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SUMMARY:TELEGRAPH OPEN MIC (FEATURES: TBD AND TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month’s show features TBD and TBD! Music by TBD! \nTelegraph Open Mic takes place every fourth Friday from 7-9:00 PM at our Uptown location. It will have six open-mic slots open to the public. Spots are filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis and the list opens at 7:00 PM sharp. As is the case with our musicians and features at all events\, open-mic readers from the community will be held to the Nomadic Press Safe Space Statement. Please see below. \nSafe Space Statement \nNomadic Press events are safe spaces for those who have been silenced and marginalized. There is no room for racism\, misogyny\, homophobia\, or transphobia whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. We will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone if we feel they have violated these guidelines\, and we encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. We are a community\, and we will work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nCome early to sign up for the open mic and share your latest work! Curated and emceed by Rene Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. 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/telegraph-open-mic-features-tbd-and-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Shane Bauer: American Prison
DESCRIPTION:Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting\, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting\, Atlantic Media’s Michael Kelly Award\, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism\, and at least 20 others. Bauer is the co-author\, along with Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal\, of a memoir\, A Sliver of Light\, which details his time spent as a prisoner in Iran. \nABOUT AMERICAN PRISON \nIn 2014\, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield\, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist\, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later\, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough\, and in short order he wrote an expose about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still\, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison\, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For\, as he soon realized\, we can’t understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery\, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. \nThe private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates\, or to feed them well\, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight\, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison’s sense of chaos. To his horror\, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison\, and he is far from alone. \nA blistering indictment of the private prison system\, and the powerful forces that drive it\, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shane-bauer-american-prison/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 TELEGRAPH AVE\, BERKELEY\, CA\, 94704-2322\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181002T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181002T203000
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181002T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181002T213000
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 2\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nSolano Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181003T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181003T210000
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SUMMARY:Hot New Books
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Kathleen McClung\, Casandra Dallett\, Mary Mackay\, Ingrid Keir. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-new-books-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T121000
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SUMMARY:Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Fady Joudah’s fourth and most recent poetry collection is Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He is the recipient of a Yale Younger Poets prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Lannan Residency\, and the Griffin International Poetry prize. He is the translator of several volumes of Arabic poetry into English. He is also a practicing physician of internal medicine in Houston\, TX.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fady-joudah-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181005T080000
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Fall 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Fall 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/MarySubmissionForm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-3/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181005T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181005T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T020256
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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: A Back To School Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a family friendly night of live music\, storytelling\, art making and community! \nCome get down with the GRAMMY nominated Oakland based children’s music group Alphabet Rockers who make learning come alive with the beats\, rhymes\, dance moves\, and community of hip hop. \nListen to local children’s book author Tiffany Golden take us on a journey with Midnight\, Keeper of Dreams and Protector of Children in the mystical land of Shina\, as she reads from her Midnight Stories Series. \nGet inspired by Spotlight:Girls\, a program where girls learn how to be bold and brave by making theater\, art\, music and media. \nFeaturing: \nAlphabet Rockers – http://alphabetrockers.com \nSpotlight:Girls – a women-owned organization with a mission to educate\, inspire\, and activate girls to take center stage\, https://spotlightgirls.com \nTiffany Golden – storyteller and author of Midnight Stories Series www.midnightstoryseries.net \nKaia Marbin – Youth Activist\nhttps://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/How-one-child-s-view-on-immigration-can-help-in-13041715.php \nThis event is family friendly and welcomes all families\, teachers\, educators\, youth workers and community members! \nIn The Space: \n• Delicious food available from Two Mamacitas Pop Up Kitchen\n• Fresh music jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX\n• Interactive art and book making activities\n• Live illustration booth with Allah El Henson!\n• Local children’s books for sale \nSchedule: \n6-6:30pm – interactive arts activities\, live illustration booth and food available from Two Mamacitas \n6:30-7:30pm – performances start promptly at 6:30pm \n7:30-8:30pm – DJ XCAIROCITOSX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-a-back-to-school-celebration/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181005T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181005T210000
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee -- RAIL
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 5\n7:00pm\n\nMORE INFO TO COME \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, October 5\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee-rail-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181007T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181007T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash - featuring Terese Svoboda
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 7\n3:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday\, October 7th at 3pm. Terese Svoboda will be discussing her book Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet. \nAuthor\, poet\, and memoirist Svoboda takes the reader on a fascinating journey from Ridge’s childhood as a newly arrived Irish immigrant in the grim mining towns of New Zealand\, to her years as a budding writer in Sydney\, Australia\, to her migration to America and the cities of San Francisco\, Chicago\, and New York. Once considered one of the most popular poets of her day\, Ridge later fell out of critical favor due to verse that looked head on at the major issues of her time. This lively portrait is a who’s who of all the key players in the arts\, literature\, and radical politics of the time\, in which Lola Ridge stood front and center. Now more than ever this biography offers inspiration to all those engaged in dissenting literature of our time and the movements that have inspired this renaissance of literary activism that we are seeing today. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, October 7\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-featuring-terese-svoboda/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181008T190000
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers book group discuss MANHATTAN BEACH
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Manhattan Beach\, by Jennifer Egan\, on Monday October 8th at 7pm. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \n  \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, October 8\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-discuss-manhattan-beach/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T213000
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SUMMARY:John Carreyrou presents BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
DESCRIPTION:The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos\, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup\, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end\, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. \nIn 2014\, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper\, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion\, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. \nA riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron\, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. \n— \nJohn Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. For his extensive coverage of Theranos\, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting\, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting\, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children. \nPlease note: \nDuration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning 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/john-carreyrou-presents-bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-in-a-silicon-valley-startup/
LOCATION:The Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T213000
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SUMMARY:Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. \nIn China\, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast\, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle\, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class. \nThe book\, Striking to Survive is written by a young worker activist in Guangzhou. It is a uniquely fine-grained account of a pivotal strike that took place in 2013. Led by an unusually adept worker\, Wu Guijun\, the book is an interlocking set of oral history narratives that bring one into the lived experience of the workers. Wu Guijun was arrested and served more than a year in prison\, and was the focus of this New York Times produced video\, which gives some sense of him\, and the environment in which he works. \n— \nFan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical\, Factory Stories\, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China\, documenting their lives\, work\, and struggles.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fan-shigang-discusses-striking-to-survive-workers-resistance-to-factory-relocations-in-china/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181010T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T143000
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SUMMARY:How To Read A Poem
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 10\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nUsing a short selection from Matthew Zapruder’s book Why Poetry\, two distinguished Saint Mary’s poets share strategies for unpacking poems in Seminar. Participants will practice these strategies by exploring selected poems in conversation with their peers. \nWith Brenda Hillman & Matthew Zapruder
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-read-a-poem/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T020256
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T220104Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake 2018
DESCRIPTION:Full schedule is here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-2018/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T020256
CREATED:20180830T225433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180830T225433Z
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SUMMARY:Katya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 11\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nKatya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. \n“Exiled” traces the story of violence through three generations of Cambodian-Americans by profiling a handful of families. It begins with the grandparents\, the elderly who will soon be too old to tell their stories of survival. The violence they endured is recognized as the most brutal\, a genocide that killed an estimated 20 percent of the Cambodian population. In Cambodia\, the criminals have never fully been brought to justice and the victims remain largely silent. The silence is the same in the United States\, where survivors have tried to leave their memories of random killing behind. But trauma like that cannot be escaped so easily\, and it followed them\, seeping back into their families through their children. The guidance\, support and care they were often too traumatized to give their children left those same children vulnerable to gang recruitment. The second generation came of age amidst the violence of the past and the present. \nThe U.S. deported the criminals who did not hold citizenship\, sending them back to a homeland their parents had given up everything to escape. They had neither the practical nor emotional skills to cope and their home country offered little help. In Cambodia they succumb to addiction and mental illness in large numbers. Then there is the third generation\, the children\, the ones still in America growing up without fathers and mothers\, subjected to the violence of loss and longing. This is a story about how regimes as brutal as the Khmer Rouge and as benign as the United States have kept alive a legacy of violence and loss. There are no easy answers here\, just the words of survivors and their descendants.\nKatya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo\, California\, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University\, San Luis Obispo. She was a features and news writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal from 2003 to 2011 and has reported from North and Central America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, Marie Claire\, and Newsweek. She is the author of Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska\, 2012).  \nPraise \n“A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century—the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities\, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees\, political asylum\, cultural assimilation\, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate\, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book.”—Melvin Claxton\, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist \n“Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel’s painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats.”—Elizabeth Becker\, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution \n“An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees’ plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled\, you can’t help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens.”—Jennifer Lau\, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge \n“A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-American families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations\, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved.”—Helen Thorpe\, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge\, Friendship\, and Hope in an American Classroom \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 11\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katya-cengel-discusses-exiled-from-the-killing-fields-of-cambodia-to-california-and-back/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cary McClelland & Richard Walker: The Dark Shadow of Tech on Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents \n“The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area”\nAn amazingly timely discussion by experts:\nCary McClelland\, author of “Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley\n+\nRichard A. Walker. author of “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and The Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area \nHosted by Sasha Lilley \nwheelchair access advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit\, more info: www.kpfa.org/events \nCary McClelland is a writer\, filmmaker\, lawyer\, and rights advocate. His book is an eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. Famously home to artists and activists\, the birthplace of the Beats\, the Black Panthers\, and the LGBTQ movement-in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes. Cracks in the city’s facade-rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions-have started to appear. Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change\, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters\, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. We hear from people who have passed through Apple\, Google\, eBay\, Intel\, and the other big tech companies of our time. We meet those who are experiencing changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury\, an Oakland rapper\, a pawnbroker in the Mission\, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge\, and many fascinating others. \nRichard A. Walker is professor emeritus of geography at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has written on a diverse range of topics in economic\, urban\, and environmental geography. \nSasha Lilley is the host of KPFA’s critically acclaimed program of radical ideas\, Against the Grain.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-mcclelland-richard-walker-the-dark-shadow-of-tech-on-bay-area/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant Presents: Jair
DESCRIPTION:Jair “TLM” reads his poems\, followed by an interview and discussion with Glenn Ingersoll\, the host of the Clearly Meant series. \nJair “The Literary Masturbator” is a poet\, spoken word artist\, arts curator\, and activist. His books are Collage: An Assemblage of Divergent Poetry Juxtaposed and Touch: Poems & Other Writings of Love\, Erotica\, & Sensuality. His work has been included in anthologies and magazines\, from Mighty Real to Black Gay Genius. Jair performs on radio and television and coordinates spoken word events. Jair is a Libra\, and he loves the Lakers. \nA free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-jair/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Jair\, the Literary Masturbator
DESCRIPTION:Jair “TLM” reads his poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. Jair “The Literary Masturbator” is a poet\, spoken word artist\, arts curator\, and activist. His books are Collage: An Assemblage of Divergent Poetry Juxtaposed and Touch: Poems & Other Writings of Love\, Erotica\, & Sensuality. His work has been included in anthologies and magazines\, from Mighty Real to Black Gay Genius. Jair performs on radio and television and coordinates spoken word events. Jair is a Libra\, and he loves the Lakers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-jair-the-literary-masturbator/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hope Ewing -- MOVERS AND SHAKERS
DESCRIPTION:MORE INFO TO COME \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 16\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hope-ewing-movers-and-shakers/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:DD Guttenplan & Michael Lerner: Next Republic: Rise of New Majority
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents \nD.D. Guttenplan & Michael Lerner\nThe Next Republic: The Rise of a Radical New Majority \nwheelchair access advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\nCo-sponsored by St. John’s Presbyterian Church \nExactly who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent D.D. Guttenplan’s The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging history of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America. Here you’ll meet some of the individuals who are changing the course of American history – such as new labor activist Jane McAlevey\, racial justice campaigner Chokwe Antar Lumumba\, environmental activist Jane Kleeb\, Sanders’ campaign veterans Zack Exley\, Waleed Shahid and Corbin Trent\, as well as anti-corruption crusader Zephyr Teachout. \n“It’s high time that someone resurrected authentic ‘populism’ – activism from below\, and showed how it can be the path to a better future. That’s done very convincingly in D.D. Guttenplan’s fine book\, The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.” -Noam Chomsky \nD.D. Guttenplan\, London correspondent for The Nation\, is the author of The Holocaust on Trial\, a book about the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt libel case. In 2009 Guttenplan completed a biography of I. F. Stone titled American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone. \nMichael Lerner is an American political activist\, the editor of Tikkun\, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine\, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley. He is the author of Numerous books including Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (with Cornel West)\, and The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country From the Religious Right.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dd-guttenplan-michael-lerner-next-republic-rise-of-new-majority/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T210000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations Show #62
DESCRIPTION:A literary salon featuring curated works of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-show-62/
LOCATION:Joyce Gordon Gallery\, 406 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 17\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & 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 and Sharon Coleman. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 17\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-8/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S Tom Pickard
DESCRIPTION:Tom Pickard \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-tom-pickard/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Erica Dawson -- WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 18\n7:00pm\n\nMORE INFO TO COME \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-dawson-when-rap-spoke-straight-to-god/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alice Walker:Taking the Arrow Out Of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present \nALICE WALKER\nTaking the Arrow Out Of the Heart\nHosted by Nina Serrano \nTickets: $12\, Marcus Books\, Pegasus Books (3 stores)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs. Dalloway’s\, $15 door\, Benefit KPFA \nAlice Walker\, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel\, The Color Purple\, now offers us seventy poems ranging from personal self-inquiry into the liberating world of activism\, love\, hope and gratitude. \nWhether she’s urging us to preserve this earthly paradise or to simply behold the necessity of beauty to the spirit\, Alice constantly encourages us to honor the divine that lives within each of us. She is a revolutionary poet\, as always bearing witness to our troubled times\, yet revealing the solid grounds for inspiration and hope. \nTaking the Arrow Out Of the Heart is bilingual\, with opposing pages in English and Spanish expressing the author’s love of both people and both cultures\, drawing them closer together rather than following the president’s terrible example of forcing us apart. \nA prolific writer in many genres\, Alice Walker has become a canonical figure in American letters and a beloved activist internationally. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages around the world\, and have sold more than fifteen million copies. Her fiction titles The Color Purple\, The Temple of My Familiar\, Meridian\, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart\, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. Her non-fiction: In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens\, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For\, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. Her poetry titles are Revolutionary Petunias\, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing\, and The World Will Follow Joy. \nNina Serrano is an American poet\, writer\, storyteller\, and independent media producer. She is a veteran producer on KPFA (94.1 FM)\, currently hosting La Raza Chronicles on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-walkertaking-the-arrow-out-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation and Panel with Irish Poets
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOne of the most politically charged acts a people can do is read and write for themselves. Visiting Irish writers\, including Leanne O’Sullivan\, will share one poem and their ruminations on a panel that explores the displays of power and violence in myth and beyond it.  In this conversation\, O’Sullivan will explicitly respond to selections from Hannah Arendt’s essay “On Violence” in her work and in her reading of the contemporary moment.  Conversation facilitated by Rosemary Graham. \n  \nLeanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983\, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English in 2006 from University College\, Cork\, where she now teaches. The winner of several of Ireland’s poetry competitions in her early 20s (including the Seacat\, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam)\, she has published four collections\, all from Bloodaxe\, Waiting for My Clothes (2004)\, Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009)\, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010\, The Mining Road (2013) and A Quarter of an Hour (2018). She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011\, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies\, including Selina Guinness’s The New Irish Poets(Bloodaxe Books\, 2004) and Billy Collins’s Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry(Random House\, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France\, India\, China and America\, amongst other locations. \n  \nSponsored by: Collegiate Seminar and the Informal Seminar Seminar Curriculum\, January Term\, the College Committee on Inclusive Excellence\, Ó Bhéal (Cork\, Ireland)\, the Cork Arts Council\, the Kalmanovitz School of Education\, The English Department\, the MFA in Creative Writing\, and the Los Gatos Irish Writers Festival
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-and-panel-with-irish-poets/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series Welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 24\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, educator\, and movement worker. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His poetry has been published in Harper’s and the New York Times magazines.  His book titled\, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize\, won a California Book Award\, and won an American Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-welcomes-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday October 25\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \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 and Marcus Books Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-and-tongo-eisen-martin-reading-their-work/
LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Betsy Mason presents All Over the Map
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nBetsy Masons presents All Over the Map: A Cartographic Oddysey.  \nCreated for map lovers by map lovers\, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. \n\n\nABOUT ALL OVER THE MAP \nIn this visually stunning book\, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller–authors of the National Geographic cartography blog “All Over the Map”–explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures\, civilizations\, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers\, curators\, historians\, and scholars\, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps. \nThis diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas\, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space\, devious maps created by spies\, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps–and Mason and Miller would say it does\, whether you know it or not–this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.\nBetsy Mason is a freelance science journalist and former geologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for 2015-16. Before that Mason was the online science editor for Wired\, where she founded the Wired Science Blogs Network and co-authored the Map Lab blog with Greg Miller. She and Miller also co-author the National Geographic blog All Over the Map (see older posts here and follow the blog on Twitter here). \nWhen she’s not writing about maps\, Mason covers science and makes excuses to write about beer. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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