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SUMMARY:Daphne Evans
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Beauty: A Warrior’s Story is a book of triumph\, love\, tears and laughter – with a shot of “Divatude”. \nDaphne Evans is Founder and CEO of Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, starting in 2005 after coming home from a double mastectomy. She has also been diagnosed and has survived ovarian cancer in 1998 and metastatic spinal carcinoma in 2009; she has been cancer free since 2010. Daphne has visited hospitals to be with her sisters and has placed cancer patients from the hospital in national magazine photo shoots and fashion runways in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sending thousands of women to spas across the country since 2005 and having girls come with stiletto shoes to take selfies before being wheeled into surgery\, her mantra is “We will NOT be defined by our diagnosis.” \nDaphne is still a Firm Administrator and Controller Consultant to law firms and eCommerce corporations and has been for nearly 20 years. She is also a fundraiser\, public speaker and philanthropist. Nominated for Woman of the Year by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Member of Ovarian Cancer Research Fund\, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance\, The Canary Foundation\, Italian Make A Wish Foundation and Society for Oncology Massage. Board of Directors Member of Springfield Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Founder of Evans Relief Foundation. Daphne is also an ordained minister\, feeling it necessary to be with “her girls” from before surgery and in recovery. \nDaphne’s parents\, Reverend Donald and Mrs. Ida Evans have been her inspiration. Her parents taught her that to help others was a ministry that was not passé. With this shining example and encouragement\, Daphne began to volunteer at an early age to care for cancer patients\, sometimes staying for weekends to relieve the overtaxed caregivers. She visited Nicaragua after the Sandinista regime and had trucks bring clothing over the bombed out roads for the villagers while she flew in by a Russian parachute plane. She started Evans Relief Foundation and has hosted clothing drives in San Francisco during the tsunami; finding pilots of private planes to fly the supplies to the victims there. She also found jobs for young professionals stranded by Katrina and paid out of pocket to fly them to their new job locations; opening her vacant home to stranded Joplin\, MO tornado refugees. Daphne became a member of the Italian Make-A-Wish Foundation and would visit Genoa and speak directly to the children\, encouraging hotels to offer free accommodation for the children and their parents. In 2008\, she was nominated as San Francisco’s Woman of the year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; devoting 3 months in marathon fundraising. She could never have had the courage or the tenacity to do any of this without her parents showing her that “it is\nmore blessed to give than to receive.” \nAll proceeds from this book go towards the purchase Heaven’s Door’s Vacation Home located in Tarpon Springs\, FL for women with cancer to have a time away with a loved one. This home will be replete with spa therapy\, organic catering restaurants and “Diva counseling” staff\, Daphne has promised to make this happen at the request of a number of the cancer divas who have benefited from this charity. She is working toward making this a dream come true. Donations toward this home can be made to: Heaven’s Door Cancer Foundation\, 727 Via Casitas\, Greenbrae\, CA 94904. Heaven’s Door is a 501 (c) 3 charity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daphne-evans/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:28 Kisses Chapbook Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Kim’s first chapbook\, 28 Kisses\, will be published by be about it press in February 2017. To celebrate\, Kimberly Kim is bringing some friends together for a special evening of poetry and fun. 28 Kisses is the perfect Valentine’s day gift for your person to kiss this holiday. \nWe will have copies of the chapbook for sale at the event\, as well as refreshments. Please stay tuned for more information. \nWe have two confirmed readers for the night so far: \nAdriane Tillman\nand\nIvy Johnson \nMore to be announced soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/28-kisses-chapbook-release-party/
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:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it! \n\nAbout I Don’t Even Own a Television \n\nI Don’t Even Own a Television is a podcast about bad books. Every two weeks\, hosts J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision get together to talk about a book you almost certainly should not read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bad-book-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:About the readers/performers: \nTom Tomorrow is the creator of the weekly political cartoon\, This Modern World\, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S.\, and on websites such as Daily Kos\, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Spin\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, The Economist\, The Nation\, U.S. News and World Report\, and The American Prospect\, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In 2011\, he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos. He has published nine anthologies of his work: Greetings From This Modern World\, Tune in Tomorrow\, The Wrath of Sparky\, Penguin Soup for the Soul\, When Penguins Attack\, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow\, Hell in a Handbasket\, The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look\, and Too Much Crazy. He is also the author of a book for children\, The Very Silly Mayor. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015. He was also the winner of the 2013 Herblock award\, a 2015 Society of Illustrators Silver Medal; the first place AAN award for cartooning in 2015\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. \nSarah Schulman’s latest book is Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Her recent novel The Cosmopolitans was picked as one of the “Best Books of 2016” by Publishers’ Weekly. Her other non-fiction publications include Israel/Palestine and the Queer International\, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination\, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences\, Stagestruck: Theater\, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America\, and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years. Her novels include The Mere Future\, The Child\, Shimmer\, Empathy\, Rat Bohemia\, People In Trouble\, After Delores\, Girls Visions and Everything\, and The Sophie Horowitz Story. Her plays include Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and the theatrical adaptation of Isaac Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story. Her screenplays include The Owls (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, Mommy is Coming (co-written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, and Jason and Shirley. She’s a co-producer of the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Nation\, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwrighting\, a Fullbright in Judaic Studies\, two American Library Association Book Awards\, and is the 2009 recipient of the Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York\, College of State Island\, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. \nSean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He’s the author of the books The Particle at the End of the Universe\, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time\, and Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation\, NASA\, the Sloan Foundation\, the Packard Foundation\, the American Physical Society\, the American Institute of Physics\, and the Royal Society of London. Carroll has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report\, PBS’s NOVA\, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman\, and frequently serves as a science consultant for film and television. \nJennifer Ouellette is the author of four popular science books for the general public: Me\, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self\, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight\, Win in Vegas\, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse\, The Physics of the Buffyverse\, and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics. She’s formerly the science editor at Gizmodo\, and also edited The Best Online Science Writing 2012. Jennifer’s work has appeared in the Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, Smithsonian\, Mental Floss\, Pacific Standard\, Discover\, Salon\, Nature\, BOOM\, Physics Today\, Symmetry\, Physics World\, and New Scientist\, among other venues. She maintains a personal science-and-culture blog called Cocktail Party Physics\, and has also written for Quanta\, Discovery News (2008-2012)\, NOVA’s Nature of Reality blog\, and Nautilus’ Facts So Romantic blog. Jennifer was the founding director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange. She was also a Journalist in Residence at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She’s also been an instructor at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop\, and was a journalist in residence at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison’s journalism school. \nAlia Volz hosted and produced the landmark reading series Literary Death Match – SF\, from 2010-12. She is also an LDM champion; her story “Near Unison” brought home the crown from Episode 42. She has been profiled in Dark Sky Magazine\, and SF Weekly\, and has been a guest on the television show Lady Brain. San Francisco’s Litquake Festival has recruited her to curate and/or host several high-profile events—sometimes in disguise; for the good of literature\, she’s taken the stage as Anaïs Nin\, Louise Brooks\, and even WWF World Champion Slick Ric Flair. In 2014\, Alia placed second at The MOTH’s San Francisco GrandSLAM Championship. She also received a 2014 award from SF Weekly for “Best San Francisco Writer Without a Book.” To rectify that situation\, she has recently completed her first novel\, HOOF\, a contemporary western set in urban San Francisco. Alia’s stories and essays are found in Tin House\, The New York Times\, Threepenny Review (forthcoming)\, New England Review (forthcoming)\, Utne Reader\, ZYZZYVA\, Huizache\, The Rumpus\, Narratively\, Nerve\, Literary Orphans\, The Normal School\, Covered w/ Fur\, Dark Sky Magazine\, Defenestration\, The Writing Disorder’s “Best Nonfiction of 2012” anthology\, and elsewhere.\nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-2/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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