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SUMMARY:Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals\, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley\, teaches poetry\, and works with small press books.
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LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:New Life Issue 4 Launch Party & Postcard Making Party
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based bookstore and downtown community arts hub\, Wolfman Books is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of their art and culture magazine\, New Life Quarterly and the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” on February 7\, 2019\, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive! \nPRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ISSUE 4 FOR HALF-OFF NOW AND PICK IT UP AT THE RELEASE! https://squ.re/2CiKl7Y \nOr get it full price at BAMPFA! \nNew Life Quarterly is a literary\, arts and culture magazine focused on the intersections of art and community—especially the exuberant\, overlooked\, and experimental margins—in the Bay Area and beyond. This issue is a special project dedicated to artist correspondence. Through emails\, WhatsApp messages\, Google Docs comments\, voice memos\, and actual letters\, artists (including BAMPFA’s very own Art Lab Archive) engage in conversation across mediums and across the globe. \nTo highlight the print collaboration between BAMPFA’s Art Lab and New Life Quarterly\, Wolfman Books invites museum-goers to take part in the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” in the Art Lab. The organizers’ intention is to gather the community to make 1\,200 one-of-a-kind postcards to be included with every copy of “Issue 4: Correspondence.” Attendees will be invited to create one\, or two\, or a dozen postcards\, with ready-made postcard templates and materials provided. By joining in the “Postcard Drive\,” participants will not only experience the intimate and generative spirit of artistic connection that animates New Life Quarterly\, but actively help create and amplify it. All are encouraged to join this conversation\, bring their community and create with the help of New Life editors\, contributors\, and Art Lab staff! \nBesides the “New Life Postcard Drive\,” the release party will feature onsite correspondence readings and performances featuring contributors and related artists. Attendees can grab copies of the magazine in the BAMPFA Bookstore and become a New Life contributor! \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE! And BAMPFA admission is also free every first Thursday! \nNew Life Quarterly “Issue 4: Correspondence” features new writing and art from: \nBarbara Browning • Avery Trufelman • MI Leggett • Jasmine Gibson • Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Emerson Whitney • Brandon Shimoda • Dot Devota • Dongyi Wu • Kwame Boafo • Mitsuko Brooks • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Ra Malika Imhotep • Nicole Lavelle • Mary Welcome • Dorothy Santos • Jeannine Ventura • Thanh Hằng Phạm • Andrea Abi-Karam • Davey Davis • Claire Boyle • j.j. Mull • Sophia Dahlin • Julio Linares • Leora Fridman • Yosefa Raz • Vreni Michelini Castillo • Ana Karen • Hannah Kingsley-Ma • Claire Buss • Kate Robinson Beckwith • Amanda Davis • Chelsea A. Flowers • Philip Košćak • Jamie Townsend • Oki Sogumi • Margaret McCarthy • Till Krause • BAMPFA Art Lab \nThis project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. “Issue 4: Correspondence” is supported in part by BAMPFA\, The Exploratorium\, Mills College\, AWP 2019\, Jenny Lemons\, Mirro Editions\, The Key Print & Bindery\, Alley Cat Books\, PLAY Press\, and Fish Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-life-issue-4-launch-party-postcard-making-party/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveUC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tell Your Story\, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write\, draw\, cut\, paste\, staple and copy their way to self-expression. \nWould you like to have your work in the library? You’ll have the option to donate a copy to our new circulating collection of Zines. Some people will also be able to have their work exhibited at the Oakland Library table at this year’s SF Zinefest! \nAll supplies provided. \nRSVP optional but appreciated. Tell your story\, speak your truth. Let’s make some zines together! \nFounded in 2001\, San Francisco Zine Fest seeks to advance the do-it-yourself ethos by fostering community throughout the Bay Area. In our annual festival and its accompanying panels and workshops\, we celebrate and support independent writers\, artists and creators\, allowing them to share their work with an ever-growing audience in exhibitions and public events.   \nZines are self-published booklets which are easy to make and inexpensive to reproduce. There are no rules about form\, function or purpose. Due to their accessibility and alternative nature\, zines have been a medium of choice for folks who are otherwise underrepresented or marginalized.  \nAdditional Workshops: \nFor teens: January 8th\, 4:30PM Lakeview branch library \nFor families: March 12th\, 6:30PM Rockridge branch library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tell-your-story-speak-your-truth-make-a-zine/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pam Houston\, Deep Creek
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir\, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\, which tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch\, dared herself to dig in and care for it\, to work hard enough to pay for it\, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’ \nAt 31 years old\, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection\, Cowboys Are My Weakness\, Pam Houston had “no job\, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct\, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede\, Colorado. It was more than she could afford\, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet\, twenty-five years later\, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. \nIn its chapters\, Houston spends her days walking along the fences on her property\, watching leaves on the aspens ignite into an eruption of fall colors\, and caring for the animals on her ranch: the horses\, sheep\, chickens\, Irish wolfhounds\, and a pair of miniature donkeys with outsized attitudes. Houston’s audacity and generosity are on full display as she cares for an elk calf abandoned by its herd and sleeps outside to comfort her old hound. Deep Creek raises concern about the many ways we endanger the natural world’s delicate balance\, and nature’s enigmatic powers to survive and to save. It’s also a chronicle of recovery. \nEncompassing Houston’s childhood\, her adventures\, and her details of everyday life at the ranch\, Deep Creek is\, above all\, a testament. In holding on to her ranch\, Houston carved a life to support her spirit and her talents\, and discovered that she could be the cowboy of her own story. “I know\,” she explains\, “that when I claimed these 120 acres they also claimed me. We are each other’s mutual saviors.” \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accessibility requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.comby February 5th. \nPam Houston is the author of the novels Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound\, the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat\, and A Little More About Me\, a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes such as The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Awards\, The 2013 Pushcart Prize\, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award\, the WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction\, the Evil Companions Literary Award\, and multiple teaching awards. She cofounded the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers\, is a professor of English at UC–Davis\, and teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ low-residency MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-houston-deep-creek/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES:Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAn evening of reading and discussion with contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Gabby Rivera \ncelebrating the release of \nA PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers \nedited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams \nPublished by One World \nA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin\, Charles Yu\, Jamie Ford\, G. Willow Wilson\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugh Howey\, and more. \nIn the words of N.K. Jemisin: “Imagination is where revolutions begin.” Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance\, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom\, love\, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths\, release us from the chokehold of our history\, and give us new futures to believe in. \nThey also asked that the stories be badass. \nThe result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light\, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the oppressed\, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee\, they fight. \nFeaturing stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta• Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-statesspeculative-fiction-from-25-extraordinary-writers/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent)\, Thea Matthews\, Ant Fraser Fujinaga\, and Albert Alexander\, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday February 7th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sublimation/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Analicia Sotelo
DESCRIPTION:Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7\, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art \nTHURSDAY\nFebruary 7\, 2019\n7PM \nSan José\, Museum of Art\n110 S. Market Street\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Assistant Professor of Spanish Vanessa Fernandez – plus a book sale and signing. \nAnalicia Sotelo’s debut poetry collection Virgin is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. At every step\, these poems seduce with history\, folklore\, and sensory detail—grilled meat\, golden habañeros\, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power\, deceit\, relationships\, and ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/analicia-sotelo/
LOCATION:San Jose Museum of Art\, 110 Market St\, San José\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang - - The Collected Schizophrenias w/ Caille Millner
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her new new book The Collected Schizophrenias\, on Thursday\, February 7th at 7pm. She will be joined by Caille Milner \nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. \nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification(Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have been in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and listed in Best American Essays 2017. Her awards include the Barnes and Noble Emerging Writers Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, February 7\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-the-collected-schizophrenias-w-caille-millner/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Johannes Lichtman
DESCRIPTION:Johannes Lichtman discusses his new novel\, Such Good Work. \n\nPraise for Such Good Work \n\n“I honestly can’t think of a novel I would more want to be reading in the very particular now of our world. Lichtman’s narrator is an everyman (albeit a singular one) who just wants to be good—that slipperiest of ambitions—and yet his efforts pretty much always go wrong. But also they don’t. Wisely comic and tremendously moving\, Such Good Work thinks in detail about immigration\, addiction\, privilege\, power and loneliness; but it does so by mining the seemingly inconsequential for its true profundity. Lichtman never falls for the siren song of self-seriousness\, and that is part of what makes his novel feel so accurate\, and so important. In being open to complexity\, and sensitive to absurdity\, Such Good Work gets at the wholeness and difficulty and beauty of lives both ordinary and extraordinary.”—RIVKA GALCHEN\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Johannes Lichtman has given us a powerful\, unsparingly honest portrayal of a soul in torment\, trying to find his way to a decent life.  How to love\, how to work–how to live\, however modestly\, with meaning and purpose inside a self that for too long has used booze and drugs to avoid the hard work of being human.  Building a genuine self\, that’s an inside job\, and in Such Good Work Lichtman delivers a deeply affecting novel of one young man’s struggle to be whole.”—BEN FOUNTAIN\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n\nAbout Such Good Work \n\nA timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving\,” about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö\, Sweden\, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning. \nJonas Anderson might be an excellent teacher if he weren’t addicted to drugs. Instead\, at age twenty-eight\, he’s been fired from yet another creative writing position after assigning homework like\, visit a stranger’s funeral and write about it. \nJonas needs to do something drastic and\, as a dual American-Swedish citizen\, he knows Sweden is an easy place to be a graduate student and a difficult place to be a drug addict. The year is 2015 when he arrives in Malmö\, a city trying to cope with the arrival of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees. Driven by an existential need to “do good\,” Jonas volunteers with an organization that teaches Swedish to the desperate and idling young refugees. But one young man\, Aziz\, will force Jonas to question whether “doing good” can actually help another person. \nSuch Good Work is a darkly funny work of autofiction that asks us to consider how one should go about being a good person in our modern world. In his striking debut novel\, Johannes Lichtman’s uses pathos and humor to grapple with simple yet necessary questions—Such Good Work begs you to consider the person you are\, as well as the person you hope to be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johannes-lichtman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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