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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Brenda Hillman with Jane Gregory
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-brenda-hillman-with-jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #36 (Music by Michael Also)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. Hosted by TBA with music by Michael Also. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).  \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-36-music-by-michael-also/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with Europa Grace\, M.I.\, Miyuki\, and Gabriel Christian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Your Art Will Save Your Life launch at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 25\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the launch of YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE with Beth Pickens and Tammy Johnson! \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \nBeth Pickens reminds us that art makes us want to be alive. It lets us know that we are not alone in this world no matter how isolated we feel. And in this oppressive political climate\, art is more important now than ever. \nWritten in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and drawing from Pickens’s extensive background in art fundraising and consulting\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE empowers emerging and established artists alike to balance activism and financial concerns while nurturing their own creative processes. \nFrom exercises designed to quiet inner critics to advice on navigating institutional funding\, Pickens helps artists create foundations for healthy and sustainable expression no matter the medium. Reminding us art has always been a tool of the resistance\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE provides simple yet powerful lessons on how to keep creating at a time\nwhen art is more necessary than ever. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nTammy Johnson is a dancer\, writer\, and equity analyst living in Oakland\, California. As a highly visible and effective community organizer in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, she directed campaigns on economic justice\, electoral reform and public education. Johnson’s gift for strategy development and ability to nurture strong relationships with groups on the ground led to a decade at Race Forward. She is also a principal partner of Art/Work Practice\, a firm that advances cultural strategies with a through an equity-based approach. For over a decade Johnson and Etang Inyang performed as the award-winning Egyptian Bellydance duet\, Raks Africa\, and co-directed Girls Raks Bellydance and Body Image program. She is currently the director the Northern African Berber inspired culture production company\, Project Aiwa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-art-will-save-your-life-launch-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brynn Saito
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties grant. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine\, Poetry Northwest\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Saito is the Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry at Saint Mary’s College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brynn-saito/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
DESCRIPTION:“She meticulously and convincingly argues that U.S. gun culture-and the domestic and global massacres that have flowed from it- must be linked to an understanding of the ideological\, historical and practical role of guns in seizing Native American lands\, black enslavement\, and global imperialism.”- Clarence Lusane \nThe U.S. loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James to the NRA and Seal Team 6\, gun culture has colored the lore\, shaped the law\, and protected the market that arms the nation\, and the world. In Loaded\, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the sacred myths of Americans’ “right to bear arms” to expose the true origins of the Second Amendment\, specifically\, the connection between the arming of the earliest Anglo settlers\, modern-day policing\, and the persistence of white supremacy as a political force. From the nation’s origins in slavery and colonization to today’s right wing “gun lobby\,” Loaded presents a U.S. history of firearms that will be invaluable for anyone interested in understanding the interconnected histories of racism and gun violence in the United States. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Outlaw Woman\, a memoir of her time in an armed underground group\, Red Dirt: Growing up Okie\, and Blood On the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War\, and the recent\, widely acclaimed An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nHost Joanna Manqueros worked as a therapist at Kaiser Hospital\, where she has been co-chair of the Diversity Committee in Psychiatry for many years. In addition\, she has been a host of KPFA’s Music of the World since 2005. \nadvance tickets: $12\, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-loaded-a-disarming-history-of-the-second-amendment/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea \nApril 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library \nSpeaker: Dafna Zur\, Stanford University\nModerator: Steven Lee\, UC Berkeley \nFiguring Korean Futures is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s\, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart\, the perception that the child’s body and mind were transparent and knowable\, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. This privileged location enabled writers and illustrators\, educators and psychologists\, intellectual elite and laypersons to envision the child as a powerful antidote to the present and as an uplifting metaphor of colonial Korea’s future. \nReading children’s periodicals against the political\, educational\, and psychological discourses of their time\, Dafna Zur argues that the figure of the child was particularly favorable to the project of modernity and nation-building\, as well as to the colonial and postcolonial projects of socialization and nationalization. She demonstrates the ways in which Korean children’s literature builds on a trajectory that begins with the child as an organic part of nature\, and ends\, in the post-colonial era\, with the child as the primary agent of control of nature. Figuring Korean Futures reveals the complex ways in which the figure of the child became a driving force of nostalgia that stood in for future aspirations for the individual\, family\, class\, and nation. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nDafna Zur is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature\, popular culture\, cinema\, and popular culture. Her book\, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press\, 2017)\, traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction\, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature\, childhood in cinema\, and Korean popular culture. Her translations have been published in wordwithoutborders.org\, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories\, and the Asia Literary Review. \nDafna Zur received her PhD and MA in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia\, and a BA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-figuring-korean-futures/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Yang Huang reads from her short story collection\, My Old Faithful\, winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShowing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday\, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories\, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period\, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life\, full of pain\, surprises\, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother\, the father\, the son\, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China’s social and economic change. \nWith quiet humor and sharp insight into the ordinary\, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love\, a brother who betrays his sister\, and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling. \nYang Huang grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel\, Living Treasures\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction\, and her essay and short stories have appeared in The Margins\, Eleven Eleven\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, The Evansville Review\, Futures\, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine\, and Nuvein. She lives in the Bay Area and works for UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yang-huang/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Tens of thousands of book lovers meet hundreds of acclaimed authors over an exciting weekend in downtown Berkeley\, California. \nWhether you’re a fan of science fiction or history\, of fiction or memoir\, of poetry or food writing\, of children’s literature or science\, come experience one of the best book festivals on the planet! \nThe Bay Area is teeming with readers\, writers\, creators\, and thinkers. We have harnessed the power of this community to create a premier literary experience. The Festival is a two-day event complete with sessions presenting top authors from this region\, the nation\, and the world\, along with an outdoor fair with hundreds of literary exhibitors. We also offer art installations\, events for kids\, and writing contests. We even have a mini film festival — a series of ten films on literature — with BAMPFA. We transform vibrant Downtown Berkeley into a literary utopia where readers of all ages and interests can find kindred spirits. \nHighlight reel from last year’s festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6hkT9R8cY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/4th-annual-bay-area-book-festival/
LOCATION:Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Book Festival-one of the world’s premier celebrations of writers\, readers and the written word-will take place April 28 and 29 in downtown Berkeley. Nearly 500 authors and exhibitors-from the Bay Area\, nation and world and from across the spectrum of genres\, traditions and inspirations-will come together with tens of thousands of book enthusiasts for the fourth annual two-day celebration featuring presentations\, panels\, keynotes\, films\, performances\, participatory activities\, exhibits and a lively outdoor fair. \nThe literary program will satisfy fans across many interests\, from science fiction\, history\, mysteries\, memoir\, poetry\, food writing\, children’s literature and more\, with special tracks this year on women\, Native storytelling and youth literature-all within overall themes of the power of books to create a better world. Literary sessions take place in venues throughout the downtown area and on outdoor stages.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-book-festival/
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Georgeanne Brennan at Mrs. Dalloway's
DESCRIPTION:Join James Beard Award winner Georgeanne Brennan as she reads from her newest book\, Windows on Provence: Musings on the Food\, Wine\, and Culture of the South of France. \nGeorgeanne Brennan evocatively renders an insider’s knowledge of Provence’s villages and their ancient customs and traditions. Through rich essays\, each examining a unique facet of Provencal culture\, she shares her view of the southern region of the country. Brennan’s engaging text\, together with alluring photographs\, takes the reader on an unforgettable tour\, from the sun-drenched Cote d’Azur to the craggy mountains of Haute Provence; to lavender\, poppy and wheat fields; through markets full of richly-hued fabrics\, antiques and seasonal specialties; to harbors filled with fishermen selling the morning’s catch; over hills covered in vines; and into centuries-old buildings and castle ruins\, all brought to life through the author’s eyes. \nGeorgeanne will be reading from Windows on Provence\, signing\, and answering questions; enjoy wine and snacks and be whisked away for a Provençal afternoon. \nCall (510) 704-8222 to reserve your seat and purchase a copy of Windows on Provence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/georgeanne-brennan-at-mrs-dalloways/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Knots of Wonder: Masatsugu Ono at the Bay Area Book Fest
DESCRIPTION:Masatsugu Ono\, winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize\, will be at the Bay Area Book Festival to discuss his novel\, Lion Cross Point\, coming this spring from Two Lines Press. Get tickets. \n\nKnots of Wonder: Stunning Short Fiction with Gunnhild Oyehaug\, David Hayden\, Masatsugu Ono \nShort stories and novellas are like knots: compact on the surface\, but containing intricately woven ideas that\, when unraveled\, point to something much larger. How do writers do it? These three authors are world-class exemplars of the form: Norwegian short story writer Gunnhild Oyehaug\, who can “produce stabs of emotion\, unexpected ghost notes of feeling\, from pieces so short and offbeat that they seem at first like aborted arias” (in a profile of her by The New Yorker); Irish writer David Hayden\, whose short stories The Guardian calls “brilliantly disturbing and unclassifiable”; and\, coming to us from Japan\, Masatsugu Ono\, whose jewel-like novella mixes the surreal with the profound in a story of a shy\, traumatized boy overcoming the shame\, anger\, and sadness that silence him. \nSponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation\, with additional support from the Norway House Foundation\, NORLA – Norwegian Literature Abroad\, Culture Ireland\, and Transit Books. \nGet tickets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/masatsugu-ono-babf/
LOCATION:Hotel Shattuck Plaza\, 2086 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Betty Reid Soskin: Sign My Name to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Author Betty Reid Soskin shares insights about her memoir\, Sign My Name To Freedom\, as part of Independent Bookstore Day and the Bay Area Book Festival at Pegasus Books Downtown. \nFree to attend. Seating is on a first-come basis. \nBetty Reid Soskin has been a home-front war-years worker\, a singer-songwriter and performer\, a writer\, a legislative aide\, a National Parks ranger\, a national icon\, and an honest and tireless fighter\, both against discrimination of all forms and for the growth and triumph of the human spirit and values that would benefit us all. In her blog\, CBreaux Speaks at cbreaux.blogspot.com\, she writes\, “Life has never been richer\, nor more abundantly lyrical\,” and “I’ve grown into someone I’d like to know—were I not me already!” \nBlending together selections from many of Betty’s hundreds of blog entries with interviews\, letters\, and speeches collected throughout her long life\, Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself\, the nation\, or the world with fresh eyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betty-reid-soskin-sign-my-name-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: The Edge of Fruitvale by Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Rohan DaCosta’s first full-length photography / poetry collection\, The Edge of Fruitvale! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by Mk Chavez\, Vernon Keeve III\, Nazelah Jamison\, Cyrus Armajani\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the star of the evening\, Rohan DaCosta. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-the-edge-of-fruitvale-by-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Dating
DESCRIPTION:Spring is in the air and other clichés\, and people are swiping right and left like crazy! Whether you’re single or coupled or thrupled up or “it’s complicated” you’ve got a sick or sexy or funny story to tell. And here at SNS\, we want it all! Tell us the truth; lie to us; sing to us; tell us a story; write a poem for us. Give us your DATING inspirations\, real or imagined\, past\, present\, or future. Best and worst. First or last. Hot or horrible. Let’s do this! \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur featured readers for April are Don Gonzales Filmmaker & Jan Steckel\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, April 28\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nDonny Gonzalez is the result of what happens when you get fed cocaine while teething. Raised in the inbreeding Capitol of California\, Modesto aka Methdesto. A place where people have more tattoos than teeth\, and the line outside the methadone clinic looks like the line outside Walmart on Black Friday. Donny began writing poems to stay sane & as an alternative to murdering his neighbors. These neighbors would be the focal point of Don’s bizarro poetry. Don left Modesto in 2015 and is now a booth mopper at an all male peepshow in San Francisco. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-dating/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Re-Assembling Hope with Rebecca Solnit\, Dacher Keltner & others
DESCRIPTION:Re-Assembling Hope: Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Dacher Keltner\, Dan Kammen\, Shannon Jackson and Friends of the Bay Area Book Festival\nMonday / 4.30.18 / 6:30 \n*Tickets will be made available 10 days prior to the event. Once all tickets have been claimed\, we will open up a waitlist.\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/general-seating-reassembling-hope-with-rebecca-solnit-dacher-keltner-dan-kammen-shannon-jackson-and-tickets-42259151259 \nPLEASE READ: If you are a ticket holder\, please be aware that if you are not seated in the theater by 6:15pm\, you are relinquishing your reserved seat to those waiting at the door and who have signed up for the waitlist. \n*Pending approval\, this event may be available via livestream.\n—\nDacher Keltner\, Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center\, Professor\, Psychology\, UC Berkeley\nDan Kamman\, Professor of Energy & Chair Energy and Resources Group\nShannon Jackson\, Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts + Design\, UC Berkeley\nRebecca Solnit\, Writer\, Historian\, Activist \nJoin UC Berkeley alum Rebecca Solnit as she brings both the 2018 Bay Area Book Festival and A+D Mondays to a close with a conversation on the idea of Hope. Solnit\, in conversation with a range of Berkeley professors\, authors\, and community activists will discuss our fraught political landscape\, how literature and art help us to navigate through crises\, and how Hope helps us to assemble and re-assemble our communities and our social movements. \n—\nDan Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California\, Berkeley\, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group\, the Goldman School of Public Policy\, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton in April 2010. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)\, and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies\, and has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities. \nDacher Keltner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as well as Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center. He is the co-author of two textbooks\, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life\, and The Compassionate Instinct. He has published over 190 scientific articles\, received numerous national prizes and grants for his research\, and has written for multiple publications\, including The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition\, he was a scientific consultant on Pixar’s film\, Inside Out. \n———\nArts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series with the theme of Public (Re)Assembly. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays \n—\nArts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/re-assembling-hope-with-rebecca-solnit-dacher-keltner-others/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Holly Brown
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. In April\, we feature a reading and conversation with Holly Brown on her new book being published in May\, How Far She’s Come. \nIf you would like to have a book signed by the author\, please bring your checkbook to the event to purchase the newest book\, How Far She’s Come. You may also buy any of her previously published books in advance at Books Inc. or your favorite indie bookstore to bring with you for signing. \nLook for the event in the “Living Room” near the front entrance. Free and open to the public; please reserve your spot using the tickets link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holly-brown-2/
LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Work & Workers
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Terry Lucas\, Jan Steckel\, Dennis Bernstein\, Barbara West. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/work-workers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY: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/student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley 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. \n\nAll readings from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month\nAdmission free • Morrison Library in Doe Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Night of Readings and A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of readings & writings\, words & language\, lit & luminosity in toast to Laura Ritland’s debut poetry collection\, EAST AND WEST (http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550655032). Books will be sold\, readers will read\, feelings will be felt! \nFeaturing readings by: \nLAURA RITLAND \nJANE HU \nMAX KAISLER \nJARED ROBINSON \nLaura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and CNQ. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016)\, a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto\, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award for Poetry. She currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area\, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. East and West is her debut collection. \nJane Hu is a Berkeley English PhD and freelancer who has published in The New Yorker\, Slate\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl. \nMax Kaisler is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English & Classics from Amherst College. She’s worked as an editor and intern at Ploughshares\, The Common\, Bare Journal\, and Cutbank\, her own poetry and nonfiction has been published online and in print\, and she’s received multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. \nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN and moved to the Bay to study Literature at Berkeley. He has never published nor left the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-readings-and-a-book-launch/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Fridays at Nomadic Press!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by Rohan DaCosta\, Alexandra Naughton\, and Jesse Prado with music by Harriet Poznansky. Hosted by Zephir O’ Meara. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine\, author of The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. \nAdvance praise for The Electric Woman \n“With fearless grace and piercing intensity\, Tessa Fontaine juxtaposes the thrill of eating fire with the luminous mystery of her mother’s devastating strokes and harrowing transformations. I have never read a book more tender or more true. We all live in a World of Wonders\, a world of terror. The Electric Woman delivers us to the potent mercy of unmitigated love\, the passion of shared suffering\, the resilience of the spirit\, and the ecstasies of our transfigurations. The heart breaks\, and breaks open—in the divine light of despair\, we discover radiant joy: the hidden holiness of every breath\, every being\, every moment.”\n—Melanie Rae Thon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-author-of-the-electric-woman/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alicia Mountain\, Steffi Drewes\, Tonya M. Foster\, and Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 5\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems! By four poets! We’re excited to welcome Alicia Mountain’s BRAND NEW book High Ground Coward into the world! With readings from three amazing Bay Area poets\, Steffi Drewes\, Mg Roberts\, and Tonya M. Foster\, as well! \nALICIA MOUNTAIN is the author of High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press\, April 2018) which was awarded the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Thin Fire\, is forthcoming from BOAAT Press. Mountain’s poems can be found in Guernica\, jubilat\, Prairie Schooner\, Pleiades\, Witness\, and elsewhere. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee\, an Idyllwild Arts Fellow and a resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a queer poet\, PhD candidate at the University of Denver\, and assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. Mountain earned her MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula. \n  \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press) and four poetry chapbooks\, most recently New Animal from dancing girl press. Her work has been featured in various journals and event series\, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, The Desert House in California\, and the Wassaic Project in New York\, where she debuted an original set of photo-based tarot cards and performed personalized readings. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor. \nTonya M. Foster was raised in New Orleans\, LA. She is the author of the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os and the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, which Stephen Burt describes as “the long-delayed American apotheosis of haiku form.” In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones notes that “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art\, Foster has had work published in Best American Experimental Writing (2016)\, boundary2\, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015\, Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere.Foster has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Pan African literary Festival\, and elsewhere. \nMg Roberts is a multimedia artist\, teacher\, publisher and poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). Mg is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo V.  Wilson; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, array of animals and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-steffi-drewes-tonya-m-foster-and-mg-roberts/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An Evening with David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:David Sedaris returns to Berkeley with his signature sardonic wit and incisive social criticism. A master of satire and one of America’s preeminent humorists\, Sedaris contributes regularly to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4 and his latest book\, Theft By Finding\, was recently released to widespread critical acclaim. The evening concludes with an audience Q&A and book signing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall\, UC Berkeley\, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180511T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180511T170000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Firestone and Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks\,including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse\, forthcoming)\,Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books]\, forthcoming)\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Swimming Pool(DoubleCross Press)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books)\, Holiday (Shearsman Books)\, Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs)\, from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics\, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems\, Plays\, Songs\, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA from Newcomb College\, Tulane University\, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Foster is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-edited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones says\, “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” \nFoster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-firestone-and-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th st\, Oakland\, near Broadway\, @ 6pm and will feature readings by a few of the poets to be published in our journal\, Lo Ferris\, Claire Marie Stnacek\, and Daniel Benjamin. Snacks and beverages will be included & we hope to see you there! \nReaders:\nClaire Marie Stancek\nBio: Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, Claire Marie Stancek now lives in Berkeley\, California. She is the author of MOUTHS (Noemi\, 2017)\, and with Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions. These poems are taken from her second book of poetry\, Oil Spell\, which is forthcoming from Omnidawn in spring 2018. \nLo Ferris\nBio: Lo Ferris is a poet and translator living in the East Bay. Their work can also be found in Fence\, Bombay Gin\, and The Atlas Review. \nDaniel Benjamin\nBio: Daniel Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley\, researching minoritarian forms of universality in lyric poetry. With Eric Sneathen\, he is the co-editor of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books\, 2017); with Claire Marie Stancek\, he is the co-editor of Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba / Giramondo\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/2122238844723108/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-poetry-review-issue-48-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley\ncities\, along with special guests.  Indigo Moor\, current laureate of Sacramento\, and\nGillian Wegener\, former laureate of Modesto\, will read along with Alhambra students\,\nand other poets who have a long personal association with Martinez.  The theme will be\nthe evolution of ecological stewardship and poetry’s contribution to it. To root that\nevolution\, we will also express the essence of place\, specifically Martinez\, where John\nMuir settled as an adult.\nWHERE:  The John Muir National Historic Site\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\nWHEN:    Saturday\, May 12th\, 5-8 PM\nCOST:      Free\, but reservations required \nContact: Eliot Schain or James McDonald\nPhone: 925-228- 8860\, ext. 6431 (the John Muir House)\nEmail: eschain@martinez.k12.ca.us (Alhambra High School)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/5th-annual-ecopoetry-festival-at-the-john-muir-house/
LOCATION:John Muir House\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\, CA\, 94553\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #36 (MUSIC BY MICHAEL ALSO)
DESCRIPTION:IT’S OUR 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! \nCome celebrate 36 continuous months of Nomadic Press‘ Get Lit show! Started by J. K. Fowler and Annelyse Gelman three years ago\, we have been graced with the brand-new words of over 450 writers\, the tunes of over 30 different musicians\, and some phenomenal hosts\, including Annelyse Gelman\, Joshua Merchant\, Claudette Dráca-Luna Davis\, Wonder Dave\, Isobel O’Hare\, Christine No\, Abe Becker\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, and Zephir O’Meara. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. Hosted by Abe Becker with music by Michael Also. \nFeatured lineup of writers so far includes: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier\, Audrey T. Williams\, Zach Goldberg\, Zack Hanson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Gwen Schulte\, Chris “L7” Cuadrado\, Marguerite Munoz\, Fred Dodsworth\, Andrew Heald\, Danee Black-Queen D\, and others TBA. \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-36-music-by-michael-also-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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