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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T160000
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SUMMARY:Eastwind's End of Year Celebration!
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of the year with friends at Eastwind Books of Berkeley! We would like to thank our dedicated volunteers\, customers\, and community members for all of the support they have given Eastwind throughout the year. Come for the fun\, raffle prizes\, food and entertainment. Stock up on holiday gifts and books tor the winter break. \nHappy Holidays and New Year from Eastwind Staff!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastwinds-end-of-year-celebration/
LOCATION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Jamel Brinkley and Chia-Chia Lin: Winter 2019
DESCRIPTION:presents our Winter Reading\nSaturday\, Dec 7\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)  \n\n\nfeaturing\n\n\n\nJamel Brinkley\n(A Lucky Man)\nFinalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction\n“A Lucky Man is just one of those collections that takes your breath away: the voices we hear\, the people we meet\, they scratch and pull and ache and rage\, revealing secrets we usually keep hidden. Every line is pitch perfect. Jamel Brinkley is a writer of extraordinary talent.” —Daniel Alarcón\, author of The King is Always Above the People\n\nChia-Chia Lin\n(The Unpassing)\nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\n“A singularly vast and captivating novel . . . What makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s mythmaking about itself.” –Brian Haman\, The New York Times Book Review\n \nand many more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-jamel-brinkley-and-chia-chia-lin-winter-2019/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T190000
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SUMMARY:I Think About Your Hands - Belgium-based Poet Marina Kazakova
DESCRIPTION:As the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death is commemorated this year\, a Belgium-based poet Marina Kazakova prepared a poetry programme inspired by and devoted to the great artist and his gorgeous country. The hands drawn by da Vinci in his portrait paintings as well as his famous study of arms and hands probably represent the most exquisite visualisation of hands in the history of art. \nMarina will perform a selection of poems inspired by da Vinci’s works\, Italy and Russia. The selected poems reflect the scope of human emotion\, as well as relevant issues facing present-day world of Europe: hate crimes\, migrants\, discrimination\, body commodification. \n*** \nMarina Kazakova (b. Gorky\, Russia\, 1983) is a Belgium-based writer\, poet and audio-visual artist. Published internationally in magazines and journals (Three Rooms Press “Maintenant”\, “AntiNarrative Journal”\, “Crannog”\, “Duck Lake Books”\, “Writing in a Woman’s Voice”)\, Marina is a frequent performer\, she has been shortlisted at different poetry/ film-poetry competitions and was awarded various prizes. \nShe is author of verse novel “Tishe…Piano”\, the film adaptation of which was shortlisted for International Short Film Festival Leuven 2013\, Miami Indie Wise Festival 2018\, XpoNorth Festival 2018\, and got ’The Best Narrative Short’ Award at the International Film Festival behalf Savva Morozov in Moscow in 2015. \nHer literature works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the challenges posed both by memory and grief. \nMarina holds a Master in Public Relations and in Transmedia. Currently\, she is PR Officer at ‘Victim Support Europe’ (Brussels) and working on her practice-based PhD in Arts “Lyric Poem. A research on how the unique characteristics of lyric poetry can be expressed in audio-visual medium” at Luca School of Arts (KULeuven).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-think-about-your-hands-belgium-based-poet-marina-kazakova/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T220000
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CREATED:20191028T065440Z
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SUMMARY:Ugly Beauty
DESCRIPTION:Poetry & Performance Art Open Mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ugly-beauty/
LOCATION:The Beat Dance Studio\, 2560 9th St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
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SUMMARY:Howard Zinn Book Fair: Strike! Discovering Our Power
DESCRIPTION:Howard Zinn Book Fair 2019\nSunday December 8th\n10am to 6pm\nCity College of San Francisco\, Mission Campus\n1125 Valencia Street \nWe are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair will take place on December 8\, 2019 at CCSF Mission Campus. The theme of this year’s book fair is “Strike! Discovering Our Power.” We selected this theme to celebrate the ways in which everyday people discover their ability to work together. Inspired by the wave of strikes across the United States in the past year\, the massive General Strikes in India\, and the recent uprisings in Algeria and Sudan\, we expand the idea of the strike to include all of the ways people can take collective action to preserve their homes\, protect life on earth\, respect indigeneity\, shut down the machinery that produces racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, and inequality\, and build movements that are strong enough to last. The Strike! is not only about withdrawing our labor\, but about redirecting it to create a better world. \nThe Howard Zinn Book Fair will host dozens of 90 min session slots for workshops\, readings\, panels and performances.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-zinn-book-fair-strike-discovering-our-power/
LOCATION:San Francisco City College\, 1125 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T163000
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SUMMARY:Small Press Book Bazaar!
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public; museum admission is free on this day \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet us at SFMOMA and around the Bay for Local Affairs\, a series dedicated to local arts communities. Join us as we celebrate Bay Area culture and artists of all disciplines\, and share ideas\, good will\, food\, and drink. \nThis holiday season\, join us for a festive book sale on opening day of the new exhibition Printed Publics: Contemporary Art and Design Publishing in the Bay Area. In collaboration with The Black Aesthetic\, Cantíl\, Colpa Press\, The Poetry Center\, and Small Press Distribution\, we’ve invited a number of small local presses to present their diverse wares. Get a jump on holiday gift buying — or shop for yourself! \n\nVendors\n2727 California Street\nAtelos\nAunt Lute Books\nCommune Editions\nFiction Advocate\nFloss Editions\nilletante collective\nKelsey Street Press\nKRUPSKAYA\nLAND AND SEA\nMost Ancient\nNIAD Art Center\nNight Diver Press\nNomadic Press\nProject Kalahati\nRE/Search\nRITE Editions\nSming Sming Books\nStripe SF\nTBW Books\nTransgress Press\nUndertone Collective\nVisible Publications\nWolfman Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-press-book-bazaar/
LOCATION:SF MoMa\, 151 Third St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T200000
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SUMMARY:DA do SF 7
DESCRIPTION:Come to SPECS Bar on Sunday\, December 8 at 6pm as 3RP Co-directors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges present their annual Dada Journal MAINTENANT reading with Bay Area contributors –SF Poets & Legends Carol Dorf\, Lorene Zouzounis\, Robert Duncan\, Jack Hirschman\, Maw Shein Win\, Allison Davis\, Tom Stolmar\, Marc Olmsted\, Suzy Kaplan Olmsted\, Richard Stone\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Mahnaz Badihian\, Gerald Nicosia\, Mara Patricia Hernandez\, Santiago Amaya\, Julian Mithra\, and all the way from Brussels –Marina Kazakova!!! \nWe will have copies of our internationally renowned MAINTENANT 13: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art on hand for purchase and signing. \nAnd stay for a special musical performance by Fitz and Webber –Wendy Fitz on Piano and Steve Webber on Bass. 8-10pm. \nSpec’s Bar is in North Beach\, right across the street from City Lights Bookstore at 12 William Saroyan Place. Admission its free. Showtime is 6-8\, but to get the full Spec’s experience\, come early and stay late!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/da-do-sf-7/
LOCATION:Specs Bar\, 12 William Saroyan Place\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Three Rooms Press":MAILTO:info@threeroomspress.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T210000
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SUMMARY:San José Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:feature: tba\nHosted by Santa Clara Couty Poet Laureate Mighty Mike McGee\ndoors and sign up list opens at 6:00pm\nsign up list closes at 6:55pm\nShow starts at 7pm\ncash prizes for 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd place\nFollow the Slam on Facebook! \nCaravan Lounge\n98 S Almaden Ave\nin downtown San José at the corner of San Fernando St. and Almaden Ave.\nAdmission Free\n21 and over\, cash bar (they do have an atm)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam-3/
LOCATION:Caravan Lounge\, 98 S Almaden Ave\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T200000
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SUMMARY:Poets Laureate on Social Justice in Vallejo
DESCRIPTION:Date/Time\nDate(s) – 12/09/2019\n6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\nLocation\n505 Santa Clara St\nJoseph Room at the John F. Kennedy Library\, Vallejo\, CA\, with: \n–D.L. Lang\, Vallejo Poet Laureate 2017-2019 \n–Juanita J. Martin\, Fairfield Poet Laureate 2010-2012 \n–Rob Lipton\, Richmond Poet Laureate 2017-2019 \n–Allegra Silberstein\, Davis Poet Laureate 2010-2012 \n–Lois Requist\, Benicia Poet Laureate 2012-2014 \n–and host Ron Riekki\, co-editor of Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice \nRon Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press)\, U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press)\, and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press)\, And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing\, 1917-2017 (MSU Press)\, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press\, Independent Publisher Book Award)\, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press\, Michigan Notable Book)\, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki is contracted for seven upcoming books. \nJuanita J. Martin is Fairfield’s first poet laureate\, 2010-2012. She’s also a freelance writer\, and performance artist. Her poetry book\, The Lighthouse Beckons\, was accepted into the Solano County Library. Martin’s next volume of poems\, Quiet Intensity\, is due out in 2019. She’s published in Blue Collar Review\, SoMa Literary Review\, and others. Juanita is active in Ina Coolbrith Circle\, and Benicia First Tuesday Poets. Juanita was also a longtime member of Redwood Writers from 2007-2017. \nJuanita is listed with Poets & Writers Directory of Poets. She has read at the Frank Bette Cultural Center for the Alameda Poets in the Annual Black History event. She often reads for the Beat Poetry Festival and 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Juanita has been a featured reader with Healdsburg Literary Guild\, Petaluma Poetry Walk 2007 & 2016\, as well as Berkeley Poetry Festival. She has also contributed to Sonoma Discoveries Magazine\, a tourist magazine covering North & West Sonoma County\, and the Coast. www.jmartinpoetwriter.com \nAllegra Jostad Silberstein was born in the middle of a blizzard on a farm in Wisconsin. Her Norwegian ancestors had by-passed the flat prairie land and settled in the coulees and hills of the non-glaciated area near the Mississippi River. Love of poetry began as a child when her Mom would recite poems as she worked. She has lived in California since 1963 but her growing years on the farm brought a deep appreciation for the out-of-doors world that stays with her and sustains her. \nIn March of 2010 she was selected as the first Poet Laureate for the city of Davis\, CA. She has three chapbooks and her first full book of poems was published by Cold River Press in the spring of 2015. She has danced with Pamela Trokanski’s Third Stage company since 1994 and is a member of Threshold Choir. \nLois Requist has been engaged with writing most of her adult life. In the 80s\, she got a B.A. and M.A. in English/Creative Writing/Poetry from SFSU. She served as poet laureate in Benicia from 2012-2014. She’s published newspaper columns\, fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry. Where Lilacs Bloom is her political and personal novel. Travel is another passion of hers. As the result of a long trip\, she wrote RVing Solo Across America…without a cat\, dog\, man\, or gun. She works with Benicia Literary Arts and Carquinez Village\, walks and practices yoga\, enjoys family and friends. Learn more at http://www.loisrequist.com/home.html \nD.L. Lang serves as Poet Laureate of Vallejo\, California (2017-2019). She is the author of twelve books\, most recently Midnight Strike\, and one spoken word album\, Happy Accidents. Her work been anthologized in Marin Poetry Center Anthology\, Vol. 21\, A Poet’s Siddur\, and Light & Shadow. She edited the 2019 anthology Verses\, Voices & Visions of Vallejo. Lang has been a featured act at numerous events in Vallejo and poetry shows around the bay area. Her poems have been transformed into songs\, liturgy\, and used as a means to advocate for causes. Her website is: www.poetryebook.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-laureate-on-social-justice-in-vallejo/
LOCATION:John F. Kennedy Library\, Joseph Room\, 505 Santa Clara St\, Vallejo\, 94590
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T203000
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center's annual Holiday Potluck & Read Around
DESCRIPTION:Our annual holiday party at the Falkirk mansion is a time for poetry\, song\, and great food. Bring a poem and a holiday dish to share. If your last name begins with: \nA – G – please bring a dessert\nH – P – please bring a salad\nQ – Z – please bring a main course
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-centers-annual-holiday-potluck-read-around/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T203000
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici\, Jenny Brown and Dani Burilson
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Dec 09\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation:\nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley \nSilvia Federici in conversation with Jenny Brown\, author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work\, and Dani Burilson\, editor of All of Me: Stories of Love\, Anger\, and the Female Body. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist activist\, writer\, and a teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective\, the organization that launched the Wages For Housework campaign internationally. In the 1990s\, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria\, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. She is one of the co-founders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa\, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and educational systems. From 1987 to 2005 she taught international studies\, women studies\, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead\, NY. All through these years she has written books and essays on philosophy and feminist theory\, women’s history\, education and culture\, and more recently the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons. \nJenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. In addition to Labor Notes\, her work has appeared in Jacobin\, Huffington Post\, and Alternet\, and she is coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. \nDani Burlison (she/her) is the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books\, 2019)\, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories\, a collection of essays that first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name\, and the Lady Parts zines. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly\, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review\, and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune\, KQED Arts\, The Rumpus\, and Made Local magazine. Her writing can also be found at Ms.\, Yes!\, Earth Island Journal\, Wired\, Vice\, Utne\, Ploughshares\, Hip Mama\, Rad Dad\, Spirituality & Health\, Shareable\, Tahoma Literary Review\, Prick of the Spindle\, and more. Her writing also appears in several anthologies. She is a single mom and lives\, teaches\, and writes in Santa Rosa\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-jenny-brown-and-dani-burilson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000
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SUMMARY:An evening with Kal Spelletich
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Kal Spelletich\nTuesday\, December 10\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nin conversation with Catharine Clark \ndiscussing his new project \nSignificance Machines and Purposeful Robots \n‘Significance Machines and Purposeful Robots’ is an exhibit of work by Kal Spelletich at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art through December 2019 that includes life size praying robots\, photos\, sound machines\, drawings\, videos and interactive sculptures which explore the question: can technology do spiritual work? Via audience operated robots that are meditative and violent\, Spelletich’s work enacts a liberated awareness and pushes his audience to a creative response to in their own lives. \nCity Lights celebrates the release of the catalog for this show. The catalog is enshrined inside a unique artifact produced in a limited edition. The artifact is composed of a suitcase shell that contains a mechanized spinning stone Buddha\, LED lights\, sound recording of spiritual music\, a speaker\, laser cut text on acrylic\, caliper measuring tool\, assorted photos\, drawings and prints\, a thumb drive with videos photos and texts\, pen\, paper\, laser cut marble\, folded sculpture\, monograph\, and whiskey. The catalogue was organized by Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art curator\, April Bojorquez\, with a forward by Lauren MacDonald\, and an interview by Catherine Clarke that provide perspectives on the work and the artist in relation to contemporary art and technology issues. \nKal Spelletich builds interactive machines and robots. He scours the world for industrial items in which the technology can be repurposed. Spelletich has collaborated with artists all over the world though his home base is in San Francisco. Kal works with bio-morphic sensors\, (sometimes uncontrollable) that trigger his robots and provide viewers with a hands-on interactive experience. His work mines the space between what robots and humans can and cannot do. Recent exhibits of his work have been held in Namibia\, Lubjianna\, Berlin\, Vienna\, New York\, India\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. A monographic exhibit of his work will be presented at Saint Mary’s College in August 2019. Spelletich’s practice is across genres and his work extends to curating exhibits and activism. His projects have been featured in the NY Times\, PBS\, and in other critical journals and media. \nCatharine Clark is the founder of the Catharine Clark Gallery\, established in 1991. The internationally acclaimed gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition\, they also curate changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room. New exhibits open every six weeks. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary dealer for an acclaimed roster of international artists: Sandow Birk\, Lenka Clayton\, Chris Doyle\, Al Farrow\, Nina Katchadourian\, Kara Maria\, Deborah Oropallo\, Stephanie Syjuco\, Josephine Taylor\, Masami Teraoka\, and Wanxin Zhang. In 2016\, Catharine Clark founded BOX BLUR\, an initiative to bring visual and performing art into dialogue within the non-proscenium-based space of the gallery. To learn more visit: https://cclarkgallery.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-kal-spelletich/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T213000
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking\, Remaking\, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos\, 2019). \nFederici surveys the paradigms that govern how the body is conceived and the disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist writer\, teacher\, and militant. Her books include Witches\, Witch-Hunting\, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University and co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-book-launch-of-beyond-the-periphery-of-the-skin/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191024T153241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T052058Z
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton
DESCRIPTION:Roy Scranton reading from his new novel\n\nI  ❤Oklahoma ! \npublished by Soho Books \n\nSuzie’s seen it all\, but now she’s looking for something she lost: a sense of the future. So when the chance comes to work with a maverick video artist on his road movie about Donald Trump’s America\, she’s pretty sure it’s a bad idea but she signs up anyway\, hoping for an outside shot at starting over. \nA provocative\, genderqueer\, shapeshifting musical romp through the brain-eating nightmare of contemporary America\, I Heart Oklahoma! is a book about art\, guns\, cars\, American landscapes\, and American history. This kaleidoscopic novel moves from our bleeding-edge present to a furious Faulknerian retelling of the Charlie Starkweather killings in the 1950s\, capturing in its fragmented\, mesmerizing form the violence at the heart of the American dream. \nRoy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (published by City Lights Books)\, and co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He grew up in Oregon\, dropped out of college\, and spent several years wandering the American West. In 2002\, he enlisted in the US Army. He served from 2002 to 2006\, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research\, then completed his PhD in English at Princeton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191124T193809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T193809Z
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SUMMARY:The View from Somewhere: Reimagining local journalism in Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation on journalism\, objectivity and an equitable approach to local news in Oakland. \nTwo months after the 2016 presidential election\, radio journalist Lewis Raven Wallace proclaimed “Objectivity is Dead and I’m Okay With it” to highlight how “neutrality” in newsrooms can be a tool of white supremacy. While journalism schools and newsrooms often tout objectivity as a pillar of the craft\, Wallace argues that if you look back at how journalists in the U.S. reported on issues like slavery or the early LGBTQ movement\, “many of the journalists who’ve told the truth in key historical moments have been outliers and members of an opposition\, here and in other countries.” \nWallace is now launching a book and accompanying podcast\, The View from Somewhere: A Podcast About Journalism With A Purpose\, and going on tour to facilitate conversations about “objectivity\,” oppressed communities\, and the news. \nAt this special event in Oakland\, Wallace will talk with journalist Tasneem Raja about the harm caused by the myth of objectivity\, and facilitate a group discussion on how journalism can better serve and reflect Oakland. \n*The event is free\, but please RSVP via the Eventbrite link above!*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-view-from-somewhere-reimagining-local-journalism-in-oakland/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191205T143517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T143517Z
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SUMMARY:Grace Paley's Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Judith Arcana\, author of Grace Paley’s Life Stories\, will read and share from her decades-long friendship with Grace and their history of activism and writing. She’ll be joined in reading\, conversation\, and celebration by Maxine Hong Kingston\, Gwyn Kirk\, and Martha Richards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-paleys-birthday/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191210T025844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025844Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime Flux
DESCRIPTION:Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan)\, Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah)\, Jen Burke Anderson\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-flux/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191205T144504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T144504Z
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SUMMARY:30 Years of Street Sheet
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to our new office to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Sheet newspaper! For three decades Street Sheet has been documenting the realities facing poor and homeless San Franciscans\, and providing a platform for homeless journalists\, storytellers\, poets\, photographers\, and artists who are otherwise ignored. \nWe will be hosting an open mic with featured performers from our Street Sheet team and plenty of space for you to jump up and share poems\, songs\, or memories. We will provide a light dinner\, some adult beverages\, and delicious baked goods! \nWHEN: December 12th @5:30-8pm\nWHERE: Coalition on Homelessness\, 290 Turk Street San Francisco \nFeaturing\n* Tone Oliver\nMotivational Performer and MC\, Tone Oliver has been honing his sound and story as an artist for over 15 years. LA born\, Bay Area based MC offers a refreshing flow and witty\, yet wise word play that often leaves listeners inspired. Oliver has been covered by the SF Chronicle\, KQED and KTVU Fox 2. The father\, rapper and actor is currently working on his 5th solo album\, “Keep Going” set to drop late 2019. \n*Zach K \n* Wayfairy\nhttps://www.facebook.com/wayfairy/\nWayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Finally wheelchair accessible by elevator! Please let us know if you need the elevator when you ring up so we can buzz you in the correct entrance. There are two single stall gender neutral bathrooms available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/30-years-of-street-sheet/
LOCATION:Street Sheet\, 280 Turk St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191124T195333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T195333Z
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SUMMARY:Fight the Tower! Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender. Fight the Tower is Asian American women scholars’ response and blueprints for resistance. Presenters are the editors\, Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis\, and the contributors\, including Eliza Noh and Kaozong Mouavangsou. \nWei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies. \nKieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California\, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community\, Culture\, and Politics in the Diaspora and co-founder of the social justice movement\, Fight the Tower. \nKaozong N. Mouavangsou is the first Hmong American PhD candidate in the School of Education at The University of California\, Davis. \nEliza Noh is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at California State University\, Fullerton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fight-the-tower-asian-american-women-scholars-resistance/
LOCATION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191210T034340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034340Z
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SUMMARY:Performance | 2019 Poets-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of our 2019 Poets-in-Residence program. Tonya Foster and Alan Peláez López will perform their poetry at a reading to celebrate their work created during the Poets-in-Residence program at MoAD. Joining Tonya and Alan will be MoAD Poetry Coordinator and 2018 Poet-in-Residence Raina Léon\, and the Ruth Assawa San Francisco School for the Arts Spoken Arts Director Aimee Suzara. \nThis program will include a wine reception and is free to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/performance-2019-poets-in-residence/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191210T032610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T032610Z
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SUMMARY:Last Voz of 2019!
DESCRIPTION:End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks\, drinks\, three features\, and an open mic!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/last-voz-of-2019/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191024T153349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T052105Z
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams reading from her new book\n\nErosion: Essays of Undoing \npublished by Sarah Critchton Books/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nFierce\, timely\, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist \nTerry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist\, fervent activist\, and stirring writer\, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays\, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land\, of the self\, of belief\, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered\, worn\, and whittled away through wind\, water\, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nShe looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument\, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest\, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction\, citing the drought outside her door and at times\, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge\, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders\, art\, and\, always\, in the land itself. She asks\, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?” \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She and her husband Brooke Williams divide their time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah. \nWhat has been said about the work of Terry Tempest Williams \n“An apostle of life and earth and a soul-revving teller of true stories\, Williams (The Hour of Land\, 2016) brings lyricism\, candor\, mystery\, and factual exactitude to the deeply affecting essays collected here . . . Williams’ exquisite testimony of wonder and wisdom is vitalizing and crucial.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“In a collection of passionate\, galvanizing essays\, activist and teacher Williams shares her intimate connection to the as-yet untamed landscapes of the American West . . . Williams writes with a poetic optimism . . . Stirring.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This anthology of grief\, anger\, and even hope capably reflects Williams’ wise voice.”\n—Kirkus \n“These essays are a joy to read. Terry Tempest Williams is a wise and fierce defender of the wild Earth.”\n—Leslie Marmon Silko\, author of The Turquoise Ledge \n“Terry Tempest Williams’s voice in the clamor is like a hot desert wind blowing away the litter in a crowded room and leaving behind only what has weight\, what is essential. These are essays about the courage to face what is most brutal and monstrous\, by finding what is most beautiful and merciful.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them by Their True Names \n“Luminous\, fearless\, brutally honest. But with this latest book\, Williams takes her spiritual love of the American West—along with her grief\, anger and exasperation at what we continue to do to this place—to a new level. If John Muir ever wrote like this\, most of the West would be in wilderness protection by now. As well\, she knows her way to the human heart.”\n—Timothy Egan\, author of The Immortal Irishman \n“Terry Tempest Williams has rewritten the rules for the way we must engage the natural world and each other. Erosion is both a shout from the edge of what we were and a beckoning to what we must become. Pick up your courage and this book; be prepared to take notes—and action.”\n—Alexandra Fuller\, author of Quiet Until the Thaw \n“Terry Tempest Williams is our great activist laureate. Working out of the lineage of Dickinson\, O’Keeffe\, D. H. Lawrence\, and\, later\, Abbey and Peacock\, she is nonetheless singular and extraordinarily original. She is rooted as juniper yet ephemeral as a sand dune. The forces that have eroded her are rapture and grief. What remains is elemental beauty.”\n—Rick Bass\, author of For a Little While \n“These are the most dangerous of all days for humans on Earth\, and Erosion is the book for our time. Writing on the edge of the sacred\, Terry Tempest Williams’s message bears the power and emotional gifts of a close call with a charging grizzly. There are no stray words. Terry writes with a purity glimpsed in certain outcrops of crystalline rock or the waters filling a chain of alpine lakes. I believe there is no more important writer working today.”\n—Doug Peacock\, author of In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tempest-williams/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191024T155610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T155610Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:Longest running poetry open mic in Vallejo. Come. Everyone is welcome. 4 minutes per poet. Multiple rounds. Freedom of expression. 2nd Floor Oddfellows Hall. 342 Georgia\, Vallejo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-by-the-bay/
LOCATION:Oddfellows Hall\, 342 Georgia St.\, Vallejo\, CA\, 94590\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Poetry by the Bay":MAILTO:profeticlyrics@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191210T034128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034128Z
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SUMMARY:BPR Midterm Chapbook Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for the third issue of our chapbook series: MIDTERM 3 – CIRCUITS\, including poems from Leila Weefur\, Leena Joshi\, Colleen Baran\, Louise Akers\, Jennifer Soong\, and Tess Brown-Lavoie. The reading will be hosted at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th St\, Oakland\, @ 8pm. Snacks & beverages & chapbooks provided!!! Come celebrate with us ✨ \nOur wonderful readers for the night include: Leena Joshi\, Nathalie Khankan\, and Leila Weefur. Bios below! \nLEENA JOSHI is an artist and writer currently based in Oakland\, California. Their poetry\, essay\, and visual art practice consider the lateral roots of affect\, gender\, labor\, and desire within a transmedia practice of world building. Leena’s writing can be found in The Felt\, Gramma\, Monday: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery Journal\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. \nNATHALIE KHANKAN is the author of quiet orient riot\, to be published by Omnidawn in 2020\, and winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize\, judge Dawn Lundy Martin. Her work appears in Berkeley Poetry Review and Crab Creek Review\, and is upcoming in jubilat. \nShe teaches Arabic language and literature in the Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley. \nLEILA WEEFUR (She/They/He) is an artist\, writer\, and curator who lives and works in Oakland\, CA. \nThrough video\, installation\, writing\, and lecture-performances they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory\, abject\, hyper surveillance\, and the erotic. It implicates the viewer by controlling the mobility of the audience through fabricated environmental discomfort and strict rules of engagement. The site-specific installations are architectural interventions made up of constructed walls and tempered glass\, simulating systems of control and willful participation. \nWeefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award\, the Murphy & Cadogan award\, and the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. They have worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA\, The Wattis Institute\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, New York. Weefur is a member of The Black Aesthetic and a lecturer at SFAI and UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bpr-midterm-chapbook-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191023T083238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T083238Z
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SUMMARY:Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the press’s 45th Anniversary\, with readings by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. Forty-five years later\, the press\, still located in the East Bay\, remains true to its commitment to bring out a wide range of voices\, including the gifted work of trans and genderqueer authors. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their third-floor loft space\, this event is co-sponsored by Kelsey St. Press and The Poetry Center\, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Free and open to the public. \nMei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing\, grew up in Massachusetts\, and lives in northern New Mexico. She has published twelve books of poetry\, including five books with Kelsey St Press. Recent works include I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems and A Lit Cloud\, a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. Her latest book\, A Treatise on Stars\, is forthcoming from New Directions\, along with a new edition of Empathy. \nChing-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi/Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, recombinant (Kelsey Street Press\, 2017; 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry)\, to make black paper sing (speCt! Books\, 2019)\, and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press\, 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press\, 2009). Born of Chinese immigrants\, they have received fellowships from Kundiman\, Lambda\, Watering Hole\, Callaloo\, Can Serrat\, Storyknife\, and Imagining America and are a member of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. A community organizer\, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Riverside and Boston. In Autumn 2019\, they join the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell as an assistant professor. More at chinginchen.com \nAndrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg\, writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook\, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions\, 2016; download the PDF)\, attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Andrea’s first book\, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019)\, is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. They toured with Sister Spit 2018 and live in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelsey St. Press
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelsey-st-press-45th-anniversary-celebration-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-ching-in-chen-andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191205T144635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T144635Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join Fourteen Hills press to celebrate OPPRESSORFACE\, the 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award winning book of poetry written by Rob Hendricks.\nThere will be drinks\, food\, a prize drawing. and a reading by Rob Hendricks.\nOther readers include: Truong Tran\, Vanessa Marie Hamill\, Steven Kennedy\, Jens Mikkelsen\, London Pinkney\, and Izabella Santana. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-michael-rubin-book-award-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191210T033705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T033705Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrical Opposition: Unplugged
DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to join us for an intimate showcase of socially-conscious\, acoustic hip-hop music. \nBased in Bay Area\, CA\, Lyrical Opposition creates safe platforms that foster lyrical expression for hip-hop artists\, spoken word poets\, and other artistic talents through gatherings\, icebreakers\, freestyles\, cyphers\, artist development workshops\, panel discussions\, training and fellowship. \nDecember 13\, 2019 Delaplane will host a live acoustic performance by Bay Area based rapper\, poet\, and performer Fego Navarro and Dela Paz\, in an intimate setting. \nLimited seating available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrical-opposition-unplugged/
LOCATION:483 14th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T085901
CREATED:20191210T034611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034611Z
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SUMMARY:The Fire Thieves in the Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston\, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. \nThe SFAC is pleased to welcome the The Fire Thieves Poetry Series—an inter-generational and inter-sectional collaboration between established\, mid-career and new poets working\, producing\, and presenting new work—to the gallery for an evening of readings dear to their hearts. A selection of accomplished Native poets read their work surrounded by the powerful and uplifting photographs on view in the exhibition The Continuous Thread. The evening’s readers include Jewelle Gomez\, playwright\, novelist and social justice activist; Stephen Meadows\, Ohlone poet and KFOF folk music dj; Linda Noel\, Poet Laureate emerita of Ukiah; and Ramona Webb\, artist in word\, movement\, and culture change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fire-thieves-in-the-gallery/
LOCATION:San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries\, 401 Van Ness Ave\, Ste 126\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts
DESCRIPTION:Jeff VanderMeer joins us to discuss his new novel\, Dead Astronauts. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead \n“VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell\, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing\, one fixed destiny\, but as either peaceful or catastrophic\, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates–for these are our children\, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created.” —Wai Chee Dimock\, The New York Times Book Review \n“The conceptual elements in VanderMeer’s fiction are so striking that the firmness with which he cinches them to his characters’ lives is often overlooked . . . Borne is VanderMeer’s trans-species rumination on the theme of parenting . . . [Borne] insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know that you\, a mere person\, might be crushed by indifferent forces at a moment’s notice\, then quickly forgotten.” —Laura Miller\, The New Yorker \nAbout Dead Astronauts \nA messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish\, centuries old\, who hides a secret\, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past\, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. \nJeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where\, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company\, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future\, the fate of Earth—all the Earths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-dead-astronauts/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T153000
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SUMMARY:“Chan Family Picnic”—Reading by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
DESCRIPTION:Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic\, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America’s legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright’s Chinese American family. \nEugenie Chan\, playwright \nByron Au Yong\, composer \nalong with Bay Area performing artists \nQ&A will follow the reading \n  \nAdmission is free\, but there is limited space. Reserve your ticket on Eventbrite. \n\nThis program is part of our Chinese American: Health Legacy Series\, highlighting health issues that have particular impact on Asian American communities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chan-family-picnic-reading-by-eugenie-chan-theater-projects/
LOCATION:CHSA Museum\, 965 Clay Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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