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SUMMARY:Dump GEO\, Melt ICE: Poetry Reading in Support of Compton's Coalition
DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings by Anna Avery\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta & Trinh Lê. \nMasks required \n6pm doors. 6:30 reading. \nMore event info \nCompton’s Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dump-geo-melt-ice-poetry-reading-in-support-of-comptons-coalition/
LOCATION:Oakland Tamarack\, 1501 Harrison St.\, Oakland\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:Poets for Palestine SF Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:We are inviting Bay Area poets to come and read a 3-minute poem for peace in Palestine at our all-day Marathon at Bird & Beckett Books & Records–and please also make a donation to the Middle East Children’s Alliance. It will be streamed live at https://www.youtube.com/@birdbeckett1601/streams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-for-palestine-sf-poetry-marathon/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Clara Hsu":MAILTO:soullesswoman@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Javier Zamora + Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos + Yosimar Reyes \nFriday May 6\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series-2/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Jennif(f)er Tamayo + Aline Mello + Alan Pelaez Lopez \nThursday May 5\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Brian Broome
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 4\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nBrian Broome\, a poet and screenwriter\, won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. His debut memoir\, Punch Me Up to the Gods is available through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  \n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-brian-broome/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Neil Gaiman
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 3\, 2022\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\n“Gaiman is\, simply put\, a treasure-house of story\, and we are lucky to have him.” — Stephen King \nOne of the most celebrated writers of our time\, Neil Gaiman‘s popular and critically acclaimed works bend genres while reaching audiences of all ages. He is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics; his groundbreaking Sandman series was the first comic ever to receive a literary award. He is the author of the novels Neverwhere\, Stardust\, American Gods\, and Anansi Boys\, the children’s book Coraline among others\, and the short story collection Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. Gaiman has also written and directed for television and film\, and maintains a large online following on his blog and social media. The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction\, and a new children’s book\, Pirate Stew\, were published in 2020. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-neil-gaiman/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 25\, 2022\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nRichard Powers is the author of thirteen novels\, including the 2019 novel The Overstory\, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The book is a sweeping\, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of the natural world. His new novel\, Bewilderment\, brings Powers’ astute and compassionate eye for nature to the cosmos. His most intimate book yet\, it is the account of a father and son’s ferocious love\, and contains soaring descriptions of the natural world and its tantalizing vision of life beyond. Powers is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-3/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 23\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nRuchika Tomar is the author of A Prayer for Travelers\, which won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway award for debut novel. She is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-ruchika-tomar/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:Kristi Yamaguchi with Forum
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area native\, Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars winner\, Kristi Yamaguchi\, joins Forum to talk figure skating\, the winter Olympics\, life after competition and how she’s supporting children’s literacy through her nonprofit Always Dream. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1616 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristi-yamaguchi-with-forum/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversations with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 23\, 2022 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Columbia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. She is now working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Columbia who was said to have the power to move the clouds.\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversations-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Isaac Fellman with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 22nd at 7pm PT when Isaac Fellman celebrates the launch of his new novel\, Dead Collections\, with Charlie Jane Anders at 9th Ave! \nThis event is free to attend\, but registration is required for those attending in person. \nRegister on Eventbrite for in-person here \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination are Required for In-Person Attendance. \nOr watch online by registering here \n(No need to register via Eventbrite for online attendance) \nPraise for Dead Collections \n“This book kept delighting and astonishing me with little insights and conversations that felt like I was eavesdropping on people I desperately wanted to be friends with. Utterly refreshing and thrilling. Dead Collections is a marvel that left me feeling as if miracles might lurk behind every doorway and inside every old box of papers.” –Charlie Jane Anders\, author of Victories Greater Than Death \n“There’s something of the feeling that comes from hanging out at your friend’s work after-hours – a little fuzzy\, a little surreal\, a sense of getting away with something without a commensurate sense of what\, if any\, rules one is breaking. A remarkably efficient book about untidyness.” –Daniel M. Lavery\, author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You \nAbout Dead Collections \nA whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever\, humorous\, and heartfelt novel. \nWhen archivist Sol meets Elsie\, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers\, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism\, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love\, the two traverse grief\, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared\, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.” \nThen\, when strange things start happening at the collection\, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy\, that celebrates the journey\, the difficulties and joys\, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies. \nAbout Isaac Fellman \nIsaac Fellman is the author of The Breath of the Sun (published under his pre-transition first name)\, which won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Horror. He is an archivist at a queer historical society in San Francisco. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. She’s also the author of Never Say You Can’t Survive (August 2021)\, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Teen Vogue\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, “Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future” got 700\,000 views in its first week.With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-isaac-fellman-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Stand Up Comedy: A Humorous History-Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:The comedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever. The Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb’s\, The Punch Line\, hungry i\, the Purple Onion\, Tommy T’s\, Brainwash and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom\, the Holy City Zoo. Join comedians Nina G and OJ Patterson on a hilarious and thoughtful tour through the history of Bay Area comedy. Will include book talk and signing. \nBring proof of vaccination or recent negative Covid test (less than 72 hours) and your ID. We will have your name on the guest list at the host stand when we greet you. \nAbout the authors \nNina G is a stand-up comedian\, author and disability advocate. She performs and gives keynote speeches at colleges\, companies and conferences across the world. Nina is the author of Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen and the children’s book Once Upon an Accommodation: A Book About Learning Disabilities. She is a Bay Area native spanning five generations. Additionally\, she has contributed to books\, blogs and articles and is a favorite among podcasters and comedy audiences all over. For more on Nina\, go to www.NinaGcomedian.com. \nOJ Patterson is a writer\, comedian and homebrew historian born and raised in Pittsburg\, California. A “retired stand-up\,” he’s contributed to numerous online and print publications\, including his award-winning blog Courting Comedy and as an entertainment copywriter. OJ Patterson currently resides in the greater Los Angeles area and unofficially has the best laugh in the room. \nFree \nhttps://www.alamedacomedy.com/shows/163219?fbclid=IwAR21ylmthM8mH7wl3O-HhpYg-eaWR0g3oS-VvLKLNr5kq9-d0nFkQV4eE18
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-stand-up-comedy-a-humorous-history-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alameda Comedy Club\, 2431 Central Ave.\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,In-person
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SUMMARY:100 Years of Stand-Up Comedy in San Francisco's North Beach
DESCRIPTION:“100 Years of Stand-Up Comedy in North Beach: \nHow San Francisco Changed Comedy Forever!” \nSan Francisco\, and North Beach in particular\, holds a special place in the history of the performing arts-and comedy in particular. From the early days of Beat poetry readings\, gatherings which themselves were frequently underground\, clandestine activities\, to the days of drag shows and the topless revolution\, perhaps it’s San Francisco’s “anything goes” reputation that’s motivated several generations of comedians to give it a go here. \nIn Bay Area Stand-up Comedy: A Humorous History\, authors (and comedians themselves) Nina G and OJ Patterson examine the rich\, hilarious tradition of stand-up\, highlighting some of its most noteworthy and notorious figures\, past and present. \n“The comedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever. From visiting acts like Richard Pryor\, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg to local favorites who still maintain their following and legacy\, the Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb’s\, The Punch Line\, hungry i\, the Purple Onion\, Tommy T’s\, Brainwash and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom\, the Holy City Zoo. For more than seventy years\, these iconic venues and others fostered talents like Mort Sahl\, Phyllis Diller\, Smothers Brothers\, Kevin Meaney\, Paula Poundstone\, Dana Carvey\, W. Kamau Bell\, Margaret Cho\, Chelsea Peretti\, Andy Samberg\, Ali Wong\, Moshe Kasher and (of course) Robin Williams\, introducing them to local crowds and the world beyond. Join comedians Nina G and OJ Patterson on a hilarious and thoughtful tour through the history of Bay Area comedy.” \nNina G is a comedian\, professional speaker\, comedy historical consultant and author of Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen and Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy: A Humorous History. \nFree \n100 Years of Stand-Up Comedy with Nina G
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-years-of-stand-up-comedy-in-san-franciscos-north-beach/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Tobey Hiller with Thaisa Frank
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 16th at 7pm PT when Tobey Hiller is joined by Thaisa Frank to celebrate her latest book\, Flight Advice: a fabulary\, at 9th Ave! \nMask and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering here \nPraise for Flight Advice \n“A delicious and dreamlike collection of stories\, filled with the best surprises. Hiller creates a witty\, pungent world\, in which words fly and change\, and stories swirl and go missing\, to arrive again in new forms\, with fresh power to enchant. A tour de force\, concocted of mischief\, insight and pure delight.”—Harriet Scott Chessman\, author of Someone Not Really Her Mother \n“In Flight Advice: A Fabulary\, fairy tales and myths of passion come alive in the modern world: Men with cigarettes that look like stars make love to mermaids\, a genie appears in a woman’s laundry room\, and a writer is transformed by mysterious words. Told by a narrator with a remarkable voice that ranges from vernacular clarity to dazzling lyricism\, Flight Advice is the best of contemporary magic realism.”—Thaisa Frank\, author of Heidegger’s Glasses and Enchantment \n“In Tobey Hiller’s magnificent collection of fables\, Flight Advice: A Fabulary\, these captivating short stories traverse otherworldly landscapes. An accomplished poet\, Hiller’s prose shines with mesmeric intensity and imagery. Singing mermaids\, a bejeweled dog\, one philosophical genie\, and Lillith and her bald children transport the reader on surrealist excursions through worlds of humor and invention. Flight Advice: A Fabulary crackles with energy and wildness and seduces with dreamscape narratives.”—Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nAbout Flight Advice \nUnlikely Books celebrates the release of Flight Advice: a fabulary by Tobey Hiller! Flight Advice is 130 pages of mythological\, weird\, and fabulist stories exploring the possibility of magic in our past and present. It wanders through creation myths\, relates naïve humans to animals wild and sophisticated\, considers the horrors of archetypical demagogues\, and spends time with the inexplicable in ordinary\, modern life. The art on the cover\, “Ghost Dogs\,” is a 2007 painting by Elizabeth Ennis. \nAbout Tobey Hiller \nTobey Hiller writes fiction\, flash and poetry. She’s the author of 4 books of poetry and one novel\, CHARLIE’S EXIT (Edgework Books\, 2002). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals\, such as Ambush Review\, Askew\, Canary\, The Fabulist: Words & Art\, Shotglass Journal (MusePie Press)\, Here Comes Everyone\, 5 Fingers Review\, Mediterranean Poetry\, Milkweed Chronicle\, Sisyphus\, Sin Fronteras/Writers without Borders\, Spillway\, Unlikely Stories Mark V\, and in five anthologies\, most recently FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA (Scarlet Tanager Press\, October 2018)\, THE WILD (Marin Poetry Center\, 2019\, & TRANSFORMATION\, 2020). She writes both realist and fabulist fiction; one of her stories\, Splinter\, won First Prize in CRAFT’s 2020 Short Story Elements Contest for Conflict; two of her other stories have been short-listed for prizes. Her fiction collection PARTICLE TO WAVE: A FABULARY (now called FLIGHT ADVICE: A FABULARY) was recently named one of five finalists for Omnidawn’s Fabulist Collection Contest and will be published this winter by Unlikely Books. Her most recent book of poetry\, CROW MIND (Finishing Line Press\, 2020 is reviewed in The Los Angeles Review at http://losangelesreview.org/review-crow-mind-tobey- \nhiller/. She may be found at http://thiller.ag-sites.net \nAbout Thaisa Frank \nThe fiction of Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction and includes two semi-autobiographical novellas as well as thirty-three stories. Her most recent novel\, Heidegger’s Glasses\, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, the safety of which is threatened forever. It was published in 2010\, reissued in paperback in 2011 and sold to ten foreign countries before publication. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage\, both on the Bestseller List of the San Francisco Chronicle. Thaisa has received two PEN awards and her stories have been widely-anthologized. She has published critical essays on writing and art and is the author of the Afterward to Viking/Penguin’s most recent edition of Voltaire. Her poetry\, which she writes secretly\, appears in small publications. Thaisa has also co-authored Finding Your Writers Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction\, translated into Portuguese and Spanish\, and used in numerous writing programs. Thaisa has taught writing in the graduate departments of San Francisco State\, the University of San Francisco and the University of California as Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-tobey-hiller-with-thaisa-frank/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Brian Tierney with William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 11th at 7pm PT when Brian Tierney celebrates his collection\, Rise and Float\, at 9th Ave! \nFeaturing fellow poets William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering at the link here \nPraise for Rise and Float \n“In these poems of turnpikes\, water\, and migraine light\, filled with grief and life\, the poet tells us it’s all right that ‘we don’t love / living.’ Here\, precision is a form of metaphor\, language a facet of experience; the poet writes with a kind of allusive purity and vulnerability—‘each thought a texture’—that I find moving. Rise and Float is that rare thing\, a book of one striking poem after another. If I could write something as tender and nearly perfect as ‘You’re the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With’—a lightning strike\, Randall Jarrell might have called it—then I’d consider giving up writing.”—Randall Mann \n“If the job of the poet is to make our interiority knowable and known\, then this book by Brian Tierney triumphs. In this magnificent debut\, a poet arrives to us fully formed\, and Tierney has found ways to transform the mundane into the mysterious\, and the mysterious into the transcendent. Readers will be swept away by the rigors of syntax\, the sparse and charged diction\, and the voice of these worldly\, humane\, sophisticated poems.”—Mark Wunderlich \n“Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float is resonant with the desire for rapture and the never-easing reality of loss. How do we go on living\, these poems seem to ask\, bearing what we must bear? And in lines by turns dolorous and defiant\, they answer: We watch\, we remember\, and we sing.”—Tracy K. Smith \nAbout Rise and Float \nChosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize\, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably\, miraculously—to make our most profound\, private wounds visible on the page. \nWith the “corpse of Frost” under his heel\, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness\, a struggle with disordered eating\, a father’s death from cancer\, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still\, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips\,” a “laugh as good as a scream\,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome\, but to release. \nThe course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying\, these days\, to believe again / in people\,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices\, we see something alluringly\, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide\, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams\, something intimate—hope\, however difficult it may be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-brian-tierney-with-william-brewer-randall-mann-and-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The 54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:One of the world’s largest antiquarian book fairs with over 100 booksellers from the United States and around the globe.  The annual Book Fair features a rich selection of books\, manuscripts\, maps\, and other printed materials\, including incunabula; literature from all centuries and nationalities; fine bindings; children’s and illustrated books; ephemera; and antiquarian books on dozens of topics. \nALSO JOIN US FOR:\nVirtual Book Fair: California Edition\nFebruary 12-14: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm\nabaa.org/vbf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-54th-california-international-antiquarian-book-fair/
LOCATION:The Oakland Marriott City Center\, 1001 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,In-person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 15\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater \n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, published as part of City Lights’ Pocket Poet series\, and someone’s dead already. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize\, received the California Book Award for Poetry\, an American Book Award\, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people\, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and is the founder of Black Freighter Press. His second book in the City Lights Pocket Poet series\, Blood on the Fog\, will be released in the fall of 2021. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-3/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Natashia Deón & Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 19\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nNatashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel\, Grace and The Perishing\, forthcoming in 2021. A practicing attorney\, mother\, and law professor\, Deón is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship and served as a 2017 U.S. Delegate to Armenia in partnership with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program\, for a reconciliation project involving Armenian and Turkish writers. \nRebecca Solnit is an incisive voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment\, western history to literary criticism\, and from hope and disaster to popular power and social change. She has published more than twenty books\, including Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things to Me\, The Mother of All Questions\, and Recollections of My Nonexistence. Her new book\, Orwell’s Roses\, is a lush exploration of roses\, pleasure\, and politics\, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natashia-deon-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jelani Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 5\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nJelani Cobb is a historian\, a professor of journalism at Columbia University\, and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He writes frequently about race\, politics\, history\, and culture. He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays\, To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and he is the co-editor of  a new anthology\, The Matter of Black Lives. This new book compiles New Yorker essays on race in America through time\, by James Baldwin\, Toni Morrison\, Ta-Nehisi Coates\, Hilton Als\, Zadie Smith\, and more—with a foreword by Cobb. The anthology provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America\, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies\, political vision and artistic inspiration. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jelani-cobb/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 3\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nLauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction\, the most recent the novel MATRIX (September 2021). Her novel Fates and Furies is a dazzling examination of marriage. A finalist for the National Book Award\, it was named Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, NPR\, TIME\, and many more. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, along with several Best American Short Stories anthologies\, and she was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.\n\nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:An in-person event to celebrate the release of Orwell’s Roses\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 30\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDance Palace\n\n503 B St\n\nPoint Reyes Station\, CA 94956\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\n$28 + tax (each ticket includes a copy of the book)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for our first in-person event in a year and a half as we welcome Rebecca Solnit to Point Reyes to celebrate the publication of Solnit’s latest book\, Orwell’s Roses (Viking). Rebecca will be joined in conversation by artist and writer Jenny Odell\, author of the bestselling How to Do Nothing. \nWe require proof of vaccination for all attendees. Please reserve your spot early\, as we expect tickets to go quickly. We will also provide a streaming option for those unable to make it in-person. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON. \n“A kaleidoscopic view of a man we thought we knew\, by a woman who keeps surprising us with her dazzling mind.  Solnit has written an exquisitely layered book soaring in its reach\, subversive in its scope\, and joyous in its pleasure to read.  Her exploration into how and why cultivating beauty matters\, alongside fighting injustices as Orwell’s garden supported his fierce critique of fascism\, reminds us of the singular fact: life is both flower and thorn. This profound and graceful book not only redefines what is ‘Orwellian\,’ it reimagines how we might live a life of greater intention by opening our hearts to what is beautiful\, brave\, and of Earth.” —Terry Tempest Williams\, author of Erosion \nAbout Orwell’s Roses\n“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book\, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants\, particularly flowers\, and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist\, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. \nSparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936\, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores  his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England\, fighting in the Spanish Civil War\, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left)\, to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections\, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism\, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions\, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica\, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden\, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell\, as well as a reflection on pleasure\, beauty\, and joy as acts of resistance. \nAbout Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell\nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including Recollections of My Nonexistence\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications. \nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford and has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, New York Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The Believer\, The Paris Review\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. She lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-and-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Dance Palace\, 503 B St\, Point Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Reza Azlan and Jessica Jackley
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 29\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nJoin Reza Aslan and Jessica Jackley for a conversation on empathy and community. The two are partners in an interfaith marriage\, and their work engages with service\, spirituality\, and connection. \nReza Aslan is the author of God: A Human History\, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth\, and Beyond Fundamentalism. He is the host and Executive Producer of Rough Draft with Reza Aslan. \nJessica Jackley is an entrepreneur\, investor\, and speaker whose work focuses on financial inclusion\, the sharing economy\, and social justice. She is the founder of Alltruists\, which offers at-home volunteer projects for families\, and was co-founder of Kiva\, the world’s first crowdfunding site for microenterprises. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reza-azlan-and-jessica-jackley/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Teresa K. Miller with Roxane Beth Johnson and Jenny Qi
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, October 22nd at 7pm PT when Teresa K. Miller is joined by fellow poets Roxane Beth Johnson and Jenny Qi to celebrate her collection\, Borderline Fortune\, at 9th Ave! \nMasks Required for In-Store Event \nJoin us virtually by registering here \nPraise for Borderline Fortune \n“The poems in Teresa K. Miller’s Borderline Fortune emphasize the greater context of our existence as individuals\, as family members\, and as cultures. Miller mines family as a construct\, whether naturally related or collected. She interrogates relationships with the lens of a geologist\, exploring the physical\, chemical\, and biological properties of the gravitational fields that pull us together and the elements that erode us. Several ages are explored by the poems\, acknowledging the violence that must be present for eloquent transition and rebirth. The poems in Borderline Fortune are so sharply crafted\, they serve as the pick and axe that dig deep into the granite of the past. Miller questions specific characters\, many ghosts from the past that hold secrets to a history she is rebirthing. The poems shape a world created from the knowledge and the mythology Miller has extracted.” —Elmaz Abinader\, author of This House\, My Bones and cofounder of VONA \n“Borderline Fortune feels like a book that was written to save oneself\, to enact through poetry a means of salvation. Teresa K. Miller weaves together transcendent astonishments\, precise images of the natural world\, histories of horrors still present in the land\, & personal revelations as intimate as bruises\, weaving them into a single\, entangled whole. Borderline Fortune is not a book that solves a problem\, but a book that creates a net\, a thing made of both solidity & gaps\, open enough to be pulled through the dangers\, strong enough to haul a body up to the air. This salvation happens in the reading\, how the reader creates the net along with the poem\, hand-in-hand\, each one pulling the other to the surface\, ceaselessly\, with every memory of beauty & of grief. The book is a reminder that salvation is an ongoing work\, for\, as Miller writes\, ‘In the end\, there was no end.’” —Mathias Svalina\, creator of the Dream Delivery Service and author of The Wine-Dark Sea \n“In the sweeping expanses of Borderline Fortune\, Teresa K. Miller grapples with the complexity of inheritance\, the complicated legacies of family\, history\, and place. What created us\, and what do we in turn create? How closely twined are belonging and betrayal? Here\, history\, identity\, and the natural world meet and merge: ‘a riven nausea in the cambium\, / some needle-leafed private anguish.’ Geography itself is sentient and responsive: ‘lies twine into granite\, brine / into mineral creatures made of lace.’ In the end\, the poems form a landscape we must immerse ourselves in\, their movement as dark and unpredictable as the ocean or tectonic plates\, and their story one we don’t navigate as much as survive: ‘Haul / yourself out\, / one frozen leg at a time.’” —Laura Walker\, author of swarm lure and psalmbook \nAbout Borderline Fortune \nA collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level\, from a National Poetry Series–winning poet who “refus[es] the mind’s limits” (Carol Muske-Dukes) \nBorderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance—of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particular—set against the backdrop of our planetary inheritance as humans. As species go extinct and glaciers melt\, Teresa K. Miller asks what we owe one another and what it means to echo one’s ancestors’ grief and fear. Drawing on her family history\, from her great-grandfather’s experience as a schoolteacher on an island in the Bering Strait to her father’s untimely death\, as well as her pursuit of regenerative horticulture\, Miller seeks through these beautifully crafted poems to awaken from the intergenerational trance and bear witness to our current moment with clarity and attention. \nAbout Teresa K. Miller \nA graduate of Barnard College and the Mills College MFA program\, Teresa K. Miller is the author of sped (Sidebrow) and Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky) as well as co-editor of Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building (Food First Books). Her poems and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, AlterNet\, Entropy\, DIAGRAM\, and elsewhere. Originally from Seattle\, she tends a mini orchard near Portland\, Oregon. \nAbout Roxane Beth Johnson \nRoxane Beth Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Jubilee (Anhinga Press\, chosen by Philip Levine) and Black Crow Dress (Alice James Books). A California Book Award finalist\, Cave Canem poet\, and Pushcart Prize winner\, she has published poems in The Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. \nAbout Jenny Qi \nJenny Qi is the author of the debut poetry collection Focal Point\, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Her essays and poems have been published widely in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Rattle\, and ZYZZYVA\, and she has received fellowships from Tin House\, Omnidawn\, Kearny Street Workshop\, and the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Born in Pennsylvania to Chinese immigrants\, she grew up mostly in Las Vegas and Nashville and now lives in San Francisco\, where she completed her Ph.D. in cancer biology. At the end of graduate school\, she co-founded and produced the science storytelling podcast Bone Lab Radio; she currently works in oncology competitive intelligence. She is working on more essays and poems and translating her late mother’s memoirs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and immigration to the U.S.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-teresa-k-miller-with-roxane-beth-johnson-and-jenny-qi/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Chef Bryant Terry
DESCRIPTION:Chef Bryant Terry joins “Check Please! Bay Area” Producer Cecilia Phillips to discuss his new book\, Black Food\, which explores Black foodways around the U.S. He’ll serve up small bites for the audience as well\, teaching us about what goes into some of his favorite dishes. \nBryant Terry is a James Beard & NAACP Image Award-winning chef\, educator\, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy\, just\, and sustainable food system. Since 2015 he has been the Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco where he creates public programming at the intersection of food\, farming\, health\, activism\, art\, culture\, and the African Diaspora. In regard to his work\, Bryant’s mentor Alice Waters says\, “Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege.” \n$15 – In Person\, Free – Livestream. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/events/167828149513 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chef-bryant-terry/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Adam Hochschild on her new book Orwell's Roses
DESCRIPTION:Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936\, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores  his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England\, fighting in the Spanish Civil War\, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left)\, to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.  \nThrough Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections\, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism\, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions\, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica\, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden\, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market.  \nThe book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell\, as well as a reflection on pleasure\, beauty\, and joy as acts of resistance. \nWriter\, historian\, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including  Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction)\, Men Explain Things to Me\, and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. \nAdam Hochschild is an American author\, journalist\, historian and lecturer whose books include King Leopold’s Ghost\, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion\, and Spain in Our Hearts. \n\nAttendance is limited. Ticket with purchase of book now available at The Green Arcade Online Shop (www.TheGreenArcade.com). Individual tickets on sale closer to the event depending on availability. Doors open at 6:30 – event at 7pm. \n\n\nThis is a masked event and vaccination cards will be mandatory. The event will be livestreamed on YouTube. \nMany thanks to the McRoskey Mattress Company
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-in-conversation-with-adam-hochschild-on-her-new-book-orwells-roses/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T203000
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SUMMARY:Amy Tan & Michael Krasny
DESCRIPTION:Author Amy Tan joins KQED veteran and literature professor Michael Krasny for a conversation on how personal and cultural histories fuse with imagination in her writing. \nBorn to Chinese immigrant parents in Oakland\, California in 1952\, Tan’s upbringing\, complex family experiences\, and cultural heritage have been an inexhaustible well of creative inspiration\, while the wit and tenderness of her writing has made her a global literary icon. \nTan’s novels include “The Joy Luck Club”\, “The Kitchen God’s Wife”\, “The Hundred Secret Senses”\, “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “Saving Fish from Drowning”\, and “The Valley of Amazement”\, all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of a memoir\, a book about writing\, two children’s books\, and numerous articles and short stories. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the International Orange Prize\, and she has won many awards including the Commonwealth Gold Award and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature. Her essays and stories are found in hundreds of anthologies and textbooks. Her work has been translated into 35 languages. \nShe is also the subject of the recent documentary “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir”\, which debuted at Sundance in January 2021 and aired as part of PBS’s American Masters series. \n$10 – In Person\, Free – Livestream. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/events/167826649025 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-tan-michael-krasny/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="KQED Live":MAILTO:live@kqed.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T203000
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SUMMARY:The Hollywood Muse Masked Ball
DESCRIPTION:Bird and Beckett Bookstore\n653 Cheney\nSan Francisco\, Ca\n415-586-3733\nwww.birdbeckett.com\nPoet\, Tony Seymour\nViolinist\, India Cooke\nPiano\, Bill Crossman \nThe Hollywood Muse Masked Ball:\nSeymour & Cooke+Crossman\nWhen\nSun\, October 17\, 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nDescription\nExclusive Limited TEN Person LIVE Audience. $40 per ticket. Make your paid reservation in advance with the bookstore to guarantee a seat. (415-586-3733) \nLive stream contribution of $20 requested for those unable to attend in person. (www.birdbeckett.com\nOr You Tube\n \nEveryone attending the live performance must show proof of vaccination; seats will be spaced six feet apart. We request that the in-person audience observe be 100% masked at the Hollywood Muse Masked Ball tonight! \nIn the Hollywood Muse Masked Ball\, poet Tony Seymour takes a deep dive into an extended work inspired by his “Hollywood Muse\,” enlisted for strictly inspirational purposes at a juncture when he desperately needed to get his creative juices flowing again\, in a time when beautiful sunsets\, swaying palms\, laid back locals and planeloads of tourists weren’t nearly enough. Seymour adds that “Essentially it starts on a love theme then expands into a poetic overview of how social structures have been the bane of civilization. It then ventures into taking all the myth out of dying and then formulating a strong sense of self as a human goal……to go beyond the ways of subconscious indoctrination.” \nSeymour was the publicist for Black Panthers Huey Newton and Erica Huggins POETRY in the early 70’s via City Lights Books. He’s seen it all\, and has always had plenty of words to sling. For years now\, however\, he’s been languishing in Hawaii. No real paradise in his eyes. Now\, for a minute\, he’s flying back to the Bay Area to re-engage with the world that made him\, and he’s induced his long-time friend\, the violinist India Cooke to bring to his epic recital the stellar musical interplay of Cooke+Crossman\, fully masked for the occasion. Cooke+Crossman comprises India and pianist Bill Crossman in a duo they have had going for a dozen years. \nCooke\, violinist\, composer\, and educator\, performs improv\, jazz and classical. She has performed with Pharaoh Sanders\, Peter Kowald\, Sun Ra\, Cecil Taylor\, Pauline Oliveros\, George Lewis\, Joelle Leandre\, Amiri Baraka and many others. She has also been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. India has performed in Bay Area symphony and opera orchestras\, chamber ensembles and Broadway shows. As one of California’s most respected contract artists\, she has performed with the Louie Bellson Orchestra\, Sarah Vaughn\, Frank Sinatra\, Tony Bennett and many others. India has recorded sessions for Atlantic\, Fantasy and Stax records. As a featured recording artist she can be heard on Leo Records with Sun Ra and his Arkestra\, Black Saint Records and Hat Music’s “Nomadic Winds\,” Plainisphares’ “African Roots of Jazz” and Sparkling Beatnik Records “The Circle Trio~Live at the Meridian.” She recorded\, and released to critical acclaim\, her Grammy nominated debut cd as a leader\, “Music and Arts’ India Cooke~Redhanded.” India is currently on the Mills College Music Department Faculty\, Ensemble Directors & Lesson Instructors roster\, and teaches at her private studio – India’s Music Room. \nCrossman\, jazz/world-music pianist\, composer\, and educator\, is an innovator in freely-improvised jazz piano. He has performed with some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians and has appeared in performance venues and festivals from coast to coast and internationally. For over a dozen years\, Bill has played with jazz violinist India Cooke in the India Cooke-Bill Crossman Duo\, now renamed COOKE🔸CROSSMAN on their 2018 CD “Infinite Dimensions”. Bill can also be heard on The Troublemakers Union’s recent CD “Fight Back.” Bill’s jazz-styled musical “John Brown’s Truth\,” focusing on the last year of the famed anti-slavery abolitionist’s life\, has been staged throughout northern CA and in New York City. See website www.johnbrownstruthmusical.com. A poet himself\, Bill’s jazz piano has accompanied poetry readings by Al Young\, Genny Lim\, David Meltzer\, and others. He taught jazz & blues piano for years at Oakland Public Conservatory of Music (OPCM) and also led an innovative monthly free-jazz improv open-mike session there
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-hollywood-muse-masked-ball/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T193000
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SUMMARY:Adam Schiff
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 14\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nCongressman Adam Schiff represents California’s 28th Congressional District. In his 11th term in the House of Representatives\, Schiff currently serves as the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence\, which oversees the nation’s intelligence agencies. In his role as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence\, Schiff led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump. Before he served in Congress\, he worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles and as a California State Senator. His new book Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy And Still Could offers a vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour\, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-schiff/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T203000
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SUMMARY:Susan Orlean
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 13\, 2021\n7:30pm Pacific Time\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \n\n\nA staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992\, Susan Orlean has written with wit and endless curiosity about subjects ranging from umbrella inventors to origami artists\, from the figure skater Tonya Harding to treadmill desks\, gospel choirs\, and taxidermy. She is the author of Rin Tin Tin\, The Orchid Thief\, and The Library Book\, in which Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history. Her new book\, On Animals\, is a collection of Orlean’s lifetime of explorations of the creatures she finds most fascinating. They range from stories about lions to tigers to panda bears and beyond; profiles of dogs and donkeys; meditations on what it’s like to raise chickens and care for whales; stories about animals that star in movies\, animals that go to war\, and animals that are celebrated for being beautiful. \nYou and your guests must be fully vaccinated to attend this event; proof of vaccination is required upon arrival. Full vaccination is defined as completion of the two-dose regimen of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine administered two weeks or more in advance of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-orlean-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:In-person,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T143000
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SUMMARY:Offsite: Shrimp 'N Lobster at the SF Botanical Gardens!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 9th at 1pm at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens with author Charlotte Rygh for an afternoon of drawing and fun celebrating Shrimp ‘N Lobster: A San Francisco Adventure! \nThis event is no cost\, but registration is required. Please RSVP at the link here.\nDo note that there is an entrance fee to the SFBG for non-San Francisco residents.\nFee information can be found here.\nThe SFBG current COVID protocol require masks indoors only. People who are outdoors in close proximity to other people who are not part of their household are strongly encouraged to wear a well-fitted mask. \nJoin us for a drawing lesson from author and illustrator Charlotte Rygh of the hit Shrimp ‘n Lobster Adventures! Learn about this crustacean duo and their travels in San Francisco and New York City\, all while immersed in SFBG’s atmospheric Fragrance Garden. Get your hands on a signed copy of Shrimp ‘n Lobster: A San Francisco Adventure\, learn to draw Lobster\, hear about Char’s journey to creating the series\, and receive your exclusive Shrimp ‘n Lobster bookmarks and coloring sheets! \nAbout Shrimp ‘N Lobster \nFrom the bustling cityscape of New York to the sloping hills of San Francisco\, Shrimp ‘n Lobster are keen to explore the characteristic sights of cities around the United States. This animated duo takes to the City by the Bay to discover landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge\, Fisherman’s Wharf\, and even Karl\, the only fog in the world with a name. \nFilled with spirited illustrations and local charm\, this guide to San Francisco will captivate children from the Bay to Chinatown with equal parts education and delight. Readers will have a blast discovering the history and culture of this coastal city as they follow Shrimp ‘n Lobster to over twenty five destinations in San Francisco alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/offsite-shrimp-n-lobster-at-the-sf-botanical-gardens/
LOCATION:San Francisco Botanical Garden\, 1199 9th Ave\, San Francisco\, CA - California\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco
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