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SUMMARY:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic
DESCRIPTION:A Talk with The Black Aesthetic\nWednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00\nFree\, no ticket needed. \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \n—\nThe Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based artist collective of artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers who curate film screenings and publish a journal of essays about black film and culture. \nJamal Batts\nRyanaustin Dennis\nMalika “Ra” Imhotep\nZoé Samudzi\nLeila Weefur \nThe Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We post the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \nBy working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers and designers\, we cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications and product development\, we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience and are responsive to its respective environment. \n———\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series embedded inside our Creative Gateway undergraduate course. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/wednesdays \n—\nArts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative in partnership with Big Ideas courses. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Wednesdays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
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LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams\, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s\, among others\, and she is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review. \nWith comparisons to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag\, Jamison has turned the traditional addiction narrative on its head in this deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir\, cultural history\, literary criticism\, and journalistic reportage. Join us for an evening on addiction and learn more about the writers whose work was shaped by alcohlism and substance dependence\, including Raymond Carver\, David Foster Wallace\, and others. \n“Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book. It will be important to recovering alcoholics who wonder if there really is life after booze\, and I think it will be important to writers and critics\, because she weaves her story of recovery into those of other artists”… “The most important thematic thread may be its insistence that the talented artist who needs booze or drugs to support his work and withstand his own vision does not\, in fact\, exist. All in all\, vivid writing and required reading.” ―Stephen King
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-leslie-jamison-on-alcoholism/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Caspar Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Caspar Henderson\, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings\, discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. \n\nPraise for A New Map of Wonders \n\n“This book does exactly what it says on the cover\, and shows us where wonder is to be found. His account of familiar phenomena shows how unfamiliar and extraordinary they really are.” Philip Pullman\, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy \n\n“A wondrous brew of science\, history\, and sheer exhilaration. Read it and marvel.” Sarah Bakewell\, author of At the Existentialist Café \n\n“For Henderson\, the universe is constantly birthing wonders. A book that tries to give articulate voice to the gasps of astonishment at each birth is almost bound to fail. Yet this is a glorious success: breathless but musical; humble but confident; smart\, kind\, and glittering. It will turn the most jaded reductionist into a delighted child.” Charles Foster\, author of Being a Beast \n\nAbout A New Map of Wonders \n\nWe live in a world that is known\, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder\, Caspar Henderson argues\, is at its most supremely valuable in just such a world because it reaffirms our humanity and gives us hope for the future. That’s the power of wonder\, and that’s what we should aim to cultivate in our lives. But what are the wonders of the modern world? \nHenderson’s brilliant exploration borrows from the form of one of the oldest and most widely known sources of wonder: maps. Large\, detailed mappae mundi invited people in medieval Europe to vividly imagine places and possibilities they had never seen before: manticores with the head of a man\, the body of a lion\, and the stinging tail of a scorpion; tribes of one-eyed men who fought griffins for diamonds; and fearsome Scythian warriors who drank the blood of their enemies from their skulls. As outlandish as these maps and the stories that went with them sound to us today\, Henderson argues that our views of the world today are sometimes no less incomplete or misleading. Scientists are only beginning to map the human brain\, for example\, revealing it as vastly more complex than any computer we can conceive. Our current understanding of physical reality is woefully incomplete. A New Map of Wonders explores these and other realms of the wonderful\, in different times and cultures and in the present day\, taking readers from Aboriginal Australian landscapes to sacred sites in Great Britain\, all the while keeping sight questions such as the cognitive basis of wonder and the relationship between wonder and science. \nBeautifully illustrated and written with wit and moral complexity\, this sequel to The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a fascinating account of the power of wonder and an unforgettable meditation on its importance to our future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caspar-henderson/
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:Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion
DESCRIPTION:To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private\, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life\, a bigger world. \nGreer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank\, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three\, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades\, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time\, Greer—madly in love with her boyfriend\, Cory\, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place—feels her inner world light up. And then\, astonishingly\, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose\, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined. \nCharming and wise\, knowing and witty\, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence\, ego and loyalty\, womanhood and ambition. At its heart\, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us\, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time)\, and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light. \n— \nMeg Wolitzer is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings\, The Uncoupling\,The Ten-Year Nap\, The Position\, The Wife\, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-wolitzer-the-female-persuasion/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 11 7:30 – 9 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\n\nPatricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her stories and essays have been published widely in literary journals including Shenandoah\, The Massachusetts Review\, New Ohio Review\, The Los Angeles Review\, and Confrontation. She is the recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and literary nonfiction and the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction at Bellevue Literary Review\, and has held residency fellowships at Hedgebrook\, The Millay Colony for the Arts\, and The Blue Mountain Center. She teaches creative writing at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. \nChristopher Kempf is the author of Late in Empire of Men\, which won the 2015 Levis Prize from Four Way Books. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, his work has appeared in Gettysburg Review\, Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, PEN America\, and Ploughshares\, among other places. He is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Chicago. \nJung Yun is the author of Shelter\, published by Picador in 2016. Her work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue); The Best of Tin House: Stories; The Massachusetts Review; The Atlantic Monthly\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the recipient of two Artist Fellowships in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. Currently\, she is an Assistant Professor of English at the George Washington University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR 120 – Xavier Auditorium\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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