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SUMMARY:Lone Glen: Summer Night of Evan & Miles Karp
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 8 pm on Saturday\, August 13th for the summer installment of the Lone Glen series\, featuring the poetry and polyvocal rhythms of Turk & Divis\, a collaboration between Evan and Miles Karp. Evan Karp\, founder of Litseen and director/creator of Quiet Lightning\, and his brother\, Miles Karp\, offer us an evening of unbounded delights that defy categorization. Find us at 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland\, and look for the signs pointing you to the side entrance to our garden and garage performance space. Bring a friend\, a beverage (if you have the means)\, and an open mind! Lone Glen is a quarterly writing\, art\, and performance series dedicated to cultivating more community and inspiration among artists of any and all genres. \nEvan and Miles Karp are Turk & Divis\, an intersection where chance\, rhythm\, and processed repetition collide with modified fragments of language to form serendipitous anthems and intimate\, often polyvocal meditations inside of those anthems. Old school samples and some of tomorrow’s most unusual hits @ turkanddivis.bandcamp.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-summer-night-of-evan-miles-karp/
LOCATION:Lone Glen\, 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Blackwell\, Hernandez\, Serrano\, + Dang
DESCRIPTION:Gears Turning Poetry Series: Hosted by Kim Shuck with Charles Blackwell\, Leticia Hernandez\, and Nina Serrano with music by Ed Dang. \nThis is a Calle 24/Latino cultural heritage district\nSecond Sunday\, Paseo Artístico event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/blackwell-hernandez-serrano-dang/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Upstairs: Chris Carosi + Amy K. Bell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Upstairs features Chris Carosi and Amy K. Bell. Read alongside them at the open mic. Come early to sign up\, stay late to jump in on our Exquisite Corpse! \nAbout the Authors: \nChris Carosi is from Pittsburgh and became fugitive to his family and friends to study at the University of San Francisco Creative Writing Program between 2009 and 2011. He is the author of two chapbooks\, bright veil (New Fraktur Press\, 2011) and FICTIONS (The Gorilla Press\, 2015). Some other work has appeared in Spring Gun\, Switchback (where he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize)\, Your Impossible Voice\, and a few others. He lives in San Francisco with Rebecca and his cat Georgina\, and he currently works as a book publicist & digital marketer for City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. \nAmy K. Bell lives in Oakland\, CA. Her chapbook\, Book of Sibyl\, was published in 2013 by The Gorilla Press. She has been published in JERRY\, Transfer\, Cura and elsewhere. In 2012\, she co-founded Drop Leaf Press\, a woman-run small publisher based in San Francisco. \nHosted by The Great Overland Book Company \nCurated by Susan Calvillo and Genie Cartier
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-upstairs-chris-carosi-amy-k-bell/
LOCATION:Great Overland Books\, 345 Judah Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Lupton
DESCRIPTION:Jeanne Lupton is a poet and writer\, montage artist\, and student of the dulcimer. She is self-employed doing odd jobs\, including reflexology\, caregiving\, and pet and house sitting\, She has featured and read at open mics in the bay area\, leads a memoir writing group at the North Berkeley Senior Center\, and cohosts poetry readings at Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda. She also hosts the monthly talent show at Strawberry Creek Lodge\, where she lives with 149 other elders and her cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-lupton/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays: So Much to be Done
DESCRIPTION:So Much to Be Done” The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner \nEdited by Barbara Sjoholm \nPresented by Susie Lampert and Elaine Elinson \nCollected in So Much to Be Done\, and framed by personal accounts of Barbara and her influential work\, Brenner’s columns and blog posts form a chronicle of breast cancer research and health care activism that is as inspiring as it is informative. \nFree admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-so-much-to-be-done/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160815T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160815T213000
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton: War Porn
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Roy Scranton: \n“What impresses is the brutal immediacy of the writing\, its authority. Roy Scranton is a truth telling war writer.” — E.L. Doctorow\, author of Ragtime \n\n“I have never read a book like War Porn. Roy Scranton writes with unnerving power. There is much to admire here—the meticulous craftsmanship\, the hysterical comic passages\, the way the sheer audacity of vision is matched at every turn by the innovative skill to carry it out—but what I’m left with at the end is difficult to put into words. It’s intense and troubling. It’s what all truly excellent literature leaves you with. A sense of something shattering.” — Phil Klay\, author of Redeployment\n\n“War Porn is dire\, savage\, and brilliant\, a simmering fever-dream of a novel that’s as pure and true in its vision of the long war as anything I’ve read. Roy Scranton is merciless—and why should he be anything but? War’s corruption soaks through every layer of life\, and War Porn drives home that truth with unflinching\, and ultimately harrowing\, honesty.” — Ben Fountain\, author of Billy Flynn’s Long Halftime Walk\n\nAbout War Porn: \nThe term war porn refers to videos and images brought back from combat zones. IED explosions\, air strikes\, firefights\, images of death and gore largely shorn of context\, at times even evidence of potential war crimes (most famously\, the photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib). \n\nWar porn is also\, in Scranton’s searing debut\, a metaphor for the fragmentation and confusion of modern combat\, the broken shards of experience that form the wartime experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. The three sections of “War Porn” fit inside one another like nesting dolls: from an end of summer barbecue in the American Southwest; to the perspective of a young US soldier in the early months of the occupation of Iraq; to the story of Qasim al-Zabadi\, an Iraqi math professor who faces the American invasion with a blend of fear\, denial\, and perseverance. Through the eyes of the occupiers\, we watch Qasim become an interpreter for US forces\, then prisoner and victim. As the scene switches from America to Iraq and back again\, as home and hell merge\, Qasim reveals the fragile humanity that connects occupier and occupied\, torturer and tortured.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton-war-porn/
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:Books & Brews: Book Swap!
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Beer Thirty. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 90 seconds\, and we’ll have a timer. Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)!\n*Remember that you must bring a book to participate in this event.*\n\n\nAbout the Books & Brews series:\nOur second-annual summer Books & Brews series combines our passion for books with our love of craft beer! We’re partnering with 4 local breweries and pubs to bring you unique book-related events once a month throughout summer.\nPick up a Passport at Bookshop (or print one at home). Visit our summer Books & Brews event to get your Passport stamped at each location! Get at least two stamps\, turn your Passport in by September 15\, and you’ll be entered in a drawing to win $150 gift card from Bookshop Santa Cruz!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap/
LOCATION:Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House\, 2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160817T190000
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SUMMARY:John Lewis w/ Andrew Aydin + Nate Powell
DESCRIPTION:Together\, these three creators have turned the life of an exceptional human being into both a work of literature and a work of art. The words and images of March bring to life the story of John Lewis\, the power of youth\, and the power of nonviolence — making them accessible and urgently relevant to new generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lewis-w-andrew-aydin-nate-powell/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:The Flash Fiction Forum is a San Jose Event featuring flash fiction writers reading their work at WORKS gallery in downtown San Jose. \nSome call it short-short stories; some call it micro-fiction; some call it “sudden” fiction. In short\, no more than two pages double-spaced (maybe a bit longer if most of it is dialogue). \nThis platform allows the writers to get an immediate response to their work. Join us and expose your fiction!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges: 6th Anniversary Special
DESCRIPTION:Come get hot and lyrical at our 6th year anniversary reading. That’s six years of creating space and community for the East Bay. In this time we’ve featured hundreds of writers to spread the wealth of their words. Tonight we bring back some all-time favorites: \nVirgie Tovar\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nCyrus Armajani\ngiovanni singleton \nHosted and curated by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-6th-anniversary-special/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Conditional Love w/ Bernes\, Boldt\, + Gentil
DESCRIPTION:SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community. \nJASPER BERNES is author of two books of poetry\, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). He has recently completed a scholarly book\, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press\, forthcoming)\, about the role poetry plays in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Poems\, essays\, and other writings can be found in Modern Language Quarterly\, Radical Philosophy\, Endnotes\, Lana Turner\, The American Reader\, Critical Inquiry\, and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover\, he edits CommuneEditions. He lives in Berkeley with his family. \nLINDSEY BOLDT is a poet\, performer\, editor and energy healer who lives in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of Overboard (2012) and the chapbooks\, Titties for Lindsey (2013)\, Overboard: Rampage (2011)\, Oh My\, Hell Yes (2009) and a new chapbook from Couch Press with an unpronounceable title (right now\, y’all). With Steve Orth\, she co-writes and performs plays\, commentary and songs including a recently recorded audio commentary for the 1993 movie “The Pelican Brief” (forthcoming from Troll Thread). She works as the managing editor of Nightboat Books\, studies plant medicine and shoots healing energy out of the palms of her hands for money and for free. \nFANCIULLA GENTILE Fanciulla is a multi-disciplinary artist born in San Francisco and raised in Bolivia. She’s collaborated with many Bay Area artists on music\, live performance\, and film. Her recent project\, The Creatrix\, is a solo dark ambient sonic exploration based on a series of stories she’s been writing since January 1st 2016. The narrative traces the movements of an Alien-oracle as it travels throughout the universe to birth and to kill her descendant species. Fanciulla’s writing contains elements of science fiction\, eco-horror\, and erotica. She lives in the Mission district and has many jobs. \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conditional-love-w-bernes-boldt-gentil/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Everything Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Submit here (follow link) for the Everything open mic on Saturday August 20th 6-7:50 PM. \nJust comment here with a link to your video\, or post a short piece of poetry/ prose etc.\, attach your soundcloud etc. \nWe will choose and book 20 performers for 5 min performance slots during this special open mic immediately following the Noise Pop Block Party on Satturday August 20th from 6-7:50pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everything-open-mic/
LOCATION:Mutiny Radio Gallery\, 2781 21st Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paper Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a paper filled evening hosted by\nYoussef Alaoui of Paper Press Publishing \nReaders will include writers who have been published by Paper Press: \nCassandra Dallett\nJoel Landmine\nMK Chavez\nPaul Corman Roberts\nSharon Coleman\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nAlexandra Naughton\nDennis Formento\nMissy Church \nwith musical guests:\nto be announced
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paper-press-reading/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Colosi
DESCRIPTION:David Colosi is the author of the novel Miss Pumpernickel Bread\, the essay Towards A Three-Dimensional Literature and the collection of poems\, Laughing Blood. He went to CalArts in the ‘90s\, lives in Brooklyn\, NY and will be an artist-in-residence at Varda Artists Residency in Sausalito from Aug. 1-Sept. 1\, 2016. http://www.vardaartistsresidency.to/#varprogramabout \nDavid’s literature and artwork has been featured in New York at Cueto Project and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; in Brussels at Galerie Catherine Bastide; in Switzerland in Art Statements at Art Basel; in Los Angeles at Highways Performance Space Gallery; and Tokyo at the Proto Theater. He has been an artist-in-residence in New York at Pioneer Works and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governors Island; in Florida at the Fountainhead Residency and Atlantic Center for the Arts; and in France at Le Centre Du Monde in Belle-Ile-en-mer. At Adobe Books\, he will be reading from a new collection of writings.\nwww.davidcolosi.com & www.3dlit.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-colosi/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160821T170000
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SUMMARY:National Park Service Centennial: See America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special celebration of 100 years of our National Parks Service\, with Kati Schmidt of the National Parks Conservation Association\, and Max Slavin and Aaron Perry-Zucker of Creative Action Network\, instigators of the crowd-sourced See America art campaign and hardbound book. This family-friendly event will include presentations\, book signings\, tasty treats\, art\, and activities for all ages! Notably\, 1% of all the proceeds from See America book sales go to support NPCA\, and 40% go directly to the artists involved in its creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-park-service-centennial-see-america/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ABBW Presents: The Hydra #5
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Association of Black and Brown Writers’ (Nomadic Press’) fifth experimental\, flash\, and science fiction reading series at the beautiful Woods Bar & Brewery on 17th and Telegraph in Uptown Oakland. \nThis month features science-fiction author TBD and our Outsider of the Month TBD and five (5) open mic slots! Emceed by Elwin Michael Cotman and Vernon Keeve III. Music by the ever-so-talentedOakland Future Trio. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nGenesis \nAt one time it was believed that Hercules downed the six-headed beast\, discovering in the process that the removal of one head meant that two would grow in its place. It was only with help from Iolaus that the death of the beast was exposed in the marrying of decapitation and cauterization\, so that more heads could not sprout. Hercules buried the taproot of the beast under a huge rock\, known today as Mount Diablo. \nFor 27 centuries\, the Hydra has remained dormant\, until the 1940s when copious amounts of poetry began to stir the sleeping heart of the behemoth\, and slowly but surely the heads of the beast began to grow back despite the sealed wounds. \nOctavia Butler\, Samuel R. Delaney\, and Ursula K. Le Guin were knighted as keepers of the beast\, but the trio’s powers were greatly weakened with the passing of Octavia. \nUrsula recently said\, “with the popularity of poetry readings in the Bay Area the heads of the beast are growing back at an alarming rate\, and the only thing that will slow down the beast is the inclusion of more fiction in the literary scene. We need stories of mythical beasts stronger than the Hydra. We need stories of worlds that is not the world it remembers\, or maybe stories of lands the Hydra knows all too well. We need stories of heroes that can destroy it\, and villians greater than it. We need experimental stories\, we need short stories\, we need fiction. Fiction is the only thing that will down the beast for once and for all. Counteract the poetry that is making the beast grow\, and do it now.” \nThe Setup \nWith all that being said\, we would like to invite you all to The Association of Black and Brown Writers’ (Nomadic Press’) The Hydra: A Reading Series of Experimental\, Flash\, and Science Fiction. This event will come to you on the last Tuesday of every month at Woods Bar & Brewery in Uptown Oakland. \nHydra will always have a featured reader who writes within the genre of fiction\, as well as\, an Outsider of the Month. The Outsider of the Month is someone who usually writes what cannot be classified as fiction\, but who will be asked to write a piece of fiction and share it with the audience. We’ve learned that this sacrifice is one that slows down the growth of the heads the most. \nThere will also 5 slots available for sacrificial (open-mic) readings (4 minutes per reading)\, so come out to listen\, to share\, to join us in ceremony. \nPSA: This series is still not affiliated with H.Y.D.R.A. the criminal organization\, but they want in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/abbw-presents-the-hydra-5/
LOCATION:Woods Bar & Brewery\, 1701 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marisa Silver w/ Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century\, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. \nHer arrival\, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions\, stuns her parents and brings outrage and disgust from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf\, beautiful in face\, but as the years pass\, she grows no further than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local doctor and freak sideshow proprietor\, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable\, magical transformation in and out of human form\, as this outcast woman is hunted down and incarcerated for her desires\, her body broken and her identity stripped away until her soul is strong enough to transcend all physical bounds. \nWoven throughout is the journey of Danilo\, the young man entranced by Pavla\, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being\, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises\, Marisa Silver’s new novel spans the beginning of a new century\, the disintegration of ancient superstitions and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters\, a wholly shocking and original story\, and extraordinary\, page-turning prose\, it is a work of sheer electricity. \nMarisa Silver is the author of the novel Mary Coin\, a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of The God of War(a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist)\, No Direction Home\, and two story collections\, Alone With You and Babe in Paradise (a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year). Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker when she was featured in the magazine’s first “Debut Fiction” issue. Winner of the O. Henry Prize\, Silver’s fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, and other anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marisa-silver-w-peter-orner/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Comics Are Your Therapy Cat
DESCRIPTION:A night of readings of original works by Bay Area comics artists\, plus a comics therapist.\nCome hear readings of original works by:\nKayan Cheung-Miaw\nInés Ixierda\nIll Nappashi\nEmeric Kennard\nDiego Gomez\nLacey Johnson\n————————–————\nBios: \nKayan Cheung-Miaw is from Hong Kong and New York\, and comes from a family of garment and restaurant workers. Her work as the lead organizer for the Yank Sing restaurant workers’ campaign resulted in a historic $4 million settlement for 280 workers. Comics is her favorite medium because she considers it an art for the people. Check out her work at:kayancheung.tumblr.com \nInés Ixierda is a multi-media visual artist and bruja. She uses handcraft and mark making to heal and hold her lived experience. She will be presenting old and new works. \nIll Nappashi is a comics therapist\, idea man\, and motorcycle mechanic. \nEmeric L. Kennard or “Elk” is an award-winning artist and illustrator currently based in Oakland. A socially active creator\, Elk’s subject matter includes queer and transgender issues interpreted from a unique lived perspective\, environmentalism\, trauma\, and cultural survival. His work has exhibited locally and nationally\, hung in Congressional halls\, and been recognized by the Society of Illustrators. \nDiego Gomez created Daddy Issues magazine\, worked on the comic books Pride High\, Glamazonia\, Mama Tits Saves the World & most recently “ALPHABET: LGBTQAI Anthology”. They have created the panel discussion “Homo Superior: Queering Comics\, Costumes as Drag & Gender Equality” at Stan Lee’s ComikazeExpo\, co-curated “Queering Mythologies” for the National Queer Arts Festival & spoke at RuPaul’s DragCon’s “Geeks and Glamazons: Gender Bending in Comics.” They are currently completing the story & illustrations for the comic they are about to read about 1963 civil rights. instagram.com/designnurd \nLacey Johnson has been doing waay underground diary comics for 10 years. She will present a retrospective on her body of work\, talk process\, and present current work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/comics-are-your-therapy-cat/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Forrest Leo
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Forrest Leo: \n“An effervescent book with a cheerfully lunatic plot. Cavalier\, funny\, and totally engrossing. It’s a delicious crumpet of a novel that will leave you wondering if Forrest Leo drinks tea with the devil.”—Sara Levine\, author of Treasure Island!!! \n“Let us all bow down before the nutty and delightful romp that is The Gentleman. An assured stylist tells a hilarious story with perfect pacing and aplomb: yes\, please.”—Henry Alford\, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners \n“Simultaneously very strange and very familiar\, The Gentleman has all the right echoes and influences – the ‘scientific romance\,’ the postmodernist novel\, the comedy of manners. It’s witty and erudite\, with great whiffs of Wells and Wilde and Wodehouse – all of it beautifully combined\, with one of the best opening sentences I’ve read in years. Go on—open up!”—Geoff Nicholson\, author of The Lost Art of Walking \n\nAbout The Gentleman: \nA funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \n  \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. \n  \nDistraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil — the polite “Gentleman” of the title — who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home\, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \n  \nNewly in love with Vivian\,  Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington\, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. \n  \nLionel and his friends encounter trapdoors\, duels\, anarchist-fearing bobbies\, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history\, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-leo/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160823T014648Z
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SUMMARY:Amy Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Amy Stewart\, the bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun\, returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating\, feisty\, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. \nAfter besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun\, Constance Kopp became one of the nation’s first deputy sheriffs. She’s proven that she can t be deterred\, evaded\, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position and her hopes for this new life\, and endanger the honorable Sheriff Heath\, Constance may not be able to make things right. \nLady Cop Makes Trouble sets Constance loose on the streets of New York City and New Jersey–tracking down victims\, trailing leads\, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers at a hotel for women. Cheering her on\, and goading her\, are her sisters Norma and Fleurette–that is\, when they aren’t training pigeons for the war effort or fanning dreams of a life on the stage. Based on a true story\, Girl Waits with Gun introduced Constance Kopp and her charming and steadfast sisters to an army of enthusiastic readers. Those readers will be thrilled by this second installment–also ripped from the headlines–in the romping\, wildly readable life of a woman forging her own path\, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way. \nAmy Stewart is the award-winning author of seven books\, including her acclaimed fiction debut Girl Waits With Gun and the bestsellers The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She and her husband live in Eureka\, California\, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-stewart/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160825T203000
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CREATED:20160713T014718Z
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SUMMARY:Anita Cruz + John Landry
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-cruz-john-landry/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160825T203000
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CREATED:20160810T013720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T013720Z
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SUMMARY:Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies!
DESCRIPTION:Trashy! Tawdry! Page after page of smut and gossip! We love to hate them —and can’t get enough of them —they are Celebrity Autobiographies! \nCome celebrate the BEST of the absolute WORST celebrity autobiographies to ever line a bookstore shelf. To celebrate this achievement in awful celebrity prose\, our guest readers for the night are some of the most iconic queens in the Bay Area! Donna Sachet\, Sue Casa\, Sugah Betes\, MuthaChucka\, Shane Zaldivar\, and Daft-nee Gesuntheit! Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel. \nAs always Literary Speakeasy is FREE. But for this evening\, we will be collecting donations and raffling off prizes to raise money for Strut in the Castro. So bring your donations\, order a martini\, and laugh along to some of the worst celebrity autobiographies these queens could find!! \nPerformer bios:\nDaft-nee Gesuntheit! has been a San Francisco staple since showing up on the scene six years ago. Since her inception\, she has performed at the legendary Marlena’s Bar in the Hayes Valley Follies\, Cookie Dough’s Monster Show at The Edge Bar\, Sunday’s A Drag at The Starlight Room\, and Oasis as Jo Polniaczek (pronounced Pole-nuh-check) in Facts of Life and Charlotte York in Sex and the City. Fond of fundraising\, she participates in galas for the Academy of Friends; she is a Princess of the Imperial Court\, a miracle worker and shiny gem in the community. Befriend her on Facebook for more fun and frivolity. \nDonna Sachet started her adventure in San Francisco over twenty years ago and the City has applauded her fun-loving spirit\, quick wit\, and musical talent ever since. Donna can be seen throughout the Community\, judging contests\, emceeing fund-raisers\, cutting ribbons\, and hosting parties and was featured in individual stories in The SF Chronicle\, SF Bay Guardian\, GLOSS magazine\, and on ABC television. Donna currently writes a biweekly column for the publication Bay Area Reporter and stars in the weekly Sunday’s A Drag brunch shows\, now in its eleventh year\, at the Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. In 2009\, Donna Sachet was the first drag personality in history to sing the National Anthem for a major league sports game at AT&T Park for the SF Giants. A short film about her\, named Sachet\, was completed in 2014 and included in the Frameline Film Festival. \nMuthaChucka is a tireless performer\, fundraiser and political dragtivist based in San Francisco\, host of her own show in the Castro\, Sex\, Drags & Rock n Roll at the Midnight Sun & SOMA party Try Some Thing at the Stud. Mutha has worked on behalf of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation\, AIDS Housing Alliance\, Tenderloin Tessies Holiday Dinners\, Project Open Hand\, and countless other charities in the Bay Area and beyond! Having discovered her love of performing at an early age MuthaChucka has been amazing audiences with her fierce lipsynch\, unique song choices\, and gracious hosting ever since! With a rubbery face of a thousand expressions and a clever sensibility that never fails to amuse\, she has made people laugh and cry with her riveting performances and twisted sense of humor! For calendar and booking information check out www.Muthachucka.com. \nShane Zalidvar has been living in San Francisco for nearly three years since moving from Florida and graduating from Oaksterdam University. During that time\, drag in the Bay area has become his art-therapy. He says\, “The performer community has incredible talent and invites authenticity to shine way beyond the stage. I’m lucky to be a part of it with a sensual\, androgynous\, and sometimes creepy style. Come see for yourself\, it’s so much fun!” \nSUE CASA is best described as the village idiot. With an amazing ability to paint the same exact face every time and wear the same exact wig\, her look is…well….recognizable. She is a hostess of the weekly Monster Show at the Edge Bar\, and Miss Trannyshack 2013. \nSugah Betes is an anachronism. She’s a larger than life character. Really she’s larger than most things in the room. She’s a funny girl with a real smart mouth on her. Her style is sequins and petticoats and her make-up is modified clown. She is a co-hostess of The Monster Show\, the Castro’s longest running drag show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-read-celebrity-autobiographies/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160825T210000
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SUMMARY:Kathrine LaFleur
DESCRIPTION:Laurel Book Store in collaboration with Juma Ventures welcomes author Kathrine LaFleur in launching her new book Moonlight Hunting. \nWith one quarter of the Cardonian population in his grip\, Fillian Barnabas has made his way into the Steeple Basin and the next phase of his plan to usurp all control of Cardonia. But Moonlight is close on his heels\, determined to rescue the friends Barnabas has taken hostage\, and to put an end to his dominion. Separated from the small group of dissenters who pulled her into this fight in the first place\, Moonlight must face not only a lethally dangerous Persuasive\, but her own inner demons if she is to survive and win freedom for herself and her kingdom. \nKathrine LaFleur is thrilled to be working with Juma Ventures\, a youth-run social enterprise operation that provides youth with resources to fulfill their potential and have a positive impact in their communities. As an author and educator\, LaFleur hopes to empower young readers to value their unique qualities and inspire them to transform obstacles into opportunities to triumph .LaFleur will donate a percentage of book sales to Juma Ventures. \nKathrine LaFleur grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been an educator for nearly twenty years and enjoys nurturing a love of reading and writing in her students. She has written six books for a range of ages from four years to young adult. She hopes that her writing will empower readers to value their unique qualities and see their own potential to transform obstacles into opportunities to triumph. She currently lives and works in Oakland as an elementary school teacher. \nJuma strives to break the cycle of poverty by paving the way to work\, education\, and financial capability for youth across America. We believe that the world’s greatest social service is a job. But a Juma job is more than that. A Juma job socially engages youth and teaches them leadership skills while building confidence for a successful career. Juma serves as a launching pad to the real world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathrine-lafleur/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160826T210000
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CREATED:20160823T014906Z
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception A Home For the Homeless: Artists and Poets in Search of An Answer
DESCRIPTION:Artists and Poets in Search of an Answer is a provocative response to the homeless crisis with art\, photography\, poetry\, critiques and perhaps an answer or two. Featuring photography by Joe Ramos and Cammie Toloui\, installations by the UNDERCOVER collective with video by Sietske Tjallingii\, art by Kate Akimbo\, painting by Annice Jacoby\, graphics from WRAP archive including work by Patrick Piazza\, Art Hazelwood\, Veronica Solis\, Ronnie Goodman\, and poems by Jack Hirschman\, Alejandro Murguía\, Alessandra Bava\, Tony Robles\, Norman Zelaya\, Cesar Love\, Virginia Barrett\, Michael Koch\, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others. \nClosing Reception on Friday August 26th\, 2016 from 6-9pm \nFeaturing LIVE PRINTING with master graphic community artists including Patrick Piazza\, Txutuo Perez\, Art Hazelwood & more. Original prints available from the show’s artists. See FREE POSTERS made on the spot or try printing one yourself. \nThe gathering will also include SOAPBOX\, a participatory performance event for advocates\, heartbreakers\, change makers\, everyone with a fresh idea. Come have your five minutes on the SOAPBOX along with local celebs & creative provocateurs. Let’s use imagination and celebration\, mingle dignity and rage with constructive here-and-now good ideas that break the impasse around chronic homelessness in our beautiful city. Let us banish the shame and the blame and build off the good work and sacrifice of decades of artist activism\, community outcry and valuable lives grossly crushed. The best ideas will be captured and shared.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/closing-reception-a-home-for-the-homeless-artists-and-poets-in-search-of-an-answer/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160826T210000
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CREATED:20160810T014003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T014003Z
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SUMMARY:August at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nAimee Suzara\nJudy Halebsky\nKelly Egan\nMei Li Ooi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/august-at-cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20160823T015050Z
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SUMMARY:Javier O. Huerta + Nataly Ortiz w/ Iwalani Venerable
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Javier O. Huerta and Nataly Ortiz. With musical guest Iwalani Venerable. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there) https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javier-o-huerta-nataly-ortiz-w-iwalani-venerable/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Three sisters and a brother\, complete with children\, a new wife\, and an ex-boyfriend’s son\, descend on their grandparents’ dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday\, where simmering tensions and secrets rise to the surface over three weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past—their mother took them there to live when she left their father—but now\, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. \nSophisticated and sleek\, Roland’s new wife (his third) arouses his sisters’ jealousies and insecurities. Kasim\, the twenty-year-old son of Alice’s ex-boyfriend\, becomes enchanted with Molly\, Roland’s sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran’s young children make an unsettling discovery in an abandoned cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it’s least expected\, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet\, the eldest sister. As the family’s stories and silences intertwine\, small disturbances build into familial crises\, and a way of life—bourgeois\, literate\, ritualized\, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end. \nOver five novels and two collections of stories\, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill to The Past\, a work of breathtaking scope and beauty—her most ambitious and accomplished novel yet. \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\, which was longlisted for The GuardianFirst Book Award; Everything Will Be All Right; The Master Bedroom; The London Train\, which was a New York TimesNotable Book; and Clever Girl. She is also the author of two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love\, which were New York Times Notable Books as well. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160829T210000
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CREATED:20160810T014458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T014458Z
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SUMMARY:Marvin R. Hiemstra + Julian Mithra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Marvin R. Hiemstra and Julian Mithra. With musical guest Hazy Loper. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marvin-r-hiemstra-julian-mithra/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160829T210000
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CREATED:20160823T015821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160823T015821Z
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:A captivating\, often hilarious novel of family\, loss\, wilderness\, and the curse of a violent America\, Dave Eggers’ Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. \nJosie and her children’s father have split up\, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice\, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancee’s family\, Josie makes a run for it\, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids\, Paul and Ana\, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau\, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison\, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire\, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive\, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires\, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined\, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family\, even to the very edge of civilization. \nA tremendous new novel from the best-selling author of The Circle\, this is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness. \nDave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books\, including A Hologram for the King\, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun\, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book\, about Valentino Achak Deng\, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan\, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation\, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeneys\, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal\, a monthly magazine\, The Believer; a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries\, Wholphin; and an oral history series\, Voice of Witness. In 2002\, with Ninive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia\, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago\, Los Angeles\, New York\, Ann Arbor\, Seattle\, Boston\, and Washington\, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch\, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago\, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160830T210000
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CREATED:20160713T014909Z
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SUMMARY:Rae Meadows: I Will Send Rain
DESCRIPTION:Annie Bell can’t escape the dust. It’s in her hair\, covering the windowsills\, coating the animals in the barn\, in the corners of her children’s dry\, cracked lips. It’s 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead\, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come\, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions. Annie’s fragile young son\, Fred\, suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong daughter\, Birdie\, flush with first love\, is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead; and Samuel\, her husband\, is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. \nAs Annie\, desperate for an escape of her own\, flirts with the affections of an unlikely admirer\, she must choose who she is going to become. With her warm storytelling and beautiful prose\, Rae Meadows brings to life an unforgettable family that faces hardship with rare grit and determination. Rich in detail and epic in scope\, I Will Send Rain is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience\, filled with hope\, morality\, and love. \nRae Meadows is the author of Calling Out\, which received the 2006 Utah Book Award for fiction\, and No One Tells Everything\, a Poets & Writers Notable Novel. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Minneapolis\, Minnesota.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rae-meadows-i-will-send-rain/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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