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SUMMARY:Copus
DESCRIPTION:Royal Kent’s love of poetry goes back to his formative high school years. Originally inspired by the legendary Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron\, he has performed with dancers\, theatrical troupes\, poets\, and many bands including the Vancouver-based Band of Angels and Czech Republic-based Pseudo Pseudo. He has produced television\, radio and stage shows\, and is the co-founder of independent label Copus Music. Kira Njinsky\, daughter of the great Russian ballet star Njinksy\, said: “Royal Kent recites poetry the way my father danced!” \nComposer/pianist Wendy Loomis has released 10 CDs of her compositions for COPUS\, acoustic ensemble Phoenix Rising\, piano/vocal duo AWE\, and solo piano. She won the ASCAP award for composition 4 times and has received awards and nominations for her music from the Unisong International Songwriting competition\, the LA Music Awards\, and the Hollywood Music and Media Awards. Most recently she performed one of her compositions in Havana\, Cuba as part of the cultural exchange led by the American Composers Forum. Wendy earned her bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts and her master’s degree in Arts Education. She is the co-founder and president of Copus Music LLC and teaches private piano at her San Francisco studio. \nFlutist Monica Williams is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and has studied with several esteemed flutists such as Bonita Boyd\, Susan Levitin\, and Brad Garner. She has performed with orchestras in Rochester\, Cincinnati\, and Chicago\, and has toured Europe and the United States. Currently Monica is a member of several contemporary chamber ensembles in the Bay Area\, including Phoenix Rising and COPUS. Additionally\, she is the director of Flock of Flutes\, East Bay’s première flute choir\, and music coordinator for Civic Arts Education\, and Center Representative for the Carnegie Hall Music Development Program. She teaches private flute at Civic Arts Center of Walnut Creek and her home studio in San Francisco. \nBassist Patrick Mahon was born and raised in San Francisco. Patrick studied jazz with Tony P. Miller\, but he is primarily self-taught\, giving him a creative facility and an eager ear for new ways of expression\, including most recently using an unusual bowing technique on the electric bass. He joined COPUS in 2007\, played on the ‘Jah Provide’ trilogy\, and has performed at many Bay Area gigs as well as at the Sweet Auburn Springfest in Atlanta. His influences include Charles Mingus\, Marcus Miller\, Victor Wooten\, and Les Claypool. In addition to COPUS\, Patrick has performed with bands Scaramanga\, The Ambassadors\, and Electric Color Wheel. \nDrummer Greg McRay was fortunate to grow up in a musical family. His father\, saxophonist Robert McRay\, played the jazz circuit both in the U.S. and Europe. Greg has studied with Benny Green\, Jim Smith\, and Tony Williams and performed with many California-based jazz\, fusion\, and rock bands. Drawing on the powerful musicianship of Art Blakey\, Max Roach\, Bill Bruford\, and Billy Cobham\, Greg brought his creative drum playing to COPUS in 2002.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Danielle Dutton + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Dutton\, founder of Dorothy\, a publishing project\, will discuss Margaret the First with Green Apple’s book buyer\, Stephen Sparks. \nPraise for Margaret the First: \n“Margaret the First is set in the seventeenth century\, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a strikingly smart and daringly feminist novel with modern insights into love\, marriage\, and the siren call of ambition.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“All this trouble for a girl\,” say the bears in the book Margaret Cavendish writes within this remarkable book written by Danielle Dutton\, the story of a very real woman at a very particular moment in history that is at the same time the story of every woman artist who has ever burst loose the constraints of her particular moment in history to create “a new world called the blazing world.” —Kathryn Davis\, author of The Thin Place and Duplex \n“Ever since I first encountered her writing\, I’ve told every serious reader I know that Danielle Dutton is one of the most original and wonderfully weird prose stylists of our time\, every bit the contemporary of Lydia Davis\, Cesar Aira\, and Diane Williams. How perfect that her new novel is a portrait of Margaret of Newcastle\, whose perceived excesses and eccentricities were an object of fascination for her time\, as well as for Virginia Woolf\, who laments in A Room of One’s Own\, ‘What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!’ And what a visionary portrait Margaret the First is\, not only for the sheer joy of the sentences\, but also as it’s a marvel of tenderness\, rewriting a historical caricature as a life\, delighting in Margaret’s passion for writing and love of the beautiful and strange from childhood on. I am in awe of what Dutton accomplishes here\, in this novel of the small and the sublime. What a triumph!”\n—Kate Zambreno\, author of Green Girl \nAbout Margaret the First: \nMargaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish\, the shy\, gifted\, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems\, philosophy\, feminist plays\, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists\, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on\, Margaret met and married William Cavendish\, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War\, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers\, she was Mad Madge\, an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of Londona mainstay of the Scientific Revolutionand the last for another two hundred years.\nMargaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past\, rather than historical fiction. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time\, it is a gorgeous and wholly new narrative approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-dutton-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You
DESCRIPTION:Garth Greenwell’s widely acclaimed novel What Belongs to You begins when an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture and meets Mitko\, a charismatic young hustler. When the teacher returns again and again to see Mitko over the next few months\, they find themselves in a relationship that is mutually predatory\, where tenderness can transform into violence at any moment. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism\, What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. \nGarth Greenwell will be in-conversation with Kevin Killian. \n\n  \nGarth Greenwell is the author of Mitko\, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. \n\nKevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist and poet. Recent books include PINK NARCISSUS POEMS (The Song Cave); EYEWITNESS by Carolyn Dunn\, the memoirs of a Beat Generation legend “as told to” Kevin Killian (Granary Books); and TAGGED\, a collection of Killian’s intimate photographs of artists\, writers\, musicians\, filmmakers\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/garth-greenwell-what-belongs-to-you/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as Poets\, Fiction writers\, essayists and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions featuring Lambda Literary Fellow Baruch Porras Hernandez\, acclaimed poet Lauren Wheeler\, fiction writer and frequent SF Shipwreck champion Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Special guests Damian Ledbetter and Mandy Hu. Hosted by Wonder Dave of Tourettes Without Regrets. \nDoors at 7pm Show at 8pm \nSave money by purchsaing your tickets in advance at: http://www.docslabsf.com/event/1109657-literary-pop-baruch-porras-san-francisco/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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