lore\, shaped the law\, and protected the market that arms the nation\, and the world. In Loaded\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the sacred myths of Americans’ “right to bear arms” to expose the true origins of the Second Amendment\, specifically\, the connection between the arming of the earliest Anglo settlers\, modern-day policing\, and the persistence of white supremacy as a political force. From the nation’s origins in slavery and colonization to today’s right wing “gun lobby\,” Loaded presents a U.S. history of firearms that will be invaluable for anyone interested in understanding the interconnected histories of racism and gun violence in the United States. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Outlaw Woman\, a memoir of her time in an armed underground group\, Red Dirt: Growing up Okie\, and Blood On the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War\, and the recent\, widely acclaimed An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nHost Joanna Manqueros worked as a therapist at Kaiser Hospital\, where she has been co-chair of the Diversity Committee in Psychiatry for many years. In addition\, she has been a host of KPFA’s Music of the World since 2005. \nadvance tickets: $12\, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-loaded-a-disarming-history-of-the-second-amendment/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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