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SUMMARY:Revolution Books 40th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Sahar Delijani\, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez\, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books 40th Anniversary. \n6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments\n7pm Program & champagne toast \nThis is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise\, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity. \nYou feel this when you first walk through the door and find the literature\, poetry\, history\, science\, art\, and the revolutionary theory for a radically different world. You experience programs and engagements with us and with each other that percolate with emancipatory possibility. \nRevolution Books is alive with the scientific understanding that a different and better world is possible. RB is the political\, intellectual\, and cultural center of a movement for an actual revolution and that is why it is a unique\, incredible bookstore—a resource for the world. The heart of the store is the framework for unleashing the revolutionary potential of humanity: the breakthrough in scientifically knowing and radically changing the world through revolution\, the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. Avakian emerged from the 60s in Berkeley\, and is a leader who never gave up asking the hard questions of the road forward to human emancipation and developing the path to that future. \nThe store still concentrates and captures what was best in Berkeley in the 60s—the wildness and fury and intellectual\, cultural and scientific daring and rebellion of the times. At RB we seek to foster a culture of revolt against a revolting culture while nurturing art that imagines in the present what a future world and people could be. And at RB people experience and can take up the science of revolution in the extensive body of work of Bob Avakian that shatters demoralized defeatist preconceptions that the misery and spirit crushing world today is all that could be. \nThere is a reason the fascists who come to Berkeley have focused on Revolution Books and attacked it again and again. It has to do with how they hate the Enlightenment—hate critical thinking\, search for the truth; and how they see that revolutionary communism is fundamentally opposed to everything they are about. \nThere is all this and much more to celebrate about Revolution Books—both parts of its name. Join with the staff of Revolution Books and its broader community to make this anniversary\, and the future of this unique place all it needs to be. Keep Revolution Books the vibrant\, daring intellectual center for an actual revolution it must be now more than ever.
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LOCATION:Revolution Books\, 2444 Durant Ave.\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
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LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Disobedient Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:February is the month of love and loneliness\, Pisces and Leap Year. But we’re doing our own thing. In honor of all that is wrong in the world\, we’re celebrating DISOBEDIENCE. Tell us about being naughty\, or just plain bad\, about subverting expectations\, talking back\, bucking the system\, civil or marital or animal disobedience\, about saying no. Or yes. Or don’t do any of that. I’m not the boss of you. I’m not even your real mom. \nFebruary featured writers: Yume Kim & Georgina Marie \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is also a Kundiman fellow and has previously attended the Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat during the summer of 2012 at Fordham University. Her recent chapbook\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Additionally some of her works can also be found in the following journals: gesture\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, West Wind Review\, Transfer\, Sugared Water\, Writing Without Walls\, and The East Bay Review. \nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lake County\, Northern California. She was one of three finalists for the 2018-2020 Lake County Poet Laureate term and is in the running for the 2020-2022 term. She is involved in her literary community as a writer\, supporter of writers\, and organizer and participant of poetry events. She has participated in readings in Lake\, Mendocino\, Napa\, Alameda\, and San Francisco counties. In 2019\, she served as editor for RESTORE\, a collection of written word and visual arts for the Middletown Art Center\, was guest editor for author Nicole Gulotta’s online writers support group\, and had an ekphrastic poem in collaboration with Los Angeles artist Richard Chow featured at the Griffin Museum of Phptography in Boston\, Massachusetts. She currently hosts the Harbin Writers Collective at Harbin Hot Springs and aims to continue encouraging and promoting the literary movement in Lake County. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook\, Finding the Roots of Water\, in 2018 and recently completed her second chapbook\, Tree Speak\, in 2019. In 2020 she is working on her full-length manuscript to submit to publishers.
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LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell on her book How to Do Nothing\, Resisting the Attnetion Economy. Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oakland whose work mines second-hand imagery to bring into focus culture and economies for a clearer understanding of social structures. The author of How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy\, her work has been featured in The Economist\, Wired\, Die Zeit\, and Le Soir. Jenny Odell teaches digital art and physical design at Stanford. \n“An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us.”—Annie Vainshtein\, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \n“An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency\, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it.”—Jennifer Szalai\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Press presents…\nBook Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok\nSat Feb 29\, 7pm\nEastSide Cultural Center\n2277 International Blvd. Oakland\n& Bandung Books\n2289 International Blvd. Oakland\nFREE COMMUNITY EVENT • accessible venue \nJoin us for a special evening\, as we celebrate Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection\, A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON. Featuring a traditional blessing dance by Morodok Khmer Performing Arts & readings by poets Safia Elhillo\, Charif Shanahan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, sam sax \, Hieu Minh Nguyen\, and Charleen McClure. After the show\, there will be a book signing next door at Bandung Books. \nABOUT THE BOOK: In this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \nLearn more here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/ \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020) and YEAR ZERO\, winner of a 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, selected by Marilyn Chin. In 2018\, her work was recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, CA. She is originally from Lancaster\, PA. [Photo Credit: Andria Lo] \nVisit her website here: www.monicasok.com
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LOCATION:Eastside Cultural Center\, 2277 International Blvd\, Oakland\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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