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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 22 – Friday\, April 20\, 2018\, with award-winning Oakland author Nayomi Munaweera\,  local novelist Yang Huang\, East Bay writer Stevan Cavalier and the debut of local musical group Postcapitalism. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ally Carter at the Livermore Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Ally Carter to the Livermore Public Library for an author talk and book signing! \nAlly Carter is the author of the Gallagher Girls\, Heist Society\, and Embassy Row young adult series. Carter’s new book\, Not if I Save You First\, comes out on March 27\, 2018. \nPreorder a copy of Not if I Save You First from Towne Center Books at 925-846-8826 and it will be available for pickup at the signing or at the bookstore on its release date. \nPizza and refreshments will be available while supplies last
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ally-carter-at-the-livermore-public-library/
LOCATION:Livermore Public Library\, 1188 S. Livermore Ave.\, Livermore\, 94550
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Lesbian Romance Novels"
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents “Lesbian Romance Novels\,” 4 authors reading from new books\, Wednesday\, March 28\, 7pm Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland. Free admission\, free refreshments & door prizes! Our readers: Eliza Andrews\, Heather Blackmore\, Kathleen Knowles\, and Cass Sellars. http://bit.ly/2FZr8tt A free romantic gift for everyone attending! \nAbout the Authors:\nEliza Andrews is an author of novels that feature lesbian and bisexual protagonists. She’s also a personal trainer\, a meditator\, a sci-fi geek\, and a hick from the South who recently moved to Southern California. In addition to Reverie\, Eliza’s lesfic titles include To Have Loved & Lost\, Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain\, and Paradise (a novella). \nHeather Blackmore oversees finance for technology startups. In a counter-intuitive move\, she got her MSA and CPA with the goal of one day being able to work part-time so she could write. The right and left sides of her brain have been at war ever since. Heather was a Goldie award finalist for debut author and a Rainbow award finalist in the contemporary lesbian romance and debut author categories for her first novel\, Like Jazz. \nKathleen Knowles has written her whole life but published for the first time in 2012. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the GCLS 2013 prize for historical romance and was named by Out in Print as one of 2012 Notable Books. She has written six romance novels. The seventh\, The Last Time I Saw Her\, will be published in June 2018. She is married and she and her spouse and pets live atop one of San Francisco’s forty-nine hills. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional. She has led criminal\, financial fraud\, and theft investigations. The Lightning Series\, including Lightning Strikes and Lightning Chasers\, incorporates powerful lesbian characters who fight for justice where wealth and politics are not always the only winning assets. Unexpected Lightning\, Book 3\, will be released in Fall\, 2018. She lives near San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-lesbian-romance-novels/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Norman Finkelstein: Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM present \nNORMAN FINKELSTEIN\nGAZA: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom\nHosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert \nAdvance tickets $12\, available at T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 stores)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, $15 door\, Benefit KPFA: kpfa.org/events \nBased on scores of human rights reports\, Norman G. Finkelstein’s new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has tried to justify its assaults in the name of self-defense\, in fact Israel’s actions constitute flagrant violations of international law. Finkelstein also documents that the guardians of international law-from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the UN Human Rights Council-ultimately failed Gaza. One of his most disturbing conclusions is that\, after Judge Richard Goldstone’s humiliating retraction of his UN report\, human rights organizations succumbed to the Israeli juggernaut. Finkelstein’s magnum opus is both a monument to Gaza’s martyrs and an act of resistance against the forgetfulness of history. \n“No scholar has done more to shed light on Israel’s ruthless treatment of the Palestinians than Norman Finkelstein. In Gaza\, he meticulously details Israel’s massacres… while demolishing the myths Israel and its supporters have invented to disguise these shocking events.”\n– John J. Mearsheimer\, Distinguished Service Professor\, University of Chicago \nNorman Finkelstein has the moral gravity of an Old Testament prophet\, the scrupulous attention to detail of a Talmudic scholar\, and the mordant sense of humor of a Yiddish novelist. All these attributes are on display in Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom\, an indictment of Israel’s crimes in the overcrowded Palestinian territory from 2008 up to the present. \nBrian Edwards-Tiekert is the founder and co-host of UpFront\, the morning drive-time public affairs program on KPFA Radio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-finkelstein-gaza-an-inquest-into-its-martyrdom/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Artist Self-Care Guide Workshop in March
DESCRIPTION:The Artists Self-Care Guide workshop empowers artists with safe and effective tools and strategies for managing daily stress. In this workshop artists will gain greater self-awareness about stress and it’s impact and why it is important to implement a lifestyle of self-care. Participants will develop personalized self-care plans\, identify their support systems\, and learn about the many holistic remedies and techniques used to manage depression\, anxiety\, and self-defeating thoughts. Through honest discussions\, exercises\, and activities artists are equipped with a powerful self-care toolbox designed to meet their individual needs. \nWorkshop Includes:\nFree Membership\nCreating A Culture of Self-Care in the Arts Guidebook valued at $25\nFree post-workshop consultation valued at $100\nPersonalized Self-Care Plan\nFree Raffle\nLight refreshments \nAbout the founder: \nKehinde Koyejo is the founder of the Artist Self-Care Guide (ASCG)\, helping artists manage daily emotional and mental stress by implementing a lifestyle of radical self-care. Kehinde believes that every artist’s life is of great value. She is committed to educating artists about mental and emotional health in deep\, authentic\, and ongoing ways so as to guide more artists towards self-healing. \nKehinde was called to this work after losing her sister to an accidental overdose at a time when a wave of celebrity artists also died by suicide or overdose. In addition to founding ASCG\, Kehinde is a flower essence practitioner with certification in mental health first aid\, and is a strong survivor with years of lived experience. \nAs a professional artist\, Kehinde has been earning her living as an actor for over fifteen years\, and continues to perform both in the United States and abroad. She is an associate artist with the Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience (BACCE) in San Francisco\, and a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Actor’s Equity Association. Kehinde holds a BFA in Acting from Pace University\, and a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU. \nKehinde has had the honor of working with theater companies\, health advocates\, colleges\, and a diversity of student and professional artists. Through her trainings and personal guidance\, Kehinde has witnessed major shifts in her client’s’ behavior\, as well as their ability to manage depression\, stress\, anxiety\, and self-defeating thoughts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artist-self-care-guide-workshop-in-march/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, an "Ekphrastic" open mic
DESCRIPTION:“Ekphrastic poems [or stories] focus on works of art—usually paintings\, photographs\, or statues. And modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description\, and instead have tried to interpret\, inhabit\, confront\, and speak to their subjects ” (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poems?field_form_tid=408) \nYour SNS challenge for March\, is to write something new based on or inspired in some way by a piece of art. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur featured readers for March are Miah Jeffra (and one more tba)\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 31\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nMIAH JEFFRA is author of the essay collection “The First Church of What’s Happening” (Nomadic Press 2017). He has been awarded the New Millennium Prize for fiction\, the Sidney Lanier Prize for fiction\, The Oregon Writers Colony Award for nonfiction\, a Lambda Literary Fellowship\, a Ragdale Fellowship & Residency\, and other residencies at Hub City Writers Project\, Arteles and Red Gate. Miah is editor of queer literary collaborative\, Foglifter Press. His favorite color is fried chicken.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-ekphrastic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tananarive Due
DESCRIPTION:Tananarive Due is a screenwriter\, award-winning novelist\, and leading voice in black speculative fiction. Her most recent book\, Ghost Summer\, won a British Fantasy Award and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Due is the author of 12 novels and a civil rights memoir. She teaches Afrofuturism and black horror at UCLA and creative writing in the MFA program at Antioch University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tananarive-due/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180404T210000
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Whan That Aprile . . .
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Judy Wells\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Mary Mackey\, Rafael Jesús González. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-whan-that-aprile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran lives in Berkeley\, California. Her latest novel\, Lucky Boy\,was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors’ Pick. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Canteen Magazine\, Huffington Post and Best New American Voices. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and a Distinguished Visiting Writer in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College. www.shanthisekaran.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-5/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bearand Why Poetry\, a book of prose about poetry. An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College of California\, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books\, and from 2016-7 was Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Curtis White discusses Lacking Character
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-white-discusses-lacking-character/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth\, with readings and tributes\, at UC Berkeley’s Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion\, poet and editor of Raworth’s As When: A Selection (Carcanet\, 2015) will be flying in from New York City\, and other poet and artist friends from nearer by and far-flung places will be present\, the latter via audio recording or written memories and tributes. \nCo-sponsored by The Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English\, this event is free and open to the public. \nProgram \nWelcome: Lyn Hejinian \nStephen Emerson\nNorma Cole\nAlastair Johnston\nRita degli Esposti\nDavid Southern\nJean Day\nAlan Bernheimer\nMerrill Gilfillan\nArmando Pajalich\nStephen Vincent\nBruce Ackley\nFanny Howe\nJennifer Dunbar Dorn\nKit Robinson\nGian Antonio Pozzi\nJim Nisbet\nDuncan McNaughton\nLyn Hejinian\nClark Coolidge\nAndy Berlin\nSteve Dickison\nMiles Champion \nFinale: recording of Tom Raworth reading \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• In Memoriam: Tom Raworth\, by Martin Corless-Smith | Tarpaulin Sky\n• Tom Raworth 1938-2017\, by SJ Fowler | 3:AM Magazine\n• Tom Raworth obituary | The Guardian\n• Tom Raworth | Poetry Foundation \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 UC Berkeley Department of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-raworth-1938-2017-a-celebration-of-his-life-and-work/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, 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-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale/Liz Laribee
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale and Liz Laribee! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the stars of the evening\, July Westhale and Liz Laribee. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($12 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-occasionally-accurate-science-by-july-westhaleliz-laribee/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen: Poetry w/Chernoff/Edgerton/Gibbons
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Temescal Art Center in Oakland for our first Lone Glen of the season at 8 pm on Saturday\, April 7th to celebrate the magnetic poetry of Maxine Chernoff\, Michael Tod Edgerton\, and Heather June Gibbons. Of Camera\, Chernoff’s recent release from Subito press\, Camille T. Dungy writes\, “[These poems] are precise in just the way art is precise. They frame the word as a camera’s lens might frame a portion of what the eye might apprehend\, adding a finely wrought filter of human feeling to the arbitrary world.” We’re thrilled to witness that frame\, and to listen to charismatic Heather June Gibbons read from her debut book of poems\, and to welcome poet Michael Tod Edgerton to the Bay Area.\n\nAbout the writers: \nMaxine Chernoff is the author of six works of fiction and 16 collections of poetry\, most recently Camera (Subito) and Here (Counterpath). Winner an NEA in poetry and the PEN Translation Prize\, she was a recent Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. \nMichael Tod Edgerton is the author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink 2013). His poems have appeared previously as the winner of the Boston Review and Five Fingers Review contests\, and in Coconut\, Denver Quarterly\, Drunken Boat\, EOAGH\, New American Writing\, New Orleans Review\, Sonora Review\, and Word For/Word\, among other journals. Tod holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. He lives with his husband\, Greg\, in San Francisco. You can check out Tod’s ongoing participatory text and sound project at WhatMostVividly.com. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Utah Press\, and the chapbooks Sore Songs and Flyover. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \nAbout the series: \nLone Glen\, now in its seventh year\, is a quarterly art-centric reading and performance series dedicated to creating a down-to-earth\, inclusive space among writers and artists of all genres. Suggested donation for this reading is $5-$10 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Learn more about Lone Glen and our history at https://loneglen.wordpress.com/ \nAbout the Venue: \nTemescal Art Center is located at 511 48TH street\, Oakland. The venue can be accessed via a wide ramp and its bathroom is equipped with hand rails. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-poetry-w-chernoff-edgerton-gibbons/
LOCATION:Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students\, followed by readings
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mills-college-mfa-alumnae-reading-reception/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work\,The Aftermath (Commune Editions) attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Abi-Karam is also a printer and publisher whose small press project Mes Editions seeks to publish emerging writings from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry and art scenes. Catch them on the 2018 Sister Spit tour.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michelle Cruz Gonzales
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College\, Gonzales played drums in and wrote lyrics for the groundbreaking 90s femme punk band Spitboy— the subject of the 2017 documentary\, Turn it Around: Story of East Bay Punk. Gonzales holds a BA and MFA in English and creative writing from Mills and is an English instructor at Las Positas College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cruz-gonzales/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-the-future-of-democracy/
LOCATION:Rockridge Branch\, 5366 College Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic\nWednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00\nFree\, no ticket needed. \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \n—\nThe Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based artist collective of artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers who curate film screenings and publish a journal of essays about black film and culture. \nJamal Batts\nRyanaustin Dennis\nMalika “Ra” Imhotep\nZoé Samudzi\nLeila Weefur \nThe Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We post the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \nBy working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers\, we cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications and product development\, we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience and are responsive to its respective environment. \n———\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series embedded inside our Creative Gateway undergraduate course. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/wednesdays \n—\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative in partnership with Big Ideas courses. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Wednesdays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-talk-with-the-black-aesthetic/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Angel Dominguez and Kit Schluter
DESCRIPTION:Two renowned poets\, Dominguez and Schluter read their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/angel-dominguez-and-kit-schluter/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive":MAILTO:bampfa@berkeley.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180414T183000
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel & Julia Vinograd at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event\nFeaturing poets Jan Steckel and Julia Vinograd\nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser \nPlymouth Jazz and Justice Church\n424 Monte Vista/Oakland\, CA\n$7 – $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of 10 fabulous prizes\n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance \nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser. To reserve your open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, in advance. \nFeaturing poets Julia Vinograd and Jan Steckel \nOther wonderful artists will thrill and delight you!! \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving.\nWIP is scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately is not completely accessible). \nJulia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 63 books of poetry\, and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones\, Eye of the Hand\, and The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco— Poets from Hell. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. 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\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-julia-vinograd-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:East Bay Launch for "Invisible Gifts\, Poems" with Maw Shein Win and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Maw Shein Win’s first full-length poetry collection Invisible Gifts\, Poems. \nWith readings by: \nMK Chavez\nSharon Coleman\nCassandra Dallett\nTim Donnelly\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nMaw Shein Win \n+++ \nInvisible Gifts\, Poems by Maw Shein Win \nManic D Press April 2018 \nThemes of vulnerability and power emerge through reflections on family\, art\, and loss from an award-winning poet. \nIn her full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; and the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors. For instance\, in poems like “Hands”: My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-launch-for-invisible-gifts-poems-with-maw-shein-win-and-guests/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael Hoerman
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in the Ozarks and now residing in Fayetteville\, Michael’s award-winning poetry embodies the bone-deep passion he feels for our rural culture and his reverence for the power of imagination. Michael is listed in A Readers’ Map of Arkansas for his groundbreaking cultivation of Fayetteville’s literary landscape. In 1995 he co-founded Arkansas’s first National Poetry Slam team. In 1997 he edited a Frank Stanford feature entitled “Death in the Cool Evening” that brought renewed critical attention to the legendary poet. \nMichael is touring to share a selection of earlier and never-heard-before poems in his new chapbook\, Disoriented Fascination\, featuring three poems nominated and now under consideration for Pushcart Prizes.\nA poet active since 1985\, Michael’s publication history and critical recognitions include a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in the category of Poetry\, Bad Rotten\, his debut chapbook published by Pudding House Publications\, inclusion in Lavender Ink’s 2012 anthology entitled Fuck Poems and four other anthologies\, journals including Arkansas Literary Forum and Eureka Literary Magazine\, and residencies at Spiva Center for the Arts and Sedona Summer Colony among many others. \nBorn into rural poverty in the Ozarks\, Michael is a survivor. Though living in poverty\, disabled by PTSD\, a formerly incarcerated person\, with only a GED\, Michael’s poetry has broken through barriers that have too long kept the poor\, the disabled\, the uncredentialed and the formerly incarcerated out in the cold. His story will empower others like him\, and challenge those who would keep them down and out in the communities where they are integral.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-hoerman/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour Featuring Yves St. Croissant
DESCRIPTION:Created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT YVES\nContrary to her picture perfect exterior Yves Saint Croissant is a rebel heart who’s always romping around with the punks\, queers and club kidz. She’s immersed herself in a culture-making crowd both past and present and is headed straight to the top with them right by her side.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour-featuring-yves-st-croissant/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her new Maisie Dobbs mystery\, To Die But Once. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of To Die But Once by calling the store (510) 704-8222 and speaking to one of our booksellers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany\, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public\, and the threat of invasion rises\, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. \nMaisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men\, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches\, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future–and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. \nJacqueline Winspear’s  bestselling Maisie Dobbs series includes In This Grave Hour\, Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, Winspear now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Words and Music Double Bill\, Steve Dalachinsky ||| Cosmic Diaspora: Jake Marmer\, John Schott\, Joshua Horowitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as The Poetry Center Reading Room transforms into a one-night-only performance space\, for a very special evening of improvised music and poetry deployed out of the spirit of the music and related impulses. It’s unlikely that any one poet has been as immersed\, and for so long\, in the New York and European jazz and improvised music scenes\, or has collaborated in some manner with as many of its extraordinary artists\, as has Steve Dalachinsky. He\, among other participatory roles\, has written liner notes for the recordings of Anthony Braxton\, Charles Gayle\, James “Blood” Ulmer\, Rashied Ali\, Roy Campbell\, Matthew Shipp\, and Roscoe Mitchell\, among others. Tonight\, visiting San Francisco on a rare West Coast excursion\, he’ll share the bill with Bay Area poetry and music trio Cosmic Diaspora\, fresh from their own turn through New York City\, as part of guitarist/composer John Schott’s week-long residency at The Stone\, the famed improvised music space run by John Zorn\, now in its revived venue at The New School in Manhattan. Besides the extraordinary Mr Schott on guitars\, Cosmic Diaspora features Joshua Horowitz on keyboards and accordion\, and Jake Marmer\, voice and poetry. This event is free and open to the public. \n“He lives the music\, and his poems capture its heat and illumination.” —Francis Davis\, on Steve Dalachinsky \nSteve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn (1946) after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite & Other Poems: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987–2006 (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (RogueArt\, 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group\, the Snobs (Bambalam\, 2015). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His books include: Fools Gold (feral press\, 2014). A Superintendent’s Eyes (revised and expanded\, Autonomedia/Unbearables\, revised and expanded\, 2013/14). flying home\, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press\, 2015). “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press\, 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.\, Frozen Heatwave\, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods\, 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Pressm\, 2017). His column “outtakes” appears regularly in The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent audio release is With Shelter Gone\, a full length 12-inch LP on the German label Psych.KG\, and his latest book is Where Night and Day Become One – the French Poems (a selection 1983-2017) (Great Weather for Media\, 2018). He lives\, with Yuko Otomo\, in New York City. \nCosmic Diaspora. Near the close of 2017\, in a burst of verbal improv\, John Schott wrote this: \n“I love my band Cosmic Diaspora with pianist/accordionist Josh Horowitz (Veretski Pass\, Budowitz) and poet Jake Marmer(Jazz Talmud). Josh and I come up with little loose compositions to serve as accompaniments to Jake’s poems\, which are mostly fixed but allow for spontaneous elaborations and disruptions. It’s a very tricky thing\, finding the right amount of activity and density\, so as not to overwhelm the listener\, but allow them to take in the words. I like Jake Marmer’s poetry very\, very much. He has the wonderful quality of savoring the English language from a non-Native speaker’s perspective — he immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when he was a teenager. He also thoughtfully works through various Jewish and Rabbinic texts and tropes in his work\, which creatively stimulate me as well. Josh Horowitz is both a virtuoso pianist and accordionist with a jaw-dropping\, encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish music\, Jazz\, and Classical music — truly one of the most remarkable musicians I’ve ever met. Like\, he published an article in a learned German musical journal with a ground-breaking discovery about Bach’s puzzle canons. He is completely conversant with the McCoy/Herbie/Keith vocabulary\, and can casually quote the opening to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in an improvisation. Also\, he’s one of the greatest authorities/educators on Jewish music in the world\, period. But in this project\, he’s totally out of all of his boxes\, and sort of free-floating in a world without definitions. \n“We recently played at a very special house concert venue in Palo Alto that was filmed. Here’s a selection:” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosmic Diaspora in performance:\n• Warp\n• Panic\n• Turbine\n• Cosmo-Chameleon\n• Purple Rocks \nVideos\, Interview\, Review:\n• John Tchicai and Steve Dalachinsky\n• Steve Dalachinsky and Dave Liebman at The Stone\n• Steve Dalachinsky and The Snobs\n• Steve Dalachinsky interviewed by Lisa Chau in The Huffington Post\n• Steve Dalachinsky in the New York Times \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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-and-music-double-bill-steve-dalachinsky-cosmic-diaspora-jake-marmer-john-schott-joshua-horowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann discusses No Immediate Danger
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann-discusses-no-immediate-danger/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Full Color: A Staged Reading
DESCRIPTION:Full Color: A Staged Reading \nAfro Urban Society and Studio Grand present ‘Full Color’\, a short story written by Itoro Udofia that has been adapted for the stage in a dynamic literary reading. The story follows Inem\, a first generation Nigerian woman returning home after five years of estrangement from her family. We follow her as she grapples with the fractured memories and loss she experiences when attempting to piece her life together amidst family tragedy. Ultimately\, the story is about finding reconciliation with one’s cultural and personal history as a survivor. This reading is to honor Sexual Assault Awareness month and all survivors attempting to find a road to recovery. \nMore Info TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/full-color-a-staged-reading/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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