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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl present RAD GIRLS CAN
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books Downtown\nSaturday September 8\, 5:30pm \nKate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl\, the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z\, present and sign copies of Rad Girls Can: a bold and brave collection of stories and art about inspiring and accomplished girls who have made positive impacts on the world before the age of 20. \nAll ages welcome! Free to attend.\n \n\nABOUT RAD GIRLS CAN\nFrom the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z\, a bold and brave collection of stories and art about inspiring and accomplished girls who have made positive impacts on the world before the age of 20. \nYou might know the stories of Malala Yousafzai\, Anne Frank\, Jazz Jennings\, and Joan of Arc. But have you heard about Yusra Mardini\, a Syrian refugee who swam a sinking boat to shore\, saved twenty lives\, then went on to compete as an Olympic swimmer? Or Trisha Prabhu\, who invented an anti-cyberbullying app at age 13? Or Barbara Rose Johns\, whose high school protest helped spark the civil rights movement? \nIn Rad Girls Can\, you’ll learn about a diverse group of young women who are living rad lives\, whether excelling in male-dominated sports like boxing\, rock climbing\, or skateboarding; speaking out against injustice and discrimination; expressing themselves through dance\, writing\, and music; or advocating for girls around the world. Each profile is paired with the dynamic paper-cut art that made the authors’ first two books New York Times best sellers. Featuring both contemporary and historical figures\, Rad Girls Can offers hope\, inspiration\, and motivation to readers of all ages and genders. \n— \nKate Schatz  is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of over 200 feminist activist groups who meet monthly to take coordinated non-violent political action. She lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. \nMiriam Klein Stahl is the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She is a Bay Area-based artist\, educator and activist. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist\, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work\, creating portraits of political activists\, misfits\, radicals and radical movements. As an educator\, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally. She lives in Berkeley with her wife\, daughter\, and their dog Lenny.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, September 8\, 2018 – 5:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, September 8\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n— \n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg’s first book\, the satirical bestseller Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters\, was described by the Los Angeles Times Review of Books as a “splendid and wry work of humor writing” and by Elizabeth Gilbert as “candy coated in crack cocaine… it’s the best.” Ortberg’s newest book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror\, has been on countless Best Books and Most Anticipated lists for 2018\, and has won praise from Kelly Link\, Charlie Jane Anders\, and Carmen Maria Machado who notes\, “the result is gorgeous\, unsettling\, splenic\, cruel\, and wickedly smart.” The co-founder of The Toast\, he has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic. Since 2015\, Ortberg has been Slate’s Dear Prudence columnist and writes The Shatner Chatner newsletter. \n \nTommy Orange  \nThe 2018 debut novel by Tommy Orange\, THERE THERE\, was described by Janet Maslin in The New York Times this way: “Groundbreaking. Extraordinary. Tommy Orange has written a tense\, prismatic book with inexorable momentum.” Margaret Atwood has called the book “an astonishing literary debut” and Marlon James writes\, “THERE THERE drops on us like a thunderclap; the big\, booming\, explosive sound of 21st century literature finally announcing itself.  Essential.” Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \n  \n \nLisa Locascio \nOpen Me\, Lisa Locascio’s 2018 debut novel\, was recently cited by Pulitzer-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen as “unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” Aimee Bender calls the novel “a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity… A remarkable\, fearless debut.” Locascio’s work has appeared in The Believer\, Tin House\, n+1\, Bookforum\,and many other magazines. She is the co-publisher of Joyland and editor of 7x7LA and of the anthology Golden State 2017. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University and the incoming Executive Director of the Mendocino Writers’ Conference. \n\n\nKatharine Dion \nKatharine Dion’s 2018 debut novel The Dependents has already been named one of the best books of the summer by TIME\, Entertainment Weekly\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, Real Simple\, and Brit + Co. The writer Kate Walbert notes that “The Dependents that grapples with important questions through generations–the way we live now\, the way we may have chosen to live then–and the consequences. Dion’s intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence.” Dion is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow\, the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, and a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below contest. She lives in Berkeley\, California. \n \nIsmail Muhammad \nIsmail Muhammad is a writer and critic based in Oakland\, California. He’s a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, a board member at the National Books Critics Circle\, and a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at U.C. Berkeley. In addition\, he’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, a Simpson Family Literary Fellow\, and a participant in the VONA 2017 workshops. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. He’s currently working on a novel about the Great Migration and queer archives of black history. Talk to him for any amount of time and you’ll probably end up learning more than you ever wanted to know about Los Angeles and/or Drake. \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
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LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading by Diane Frank\, Erik Levins\, and Mary Kay Rummel
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Diane Frank\, Erik Levins\, and Mary Kay Rummel\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly\, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 7:00 (510/523-6957\, www.frankbettecenter.org\n\nEvent is free\, a hat is passed for donations
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LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Invocation to Daughters Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:2018 California Book Award Finalist \nFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. \n“Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into ‘capital\, collateral\, damaged soul.’ However\, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes’s radical cosmology\, these women—these daughters—are rebels\, saints\, revolutionaries\, and torchbearers\, ‘sharp-tongued\, willful.’ This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages\, systems\, and traditions.”––Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nInvocation to Daughters is a book of prayers\, psalms\, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish\, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality\, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity. \nPraise for Invocation to Daughters: \n“Against violence against women\, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs\, jumping off Audre Lorde’s ‘the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house\,’ Invocation to Daughters recombines registers––prayers\, pleas and elegy––braiding a trilingual triple-threat\, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street\, utterance with erasure\, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70’s in the East Bay\, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area’s incendiary voices.”––Sesshu Foster \n“Invocation to Daughters is a space for multitudes\, a hypnotic collection that draws from family history—particularly the complex cultural gendered dynamic between father and daughter—in order to create a manual for emancipation from the interior and exterior binds that keep us from ourselves. Through prayers\, calls to actions\, and testimonies\, Reyes invents ‘a language so that we know ourselves\, so that we may sing\, and tell\, and pray.'”––Carmen Giménez Smith \n\n\nPublisher City Lights Publishers\n\n\nFormat Paperback\nNb of pages 86 p.\nISBN-10 0872867471\nISBN-13 9780872867475
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LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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