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SUMMARY:WATV Presents: Ashia Ajani and The Burl Concentrate
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices Presents: Ashia Ajani and The Burl Concentrate (curated by Wolfman Books) \nYes! We are so excited for this reading! Ashia Ajani and The Burl Concentrate (Connie Zheng and Sarah Dawn Albani) will each read a short selection from their recent work with a Q+A to follow. \nAttendees must register with Eventbrite to get the Zoom address. Thanks! \nAbout the Readers \nAshia Ajani (she/they) is a Black storyteller hailing from Denver\, CO\, Queen City of the Plains. Her work explores the layered relationship between the Black diaspora and Western environmental stewardship. They have been published in Sierra Magazine\, Sage Magazine and Foglifter Press\, among others\, and they are a 2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Finalist. She released her first chapbook\, We Bleed Like Mango\, October 2017. \nSarah-Dawn Albani is a writer and artist\, teaching\, gardening\, and being freaky in Northern California for twenty-one years. Her interdisciplinary work looks for radical ways to improvise our way through the ends of capitalism. Dance and storytelling that seeks to open our networks to the power and potential of the vulnerability therein— form the basis of her most recent works. \nConnie Zheng (she/her) is an artist\, writer and filmmaker based out of Oakland\, CA. In addition to The Burl Concentrate book project\, she is working on a film about seeds and a speculative seed catalogue. She is currently a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, a Collection Fellow at Kadist\, and the Art Director of Quiet Lightning\, and will be starting a PhD in Visual Studies at UC Santa Cruz in the fall. \nAbout We Are The Voices \nThrough a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, this project connects Mills College students with local and national poets\, performers\, writers\, and scholars to collaborate around transformative art and critical scholarship. \nLed by Mills Professor Sheila Lloyd\, We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For: Poetry\, Performance\, and Public Humanities is a five-year\, multi-pronged project that brings visiting artists and scholars to campus\, broadening the conversation for Mills students and building connections with our local community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/watv-presents-ashia-ajani-and-the-burl-concentrate/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T173000
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SUMMARY:Local best-selling author David Talbot in conversation with Rose Aguilar
DESCRIPTION:Grab your favorite beverage and snacks and join THD for a happy hour in a personal conversation between David Talbot\, local well-known writer and historian\, with Rose Aguilar\, our own local journalist and radio broadcast host of Your Call on KALW. \nTickets available via Eventbrite link or by email to social@thd.org. \nEventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telegraph-hill-dwellers-hosts-a-virtual-happy-hour-with-david-talbot-in-conversation-with-rose-tickets-105441000872 \nRaffle:\nTHD has purchased 5 signed copies of David’s newest book:\nBetween Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke \nAll participants in this virtual event will automatically be entered into the raffle to win a copy. Drawing will be held live at the conclusion of this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/local-best-selling-author-david-talbot-in-conversation-with-rose-aguilar/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #3: Norma Liliana Valdez and Alan Pelaez Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our third Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful YesYes Books. Our writers are Norma Liliana Valdez (author of Preparing the Body\, YesYes Books) and Alan Pelaez Lopez (author of to love and mourn in the age of displacement\, Nomadic Press). \nAmie Zimmerman from YesYes Books will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler from Nomadic Press will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of raising $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #3: Norma Liliana Valdez and Alan Pelaez Lopez\nTime: May 21\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85956953066 \nMeeting ID: 859 5695 3066\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85956953066# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,85956953066# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 859 5695 3066\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdfEJbPmJE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-3-norma-liliana-valdez-and-alan-pelaez-lopez/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T200000
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SUMMARY:Write from the Gut! Virtual Reading + open mic
DESCRIPTION:Join the SF Creative Writing Institute for an online reading by former and current students\, faculty\, and friends to celebrate the end of our Spring 2020 term. The reading will include an open mic. All are welcome. \nPlease sign up in advance by putting your request in the event comments or direct message Hollie Hardy. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89167370086?pwd=aDNkMHFYYk5mWlArNnR5NUhVczVZdz09 \nMeeting ID: 891 6737 0086\nPassword: 609416\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,89167370086#\,\,1#\,609416# US
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-from-the-gut-virtual-reading-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T180000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. All interested readers\, please sign up to perform below. For those interested in being part of the audience\, no need to rsvp. Everyone is welcome. \nSign up to perform on the MoAD website:\nhttps://www.moadsf.org/event/open-mic-night/?instance_id=15674 \nOPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Because we remain closed due to the global pandemic COVID-19\, we will host our Open Mic online via ZOOM. Because we had such an awesome first virtual open mic\, we will bring them to you TWICE per month instead of once. Look for MoAD Open Mic this month on the FIRST & THIRD THURSDAYS during the closure. Because we love MoAD and MoAD loves you! \nDONATIONS OF ANY AMOUNT ARE ALWAYS WELCOME\, SO IF YOU ARE ABLE TO\, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO MOAD ONLINE https://www.moadsf.org/support-us/make-a-donation/ OR DONATING THROUGH GIVE BY CELL BY TEXTING THE WORD (USING ALL CAPS): MOADSF TO THE NUMBER: 56512 ON YOUR CELL PHONE\, THEN FOLLOW THE LINK PROVIDED TO MAKE A DONATION. ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING MOAD AND CONTINUING TO BRING YOU ENGAGING PROGRAMMING. \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98801482370?pwd=MU4yMG9wYmJEdEtrNkxWUVk3ZmFlZz09\nMeeting ID: 988 0148 2370\nPassword: 033493\nThe dial-in number for folks without smartphones who only want to listen\, not video conference: 669 900 9128 \nHosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nOur featured artist this month: \nNOEL QUIÑONES \nNoel Quiñones is a Puerto Rican writer\, performer\, and community organizer from the Bronx. As a writer\, he’s received fellowships from Poets House\, the Poetry Foundation\, CantoMundo\, Candor Arts\, and SAFTA (Sundress Academy for the Arts). His work has been published in POETRY\, the Latin American Review\, Rattle\, Kweli Journal\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and former director of Project X\, a Bronx-based arts organization\, and a current M.F.A. candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi. Follow him at noelpquinones.com or online @noelpquinones.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
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SUMMARY:That We May Live: Dorothy Tse and Natascha Bruce in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\nSurreal stories for a surreal time. Hong Kong surrealist writer Dorothy Tse and translator Natascha Bruce join Calico editor Sarah Coolidge to talk about That We May Live. \nThat We May Live\, the first book in the brand-new Calico Series\, brings you work by some of today’s most exciting writers from China and Hong Kong\, including Dorothy Tse (tr. Natascha Bruce)\, Zhu Hui (tr. Michael Day)\, and Enoch Tam (tr. Jeremy Tiang). Lightly touching on issues of urbanization\, sexuality\, and propaganda\, the collection builds a world both utterly disorienting and disturbing familiar\, prompting the question: Where does reality end and absurdity begin in a world pushed to its very limits? \nThis event is presented by The Center for Literary Arts of San Jose and will be streamed live on Facebook and Instagram. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nDorothy Tse\n\n\nDorothy Tse is an award-winning writer from Hong Kong. She has published three story collections in Chinese and one in English\, Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman). She was cofounder of the Fleurs des lettres literary journal and currently teaches literature and creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nNatascha Bruce\n\n\nNatascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her work includes short stories by Hong Kong surrealist writer Dorothy Tse\, Lonely Face by Singapore’s Yeng Pway Ngon and\, with Nicky Harman\, A Classical Tragedy by Xu Xiaobin.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDITOR\nSarah Coolidge\n\n\nSarah Coolidge received her BA in comparative literature from Bard College. She enjoys reading books in Spanish and English\, and she writes essays on photography and international literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/that-we-may-live-dorothy-tse-and-natascha-bruce-in-conversation/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T200000
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SUMMARY:This is Now - Facts in Crisis
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nJoin us online when political commentator\, author\, and international affairs expert Tom Nichols returns for a new conversation. You may know Nichols from his bestselling book\, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. \nSince his previous visit with us in 2017\, the book has become even more relevant: in a time of public emergency and political unrest\, self-styled “experts” are pontificating\, posting\, and tweeting inaccurate opinions as fact. How do we cut through the noise to find the truth? How do we determine who deserves our trust and attention? \nWith his wicked wit and his vast wealth of knowledge\, Tom Nichols walks us through it all. Reserve a spot to hear his conversation with journalist-in-residence Angie Coiro. \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited. One registered attendee will be given access to an event per email; please make sure that each registered attendee in your “order” has a unique email address associated with their name.** \nIf you wish to support our community programs\, tax-deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-facts-in-crisis/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T200000
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SUMMARY:The Racket : The Long Gone w/ Keith Wilson
DESCRIPTION:We’re doing a weekly reading series while the world continues to be what it is. \nThis week we’re celebrating Chicago-based poet Keith Wilson. He’s the author of the much lauded collection from Copper Canyon Press Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love. \nOur theme – THE LONG GONE – digs into the idea of what we long for in the past and in the future. The people\, the places\, the experiences – all of those we’ve left behind. \nDoors at 7. Show at 7:15. \nZOOM ROOM LINK TO COME. \nThe Readers (for now): \nKeith Wilson\nKristina Sergeevna Ten\nKevin Dublin\nSydney Vogl
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-the-long-gone-w-keith-wilson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Rick Hanson\, Neurodharma
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with psychologist and bestselling author Rick Hanson\, Ph.D.\, who will discuss his new book\, Neurodrama: New Science\, Ancient Wisdom\, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. The breakthroughs of the great teachers are not reserved for the chosen few. Learn seven practices for embodying them ourselves in daily life to handle stress\, heal old pain\, feel at ease with others\, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n“This deeply researched and compassionate guide offers an easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today’s increasingly complex world.” –Lori Gottlieb\, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone \nThroughout history\, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong\, happy and loving\, as any person can ever be. And now recent science is revealing how these remarkable ways of being are based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system\, making them more attainable than ever before. In Neurodharma\, the follow up to his classic Buddha’s Brain\, New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson\, PhD\, not only explores the new neuroscience of awakening\, but also offers a bold yet plausible plan for reverse-engineering peak experiences\, sense of oneness\, and even enlightenment itself. And he does so with his trademark blend of solid science and warm encouragement\, guiding you along this high-reaching path with good humor\, accessible tools\, and personal examples. A groundbreaking yet practical book\, Neurodharma shares seven practices for strengthening the neural circuitry of profound contentment and inner peace—qualities that offer essential support in everyday life while supporting the exploration of the most radical reaches of human consciousness. Step by step\, it explains how to apply these insights in order to cultivate unshakable presence of mind\, a courageous heart\, and serenity in a changing world. The breakthroughs of the great teachers are not reserved for the chosen few. Dr. Hanson shows how we can embody them ourselves in daily life to handle stress\, heal old pain\, feel at ease with others\, and rest in the sense of our natural goodness. \nRick Hanson\, Ph.D.\, is a psychologist\, senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley\, and New York Times bestselling author. His books are available in 28 languages and include Resilient\, Hardwiring Happiness\, Just One Thing\, Buddha’s Brain\, and Mother Nurture. To date\, his books have sold over 750\,000 copies in English. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom\, he has been an invited speaker at NASA\, Oxford\, Stanford\, Harvard\, and other major universities\, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. He and his wife live in San Rafael\, California\, and have two adult children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rick-hanson-neurodharma/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T210000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays at Willow Glen Library feat. Rachelle Escamilla!
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader: Rachelle Escamilla!\nOpen mic to follow.\nFree and open to the public with Eventbrite registration\, tix booth closes at 6:30pm on 5/21. \nRachelle Escamilla is the descendant of campesinos and cannery workers from San Benito County\, California. Her first book\, “Imaginary Animal”\, won the 2014 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry and is being adapted into an off Broadway play in New York with Director Katherine Wilkinson. Her second collection of poetry “me drawing a picture of me[n]” was published in 2019 (Willow Publishing). Escamilla is the producer and host of the longest running poetry radio show in the United States\, Out of Our Minds\, and the founder of the Poets & Writers Coalition at San Jose State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-at-willow-glen-library-feat-rachelle-escamilla/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T220000
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nan ONLINE Open Mic w/Ned Buskirk\, the You’re Going to Die team & music from Trevor Bahnson!\nYeah. It’s an ONLINE OPEN MIC.\nI need it. You need it. Let’s do it. \nThursday\, May 21st\nVirtual Doors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/35RWDmt \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @YG-2D\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Online!\nis an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call\, with directions posted when you enter & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nAnd if being seen/heard doesn’t sound appealing to you right & you’d like simply to be an audience member\, you can absolutely keep your camera + mic off\, & journal or meditate or lay flat on your face (or do whatever you’d like to do to make sure the call serves you best)! \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – NED WILL VIRTUALLY HUG YOU WITH A NEDDY BEAR IF HE HAS TO! \nPlease contact ned@yg2d.com with any questions\, concerns or feedback!\nLooking forward to sharing a special evening together… \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-online-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T193000
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SUMMARY:Karolina Waclawiak: Life Events
DESCRIPTION:Karolina Waclawiak discusses her new novel Life Events. \nPraise for Life Events \n“Waclawiak writes with emotional precision and explores the tragedy of existence by masterfully walking the line between suffering and hope.” —Arianna Rebolini\, BuzzFeed \n“Life Events is a hypnotic novel that beautifully grapples with fundamental questions about how to die and how to live. Karolina Waclawiak transports the reader into the streets of Los Angeles\, the deserts of the southwest\, the apartments of the dying\, and a woman’s life at a moment of profound change. Filled with compelling\, provocative details about the work of “exit guides” for terminally ill people\, Life Events is both a mid-life bildungsroman and a meditation on self-determination. I can’t stop thinking about this novel.” —Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \n“In this exquisite novel\, Karolina Waclawiak rightfully recasts the American West as the territory of wandering dreams and dreamers and the land where this life and the improbable afterlife most often collide. Life Events is a deeply moving meditation on death and the dying\, the fierce weight of marriage and family\, and the unrelenting absurdity of being alive.” —Hannah Lillith Assadi\, author of Sonora \nAbout Life Events \nA woman at a crossroads learns the only way to reclaim her life is to help others die \nKarolina Waclawiak’s breakout novel\, Life Events\, follows Evelyn\, who\, at thirty-seven\, is on the verge of divorce and anxiously dreading the death of everyone she loves. She combats her existential crisis by avoiding her husband and aimlessly driving along the freeways of California looking for an escape—one that eventually comes when she discovers a collective of “exit guides.” Evelyn enrolls in their training course\, where she learns to provide companionship and a final exit for terminally ill patients seeking a conscious departure. \nShe meets Daphne\, a dying woman still full of life; Lawrence\, an aging porn king; and Daniel\, who seems too young to die and whom Evelyn falls for\, despite knowing better\, not to mention the exit guide code. Each client opens something new in Evelyn\, allowing her a chance to access her own grief and confront the self-destructive ways she suppresses her pain. When Evelyn travels through the Southwest to an afterlife convention to further her death education\, she must finally face her complicated relationship with her alcoholic father and reconcile her life choices. \nSensitively observed and darkly funny\, Life Events is a moving\, enlivening story of the human condition: the doldrums of loneliness\, the consuming regret of past mistakes\, and the thrill\, finally\, of finding meaning—and love—where you least expect it. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karolina-waclawiak-life-events/
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:Online Bookclub: Join us in reading and discussing Roy Jacobsen's The Unseen
DESCRIPTION:Introducing our online book club\nJoin us as we read The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen\, a bestseller in Norway and finalist for the Booker International Prize in 2017. We will meet virtually on Thursday\, May 21 for a conversation about the book with Molly\, Stephen\, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis\, who published the book in April. \nThis is what Stephen had to say about the novel for the Literary Hub’s April “Books You Should Read” round-up: \n“The Unseen is a novel of elemental force with the bearing of myth. It tells of love and loss and the struggle for existence on a rough-hewn island where simple joys flash in brief moments between endless travail. It is a masterpiece.” \nAbout The Unseen\nIslanders are never afraid\, if they were\, they wouldn’t be able to live here. Born on the Norwegian island that bears her name\, Ingrid Barr y’s world is circumscribed by storm-scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of building a quay that will end their isolation\, and her mother longs for the island of her youth\, and the country faces its own sea change: the advent of a modern world\, and all its attendant unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly translated into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\, The Unseen is a profoundly moving exploration of family\, resilience\, and fate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-bookclub-join-us-in-reading-and-discussing-roy-jacobsens-the-unseen/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-6/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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