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SUMMARY:The Black (W)hole
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, every member of the now award-winning Destiny Arts Center Youth Performance Company knew someone killed by violence. How they began to ask\, do we remember the “gone too soon”? It’s a question at the heart of The Black (W)hole\, a new\, multidisciplinary performance commissioned by Destiny Arts Center in collaboration with members of Oakland’s vibrant arts community that will premiere on April 17 at The Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center at Laney College. \nThe Black (W)hole combines hip hop and vertical dance\, poetic elegies\, video installations\, and mixed-media public artworks to honor six young people who died before age 32 in and around Oakland. “We commissioned Marc Bamuthi Joseph to come home to Oakland and help us create a new\, embodied language to memorialize youth in our city who have died too-soon. The Black (W)hole is a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal that will show how public rituals can affirm cultural memory and help us mourn and heal\,” explains Sarah Crowell\, the Center’s Artistic Director. \nThe Black (W)hole includes the Award-Winning Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC)\, together with Marc Bamuthi Joseph\, Brett Cook\, and Yoram Savion of YAKfilms\,The Elders Project\, and BANDALOOP\, DAYPC Co-Artistic Directors Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari\, and a team of powerful collaborators\, performance and art installations and a dance/theater piece for the six young “gone too soon” ancestors\, that have been guided by conversations with their family members.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-whole/
LOCATION:Laney College\, Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center 900 Fallon St\, Oakland\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200421T190000
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SUMMARY:For Young Adults! Dallas Woodburn in Conversation with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Launch and discussion of her new novel\, The Best Week That Never Happened\, “a poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. –Jennifer Niven\, author of All the Bright Places \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Best Week That Never Happenedby speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below to order online. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter her parents’ bitter divorce\, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles\, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule\, her best friend from childhood. Now\, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet\, no cell phone\, purse\, or plane ticket\, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer\, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning\, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can’t she reach her parents or friends from home? And what’s with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds\, Tegan will experience the magic of first love\, the hope of second chances\, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human. \nDallas Woodburn is a recent John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize and second place in the American Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. She is also the founder of Write On! Books (www.writeonbooks.org)\, an organization empowering youth through reading and writing endeavors. \nStephanie Kuehn is the author of many books for young adults including Charm & Strange\, Complicit\, and Delicate Monsters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/55466/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nina Renata Aron: Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men's Souls
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Nina Renata Aronto read from her new book\, Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls on Tuesday\, April 21st at 7pm. \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-renata-aron-good-morning-destroyer-of-mens-souls/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #59 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-59-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T143000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold will explore how creative nonfiction can blend genres and forms in mysterious\, illuminating ways. To begin\, we will discuss brief samples from a few daring books\, focusing on intersections of memoir\, lyric essay\, journalism\, history\, poetry\, criticism and more. From there\, through generative writing exercises and small group discussions\, students will deconstruct one of their own nonfiction ideas\, examining their subjects from a multitude of angles to discover new potential shapes that defy quick categorization. Our goal is for all students to leave with a heightened sense of possibility—and an energizing idea for a new piece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-chris-feliciano-arnold/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T183000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Lynn Xu
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-lynn-xu/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T193000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nCyrus Cassells is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry and two books translated from Catalan. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, and To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, which is forthcoming in 2021. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow\, he also recieved a Lannon Literary Award\, two NEA grants\, and a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys 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:20200426T160000
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SUMMARY:The Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nSunday\, April 26\, 2020 – 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nHacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr. in Moraga.\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThe Irresistible Beauty of All Things: A reading and conversation with poets Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder \nSunday\, April 26 from 4:00 – 6:00pm.\nCelebrate National Poetry Month with a reading\, conversation\, and q and a with poets and Saint Mary’s College MFA professors Cyrus Cassells and Matthew Zapruder. Cassells\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, an NEA fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams award\, and a Lamba Literary Award\, and Zapruder\, a Guggenheim fellow and former editor of the New York Times Magazine poetry page\, will read from their latest collections. After the reading they will be in conversation about their poetry and process\, and will gladly entertain questions from the audience. Free and open to all ages\, and a reception in the Hacienda garden to follow. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-irresistible-beauty-of-all-things-a-reading-and-conversation-with-poets-cyrus-cassells-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hacienda de las Flores\, 2100 Donald Dr.\, Moraga\, CA\, 94556\, 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:20200502T150000
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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-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200505T190000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Noir
DESCRIPTION:Editors (and Moe’s workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic’s latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! \nBerkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir\, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir. \nAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories\, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. \nBrand-new stories by: Barry Gifford\, Jim Nisbet\, Lexi Pandell\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Mara Faye Lethem\, Thomas Burchfield\, Shanthi Sekaran\, Nick Mamatas\, Kimn Neilson\, Jason S. Ridler\, Susan Dunlap\, J.M. Curet\, Summer Brenner\, Michael David Lukas\, Aya de León\, and Owen Hill. \nJerry Thompson is a bookseller\, poet\, playwright\, and musician. His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the James White Review. He is the coauthor of Images of America: Black Artists in Oakland. His fiction and prose have appeared in various anthologies including Voices Rising\, edited by G. Winston James\, and Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men’s Writing\, edited by E. Lynn Harris. He is the coeditor of both Oakland Noir \nOwen Hill is the author of two crime novels\, The Chandler Apartments and The Incredible Double\, and he coedited The Annotated Big Sleep with Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto. Until recently he lived in the Chandler Building on the corner of Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-noir/
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:20200506T143000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThis event was postponed due to the planned PG&E power outage but has been rescheduled to May 6th at 2:30pm in Hagerty Lounge! \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, “Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\,” examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T193000
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses Death In Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel\, Death In Her Hands.\nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphan \n  \nt blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Timesbestseller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-discusses-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 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\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines the role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society. \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-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Marie-Mockett-portraits_HI-RES_2_0-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200507T125000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20191219T073355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T073355Z
UID:54356-1588853400-1588855800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/student-reading.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200508T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200215T023439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200215T023439Z
UID:55806-1588964400-1588964400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Shaun King / Make Change: How to Fight Injustice\, Dismantle Systemic Oppression\, and Own Our Future
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters hosts activist and journalist Shaun King for his new book Make Change: How to Fight Injustice\, Dismantle Systemic Oppression\, and Own Our Future. Please join us! \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. \n \nAdvance tickets are highly recommended — night-of tickets are not guaranteed. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n\nAs a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement\, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. In Make Change\, King offers an inspiring look at the moments that have shaped his life and considers the ways social movements can grow and evolve in this hyper-connected era. He shares stories from his efforts leading the Raise the Age campaign and his work fighting police brutality\, while providing a roadmap for how to stay sane\, safe\, and motivated even in the worst of political climates. By turns infuriating\, inspiring\, and educational\, Make Change will resonate with those who believe that America can — and must — do better. \n\nShaun King was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most important people in the world online. He covers civil rights issues for the Intercept and is writer-in-residence at the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard Law School. Previously\, King served as a pastor\, teacher\, and full time motivational speaker in Atlanta’s juvenile justice system. In 2019\, King launched the media platform The North Star\, which has hundreds of thousands of members and subscribers. His podcast The Breakdown has remained one of the most popular news and politics category on Apple with over 100k subscribers. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. \n\nPlease note: \n–  Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n–  Signing and additional details coming soon. \n–  This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Make Change\, order below and be sure to enter your request in the special field. \n–  To reserve a seat and a discounted book bundle\, get your tickets in advance. \n–  Facebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-shaun-king-make-change-how-to-fight-injustice-dismantle-systemic-oppression-and-own-our-future/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-51.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20191120T051659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T051659Z
UID:53894-1589398200-1589403600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 13\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nJoin us as the final group of our 2nd year graduate students read their work. Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College. \n\nLis Arevalo Hidalgo (Creative Nonfiction)\nLia Castro (Fiction)\nSage Giordano (Poetry)\nFlorencia Orlandoni (Creative Nonfiction)\n\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/graduate-student-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/gsa_1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200422T205920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T205920Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #60 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-60-music-by-tba-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/image-16.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200430T231628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T231628Z
UID:57154-1589914800-1589914800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Get Lit #60 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-60-music-by-tba-3/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/image-33.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200221T185604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T185604Z
UID:56034-1590091200-1590091200@litseen.com
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-6/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-85.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200207T232716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T191305Z
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SUMMARY:Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto the natural world in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/round-weather-reading-series-forrest-gander-robert-hass-brenda-hillman/
LOCATION:Round Weather\, 951 Aileen St.\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brenda-Hillman.jpeg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200610T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200422T201010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T201010Z
UID:56852-1591815600-1591815600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:ALEXANDRA PETRI presents NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY: ESSAYS
DESCRIPTION:In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n—– \nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. \nPlease note: \n​Doors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-petri-presents-nothing-is-wrong-and-here-is-why-essays/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/image-10.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Center":MAILTO:info@berkeleyartcenter.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200618T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200531T231634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200531T231634Z
UID:57904-1592510400-1592510400@litseen.com
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-7/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-24.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200817T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200817T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200730T034434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T034650Z
UID:58954-1597694400-1597694400@litseen.com
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-11/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image-7.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200818T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200712T223048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T034523Z
UID:58666-1597777200-1597777200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Get Lit #63 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! Even if you cannot make it\, please help support the show from afar by donating. \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-63-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200820T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200712T223237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T034946Z
UID:58670-1597953600-1597953600@litseen.com
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-9/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/image-1.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200910T062813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200910T062813Z
UID:59534-1600362000-1600367400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led
DESCRIPTION:The most effective and long-lasting student strike in U.S. history took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The first Black Student Union\, the first Black Studies Department\, the only College of Ethnic Studies\, and the admission of thousands of students of color resulted from this four-and-a-half-month strike which shut down 80% of the campus. It has been called the movement which “changed academia forever.” \nJoin Kitty Kelly Epstein and Bernard Stringer\, co-authors of Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led (Myers Education Press\, 2020)\, in a virtual Meet the Authors program to learn about the historic strike and its insights for today’s mass movements. \nThis event is being co-sponsored by the African American Museum & Library at Oakland and Holy Names University. To register for a Zoom link\, email aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/changing-academia-forever-black-student-leaders-analyze-the-movement-they-led/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Changing-Academia-Forever.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200917T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20200730T034139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T034920Z
UID:58945-1600372800-1600372800@litseen.com
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-10/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200929T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
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SUMMARY:Juan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye: Every Day We're More Illegal
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Sept 29\, 7-9pm Pacific time \nKPFA Radio 94.1 FM with City Lights Books presents a webinar \nJuan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye\nEvery Day We’re More Illegal\nwith Sabrina Jacobs \nAfter two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, here coalesce into an urgent yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the wild injustice of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then a shift – a leap for peace and a view into the possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the collective conscience\, a jolt filled with the many voices of everyday life in America. \nAnother of the most colorful\, cherished and charismatic voices in America is that of Naomi Shihab Nye\, a poet\, songwriter\, and novelist. She will read some of her own work and talk with her friend Juan Felipe on the theme – Every Day We Get More Illegal. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother\, Naomi composed her first poem when was six years old. She has since published or contributed to over thirty books\, including poetry\, young-adult fiction\, anthologies\, and novels. Among her books are Habibi\, 19 Varieties of Gazelle\, Red Suitcase\, Fuel\, and A Maze Me. \nJuan Felipe Herrera\, in addition to being a poet\, is a performer\, writer\, cartoonist\, teacher and activist. His twenty-plus books include The Upside Down Book\, Thunderweavers\, Notes on the Assemblage\, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007\, and Half the World in Light. He is known for his often-bilingual and autobiographical poems on immigration\, Chicano identity\, and life in California. Herrera was born to migrant farmworkers in southern California and spent his early youth on the move\, living in tents and trailers in small farming towns throughout the San Joaquin Valley. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-felipe-herrera-naomi-shihab-nye-every-day-were-more-illegal/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201015T220000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200929T171251Z
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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-12/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T000100
DTSTAMP:20260409T121252
CREATED:20201021T213153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201021T213153Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Generation Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012\, we\, Beast Generation writers\, lived a never-ending literary feast. We gathered in the Mission\, at the street corners (16th and Mission)\, in a former voodoo and black magic temple Viracocha\, Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, in the bars like Amnesia and Make Out Room or Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley. They read poetry and prose\, played music and acted at festivals and happenings like Bay Area Generations\, Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop\, Saturday Night Special\, Quiet Lightning\, Get Lit\, Tourette’s Without Regrets\, Poetry Flash\, Donde Esta Mi Gente\, Perfectly Queer\, The Naked Bulb\, Skinless\, Swill\, Word Performances\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitCrawl\, Literary Death Match\, and organizations like Nomadic Press\, Poetry Flash\, Small Press Distribution\, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, Kundiman\, Kearney St Workshop\, Manic D Press\, Be About It Press\, Milvia Street\, Liminal Space\, Foglifter Journal\, the SF Creative Writing Institute\, the East Bay Review\, Full of Crow\, Pandemonium Press. And with many MANY of these writers taking to the road to read with poets in Seattle\, Portland\, Cleveland\, Kansas City\, Pittsburg\, Albuquerque New York\, Paris\, Mexico City\, Rabat and others. It was a loud and fun family\, with a sense of purpose and belonging. \nThe Beast Crawl was born in 2012 in Oakland CA to establish an annual gathering of this tribe in one region at one time in the East Bay (pig latin for “Beast”) to celebrate the merging of homegrown literary talent with the other kindred Beasts across the world. With this event\, the East Bay emerged as a hotbed of raw\, diverse literary talent with venues such as the Awaken Cafe\, Bench & Bar\, Chapter 510\, the Dept. of Make Believe\, the Creative Growth Center\, Classic Cars West\, Era Art Bar\, Econojam Records\, Feelmore 510\, The Legionairre\, Telegraph Beer Garden\, Farley’s East\, EM Wolfman Books\, The Golden Bull\, Laurel Books\, The Layover Lounge\, The New Parkway\, Oaklandish\, Kingston 11\, Spice Monkey\, The Starline Social Club\, Sweet Bar\, The Octopus Literary Salon\, Radio Bar\, and Woods Brewing Company hosting new up and coming authors. \nBy 2020\, with many of the venues closed or out of business\, festivals and readings canceled by the pandemic\, depression\, fires and smoke\, the Beasts might have lost a platform but not their voice. We will join forces again on October 24\, 2020\, and speak up online. Join us for a whole day marathon on a YouTube channel of one of San Francisco’s oldest indie bookstores\, Globus Books. The city will live up to its tradition: LitCrawl and Bay Area Poetry festival will be bringing more voices to you that very day. Let’s read like it is 2012! \nWith a week before the historic election\, our country\, state and city face a political\, economic and environmental crisis. The arts\, literature and poetry are here to do what they always do: offer humanity. Our land is on fire\, the plague is near and tyrants are at large but our spirits soar and are invincible. Long live Poetry! \nThis event will be live streaming on the Globus Books YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos. It is free for all. The recording of this show will be serialized and featured on the same channel later. Join us! \nReading: \nYoussef Alaoui\nLynn Alexander\nKyrsten Bean\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nSteven Black\nPam Benjamin\nKwan Booth\nMya Byrne\nWolfgang Carstens\nMK Chavez\nMissy Church\nJoe Clifford\nSharon Coleman\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nSean Craven\nCassandra Dallett\nRohan DaCosta\nJenee Darden\nNatasha Derenstein\nFred Dodsworth\nMG Dufresne\nAndy Dugas`\nJoe Donohoe\nTony DuShane\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLee Foust\nJK Fowler\nBill Gainer\nCassandra Rockwood-Rice Ganem\nCharlie Getter\nSteve Goldberg\nSteven Gray\nDazie Grego-Sykes\nJason Hardung\nHollie Hardy\nNicole Henares\nNazelah Jamison\nMaisha Johnson\nNick Johnson\nJuba Kalamka\nVernon Keeve III\nYume Kim\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nCharles Kruger\nAllsion Landa\nJoel Landmine\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nRIchard Loranger\nMichelle Lyn\nBrandon Loberg\nJoe Loya\nSean Manzano\nColleen McKee\nKR Morrison\nAmanda Muniz\nGinger Murray\nAlexandra Naughton\nJason Neese\nZephir O’Meara\nDawn Oberg\nPatty Orozco-Cronin\nSarah Page\nJohn Alfred Panzer\nLauren Dissident Parker\nIndiana Pehlivanova\nRob Pierce\nTom Pitts\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez\nRoger Porter\nHK Rainey\nSimon Rogghe\nKim Shuck\nCybele Zufolo Siegel\nJon Siegel\nTodd Siegel\nRyan Snellman\nJan Steckel\nSB Stokes\nJohn Swain\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nAndrew Thomas\nLauren Traetto\nKeeley Ann Tulloh\nRene Vaz\nAlia Volz\nSandra Wassile\nJason Whitacre\nArisa White\nMaw Shein Win\nZarina Zabrisky\nJames Zealous \nBios coming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-generation-uprising/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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