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SUMMARY:Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nThe Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth \npublished by Public Affairs \n\nFake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? \nDespite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013\, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly written\, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics. \nInformation literacy is an essential ingredient in a healthy democracy\, and The Reality Game shows how the breakneck rate of technological change is making it nearly impossible. Woolley argues for a new culture of invention\, one built around accountability and especially transparency. We cannot afford to continue re-litigating the past. Instead\, we must follow signals to prevent manipulation in the future–and use our new tools not to control people but to empower them. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of automation/AI\, emergent technology\, politics\, persuasion\, and social media. He is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT\, Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future\, a 50-year-old think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He also cofounded and directed the research team at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including Wired\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Motherboard/VICE\, TechCrunch\, theGuardian\, Quartz and Slate. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show\, 60 Minutes\, and Frontline. His work has been presented to members of NATO\, the US Congress\, the UK Parliament\, and to numerous private entities and civil society organizations. His PhD is from the University of Washington. He tweets from @samuelwoolley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samuel-c-woolley-the-reality-game/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:#we music - a talk and performance series of queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the seventh installment of #we\, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers\, musicians\, or performers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, along with a reading or performance of their creative work. \nFor our seventh event\, Chinese-American vocalist and performance artist Sidney Chen will speak on expressing gayness in two cultures and languages in his talk “Mother Tongues: Reclaiming a Discarded Self”\, and perform vocally as well as play us a few of his handmade music box pieces; and non-binary singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rybree Tree will give a talk titled “In Between: Visions from the Outskirts & People People” and regale us with their amazing and joyous voice and music. \nNote that #we has a new home through 2020 at ProArts Gallery in downtown Oakland. We try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we music \na talk and performance series of queer perspectives \n  \nfeaturing \nSidney Chen \nand Rybree Tree \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nSinger and performance artist Sidney Chen specializes in the creation of new works for voice. He is fascinated by the voice’s infinite capacity to communicate\, both with and without words. In recent seasons he has toured with composer/choreographer Meredith Monk as a member of her Vocal Ensemble\, and as a guest musical artist with ODC/Dance. Current projects include Anne Hege’s The Furies\, a laptOpera with SLOrk (Stanford Laptop Orchestra); Brian Baumbusch’s The Pressure\, with a large ensemble of custom metallophones; Ryan Brown’s medical oratorio Mortal Lessons; and solo work with DIY music boxes. \nRybree Tree is a transient genderfull singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from San Diego\, CA. They move with the seasons and have come home to Oakland for the past 11 years. They have played a number of tours in the continental US\, both solo and in groups such as Belligerence and This Body Wants To Live!. Currently\, they play here and there in the Bay Area while working toward some life goals\, musical and otherwise. They are a child care provider on some days and unemployed on others. They love people\, animals\, and plants and are striving toward a balanced way of life in harmony with our planet and all that is. You can support their music here: https://rybreetree.bandcamp.com/releases
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-music-a-talk-and-performance-series-of-queer-perspectives/
LOCATION:ProArts\, 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Café)\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105
DESCRIPTION:Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas\, and poet Kat Crawford. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, 2016) and In This Room (CW Books\, 2016)\, in addition to two prize-winning chapbooks. His poems\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in numerous national literary journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Crab Orchard Review\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Green Mountains Review\, and others. An excerpt of his memoir\, Flight\, is published in the current issue of Great River Review\, and immediately received a Pushcart nomination—his seventh. A regular speaker at the Dominican University of California’s Low-Residency MFA Program and a free-lance poetry coach\, Terry is the current and sixth Poet Laureate of Marin County\, California. \nKat Crawford’s poetry has been published in several quarterlies including Creative Woman\, Nomads’ Choir\, Marin Poetry Anthology\, Tuxedo of Dominican University and Spillway. Her first poetry collection\, A Particular Kind of Heaven\, was published in 2014. A recent graduate of the Dominican University MFA Poetry Program\, Kat is busy planning a group that will use poetry to link the communities of teenagers and elders. \nThere will be refreshments\, and open mic after our features read. Remember to grab a coupon (only good for evening of Hand To Mouth) with discounts on food and drinks from our neighbors Cafe Arrivederci\, Whipper Snapper\, and The Mayflower Pub\, for before or after the reading. \nHand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT\, emceed by Joel and Toni Eis\, is in its 15th year\, with readings generally taking place on the last Wednesday of the month\, except for August and December.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-105/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Lizzie O'Shea: Future Histories
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie O’Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace\, Tom Paine\, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. \nPraise for Future Histories \n“Before we became big data bundles for the lackeys of Dorsey\, Jobs\, Zuckerberg\, and Bezos\, to exploit\, the digital revolution seemed to promise a democratic utopia\, a commons in cyberspace not governed by neoliberal norms. Can we realize that revolutionary dream and stop desiring our own domination? Incredibly\, yet thrillingly and plausibly\, Lizzie O’Shea argues that\, if only we can mobilize history to serve rather than enervate us\, the answer is yes.”—Stuart Jeffries \n“There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O’Shea brings a hacker’s curiosity\, a historian’s reach and a lawyer’s precision to bear on our digitally saturated present\, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking.”—Scott Ludlam \n“A potent\, timely\, and unrepentantly radical reminder of history’s creative potential. Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories should be required reading for anyone planning on surviving—and even repairing—our grim technological moment.”—Claire L. Evans \nAbout Future Histories \nWhen we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future — which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories\, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind\, society\, and self\, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future. \nWhat\, she asks\, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources–like the Internet–in common? How can Frantz Fanon’s theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theories of democratic\, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And\, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians? \nIn engaging\, sparkling prose\, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is\, and how when we draw on the resources of the past\, we can see the potential for struggle\, for liberation\, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us–makers\, coders\, hacktivists\, Facebook-users\, self-styled Luddites–who find ourselves in a brave new world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lizzie-oshea-future-histories/
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:We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race\, Resegregation\, and Public Art
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016\, it was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book of the Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” \nJeff Chang is vice president for narrative\, arts and culture at Race Forward. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America. Cofounder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines\, Chang was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200.\nFor more information\, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. \nJeff Chang has written extensively on culture\, politics\, the arts\, and music. \nHis first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, garnered many honors\, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Slate named it one of the best nonfiction books of the past 25 years. He edited the book\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. \nWho We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martin’s Press) was released on October 2014\, to critical acclaim. It was published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title\, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America (Picador). The book won the Ray + Pat Browne Award for Best Work in Popular Culture and American Culture and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and Books For A Better Life Award. \nHis latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation (Picador)\, was published in September 2016 on Picador. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. \nHis next project is a biography of Bruce Lee (Little\, Brown). \nJeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World\,” by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero\, and by the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts to its 2016 YBCA 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.” He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200\, as one of “200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass.” \nHe has also been a winner of the North Star News Prize\, and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work in Popular Culture and American Culture. With H. Samy Alim\, he received the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University. \nJeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He has written for The Guardian\, Slate\, the New York Times\, The Nation\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Believer\, N+1\, Mother Jones\, Salon\, and Buzzfeed\, among many others. \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Hawai’i\, he is a graduate of ‘Iolani School\, the University of California at Berkeley\, and the University of California at Los Angeles. \nFor the past seven years he was the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He serves as the Vice President for Narrative\, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. \nArts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-gon-be-alright-notes-on-race-resegregation-and-public-art/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez\, author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-author-leticia-hernandez/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:in conversation and celebrating the release of \nCarmen Maria Machado’s \nIn The Dream House \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house\, erotica\, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, fairy tales\, Star Trek\, and Disney villains\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. \nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties\, a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she is the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Visit: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. Visit: https://esmewang.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-esme-weijun-wang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Orin & Manjula Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden
DESCRIPTION:Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin\, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, and writer/editor Manjula Martin\, Orin’s daughter\, for a discussion and signing of Fruit Trees for Every Garden—their substantial\, authoritative\, and beautiful full-color guide which covers everything you need to know about organically growing healthy\, bountiful fruit trees. \nFor more than forty years\, Orin Martin has taught thousands of apprentices\, students\, and home gardeners the art and craft of growing fruit trees organically. In Fruit Trees for Every Garden\, Orin shares—with hard-won wisdom and plenty of humor—his recommended fruit varieties and techniques for productive trees\, including apple\, pear\, peach\, plum\, apricot\, nectarine\, sweet cherry\, orange\, lemon\, fig\, and more. \nIf you crave crisp apples\, juicy peaches\, or varieties of fruit that can never be found in the store\, they are all within reach in your own backyard. Whether you have one tree or a hundred\, Orin gives you all the tools you need\, from tree selection and planting practices to seasonal feeding guidelines and in-depth pruning tutorials. Along the way\, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the core principles of organic gardening and soil stewardship: compost\, cultivation\, cover crops\, and increasing biodiversity for a healthier garden. This book is more than just a gardening manual; it’s designed to help you understand the why behind the how\, allowing you to apply these techniques to your own slice of paradise and make the best choices for your individual trees. \nFilled with informative illustrations\, full-color photography\, and evocative intaglio etchings by artist Stephanie Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden is a striking and practical guide that will enable you to enjoy the great pleasure and beauty of raising homegrown\, organic fruit for years to come. \nORIN MARTIN is manager of the three-acre Alan Chadwick Garden (home of 600 fruit trees) at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and manager of the orchard at UCSC’s Farm & Garden. Since 1977\, he has taught classes\, lectures\, and workshops to thousands of home gardeners\, apprentices\, students\, and budding farmers who have gone on to found and lead organic farms\, teaching gardens\, and food justice projects around the country and the world. MANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \nMANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \n“An excellent guide for those of us who are ‘addicted’ to the joys\, pleasures\, and sweat of growing tree fruit—a sweet blend of the skills and art required to grow the perfect peach (or apple\, citrus\, fig …)”\n—David Mas Masumoto\, organic fruit farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach\, Wisdom of the Last Farmer\, and Changing Season \n“Like the best teacher you’ve ever had\, Orin Martin knows how to light the fire. Yes\, this beautifully written and illustrated little book provides clear instructions for planting an orchard. It lovingly introduces you to more than a hundred varieties of fruit. But it is so much more. It’s about the power of observation\, talking to our neighbors\, and investing in our food\, families\, and Mother Earth.”\n—NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) \n“The opportunity to learn from one of the great organic farmers is an opportunity not to be missed! The UCSC Farm & Garden has always been a place of joy\, awe\, and wonder for me; this book captures the thought process and techniques that help us understand the unseen beneath our feet.”\n—Nell Newman\, founder of Newman’s Own Organics \n“Here you have all the practical tools to create your own orchard of any size—information on rootstocks\, pruning\, thinning\, and a thrilling array of varieties—but moreover\, you have Orin’s wise and gently wry voice to guide you through it.”\n—Alice Waters\, chef\, author\, food activist\, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant \n“In this book\, Orin Martin gives us his true mastery of trees. Here is a man who lived his life working in paradise\, took care of the land\, and planted an orchard. His gifts: the Chadwick Garden\, and this book to be shared by all.”\n—Karen Washington\, co-owner of Rise & Root Farm and cofounder of Black Urban Growers \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email them to info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 28th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orin-manjula-martin-fruit-trees-for-every-garden/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy's toast to 2020
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau\, Vincent Chu\, Kevin Dublin\, Lauren Ito\, and Sarah Kobrinsky. It’s going to be an amazing night of poetry and prose. Come raise a glass to Bay Area authors! \nLiterary Speakeasy is always FREE and there is NO drink minimum. Arrive early for a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthologies Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press). She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion. His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, The Collapsar\, Stockholm Review and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. He is working on his first novel. \nKevin Dublin is editor of Etched Press and author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, North Carolina Poetry Society\, and more. His words have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review\, Menacing Hedge\, Poetry International\, The Rumpus\, and more. He holds an MFA from San Diego State University and enjoys developing web apps for writers. Kevin also leads workshops as a part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, at Syzygy Academy SF\, and all over the Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @PartEverything. \nLauren Ito is a Seattle-born Gosei (fifth generation Japanese American) poet\, designer\, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a poet\, Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, identity\, and home. Lauren’s art been featured by The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, Nomadic Press\, The City is Already Speaking Anthology\, and various performance venues\, such as the Mission Arts Performance Project\, Lit Crawl San Francisco\, and Gears Turning. She is a 2019 Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow\, 2019 Novalia Collective Fellow\, and Asian American Women Arts Association Emerging Curators Fellow. She is currently working on her first manuscript. Lauren lives in San Francisco and can almost always be found by the sea. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press) is her first collection of poetry. Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry\, Eleven Eleven\, Monkeybicycle\, *82 Review\, 100 Word Story\, Fjords Review\, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasys-toast-to-2020/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 38 : Flight
DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! The future is here! We’ve got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it’s the future! Oh wait\, no\, no we don’t. We have ignorance and we have\, oh my\, we have a general regression in terms of social views and\, well\, yeah. Doesn’t matter though\, ’cause it’s 2020 and it’s a new year and even if everything feels like a broken septic tank\, come hang out and celebrate the ticking forward of the biggest hand of all. \nFree beer until the free beer has been consumed. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nNick O’Brien\nChelsea Davis\nAnna Allen\nPeter Thomas\nClaire Calderon\nSpencer Tierney\nCandy Shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-38-flight/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets Michael Gottlieb\, Brian Ang\, Sara Larsen\, and James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books\, most recently Mostly Clearing\, from Roof Books\, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We Do: Essays for Poets\, I Had Every Intention\, Dear All\, and Memoir and Essay\, an account of NYC in the 70s and the early days of the Language school. To mark its publication\, selections from Mostly Clearing were staged at the Poetry Project at St. Marks in New York in November. Other work of his which has been adapted for the stage include We Will Never Speak of This Again and The Dust\, his 9/11 poem\, which was also produced at the Poetry Project\, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. He works in tech and divides his time between New York and Connecticut. \nBrian Ang’s current poetic project is The Totality Cantos\, for Atelos. Editor: ARMED CELL (2011-17). Radio: A Thousand Records on KALX. \nSara Larsen is a poet and writer living in Oakland\, CA. Her newest book is a polyvocal exploration of punk and poetics\, The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof\, 2019). Previous books include Merry Hell (Atelos\, 2016)\, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press\, 2014). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Our Ladies\, Riot Cops En Route To Troy\, The Hallucinated\, among others. \nJames Sherry is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Oligarch (London: Palgrave MacMillan\, 2017) and the poetry book Entangled Bank (Victoria\, TX: Chax Press\, 2016). Since 1976\, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine\, publishing more than 150 titles of seminal works of language writing\, flarf\, conceptual poetry\, new narrative\, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation\, Inc. in 1977\, producing over 10\,000 events of poetry and other arts in New York City. Tonight\, he’ll read from his new manuscript\, Selfie: Ecology & Individuals\, forthcoming from Palgrave this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-gottlieb-brian-ang-sara-larsen-and-james-sherry/
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:20200201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T170000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-9/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T213000
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CREATED:20200123T072740Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Gregory Pond and Silvi Alcivar
DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pond was born in Brooklyn\, NY to Panamanian parents and moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s. Author and publisher of four books of poetry\, aftermoon and Blackened Blue\, 4:00 a.m. (DARK) and 4:00 a.m. (LIGHT). He has been featured in the Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Overthrowing Capitalism anthologies and has read all over the Bay Area\, including events sponsored by SF Public Library\, Howard Zinn Book Fair and Queer Rebels. He is currently a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and as The Visiting Poet\, he offers readings to hospitals and assisted-living facilities\, as well as volunteering as facilitator of Poetically Speaking\, a weekly conference-call program for seniors featuring classic and contemporary poetry.\n~\nSilvi Alcivar’s poetry lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter–the anonymity an invitation to speak\, the typewriter keys a willing listener. As poet and owner of The Poetry Store since 2008\, Silvi’s written and sold an estimated 75K poems that live in wallets\, on refrigerators\, and an army bunker in antarctica. She’s worked events as small as a stranger’s living room\, intimate as a funeral\, big as a 5000 person party\, appeared on The California Report Magazine\, the TEDx stage\, published in anthologies\, and exhibited art in galleries through the bay area. She holds degrees in writing and art from Cornell University and Penn State. Follow her @thepoetrystore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-gregory-pond-and-silvi-alcivar/
LOCATION:Black & Brown for Justice\, Peace and Equality\, 474 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200201T220000
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CREATED:20191220T064942Z
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SUMMARY:Obi Kaufmann and T.J. Stiles at Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to again partner with San Francisco’s annual edition of the global marathon event Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées)\, at the city’s Main Library. Presented in collaboration with the French Consulate in San Francisco\, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)\, and KQED\, this free seven-hour marathon of philosophical debate\, talks\, performances\, and music features top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond\, in a format designed to spur dialogue on the theme “Living on the Edge.” \nEvents run from 7 pm to 2 am throughout the evening. Multiple stages throughout the Main Library will host concurrent programming\, music and dance performances\, yoga\, breakout sessions and opportunities for engagement and debate amongst attendees. Litquake’s portion of the evening begins at 7:30 pm on the second floor of the Library\, which will be themed “Wonder & Worry.” We are honored to present a lecture by Bay Area naturalist\, painter\, poet\, and writer Obi Kaufmann\, author of several books including the award-winning California Field Atlas\, which blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of the natural world. FREE\, advanced registration TBA \nLitquake’s second portion of the evening begins at 9:30 pm on the fourth floor of the Library at the information desk\, which will be themed “Telling Heroes from Villains”. Americans have changed their minds about whether certain icons are villains or heroes—but T.J. Stiles argues that we’re still not asking the right questions about them\, or about us. \nAbout Night of Ideas\nCo-produced in the United States by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy\, the Institut Français and local partners\, Night of Ideas/Nuit des Idées has been mounted in New York City since 2015 and in Los Angeles since 2017. Last year\, more than 6\,000 guests attended Night of Ideas at the San Francisco Public Library. The event begins in Paris on January 30\, 2020 and is held annually in more than 120 cities around the world. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n \nObi Kaufmann\nObi Kaufmann is a Bay Area author\, poet\, painter\, and naturalist. He grew up in the East Bay as the son of an astrophysicist and a psychologist\, and spent most of high school practicing calculus and breaking away in the evenings to scramble around Mount Diablo and map its creeks… Read More →\n \nT.J. Stiles\nTwo-time Pulitzer Prize recipient T.J. Stiles won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, and the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obi-kaufmann-at-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Wig Diaries Book Signing and Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will host a book signing at Alibi Bookshop. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book\, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer\, invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty. Infused with a contagious lust for life and exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \n· A uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\n· Covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\n· Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has brain cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wig-diaries-book-signing-and-author-chat/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T180000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Tommy Orange: Author of There\, There
DESCRIPTION:Tommy Orange\, author of one of the best books of 2019\, There\, There\, is coming to Manny’s!! \nOne of the 10 best books fo the year by the NYT Book Review. \nNew York Times best seller. \nPulitzer Prize Finalist. \nOne of the Best Books of the Year according to The Washington Post\, NPR\, Time\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Entertainment Weekly\, The Boston Globe\, GQ\, The Dallas Morning News\, Buzzfeed\, BookPage\, Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, and Kirkus Reviews. \nThere\, There\, is one of the best books of 2019 and it’s (local) author\, Tommy Orange\, is coming to Manny’s to chat about his story\, the book\, sign copies\, and discuss what it’s like being hailed as one of the greatest authors of now. \nAbout There\, There:\nTommy Orange’s shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow\, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather\, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene\, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death\, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together\, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history\, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality\, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic\, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny\, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable. \nAbout Tommy Orange:\nTommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland\, California\, and currently lives in Angels Camp\, California. \nThe New York Times Review of the Book:\nYes\, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-conversation-with-tommy-orange-author-of-there-there/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200202T190000
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic feat. Fureigh!
DESCRIPTION:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQIA community Our slogan? slogan “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running QT Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Come on in!\nAbout our February feature:\nFureigh (they/them) picks up a guitar and “shreds melodically\,” according to Rolling Stone. After five years in the critically acclaimed Brooklyn-based queer rock band the Shondes (“the next Sleater-Kinney?” –VH1)\, Fureigh co-founded the The Homobiles (“the Bay’s mainstay queer party punk supergroup” –East Bay Express; “songs about cars and babes” — plus bathhouses\, street harassment and San Francisco glory days)\, featured in Mx. Justin Vivian Bond’s curation of the New York Live Arts Festival. Fureigh has shared the stage with Margaret Cho\, Jody Bleyle of Team Dresch\, and more\, and played guitar in the trans superhero rock opera the Red Shades. They’re currently working on their debut solo album. \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:30pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \n*Accessibility* Manny’s is accessible from sidewalk level with double doors. All areas are wheelchair accessible. The bathrooms are gender neutral and have wheelchair accessibility. The room our event is in has a variety of seating for a variety of body sizes including straight backed chairs\, armchairs and some comfy sofas. Sound is comfortably amplified. Manny’s is not fragrance free. \n*About free EventBrite tickets: You don’t have to sign up for a ticket BUT this helps us with exposure/promo and in estimating attendance. ♥ \n*How to get to us:* Manny’s\, 3092 16th Street at Valencia\, is a block from 16th and Mission Bart\, and near the 22\, 14\, 49\, and 33 Muni lines.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-feat-fureigh/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T193000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays in February: Au\, Felicelli\, & Flynn-Goodlett
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Au (Spider Love Song)\, Anita Felicelli (Chimerica)\, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Harm’s Way and Twice Shy) will read at Odd Mondays February 3\, 6:30pm Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St in Noe Valley. Free admission & free refreshments. \nSPIDER LOVE SONG by Nancy Au is set mostly in Chinese American communities in California. “Only a writer who knows how closely bound are heartbreak and resilience could write stories as emotionally stirring as these”[Kirkus] In CHIMERICA\, Anita Felicelli gives us down-and-out Tamil American trial lawyer Maya Ramesh. “Felicelli creates a novel that showcases not only the violence of the courtroom\, but the true centrality of art and nature in our lives.”[Electric Literature] TWICE SHY by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is “full of sharp-toothed love and quick-witted fury; not for the faint of heart.”[author Frederick Speers] “When the other world spread arms to/embrace\, I chose this\, opened my eyes.”[from HARM’S WAY]
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-in-february-au-felicelli-flynn-goodlett/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joshua Yaffa in conversation with Amanda Silverman
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Joshua Yaffa for his new book Between Two Fires: Truth\, Ambition\, and Compromise in Putins Russia. He’ll be in conversation with Mother Jones editorial director Amanda Silverman. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.). The price of admission may be applied\, at the event\, toward the purchase of Between Two Fires\, or to a beverage at The Bindery’s bar. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\n“Unforgettable . . . This is a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.” – Patrick Radden Keefe\, author of Say Nothing \nIn this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia\, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures — from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians — who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state\, each walks an individual path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others\, finding themselves to be less adept\, are left broken and demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face. \nBetween Two Fires chronicles the lives of a number of strivers who understand that their dreams are best — or only — realized through varying degrees of cooperation with the Russian government. With sensitivity and depth\, Yaffa profiles the director of the country’s main television channel\, an Orthodox priest at war with the church hierarchy\, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to persecutions\, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood. By showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of a capricious and frequently repressive state — as often by choice as under threat of force — Yaffa offers urgent lessons about the true nature of modern authoritarianism. \n\nJoshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker in Moscow. For his work in Russia\, he has been named a fellow at New America\, a recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize\, and a finalist for the Livingston Award. Author photo by Max Avdeev. \nAmanda Silverman is the editorial director (newsroom) based in Mother Jones San Francisco office. Before joining Mother Jones\, Amanda worked as a story editor for Foreign Policy’s print magazine. Prior to that\, she was the deputy editor of The New Republic. \n— \n** Please note ** \n– This event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– Should you decide to purchase Between Two Fires at the event\, you can apply the cost of your ticket toward the price of the book. You may instead choose to apply the cost of your ticket toward a drink at The Bindery’s bar. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– Facebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-yaffa-in-conversation-with-amanda-silverman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Hirsch / Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex\, Power\, and Assault on Campus
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jennifer S. Hirsch\, co-author with Shamus Khan of the new book Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex\, Power\, and Assault on Campus. Please join us! \nSexual Citizens is a groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault. \nThe fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. And for far too many students\, that fear is realized. Research has shown that by the time they graduate\, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Sexual Citizens provides answers. Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University\, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date\, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots\, transcending current debates about consent\, predators in a “hunting ground\,” and the dangers of hooking up. \nSexual Citizens is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races\, genders\, sexual orientations\, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Hirsch and Khan’s landmark study reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault so predictable\, explaining how physical spaces\, alcohol\, peer groups\, and cultural norms influence young people’s experiences and interpretations of both sex and sexual assault. Through the powerful concepts of “sexual projects\,” “sexual citizenship\,” and “sexual geographies\,” the authors offer a new and widely-accessible language for understanding the forces that shape young people’s sexual relationships. Empathetic\, insightful\, and far-ranging\, Sexual Citizens transforms our understanding of sexual assault and offers a roadmap for how to address it. \n\nJennifer S. Hirsch is a professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University\, and codirects SHIFT\, the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation\, at Columbia University. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sexual Citizens\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-s-hirsch-sexual-citizens-a-landmark-study-of-sex-power-and-assault-on-campus/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil reads from two new collections of his work - open mic follows
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett is proud to present a San Francisco poet of exquisite talents and profound dedication to humanity. Beau Beausoleil’s long history as a bookseller and his many years leading the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project speak to his dedication to to the word\, to the world and to the heart. \nTonight\, Beau will read from his recent volume of poems\, Harness of Bone\, and from his just-released book of new and selected poems from 1976 to present\, A Glyphic House. \nLearn more about Beau at this link:\nwww.narratively.com/resurrecting-the-book-market-of-baghdad
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-reads-from-two-new-collections-of-his-work-open-mic-follows/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses: Readings by Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and the Senses Program Launch + Celebration\nWith Readings by Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian\nTuesday\, February 4\, 2020 \n5:30 – 7:00pm: Readings + Conversation\n7:00 – 7:30pm: Reception + Celebration\nMorrison Library\, UC Berkeley (inside Doe Library) \nCo-sponsored by Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation \n\nThe launch party for the Art Research Center’s new “Poetry and the Senses” 2-yr program\, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation\, will include local poets Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian\, who will offer readings and comments followed by a conversation. How does poetry offer a model for engaging the world\, and how can we think of it as a political or ethical resource? \nThis event is free and open to the public\, seating first-come\, first-served until capacity is met. For more information and events\, please visit the Arts Research website at arts.berkeley.edu. \n\nIndira Allegra is re-imagining what a memorial can feel like\, the scale on which it can exist and how it can function through the practice of writing\, performance\, sculpture and installation. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago\, John Michael Kholer Art Center\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Center for Craft Creativity and Design\, Mills College Art Museum\, Weinberg/Newton\, 808 Gallery\, The Alice Gallery and SOMArts among others. Her commissions include performances for SFMOMA\, de Young Museum\, The Wattis Institute\, City of Oakland and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. Allegra’s work has been featured by BBC Radio 4\, Art Journal\, KQED and Surface Design Magazine. She was the recipient of the Artadia Award\, Tosa Studio Award\, Windgate Craft Fellowship and Jackson Literary Award and has received support from the Mike Kelley Artist Project Grant\, MAP Fund and Queer Cultural Center. Allegra is a former Lambda Literary Fellow\, her writing has been widely anthologized\, and she has contributed works to 2019 Lambda Literary Finalist Foglifter Magazine\, 2012 Lambda Literary Finalist Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two Spirit Literature\, Canal Magazine\, Cream City Review\, HYSTERIA Magazine\, make/shift Magazine\, and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art and Thought among others. \nChiyuma Elliott is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. A former Stegner Fellow\, Chiyuma’s poems have appeared in the African American Review\, Callaloo\, the Notre Dame Review\, the PN Review\, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society\, Cave Canem\, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the author of two books: California Winter League (2015) and Vigil (2017). \nLyn Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist\, postmodern\, and contemporary poetry and poetics\, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose\, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun (Belladonna\, 2019) and Tribunal (Omnidawn\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-the-senses-readings-by-indira-allegra-chiyuma-elliott-and-lyn-hejinian/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T180000
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T204500
DTSTAMP:20260404T011440
CREATED:20191227T171340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T171340Z
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T011440
CREATED:20191227T174010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T174019Z
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SUMMARY:Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army on Silenced by Sound
DESCRIPTION:Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army about Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth at Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, CA on Tuesday\, February 4th at 7pm. \n“Silenced by Sound is a powerful exploration of the challenges facing art\, music\, and media in the digital era. It is “full of wisdom from someone who cares deeply about the power of real music.”—MOJO \nIan Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four books and has worked with the likes of filmmaker John Waters\, Merle Haggard\, and Green Day\, among others. His work with international artists such as the Zomba Prison Project\, Tanzania Albinism Collective\, and Khmer Rouge Survivors\, has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment with Anderson Cooper reporting. Since 1993 he has taught violence prevention and conflict resolution around the world for such prestigious organizations as the Smithsonian\, New York’s New School\, Berklee College of Music\, the University of London\, the University of California–Berkeley\, and the National Accademia of Science (Rome).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-brennan-in-conversation-with-kevin-army-on-silenced-by-sound/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T203000
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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Peter Lawrence Kane
DESCRIPTION:The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.   \n\nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time\n\n  \n“I love this book.”– Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk  \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”– Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events  \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!” – Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \n  \nMary Ladd‘s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. \nPeter Lawrence Kane was the editor of SF Weekly from 2017-19 and continues to contribute to the paper. He has only 11 more national parks to go before reaching all 61 in America\, which is going to require at least three expensive trips to Alaska.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-peter-lawrence-kane/
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:20200205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T190000
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SUMMARY:The Wig Diaries Book Signing at Copperfield's Books Napa
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will host a book signing at Copperfield’s Books in Napa. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wig-diaries-book-signing-at-copperfields-books-napa/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books Napa\, 3740 Bel Aire Plaza\, Napa\, 94558
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T203000
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CREATED:20191227T021836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T021836Z
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SUMMARY:Cutting Up The Century: A Burroughs Birthday Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:with Joan Hawkins\, Alex Wermer-Colan\, Peter Hale\, and Jon Longhi \ncelebrating the release of \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century \nEdited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan \npublished by University of Indiana Press \n\nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine\, Nova Express\, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations\, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up\, folding in\, and splicing together newspapers\, magazines\, letters\, book reviews\, classical literature\, audio recordings\, photographs\, and films\, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son\, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work\, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal\, excerpts from his dream journals\, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife\, Joan. \nWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays\, interviews\, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars\, respected artists\, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies\, media studies\, popular culture\, gender studies\, post-colonialism\, history\, and geography. Ultimately\, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours. \nJoan Hawkins is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. She is author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde and editor of the anthology Downtown Film and TV Culture\, 1975-2001. She co-organized the Burroughs Century conference and symposium held at Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. \nAlex Wermer-Colan is a Council of Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University’s Digital Scholarship Center. He researched and edited The Travel Agency is on Fire\, a collection of unpublished archival prose poems Burroughs produced by cutting up a range of canonical texts. Wermer-Colan was the organizer of the William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference held at the City University of New York in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-up-the-century-a-burroughs-birthday-miscellany/
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:20200205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T210000
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov Returns With His New Book Soviet Stamps
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry’s new book is Soviet Stamps\, wherein he recounts how he became an artist. Through written vignettes\, artwork\, and family photos the book charts Samarov’s emigration from the USSR in 1978\, on to his attempts to fit into American society and peripatetic attempts to earn a living\, while continuing to create artwork. Published in a limited-edition\, foil-stamped hardcover run of 800 signed-and-numbered copies. \nDmitry will be in conversation with Ben Terrall\, author of the locally sourced underground ‘zine Namaste\, Motherf**ker!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-returns-with-his-new-book-soviet-stamps/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T210000
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SUMMARY:Tomas Moniz in Conversation with Nancy Au
DESCRIPTION:Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez\, a self-employed single father\, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter\, Stella\, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover\, Jared\, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole—a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender—is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a neighborhood that is also changing\, gentrification inciting the ire of the established community. \nUpon the unexpected death of one of the bar’s regulars\, Juan is sent reeling\, and a series of upheavals follow as he both seeks and spurns intimacy\, pondering the legacy of distant parents and a failed marriage and grappling with his sexuality—all the while cycling and dating\, drinking at Nicks Lounge\, and parenting a determined and defiant child-become-woman. \nWhen his incarcerated father dies and Stella reveals she’s pregnant\, Juan is forced to examine the emotional bonds that both hold and hinder him\, to reassess his ideas of commitment\, of friendship\, of love. His encounters with various characters—his mother\, his ex-wife\, a middle-aged punker\, an aspiring acupuncturist\, a dapper veteran—lead Juan to the realization that he himself must change to thrive. \nThis is a story of making family and making mistakes\, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer father with a mixed-race daughter\, Juan exemplifies the ways identity connects and divides us. With wit\, insight\, and tenderness\, Big Familia explores the complexities of desire\, devotion\, and the mysteries of the heart. \nAUTHOR BIOS \nTomas Moniz is the editor of Rad Dad and Rad Families\, as well as the children’s book Collaboration/Colaboración\, and the author of the novella Bellies and Buffalos. He is the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency\,and the 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm residency. \nNancy Au’s is the author of Spider Love Song and Other Stories (Acre Books\, 2019). She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tomas-moniz-in-conversation-with-nancy-au/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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