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SUMMARY:Spring Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here. \nFull schedule of events coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Alana Apfel
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Alana Apfel to the store to discuss and sign Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities\, on Sunday\, April 17th at 3:00pm. Joining her in conversation will be Bay Area doula\, Jewel Buchanan-Boone and local birth activist\, Ariel Gore. \nBirth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more becomes political\, and birth workers\, supporters\, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process\, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change. At a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites\, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. Most importantly\, the contributors present new ways of thinking about the entire life cycle\, providing a unique and creative entry point into the essence of all human struggle the struggle over the reproduction of life itself. \nAlana Apfel is a birth worker\, writer\, and community gardener. She is a graduate of the Anthropology and Social Change program of the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a birth justice activist\, she has been involved with the San Francisco General Hospital Doula Program\, BirthWays community education center in Berkeley\, and the growing international BirthKeepers coalition. She now lives and works in Bristol\, UK\, where she is part of the Positive Birth Movement and is training to be a midwife in the National Health Service. Birth Work as Care Work is her first book. \nJewel Buchanan-Boone is a doula within the San Francisco Bay Area. Her philosophy and approach to birth work are rooted in her passion for social and reproductive justice. Jewel shares her experience of doula work from a public health perspective\, specifically addressing the need to break cycles of oppression within communities of color in relation to generational trauma and stigmas that surround Black motherhood. \nAriel Gore is a journalist\, memoirist\, novelist\, nonfiction author\, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama\, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama\, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers’ movement. Gore’s fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity\, spirituality\, queer culture\, and positive psychology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alana-apfel/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:As part of Poetry Month\, Pegasus Books and Poetry Flash present Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume \nDrew Dillhunt’s debut book of poems is Leaf is All\, which won the 2015 Bear Star Press Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Craig Santos Perez says\, “Through avant-garde\, documentary\, and eco-poetic modes\, Drew Dilhunt weaves the intimate themes of birth\, parenthood\, and family into the global contexts of plastic production and ecological collapse…Read these poems carefully because they are tenderly inscribed with fragmented origins and precarious futures.” Widely published in literary journals\, his writing has appeared in VOLT\, Mudlark\, Tarpaulin Sky\, and Jacket2. An earlier version of Leaf is All was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He’s released two albums of songs\, one with the band Fighting Shy\, and is currently a member of the Seattle-based band Answering Machines. He is Associate Editor of Hummingbird Press. \nAngela Hume’s debut book of poems is Middle Time. Joan Retallack asks\, “What happens when in a time of extreme crisis the action (poiesis) of a discerning mind creates not arguments or proposals\, but poetry?…Hume’s active generosity of material and imaginative space makes it possible to conjure myriad forms of life thriving in improbably unconsummated ruin.” She is the author of three poetry chapbooks; she’s also a critic whose essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Contemporary Literature\, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\, and Jacket2. She co-coordinated the first ever Conference on Ecopoetics in Berkeley in 2013 and co-curates Heart’s Desire\, the reading series of the Bay Area Public School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-drew-dillhunt-and-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Backyard #7: Death and Taxes
DESCRIPTION:(Follow signs to back gate. Do not knock on front door.) \nGate opens at 4:30\, readings commence at 5:00\, drowning of the sorrows to follow. \nReadings by:\nSarah Heady\nMatt Leibel\nTony Press\nNatalya Sukhonos\nVirgie Tovar \nSpring comes rolling around again\, with all its bright promises. But where there is life\, there must be death\, and where there is death\, there must be taxes (at least\, I think that’s how the estate tax works). In this edition of Backyard we will be confronting the inevitable\, the things that always happen\, no matter how much we fight or run or imagine it could be different this time around. We’ll talk about cycles\, returns\, and all the dependable-as-clockwork structures that make our lives tick (until\, of course\, they don’t). \nRevenue agent and/or grim reaper costumes encouraged. \nFree\, though donations of cash and beer will be accepted. \nReader Bios: \nPoet and essayist Sarah Heady writes on human geography\, American history\, and the built environment. She is the author of Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills\, 2013)\, winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award; Tatted Insertion (San Francisco State University\, 2014\, with artist Leah Virsik); and a manuscript\, Corduroy Road (finalist for the 2013 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Prize). Works-in-progress include Comfort\, a poetic meditation on female solitude\, agency\, and relationship set on the prairies of the American West; and the libretto for Unfinished: An Opera About Change\, in collaboration with new music composer Joshua Groffman\, who has previously adapted her texts for vocal and electroacoustic works. She lives in San Francisco and co-edits Drop Leaf Press\, a small women-run poetry outfit. More at sarahheady.com. \nMatt Leibel’s short fiction has appeared in Barcelona Review\, Quarterly West\, Wigleaf\, Juked\, and many other places. He has read/performed his writing on the radio\, in bars\, at yoga studios\, and inside a police station. Matt also publishes 75 word microstories thrice-weekly on his Facebook page. \nTony Press tries to pay attention. Sometimes he does. His book CROSSING THE LINES – Stories by Tony Press – appeared in January of 2016\, published by Big Table. Close to 100 of his stories and poems have appeared in print and online. Although he lives near San Francisco he has no website. \nNatalya Sukhonos was born in Odessa\, Ukraine and immigrated to New York City at the age of 9. She is bilingual in Russian and English and also speaks Spanish\, French\, and Portuguese. Natalya has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and teaches in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. A number of her poems are published online and in print. Natalya was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2015. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Ian and her daughter Naomi. \nVirgie Tovar is a fat\, Latina femme + author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press\, November 2012)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/backyard-7-death-and-taxes/
LOCATION:Backyard\, 917 Hearst Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Esme Wang + Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Esme Weijun Wang will discuss her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise. \nAbout The Border of Paradise: \nIn booming postwar Brooklyn\, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son\, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother\, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend\, Marianne\, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off\, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan\, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame the sharp-tongued\, intelligent Daisy. Returning to the United States\, the couple (and newborn son) buy an isolated country house in Northern California’s Polk Valley. As David’s health deteriorates\, he has a brief affair with Marianne\, producing a daughter.\nIt’s Daisy’s solution for the future of her two children\, inspired by the old Chinese tradition of raising girls as sisterly wives for adoptive brothers\, that exposes Daisy’s traumatic life\, and the terrible inheritance her children must receive. Framed by two suicide attempts\, “The Border of Paradise” is told from multiple perspectives\, culminating in heartrending fashion as the young heirs to the Nowak fortune confront their past and their isolation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-wang-amy-berkowitz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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