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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T173000
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SUMMARY:30 Years of Street Sheet
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to our new office to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Sheet newspaper! For three decades Street Sheet has been documenting the realities facing poor and homeless San Franciscans\, and providing a platform for homeless journalists\, storytellers\, poets\, photographers\, and artists who are otherwise ignored. \nWe will be hosting an open mic with featured performers from our Street Sheet team and plenty of space for you to jump up and share poems\, songs\, or memories. We will provide a light dinner\, some adult beverages\, and delicious baked goods! \nWHEN: December 12th @5:30-8pm\nWHERE: Coalition on Homelessness\, 290 Turk Street San Francisco \nFeaturing\n* Tone Oliver\nMotivational Performer and MC\, Tone Oliver has been honing his sound and story as an artist for over 15 years. LA born\, Bay Area based MC offers a refreshing flow and witty\, yet wise word play that often leaves listeners inspired. Oliver has been covered by the SF Chronicle\, KQED and KTVU Fox 2. The father\, rapper and actor is currently working on his 5th solo album\, “Keep Going” set to drop late 2019. \n*Zach K \n* Wayfairy\nhttps://www.facebook.com/wayfairy/\nWayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Finally wheelchair accessible by elevator! Please let us know if you need the elevator when you ring up so we can buzz you in the correct entrance. There are two single stall gender neutral bathrooms available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/30-years-of-street-sheet/
LOCATION:Street Sheet\, 280 Turk St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T180000
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SUMMARY:Fight the Tower! Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender. Fight the Tower is Asian American women scholars’ response and blueprints for resistance. Presenters are the editors\, Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis\, and the contributors\, including Eliza Noh and Kaozong Mouavangsou. \nWei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies. \nKieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California\, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community\, Culture\, and Politics in the Diaspora and co-founder of the social justice movement\, Fight the Tower. \nKaozong N. Mouavangsou is the first Hmong American PhD candidate in the School of Education at The University of California\, Davis. \nEliza Noh is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at California State University\, Fullerton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fight-the-tower-asian-american-women-scholars-resistance/
LOCATION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Performance | 2019 Poets-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of our 2019 Poets-in-Residence program. Tonya Foster and Alan Peláez López will perform their poetry at a reading to celebrate their work created during the Poets-in-Residence program at MoAD. Joining Tonya and Alan will be MoAD Poetry Coordinator and 2018 Poet-in-Residence Raina Léon\, and the Ruth Assawa San Francisco School for the Arts Spoken Arts Director Aimee Suzara. \nThis program will include a wine reception and is free to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/performance-2019-poets-in-residence/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
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SUMMARY:Last Voz of 2019!
DESCRIPTION:End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks\, drinks\, three features\, and an open mic!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/last-voz-of-2019/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams reading from her new book\n\nErosion: Essays of Undoing \npublished by Sarah Critchton Books/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nFierce\, timely\, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist \nTerry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist\, fervent activist\, and stirring writer\, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays\, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land\, of the self\, of belief\, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered\, worn\, and whittled away through wind\, water\, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nShe looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument\, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest\, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction\, citing the drought outside her door and at times\, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge\, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders\, art\, and\, always\, in the land itself. She asks\, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?” \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She and her husband Brooke Williams divide their time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah. \nWhat has been said about the work of Terry Tempest Williams \n“An apostle of life and earth and a soul-revving teller of true stories\, Williams (The Hour of Land\, 2016) brings lyricism\, candor\, mystery\, and factual exactitude to the deeply affecting essays collected here . . . Williams’ exquisite testimony of wonder and wisdom is vitalizing and crucial.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“In a collection of passionate\, galvanizing essays\, activist and teacher Williams shares her intimate connection to the as-yet untamed landscapes of the American West . . . Williams writes with a poetic optimism . . . Stirring.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This anthology of grief\, anger\, and even hope capably reflects Williams’ wise voice.”\n—Kirkus \n“These essays are a joy to read. Terry Tempest Williams is a wise and fierce defender of the wild Earth.”\n—Leslie Marmon Silko\, author of The Turquoise Ledge \n“Terry Tempest Williams’s voice in the clamor is like a hot desert wind blowing away the litter in a crowded room and leaving behind only what has weight\, what is essential. These are essays about the courage to face what is most brutal and monstrous\, by finding what is most beautiful and merciful.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them by Their True Names \n“Luminous\, fearless\, brutally honest. But with this latest book\, Williams takes her spiritual love of the American West—along with her grief\, anger and exasperation at what we continue to do to this place—to a new level. If John Muir ever wrote like this\, most of the West would be in wilderness protection by now. As well\, she knows her way to the human heart.”\n—Timothy Egan\, author of The Immortal Irishman \n“Terry Tempest Williams has rewritten the rules for the way we must engage the natural world and each other. Erosion is both a shout from the edge of what we were and a beckoning to what we must become. Pick up your courage and this book; be prepared to take notes—and action.”\n—Alexandra Fuller\, author of Quiet Until the Thaw \n“Terry Tempest Williams is our great activist laureate. Working out of the lineage of Dickinson\, O’Keeffe\, D. H. Lawrence\, and\, later\, Abbey and Peacock\, she is nonetheless singular and extraordinarily original. She is rooted as juniper yet ephemeral as a sand dune. The forces that have eroded her are rapture and grief. What remains is elemental beauty.”\n—Rick Bass\, author of For a Little While \n“These are the most dangerous of all days for humans on Earth\, and Erosion is the book for our time. Writing on the edge of the sacred\, Terry Tempest Williams’s message bears the power and emotional gifts of a close call with a charging grizzly. There are no stray words. Terry writes with a purity glimpsed in certain outcrops of crystalline rock or the waters filling a chain of alpine lakes. I believe there is no more important writer working today.”\n—Doug Peacock\, author of In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tempest-williams/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:Longest running poetry open mic in Vallejo. Come. Everyone is welcome. 4 minutes per poet. Multiple rounds. Freedom of expression. 2nd Floor Oddfellows Hall. 342 Georgia\, Vallejo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-by-the-bay/
LOCATION:Oddfellows Hall\, 342 Georgia St.\, Vallejo\, CA\, 94590\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BPR Midterm Chapbook Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for the third issue of our chapbook series: MIDTERM 3 – CIRCUITS\, including poems from Leila Weefur\, Leena Joshi\, Colleen Baran\, Louise Akers\, Jennifer Soong\, and Tess Brown-Lavoie. The reading will be hosted at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th St\, Oakland\, @ 8pm. Snacks & beverages & chapbooks provided!!! Come celebrate with us ✨ \nOur wonderful readers for the night include: Leena Joshi\, Nathalie Khankan\, and Leila Weefur. Bios below! \nLEENA JOSHI is an artist and writer currently based in Oakland\, California. Their poetry\, essay\, and visual art practice consider the lateral roots of affect\, gender\, labor\, and desire within a transmedia practice of world building. Leena’s writing can be found in The Felt\, Gramma\, Monday: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery Journal\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. \nNATHALIE KHANKAN is the author of quiet orient riot\, to be published by Omnidawn in 2020\, and winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize\, judge Dawn Lundy Martin. Her work appears in Berkeley Poetry Review and Crab Creek Review\, and is upcoming in jubilat. \nShe teaches Arabic language and literature in the Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley. \nLEILA WEEFUR (She/They/He) is an artist\, writer\, and curator who lives and works in Oakland\, CA. \nThrough video\, installation\, writing\, and lecture-performances they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory\, abject\, hyper surveillance\, and the erotic. It implicates the viewer by controlling the mobility of the audience through fabricated environmental discomfort and strict rules of engagement. The site-specific installations are architectural interventions made up of constructed walls and tempered glass\, simulating systems of control and willful participation. \nWeefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award\, the Murphy & Cadogan award\, and the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. They have worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA\, The Wattis Institute\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, New York. Weefur is a member of The Black Aesthetic and a lecturer at SFAI and UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bpr-midterm-chapbook-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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