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SUMMARY:My Shadow is My Skin virtual book reading
DESCRIPTION:My Shadow is My Skin (University of Texas Press) is a new nonfiction anthology exploring the meaning of being Iranian-American. The collection brings together thirty-two authors\, both established and emerging\, whose writing captures the diversity of of Iranian diasporic experiences. Six contributors (Mandana Chaffa\, Leila Emery\, Katherine Whitney\, Dena Rod\, Shideh Etaat\, and Siamak Vossoughi) will be sharing work from their pieces as part of an online reading at 10 am PST/12 noon CST on Sunday\, May 3rd. The authors welcome all listeners interested in taking part in this effort to tell our own stories with the hope of better understanding our place in the world.\nZoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/827869707
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-shadow-is-my-skin-virtual-book-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:PCSJ Appreciation Party
DESCRIPTION:A special on-line reading featuring Connie Post and Kelly Grace Thomas\nopen mic to follow!\nREGISTER HERE FOR LINK (Free) \nThis is a special event featured every Spring to bring together and thank Poetry Center San Jose members\, friends\, partners and general community for the continued support of PCSJ. Join us via Zoom. Tickets are free. Zoom registration will be emailed to all registrants. Sign-up for the open mic is first come\, first served.
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SUMMARY:Write Now! SF Bay Presents: “Stand Up and Be Counted”
DESCRIPTION:.Interactive reading on Creativity and Activism by 30 Bay Area writers of color and allies. Health care providers\, educators\, and community activists will share prose and poetry on how they are responding to COVID-19. Following the reading\, the audience can join a guided discussion. For Zoom link\, register by clicking on “Find tickets” at this page: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/161388931713355/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon goes virtual!\nSunday\, May 3rd\, 6:00 p.m.\nReadings by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain\, Jennifer Lewis\, and Kendra Tanacea\nHosted by Peter Kline \n\nFull details coming soon – please stay tuned!
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SUMMARY:Shedding Light\, Vanquishing Fear: End-of-Life Planning with the Experts: BJ Miller\, MD\, Katy Butler\, and Shoshana Berger
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Sunita Puri\, MD\nProgram will air Sunday May 3rd\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn a time where COVID-19 looms over us all\, difficult conversations about death have become a very real part of life. But from living rooms to hospital rooms\, there’s widespread resistance to delving into this important topic that touches us all. We tend to perceive death as too scary\, too ugly\, too overwhelming to acknowledge—let alone something to approach in a peaceful\, prepared way. In this informative\, enlightening\, and truly comforting discussion\, four remarkable experts show families and individuals how to take a clear-eyed\, compassionate approach to mortality\, one’s own and that of loved ones. These authors shed light on how medical providers and patients alike can reshape the mentality of fear around the process of dying and create a much better experience for all\, one that can be transformative and extremely meaningful. By exercising agency in planning for the “best possible death\,” we can create our best possible life. \nThis revelatory conversation features journalist Shoshana Berger and palliative care physician BJ Miller\, co-authors of A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\, praised by The Washington Post as “a gentle\, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.” They are joined by award-winning journalist and bestselling writer Katy Butler\, author of two groundbreaking books about the end of life: Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, the Path to a Better Way of Death\, and her latest\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\, hailed as “a roadmap to the end” that “combines medical\, practical\, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). Moderated by Dr. Sunita Puri\, whose memoir That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour is a “profound exploration for what it means for all of us to live—and to die—with dignity and purpose” (People Magazine). Dr. Puri is currently on the frontlines working with COVID-19 patients as the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShoshana Berger and BJ Miller\, A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death\nKaty Butler\, The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life\nSunita Puri\, MD\, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
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SUMMARY:Ainissa Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nThe Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another \nfrom The MIT Press \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials\, the innovations they made possible\, and how these technologies changed us. \nIn The Alchemy of Us\, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks\, steel rails\, copper communication cables\, photographic film\, light bulbs\, hard disks\, scientific labware\, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time\, the inventor who inspired Edison\, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes\, among other things\, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. \nRamirez shows how materials were shaped by inventors\, but also how those materials shaped culture\, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology\, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking\, bias\, and convention. Doing so\, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it’s splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR. \nAinissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate\, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held academic positions at Yale University and MIT. She has written for Time\, Scientific American\, the American Scientist\, and Forbes\, and makes regular appearances on PBS’s SciTech Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ainissa-ramirez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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