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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Night at Nomadic Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate three amazing children’s books: Sam! (written by Dani Gabriel\, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo)\, I Am Sausal Creek/Soy El Arroyo Sausal (written by Melissa Reyes\, translated by Cinthya Muñoz\, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (written by July Westhale\, illustrated by Liz Laribee). \nReading and author discussion and book signing to follow. Family friendly\, so please bring everyone to enjoy a relaxed pleasant evening of storytelling and community building. \nLight refreshments and snacks will be provided. Donations will be collected throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-book-night-at-nomadic-press-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T120000
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SUMMARY:American Sutra at Oakland Asian Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:“American Sutra” discussion on author panel for the 2020 National Day of Remembrance. \nTime TBD. \nSponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/american-sutra-at-oakland-asian-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T173000
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SUMMARY:Day of Remembrance with author Duncan Ryuken Williams
DESCRIPTION:Day of Remembrance:\nDuncan Ryuken Williams discusses his book\, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals the little-known story of how\, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps\, a community of Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history\, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American. \nSponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, and Berkeley JACL. \nOACC’s 2020 Day of Remembrance programs are supported in part by the CA State Library Civil Liberties grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/day-of-remembrance-with-author-duncan-ryuken-williams/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T210000
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SUMMARY:THERE 32
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 32  will be Saturday\, February 22\, 2020\, at East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland\, guests TBA. \nTHERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco Chronicle! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. For more than four years. Doug hosted it on the (usually) 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! But sadly\, the Octopus was forced to close its doors in August ’19\, so now THERE is relocating to East Bay Booksellers in the Rockridge district of Oakland\, resuming February 22\, 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-32/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T170000
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SUMMARY:Polyglot Author Kiran Bhat Reads from we of the forsaken world (and open mic)
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Kiran Bhat’s upcoming reading from his new book We of the Forsaken World at Oakland’s Café Uccello (340 14th St) next Sunday February 23rd from 2-5 pm. All ages\, open mic to follow.\n\nAbout We of the Forsaken World…:\n\n\nIn a distant corner of the globe\, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother\, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe\, the chief’s second son is born\, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises\, a homeless one-armed woman sets out to take revenge upon the men who trafficked her. And\, in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud-and- concrete road\, a milkmaid watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation. \nIn we of the forsaken world… Kiran Bhat tells the stories of four worlds falling apart\, through the structure of four linguistic chains\, comprised of the accounts of four people witnessing the decline of these worlds\, in four acts. Like modern communication networks\, these sixteen stories connect along subtle lines\, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. they flow together and disconnect. Each story is a parable of its own\, into the mind of a distinct human being. These are the tales of not just sixteen strangers\, but many different lives\, who live on this planet\, at every second\, everywhere. \n\n\nAbout Kiran Bhat:\n\nKiran Bhat is the author of the poetry collections Autobiografia (Letrame Editorial\, 2019) and Kiran Speaks (White Elephant Press\, 2019)\, as well as the Kannada-language travelogue Tirugaatha (Chiranthana Media Solutions\, 2019) and the novel We of the Forsaken World (Iguana Books\, 2019). He has traveled to over 130 countries\, lived in 18 different places\, and speaks 12 languages. He considers Mumbai his spiritual base\, but currently lives in Melbourne.\n\nOpen mic to follow\, headlined by Sheryl Bize-Boutte (author of Running for the 2:10)\, Christopher Bernard (author of the novel Meditations on Love and Loss at the Liars’ Café)\, Mary Mackey (author of The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams)\, Pamela McCorduck (author of This Could Be Important\, a history of AI technology) Kristen Caven (author of The Souls of Her Feet\, a modern Cinderella)\, Linda Brown\, and Joan Gelfand (poet and author of the upcoming novel about tech culture and Silicon Valley\, Extreme).\n\nFood provided\, drinks for purchase! We would love to see more guests!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/polyglot-author-kiran-bhat-reads-from-we-of-the-forsaken-world-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Cafe Uccello\, 340 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T203000
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SUMMARY:In Search of My Robot: Media\, Racialized Gender\, and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Robots\, like any technology\, are not “objective” or “universal”; instead\, machines reveal the process of social formation. This talk by poet\, scholar\, and new media artist Margaret Rhee demonstrates how forms of difference—such as race\, gender\, and sexuality—are shaped by and co-constitutive with technological developments. Specifically\, Rhee illustrates how the robot is a locus of racialization for Asian Americans within modernity’s distinction between humans and machines. \nRhee is the author of Love\, Robot\, named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. For more information\, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. \nMargaret Rhee is a poet\, scholar\, and new media artist. She is the author of Love\, Robot\, named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. Her poetry chapbooks include Yellow and Radio Heart; or\, How Robots Fall Out of Love\, and forthcoming collection Poetry Machines: A Letter to a Future Reader\, a collection of lyrical essays on poetry\, and the intersections of cinema\, art\, and new media. Currently\, she is completing her monograph How We Became Human: Race\, Robots\, and the Asian American Body. She was a College Fellow in Digital Practice in the English Department at Harvard University and a member of MetaLab @ Harvard. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic studies with a designated emphasis in new media studies. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo and co-leads Palah 파랗 Light Studios\, a creative space for poetry\, participation\, and pedagogy through technology. \nPresented by the Berkeley Center for New Media; cosponsored by the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Comparative Literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-search-of-my-robot-media-racialized-gender-and-creativity/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Aria Aber
DESCRIPTION:Aria Aber was raised in Germany\, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her debut book\, Hard Damage\, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in 2019. Aber’s poems are forthcoming or have appeared in the New Yorker\, New Republic\, Kenyon Review\, Yale Review\, Poem-A-Day\, Narrative\, Muzzle Magazine\, Wasafiri\, and others. She holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman and Dickinson House and was the 2018–19 Ron Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Aber is the spring 2020 Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-aria-aber/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000
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SUMMARY:John Sayles: Yellow Earth
DESCRIPTION:John Sayles works as a fiction writer\, screenwriter\, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed 18 feature films\, with another\, I Passed This Way\, currently in progress. His films Matewan and Lone Star\, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun\, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses. Yellow Earth is his fifth novel. \nAbout Yellow Earth: \nRich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth\, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose. \nIn Yellow Earth\, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota\, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer\, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. “An activist in his way\, a product of the Casino Era\,” Kildeer\, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby\, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. \nWhat follows\, with characteristic lyrical dexterity\, insight\, and wit\, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters\, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling. \nSet shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement\, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sayles-yellow-earth/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T210000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 26\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSoda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold has written essays for The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Outside\, Vice News\, The New York Times\, and more. His fiction has been published by Playboy\, The Kenyon Review\, Ecotone and other magazines. His work has been noted in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Short Stories. He has recieved fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowmnet for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, and the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. His first book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon\, is a work of narrative nonfiction published by Picador in June 2018. \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-chris-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents a book launch for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel
DESCRIPTION:A book launch celebration for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel\, by San Francisco poet Lawrence Fixel\, who passed in 2003 at the age of 86. This long awaited new collection has been edited with an introduction by poet Gerald Fleming. Also appearing and presenting on the work of Lawrence Fixel at this evening will be poets Jack Marshall\, Edward Mycue\, Jo-Anne Rosen\, and poet-painter Patti Trimble\, painter Stephanie Sanchez\, photographer Mark Citret\, psychotherapist Robert Cantor\, and teacher Wendy Berkelman. Michael Heller says. “Lawrence Fixel was one of our most beautiful and original writers.…In a world of dogmas\, false certainties and oppressive realities\, he was an angel of Evanescence itself\, fluid\, ungraspable\, seeking as he wrote ‘to find in that which passes\, that which does not pass.’” Gerald Fleming is a poet and editor; he’s published four books of poems\, most recently One\, edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review\, and is currently editing the limited–edition vitreous magazine One (More) Glass.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-a-book-launch-for-the-collected-poetry-and-prose-of-lawrence-fixel/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T200000
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SUMMARY:Lit Starts: Signing+Writing Workshop with Author Constance Hale
DESCRIPTION:Please Join Us on Thursday\, February 27 at 7 PM for a Practicing the Craft: \nWrite Character\, Dialogue and Action with Constance Hale \nThe Writers Grotto has launched a light-hearted\, smart series on the writing craft\, called Lit Starts. Each of the books deepens your mastery of the writing craft through fun exercises and lively prompts that will change the way you approach the page. The popular writing coach Constance Hale\, a veteran member of the Writers Grotto and author of the Lit Starts series\, will lead interactive exercises and throw out writing prompts to encourage you to put pen to paper. Readers and writers are equally welcome. \nRead more about the Lit Starts books\, and order copies\, at: https://www.ggpbooks.com/event/litstarts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-starts-signingwriting-workshop-with-author-constance-hale/
LOCATION:A Great Good Place for Books\, 6120 La Salle Ave.\, Oakland\, California\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Tallent: Scratched
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism\, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich\, dramatic\, and constantly surprising personal life. \n\n\n\n\n “One of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”–Sigrid Nunez \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Scratched by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 27\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nScratched is an intimate account of the uses a child\, and the adult she becomes\, will find for perfectionism and the role it will play in every part of her life. Elizabeth Tallent’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington\, D.C.\, when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter\, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her own mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment\, Tallent moves back and forth in time\, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. \nTallent traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family\,” to her adulthood\, when perfectionism came to affect everything. In the decade between 27 and 37\, she published five literary books with Knopf and her short stories appeared in The New Yorker. But this extraordinary start to her career is followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote\, or rather published\, nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. \nTallent’s early publications secure her a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. As she toggles between Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives\, raises her son Gabriel\, and pursues an important psychoanalysis\, she grapples with the perfectionism that has always been home to her. Eventually\, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place\, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. \nHer final triumph is the writing of this memoir\, filled with wit\, humor\, and heart\, and unlike any other you will read. Scratched is a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence. \nElizabeth Tallent\, author of a novel and four story collections including Mendocino Fire\, has appeared in The Threepenny Review\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Tin House\, and ZYZZYVA as well as in the Best American Short Stories\, Best American Essays\, O. Henry Prize\, and Pushcart Prize award anthologies. She teaches in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and lives with her wife\, an antiques dealer\, on the Mendocino Coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-tallent-scratched/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000
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SUMMARY:E. J. Dionne: Code Red: How Progressives & Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country
DESCRIPTION:Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM \nHosted by Kris Welch \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006  or Marcus Books\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs.Dalloway’s Books $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \nNew York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne sounds the alarm in Code Red\, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America’s future for the 2020 presidential election. \nBut if progressives and moderates are unable-and unwilling-to overcome their differences\, they could not only enable Trump to prevail again but also squander an occasion for launching a new era of reform. \nDionne calls for a shared commitment to decency and a politics focused on freedom\, fairness\, and the future\, encouraging progressives and moderates to explore common ground and expand the unity that brought about Democrat victories in the 2018 elections. He offers a unifying model for furthering progress with a Politics of Remedy\, Dignity\, and More: one that solves problems\, resolve disputes\, and moves forward; that posits a positive future for Americans with more covered by health insurance\, more with decent wages\, more with good schools\, more security from gun violence\, more action to roll back climate change. Because at this point in our national story\, change can’t wait. \n  \n“A thrilling book\, from one of America’s most universally respected minds.” — Rachel Maddow \n  \nE.J. DIONNE\, JR.\, is a columnist for The Washington Post\, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution\, visiting professor at Harvard University\, and professor at Georgetown University. He is a co-author of the recent New York Times bestseller One Nation After Trump and author of Why the Right Went Wrong. \nKRIS WELCH is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a devoted grandmother. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486314  510-967-4495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/e-j-dionne-code-red-how-progressives-moderates-can-unite-to-save-our-country/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Slam Jam!
DESCRIPTION:Slam Jam! \nA series presenting original music and poetry featuring a rotating lineup of Bay Area Spoken Word Artists and Musicians. \nHeld on the Cabaret Stage at The Marsh Arts Center 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA. \n——————- \nBook Release Party for TUREEDA MIKELL!\nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\nNomadic Press \nThe wordsmiths with us tonight: \nNOISE ALLSTAR BAND \nGENIUS WESLEY – drums\nDANNY BROWN – saxophone\nMICHAEL TINY LINDSEY – bass\nMANNY BERRY – keys \nON THE MIC \nTONGO EISEN-MARTIN\nKWAN BOOTH\nTUREEDA MIKELL\nJAMES CAGNEY\nABDUL KENYATTA\nMELISSA JONES——————- \nThere is a full bar on-site with great drink specials so this event is 21 & up. \nJoin us at the Marsh Arts Center: a breeding ground for new performance!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slam-jam/
LOCATION:The Marsh Berkeley\, 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Democracy at Work present: \nRICHARD D. WOLFF\nUnderstanding Socialism\nWith Sabrina Jacobs \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \n“Richard Wolff’s book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is\, was\, and should be.” – Cornel West \nA blend of history\, analysis\, and theory\, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives\, confronts failures and the challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history\, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. The crises of global capitalism (inequality\, instability\, unsustainability\, and incipient fascism) deepen daily. Consider Trump’s and Boris Johnson’s desperate extreme-right efforts to be re-elected\, and consider that total global debts (of corporations\, governments\, and households) tripled between 1999 and 2019. Brazil’s Bolsonaro blames Leonardo di Caprio for burning the Amazon. Vast crowds in Chile\, Lebanon\, and France are in the streets demanding basic economic change. These and many other symptoms expose a declining system in mounting troubles. \n“In the same accessible style that has made his programs and lectures such a hit\, he explains his subject in a way that’s not only smart\, but makes the rest of us feel smart. It’s actionable intelligence for every person.” – Laura Flanders \n“Lucid\, brilliant and uncompromising in his dissection of the capitalist system\, he also provides a sane and just socialist alternative to capitalist exploitation\, one we must all fight to achieve.” – Chris Hedges \nSabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude Awakening\, aired on KPFA Radio Monday afternoons. She covers local breaking news as well as global events\, informing listeners about the latest social injustices. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486333  510-967-4495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-wolff-understanding-socialism/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Revolution Books 40th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Sahar Delijani\, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez\, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books 40th Anniversary. \n6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments\n7pm Program & champagne toast \nThis is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise\, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity. \nYou feel this when you first walk through the door and find the literature\, poetry\, history\, science\, art\, and the revolutionary theory for a radically different world. You experience programs and engagements with us and with each other that percolate with emancipatory possibility. \nRevolution Books is alive with the scientific understanding that a different and better world is possible. RB is the political\, intellectual\, and cultural center of a movement for an actual revolution and that is why it is a unique\, incredible bookstore—a resource for the world. The heart of the store is the framework for unleashing the revolutionary potential of humanity: the breakthrough in scientifically knowing and radically changing the world through revolution\, the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. Avakian emerged from the 60s in Berkeley\, and is a leader who never gave up asking the hard questions of the road forward to human emancipation and developing the path to that future. \nThe store still concentrates and captures what was best in Berkeley in the 60s—the wildness and fury and intellectual\, cultural and scientific daring and rebellion of the times. At RB we seek to foster a culture of revolt against a revolting culture while nurturing art that imagines in the present what a future world and people could be. And at RB people experience and can take up the science of revolution in the extensive body of work of Bob Avakian that shatters demoralized defeatist preconceptions that the misery and spirit crushing world today is all that could be. \nThere is a reason the fascists who come to Berkeley have focused on Revolution Books and attacked it again and again. It has to do with how they hate the Enlightenment—hate critical thinking\, search for the truth; and how they see that revolutionary communism is fundamentally opposed to everything they are about. \nThere is all this and much more to celebrate about Revolution Books—both parts of its name. Join with the staff of Revolution Books and its broader community to make this anniversary\, and the future of this unique place all it needs to be. Keep Revolution Books the vibrant\, daring intellectual center for an actual revolution it must be now more than ever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revolution-books-40th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Revolution Books\, 2444 Durant Ave.\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Disobedient Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:February is the month of love and loneliness\, Pisces and Leap Year. But we’re doing our own thing. In honor of all that is wrong in the world\, we’re celebrating DISOBEDIENCE. Tell us about being naughty\, or just plain bad\, about subverting expectations\, talking back\, bucking the system\, civil or marital or animal disobedience\, about saying no. Or yes. Or don’t do any of that. I’m not the boss of you. I’m not even your real mom. \nFebruary featured writers: Yume Kim & Georgina Marie \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \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\, February 29\, 2020\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 \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is also a Kundiman fellow and has previously attended the Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat during the summer of 2012 at Fordham University. Her recent chapbook\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Additionally some of her works can also be found in the following journals: gesture\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, West Wind Review\, Transfer\, Sugared Water\, Writing Without Walls\, and The East Bay Review. \nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lake County\, Northern California. She was one of three finalists for the 2018-2020 Lake County Poet Laureate term and is in the running for the 2020-2022 term. She is involved in her literary community as a writer\, supporter of writers\, and organizer and participant of poetry events. She has participated in readings in Lake\, Mendocino\, Napa\, Alameda\, and San Francisco counties. In 2019\, she served as editor for RESTORE\, a collection of written word and visual arts for the Middletown Art Center\, was guest editor for author Nicole Gulotta’s online writers support group\, and had an ekphrastic poem in collaboration with Los Angeles artist Richard Chow featured at the Griffin Museum of Phptography in Boston\, Massachusetts. She currently hosts the Harbin Writers Collective at Harbin Hot Springs and aims to continue encouraging and promoting the literary movement in Lake County. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook\, Finding the Roots of Water\, in 2018 and recently completed her second chapbook\, Tree Speak\, in 2019. In 2020 she is working on her full-length manuscript to submit to publishers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-disobedient-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell on her book How to Do Nothing\, Resisting the Attnetion Economy. Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oakland whose work mines second-hand imagery to bring into focus culture and economies for a clearer understanding of social structures. The author of How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy\, her work has been featured in The Economist\, Wired\, Die Zeit\, and Le Soir. Jenny Odell teaches digital art and physical design at Stanford. \n“An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us.”—Annie Vainshtein\, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \n“An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency\, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it.”—Jennifer Szalai\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell-on-how-to-do-nothing/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Press presents…\nBook Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok\nSat Feb 29\, 7pm\nEastSide Cultural Center\n2277 International Blvd. Oakland\n& Bandung Books\n2289 International Blvd. Oakland\nFREE COMMUNITY EVENT • accessible venue \nJoin us for a special evening\, as we celebrate Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection\, A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON. Featuring a traditional blessing dance by Morodok Khmer Performing Arts & readings by poets Safia Elhillo\, Charif Shanahan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, sam sax \, Hieu Minh Nguyen\, and Charleen McClure. After the show\, there will be a book signing next door at Bandung Books. \nABOUT THE BOOK: In this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \nLearn more here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/ \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020) and YEAR ZERO\, winner of a 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, selected by Marilyn Chin. In 2018\, her work was recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, CA. She is originally from Lancaster\, PA. [Photo Credit: Andria Lo] \nVisit her website here: www.monicasok.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-party-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/
LOCATION:Eastside Cultural Center\, 2277 International Blvd\, Oakland\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease and Hank Lazer Reading
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press\, 2018)\, Testify (Coffee House Press\, 2011)\, and Broken World (Coffee House Press\, 2007). Lease’s poems “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and “Send My Roots Rain” were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Lease’s poem “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” was anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley\, Guest Editor). His poem “Free Again (Why don’t people)” was published in The New York Times. \nMarjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate\, as soft-spoken as they are indignant\, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained . . . Lease has complete command of his poetic materials. His poems are spellbinding in their terse and ironic authority: Yes\, the reader feels when s/he has finished\, this is how it was—and how it is. An exquisite collection!” \nOf The Body Ghost\, David Shapiro wrote: “When I was very young\, my father a ‘skin doctor’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like\nthese terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry\, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands\, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” \nLease’s poetry is also collected at PennSound\, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University\, KQED (NPR)\, The Scottish Poetry Library\, The Poetry Project\, Bay Poetics\, The AGNI 35th Anniversary Poetry Anthology\, Litscapes 2015\, The Colorado Review\, The Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Interim\, and elsewhere. Lease has been asked to read at numerous colleges and universities. He has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University\, Brown University\, Harvard University\, and California College of the Arts. Lease is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume (#34) and Talisman (#42). In 2015\, Lazer received Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-and-hank-lazer-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Magdalena Zurawski
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-magdalena-zurawski/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fred Moten: Approaching Buenaventura
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Fred Moten in reflection and dialogue on his most recent journey towards Buenaventura\, navigating the deep affinities and differences between Black and Indigenous radical struggle in Colombia and the United States. \n“The problem of our “relations” to institutions will surely arise but outside the framework of normal understandings of equity and inclusion and by way of a radicalization of the notion of diversity.” —Dr. Fred Moten \nFred Moten studies the black radical tradition. He works collaboratively with Stefano Harney\, Laura Harris\, Wu Tsang\, Manolo Callahan and many others. His latest book is all that beauty (Letter Machine Editions\, 2019). He teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. \nMATATU artist and percussionist Marshall R. Trammell performs at 6:30pm to open the space\, followed by the talk and response. Audience participation guides the course of the conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fred-moten-approaching-buenaventura/
LOCATION:African American Museum and Library\, 659 14th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Slam LAST Chance SLAM ft. Jada Imani!
DESCRIPTION:THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!\nBringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nhttps://twitter.com/berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam\nhttps://www.patreon.com/berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nWe’re opening March with an amazing feature! \n21 year old MC from the Bay Area by way of East St. Louis\, Jada Imani is a refreshing leader in and contributor to Hip-Hop culture. Her gritty lyricism is informed by midwestern roots where she grew up on the illest underground Hip-Hop pillars. Yet her wavy\, ethereal vibe is influence by her residence the west coast as well as her ear for euphoric soundscapes. \nJada is everywhere. She’s rocked at most local venues including the Greek Theater\, New Parish\, Oakland Museum\, Brick and Mortar\, Spirithaus\, Smartbomb\, etc. She has curated over 200 local Bay Area music shows and has performed around the country and world as she travels. \n—————�————-\nUPCOMING\nMarch 11: Semifinals #1\, ft. Tianna Bratcher!\nMarch 18: Semifinals #2\, ft. Queen Jasminee!\nMarch 25: 2019 GRAND SLAM FINALS! It’s the best show of the year\, with the best poets competing to see who comes out on top and makes the 2019 Berkeley Slam team. Don’t miss it!\n—————�————- \nTHE STARRY PLOUGH\n3101 Shattuck Avenue\, 510-841-2082\n(1 block uphill from the Ashby BART).\nEVERY WEDNESDAY\n$7 – $10 sliding scale (most nights)\nCash Prizes!\nWorkshop: 6:30 p.m. Sign-up: 7:30 p.m. Show: 8:30 p.m.\nALL AGES before 10 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-slam-last-chance-slam-ft-jada-imani/
LOCATION:The Starry Plough\, 3101 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Lunch Poems: Ocean Vuong
DESCRIPTION:Ocean Vuong is the author of the internationally best-selling debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection\, Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016\, and winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Harpers\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at UMass-Amherst.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-ocean-vuong/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T190000
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SUMMARY:Colonize This! w/ Lexi Adsit\, Sonia Guiñansaca\, Rebecca Hurdis\, Darice Jones\, Luna Merbruja\, Bhavana Mody\, Natani Notah\, Bushra Rehman.
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome contributors from the new edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism on Friday\, March 6th at 7pm. We will be joined by Lexi Adsit\, Sonia Guiñansaca\, Rebecca Hurdis\, Darice Jones\, Luna Merbruja\, Bhavana Mody\, Natani Notah\, Bushra Rehman. \nJoin us for the first West Coast reading from the NEW edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism! \nColonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism has been described by Ms. Magazine as one of the “100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time\,” by Vibe  as “13 Books Every Mujerista & Womanist Should Read” and on Buzzfeed as one of 19 Books “On Intersectionality That Taylor Swift Should Read.” \nThe NEW edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism! is a protest to the current political regime in our country. It is a response to the deportations of immigrant families\, to the relentless killing of black people by police officers\, and to the media outlets that describe the abuse of girls by old white men as ‘sexual encounters.’ This book\, being as it is a gathering of young women of color sharing their experiences and intellectual insights\, stands in defiance of what is happening in the courts\, in Washington\, and on the streets of our country. \nThis edition includes nine new essayists\, writing on topics from gun violence to trans motherhood; serving as an abortion doula\, to organizing migrants; navigating call-out culture as a transgender Latina to challenging rape culture on campus. It is an empowering survey of feminism as practiced by women of color and a clarion call for the next generation. Join us to celebrate the writers in Colonize This! and our collective resistance. Come out to meet the new essayists along with original contributors and editor during this special evening at East Bay Booksellers. \nThe reading will be followed by book signing.  \n  \nABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS \n\nLexi Adsit is a fierce\, fat\, and femme trans latina woman born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has helped organize groundbreaking projects such as the Queer Yo Mind Conference at San Francisco State University\, the International Trans Women of Color Network Gathering\, and the first all-trans women of color comedy show Brouhaha. Her writing has been featured on Salon\, on Autostraddle\, and in the new anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. You can find out more about her work and get in touch with her at lexiadsit.com. \nSonia Guiñansaca is an international award winning queer migrant poet\, cultural organizer and social justice activist. They emerged as a national leader in the migrant artistic and political communities where they coordinated and participated in groundbreaking civil disobedience actions. Guiñansaca co-founded some of the largest undocumented organizations in the US\, including some of the first artistic projects by and for undocumented writers and artists. Sonia has worked for over a decade in both policy and cultural efforts building equitable infrastructures for migrant artists. They have been awarded residencies and fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation\, Poetry Foundation\, British Council\, and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics. Guiñansaca has performed at the Met\, the NYC Public Theater\, Lehmann Maupin Gallery and has been featured on PEN American\, Interview Magazine\, Ms Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, Diva Magazine UK\, and PBS to name a few. Sonia self- published Nostalgia and Borders in 2016\, and in 2020 is releasing #PapiFemme and launching Alegria Press\, a publishing house for undocumented writers. Soniaguinansaca.com Twitter/IG: @TheSoniaG \nRebecca Hurdis has lived in the Santa Cruz area since 1995.  She left academia in 2014 to become the Executive Director of a residential program for houseless pregnant women.  She returned back to academia as staff in 2018.  She has a teenage daughter and when they are not talking about tik tok\, youtube\, and thrift store finds\, she relentlessly lectures to her on the importance of women of color feminism\, intersectionality\, and justice and equity. \nDarice Jones\, aka DJ\, based in Oakland\, California\, is a writer and director. In the mid-2000s\, she copublished a Bay Area queer zine called PussyTown. Jones completed her first feature film\, She Wasn’t Last Night\, in 2009. She was able to showcase the blacklesbian project internationally to receptive Afri-Queer audiences. Through her small indie film organization Griot Soul Films\, she is currently in development on three new projects: Love Letters to Black Children (a short-form web series)\, Resonance (an Afrofuturist feature fantasy)\, and The Seven Codes (an urban TV fantasy series). She has also continued her storytelling through novel writing and poetry. In addition to her creative works\, DJ is development director at Brava! for Women in the Arts\, a San Francisco nonprofit theater Organization. \nLuna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan multidisciplinary artist and writer. They are the author of Heal Your Love and Co-Executive Director of Heartspark Press that recently released 99% Chance of Magic\, an illustrated anthology for trans children. They have been published in Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic\, The Resilience Anthology\, and various online magazines. You can find their work archived at luna.merbruja.com and follow them on social media @LunaMerbruja.” \nBhavana Mody lives in Novato\, California\, where she indulges in hikes and long bike rides in the redwoods and near the Pacific Ocean. For her primary job she teaches elementary school environmental science in English and Spanish at a dual-immersion public school in Napa. Since writing her essay for the first edition of Colonize This!\, Bhavana has made several visits to India\, deepening her relationships with her extended family and her culture and passionately taking up yoga and meditation. She has been teaching yoga for about fifteen years and is currently training to become a yoga therapist. Perhaps one of the few South Asian yoga teachers in Marin County\, Bhavana teaches yoga classes and Indian dance classes\, shamelessly claiming her Indian-ness. \nNatani Notah is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation (Diné) on her father’s side and part Lakota and Cherokee on her mother’s. Her work has been exhibited at the Holland Project\, Reno (2019); Edwin W. Zoller Gallery\, Penn State University\, University Park (2019); Mana Contemporary\, Chicago (2019); Stanford Art Gallery\, California (2018); SOMArts Cultural Center\, San Francisco (2018); and Root Division\, San Francisco (2018). Notah has received awards from the San Francisco Foundation\, Art Matters\,\nand the International Sculpture Center. She has been published in As/Us\, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art & Thought\, Sculpture Magazine\, Tripwire\, and the second edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She has had artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Grounds for Sculpture\, she is a 2019–20 affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and she will participate in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in 2020. Notah holds a BFA with a minor in feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies from Cornell University and an MFA in art practice from Stanford University. \nBushra Rehman is a writer and cultural activist. Her poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon is “a love poem for Muslim girls\, Queens\, and immigrants making sense of their foreign home–and surviving.” Her novel Corona\, a dark comedy about being Pakistani-American\, was noted by Poets & Writers among the year’s Best Debut Fiction and her co-edited anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism was chosen as one of Ms. Magazine’s &100 Best Non-fiction Books of All Time.” Rehman’s first YA novel Corona: Stories of a Queens Girlhood is forthcoming from Tor\, an imprint of Macmillan. She is creator of the community-based writing workshop ‘Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction.”
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Steven Levy: Facebook: The Inside Story
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nSTEVEN LEVY\nFACEBOOK: The Inside Story\nHosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert \nadvance tickets: $12:T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \nRenowned tech writer Steven Levy delivers the definitive history of one of America’s most powerful and controversial companies: Facebook. For the past three years Levy has had unprecedented access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Based on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company\, Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences. \n“Levy is America’s premier technology journalist.” – The Washington Post \nIn his sophomore year of college\, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire\, and soon students nationwide were using Facebook until\, by now it is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg’s first\, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant – the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the entire world\, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users\, including those on its fully owned subsidiaries\, Instagram and WhatsApp. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts\, the handling of its users’ personal data\, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO\, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. \nSteven Levy is Wired’s editor at large. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for Rolling Stone\, Harper’s Magazine\, Macworld\, The New York Times Magazine\, Esquire\, and The New Yorker. \nBrian Edwards-Tiekert is the founder and popular co-host of UpFront\, the morning drive-time public affairs program on KPFA Radio. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4508843  510-967-4495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-levy-facebook-the-inside-story/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY 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\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-10/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Moore Ramée: "A Good Kind of Trouble"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Moore Ramée will be in conversation with David William Hill and reading from her debut YA novel\, “A Good Kind of Trouble.” \n“Full of heart and truth\, A Good Kind of Trouble has all of the makings to be this generation’s Roll of Thunder\, Hear My Cry. Much like Cassie Logan’s\, Shayla’s experiences\, pitfalls\, and triumphs will inspire young people for years to come. It is a well-written page-turner with a voice that stays with you long after you put the book down.” —Angie Thomas\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-moore-ramee-a-good-kind-of-trouble/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Night of Jazz and Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the second collaboration between Charles Blades Barber Spa and Pochino Press! Our feature for this edition is live jazz by the Isaac Schwartz and friends. We’ll have local vendors\, hot food for sale\, and of course the open mic. All are welcome! Our last event featured first time readers\, singers\, and published authors. We got love for everyone!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-jazz-and-spoken-word/
LOCATION:Charles Blades Barber Spa\, 180 2nd St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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