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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Butchertown Book Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:BUTCHERTOWN BOOK RELEASE PARTY: At Stookey’s Club Moderne \n“One Bad Weekend in One Bad Town . . . Butchertown.” \n“A darkly fascinating novel. Butchertown is incendiary”— David Corbett\, award-winning author of Mercy of the Night. \n“Burchfield rounds up a great cast of gangsters and gunsels to bat his wide-eyed hero around.”—Don Herron\, author of the Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs and The Dashiell Hammett Tour \n“A sexy\, violent non-stop thrill ride deep into the seedy underbelly of post-World War I San Francisco!” Critic’s Report\, The BookLife Prize\, sponsored by Publishers Weekly. \nOakland\, CA\, 5/5/2017 – The first official book release party for Butchertown\, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay will be held this coming Saturday May 13\, 2017 at Stookey’s Club Moderne\, 895 Bush Street (at Taylor) from 3:00-4:30 PM\, with doors opening at 2:30. The author will read from Butchertown\, plus an excerpt from an upcoming novel and will provide signed copies of Butchertown for sale. \nButchertown tells the story of Paul Bacon\, ex-Navy boxer\, Jazz-Age playboy and junior city attorney\, who’s moved to California expecting sunshine and sandy beaches. But all he’s found is lonely misery in the chilly fog-choked canyons of 1920s San Francisco. \nThen\, one foggy night\, he meets Molly Carver. Alluring\, irresistible\, mysterious\, she lures Paul across San Francisco Bay to her hometown of Evansville\, to what she claims is the California promised in the travel brochures. \nBut Molly’s promise is only camouflage for a dangerous game. Evansville is no paradise but a whirling sewer of sin and perdition; a wilderness of slaughterhouses\, factories\, oil refineries\, gambling dens\, brothels\, and speakeasies even more decadent than San Francisco. And within its grimy\, gritty heart\, a gang war smolders\, ready for someone to throw a match. \nThey don’t call it Butchertown for nothing. \nABOUT THE VENUE: Stookey’s Club Moderne\, located at 895 Bush at Taylor\, between Nob Hill and Union Square\, is a lounge evoking the style of post-prohibition San Francisco (1930-1940). \nThe bar’s classic cocktails and Streamline-Moderne design\, brings its guests back in time and into the mood of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco. \nContact:\nThomas Burchfield\namblerhouse@att.net\n(510) 817-4432\nhttp://amblerhouse.blogspot.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/butchertown-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Stookey’s Club  Moderne\, 895 Bush St. at Taylor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Museum Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:The Tenderloin Museum marks its 2nd anniversary in the midst of an important year in the history of San Francisco – it’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the 100th anniversary of the “anti-vice” Tenderloin neighborhood shutdown. On Saturday\, May 13\, the Tenderloin Museum is inviting its friends and neighbors to celebrate the Tenderloin’s unique contributions to San Francisco history with daylong free museum admission and free public programs from 4 pm to 9 pm\, featuring accounts of the “Invisible Circus” from the Diggers\, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist David Talbot\, the first-ever reading of the new play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, and a dynamic jazz night by SF Recovery Theater. We’re excited to show off the best the neighborhood has to offer and celebrate the 31 square blocks we call home. \n Programming Schedule: \n4pm\, The Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Remembered \nCome hear what the Summer of Love was like in the Tenderloin. Judy Goldhaft (original participant in the Diggers) and Eric Noble (Diggers archivist) talk with LisaRuth Elliott (Shaping San Francisco’s co-director) about who the Diggers were\, and their radical anti-capitalist philosophy and activities. They will share archival materials and personal experiences from the Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Happening at Glide Church on February 24\, 1967. Stories about the “Invisible Circus” became legend in San Francisco’s hip community for years. Originally billed as a 72 hour event\, participants were thrown out within 24 hours. See the poster from the event and hear stories of the spectacle from the Diggers themselves. \n5pm\, David Talbot on the Summer of Love\, Season of the Witch\, and the Tenderloin \nAuthor of the best selling book on San Francisco’s Summer of Love and its aftermath\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Talbot gives his unique perspective on this seminal time in history. \n6pm\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot \nJoin us for the first-ever reading of scenes from a new play about Tenderloin history\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, based on events surrounding the United States’ first-ever anti-police riot by the LGBTQ community. Followed by dazzling drag performances by co-authors Donna Personna & Collette LeGrande\, and joined by Olivia Hart (all featured in James Hosking’s film about Aunt Charlie’s bar\, Beautiful by Night). The play is being co-produced by the Tenderloin Museum and writer Mark Nassar\, co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, and will premiere this fall in the Tenderloin. \n7:30\, SF Recovery Theater: Night at the Black Hawk \nJoin us for a raucous tour-de-force performance of some of the best musical talent in the neighborhood! Night at the Black Hawk is a live jazz concert\, part of an ongoing series that reflects on the lives and stories of the artists\, musicians\, and residents that lived in the shadow of the Black Hawk Jazz Club. \nParticipant Bios \nA former member of the Diggers\, Judy Goldhaft is an activist who has used art\, theater and education to further social change in urban and rural locations to promote community empowerment and bioregional ecological education. Judy has performed dance\, street theater\, life acting\, multispecies theater and single person performance pieces. Judy has been a guiding force with the ecological educational nonprofit Planet Drum Foundation since its inception in 1973\, serving currently as its director. She also gardens\, and is a maker\, repairer\, and reuser. \nAfter reading a copy of the Digger Papers while living in Ohio in 1968\, Eric Noble dropped out of college and made his way across the country to find the Diggers. From 1968 to 1971 he lived a peripatetic existence in lots of different communes along the way. Once in San Francisco in 1971\, he moved into the Kaliflower commune\, an offshoot inspired by the Diggers. Learning about how prolific the Digger movement had been in terms of written material\, he collected whatever he could find and became known as the Digger archivist\, so named by Peter Berg. His project\, the Digger Archives have been online in some form since 1995\, and continue to inspire people all over the world. \nShaping San Francisco is a participatory community history project dedicated to uncovering and sharing the overlooked and forgotten histories of the City. Through Free Public Talks\, Walking and Bicycle History Tours\, and our digital archive at Foundsf.org\, Shaping San Francisco seeks to make history together\, recognizing that “History is a Creative Act in the Present.” shapingsf.org\, foundsf.org\, diggers.org\, planetdrum.org \nDavid Talbot is a bestselling author\, journalist\, media entrepreneur and political activist. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pioneering online publication Salon and a former senior editor of Mother Jones magazine. In recent years\, he has built a reputation as a popular historian with books such as the national bestseller Season of the Witch and the New York Times bestsellers The Devil’s Chessboard andBrothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Talbot has written for Time magazine\, The New Yorker\,Rolling Stone\, and other publications. He is currently a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also a cofounder of San Francisco Vision\, a progressive coalition that fights for “San Francisco values.” \nMark Nassar along with Tenderloin Museum director Katie Conry conceived of the idea of an interactive play based on the Compton’s Cafeteria riot\, inspired by the Tenderloin Museum’s exhibits on the subject. Nassar\, in collaboration with long-term Tenderloin drag queens Donna Persona and Collette LeGrande\, has spent the past year writing the play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. He boasts an impressive record of artistic success\, having written plays and screenplays\, and has also acted in theater\, TV and film. Mr. Nassar is also the co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, the longest running Off-Broadway comedy in New York City history. More recently\, he wrote the screenplay\, A Line in the Sand\, a film directed by Jeffrey Chernov\, in which he also had a principal role. In 2008\, the film won Best Feature and the Audience Award at numerous film festivals\, as well as the Grand Jury prize at the Canada International Film Festival. He also attended the Djerassi Artists Residency in Woodside\, California\, where he completed a new play\, Shouting in the Wilderness\, and is currently playing Sal the owner in San Francisco’s immersive hit – The Speakeasy. \nCollette LeGrande is the twice former Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has raised funds for charity in the Tenderloin for 30 years\, supporting AIDS Emergency Fund\, Magnet\, Mama Reinhardt’s Toys for Tots\, and many others. She has worked at Aunt Charlie’s since 1998 and organizes her own bi-weekly drag show\, the Dream Queens Revue. \nDonna Personna is an artist and performer\, who first hit the stage with the legendary Cockettes. She was the subject of the 2013 Iris Prize-winning short “My Mother\,” by Jay Bedwani\, and is currently in production with Bedwani on another documentary film. She serves on the board of directors committees for Trans March and the Transgender Day of Remembrance\, working to gain wider visibility for transgender rights. \nOlivia Hart is a chef by day and performer by night. She is the current Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has organized and hosted numerous events to benefit the LGBT community and\, in particular\, organizations that support addiction recovery and sober living. \nThe San Francisco Recovery Theatre is a grassroots organization with a lot of local and some municipal support. It is funded by grants from the art and health community in San Francisco with no full time staff\, but with a core group of dedicated actors\, composed mainly of people in recovery. Its mission is to meet people where they are\, provide a medium of communication and deliver a message of hope\, consequence and solutions. http://sfrecoverytheatre.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-museum-turns-two/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Author Deborah Fleming \nAward winning hippie/Vietnam War novel Without Leave published by Black Mountain Press. Winner of the 2013 Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press\, the novel Without Leave places brave people into the hippie experience and turbulent antiwar movement of the 1960s and addresses the existential question of freedom of the will. \nPublished 47 years since the “Summer of Love” and 49 years since the troop surge that ushered in the full-scale American commitment to the Vietnam War\, Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70. David Shields goes AWOL from the Navy where he’d hoped to find training and focus for his life but instead finds boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco in 1967 he meets and falls in love with an artist\, Diane Cavanagh\, who drops out of college after a brutal rape and the death of the black man she loved. Through turmoil and separation\, they find they cannot escape their past.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fleming/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir featuring at Frank Bette\nHosted By: Deborah Ledvick and Jeanne Lupton \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more. \nIngrid Keir is a poet\, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty\, a long-running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum\, The Beat Museum\, City Hall\, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. Ingrid has lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry\, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. She also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004)\, Toward the Light (2007) and recently released a new book of poetry in September 2016\, The Choreography of Nests\, published by Feather Press. Ingrid has been published in many literary journals including: Two Hawks Quarterly\, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. She was also shortlisted in the 2016 Litquake poetry contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-ingrid-keir/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Chris Higgs\, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, + Cassandra Troyan
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-higgs-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-cassandra-troyan/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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