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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
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SUMMARY:Rabbit Island Launch
DESCRIPTION:Rabbit Island Launch\n\nVirtual Event \n\n\n\nJoin Community Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island\, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle\, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom\, brilliantly translated by Christina MacSweeney. \nMore information coming soon! \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabbit-island-launch/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Liat Berdugo / The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography\, Aesthetics\, and Politics in Israel and Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Liat Berdugo and her new book The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography\, Aesthetics\, and Politics in Israel and Palestine. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order *signed copies* of The Weaponized Camera here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nDrawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B’Tselem\, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank\, East Jerusalem\, and the Gaza Strip\, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine. \nUsing video stills as core material\, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level\, how Palestinians originally filmed to “shoot back” at Israelis\, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras\, including personal cell phone cameras\, thus creating a simultaneous\, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice\, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen\, but also who is seeing\, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5\,000 hours of footage\, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain\, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict. \nAbout the author\nLiat Berdugo is Assistant Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. She is also an artist\, writer and curator and has exhibited in galleries and festivals nationally and internationally. Her work has won several awards\, including fellowships at the Hambidge Center\, the Vermont Studio center\, and a year-long residency in Tel Aviv\, Israel\, through the Dorot Foundation. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-liat-berdugo-the-weaponized-camera-in-the-middle-east-videography-aesthetics-and-politics-in-israel-and-palestine/
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Suleika Jaouad with Elizabeth Gilbert (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:A searing\, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and\, ultimately\, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. \nIn the summer after graduating from college\, Suleika Jaouad was preparing\, as they say in commencement speeches\, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found\, however\, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. \nIt started with an itch—first on her feet\, then up her legs\, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion\, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and\, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday\, a diagnosis: leukemia\, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that\, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York\, she had lost her job\, her apartment\, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed\, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. \nWhen Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after three and a half years of chemo\, a clinical trial\, and a bone marrow transplant—she was\, according to the doctors\, cured. But as she would soon learn\, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1\,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so\, she realized that she had no idea how to live. \nHow would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend\, Oscar\, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day\, 15\,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous\, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce\, tender\, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again. \nSuleika Jaouad is an Emmy Award–winning writer\, speaker\, cancer survivor\, and activist. She served on Barack Obama’s President’s Cancer Panel\, and her advocacy work\, reporting\, and speaking has been featured at the United Nations\, on Capitol Hill\, and on the TED Talk main stage. When she’s not on the road with her 1972 Volkswagen camper van and her rescue dog Oscar\, she lives in Brooklyn. \nElizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat\, Pray\, Love\, as well as the short story collection\, Pilgrims—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist\, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper’s Bazaar\, Spin\, and The New York Times Magazine\, and her stories have appeared in Esquire\, Story\, and the Paris Review. Her most recent novel is City of Girls.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-suleika-jaouad-with-elizabeth-gilbert-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Kim Stanley Robinson is joined in conversation by Robin Sloan to discuss his latest novel\, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit Books). \n“If I could get policymakers\, and citizens\, everywhere to read just one book this year\, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.” —Ezra Klein \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Ministry for the Future\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020 \nFrom legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. \nThe Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination\, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate\, postapocalyptic world\, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. \nIt is a novel both immediate and impactful\, desperate and hopeful in equal measure\, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. \nAbout Kim Stanley Robinson\nKim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain\, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008\, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine\, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-2/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Ada Calhoun\, Why We Can't Sleep
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual event with Ada Calhoun who will discuss We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis (available in paperback on January 19th)\, an in-depth exploration of the “new” midlife crisis hitting Generation X women—a topic she began writing about in a viral essay on Oprah.com.  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here. \n\nThis is a free event. The book may be preordered below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n\nWhen Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis\, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable\, too? \nCalhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs\, HR trends\, credit card debt averages\, and divorce data. At every turn\, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials\, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age\, problems that were being largely overlooked. \nSpeaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to “have it all\,” Calhoun found that most were exhausted\, terrified about money\, under-employed\, and overwhelmed. Instead of being heard\, they were told instead to lean in\, take “me-time\,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. \nIn Why We Can’t Sleep\, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring\, empowering\, and essential reading for all middle-aged women\, and anyone who hopes to understand them. \n“A superb mix of personal stories and deep research about a generation of women who are facing unprecedented pressure as they enter middle age. It’s at once realistic\, but positive\, asking women to face up to reality\, let go of expectations\, find a support system and accept this stage isn’t forever.” — Huffington Post \nADA CALHOUN is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give\, named one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W magazine; and the history St. Marks Is Dead\, one of the best books of 2015\, according to Kirkus and the Boston Globe. She has collaborated on several New York Times bestsellers\, and written for the New York Times\, New York\, and The New Republic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ada-calhoun-why-we-cant-sleep/
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