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SUMMARY:Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman
DESCRIPTION:Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the incredible life of her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz\, as told in the illustrated memoir Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman. Featuring a slideshow of Henderson’s accompanying black-and-white scratchboard drawings.\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nMatilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence\, equal rights\, equal pay\, and sexual and personal autonomy. \nRabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops\, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote\, “a book could be written about Matilda\,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren\, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement\, the journey to America\, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW\, a turbulent romance\, and her struggle to support herself and her child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Paterson\, NJ\, Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. Her poetry also appears in a number of anthologies\, including Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship\, her translations are featured in the forthcoming Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems. Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosa-alcala/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180301T193000
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SUMMARY:Ann Raeff w/ Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 1\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York. \nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeffe’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-raeff-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n\n\n\n\n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York.\n\n\n\n\n\nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeff’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-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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SUMMARY:Get Over It! - An Evening with Iyanla Vanzant
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of her 18th book\, Get Over It! Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff (release date: January 30\, 2018)\, Vanzant will stop in Oakland on her first solo tour in 18 years. \nThis event will bring the beloved thought leader up-close and in-person to her dedicated fans for an evening of healing and restoration. Using the book as a guide\, Vanzant will introduce the spiritual principles behind her revolutionary thought therapy with love\, humor\, and her signature straight-talk. This immersive and provocative experience\, filled with meditative moments\, enlightening truths and self-reflection will enable audience members to remove the habitual negative thought patterns that often block them from living their best lives. \nSelect and willing audience members will be invited to join Iyanla on-stage to identify and address the hidden barriers that often sabotage the expression of their true light. These participants will gain a renewed sense of personal power and come one step closer to fulfilling their life’s destiny.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-over-it-an-evening-with-iyanla-vanzant/
LOCATION:Paramount Theatre of the Arts\, 2025 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Cantíl: Lily Hoang\, Kevin Lo\, Andrea Marina
DESCRIPTION:Lily Hoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego. \nKevin Lo is a composer\, choreographer and writer based in Oakland (previously Australia\, born New Zealand). He works with spatiality\, machinic processes\, and has a background in the biological sciences. \nAndrea Marina is an indigenous writer originally from Miami\, whose topics mainly center on trauma\, killing men\, and her deep and abiding love for Florida swamps. She co-hosts Words of Resistance with Andrea Abi-Karam\, a monthly queer reading series focused on giving non-cis male identifying writers a platform to showcase their work. Her first chapbook “my dirty southern heart” was released through Mess Editions\, a local press. \n***\nCANTÍL is a venomous snake // a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about the series here: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cantil-lily-hoang-kevin-lo-andrea-marina/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series: Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli\, and Catherine Theis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, March 2nd for a reading featuring Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli & Catherine Theis! \nEvent is FREE. \nLaguintas beer\, wine and snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street | Oakland\, CA\, 94609 \nHere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \nLaguintas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation  \nauthor bios and photos follow. \nCave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award and the chapbook “Fishing Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project\, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is a faculty advisor at Goddard College. Arisawhite.com \nAja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area capacity builder and writer of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent. Her debut collection\, Restless Continent (Litmus Press) was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and won the California Book Award in 2017. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human; Great Spirit knew it all along.\n\n \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City\, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. \nCatherine Theis’ latest book\, MEDEA (Plays Inverse\, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets\, 2011)\, followed by her chapbook\, The June Cuckold\, a tragedy in verse (Convulsive\, 2012). Theis has received various fellowships and awards\, most notably from the Illinois Arts Council and the Del Amo Foundation. She is a Provost’s Fellow and PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California\, where she also translates contemporary Italian poetry into English. Theis’ scholarly interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation\, poetics\, and performance studies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-arisa-white-aja-couchois-duncan-adam-giannelli-and-catherine-theis/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stages of Her: OSA Literary Arts/Production Design Collab
DESCRIPTION:Seven Literary Arts students at Oakland School for the Arts will read their original work within sculptural environments created by Production Design students. Both the Lit Arts work and their mini-sets will largely explore progressions from girlhood to womanhood in a messed up world.\n\nPerformances of Stages of Her are Saturday March 3 at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM in OSA’s Black Box. It runs 45 minutes and admission is $15. (Advanced purchase highly recommended.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stages-of-her-osa-literary-artsproduction-design-collab/
LOCATION:Oakland School for the Arts’ Black Box Theater\, 530 19th St\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison 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) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\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)\n\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 \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates \n\n\n\n\nreads from her new collection of short stories\, Beautiful Days\, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning “Undocumented Alien.” \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 6\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the diverse stories of Beautiful Days\, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret\, intimate\, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves\, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. \n“Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish\, in their intimacy\, a ruthlessly honest\, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives\, with unexpected results. In “Big Burnt\,” set on lushly rendered Lake George in the Adirondacks\, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode\, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic\, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. \nIn these stories\, as elsewhere in her fiction\, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social\, psychological\, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior–until the hour when they do not. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-4/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:KPFA Radio 94.1FM present Michio Kaku: The Future of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:In The Future of Humanity\, Dr. Michio Kaku —#1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind — traverses the frontiers of astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man’s future in space\, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. \nFormerly the domain of fiction\, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility— and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources\, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events\, we all must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. \nWorld-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in detail the process by which humanity may gradually move away from this planet and develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals how cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars. He then takes us beyond the solar system to nearby stars\, which may soon be reached by nanoships traveling on laser beams at near the speed of light. Finally\, he brings us beyond our galaxy\, and even beyond our universe\, to the possibility of immortality\, showing us how humans may someday be able to leave our bodies entirely and laser-port to new havens in space. With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder\, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity may finally fulfill its long-awaited destiny among the stars. \nMICHIO KAKU is a professor of physics at the City University of New York\, cofounder of string field theory\, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books\, including Hyperspace\, Beyond Einstein\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Physics of the Future. He is the science correspondent for CBS’s This Morning\, host of the radio programs Science Fantastic and Explorations in Space\, and a regular broadcaster on KPFA. \nPHILIP MALDARI\, veteran KPFA broadcaster\, hosts the two-hour Sunday Morning Show every week.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kpfa-radio-94-1fm-present-michio-kaku-the-future-of-humanity/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new collection of short stories\, Beautiful Days\, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning “Undocumented Alien.” \n\n\n\nIn the diverse stories of Beautiful Days\, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret\, intimate\, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves\, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. \n“Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates’s prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish\, in their intimacy\, a ruthlessly honest\, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives\, with unexpected results. In “Big Burnt\,” set on lushly rendered Lake George in the Adirondacks\, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode\, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic\, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. \nIn these stories\, as elsewhere in her fiction\, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social\, psychological\, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior–until the hour when they do not. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-6/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell\, Catherine Elizabeth Dana\, Constance Mastores\, and TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-sugartown-voices-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christian Wiman\, poet and essayist
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist and Yale Divinity School professor Christian Wiman will be featured at an event called the “The Art of Faith\, the Faith of Art” on Friday\, March 9 at 7:30 pm in the Sanctuary of First Church Berkeley. He will speak and then be interviewed by First Church’s Public Theologian in Residence and poet Marvin K. White. Audience questions will follow. Tickets available at christianwiman.brownpapertickets.com. \nFollowing Friday’s event\, on Saturday morning at 10:30a at All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley\, Mr. Wiman will meet fellow poet and local bay area resident\, Nate Klug\, in conversation. Tickets may be purchased at the door for a $5 suggested donation. \n  \nChristian Wiman is the author\, editor\, or translator of ten books\, including his essays My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer\, and his poetry collection Every Riven Thing. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine\, the premiere magazine for poetry in the English-speaking world.  \nMr. Wiman has written for the New Yorker\, the New York Times Book Review\, the Atlantic Monthly\, and numerous other publications. His particular interests include modern poetry\, the language of faith\, “accidental” theology (that is\, theology conducted by unexpected means)\, and what it means to be a Christian intellectual in a secular culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christian-wiman-poet-and-essayist/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nEnjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nJohn Altman lives in Santa Barbara. He writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish. His translation of Section III — Los Conquistadores from Pablo Neruda’s Canto General will be published in 2018 by Modoc Books. \nAlan Bern is a poet\, short story writer\, and performer. He has two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). His third book\, greater distance and other poems\, with design and illustrations by Robert Woods\, was released by Lines & Faces in 2015. Alan worked for over 15 years in the commercial printing industry. He became a librarian in 1992 and is now a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public Library. \nRebecca Radner is a writer and editor who has lived in the Bay Area most of her life. She now lives in Berkeley.  A volume of her poetry\, What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011\, was published in 2011 by Class Action Ink.  Her work has also appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, The New England Review\, The Journal of Popular Culture\, ArtWeek\, Inquiring Mind\, What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop\, and other publications. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals.  She has given poetry readings in a number of Bay Area venues. \nGlenn Ingersoll has been writing poetry seriously since turned on to it by a California Poets-in-the-Schools class at his high school in 1982. In the years since he’s had work in magazines (Seventeen\, Exquisite Corpse\, Poetry East) and ezines (Cortland Review\, The Opiate)\, and has published two chapbooks\, City Walks (1999) and Fact (2013). He currently hosts the reading and interview series Clearly Meant at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. Glenn keeps two blogs\, one on his reading http://dareiread. blogspot.com/ and one on his writing http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Center":MAILTO:info@berkeleyartcenter.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180311T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180311T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion with Alan Bern
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nABOUT BERKELEY ART CENTER  In 1967\, the Berkeley Art Center was built by the Rotary Club as a gift to the City of Berkeley. Ever since\, BAC has been a cutting-edge art gallery\, presenting the work of talented local and regional artists in many media\, expressing diverse points of view. As we celebrate our 50th anniversary\, we are proud of our role in the community. Over the past five decades we have presented exhibitions that reflect and shape what is happening now. We still seek to inspire positive cultural change by nurturing artists and encouraging our community to participate in creative expression.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion-with-alan-bern/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94707
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Center":MAILTO:info@berkeleyartcenter.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180313T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180313T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
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SUMMARY:Patrick Nathan discusses Some Hell
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very pleased to welcome Patrick Nathan to discuss his dynamic debut novel\, Some Hell\, on Tuesday\, March 13th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation with our dear friend\, Scott Esposito. \nA wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide \nMiddle school hasn’t been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly\, his autistic brother lashes out at him\, and he has a crush on his best friend\, Andy. But after the tragic night when his father commits suicide\, none of that matters. Diane\, his mother\, seeks solace in therapy. Colin is awash in guilt\, and casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather\, then a predatory science teacher. But nothing helps as much as the strange writing his father kept in a series of notebooks locked in his study. Colin looks for answers there–in fragments about disaster scenarios\, the violence of snow\, mustangs running wild in the west–but instead finds the writing infecting his worldview. Diane\, meanwhile\, has a miserable fling with a co-worker\, and leans more heavily on Colin for support as things go from bad to worse. But spring is unfolding\, and a road trip to Los Angeles gives them a tantalizing glimpse of what the future might hold. In Some Hell\, a debut novel of devastating intensity and aching\, pointillistic detail\, Patrick Nathan shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life\, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-nathan-discusses-some-hell/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180313T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180219T014822Z
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SUMMARY:Nov'Ell Goes West: Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Eileen G’Sell reads from Life After Rugby and JoAnna Novak reads from Noirmania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novell-goes-west-oakland/
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:20180314T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180129T125212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T053946Z
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Pre-order The Merry Spinster from Moe’s at http://www.moesbooks.com/the-merry-spinster-mallory-ortberg/ \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180314T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T011358Z
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180314T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
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SUMMARY:Amos White
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. Our March author Amos White will present selections from his poetry and discuss the creative process and current projects. His book The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter is available on Amazon.com. Look for the event in the ballroom up the stairs from the front entrance. Free and open to the public. \nAbout the author: \nAmos White is an American haiku poet and author of “The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter” (link:www.amazon.com/Sound-Web-Poetry-Facebook-Twitter/dp/1456581473/)\, recognized for his vivid imagery and breathless interpretations. He was a Finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and has works published in The Wittenberg Review\, Oakland Review\, Bones Journal\, San Francisco BayView\, Area 17\, World Haiku Association Anthology. He is President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series; Host of The Heart of the Muse arts salon; Producer of Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry show. Amos lives in Alameda with his family. www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku www.twitter.com/aw3haiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amos-white/
LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Alameda AAUW":MAILTO:alameda-ca@aauw.net
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180219T011448Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet Joseph Lease who will be reading from The Body Ghost\, due out soon from Coffee House Press. \nJoseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House Press 2007). His poems have appeared in many anthologies\, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and The Best American Poetry. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts and lives in Oakland with the poet Donna de la Perrière.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180315T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180129T123152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T054125Z
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SUMMARY:Ramona Ausubel
DESCRIPTION:discusses her new story collection Awayland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ramona-ausubel/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180315T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180129T125945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T125945Z
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays–funny\, poignant\, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces\, drawn from three decades of writing\, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.” \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review\, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent\, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage\, motherhood\, breast cancer\, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting\, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics. \nIn Don’t Call Me Princess\, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form\, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice\, the infertility industry\, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms\, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless–they have\, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale\, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. \nDon’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women–in our work lives\, sex lives\, as mothers\, as partners–illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. \nA contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, Peggy Orenstein has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180315T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180219T010218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T010218Z
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SUMMARY:Nicole Georges presents her graphic memoir FETCH\, with special guest Gemma Correll
DESCRIPTION:Lambda award-winner Nicole Georges presents and signs her graphic memoir FETCH. With special guest cartoonist and illustrator\, Gemma Correll. \nPugs and pups of all kinds welcome! \n  \nAbout FETCH \nWhen Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija\, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack\, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years\, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression\, relationships gone awry\, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene\, Beija was there\, wearing her “Don’t Pet Me” bandana. \nGeorges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic\, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets\, dog whisperers\, and even a pet psychic for help\, but it is the moments of accommodation\, adaption\, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija “sit\,” but in the end\, Beija taught Nicole how to stay. \nNicole J. Georges is a professor\, writer\, and illustrator\, who has been publishing her own zines and comics for twenty years. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura and the diary comic Invincible Summer. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \nGemma Correll is a young English illustrator\, cartoonist\, and generally quite small person. She and her trusty pug sidekicks\, Bella and Mr. Norman Pickles\, recently left the land of their births for a new life in the very large country of America. Wish them luck! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-georges-presents-her-graphic-memoir-fetch-with-special-guest-gemma-correll/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180315T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays–funny\, poignant\, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces\, drawn from three decades of writing\, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review\, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent\, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage\, motherhood\, breast cancer\, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting\, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics. \nIn Don’t Call Me Princess\, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form\, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice\, the infertility industry\, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms\, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless–they have\, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale\, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. \nDon’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women–in our work lives\, sex lives\, as mothers\, as partners–illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. \nA contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, Peggy Orenstein has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180316T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180129T123047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T123047Z
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SUMMARY:Hilary Zaid discusses PAPER IS WHITE (w/ Jane Mason)
DESCRIPTION:More info to come
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-zaid-discusses-paper-is-white-w-jane-mason/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180316T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg reads from The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
DESCRIPTION:Mallory Ortberg\, co-creator of The Toast\, reads from her new book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror. A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien–from the author of Texts From Jane Eyre. \n      \nAbout the Book \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, “The Merry Spinster” takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and her best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature has become among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. Sinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. \nReaders of The Toast will instantly recognize Ortberg’s boisterous good humor and uber-nerd swagger: those new to Ortberg’s oeuvre will delight in her unique spin on fiction\, where something a bit mischievous and unsettling is always at work just beneath the surface. \nUnfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. \nBed time will never be the same. \nMallory Ortberg is the co-creator of the Toast and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Texts From Jane Eyre.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-reads-from-the-merry-spinster-tales-of-everyday-horror/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180316T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T200547
CREATED:20180303T020711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T020711Z
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SUMMARY:Divining Triptychs: Printmaking\, Dance\, and Poetry Across Millennia
DESCRIPTION:Works by Robert Woods\, Lucinda Weaver\, and Alan Bern\nLive performances:\nFriday\, March 16\, at 7:30 pm\nSaturday\, March 17\, at 4:30 pm\nDoors open 30 min prior. \nPACES: dance and poetry fit to the space is the collaborative performance company of Dancer & Choreographer Lucinda Weaver and Poet and Storyteller Alan Bern. Bern and artist Robert Woods have worked together under the imprint of Lines & Faces for over forty years. All three come together in this one-of-a-kind performance “Divining Triptychs: Printmaking\, Dance\, and Poetry across Millennia.” \nLucinda Weaver grew up dancing in Berkeley\, California\, with Ruth Hatfield. She studied at UC Berkeley with David Wood and in New York City\, where she met Margaret Jenkins who invited her to be a founding member of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in San Francisco. She then lived in Europe where she worked and performed as a solo dancer/choreographer. Currently\, she is on the guest faculty of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri\, a physical theater university in Switzerland. \nAlan Bern is a poet\, short story writer\, and performer. He has two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). His third book\, greater distance and other poems\, with design and illustrations by Robert Woods\, was released by Lines & Faces in 2015. Alan worked for over 15 years in the commercial printing industry. He became a librarian in 1992 and is now a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/divining-triptychs-printmaking-dance-and-poetry-across-millennia/
LOCATION:berkeley art center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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