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SUMMARY:Word for Word Reads "The Widow Dreams"
DESCRIPTION:Members of the Charter Group of Word for Word\, a program of Z Space will present a reading of “The Widow Dreams\,” a narrative of transformation\, at 7pm on Friday\, March 15 at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. In women’s voices\, the piece chronicles the author’s journey through loss\, grief\, and anger\, to the restoration of wholeness\, creativity\, and new life. The dreams will be read by Sheila Balter and Jeri Lynn Cohen\, along with the author\, Nancy Selby. Admission is free. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nWORD FOR WORD Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality\, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. Co-Artistic Directors JoAnne Winter and Susan Harloe founded Word for Word Performing Arts Company in 1993 as part of the Artists in Residence program at The Z Space Studio (Z Space’s original name). \nIn its vibrant history\, Word for Word has performed over 70 stories by some of the world’s best writers. Many of these stories have been performed in front of the authors themselves. The ensemble performs regularly at Z Space and since 1996 has toured annually throughout California and France. \nThe following writers have had their work performed by Word for Word and lend their names in support of the work of our company: Daniel Handler\, Edward P. Jones\, Barbara Kingsolver\, Armistead Maupin\, George Saunders\, Octavio Solis\, Amy Tan\, Tobias Wolff\, Greg Sarris | Honorary President\, Julia Alvarez\, T.C. Boyle\, Sandra Cisneros\, Siobhan Fallon\, Paul Fleischman\, Richard Ford\, Ellen Gilchrist\, Joanne Greenberg\, and Andrew Sean Greer. \nMore about the readers:\nSheila Balter\, Word for Word charter member\, is an actor\, director\, teacher. Recent work: directed Octavio Solis’ RETABLOS for Litquake. Also performed her original piece OLAM (Objects\, Loss\, Attachment\, Memory) in San Francisco and internationally. She is proud to support Nancy in this exciting endeavor. \nJeri Lynn Cohen is a Charter Member of Word for Word Performing Arts Company celebrating 25 years of critically acclaimed productions. She has appeared at theatre companies throughout the Bay Area and she has toured internationally with Word for Word and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. \nNancy Shelby is an actor and director and has appeared in fifteen of Word for Word’s award winning productions. Most recently she and JoAnne Winter directed Lucia Berlin: Stories. She is currently working on the manuscript of a book\, The Widow Dreams\, based on the one hundred dreams she had after the 2009 death of her husband\, Luke Cole.
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LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, reading from their work
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 15 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nUniversity Press Books\, 2430 Bancroft Avenue\, Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI am always haunted by the wise words of my great great Uncle Tony when a family heirloom was lost. He said\, “You got to look where it ain’t.”… I make work that allows the dead to talk.\n—Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, KACH Studio\n\nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series presents Maryam Ivette Parhizkar and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle\, in the second event of a two-evening program\, reading their work at amazing University Press Books on Bancroft Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, this event is free and open to the public. \nKenyatta A.C. Hinkle is an interdisciplinary visual artist\, writer and performer. Her artwork and performances of experimental texts have been reviewed by the LA Times\, Artforum\, The Huffington Post and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in Not That But This\, Obsidian Journal\, and Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics. She is the author of an artist book\, Kentifrications: Convergent Truth(s) & Realities\, published by Occidental College and Sming Sming Books. SIR\, a relection on naming as a tool for undefining the defined\, is her first book of poetry\, and is newly published by Litmus Press. Hinkle is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice. Her visual art and performance works are on view at kachstudio.com. \nMaryam Ivette Parhizkar is a writer\, scholar\, occasional musician\, and author of the chapbooks Pull: a ballad (The Operating System\, 2014) and As For the Future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2016)\, the latter originating from a talk at Naropa speculating on Clarice Lispector and Sun Ra. Her recent writings have been published by Omniverse\, Social Text Online\, Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil (on musician/composer Matana Roberts — check Coldfront for a prefatory note to Roberts’ Coin Coin project)\, The Daily Gramma\, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Born and raised in Houston\, Texas by Iranian and Salvadoran immigrants\, she lives in Jersey City\, New Jersey. Her current poetics circles around diasporic myth-making\, family histories\, the sociopolitical entanglements that bring people together\, and the relationship between spirit(s)\, possession\, and American history and identity. More here. \nIn Common Writers Series Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading and in conversation with their paired guest writer and the audience. Then\, moving off-campus\, both writers read their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified region. Details on our six 2018-19 programs and featured artists here. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and University Press Books
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LOCATION:University Press Books\, 2430 Bancroft Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Helen Oyeyemi and Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Helen Oyeyemi discusses her new novel\, Gingerbread with Stephen Sparks. \n\nAbout Gingerbread \nThe prize-winning\, bestselling author of Boy\, Snow\, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel. \nInfluenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children’s stories—equal parts wholesome and uncanny\, from the tantalizing witch’s house in “Hansel and Gretel” to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can—beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy\, in which the inheritance is a recipe. \nPerdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing\, they share a gold-painted\, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there’s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it\, but it’s very popular in Druhástrana\, the far-away (or\, according to many sources\, non-existent) land of Harriet Lee’s early youth. The world’s truest lover of the Lee family gingerbread\, however\, is Harriet’s charismatic childhood friend Gretel Kercheval —a figure who seems to have had a hand in everything (good or bad) that has happened to Harriet since they met. \nDecades later\, when teenaged Perdita sets out to find her mother’s long-lost friend\, it prompts a new telling of Harriet’s story. As the book follows the Lees through encounters with jealousy\, ambition\, family grudges\, work\, wealth\, and real estate\, gingerbread seems to be the one thing that reliably holds a constant value. Endlessly surprising and satisfying\, written with Helen Oyeyemi’s inimitable style and imagination\, it is a true feast for the reader. \n\nPraise for What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours \n\n“Magical and show stopping.” —Elle.com \n\n“Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday\, the fantastic\, and the eternal\, we have to ask if the line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ is murkier than we imagined—or to what extent a line exists at all. . . .The deeper one descends into the fabulist warrens of these stories\, the more mystery and menace abound\, and with each story I had the delightful and rare experience of being utterly surprised. . . .Transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review \n\n“It is\, in a word\, flawless. . . .Oyeyemi seems to be incapable of writing anything that’s not wholly original. . . .Oyeyemi manages to make the story both realistic and fantastical\, and the characters are rendered with grace and compassion. . . .What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is a lot of things: dreamy\, spellbinding\, and unlike just about anything you can imagine. It’s a book that resists comparisons; Oyeyemi’s talent is as unique as it is formidable.” — Michael Schaub\, NPR \n“Oyeyemi’s fictional world is scintillating and eccentric\, an ‘implosion of memory\,’ as one character puts it.”—The New Yorker \n\n“What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. . . boasts ambitious stories written masterfully by an adventurous author\, and is another example of Oyeyemi’s skill at finding inspiration in the smallest and most ephemeral details.” —Women in the World\, in association with The New York Times
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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:Amber Tamblyn / Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Amber Tamblyn\, to celebrate her new book of essays Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution. We had a packed house for Amber when she came through town for Any Man\, so if you want to make sure you get a seat we strongly recommend you purchase advance tickets. Join us! \n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with the price of admission equal to the cost of Era of Ignition\, which is included with each ticket. Advance tickets can be purchased here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. \n  \nIn her late twenties\, Amber Tamblyn experienced a crisis of character while trying to break out of the confines of the acting career she’d forged as a child in order to become the writer and director she dreamed of being as an adult. After a particularly low period fueled by rejection and disillusionment\, she grabbed hold of her own destiny and entered into what she calls an Era of Ignition — namely\, the time of self-reflection that follows in the wake of personal upheaval and leads to a call to action and positive change. In the process of undergoing this metaphysical metamorphosis\, she realized that our country was going through an Era of Ignition of its own. She writes: “No longer stuck in a past we can’t outrun and a future we must outgrow\, we are a nation that is actively confronting our values and agitating for change. We are in an age when activism becomes direct action\, when disagreement becomes dissention\, when dissatisfaction becomes protest\, when accusations become accountability\, and when revolts become revolutions.” \n  \nThrough her fierce op-eds and tireless work as one of the founders of the Time’s Up organization\, Amber has emerged as a bold\, outspoken\, and respected advocate for women’s rights. In Era of Ignition\, she addresses gender inequality and the judgment paradigm\, misogyny and discrimination\, trauma and the veiled complexities of consent\, white feminism and pay parity\, reproductive rights and sexual assault — all told through the very personal lens of her own experiences\, as well as those of her Sisters in Solidarity. At once an intimate meditation and public reckoning\, Era of Ignition is a galvanizing feminist manifesto that is required reading for everyone attempting to understand the world we live in and help change it for the better. \n  \n\nAmber Tamblyn is an author\, actor\, and director. She’s been nominated for an Emmy\, Golden Globe\, and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film\, including House M.D. and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Most recently\, she wrote and directed the feature film Paint It Black. She is the author of three books of poetry\, including the critically acclaimed bestseller Dark Sparkler\, and a novel\, Any Man\, as well as a contributing writer for the New York Times. She lives in New York. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n–  This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n–  This is an all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.. \n–  Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Era of Ignition\, remember that books make great gifts! If you have any questions or concerns about this\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n–  If you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Era of Ignition\, and/or any of Amber’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n–  RSVP appreciated but not required.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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