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SUMMARY:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Marcus Books Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-date-in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-and-tongo-eisen-martin-reading-their-work/
LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Noir: Nighthawks
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Jon Sindell\, Sara McAulay\, Robert Pesich\, Susan Cohen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noir-nighthawks/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181206T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181206T210000
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SUMMARY:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?
DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?\nA multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s underground clubbing by pájaros\, maricones\, mariposas\, mariquitas and those who love them. \nCurated by artists Juliana Delgado Lopera & Rebeka Rodriguez in collaboration with Aunt Lute Books\, this 1980s Latinx fashion extravaganza will include: \n*A runway featuring YOU – fabulous young and elder queers! \n*A kiki panel on the resiliency of people living and performing on 16th street in the 80s and 90s [FULL LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED] \n*A cute and cuir photo booth \n*DRAG! \nAnd more! Bring your best looks for a chance to win some fabulous prizes (glamorous books)! \nThis event is FREE! Ages 21 and up. The Stud is ADA accessible. \n  \n  \nWhen:  December 6\, 2018 @ 7pm\nWhere: The Stud (399 9th St\, San Francisco\, CA) \n===== \nAbout the curators:\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is currently the Creative Director of RADAR Productions. \nRebeka Rodriguez is an artist\, curator\, and cultural producer working in San Francisco communities. She is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the founder of BYOQ\, a daytime music\, art & performance festival. \nAunt Lute Books is a nonprofit women’s publishing press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years\, we have been publishing literature that voices the perspectives of women who have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing.         \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/would-you-be-caught-dead-in-that-outfit/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181207T220000
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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-6/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181207T193000
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 7th\, feat. Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout!\nPlease join us on Friday\, December 7th\, from 7:30-9:30 pm\, \nfor a reading featuring Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout\, \nplus art by Patrick Sumner and Peggy Videtta! \n  \n***** \nauthor & artist bios & photos below. \n\n \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n\n \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n\n \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \n\n \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nBrenda Hillman is the author of 10 collections from Wesleyan University Press\, most recently Extra Hidden Life\, among the Days (2018)\, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013)\, and Practical Water (2011). Hillman recently co-translated At Your Feet\, the poems of Ana Cristina Cesar (Free Verse Editions\, 2018). She lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, Robert Hass and is Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, California. \nRae Armantrout’s most recent books\, Versed\, Money Shot\, Just Saying\, Itself\, Partly: New and Selected Poems\, Entanglements\, (a chapbook selection of poems in conversation with physics)\, and Wobble were published by Wesleyan University Press. Wobble was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award. In 2010 her book Versed won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals including Poetry\, Lana Turner\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, Bomb\, Harper’s\,The Paris Review\, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology\, The Open Door: 100 Poems\, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine\, etc.   She is recently retired from UC San Diego where she was professor of poetry and poetics. She lives in the Seattle area. \nPosted by Casey at 11:34 AM No comments:  \nLabels: brenda hillman\, Rae Armantrout \nTHURSDAY\, OCTOBER 18\, 2018\nFriday\, November 2nd\, feat. Raina J. León\, Jacob Kahn\, and Susan Kolodny!\nPlease join us on Friday\, November 2nd at 7:30 pm for a reading featuring Raina J. León\, Jacob Kahn\, \nand Susan Kolodny! \nEvent is FREE. \nLagunitas beer\, wine\, and snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center | 365 45th Street | Oakland \nHere’s a map. \nAs always\, a generous thank you to our sponsors: \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo graduate fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, and Ragdale\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is currently a teaching poet-in residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. \nJacob Kahn is a bookseller and editor and organizer and curator and lots of other things at E.M. Wolfman Books in Oakland\, CA. He is a 2018 Frontier Fellow at Epicenter in Green River\, Utah\, a rural design studio and community-based artist residency\, and his writing can be found in ‘A Circuit of Yields’ (Wolfman Books\, 2014) and elsewhere. \nSusan Kolodny is the author of two poetry collections: After the Firestorm (Mayapple Press\, 2011) and Preserve (Finishing Line Press\, 2017). Her poems appear in New England Review\, Bellingham Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, and in other journals and several anthologies\, and have been featured on American Life in Poetry and Poetry Daily. She is a psychoanalyst in practice in the East Bay\, a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis\, and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition (PsychoSocial Press\, 2000).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181217T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181217T220000
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #43 (MUSIC BY TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-43-music-by-tbd/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181220T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181220T220000
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES... OAKLAND EDITION
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 20\, 2018\n7:30 PM  11:00 PM\nStarline Social Club (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS SHOW IS IN OAKLAND!!!\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 at the door… & NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nthe OAKLAND EDITION\nw/ Chelsea Coleman \nOn December 20th\, 2018 we will gather in the side room of the Starline Social Club at 7:30pm. At 8pm we will begin a night of music\, poetry\, storytelling\, and emotions-feeling. The theme is death\, grief\, loss\, and our own mortality. Whether our own deaths feel near or far away\, whether we have the privilege of coasting through life in denial of our eventual deaths and the deaths of those we love\, or whether we are face to face with it all too often – most of us have something to say about it. In a world that would rather sweep sadness\, anger\, confusion\, and grief under the rug\, we will make a space for it together. \nThroughout the night\, we will bring some special performers up to the stage\, and the rest is up to you. Bring your stories\, songs\, poems\, or just your rapt attention. The only rule is that your performance must be under 5 minutes (we will give you a warning at 4 minutes). There will be a piano\, an acoustic guitar\, and two mics for you to use if you want! If you want to perform something that requires more than 30 seconds of setup\, email me at chelsea@yg2d.com and we can figure out how to make it work w/o eating into your 5 mins. Get there when doors open at 7:30 if you want to sign up to perform!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-oakland-edition/
LOCATION:Starline Social Club\, 2236 martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181228T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Jan Steckel's Like Flesh Covers Bone
DESCRIPTION:Oakland poet Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018)\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton. \n“These poems have come for blood. Honest and direct\, Jan writes often humorous\, always electrified poetry of great depth and courage. Take this journey!” James Cagney\, author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018) \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest poetry book is Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018). Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, New Verse News\, November 3 Club\, Assaracus and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-jan-steckels-like-flesh-covers-bone/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190106T133000
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SUMMARY:Memorial Gathering for Julia Vinograd
DESCRIPTION:As most or all of you know\, Julia Vinograd passed away very peacefully on the morning of December 5. There will be a gathering to honor and celebrate her life\, as Honorary Poet Laureate of Berkeley and the Bubble Lady of Telegraph Avenue\, and all around magnificent and inspiring human being\, on Sunday\, January 6. The gathering will include a potluck and a microphone for folks to speak briefly or read a poem. \nChapter 510 & the Department of Make Believe\, a non-profit focused on youth literacy in the East Bay\, have graciously offered their space to us free of charge for this memorial. We will have a box at the door for donations to their organization\, which is doing fabulous work\, and if you can help them out with $5-10 or more\, that would be great. But it is absolutely not required\, and please\, please come regardless. \nHere’s their website so you can check out what they do.http://www.chapter510.org/what-we-do \nSHARE THIS INVITE WITH FRIENDS! FACEBOOK WILL ONLY LET ME SEND OUT SO MANY. Either use the Share button to invite your (or Julia’s) friends\, or paste the info or event address (www) into an email. \nHere’s the schedule for the afternoon. \n1:30 — POTLUCK (to go throughout the day) \nPlease bring a dish or beverage to share if you can. It’s fine to bring beer or wine\, and of course non-alcoholic bevs are welcomed. We’ll have some paper plates\, plastic forks\, paper towels\, and cups on hand\, but feel free to bring a few of those if you think of it. I’m sure we could use extra. \nThe space has tables to eat at as well as folding chairs and couches. If you’re at a table and not eating\, and see someone who needs a seat to eat\, please oblige them. We’ll try to have enough chairs out for everyone\, of course. \n2 – 5 pm — OPEN MIC TO READ OR SPEAK \nWe’ll provide a microphone for any and all who want to speak about Julia’s life\, or read a poem\, either their own or Julia’s. We’ll have some of her books there to read from if you like. \nThere will be a list to SIGN UP TO SPEAK by the side of the stage. Just ask the person at the door if you can’t find it. \nPlease plan to speak no more than 3 MINUTES\, or one poem. We’re expecting a lot of folks will want to\, so that would be a big help. We’ll have a series of hosts to call out who’s next to read. \nIt’s a pretty big space\, so if you want to talk\, please do quietly toward the back of the room (by the front windows)\, or in the lobby\, so that folks can hear the speakers. \nWe will also have some of Julia’s books on sale by the door. \nWE NEED \n— A crew to set up beforehand\n— A crew to clean up afterward (important! we said we’d leave the place spotless)\n— A few folks to help with the donation box at the door\, and to greet folks and answer questions\n— A few folks to help with hosting\, basically taking turns for 30-60 minutes calling out who’s next to speak \nIf you’re able to help\, please send a private message to Richard Loranger on here\, or email him at hello@richardloranger.com. \nLet’s gather for Julia\, who will be with us for a long time to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-gathering-for-julia-vinograd/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190110T200000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Circle @BPL Claremont
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Circle at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library features you and what you like. Come with a favorite poem — or find one here! If you write poetry\, share one of your own\, too. We will be taking turns in a reading circle. Listeners welcome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-circle-bpl-claremont/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190110T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190110T210000
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SUMMARY:ALISON HART at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Renowned local poet and writer Alison Hart shares her stunning work of literary fiction\, Mostly White. This special event will include a Reader’s Theater performance featuring Alison Hart\, Lady H a.k.a. Haninah Abdullah\, Cynthia Onetta Toliver\, Robert Fisher\, Gloria Fisher\, and Keith Grier. \nA family saga: four generations of mixed-race African American\, Native American\, and Irish women experience intergenerational trauma as well as the healing brought by nature and music\, leading to triumphant resilience. \nMostly White begins in 1890 when Emma\, a mixed-race Native American and African American girl\, is beaten by nuns and confined in a closet for speaking her language at an Indian Residential school in Maine. From there\, a tale that spans four generations of women unfolds. Emma’s descendants suffer the effects of trauma\, poverty\, and abuse while fighting to form their own identities and honor the call of their ancestors. \n\nAlison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American\, Passamaquoddy Native American\, Irish\, Scottish\, and English woman of color. Her poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015\, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2016) and elsewhere. Hart lives in Alameda\, California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 10\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alison-hart-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190110T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190110T210000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Kohnstamm: Lake City
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers welcomes Thomas Kohnstamm to discuss his new new book Lake City. He will be in conversation with Broke-Ass Stuart Schuffman. The novel’s setting is Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood during the 2001 holiday season. In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy and at the peak of Seattle’s first wave of tech-boom gentrification–a wave that never quite made it to his neighborhood–Lane Beuche schemes how to win back his wife (and her trust fund). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-kohnstamm-lake-city/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Raise the Bay: In Her Voice
DESCRIPTION:Speak Your Truth presents its fourth event\, “Raise the Bay: In Her Voice” on January 10\, 2019. Raise the Bay will highlight female-identifying singer/songwriters and spoken word artists in the Bay Area. \nAll of the proceeds from this event (and all of our Speak Your Truth events) directly benefit our education programming\, which aims to diversify the next generation of music industry professionals. \nSpeak Your Truth takes place every other month on our Tier One stage (the top tier of The UC Theatre)\, a 250 capacity nightclub space that provides a platform for emerging local artists to share their talents on stage. For more information\, or to donate directly to the Speak Your Truth event series\, please visit this page. \n$10.00. \nPresented by The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raise-the-bay-in-her-voice/
LOCATION:The UC Theatre Taub Family Music Hall\, 2036 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall":MAILTO:information@theuctheatre.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190116T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190116T210000
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SUMMARY:LYNDSAY FAYE at Books Inc. in Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Lyndsay Faye\, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and Gods of Gotham\, will discuss her exciting new historical thriller\, The Paragon Hotel\, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the Paragon Hotel. \nThe year is 1921\, and “Nobody” Alice James is on a cross-country train\, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead\, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line. \nShe befriends Max\, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of Harlem\, who leads Alice to the Paragon Hotel upon arrival in Portland. Her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be the only all-black hotel in the city\, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. But as she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton\, the stately Mavereen\, and the unforgettable club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine\, she begins to understand the reason for their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers—burning crosses\, inciting violence\, electing officials\, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice\, along with her new “family” of Paragon residents\, are willing to search for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the Oregon woods. \nWhy was “Nobody” Alice James forced to escape Harlem? Why do the Paragon’s denizens live in fear—and what other sins are they hiding? Where did the orphaned child who went missing from the hotel\, Davy Lee\, come from in the first place? And\, perhaps most important\, why does Blossom Fontaine seem to be at the very center of this tangled web? \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc. in Alameda\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA 94501
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyndsay-faye-at-books-inc-in-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190116T210000
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SUMMARY:MATT COYLE with TERRY SHAMES at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Joining Books Inc. in Berkeley for an evening of thrills and chills with award-winning mystery writer Matt Coyle sharing his intriguing new novel\, Wrong Light: Rick Cahill #5. Matt will be in conversation with Mystery Writers of America member Terry Shames\, author of the charming Samuel Craddock mystery series. \n\nAbout Wrong Light: Perfect for hard-boiled PI and Noir fans who like a tainted hero living by his own code.\n\nNaomi Hendrix’s sexy voice hovering over the radio waves isn’t the only thing haunting the Southern California nights. A demented soul is stalking Naomi\, hiding in the shadows of the night\, waiting for the right moment to snatch her and fulfill a twisted fantasy.\nWhen Naomi’s radio station hires PI Rick Cahill to protect Naomi and track down the stalker\, he discovers that Naomi is hiding secrets about her past that could help unmask the man. However\, before Rick can extract the truth from Naomi\, he is thrust into a missing person’s case–an abduction he may have unwittingly caused. The investigating detective questions Rick’s motives for getting involved and pressures him to stop meddling.\nWhile Rick pursues Naomi’s stalker and battles the police\, evil ricochets from his own past and embroils Rick in a race to find the truth about an old nemesis. Is settling the score worth losing everything?\n\n\nAbout An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock: When the Jarrett Creek Fire Department is called to douse a blaze on the outskirts of town\, they discover a grisly scene: five black young people have been murdered. Newly elected Chief of Police Samuel Craddock\, just back from a stint in the Air Force\, finds himself an outsider in the investigation headed by the Texas Highway Patrol. He takes an immediate dislike to John Sutherland\, a racist trooper \nCraddock’s fears are realized when Sutherland arrests Truly Bennett\, a young black man whom Craddock knows and respects. Sutherland cites dubious evidence that points to Bennett\, and Craddock uncovers facts leading in another direction. When Sutherland refuses to relent\, Craddock is faced with a choice that will define him as a lawman–either let the highway patrol have its way\, or take on a separate investigation himself. \nAlthough his choice to investigate puts both Craddock and his family in danger\, he perseveres. In the process\, he learns something about himself and the limits of law enforcement in Jarrett Creek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, January 16\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-coyle-with-terry-shames-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with TONY PLATT at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Tony Platt\, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society\, UC Berkeley\, discusses his groundbreaking new work\, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States\, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration\, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt\, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice\, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked\, arrested\, incarcerated\, catalogued\, and regulated in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls traces the disturbing history of punishment and social control\, revealing how the criminal justice system attempts to enforce and justify inequalities associated with class\, race\, gender\, and sexuality. Prisons and police departments are central to this process\, but other institutions – from immigration and welfare to educational and public health agencies – are equally complicit. \nPlatt argues that international and national politics shape perceptions of danger and determine the policies of local criminal justice agencies\, while private policing and global corporations are deeply and undemocratically involved in the business of homeland security. \nFinally\, Beyond These Walls demonstrates why efforts to reform criminal justice agencies have often expanded rather than contracted the net of social control. Drawing upon a long tradition of popular resistance\, Platt concludes with a strategic vision of what it will take to achieve justice for all in this era of authoritarian disorder. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 17\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-with-tony-platt-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190117T210000
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CREATED:20181129T011139Z
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi in conversation w/ Joshua Sperling about his new book "A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger"
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate writer Joshua Sperling’s new book\, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. We love John Berger here at Wolfman and we couldn’t be more excited about this book! Sperling “draws on first-hand\, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available\, to dig beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience.” Yes\, please! Sign us up for that! Even better\, Joshua Sperling will be in conversation with one of our local faves and New Life Quarterly columnist\, Zoé Samudzi\, who is also a Berger enthusiast. \nThe two will be in conversation about how Joshua came to the book\, their different connections to Berger\, delineate some themes or dialectical tensions at the heart of the book and ask you how these are pertinent to each’s current work and activism\, including the processes of collaboration\, the role of self-questioning and doubt during transitional political moments\, the motive-force of love in activism\, working inside/outside of academia\, and so much more! \nCopies of A Writer of Our Time will be available. You don’t want to miss this! \nJoshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Guernica\, Film Quarterly\, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine\, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College. \nZoé Samudzi is a Sociology doctoral student at the University of California-San Francisco\, and writer and photographer. She is the co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies\, and critical approaches to science in service of a multidisciplinary means of articulating Blackness(es).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi-in-conversation-w-joshua-sperling-about-his-new-book-a-writer-of-our-time-the-life-and-work-of-john-berger/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190117T210000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WORKAROUNDS
DESCRIPTION:featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act)\, Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys)\, James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory)\, Dinika Amaral\, and Ralph Paone\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday January 17th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-workarounds/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190118T210000
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SUMMARY:Austin Smith and Dora Malech
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers welcomes Austin Smith and Dora Malech to read from their books Flyover Countryand Stet. Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land\, to animals\, to refugees\, to the people of distant countries\, and to one another. In Stet\, Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject\, exploring what it means to make or break a vow\, to create art out of a life in flux\, to reckon with the body’s bounds\, and to arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/austin-smith-and-dora-malech/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190122T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T210000
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SUMMARY:JAMIE WEIL at Books Inc. Alameda
DESCRIPTION:Writer and youth mental health advocate Jamie Weil shares her powerful novel for young adults\, First Break. \nWhen your first break from home is your first break with reality … Paige Masters knows something isn’t quite right\, but figures once she gets to college\, life will get better. Instead\, it gets worse. Desperate to quiet the voices in her head telling her to kill herself\, Paige overdoses on her roommate’s sleeping meds\, her ticket to the university emergency room and\, from there\, a 72-hour hold at an adolescent psychiatric facility that turns into months that feel like they’ll never end. Inside those cotton-candy-pink walls\, Paige turns 18\, and discovers that adulthood brings a whole new set of rights. When she checks herself out\, she is ill-prepared for what comes next. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1344 Park St\n\nAlameda\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamie-weil-at-books-inc-alameda/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190122T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T213000
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Hadley\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to read from her new novel\, Late in the Day. \n“Perceptive\, finely wrought….Hadley is a writer of the first order\, and this novel gives her the opportunity to explore\, with profound incisiveness and depth\, the inevitable changes inherent to long-lasting marriages.”– Publishers Weekly \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Late in the Day by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, January 22\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this latest from Hadley. Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later\, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. \nIn the wake of this profound loss\, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach\, with his generous\, grounded spirit\, was the irreplaceable one they couldn’t afford to lose. Inconsolable\, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer\, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships\, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past\, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. \nLate in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships\, to expose how\, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives\, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters’ thoughts and interactions\, Tessa Hadley once again “crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural.” (Washington Post) \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\, Everything Will Be All Right; The Master Bedroom; The London Train\, and Clever Girl\, and two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190123T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190123T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Art of Relevance
DESCRIPTION:How can you re-ignite your community and create greater participation? \nJoin us for an informal discussion of Nina Simon’s recent book\, The Art of Relevance\, followed by the chance to chat and network with people who work in museums\, zoos\, aquariums\, parks\, historical organizations\, and nature centers. \nNina Simon has been described as a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine for her audience-centered approach to design. “Whether you work in museums or libraries\, parks or theaters\, churches or afterschool programs\, relevance can work for you. Relevance is not something an institution can assign by fiat. Your work matters when it matters to people—when THEY deem it relevant\, not you. The Art of Relevance will help you identify the people you seek to engage\, empathize with their concerns and interests\, and develop authentic ways to invite them into your work on their own terms.” (From www.artofrelevance.org). \nYou can read the book for free online. \nThis free event is open to the public\, but will be of special interest to professionals and aspiring professionals from museums and related fields. You do not have to have read the book to come to the discussion! \nCo-hosted by Cultural Connections\, a community of Bay Area museum professionals who meet regularly to exchange ideas\, share resources\, and inspire creativity and action. We value diversity\, pushing boundaries\, being responsive\, and professional development. To learn more\, please visit our website.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-discussion-the-art-of-relevance/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190124T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T210000
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SUMMARY:MICHELLE CADY at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Health & wellness coach Michelle Cady discusses her quintessential lifestyle guide\, Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition\, Fitness. Brimming with practical tips for finding balance in your busy urban lifestyle\, Self-Care in the City will not only make you feel unstoppable\, but will also give you an edge. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cady-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190127T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T235942
CREATED:20181129T221820Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater\, “a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. . . . both marvelously inventive and deeply humane.”–Ann Packer \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Hungry Ghost Theater by speaking to a bookseller. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 27\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between hunger and art\, duty and desire\, and\nloss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members\nof their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. The adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. \nSarah Stone’s is the author of The True Sources of the Nile. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares\,\nStoryQuarterly\, The Believer\, The Millions\, and The Writer’s Chronicle\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Visit her online at www.sarahstoneauthor.com. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T235942
CREATED:20181130T041810Z
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190130T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190130T133000
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SUMMARY:The American Welfare State in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 30\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? \nTina Sacks is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race\, class and gender; and poverty and inequality. Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare\, Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and has also served as legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. \nFree to current OLLI @Berkeley members and UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and students; $10 general admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-american-welfare-state-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190130T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190130T133000
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SUMMARY:The American Welfare State in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? \nTina Sacks is assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race\, class and gender; and poverty and inequality. Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare\, Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and has also served as legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. \nFree to current OLLI @Berkeley members and UC Berkeley faculty\, staff\, and students; $10 general admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-american-welfare-state-in-the-age-of-trump-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Dahr Jamail & Antonia Juhasz: Is Our Earth in Hospice Mode?
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nIS OUR EARTH IN HOSPICE MODE? \nDAHR JAMAIL + ANTONIA JUHASZ\nThe End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption \nT: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nDahr Jamail has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis\, from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest\, to discover the consequences of the loss of ice to nature and to humans. The End of Ice is the firsthand chronicle of his travels\, during which he scaled Denali\, the highest peak in North America\, swam in warm crystal waters around Pacific coral reefs\, explored the tundra of St. Paul Island and spoke with some of the last subsistence seal-hunters of the Bering Sea. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families for centuries have fished and farmed in the various places he visits\, Dahr begins to accept the dark fact that earth is almost certainly in a hospice situation. Ironically\, this renews his passion for the planet’s wild places\, cherishing the earth in an entirely new way. Like no other book\, The End of Ice offers a true narrative that includes photographs throughout by Dahr of his journey across the world\, of the catastrophic reality of our predicament\, and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable planet while it is still possible. \nAntonia Juhasz is a leading energy analyst\, author\, and investigative journalist specializing in oil. An award-winning writer\, her articles appear in Newsweek\, Rolling Stone\, Harper’s Magazine\, The Atlantic\, CNN.com\, The Nation\, Ms.\, The Advocate\, and many more. Antonia is the author of three books: Black Tide (2011)\, The Tyranny of Oil (2008)\, and The Bush Agenda (2006). \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dahr-jamail-antonia-juhasz-is-our-earth-in-hospice-mode/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nFeaturing: \nAida Ndiaye (CH510 Young Author) – born in Oakland with parents from Senegal\, West Africa\, Aida is a 4th grader who loves writing and telling stories. She wrote her first book when she was 9 years old about her allergies. \nmore young authors TBA soon! \nPlus: \nKids open mic! \nTiny bookmaking and arts activities for families \nCostume box \nFresh tunes spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-storyteller-series/
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:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
DESCRIPTION:TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh Berman is a writer\, poet\, and publisher of TamTam Books. As a publisher\, he focused on post-war French figures such as Boris Vian\, Guy Debord\, Serge Gainsbourg and French gangster Jacques Mesrine\, as well as publishing Sparks (Ron Mael & Russell Mael) and Lun*na Menoh. His previous book Sparks-Tastic (2013) is a combination of travel journal and thoughts on the band Sparks. His book of poems The Plum in Mr. Blum’s Pudding (2014) came out through Penny-Ante Editions. He authored the introduction to Wallace Berman: American Aleph from the Michael Kohn Gallery in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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