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SUMMARY:Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Showcase & 510 Journal Release
DESCRIPTION:A rare gathering of youth talent and voices! \nOakland Youth Poet Laureates\, Finalists and Honorable Mentions from the past SEVEN years will be performing at this First Friday event! \nThe latest issue of the 510 Journal (510journal.com)\, featuring Leila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate will be launched! Presented by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, the 510 Journal features the work of the Youth Poet Laureate – Oakland program and seeks to make young people and their perspectives visible in the daily lives of Oakland residents by placing youth writing in public places. \nLucy Flattery-Vickness – 2017 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate will MC! \nBring your questions for the Q & A with the poets! \nDelicious food available from Two Mamacitas Pop-Kitchen \nFresh music jams spun by Dj XCAIROSITOSX \nDoors open at 6pm. \nPerformances/Readings begin at 7pm. \nYouth poetry open mic to follow. \nFREE \nThe line up so far:\nLeila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\nSamuel Getachew – 2018 Oakland Vice Youth Poet Laureate\nJulia Hopkins – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nDarien Em – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nMonique Nadine Jonath – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nMiles De Rosa – 2018 and 2017 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nBayLeaf Wilson – 2017 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nLizette Navarro – 2017 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nEmily Lea Kim – 2014 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nEuna Elizabeth Bonovich – 2012 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist\nKerby Lynch – 2012 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Finalist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-youth-poet-laureate-showcase-510-journal-release/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ZQ-287 PRESENTS: KILLING THE FUTURE
DESCRIPTION:ZQ-287 PRESENTS: \nKILLING THE FUTURE\nA Fiction Reading and Discussion on How to Make Sure There’s No Future Forever \nSep. 7 \n*featuring* \nAFFLICTION INCLUDED (AUTHOR’S CUT) by Steven T. Bramble\nAfter spending his youth as the son of a dissident mother who tried and failed to plot the overthrow of the consolidated world government\, Stanly Borque was punished for political crimes he didn’t commit. Now\, years\, later\, he’s none other than a compliant corporate employee\, working in the midst of the same authoritarian\, oligarchical system of total social surveillance his mother had hoped to eradicate. Which doesn’t actually bother him too much—until a business trip to Ghana where a bizarre accident catapults him back into the world of the powerful\, and the inescapable arms of the regime. \nAs an inept participant in so much conspiracy\, he’ll be confronted with a barrage of possibly important questions along the way. Like\, is freedom a dead concept? Why did a global pandemic of suicides cause a tenth of the world’s population to do itself in? And\, is there a reason to hope anymore? A story of the world in the total opposite of disarray\, and what it means when reality is at odds with the human spirit. \nSteven T. Bramble is the author of the Psychology of Technology Triptych\, which includes the novels GRID CITY OVERLOAD\, for which he won Honorable Mention in Foreword Review’s 2012 Book of the Year Award\, and DISPOSABLE THOUGHT\, which was awarded an editor’s pick by Kirkus Reviews.  \n“Bramble’s work evokes that of many 20th-century authors who sought to grapple with their eras’ technological tumult. His post-modern maximalism calls to mind Thomas Pynchon and William T. Vollmann; his grim dystopianism\, Orwell and Margaret Atwood; his overt social criticism\, Richard Wright and Kurt Vonnegut.”  — Kirkus \nBABYLON: ISSUE THREE by Alan Clark\nA hundred years in the future\, four deities are reborn in our universe after the death of their own. Now the events that destroyed their home universe have returned once again to kill them. BABYLON is the mind-bending gold-standard of the multi-dimensional doomsday soap opera category\, embracing such age-old maxims as “Love is a Dead Place\,” “Revenge is for Winners\,” and “No Future Forever.” A brutally hilarious sci-fi epic from the expansive imagination of Alan Clark\, and illustrated in inimitable\, painstakingly detailed style. \nAlan Clark is the author of IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHERS\, a graphic novel being published in serial. The second issue is set to release this September.\n“Skillyfully rendered and arresting\, [Alan Clark’s] illustrations invite reverie and instill a desire to return to look again.”  — Oakland Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zq-287-presents-killing-the-future/
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:Left Margin LIT Reading
DESCRIPTION:Now that we have a new space (1543 Shattuck in North Berkeley)\, it’s time to launch our own reading series. Come nosh on some snacks and listen to 5 Left Margin writers share their work: Lauren Markham\, Muhammad Umar Jee Salimi\, Keenan Norris\, Melinda Noack\, and Chris Arnold. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-reading/
LOCATION:Left Margin Lit\, 1543 Shattuck\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:OAKLAND FIRST FRIDAYS AT NOMADIC PRESS!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by TBD and music by TBD. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press-5/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 7\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nObi Kaufmann presents his award-winning best seller\, The California Field Atlas. \nFollowing a visual presentation\, Obi will be joined in conversation by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon\, discussing the importance of reframing the language of conservation\, and the impact of the California Field Atlas\, one year on from publication. \nOn sale for the first time at Pegasus will be the California Field Atlas Note Card Sets (Heyday\, 2018) featuring beautiful reproductions of the watercolor illustrations of mammals and birds of prey\, created by Obi for the book. \nWinner\, 2018 California Book Award Gold Medal (Notable Contribution to Publishing)\nWinner\, 2018 NCIBA Book of the Year Award (Regional Interest)\n#1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller \n  \n  \nTHE CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS (HEYDAY\, 2017) \nThis lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California\, revealing its myriad ecologies\, topographies\, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State\, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living\, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world\, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties\, for example\, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates\, of watersheds\, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife\, keys that explain natural phenomena\, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color\, a bit larger than life\, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place. \nGrowing up in the East Bay\, Obi Kaufmann spent most of his weekends mapping Mount Diablo’s creeks\, oak forests\, and sage mazes. Into adulthood he would regularly journey into the mountains\, spending more summer nights without a roof than with one. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State\, Kaufmann’s lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California. His book blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living\, connected systems like no book has done before\, and outlines the epic narrative of the California backcountry\, which holds enough art\, science\, mythology\, and language for a hundred field atlases to come. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, September 7\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obi-kaufmann-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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