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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n\n November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\nRelated
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LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2018: COVENANT
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2018: Covenant! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
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LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:How We Get Free: A Conversation on Black Feminism\, Politics\, and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:On December 1\, the night before the fifth annual Howard Zinn Book Fair\, three leading activist-scholars will come together in conversation about Black Feminism past and present. The speakers\, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\, Cat Brooks and Zoé Samudzi\, each coming from a unique radical tradition\, will combine their own research and experience with the history of past movements to explore questions around race\, gender\, class\, and ultimately\, liberation. What is the role of elections? Of #BlackLivesMatter? Of Trump? How should we be organizing today for our collective liberation? This event will also feature poetry readings by Idrissa Simmonds. \n\nIn the last several years\, Black feminism has reemerged as the analytical framework for the activists response to the oppression of trans women of color\, the fight for reproductive rights\, and of course\, the movement against police abuse and violence. The most visible organizations and activists connected to the Black Lives Matter movement speak openly about how Black feminism shapes their politics and strategies today. —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\nHow We Get Free: A Conversation on Black Feminism\, Politics\, and Liberation takes place Saturday December 1st\, 7pm\nat the First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland\, CA 94612. A sliding scale donation of $5-10 is requested and the event is sponsored by the Howard Zinn Book Fair and the International Socialist Organization and all proceeds will go to the book fair. And please attend the Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday\, Dec. 2 frm 10-6 at City College of SF at 1125 Valencia St.\, SF. \nFor more information see profiles below and check our website: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://howardzinnbookfair.com/\n\nFeaturing……\n \n\n\n\n\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\, an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s book\, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective explores the history of the Combahee River Collective\, a trailblazing 1960s-70s group of radical black feminists through interviews with the groups founders. Her research examines race\, housing\, and public policy. \nCat Brooks was a candidate for Oakland mayor in 2018. She is a leading activist in the Black Lives Matter Movement and co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project whose mission is to rapidly respond to and ultimately eradicate state violence in communities of color. Brooks is also a KPFA radio host\, playwright and actor. \nZoé Samudzi is a writer\, photographer\, and third year doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her doctoral research explores the Namibian genocide\, German colonialism\, and eugenics. She is a co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Our Liberation. Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies and photography\, and critical approaches to science in service of a blended multidisciplinary means of articulating Blackness(es). \nIdrissa Simmonds is a poet\, essayist\, fiction writer\, and workshop facilitator. Winner of the 2013 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize\, Idrissa has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Award and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in poetry. Her work has most recently appeared in Black Renaissance Noire\, James Franco Review\, Fourteen Hills Press\, and Room Magazine. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Poets House\, and VONA/Voices. She is co-editor of BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. She curates Brunch & Word\, a bi-coastal literary salon.
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LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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