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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, was a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, a New York Times editor’s choice\, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Kate Schatzand Miriam Klein Stahl for their new book\, Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People. Please join us! \nFrom the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural movements in American history. \n\n“An engaging\, fascinating\, and necessary book that speaks truth to power.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \n\nIn Rad American History A-Z\, each letter of the alphabet tells the story of a significant moment in America’s progressive history–one that isn’t always covered in history classes: A is for Alcatraz\, and the Native occupation of 1969; C is for the Combahee River Raid\, a Civil War action planned in part by Union spy Harriet Tubman; Z is for Zuccotti Park\, and the Occupy movement that briefly took over the world. \nPaired with dynamic paper-cut art by Miriam Klein Stahl\, the entries by Kate Schatz explore several centuries of politics\, culture\, art\, activism\, and liberation\, including radical librarians\, Supreme Court cases\, courageous youth\, punk rocker grrrls\, Southern quilts\, and modern witches. In addition to the twenty-six core stories\, short sidebars expand the discussion\, and dictionary-style lists refer readers to additional key moments. So while F is for Federal Theater Project\, a New Deal-era program that employed thousands of artists\, F is also for Freedom Rides and First Amendment. E is for Earth First!\, but also for Endangered Species Act and Equal Rights Amendment. \nThere are tales of triumph\, resilience\, creation\, and hope. Each engaging\, fact-filled narrative illustrates an eye-opening moment that shows us how we got to now–and what we need to know about our histories to create a just and sustainable future. \n\n“I wish I’d had Rad American History A–Z when I was growing up; it’s a book I hope to read to my children one day. In such chaotic political times\, this is a critical tool for young people to know how change happens\, and to know that they\, too\, can make change happen. This book belongs on all library shelves as a transformative approach to history as we know it.”– Alicia Garza\, cofounder of Black Lives Matter Global Network \n\nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. With illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl\, she is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is an artist\, educator\, and activist. She is the illustrator of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, and paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School\, where she has taught since 1995. Photo by Casey Orr. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rad American History A-Z\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-american-history-a-z-movements-and-moments-that-demonstrate-the-power-of-the-people/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lanyadoo & T. Greenaway: Astrology for Real Relationships
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Jessica Lanyadoo & T. Greenaway to read from their new book\, Astrolody for Real Relationships: Understanding You\, Me and How We all Get Alongon Tuesday\, March 10th at 7pm. \nA modern\, inclusive guide to astrology that will illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family\, your friends\, and yourself. \nWhen it comes to friendship\, family\, and romance\, we all want the same things: to love and be loved\, to communicate\, to fight fair\, and to feel okay in our own skin. Astrology for Real Relationships is a modern\, practical guide to life’s least practical matters–relationships of all kinds and matters of the heart–that will help you understand your blind spots\, blocks\, and fears so you can make choices that leave you happy and fulfilled. Full of real talk about attraction\, dating\, sex\, frenemies\, self-love\, and how to deal with family\, this book will help you build and maintain strong connections–with your crushes\, your spouse\, your boss\, or your mom–and uncover and get what you reallywant in relationships\, not what you think you should want. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nJessica Lanyadoo has met with thousands of clients of the past two decades. She is an internationally respected astrologer and psychic medium\, with fans and clients across the globe. Listen to her weekly show\, Ghost of a Podcast\, read her horoscopes\, and use the free birth chart generator on her website at lovelanyadoo.com. \nT. Greenaway is a journalist\, poet\, and editor who has been writing and editing for nearly two decades. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the NPR website\, the Guardian\, Food & Wine\, Mother Jones\, Gastronomica\, and Modern Farmer\, and on Grist\, where she was an editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-lanyadoo-t-greenaway-astrology-for-real-relationships/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Nomadic Press \nwith Tureeda Mikell\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Ayodele Nzinga\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Genny Lim\, James Cagney\, Dr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett\, music by Azuah \nNomadic Press is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that supports the works of emerging and established writers and artists. Through publications (including translations) and performances\, Nomadic Press aims to build community among artists across disciplines. \nTo learn more visit: www.nomadicpress.org \nEducator\, consultant\, poet\, griot/elocutionist/story medicine woman\, Tureeda Mikell began working the healing arts in 1977 via poetry\, storytelling\, and QiGong energy therapy. Mikell is the founder of Tree of Life Health Literacy Project and works in collaboration with California Poets in the Schools. In 2018\, Mikell was the Eth-Noh-Tec NuWa Delegate from the US to Beijing\, China\, in Gengcun Village of renowned storytellers in collaboration with the University of Beijing on mission to heal cultural boundaries. Mikell has been a featured reader with Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, California\, presented Al Young (named poet laureate of California in 2015) with the lifetime achievement award at the 2018 Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has opened for Saul Williams at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. She is a BAWP Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education\, has worked and read with the late Amiri Baraka via EastSide Arts Alliance\, and is one of the co-founders of the Black Writers Conference in Otisville\, New York.  Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press\, 2020) is her first full-length collection of poetry. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first began performing his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar’s Thursday night readings and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe\, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show\, “The Spanglish Power Hour\,” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nAyodele Nzinga is a renaissance woman. A writer\, lyricist\, director\, producer\, actress\, dramaturg\, and social architect; her motto is\, “I create\, therefore I am.” Her work appears in Juice Magazine\, VISION Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, Pan African Journal of Poetry\, Environmental Terrorist Anthology\, Say it Loud\, Black Magnolias Literary Journal\, and ChickenBones: A Journal. Her book\, Horse Eaters\, is available from Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection\, SorrowLand Oracle\, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2020. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His book\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series)\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. She has collaborated with such jazz legends as the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis\, and Eddie Marshall\, as well as Bay Area musicians Broun Fellinis\, John Santos\, Anthony Brown\, Francis Wong\, and Jon Jang. She has appeared at jazz festivals throughout the US and poetry festivals in Venezuela\, Italy\, and Bosnia. \nLim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the author of five poetry collections—Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo—and is the co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, which won the American Book Award. A recipient of a SF Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship\, Lim is currently at work on a book of poetry about Jazz legends from the Behop Era and beyond. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland\, California. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Cagney is the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner for his first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog. \nDr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett is a long-time scholar activist and writer who was instrumental in the development of the academic field of Black/Ethnic Studies. Along with such major literary artists as Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) and Sonia Sanchez\, he was a major contributor to the establishment  of the Black Arts Movement. Dr. Garrett’s plays\, short fiction\, and social essays have been published in Black Scholar\, Journal of Pan African Studies\, and the seminal BAM collection\, Black Fire. James Garrett is presently at work on a  memoir of his life in political movements in the US\, Africa\, and the Americas from the 1960s to the present. \nAzuah’s music weaves roots in alternative folk and soul with a poet’s sensibility and an unforgettable voice to create an infectious sound all her own. A Bay Area native\, she has played all over the West Coast from the Roxy in Los Angeles to stages in Oakland and San Francisco. Known for her evocative lyrics and haunting melodies\, Azuah captures the listener’s ear from first note to last strum with a sound that can only come from the depths of an old soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andy Weinberger presents An Old Man's Game
DESCRIPTION:Longtime bookseller Andy Weinberger reads and signs copies of his debut novel\, An Old Man’s Game.  \nBeginning when a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles\, An Old Man’s Game follows retired private eye Amos Parisman–a sixtyish\, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea–who is hired by the temple’s board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple\, tragic accident\, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear\, and Amos uncovers a world of treachery and hurt that shakes a large L.A. Jewish community to its core. \n \nAndy Weinberger is a longtime bookseller who opened Readers’ Books in Sonoma\, California\, with his wife\, Lilla Weinberger\, in 1991. Born in New York\, he grew up in the Los Angeles area and studied poetry and Chinese history at the University of New Mexico. He lives in Sonoma\, where Readers’ Books continues to thrive. This is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-weinberger-presents-an-old-mans-game/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katie M. Flynn
DESCRIPTION:Katie M. Flynn discusses her debut novel\, The Companions. \nPraise for The Companions \n“Beautifully atmospheric and emotionally intense\, The Companions is an unnerving and engrossing story. The radiant\, somber voice of this near-future speculative novel ratchets the suspense while also illuminating what makes us human and how we endure beyond death. This is a spellbinding novel that will linger with you.” —Kassandra Montag\, author of After the Flood \n“With deft narration and unforgettable characters\, Katie M. Flynn weaves a tale of high-tech\, dystopian reincarnation. Each detail is beautifully sketched and thrilling to discover\, creating a near-future world of endless fascination. The Companions is a compelling\, gripping\, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction.” —Jennie Melamed\, author of Gather the Daughters \n“This sweeping novel of near-future dystopia has an ensemble cast and covers continents and years of time\, but it never loses its intimacy and immediacy. There’s a deeply moving humanity to each of these characters—even the ones who aren’t quite human. I loved this book so much I didn’t want it to end.” –Dan Chaon\, author of Ill Will \nAbout The Companions \nStation Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. \nIn the wake of a highly contagious virus\, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers\, the living can’t go out\, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms\, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying\, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death\, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation\, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. \nSixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate\, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands\, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away\, searching for the woman who killed her. \nLilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac’s journey through an exquisitely imagined Northern California\, the story is told from eight different points of view—some human\, some companion—that explore the complex shapes love\, revenge\, and loneliness take when the dead linger on.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-m-flynn/
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:Poetry Santa Cruz: Doren Robbins and Jory Post at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature local poets Doren Robbins and Jory Post. \nDoren Robbins is a contemporary American poet\, prose poet\, fiction writer\, essayist\, mixed media artist\, and educator. As a cultural activist\, he has organized and developed projects for Amnesty International\, the Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund\, the Romero Relief Fund\, and poetsagainstthewar.org. His latest book is an in-depth critical study titled\, Apocalypse Contemporary: A Sequence-By-Sequence Overview On Sharon Doubiago’s Naked to the Earth (2019). \nJory Post has been an educator and writer for 40 years as well as making handmade books and journals with his wife\, Karen\, as JoKa Press. He participates in a playwriting group\, a fiction writing group\, and a poetry workshop with Santa Cruz County poet laureate\, Danusha Laméris. He is the cofounder and editor of phren-z\, an online literary magazine\, serving Santa Cruz County writers for 8 years. His latest book of poetry is titled The Extra Year\, poems written after a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2018. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-doren-robbins-and-jory-post-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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