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SUMMARY:Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-the-future-of-democracy/
LOCATION:Rockridge Branch\, 5366 College Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic\nWednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00\nFree\, no ticket needed. \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \n—\nThe Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based artist collective of artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers who curate film screenings and publish a journal of essays about black film and culture. \nJamal Batts\nRyanaustin Dennis\nMalika “Ra” Imhotep\nZoé Samudzi\nLeila Weefur \nThe Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We post the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \nBy working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers\, we cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications and product development\, we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience and are responsive to its respective environment. \n———\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series embedded inside our Creative Gateway undergraduate course. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/wednesdays \n—\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative in partnership with Big Ideas courses. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Wednesdays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-talk-with-the-black-aesthetic/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Angel Dominguez and Kit Schluter
DESCRIPTION:Two renowned poets\, Dominguez and Schluter read their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/angel-dominguez-and-kit-schluter/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180414T183000
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel & Julia Vinograd at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event\nFeaturing poets Jan Steckel and Julia Vinograd\nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser \nPlymouth Jazz and Justice Church\n424 Monte Vista/Oakland\, CA\n$7 – $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of 10 fabulous prizes\n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance \nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser. To reserve your open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, in advance. \nFeaturing poets Julia Vinograd and Jan Steckel \nOther wonderful artists will thrill and delight you!! \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving.\nWIP is scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately is not completely accessible). \nJulia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet. She has published 63 books of poetry\, and won the American Book Award of The Before Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles and Bones\, Eye of the Hand\, and The Book of Jerusalem. She received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She has a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Berkeley. She won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “The Young Men Who Died of AIDS”. She was one of the four editors of the anthology New American Underground Poetry Vol. 1: The Babarians of San Francisco— Poets from Hell. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-julia-vinograd-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:East Bay Launch for "Invisible Gifts\, Poems" with Maw Shein Win and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Maw Shein Win’s first full-length poetry collection Invisible Gifts\, Poems. \nWith readings by: \nMK Chavez\nSharon Coleman\nCassandra Dallett\nTim Donnelly\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nMaw Shein Win \n+++ \nInvisible Gifts\, Poems by Maw Shein Win \nManic D Press April 2018 \nThemes of vulnerability and power emerge through reflections on family\, art\, and loss from an award-winning poet. \nIn her full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; and the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors. For instance\, in poems like “Hands”: My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-launch-for-invisible-gifts-poems-with-maw-shein-win-and-guests/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael Hoerman
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in the Ozarks and now residing in Fayetteville\, Michael’s award-winning poetry embodies the bone-deep passion he feels for our rural culture and his reverence for the power of imagination. Michael is listed in A Readers’ Map of Arkansas for his groundbreaking cultivation of Fayetteville’s literary landscape. In 1995 he co-founded Arkansas’s first National Poetry Slam team. In 1997 he edited a Frank Stanford feature entitled “Death in the Cool Evening” that brought renewed critical attention to the legendary poet. \nMichael is touring to share a selection of earlier and never-heard-before poems in his new chapbook\, Disoriented Fascination\, featuring three poems nominated and now under consideration for Pushcart Prizes.\nA poet active since 1985\, Michael’s publication history and critical recognitions include a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in the category of Poetry\, Bad Rotten\, his debut chapbook published by Pudding House Publications\, inclusion in Lavender Ink’s 2012 anthology entitled Fuck Poems and four other anthologies\, journals including Arkansas Literary Forum and Eureka Literary Magazine\, and residencies at Spiva Center for the Arts and Sedona Summer Colony among many others. \nBorn into rural poverty in the Ozarks\, Michael is a survivor. Though living in poverty\, disabled by PTSD\, a formerly incarcerated person\, with only a GED\, Michael’s poetry has broken through barriers that have too long kept the poor\, the disabled\, the uncredentialed and the formerly incarcerated out in the cold. His story will empower others like him\, and challenge those who would keep them down and out in the communities where they are integral.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-hoerman/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour Featuring Yves St. Croissant
DESCRIPTION:Created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT YVES\nContrary to her picture perfect exterior Yves Saint Croissant is a rebel heart who’s always romping around with the punks\, queers and club kidz. She’s immersed herself in a culture-making crowd both past and present and is headed straight to the top with them right by her side.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour-featuring-yves-st-croissant/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her new Maisie Dobbs mystery\, To Die But Once. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of To Die But Once by calling the store (510) 704-8222 and speaking to one of our booksellers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany\, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public\, and the threat of invasion rises\, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. \nMaisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men\, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches\, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future–and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. \nJacqueline Winspear’s  bestselling Maisie Dobbs series includes In This Grave Hour\, Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, Winspear now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Words and Music Double Bill\, Steve Dalachinsky ||| Cosmic Diaspora: Jake Marmer\, John Schott\, Joshua Horowitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as The Poetry Center Reading Room transforms into a one-night-only performance space\, for a very special evening of improvised music and poetry deployed out of the spirit of the music and related impulses. It’s unlikely that any one poet has been as immersed\, and for so long\, in the New York and European jazz and improvised music scenes\, or has collaborated in some manner with as many of its extraordinary artists\, as has Steve Dalachinsky. He\, among other participatory roles\, has written liner notes for the recordings of Anthony Braxton\, Charles Gayle\, James “Blood” Ulmer\, Rashied Ali\, Roy Campbell\, Matthew Shipp\, and Roscoe Mitchell\, among others. Tonight\, visiting San Francisco on a rare West Coast excursion\, he’ll share the bill with Bay Area poetry and music trio Cosmic Diaspora\, fresh from their own turn through New York City\, as part of guitarist/composer John Schott’s week-long residency at The Stone\, the famed improvised music space run by John Zorn\, now in its revived venue at The New School in Manhattan. Besides the extraordinary Mr Schott on guitars\, Cosmic Diaspora features Joshua Horowitz on keyboards and accordion\, and Jake Marmer\, voice and poetry. This event is free and open to the public. \n“He lives the music\, and his poems capture its heat and illumination.” —Francis Davis\, on Steve Dalachinsky \nSteve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn (1946) after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite & Other Poems: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987–2006 (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (RogueArt\, 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group\, the Snobs (Bambalam\, 2015). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His books include: Fools Gold (feral press\, 2014). A Superintendent’s Eyes (revised and expanded\, Autonomedia/Unbearables\, revised and expanded\, 2013/14). flying home\, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press\, 2015). “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press\, 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.\, Frozen Heatwave\, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods\, 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Pressm\, 2017). His column “outtakes” appears regularly in The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent audio release is With Shelter Gone\, a full length 12-inch LP on the German label Psych.KG\, and his latest book is Where Night and Day Become One – the French Poems (a selection 1983-2017) (Great Weather for Media\, 2018). He lives\, with Yuko Otomo\, in New York City. \nCosmic Diaspora. Near the close of 2017\, in a burst of verbal improv\, John Schott wrote this: \n“I love my band Cosmic Diaspora with pianist/accordionist Josh Horowitz (Veretski Pass\, Budowitz) and poet Jake Marmer(Jazz Talmud). Josh and I come up with little loose compositions to serve as accompaniments to Jake’s poems\, which are mostly fixed but allow for spontaneous elaborations and disruptions. It’s a very tricky thing\, finding the right amount of activity and density\, so as not to overwhelm the listener\, but allow them to take in the words. I like Jake Marmer’s poetry very\, very much. He has the wonderful quality of savoring the English language from a non-Native speaker’s perspective — he immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when he was a teenager. He also thoughtfully works through various Jewish and Rabbinic texts and tropes in his work\, which creatively stimulate me as well. Josh Horowitz is both a virtuoso pianist and accordionist with a jaw-dropping\, encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish music\, Jazz\, and Classical music — truly one of the most remarkable musicians I’ve ever met. Like\, he published an article in a learned German musical journal with a ground-breaking discovery about Bach’s puzzle canons. He is completely conversant with the McCoy/Herbie/Keith vocabulary\, and can casually quote the opening to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in an improvisation. Also\, he’s one of the greatest authorities/educators on Jewish music in the world\, period. But in this project\, he’s totally out of all of his boxes\, and sort of free-floating in a world without definitions. \n“We recently played at a very special house concert venue in Palo Alto that was filmed. Here’s a selection:” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosmic Diaspora in performance:\n• Warp\n• Panic\n• Turbine\n• Cosmo-Chameleon\n• Purple Rocks \nVideos\, Interview\, Review:\n• John Tchicai and Steve Dalachinsky\n• Steve Dalachinsky and Dave Liebman at The Stone\n• Steve Dalachinsky and The Snobs\n• Steve Dalachinsky interviewed by Lisa Chau in The Huffington Post\n• Steve Dalachinsky in the New York Times \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-and-music-double-bill-steve-dalachinsky-cosmic-diaspora-jake-marmer-john-schott-joshua-horowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann discusses No Immediate Danger
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann-discusses-no-immediate-danger/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Full Color: A Staged Reading
DESCRIPTION:Full Color: A Staged Reading \nAfro Urban Society and Studio Grand present ‘Full Color’\, a short story written by Itoro Udofia that has been adapted for the stage in a dynamic literary reading. The story follows Inem\, a first generation Nigerian woman returning home after five years of estrangement from her family. We follow her as she grapples with the fractured memories and loss she experiences when attempting to piece her life together amidst family tragedy. Ultimately\, the story is about finding reconciliation with one’s cultural and personal history as a survivor. This reading is to honor Sexual Assault Awareness month and all survivors attempting to find a road to recovery. \nMore Info TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/full-color-a-staged-reading/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180423T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180423T203000
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SUMMARY:BAY AREA GENERATIONS #56
DESCRIPTION:BAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #56\nMonday\, April 23\, 2018\nat Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland\, CA\n*Free on-street parking after 6pm\n* Beautiful location * Refreshments\n* Steps from 14th Street BART.\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Doors Open with Writers Mixer\n7:30 pm  – Show Starts\nSuggested Donation\n$10 (admission + souvenir chapbook)\nNo one turned away for lack of funds\n  \nGuest Curators:  Kristin Cerda\nREADERS\n\nNatasha Dennerstein + Jack Foley\nBonnie McManis + Sara HaBa\nRaluca Ioanid + Mike Murray\nToReadah Mikell + Christine No \nMUSICAL GUEST\n\nTBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-56/
LOCATION:Joyce Gordon Gallery\, 406 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Journal Release: Nomadic Journal 2017: Wonder (Retro!)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2017 (Retro!): Wonder! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2017-wonder-retro/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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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