BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20150101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160603T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104352
CREATED:20160527T010939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T010939Z
UID:22071-1464976800-1464984000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening as we showcase new work from the students of the famed San Francisco Grotto Writing Program. On consecutive Friday evenings fiction and nonfiction writers from Grotto classes will read their work—but only for 3 minutes each. Their instructors (Writers Grotto authors) will be enforcing the time limit! Join us for some wine\, fun\, and a lot of fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-3-minute-reads/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160603T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104352
CREATED:20160602T012628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160602T012628Z
UID:22234-1464980400-1464984000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Oakland First Fridays with Fantastic Negrito
DESCRIPTION:Join us at this amazing Oakland First Fridays event as Nomadic Press presents a host of amazing Bay Area writers prior to a performance by the phenomenal Fantastic Negrito as they launch their newest album\, Last Days of Oakland. \nThe lineup: Arisa White\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Kwan Booth\, Cassandra Dallett\, Freddy Gutierrez\, Mk Chavez\, Paul S. Flores\, and two of the Oakland Youth Poet Laureates\, Tova Ricardo\, this year’s Youth Poet Laureate\, and Emma Talamantes\, one of the 2016 finalists. Music by the wonderful Hip Hop for Change! \nEvent details: \nMain FB event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/1015349905221447/ \nWe are thrilled and honored to announce that Fantastic Negrito will be performing to celebrate the launch of their upcoming album\, The Last Days of Oakland\, at our June First Friday street festival. \nFantastic Negrito will be playing a full set at the dusk of dawn (around 8:15). \nPrior to the performance\, the evening will feature Zakiya Harris and interactive art by 1AM SF and spoken word by Nomadic Press (featuring Oakland Youth Poet Laureattes)\, and more! \nMuch of the art and performances will be themed around the title of Fantasic Negrito’s album: THE LAST DAYS OF OAKLAND \nIt means something to be from Oakland. The tiny city that birthed the Hells Angels\, the first sports team in black\, and America’s oldest street dance has always been ground zero for counter culture. It is a place where violent crime\, art\, and swagger converge. It has always been diverse. It has always understood that danger and edge are critical ingredients for art and culture. \nBut Oakland is changing. As its neighbors\, San Francisco and Silicon Valley\, spill over with money\, the economy in Oakland is soaring. Young entrepreneurs and aspiring artists are attracted by the city’s perceived “renaissance.” Oakland is becoming whiter and safer. Now Oakland is ground zero for the national discussion on gentrification. \nFantastic Negrito is an artist who bridges Oakland’s future with its legendary past. He is a wounded veteran of the city once claimed by Black Panthers and hustlers. He is a vital voice in what the New York Times called “the hottest city in America.” His album\, The Last Days of Oakland\, is about the fallout and rebirth that comes in the wake of a seismic shift. It is intensely relevant — the way his city has always been. \nCome out to join the conversation about the changing landscape of our beautiful city. It’s going to take all of us to perserve our city’s diverse personality\, culture\, and richness. Let’s do this. Together. \nABOUT FANTASTIC NEGRITO \nXavier Dphrepaulezz hailed from an orthodox Muslim household as a child. After relocating from rural Massachusetts to Oakland as a teenager in the 1980s\, he quickly moved from strict religion to the music of Funkadelic; by the age of 20 he taught himself to play just about every instrument he came across\, and in the `90s\, he signed a multi-million dollar deal with Interscope Records performing under his first name Xavier. Dphrepaulezz’s life changed drastically when he was involved in a near death car accident resulting in a three-week coma\, followed by intensive physical rehabilitation with his guitar playing hand permanently incapacitated. After a five-year hiatus\, Dphrepaulezz created Fantastic Negrito. Inspired by all American music\, most especially Delta bluesmen such as R.L Burnside and Skip James\, he sought to modernize his compositions by sampling and looping his own live recordings. He told NPR that the name is “a celebration of blackness. The ‘Fantastic’ is self-explanatory; the ‘Negrito’ is a way to open blackness up to everyone\, making it playful and international.” \nUpon winning NPR’s inaugural Tiny Desk Concert Contest\, Fantastic Negrito quickly won over critics with 2015’s self-titled EP. Consequence of Sound wrote of the record “Dphrepaulezz sings like a man compelled by a spiritual force…[his] voice is impassioned\, somewhere between a croon and a scream\,” and the Washington Post praised the EP’s “raw vocals and self-assessing lyrics.” The San Francisco Chronicle noted that “almost overnight\, the singer-songwriter became an international sensation.” \nFind our more about the band at http://www.fantasticnegrito.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-oakland-first-fridays-with-fantastic-negrito/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160603T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104352
CREATED:20160527T010448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T010448Z
UID:22069-1464980400-1464987600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\n \nFirst Friday: Naked Truth\nSit back\, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories\, raw and without notes. Our amazing line-up of talented storytellers will have carte blanche to choose their favorite\, go-to\, killer stories—no constraints of a theme!  Some of your favorite storytellers will be back to share some of their favorite stories\, including Matteson Perry\, Doug Cordell\, & Josh Healey.\n\nWhat is First Friday?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience: \nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-naked-truth/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160603T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104352
CREATED:20160527T010730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T010730Z
UID:22070-1464982200-1464989400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Hamel\, Lau\, + Caples
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, June 3rd @ 7:30 pm for a reading w. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, David Lau and Garrett Caples! \nEvent is FREE. \nWine\, Lagunitas beer and snacks will be served. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\,jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\,occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nDavid Lau‘s poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review\, The American Reader\, Armed Cell\, New Orleans Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and New Left Review). His first book of poetry\, Virgil and the Mountain Cat\, was described by the Believer as “simultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather\, trapped by—the present.” Commune Editions will publish his second book this August; Still Dirty finds its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In 2009\, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbookBad Opposites (2012). With Cal Bedient\, he edits the journal Lana Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz\, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College. \nGarrett Caples is the author of the forthcoming Power Ballads(Wave\, 2016)\, as well as earlier poetry collections The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle\, 1999) and Complications (Meritage\, 2007).  He wrote the essay book Retrievals (Wave\, 2014)\, and co-editedIncidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights\, 2016) and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia(California\, 2013).  He curates the Spotlight Poetry Series for City Lights.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamel-lau-caples/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR