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SUMMARY:13th Annual Poems Under the Dome
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars! \nSpeak in verse in the belly of the beast! \nAll are welcome to celebrate National Poetry Month inside beautiful San Francisco City Hall. This unique FREE event invites ALL AGES to share a poem or enjoy the magic of the spoken word. Put your name in the hat\, and reading slots will be drawn throughout the evening. \nSerious folks who want a chance to ‘win’ a guaranteed reading spot can check www.poemdome.net in April to see which open mics we’ll be visiting to draw names throughout the month. If you host an open mic in San Francisco\, and would like a Poem Dome volunteer to attend your event and do a drawing in April\, please leave a comment here. \nReaders are permitted ONE poem\, not to exceed 3 minutes. The shorter your piece\, the more people we can get up to the mic. \nThursday\, April 19th 2018\nSan Francisco City Hall – North Light Court\n5:30-8pm sharp!\nFREE & ALL AGES\nwww.poemdome.net \nNOTE:\nPoetry only. No music/songs.\nMusical instruments are not allowed into City Hall without prior registration\, which the hosts cannot accommodate.\nThank you for your cooperation 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/13th-annual-poems-under-the-dome/
LOCATION:San Franscico City Hall\, San Francisco City Hall
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Building Legacies: 45 Years of Art and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us at Building Legacies: 45 Years of Art and Resistance to celebrate 45 years of community\, art\, and social justice with Kearny Street Workshop on Thursday\, April 19\, 2018! \nThe evening includes a VIP dinner\, specially prepared by Sita Bhaumik ofPeople’s Kitchen Collective\, and presentation of the KSW Ignite Award to a contemporary artist who embodies KSW’s core values. \nA dessert reception follows featuring a conversation between celebrated novelist and playwright\, Jessica Hagedorn\, and award-winning journalist\,Bernice Yeung\, plus a special performance by Bay Area rising star\, rapper and poet\, Ruby Ibarra. \nVIP Dinner $50 | $40 (early bird): 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Dinner prepared by Sita Bhaumik of People’s Kitchen Collective\, KSW Ignite Award presentation. Plus entrance to the dessert reception featuring Jessica Hagedorn\, Bernice Yeung\, and Ruby Ibarra. \nReception $30 | $25 (early bird): 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Jessica Hagedorn in discussion with Bernice Yeung\, special performance by Ruby Ibarra. \nA limited number of early bird tickets are available until February 28\, 2018. \nHosted by the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-legacies-45-years-of-art-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco\, 750 Kearny Street 3rd Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Translator Walks into a Bar with Jessica Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Translator Jessica Cohen will discuss the joys and challenges of rendering the work of some of the finest Israeli writers into English. Translators are bridge-builders between different languages and cultures\, and the bridge between Hebrew and English can be particularly difficult. Cohen will consider different ways of contextualizing Israeli cultural references for English-language readers\, and the particular difficulties posed by jokes and humor. She will focus especially on David Grossman’s award-winning A Horse Walks into a Bar\, which employs humor (often of the dark variety) more to unsettle than to entertain. \nFree admission with free garage parking on Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy streets. \nCo-presented with the Jewish Community Library and the Consulate General of Israel. \n  \n\n\n\n\nJessica Cohen translates contemporary Israeli prose and poetry. She has translated some of Israel’s finest writers\, including David Grossman\, Etgar Keret\, Assaf Gavron\, Rutu Modan\, Amir Gutfreund\, Yael Hedaya\, Ronit Matalon and Tom Segev\, as well as with prominent screenwriters such as Ari Folman and Ron Leshem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-translator-walks-into-a-bar-with-jessica-cohen/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Unrest
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime UNREST at Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St. San Francisco\, on Thursday April 19th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Yang Huang (My Old Faithful)\, Sumiko Saulson (Somnalia)\, Dominica Phetteplace\, Caitlin Myer\, and Ishita Arora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-unrest/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanna Scutts
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Scutts discusses her new book\, The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hills Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It. \n\nPraise for The Extra Woman \n\n“The fascinating and formidable Marjorie Hillis has at last found her rightful biographer\, champion\, and exegete in Joanna Scutts. This is a beautifully written\, insightful\, and wise account of the life and work of an important but heretofore largely unremembered writer\, wit\, and proto-feminist.” — Rosie Schaap\, author of Drinking with Men \n\n“Long before Girls\, Carrie Bradshaw\, and Mary Tyler Moore\, Marjorie Hillis inspired women to live more independently as ‘Live-Aloners\,’ and she deserves more recognition than she gets. Joanna Scutts’ account of Hillis and the cultural transformations she made possible is as witty\, forthright\, and elegant as its subject.” — Lauren Elkin\, author of Flâneuse \n\n“Scutts should feel proud that she did what she set out to do: return Hillis to her rightful place in the pantheon of women who made it possible for the rest of us to enjoy that freedom. ‘Recovering the spirit of daring that defined the Live-Alone heyday can remind us that a different story is always possible\,’ Scutts writes\, ‘and might just inspire us anew\, to resist and rebel against convention\, and to fight to create the life we really want.’ Here’s hoping every reader has the chance to do just that.” — Ellen McCarthy\, Washington Post \n\nAbout The Extra Woman \n\nFrom the flapper to The Feminine Mystique\, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. \n  \nYou’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated\, she lives comfortably alone\, she pursues her passions unabashedly\, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution\, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or\, worse\, pity. But for a brief\, exclamatory period in the late 1930s\, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography\, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties\, when\, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis\, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. \n  \nMarjorie Hillis\, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher\, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit\, she urged spinsters\, divorcées\, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives\, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone)\, Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. \n  \nIn a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own\, Joanna Scutts\, a leading cultural critic\, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement\, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash\, Decorating Is Fun!transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book\, The Joy of Cooking\, reassured the nervous home chef that she\, too\, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture\, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was\, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience\, Hillis proved that guts\, grace\, and perseverance would always be in vogue. \n  \nWith this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy\, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm\, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences\, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion\, mixology\, decorating\, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-scutts/
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:Åsne Seierstad / Two Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Two Sisters\, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad\, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara\, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway\, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular\, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria\, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. \nEmploying the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought toThe Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us\, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms\, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually\, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war\, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters\, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief\, extremism\, and the meaning of devotion. \n— \nPraise for Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us (2015)\, a New York Times Book Review ‘10 Best Books of 2015’ selection: \n“Like Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood\, [One of Us] has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and\, by implication\, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written\, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . . The book attains an almost unbearable weight . . . One of Us must have been difficult to write\, and yet from the opening pages it has an irresistible force.” —Eric Schlosser\, The New York Times Book Review \n“‘Utøya’ and ‘July 22nd’ assume new meaning for me when I read [One of Us]. Once again\, that day becomes something concrete\, not a phenomenon\, not an affair\, not an argument in a political discussion but a dead body bent over a stone at the water’s edge.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard\, The New Yorker \n“One of Us reads like a true crime novel\, but it has the journalistic chops to back it up . . . [It] is the story of Norway\, its people\, and the lengths one will go to feel like they belong. Not only a stunning achievement in journalism\, it’s a touchstone on how to write about tragedy with detail\, honesty\, and compassion.”—Samantha Edwards\, The A.V. Club\n— \nÅsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath\, The Bookseller of Kabul\, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal\,Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War\, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. She lives in Oslo\, Norway.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asne-seierstad-two-sisters/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'The Naughty Bits'
DESCRIPTION:••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••SHOW DETAILS \nThursday\, April 19th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Scandalous Stories\, Songs & Games includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Pansexual Food Anthropologist Hannah Hoffman \n❤ Kinky & Blind storyteller Marco Salsiccia \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by the brilliant Rachel Lark \n❤ Pitch your Naughty Bits true story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by March 30th \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ WIN Toyrific Pervy Grand Prizes from We-Vibe & B-Vibe \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Sexual Folklorist\, Storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage\, Bona Fide Storytelling and BawdySlam shows. \nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by both Esquire.com & Uproxx as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Marco Salsiccia is a non-monogamous\, kinky\, geeky\, and silly Bay Area native who also happens to be fully blind. A San Francisco resident since 2002\, he was an accomplished animator and VFX artist before suddenly losing his vision in 2014. He now works as an accessibility specialist\, consulting and making apps and sites functional for the blind/visually impaired and other disabled people. Some of his interests include food\, playing and making board games accessible\, accessibility advocacy\, the San Jose Sharks\, the symphony\, checking out munches and parties with his partner\, fun dates\, and annoying his cat. FL: Magrittetf \n❤ Hannah Hoffman is a pansexual\, polyamorous food anthropologist who hosts her own quarterly vagina celebrations (no\, you can’t come :)) She’s still glowing from the success of her academic paper on Gay Men (specifically Bears) and Food\, which was the hit of the Association of Food Historians and Anthropologists conference\, and believes that you should know that food geeks are some of the sexiest\, most hedonistic people in existence. Born and raised in Berkeley but determined to see the world\, Hannah gleefully left for grad school in New York City and later LA\, but she kept returning to the Bay Area because it’s the most sex-positive city on Earth. She makes a mean donut. \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. In March 2017 she released her third album\, They’ve Done Studies\, and produced a multi-media rock opera to accompany the album\, which she brought on tour with her band\, The Damaged Goods. She is currently producing a concert film of the event and working on her next album. Find out more at rachellark.com. \nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change. \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-the-naughty-bits/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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