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SUMMARY:Mark Greenside
DESCRIPTION:Mark Greenside\n\n\n\n\nReads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living\, a sequel of sorts to I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)\, about which the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Imagine Larry David . . . spending a summer in a French village–against his will\, of course–and you get some sense of what Mark Greenside goes through.” \nTo reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery year upon arriving in Plobien\, the small Breton town where he spends his summers\, Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled\, but not daunted (OK\, slightly daunted)\, he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all\, when can he touch the tomatoes? \nDespite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life\, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France\, (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home\, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some hits and lots of misses\, he learns the rules of engagement\, how he gets what he needs–which is not necessarily what he thinks he wants–and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he fails\, which is more often than he can believe. \nMark Greenside has been a civil rights activist\, Vietnam War protestor\, anti-draft counselor\, Vista Volunteer\, union leader\, and college professor. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and he is the author of a collection\, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. Greenside resides in Alameda and Brittany.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono
DESCRIPTION:Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko Ono\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work. \nThere’s time for you to read or perform something if you want to (read: open mic) \nHope to see you there and tune in to the event streaming on fb! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1699189570134160/
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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:Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry\, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009); the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (2010); and the full-length collections Odalisque in Pieces (2009)\, Milk and Filth (2013)\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17 (City Lights Publishers\, 2018). \nGiménez Smith’s work explores issues affecting the lives of females\, including Latina identity\, and frequently references myth and memory. With the publication of Odalisque in Pieces\, Giménez Smith was featured as a New American Poet on the Poetry Society of America’s website. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets(1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). \nGiménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She was appointed as poetry co-editor (along with Steph Burt) at The Nation in 2017 and teaches at Virginia Tech University. \ngiovanni singleton’s debut collection Ascension\, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane\, received the California Book Award Gold Medal. Her writing has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum\, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival\, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Canarium Books recently published a collection of her visual work entitled AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper. She was the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at University of California-Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-giovanni-singleton-and-carmen-gimenez-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day\, May Day--Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . \nDeMareon Gipson\nLiz Green\nBarbara Jane Reyes\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nAnne F. Walker \nhosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with free refreshments and bookstore cats–thank you Pegasus!!!!\n\nDeMareon Gipson is a polymathic wordsmith from Vallejo\, California\, whose penned the book Looking Forward and composed a short film\, The Plan\, ” which was selected by East Bay Express as a Pick of The Week. The Plan combines visual art with Gipson’s poetry to broaden the definition of institutional violence imposed upon Black people. His poetry won the acclaim of the Academy of American Poets. In 2017\, he was awarded with the Piri Thomas Poetry Prize. A political and cultural activist\, Demareon created Heartspace\, an open mic for poets\, musicians and dancers that also provided local small businesses with vending and networking opportunities. In 2015\, Gipson the founded the annual event “With Love\,” which is a safe space for Black people to talk about love that is led by poetry. He recently started a small business\, the Forward Publishing House. \nLiz Green is a writer\, performer\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She was on two national slam teams. As a playwright and writer/performer\, she has had her work produced at multiple local and national theater festivals. She received her BA from Vassar and her MFA from Mills in Creative Writing. She was a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She attended the Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and was a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. She is waitlisted at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in 2018. She has been published in several journals and anthologies\, including Sinister Wisdom\, Foglifter\, Sparkle and Blink\, and The Body is Not an Apology. She is in conversation with North Atlantic Books about publishing an anthology she is co-editing with Kelechi Ubozoh. She is Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg\, California. \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 14 years old and attends Claremont Middle School. She was a featured reader at the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has performed at Bay Area Generations and the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. Besides writing\, she likes to draw in her spare time. If you asked her what she explores in her poetry\, she might not be able to tell you exactly\, but she tries to write every day. She hopes to publish a collection of her own work someday. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the SF Bay Area\, and is the author of four previous poetry collections\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, Diwata\, and To Love as Aswang. http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/ \nAnne F. Walker’s poetry has won Eisner Prizes at UC Berkeley and Canada Council Arts Grants among other honors. Her full-length published poetry books include Six Months’ Rent\, Pregnant Poems\, Into the Peculiar Dark\, and The Exit Show. Her recent poetry chapbook is when the light of any action ceases. She completed doctoral work at UC Berkeley and is an Assistant Professor at Holy Names University in Oakland\, California. Recently she has been working on 100-word prose poems concentrate attention on precision of image\, narrative\, and language. They are part of a collection\, Ink and Ink and Flesh and Length\, that reflect on landscapes\, bodies and rooted memories.
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Persist
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St\, Oakland\, on Thursday May 17th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature\, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass)\, Townsend Walker (3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies)\, Colette Phair (In Your Shadow)\, and Juba Kalamka.
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17\n7pm\n \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel\, It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, on Tuesday\, May 17th at 7pm. \n“Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented\, and the wild\, weird\, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre\, frightening times.” — Richard Russo\, author of Trajectory \nEveryone has a dream\, an idea\, a goal. But what happens when those desires are thwarted\, when dreams and goals fall apart? In It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, Todd Robert Petersen explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others\, weaving an intricate web of interconnected stories. \nA fastidious man takes a detour on the way to his father’s wedding and kicks off a series of events that ricochets from the bride to her real estate clients; to a crazed former homeowner and his sister-in-law’s reality TV lover; to a hoarding family whose lives are wrecked by their appearance on the second-rate show. Their daughter decides to escape the gravity of her tiny town with the help of her boyfriend who has a not-quite-legal plan to scrape together enough money to fund their departure. \nOn their way across the country\, these star-crossed lovers encounter our fastidious man\, and the Rube-Goldberg machine of life continues. Their fling has petered out\, and they are driving home\, whatever home is left after walking away from everything they abandoned a month before. \nAbout the Author \nTodd Robert Petersen’s work has appeared in Mid-American Review\, Hobart\, and the Wisconsin Review\, and he has published two books with a small regional press. He is currently writing a dark comedy about Native American antiquities theft set in the desert Southwest. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 17\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-robert-petersen-presents-it-needs-to-look-like-we-tried/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay Book Reading "Queer Fiction Authors"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson (The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves) reads with local authors Wayne Goodman\, Lori Ostlund\, and Barbara Ridley at a Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay book reading\, Thursday\, May 17\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave.\, Berkeley. An author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7:30! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He and his fiancé Rick May host Perfectly Queer\, a reading series which holds monthly events in San Francisco and Oakland. Goodman also hosts Queer Words\, a quarterly in-conversation series. His books include Better Angels\, Britain’s Glory\, Fortune’s Lot\, The Last Great Hope\, The Seed of Immortality\, and Vanya Says Go! When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. \nLori Ostlund’s story collection The Bigness of the World won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award\, and was a Lambda Finalist. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with her wife and cats\, though she spent her formative years in Minnesota\, cat-less. \nBarbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for over 35 years. After a successful career as a nurse practitioner\, she is now focused on creative writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Writers Workshop Review\, Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review\, Blood and Thunder\, and Stoneboat. Her debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017) is set in Europe during World War Two and is based on her mother’s story as a Holocaust refugee. Barbara can be followed at www.barbararidley.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-east-bay-book-reading-queer-fiction-authors/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Melissa Stein and C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says\, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” Her first book of poems\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nC. Dale Young’s new novel-in-stories\, The Affliction\, is his first collection of fiction. Charles Baxter says\, “The linked stories in C. Dale Young’s The Affliction send us off to a magical location\, where the fantastical can seem both miraculous and ordinary. These tales treat life-and-death matters with a beautifully eloquent fervor\, and\, like the stories of Julio Cortázar\, they remind us off how varied and unpredictable short stories\, like the world itself\, can be.” He’s published four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo\, and his poetry has been anthologized several times in Best American Poetry. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He practices full-time as a medical doctor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-melissa-stein-and-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Poetry: w/ Carmen Giménez Smith & MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 18\n7:00pm\n \nEast Bay Booksellers is excited to host a fantastic Friday night of contemporary poetry\, featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and MK Chavez\, on May 18th at 7pm. \nCarmen Giménez Smith \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\, ‘ [Cruel Futures] book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.'”–Farid Matuk \nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood–all in a late capitalist America. \nCarmen Giménez Smith is the author of four poetry collections\, including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an American Book Award for her memoir Bring Down the Little Birds (2010) and the Juniper Prize for Poetry for Goodbye\, Flicker (2012). She also co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (2014)\, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing. Be Recorderwill be published by Graywolf Press in 2019. She now serves on the planning committee for CantoMundo and on the board of RASA\, which sponsors the Thinking Its Presence conference on race and art. She serves as the publisher of Noemi Press. She is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech and the poetry editor for The Nation. \n* * * \nMK Chavez \n“MK Chavez wields a torrential consciousness that exists both as racing music and a suspended realm of human astronomy. Memorials share food with births.  Freedom fighters and artists must be one. Patriarchy must answer for its brutalization and farce. Sketches of loves expand the boundaries of poetry. Reading her poetry\, I feel invincible. Dear Animal\, is the incantation before justice\, and truly our return.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author ofsomeone’s dead already \nMK Chavez will be reading from their most recent collection\, Dear Animal\, which is a re-imagination of the Linnaean taxonomy from a feminist perspective. This collection is a love letter to the resilient feral female and an exploration of the myriad Animalia that dwell in the margins. \nChavez is co-founder/co-curator of the Berkeley-based monthly reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, and the co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to obliterate all forms of oppression. Recent and upcoming work can be found in Story Magazine\, Aspasiology\, and Jam Tarts Literary Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/friday-night-poetry-w-carmen-gimenez-smith-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 23 – Friday\, May 18\, 2018\, with East Bay novelist Cameron MacKenzie\, award-winning local writer Tamara Schuyler\, local novelist Yang Huang\,and musical guest TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015! \nTHERE will take its annual summer break from June-August and return in September!
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Ulrich
DESCRIPTION:David Ulrich\n\n\n\n\npresents Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice of Photography\, an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your our fingertips\, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera\, even the one embedded in your phone. \n“Zen Camera is to photographers what The Artist’s Way is to writers. This master class in creativity deserves a place in your home.”–Create with Joy \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Zen Camera by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts\, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs\, its insights into the nature of seeing\, art\, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful\, meaningful\, and uniquely your own. \nYou’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology–transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness\, to see creatively\, and to live authentically. \n\nDavid Ulrich is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu\, Hawai’i. He teaches frequent classes and workshops\, and is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture\, Manoa\, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He blogs about creativity and consciousness at www.theslenderthread.org\, and is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-ulrich/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:AfroSurreal Writers Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Folks\, do the grown person thing and RSVP yes only if you can confirm your attendance so we can plan accordingly. We need to know how much food\, chairs\, etc to bring. \nThose who RSVP yes will receive the venue address via messenger. Thank you! \nThis is the monthly (every 3rd Saturday) meeting of the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop in Oakland. \nWe welcome new members so please share with your networks even if you aren’t able to join this month. \nThis group was “HOTLISTED” by the Writers Guild of America for Experimental Writing and we have exciting events planned for the coming year! \nJoin us to be in like-minded community with artists of all genres (literary\, podcasting\, digital storytelling\, film\, comics\, theater\, photography\, sculpture\, trans-media\, singing\, dancing\, audio\, video\, spoken word…) who creatively express with persepectives rooted and centered in the African diaspora and all communities of color. \nOur current members’ work focuses on AfroSurreal\, AfroFuturist\, horror\, fantasy\, science fiction\, speculative fiction\, memoir\, absurd\, weird\, or uncategorical art forms.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afrosurreal-writers-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:AfroSurreal Writers Workshop\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito
DESCRIPTION:Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito \nPlease join us on Sunday\, May 20 from 1:30 – 5 pm at the El Cerrito Community Center for our Spring Poetry & Place celebration! \nThis event will feature readings by Rafael Jesús González\, poet laureate of Berkeley\, Indigo Moor\, poet laureate of Sacramento\, Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, and Maw Shein Win\, poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nMusic by Dan Plonsey\, Ethan Port\, and Thomas Scandura in their debut as Moeser. \nThere will also be an all-ages open mic. Please bring a poem! \nIn addition\, there will be tables for local authors\, presses and organizations such as Sixteen Rivers\, Manic D Press\, Nomadic Press\, Works and Conversations\, Left Margin Lit\, Poetry Flash and others. This event will be in partnership with Poetry Flash\, one of the key literary organizations that has served the state of California since 1972. poetryflash.org \nSnacks and beverages will be served and the event will be free to the public. \nEl Cerrito Community Center\, 7007 Moeser Lane\, EC\, 94530\nhttps://www.el-cerrito.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/El-Cerrito-Community-Center-18 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/poetryandplace.elcerrito/ \n\n\n\n\nLiterature\nKid Friendly\nPoetry\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare In Messenger \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdd a message…\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecent Posts \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito — Rafael Jesús González\, Prof. Emeritus of literature and creative writing\, was born and raised biculturally/bilingually in El Paso\, Texas/Cd. Juárez\, C… \nMarch 14 at 8:48am\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nMimi Heft — Wow\, this is going to be amazing!!! \nMarch 3 at 12:19pm\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito — Poet Laureate of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor is also a scriptwriter and author. His first book\, Tap-Root\, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Edito… \nFebruary 26\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\nSee All Posts\n\n\n\nFeaturing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito\nCommunity\n\nWelcome to my events & announcements page for literary & art events taking place in El Cerrito. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry Flash\nArts & Entertainment · Berkeley\, California\nFounded in 1972\, Poetry Flash magazine builds community through literature through its online review and events.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4 posts in the discussion.\n\nSee Discussion
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-poetry-place-el-cerrito/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Community Center\, 7007 Moeser Lane\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher DeLorenzo discusses his celebration of cooking\, KITCHEN INHERITANCE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Christopher DeLorenzo to the store to discuss his part-memoir\, part-cookbook\, Kitchen Inheritance: Memories and Recipes from My Family of Cooks\, on Sunday\, May 20th at 3pm. This collection of narratives and recipes tells a non-traditional coming of age story. Christopher’s is the story of a man on a journey\, which ultimately leads him to see himself as part of a large and growing family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-delorenzo-discusses-his-celebration-of-cooking-kitchen-inheritance/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Join Mrs. Dalloway’s and the Mediterranean Garden Society for a talk and signing by Jason Dewee’s on his just released book\, Designing with Palms (photography by Caitlin Atkinson). \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Designing with Palms by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 20\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this comprehensive guide\, Dewees shares the many ways palms can transform courtyards\, gardens and landscapes. Detailing the most important species and highlighted by striking photography\, Designing with Palms imparts vital advice on making the most of these statement-making plants. \n“Contains virtually everything you need to know about these plants and their usage in gardens. This is the go-to book.”– Raymond Jungles\, landscape architect \nJason Dewees is the staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-dewees/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Daegan Miller discusses THIS RADICAL LAND
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Daegan Miller to the store to discuss his book\, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent\, on Tuesday\, May 22nd at 7pm.  Joining him in conversation this evening is our very own Brad Johnson. \n“It’s hard to feel hopeful about the future of the United States\, given its ruinous past and present. But occasionally\, the present will surprise you (e.g.\, kids leading the contemporary struggle against gun violence). Sometimes\, too\, as explored in Daegan Miller’s spirited new book the past will too. His book will give you loads more to read about such past(s) … which might even lend room yet for some hope. — Brad Johnson \n“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness\, draining swamps\, straightening rivers\, peopling the solitude\, and subduing nature\,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably\, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will\, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. \nBut if you know where to look\, you can uncover a different history\, one of vibrant resistance\, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written\, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers\, settlers\, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom\, justice\, and progress in the very landscapes around them\, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau\, the expert surveyor\, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages\, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener\, freer future. At every turn\, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent–drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice\, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. \nWorking in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit\, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past–and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future. \nAbout the Author \nDaegan Miller has taught at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and his writing has appeared in a variety of venues\, from academic journals to literary magazines. His research has received funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation\, the Social Science Research Council\, the American Antiquarian Society\,  the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice)\,  and Cornell University\, and I’ve won awards from Cornell\, the Southern American Studies Association\, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society\, and the Forest History Society. This Radical Land is his first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daegan-miller-discusses-this-radical-land/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and prose: apples and oranges? Decide for yourself at Perfectly Queer East Bay “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose” Wednesday\, May 23\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland. Poets Vernon Keeve III & Luiza Flynn-Goodlett and novelists Dale Chase & Hilary Zaid all read new work. Author signing follows. Free\, tasty refreshments! Thematic door prizes at 7pm. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia-born writer that California molded into an educator. He lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from California College of the Arts\, and a Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press\, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast\, Granta\, Quarterly West\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor for Foglifter Press and lives in sunny Oakland\, California. \nDale Chase has been writing gay men’s erotica for 20 years. To date nearly 200 of her stories have been published in magazines\, anthologies\, and collections. The Great Man is her third novel. Her first\, Wyatt: Doc Holliday’s Account of an Intimate Friendship\, was published in 2012\, her second Takedown: Taming John Wesley Hardin\, in 2013. Hot Copy: Classic Gay Erotica from the Magazine Era\, a collection of Dale’s stories written for the magazines over a decade ago\, was published in 2015. More at www.dalechase.com \nHilary Zaid is a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online\, including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and works as a freelance editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release / Bad Luck of the Draw Club
DESCRIPTION:details TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-bad-luck-of-the-draw-club/
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:Geoffrey G. O'Brien\, Jane Gregory\, and Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & 2 senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions & Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was published by Spoilsport Editions – an online press she started with the writer Oki Sogumi – in 2017. Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, Fall 2018) is her first full-length book of poetry. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nJane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of My Enemies (Song Cave\, 2013) and Yeah No (Song Cave\, 2018)\, and co-co-editor of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press. \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien’s next book\, Experience in Groups\, will be out from Wave Books in April 2018. He is the author most recently of People on Sunday (Wave\, 2013) and the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets(Minus A Press\, 2012). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoffrey-g-obrien-jane-gregory-and-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kim Malcolm presents A COUNTRY WITHIN
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Kim Malcolm to the store to discuss her book\, A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece\, on Thursday\, May 24th at 7pm.  \nA Country Within shares a professional woman’s life-changing journey to Greece to work with refugees arriving from the Middle East and Asia. The story begins on the island of Lesvos where overloaded boats of refugees landed on local beaches\, and moves to Athens where the author unexpectedly becomes a member of a family of refugees from four countries. \nThis timely portrayal describes the effects of geopolitics on people escaping war\, the generosity of the people of Lesvos and how love transcends culture\, religion and experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-malcolm-presents-a-country-within/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Jane Mead and Carol Muske-Dukes
DESCRIPTION:Jane Mead’s new book of poems is World of Made and Unmade. C.D. Wright said\, “As the laundry room floods and the grape harvest gets done; as Michoacán waits for another time\, her beautiful\, practical mother is dying. Ashes are scattered in the pecan groves of her own Rincon\, her own corner of the world\, and the poet\, in elementary script\, draws a sustaining record of the only feeling worth the struggle.…” She’s authored four previous collections\, most recently Money\, Money\, Money | Water\, Water\, Water\, and her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers Award\, and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. \nCarol Muske-Dukes’s new book of poems is Blue Rose. Linda Gregerson says\, “Scathing intelligence and an open heart: the most difficult combination in the world\, and bountifully manifest on every page. In the birth room\, at the death bed\, beneath the falling ash of a California wildfire\, before the whole\, hurt spectacle of an imperiled and beloved world\, these poems remind us what it’s truly like to see and feel.” Author of eight poetry collections\, including Sparrow\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, she’s also published four novels\, two collections of essays\, and co-edited Crossing State Lines: An American Renga with Bob Holman. She was California Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2011.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-jane-mead-and-carol-muske-dukes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ted Scheinman
DESCRIPTION:reads from Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan\, a raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations\, tailored gowns\, and tipsy ballroom dancing. \n“A treat for any Jane Austen fan . . . a fascinating window into a man’s experience in a largely female world. Scheinman is a wonderful guide to the world of Austen\, and this honest and thoughtful discussion of the role Austen’s works have played in his family will delight any Janeite.” —Booklist \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Camp Austen by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar\, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding\, singing in an Anglican choir\, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind\, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp\, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. \nWhile the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster\, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen\, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother’s influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations\, undaunted scholars in cravats\, and unseemly petticoat fittings. \nIn a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights\, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir\, academic savvy with insider knowledge\, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings\, culinary etiquette\, and scandalous dance partners\, this is summer camp as you’ve never seen it before. \nTed Scheinman is a writer and scholar based in Southern California\, where he works as a senior editor at Pacific Standard magazine. He has taught courses on journalism\, satire\, and poetry at the University of North Carolina and has written for The New York Times\, the Oxford American\, Playboy\, Slate\, and many other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ted-scheinman/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd annual Bay Area Queer Zine Fest is coming back September 9! What better way to get people pumped about zines than to have a reading. We’re partnering with our dear friends at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore to bring you a night of zine magic. \nInterested in reading? Email baqzfest@gmail.com \n** ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION FORTHCOMING ** \n#BAQZF2018 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/450401675397832/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-queer-zine-fest-fundraiser/
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:MARY Journal Release Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, May 26th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! Join us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland for a night of celebration and literary readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-journal-release-reading/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Cotton Candy by Jeremy Fernando
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Jeremy Fernando’s full-length poetry collection\, Cotton Candy! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the star of the evening\, Jeremy Fernando. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($12 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-cotton-candy-by-jeremy-fernando/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Salty" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Is it summer yet? At SNS we’re feeling SALTY and we’re ready to sweat\, so bring us your sexiest\, SALTIEST\, summer stories\, poems\, songs\, stand-up\, (whatever) on our theme: \nSALT·Y\nof language or humor: down-to-earth; coarse. \nsynonyms: earthy\, colorful\, spicy\, racy\, risqué\, naughty\, vulgar\, rude;\ninformal: tough; aggressive. \nUrban Dictionary: The act of being upset\, angry\, or bitter as result of being made fun of or embarrassed. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\n\nOur featured readers for May are Christine No & Melissa Stein\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\, May 26\, 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 \nChristine No is a Korean American writer\, filmmaker and native Los Angelino. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two time Pushcart Prize Nominee and Best of the Net 2017 Nominee. You can find her work in: The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas And Alice\, and various anthologies. Christine is the Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus and a contributing writer at Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. She also sits on the Board of Quiet Lightning\, a Bay Area based literary organization. She looks good on paper; but\, she spills a lot. Like a baby. She lives in Oakland with a pit bull named Brandy. Say hi\, here: christineno.com​ \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, 2018) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received fellowships from the NEA\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, and the MacDowell Colony. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-salty-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maji: An Afro Futurist Community Newspaper Launch Party
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/maji-an-afro-futurist-community-newspaper-launch-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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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 TBD and music by TBD. \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-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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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-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:MICHAEL POLLAN presents HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: ​What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us ​About Consciousness\, Dying\, Addiction\, Depression\, ​and Transcendence
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, June 4\, 2018\, 7pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\nTickets available now! \n​When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression\, addiction and anxiety\, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life\, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness\, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s\, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. \nA unique and elegant blend of science\, memoir\, travel writing\, history\, and medicine\, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying\, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind\, the self\, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan’s “mental travelogue” is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how\, in a world that offers us both struggle and beauty\, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives. \n–​\nMichael Pollan is the author of seven previous books\, including Cooked\, Food Rules\, In Defense of Food\, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire\, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine\, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California\, Berkeley. In 2010\, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. \nPlease note: \nEach ticket includes one copy of How to Change Your Mind. Signing and additional details coming soon. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-pollan-presents-how-to-change-your-mind-%e2%80%8bwhat-the-new-science-of-psychedelics-teaches-us-%e2%80%8babout-consciousness-dying-addiction-depression-%e2%80%8band-transcendence/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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