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SUMMARY:We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race\, Resegregation\, and Public Art
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016\, it was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book of the Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” \nJeff Chang is vice president for narrative\, arts and culture at Race Forward. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America. Cofounder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines\, Chang was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200.\nFor more information\, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. \nJeff Chang has written extensively on culture\, politics\, the arts\, and music. \nHis first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, garnered many honors\, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Slate named it one of the best nonfiction books of the past 25 years. He edited the book\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. \nWho We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martin’s Press) was released on October 2014\, to critical acclaim. It was published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title\, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America (Picador). The book won the Ray + Pat Browne Award for Best Work in Popular Culture and American Culture and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and Books For A Better Life Award. \nHis latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation (Picador)\, was published in September 2016 on Picador. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. \nHis next project is a biography of Bruce Lee (Little\, Brown). \nJeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World\,” by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero\, and by the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts to its 2016 YBCA 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.” He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200\, as one of “200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass.” \nHe has also been a winner of the North Star News Prize\, and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work in Popular Culture and American Culture. With H. Samy Alim\, he received the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University. \nJeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He has written for The Guardian\, Slate\, the New York Times\, The Nation\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Believer\, N+1\, Mother Jones\, Salon\, and Buzzfeed\, among many others. \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Hawai’i\, he is a graduate of ‘Iolani School\, the University of California at Berkeley\, and the University of California at Los Angeles. \nFor the past seven years he was the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He serves as the Vice President for Narrative\, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. \nArts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
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LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Michael Gottlieb\, Brian Ang\, Sara Larsen\, and James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books\, most recently Mostly Clearing\, from Roof Books\, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We Do: Essays for Poets\, I Had Every Intention\, Dear All\, and Memoir and Essay\, an account of NYC in the 70s and the early days of the Language school. To mark its publication\, selections from Mostly Clearing were staged at the Poetry Project at St. Marks in New York in November. Other work of his which has been adapted for the stage include We Will Never Speak of This Again and The Dust\, his 9/11 poem\, which was also produced at the Poetry Project\, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. He works in tech and divides his time between New York and Connecticut. \nBrian Ang’s current poetic project is The Totality Cantos\, for Atelos. Editor: ARMED CELL (2011-17). Radio: A Thousand Records on KALX. \nSara Larsen is a poet and writer living in Oakland\, CA. Her newest book is a polyvocal exploration of punk and poetics\, The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof\, 2019). Previous books include Merry Hell (Atelos\, 2016)\, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press\, 2014). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Our Ladies\, Riot Cops En Route To Troy\, The Hallucinated\, among others. \nJames Sherry is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Oligarch (London: Palgrave MacMillan\, 2017) and the poetry book Entangled Bank (Victoria\, TX: Chax Press\, 2016). Since 1976\, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine\, publishing more than 150 titles of seminal works of language writing\, flarf\, conceptual poetry\, new narrative\, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation\, Inc. in 1977\, producing over 10\,000 events of poetry and other arts in New York City. Tonight\, he’ll read from his new manuscript\, Selfie: Ecology & Individuals\, forthcoming from Palgrave this year.
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LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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