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SUMMARY:Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)
DESCRIPTION:Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O’Neal and Janae Johnson. \nEvery Wednesday | March 20th – May 22\n5:00pm – 7:00pm\nat Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin St\, Oakland\, CA 94607 (near 19th Street BART) \nThis LGBTQIA+ centered workshop will explore personal and historical narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language\, sexuality & gender. Participants will be encouraged to write\, learn performance techniques\, and create the dopest space imaginable. \nSign-Up: https://goo.gl/forms/OWMXtikx5RvHzBnB3 \n**First time and/or experienced writers are encouraged to attend. This is intended to be a space where your authentic self is not only welcomed- it’s celebrated.** \nNote: This is a FREE youth-centered (13-19 years old) Workshop\, and anyone can join! 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queeriosity-writing-performance-workshop-youth-centered/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Ben Lerner
DESCRIPTION:Ben Lerner was born in Topeka\, Kansas. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright\, Guggenheim\, and MacArthur Foundations\, among other honors. He is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures\, Angle of Yaw\, and Mean Free Path)\, two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04). and a work of criticism (The Hatred of Poetry). His most recent books are collaborations: Blossom (with Thomas Demand)\, The Polish Rider (with Anna Ostoya)\, and The Snows of Venice (with Alexander Kluge). He is Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-lerner/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 4\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. \nPart memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n“Filled with hope\, grace\, beauty\, and wisdom\, this book is like warm honey in the sunshine. It beautifully illustrates how nature – even honeybees – can teach and heal us\, if only we open our minds and hearts. It’s the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve finished it–a rare treasure–and you don’t have to be a bee lover to be deeply moved by May’s wonderful story. I’m recommending it to everyone I know.” \n— Stacey O’Brien\, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the Owl \n“Captivating and surprising…. If you’ve ever been stung by a bee you will instantly forget the venom and remember forever the sweetness and redemption bees offer in this extraordinary book.” \n— Sy Montgomery\, New York Times bestselling author of How To Be A Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus \n“If Meredith May’s book was simply an ethology of bees I would devour every word; her prose is tender\, thoughtful and transporting. But The Honey Bus is so much more – a memoir of aching loneliness\, reckoning and redemption. Beautiful and brave.” \n— Domenica Ruta\, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You: A Memoir \n“The wounded feminine\, the missing masculine\, healed by a relationship with honeybees. An innocent child’s hard won journey to adulthood–clear eyed\, often very funny\, and agonizingly compassionate. The Honey Bus is all these things and more–so if you’ve ever been a lonely child\, or want the world to become a kinder place\, here is your book.” \n— Laline Paull\, author of The Bees \n“The Honey Bus is a rare treat for true storytelling deeply rooted in science. Everyone will leave this book with much more knowledge about bees and humanity\, and the compassion that lives at the intersection of the two. [A] captivating coming of age family story.” \n— Noah Wilson-Rich\, Ph.D.\, author of The Bee: A Natural History \n“To read about Meredith May’s bee family and her human family is to garner heart strength. A true story in every sense.” \n— Maxine Hong Kingston\, bestselling author of The Woman Warrior \n  \n  \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 accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 2nd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-the-honey-bus-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:RHYS BOWEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Award-winnig crime writer Rhys Bowen shares her heart-rending new novel\, The Victory Garden. \nAs the Great War continues to take its toll\, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more\, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. \nWhen he is sent back to the front\, Emily volunteers as a “land girl\,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily\, and in the wake of devastating news\, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified–and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married\, she adopts the charade of a war widow. \nAs Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs\, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster\, but may open a path to her destiny. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhys-bowen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:LOLLY WINSTON at Books Inc. Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Lolly Winston—New York Times-bestselling author of Good Grief–discusses her poignant new novel\, Me for You. \nThe last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning\, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now\, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife\, he’s still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life–but his new job is helping. After being downsized from his finance position\, Rudy turned to his first love: the piano. Some people might be embarrassed to work as the piano player at Nordstrom\, but for Rudy\, there’s joy in bringing a little music into the world. And it doesn’t hurt that Sasha\, the Hungarian men’s watch clerk who is finally divorcing her no-good husband\, finds time to join him at the bench every now and then. \nJust when Rudy and Sasha’s relationship begins to deepen\, the police come to the store with an update about Rudy’s wife’s untimely death–a coworker has confessed to her murder–but Rudy’s actions are suspicious enough to warrant a second look at him\, too. With Sasha’s husband suddenly reappearing\, and Rudy’s daughter confronting her own marital problems\, suddenly life becomes more complicated than Rudy and Sasha could have imagined. \nWith Winston’s trademark humor and sweetness that will appeal to readers of Jennifer Weiner and Fredrik Backman but is uniquely her own\, Lolly Winston delivers a heartfelt and realistic portrait of loss and grief\, hope and forgiveness\, and two imperfect people coming together to create a perfect love story. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\n\nCampbell\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lolly-winston-at-books-inc-campbell/
LOCATION:Book Inc. Campbell\, 1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\, Campbell\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan - poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan – poetry reading
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-lazzara-ava-koober-patrick-james-dunagan-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Kepler’s Literary Foundation for a book discussion with author Laila Lalami! From the celebrated Pulitzer Prize finalist who swept multiple book awards with The Moor’s Account comes this lyric\, fascinating new novel The Other Americans. Through nine separate narrators whose accounts effortlessly interweave\, Lalami unravels both the mystery of an immigrant’s sudden death and the quiet schisms that underlie American culture. \nThe novel opens with Nora\, a jazz composer\, who sips champagne with a friend on the same night that her father dies in an apparent hit-and-run near his home in California. Maryam\, Nora’s mother\, narrates a following chapter; a distant neighbor\, another; an undocumented witness\, a friend and immigrant\, and a detective all speak to the events leading up to and following Driss Guerroui’s death. These dueling narrative lines call out to secrets both within Nora’s family and throughout the town. \nThe Other Americans has already garnered extraordinary praise from Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and talented writers of fiction like J.M. Coetzee and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, who gets it exactly right when he calls Laila Lalami “a writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight.” Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this glittering star in the literary pantheon at the height of her career. RSVP now for Lalami’s visit on April 4th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laila-lalami/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Solito\, Solita Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 4\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nJoin the editors and two narrators of Solito\, Solita for a discussion of this powerful new book from Voice of Witness and Haymarket Books. Solito\, Solita tells the stories of youth refugees fleeing their home countries and traveling for hundreds of miles seeking safety and protection in the United States. In an era of fear\, xenophobia\, and outright lies\, these stories amplify the compelling voices of immigrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment\, bravery and resilience\, hypocrisy and hope? \nNarrators:\nGabriel\, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States\, and through study\, legal support and work\, is now attending UC Berkeley. \nSoledad\, a young woman from Honduras who fled at age 14 after being abused by her stepfather\, abandoned by her mother\, and forced into child labor. She recently graduated from SFSU. \nEditors:\nSteven Mayers is a writer\, oral historian\, and professor of English at the City College of San Francisco. \nJonathan Freedman is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist\, author\, and writing mentor at the City College of San Francisco. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solito-solita-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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