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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T190000
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici\, Jenny Brown and Dani Burilson
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Dec 09\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation:\nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley \nSilvia Federici in conversation with Jenny Brown\, author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work\, and Dani Burilson\, editor of All of Me: Stories of Love\, Anger\, and the Female Body. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist activist\, writer\, and a teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective\, the organization that launched the Wages For Housework campaign internationally. In the 1990s\, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria\, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. She is one of the co-founders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa\, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and educational systems. From 1987 to 2005 she taught international studies\, women studies\, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead\, NY. All through these years she has written books and essays on philosophy and feminist theory\, women’s history\, education and culture\, and more recently the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons. \nJenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. In addition to Labor Notes\, her work has appeared in Jacobin\, Huffington Post\, and Alternet\, and she is coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. \nDani Burlison (she/her) is the author of Some Places Worth Leaving (Tolsun Books\, 2019)\, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories\, a collection of essays that first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name\, and the Lady Parts zines. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly\, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review\, and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune\, KQED Arts\, The Rumpus\, and Made Local magazine. Her writing can also be found at Ms.\, Yes!\, Earth Island Journal\, Wired\, Vice\, Utne\, Ploughshares\, Hip Mama\, Rad Dad\, Spirituality & Health\, Shareable\, Tahoma Literary Review\, Prick of the Spindle\, and more. Her writing also appears in several anthologies. She is a single mom and lives\, teaches\, and writes in Santa Rosa\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-jenny-brown-and-dani-burilson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000
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SUMMARY:An evening with Kal Spelletich
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Kal Spelletich\nTuesday\, December 10\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nin conversation with Catharine Clark \ndiscussing his new project \nSignificance Machines and Purposeful Robots \n‘Significance Machines and Purposeful Robots’ is an exhibit of work by Kal Spelletich at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art through December 2019 that includes life size praying robots\, photos\, sound machines\, drawings\, videos and interactive sculptures which explore the question: can technology do spiritual work? Via audience operated robots that are meditative and violent\, Spelletich’s work enacts a liberated awareness and pushes his audience to a creative response to in their own lives. \nCity Lights celebrates the release of the catalog for this show. The catalog is enshrined inside a unique artifact produced in a limited edition. The artifact is composed of a suitcase shell that contains a mechanized spinning stone Buddha\, LED lights\, sound recording of spiritual music\, a speaker\, laser cut text on acrylic\, caliper measuring tool\, assorted photos\, drawings and prints\, a thumb drive with videos photos and texts\, pen\, paper\, laser cut marble\, folded sculpture\, monograph\, and whiskey. The catalogue was organized by Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art curator\, April Bojorquez\, with a forward by Lauren MacDonald\, and an interview by Catherine Clarke that provide perspectives on the work and the artist in relation to contemporary art and technology issues. \nKal Spelletich builds interactive machines and robots. He scours the world for industrial items in which the technology can be repurposed. Spelletich has collaborated with artists all over the world though his home base is in San Francisco. Kal works with bio-morphic sensors\, (sometimes uncontrollable) that trigger his robots and provide viewers with a hands-on interactive experience. His work mines the space between what robots and humans can and cannot do. Recent exhibits of his work have been held in Namibia\, Lubjianna\, Berlin\, Vienna\, New York\, India\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. A monographic exhibit of his work will be presented at Saint Mary’s College in August 2019. Spelletich’s practice is across genres and his work extends to curating exhibits and activism. His projects have been featured in the NY Times\, PBS\, and in other critical journals and media. \nCatharine Clark is the founder of the Catharine Clark Gallery\, established in 1991. The internationally acclaimed gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition\, they also curate changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room. New exhibits open every six weeks. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary dealer for an acclaimed roster of international artists: Sandow Birk\, Lenka Clayton\, Chris Doyle\, Al Farrow\, Nina Katchadourian\, Kara Maria\, Deborah Oropallo\, Stephanie Syjuco\, Josephine Taylor\, Masami Teraoka\, and Wanxin Zhang. In 2016\, Catharine Clark founded BOX BLUR\, an initiative to bring visual and performing art into dialogue within the non-proscenium-based space of the gallery. To learn more visit: https://cclarkgallery.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-kal-spelletich/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T213000
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking\, Remaking\, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos\, 2019). \nFederici surveys the paradigms that govern how the body is conceived and the disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist writer\, teacher\, and militant. Her books include Witches\, Witch-Hunting\, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University and co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-book-launch-of-beyond-the-periphery-of-the-skin/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton
DESCRIPTION:Roy Scranton reading from his new novel\n\nI  ❤Oklahoma ! \npublished by Soho Books \n\nSuzie’s seen it all\, but now she’s looking for something she lost: a sense of the future. So when the chance comes to work with a maverick video artist on his road movie about Donald Trump’s America\, she’s pretty sure it’s a bad idea but she signs up anyway\, hoping for an outside shot at starting over. \nA provocative\, genderqueer\, shapeshifting musical romp through the brain-eating nightmare of contemporary America\, I Heart Oklahoma! is a book about art\, guns\, cars\, American landscapes\, and American history. This kaleidoscopic novel moves from our bleeding-edge present to a furious Faulknerian retelling of the Charlie Starkweather killings in the 1950s\, capturing in its fragmented\, mesmerizing form the violence at the heart of the American dream. \nRoy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (published by City Lights Books)\, and co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He grew up in Oregon\, dropped out of college\, and spent several years wandering the American West. In 2002\, he enlisted in the US Army. He served from 2002 to 2006\, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research\, then completed his PhD in English at Princeton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
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SUMMARY:The View from Somewhere: Reimagining local journalism in Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation on journalism\, objectivity and an equitable approach to local news in Oakland. \nTwo months after the 2016 presidential election\, radio journalist Lewis Raven Wallace proclaimed “Objectivity is Dead and I’m Okay With it” to highlight how “neutrality” in newsrooms can be a tool of white supremacy. While journalism schools and newsrooms often tout objectivity as a pillar of the craft\, Wallace argues that if you look back at how journalists in the U.S. reported on issues like slavery or the early LGBTQ movement\, “many of the journalists who’ve told the truth in key historical moments have been outliers and members of an opposition\, here and in other countries.” \nWallace is now launching a book and accompanying podcast\, The View from Somewhere: A Podcast About Journalism With A Purpose\, and going on tour to facilitate conversations about “objectivity\,” oppressed communities\, and the news. \nAt this special event in Oakland\, Wallace will talk with journalist Tasneem Raja about the harm caused by the myth of objectivity\, and facilitate a group discussion on how journalism can better serve and reflect Oakland. \n*The event is free\, but please RSVP via the Eventbrite link above!*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-view-from-somewhere-reimagining-local-journalism-in-oakland/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
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SUMMARY:Grace Paley's Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Judith Arcana\, author of Grace Paley’s Life Stories\, will read and share from her decades-long friendship with Grace and their history of activism and writing. She’ll be joined in reading\, conversation\, and celebration by Maxine Hong Kingston\, Gwyn Kirk\, and Martha Richards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-paleys-birthday/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191210T025844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025844Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime Flux
DESCRIPTION:Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan)\, Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah)\, Jen Burke Anderson\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-flux/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
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SUMMARY:30 Years of Street Sheet
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to our new office to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Sheet newspaper! For three decades Street Sheet has been documenting the realities facing poor and homeless San Franciscans\, and providing a platform for homeless journalists\, storytellers\, poets\, photographers\, and artists who are otherwise ignored. \nWe will be hosting an open mic with featured performers from our Street Sheet team and plenty of space for you to jump up and share poems\, songs\, or memories. We will provide a light dinner\, some adult beverages\, and delicious baked goods! \nWHEN: December 12th @5:30-8pm\nWHERE: Coalition on Homelessness\, 290 Turk Street San Francisco \nFeaturing\n* Tone Oliver\nMotivational Performer and MC\, Tone Oliver has been honing his sound and story as an artist for over 15 years. LA born\, Bay Area based MC offers a refreshing flow and witty\, yet wise word play that often leaves listeners inspired. Oliver has been covered by the SF Chronicle\, KQED and KTVU Fox 2. The father\, rapper and actor is currently working on his 5th solo album\, “Keep Going” set to drop late 2019. \n*Zach K \n* Wayfairy\nhttps://www.facebook.com/wayfairy/\nWayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Finally wheelchair accessible by elevator! Please let us know if you need the elevator when you ring up so we can buzz you in the correct entrance. There are two single stall gender neutral bathrooms available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/30-years-of-street-sheet/
LOCATION:Street Sheet\, 280 Turk St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
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SUMMARY:Fight the Tower! Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender. Fight the Tower is Asian American women scholars’ response and blueprints for resistance. Presenters are the editors\, Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis\, and the contributors\, including Eliza Noh and Kaozong Mouavangsou. \nWei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies. \nKieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California\, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community\, Culture\, and Politics in the Diaspora and co-founder of the social justice movement\, Fight the Tower. \nKaozong N. Mouavangsou is the first Hmong American PhD candidate in the School of Education at The University of California\, Davis. \nEliza Noh is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at California State University\, Fullerton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fight-the-tower-asian-american-women-scholars-resistance/
LOCATION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
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SUMMARY:Performance | 2019 Poets-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of our 2019 Poets-in-Residence program. Tonya Foster and Alan Peláez López will perform their poetry at a reading to celebrate their work created during the Poets-in-Residence program at MoAD. Joining Tonya and Alan will be MoAD Poetry Coordinator and 2018 Poet-in-Residence Raina Léon\, and the Ruth Assawa San Francisco School for the Arts Spoken Arts Director Aimee Suzara. \nThis program will include a wine reception and is free to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/performance-2019-poets-in-residence/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
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CREATED:20191210T032610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T032610Z
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SUMMARY:Last Voz of 2019!
DESCRIPTION:End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks\, drinks\, three features\, and an open mic!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/last-voz-of-2019/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T203000
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams reading from her new book\n\nErosion: Essays of Undoing \npublished by Sarah Critchton Books/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nFierce\, timely\, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist \nTerry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist\, fervent activist\, and stirring writer\, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays\, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land\, of the self\, of belief\, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered\, worn\, and whittled away through wind\, water\, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nShe looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument\, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest\, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction\, citing the drought outside her door and at times\, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge\, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders\, art\, and\, always\, in the land itself. She asks\, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?” \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She and her husband Brooke Williams divide their time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah. \nWhat has been said about the work of Terry Tempest Williams \n“An apostle of life and earth and a soul-revving teller of true stories\, Williams (The Hour of Land\, 2016) brings lyricism\, candor\, mystery\, and factual exactitude to the deeply affecting essays collected here . . . Williams’ exquisite testimony of wonder and wisdom is vitalizing and crucial.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“In a collection of passionate\, galvanizing essays\, activist and teacher Williams shares her intimate connection to the as-yet untamed landscapes of the American West . . . Williams writes with a poetic optimism . . . Stirring.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This anthology of grief\, anger\, and even hope capably reflects Williams’ wise voice.”\n—Kirkus \n“These essays are a joy to read. Terry Tempest Williams is a wise and fierce defender of the wild Earth.”\n—Leslie Marmon Silko\, author of The Turquoise Ledge \n“Terry Tempest Williams’s voice in the clamor is like a hot desert wind blowing away the litter in a crowded room and leaving behind only what has weight\, what is essential. These are essays about the courage to face what is most brutal and monstrous\, by finding what is most beautiful and merciful.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them by Their True Names \n“Luminous\, fearless\, brutally honest. But with this latest book\, Williams takes her spiritual love of the American West—along with her grief\, anger and exasperation at what we continue to do to this place—to a new level. If John Muir ever wrote like this\, most of the West would be in wilderness protection by now. As well\, she knows her way to the human heart.”\n—Timothy Egan\, author of The Immortal Irishman \n“Terry Tempest Williams has rewritten the rules for the way we must engage the natural world and each other. Erosion is both a shout from the edge of what we were and a beckoning to what we must become. Pick up your courage and this book; be prepared to take notes—and action.”\n—Alexandra Fuller\, author of Quiet Until the Thaw \n“Terry Tempest Williams is our great activist laureate. Working out of the lineage of Dickinson\, O’Keeffe\, D. H. Lawrence\, and\, later\, Abbey and Peacock\, she is nonetheless singular and extraordinarily original. She is rooted as juniper yet ephemeral as a sand dune. The forces that have eroded her are rapture and grief. What remains is elemental beauty.”\n—Rick Bass\, author of For a Little While \n“These are the most dangerous of all days for humans on Earth\, and Erosion is the book for our time. Writing on the edge of the sacred\, Terry Tempest Williams’s message bears the power and emotional gifts of a close call with a charging grizzly. There are no stray words. Terry writes with a purity glimpsed in certain outcrops of crystalline rock or the waters filling a chain of alpine lakes. I believe there is no more important writer working today.”\n—Doug Peacock\, author of In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tempest-williams/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:Longest running poetry open mic in Vallejo. Come. Everyone is welcome. 4 minutes per poet. Multiple rounds. Freedom of expression. 2nd Floor Oddfellows Hall. 342 Georgia\, Vallejo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-by-the-bay/
LOCATION:Oddfellows Hall\, 342 Georgia St.\, Vallejo\, CA\, 94590\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Poetry by the Bay":MAILTO:profeticlyrics@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191210T034128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034128Z
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SUMMARY:BPR Midterm Chapbook Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for the third issue of our chapbook series: MIDTERM 3 – CIRCUITS\, including poems from Leila Weefur\, Leena Joshi\, Colleen Baran\, Louise Akers\, Jennifer Soong\, and Tess Brown-Lavoie. The reading will be hosted at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th St\, Oakland\, @ 8pm. Snacks & beverages & chapbooks provided!!! Come celebrate with us ✨ \nOur wonderful readers for the night include: Leena Joshi\, Nathalie Khankan\, and Leila Weefur. Bios below! \nLEENA JOSHI is an artist and writer currently based in Oakland\, California. Their poetry\, essay\, and visual art practice consider the lateral roots of affect\, gender\, labor\, and desire within a transmedia practice of world building. Leena’s writing can be found in The Felt\, Gramma\, Monday: The Jacob Lawrence Gallery Journal\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. \nNATHALIE KHANKAN is the author of quiet orient riot\, to be published by Omnidawn in 2020\, and winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize\, judge Dawn Lundy Martin. Her work appears in Berkeley Poetry Review and Crab Creek Review\, and is upcoming in jubilat. \nShe teaches Arabic language and literature in the Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley. \nLEILA WEEFUR (She/They/He) is an artist\, writer\, and curator who lives and works in Oakland\, CA. \nThrough video\, installation\, writing\, and lecture-performances they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory\, abject\, hyper surveillance\, and the erotic. It implicates the viewer by controlling the mobility of the audience through fabricated environmental discomfort and strict rules of engagement. The site-specific installations are architectural interventions made up of constructed walls and tempered glass\, simulating systems of control and willful participation. \nWeefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award\, the Murphy & Cadogan award\, and the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. They have worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA\, The Wattis Institute\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, New York. Weefur is a member of The Black Aesthetic and a lecturer at SFAI and UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bpr-midterm-chapbook-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191023T083238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T083238Z
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SUMMARY:Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the press’s 45th Anniversary\, with readings by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. Forty-five years later\, the press\, still located in the East Bay\, remains true to its commitment to bring out a wide range of voices\, including the gifted work of trans and genderqueer authors. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their third-floor loft space\, this event is co-sponsored by Kelsey St. Press and The Poetry Center\, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Free and open to the public. \nMei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing\, grew up in Massachusetts\, and lives in northern New Mexico. She has published twelve books of poetry\, including five books with Kelsey St Press. Recent works include I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems and A Lit Cloud\, a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. Her latest book\, A Treatise on Stars\, is forthcoming from New Directions\, along with a new edition of Empathy. \nChing-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi/Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, recombinant (Kelsey Street Press\, 2017; 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry)\, to make black paper sing (speCt! Books\, 2019)\, and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press\, 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press\, 2009). Born of Chinese immigrants\, they have received fellowships from Kundiman\, Lambda\, Watering Hole\, Callaloo\, Can Serrat\, Storyknife\, and Imagining America and are a member of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. A community organizer\, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Riverside and Boston. In Autumn 2019\, they join the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell as an assistant professor. More at chinginchen.com \nAndrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg\, writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook\, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions\, 2016; download the PDF)\, attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Andrea’s first book\, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019)\, is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. They toured with Sister Spit 2018 and live in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelsey St. Press
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelsey-st-press-45th-anniversary-celebration-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-ching-in-chen-andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191205T144635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T144635Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join Fourteen Hills press to celebrate OPPRESSORFACE\, the 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award winning book of poetry written by Rob Hendricks.\nThere will be drinks\, food\, a prize drawing. and a reading by Rob Hendricks.\nOther readers include: Truong Tran\, Vanessa Marie Hamill\, Steven Kennedy\, Jens Mikkelsen\, London Pinkney\, and Izabella Santana. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-michael-rubin-book-award-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191210T033705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T033705Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrical Opposition: Unplugged
DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to join us for an intimate showcase of socially-conscious\, acoustic hip-hop music. \nBased in Bay Area\, CA\, Lyrical Opposition creates safe platforms that foster lyrical expression for hip-hop artists\, spoken word poets\, and other artistic talents through gatherings\, icebreakers\, freestyles\, cyphers\, artist development workshops\, panel discussions\, training and fellowship. \nDecember 13\, 2019 Delaplane will host a live acoustic performance by Bay Area based rapper\, poet\, and performer Fego Navarro and Dela Paz\, in an intimate setting. \nLimited seating available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrical-opposition-unplugged/
LOCATION:483 14th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191210T034611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T034611Z
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SUMMARY:The Fire Thieves in the Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston\, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. \nThe SFAC is pleased to welcome the The Fire Thieves Poetry Series—an inter-generational and inter-sectional collaboration between established\, mid-career and new poets working\, producing\, and presenting new work—to the gallery for an evening of readings dear to their hearts. A selection of accomplished Native poets read their work surrounded by the powerful and uplifting photographs on view in the exhibition The Continuous Thread. The evening’s readers include Jewelle Gomez\, playwright\, novelist and social justice activist; Stephen Meadows\, Ohlone poet and KFOF folk music dj; Linda Noel\, Poet Laureate emerita of Ukiah; and Ramona Webb\, artist in word\, movement\, and culture change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fire-thieves-in-the-gallery/
LOCATION:San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries\, 401 Van Ness Ave\, Ste 126\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20190930T192424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192424Z
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts
DESCRIPTION:Jeff VanderMeer joins us to discuss his new novel\, Dead Astronauts. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead \n“VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell\, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing\, one fixed destiny\, but as either peaceful or catastrophic\, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates–for these are our children\, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created.” —Wai Chee Dimock\, The New York Times Book Review \n“The conceptual elements in VanderMeer’s fiction are so striking that the firmness with which he cinches them to his characters’ lives is often overlooked . . . Borne is VanderMeer’s trans-species rumination on the theme of parenting . . . [Borne] insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know that you\, a mere person\, might be crushed by indifferent forces at a moment’s notice\, then quickly forgotten.” —Laura Miller\, The New Yorker \nAbout Dead Astronauts \nA messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish\, centuries old\, who hides a secret\, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past\, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. \nJeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where\, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company\, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future\, the fate of Earth—all the Earths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-dead-astronauts/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191124T171357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T171357Z
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SUMMARY:“Chan Family Picnic”—Reading by Eugenie Chan Theater Projects
DESCRIPTION:Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and the Chinese Historical Society of America invite you to a reading of Chan Family Picnic\, a rollicking new vaudeville about the mental health impact of America’s legacy of anti-Asian legislation and sex trafficking on three generations of the playwright’s Chinese American family. \nEugenie Chan\, playwright \nByron Au Yong\, composer \nalong with Bay Area performing artists \nQ&A will follow the reading \n  \nAdmission is free\, but there is limited space. Reserve your ticket on Eventbrite. \n\nThis program is part of our Chinese American: Health Legacy Series\, highlighting health issues that have particular impact on Asian American communities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chan-family-picnic-reading-by-eugenie-chan-theater-projects/
LOCATION:CHSA Museum\, 965 Clay Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chinese Historical Society of America":MAILTO:info@chsa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191213T052207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T052220Z
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SUMMARY:Music Release Party and Solstice Celebration with Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
DESCRIPTION:Mat and Yvonne will serenade us with some of the songs on their new album\, discuss the companion book and we’ll toast the coming of the light!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorking Class Heroes is a collection of American working-class\, pre–World War II folk songs revived by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore. Here the duo presents 20 songs written both by folk canon heavyweights and lesser known but equally gifted songwriters. Both beautiful and emotionally arresting\, the album is a collection of stories as much as songs—stories of the women and men who (sometimes literally) gave their lives to emancipate the working class.\n\n \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. Recent projects include the re-publication of Songs of Freedom by Irish revolutionary\, James Connolly\, the recording and publication of Working Class Heroes and the launch of Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. He is the author of five books including\, in 2017\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams.\nYvonne Moore is a singer and band leader originally from Schaffhausen\, Switzerland. In addition to recording numerous albums of her own music\, Moore is co-founder and treasurer of the Association “Art in History and Politics.” The purpose of the Association is to discover\, publish and popularize music\, graphic art and texts created by participants in conflicts such as the struggle to abolish slavery. Her exploration of the songs of Sarah Ogan Gunning led to the making of Working Class Heroes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-release-party-and-solstice-celebration-with-mat-callahan-and-yvonne-moore/
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:20191219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191024T154916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T154916Z
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SUMMARY:PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet\, an open mic and great drinks and treats! \nFeatured Poet: Gene Kahane\n(more dates/poets later)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julie's":MAILTO:julie@juliestea.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191220T050321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T050321Z
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SUMMARY:Radar Productions / Show Us Your Spines: November Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with RADAR Productions and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the SF Public Library! QTPOC writers who were participants of the Show Us Your Spines Writer’s Residency will be reading at Alley Cat Books to showcase the work they did during their time at the Hormel Center. \nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with Hormel Center LGBTQIA archives around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at a local venue.\nRADAR Productions is the longest running queer feminist spoken word literary production organization. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼\nDecember 20th 2019\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\n6:00pm\nFREE \nFEATURING… \nAlexander Torres\nClem Breslin\nJianda Monique\nMuriel Leung \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼\nAlex Torres is a queer Chicanx man. A graduate of Stanford University\, he is currently pursuing his PhD in Latinx and Queer literature at UC Berkeley. Before that\, he taught at an underserved public university in Bogotá\, Colombia as a Fulbright Scholar and curated an exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center. A Ford Predoctoral Fellow\, a Beinecke Scholar\, and a Mellon Mays Fellow\, Alex is dedicated to serving POC communities in academia. \nClem Breslin is a trans masculine-identified poet. They studied poetry in their undergraduate days at Sarah Lawrence College. By day they work as a QA Engineer at Twitter and by night they roam the streets looking for their next Aperol Spritz. They live in Oakland and are a proud card carrying Sagittarius. \nJianda Monique: A conscious artist\, musician\, vocalist/guitarist and oft-published writer\, featured Om Lounge 10 recording artist Jianda Monique is a poet\, photographer\, filmmakers\, creative-spirituality coach and singer-songwriter with singles/albums that are both self-released and available on several international independent labels including: Om Records\, Merck\, Ghostly\, Kinkysweet\, Jam Recordings/Jam Music Australia and Gammaphone\, as well as her self-titled solo CD. A lover of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, she’s also been published in several literary publications\, and written myriad reviews and opinion pieces. \nMuriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review\, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. Currently\, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She is from Queens\, NY.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-show-us-your-spines-november-resident-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T195112Z
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SUMMARY:The Southeast Asian Diaspora in Poetry & Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading that brings together the work of Laotian poet and dancer Krysada Phounsiri and Cambodian writer Sieu Sean Do. \nKrysada Phounsiri’s debut book of poetry\, Dance Among Elephants\, is at turns intimate and interrogative\, interested in unpacking the many layers of his family’s journey from Laos to the United States and around the world. Phounsiri is a Lao American professional dancer who has performed with the acclaimed group Jabbawockeez in Las Vegas\, award winning poet\, engineer\, and avid photographer. \nSieu Sean Do’s memoir\, A Cloak of Good Fortune\, traces his coming of age from the idyllic\, peaceful years of childhood in rural Cambodia through his family’s forced exile by the Khmer Rouge. Sieu Sean was born in 1963 and grew up in Kampong Speu\, a rural town about fifty kilometers outside Phnom Penh. \nCo-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nFREE\, suggested donation $3-5 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-southeast-asian-diaspora-in-poetry-memoir/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191226T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191217T052847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191217T052847Z
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SUMMARY:Martinis & Writers with Literary Speakeasy
DESCRIPTION:Come raise a glass at Literary Speakeasy and celebrate the closing of another year! We have five amazing artists for you this month\, including poet Natasha Dennerstein; authors Danny Thanh Nguyen\, Alvin Orloff\, and Olga Zilberbourg; and musical guest Dawn Oberg. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel. \nLiterary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. Arrive early and receive a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. \nDanny Thanh Nguyen’s short stories and personal essays have appeared in The Journal\, Foglifter\, South Dakota Review\, Entropy\, New Delta Review\, Gulf Coast\, and other magazines. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary Foundation\, Kundiman\, and Ragdale Foundation. Danny recently received an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for his collection of essays about parallel survivalism between Southeast Asian American refugee communities and queer leather communities in the post-AIDS epidemic era. He runs a social media persona project he calls “Sluterary Thirsterature” on Instagram: @engrishlessons. \nDawn Oberg is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is influenced by multiple genres\, including jazz and cabaret. In 2008\, she released her first solo album\, Horticulture Wars\, followed by Rye in 2013 and Bring in 2015. Mic’s Dan Weiss named Oberg’s song “Nothing Rhymes with Orange” one of the 16 best anti-Donald Trump songs of 2017. \nAlvin Orloff spent the 1980s working as a telemarketer and exotic dancer while concurrently attending U.C. Berkeley and performing with The Popstitutes\, a performance art/homocore band. In 1990 he and his bandmates founded Klubstitute\, a queer cabaret featuring spoken word\, theater\, drag\, and musical acts. In 1995 the club closed its doors and Orloff turned to writing. He published three novels before penning his recent memoir of life in the queer underground during the height of the AIDS crisis\, Disasterama! He lives in San Francisco. \nOlga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut\, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES was published in September 2019 by WTAW Press. She grew up in St. Petersburg\, Russia and makes her home in San Francisco. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Lit Hub\, Electric Literature\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today\, Tin House’s The Open Bar\, and elsewhere. She serves as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martinis-writers-with-literary-speakeasy/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191228T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191210T025538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025538Z
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SUMMARY:GhostTourSF's "Memories of Glen Park": Zine Release
DESCRIPTION:Ghost Tour: San Francisco is an ongoing art project charting collective memories of San Francisco neighborhoods. The third section focuses on Glen Park. The upcoming zine “Memories of Glen Park” is an illustrated collection of autobiographical stories of the neighborhood. This reading celebrates the release of the zine and the corresponding artwork. Selected authors: \nElina Ansary (project creator) \nGail Bensinger \nLiliana Silva \nJessamyn Ansary \nWith original music by Jesse Cobb. \nAfter party with charity art raffle at Glen Park Station Bar to follow. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ghosttoursfs-memories-of-glen-park-zine-release/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Elina Ansary":MAILTO:Elinamansary@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T185813
CREATED:20191220T044820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T044834Z
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SUMMARY:VeteransWrite meetings
DESCRIPTION:led by Nick Butterfield\, Jeffrey Leonard\, and Amy Meier\nFirst Friday of each Month\, 1pm-4pm\nMLK Library\, contact VeteransWrite@yahoo.com if interested in attending\nAdmission FREE \nPoetry Center San Jose is offering a monthly writing group to veterans of any age\, any military experience and to family members of veterans. All levels of writing experience from beginner to experienced are welcome. \nSmall group setting to a maximum of 12 participants. Emphasis on poetry including prose poems. Format includes examples\, prompts and guidance given by facilitators\, time provided to write individually\, and for participants to read to group and receive group feedback if desired. Goal is to give voice to the experiences of veterans and family members. Subject matter is unrestricted. \nNick Butterfield served for 10 years in USN-R as a Hospital Corpsman. He was activated during Operation Desert Storm\, and has worked in Family Practice as a Nurse Practitioner in a FQHC Community Clinic and with the Health Care for the Homeless Project for last 17 years. Nick has been writing poetry since he was 13 years old and has participated in the Willow Glen Poetry Project and other local venues since 1996. His poems have been in 4 anthologies and 2014 issue of Ceasura with poem entitled “PTSD.” \nJeffrey Leonard served in the U.S. Army between 1966-1968. Drafted out of San Jose State\, he trained as a 11C40\, leaving the service as an E-5. He is a 12th generation descendant of men who have served in every major conflict dating back to pre-Revolutionary America. A survivor of the Vietnam Era\, he is drawn to the stories of the returning soldiers and how their lives unfold after they remove the uniform. Writing–especially poetry–is a powerful tool that Jeffrey uses to express conflicting\, mysterious\, dark\, and difficult thoughts and emotions. He has spent the last 30 years as an Elementary Educator. \nAmy Meier was born in New York City and has lived in the San Jose\, CA area for over 30 years. Amy’s poems have been published in Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Portside\, and Remembering\, An Anthology of Poems Read at Willow Glen Books. She has been a featured reader at Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose\, California\, Stone Griffen Gallery and TEN10 Gallery in Campbell\, CA. In 2015 Amy founded VeteransWrite\, a writing group for veterans and their family members\, currently meeting once a month on the San Jose State University campus\, and performed with this group at the 2016 San Jose Poetry Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veteranswrite-meetings/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Vi Ruggiero + Lauren Napier
DESCRIPTION:Join Vic Ruggiero and Lauren Napier as they return to the Beat Museum for an evening of melodies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vi-ruggiero-lauren-napier/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200104T170000
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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-8/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T210000
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SUMMARY:Abigail Hing Wen with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Abigail Hing Wen’s highly anticipated\, romantic\, and layered debut\, Loveboat\, Taipei\, praised as “an intense rush of rebellion and romance” by Stephanie Garber (NYT bestselling author of the Caraval series).  This dazzling\, fun-filled romantic comedy of our dreams is “Fresh as a first kiss” (Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl)\, “a story about finding your place—and your people—where you least expected.” (Kelly Loy Gilbert\, author of Picture Us in the Light) Think Crazy Rich Asians meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. \n“Our cousins have done this program\,” Sophie whispers. “Best kept secret. Zero supervision.” \nAnd just like that\, Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn. Gone is the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. In its place\, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound\, adults turn a blind eye\, snake-blood sake flows abundantly\, and the nightlife runs nonstop. \n\n\n\n\nLike Ever\, the students of Loveboat are all hiding their own secrets and insecurities—and when their lives collide\, it’s guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget. \n“Abigail Wen’s LOVEBOAT\, TAIPEI is smart and raucous at the same time\, full of both thoughtful\, cultural learning moments and drama drama drama! I lived vicariously through the characters’ crazy adventures and hope there will be more stories from them in the future.” —Evelyn Skye\, NYT bestselling author of The Crown’s Game \nAbigail Hing Wen holds a BA from Harvard\, a JD from Columbia Law School\, an MFA from the Vermont School of Fine Arts. Loveboat\, Taipei is her first novel. \n Abigail will be in conversation with Sabaa Tahir\, NYT bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. \nCome celebrate with us. We could not be more excited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/abigail-hing-wen-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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