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SUMMARY:Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo\, reading\, art presentation\, and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 7 – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nRuth Asawa Garden of Remembrance\, and The Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n  \nWhat is it then between us?” Poetry and Democracy   \n\n“I’ve been thinking about…the descendants of incarceration are being fated\, or beings fated\, to return to the ruins\, to reenact/re-embody their ancestors’ arrest\, in order to reimagine and redirect it\, with a specific attention\, a necessarily fugitive and defiant motion\, and yet\, according to the dictates of the underworld\, without end.”\n—from “10 Questions for Brandon Shimoda\,” with Emily Wojcik\, The Massachusettes Review\n“I have been producing my artworks under the concept of ‘reconstruction’ since before I started working with the theme of my great-grandfather. The concept originates from my early experience. When I was a child\, I often broke my bones. This was because my body was very weak. Because of this experience I today think that a body is a fragile object\, and that my identity is uncertain…. I still have a sense that my body impairs its harmony.”\n—from diaspora memoria exhibition catalog; Aisuke Kondo with Dr. Brigitte Hausmann\, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf\, Berlin\n\nThe Poetry Center is delighted to present poet Brandon Shimoda\, with us from Tucson\, Arizona\, together with Japanese artist Aisuke Kondo\, based in Berlin though at present a visiting scholar in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State. Tonight’s special program\, presented in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition\, is one of many programs being organized at venues across the U.S. during March 2019 in relation to a common theme: “What is it then between us?” Poetry and Democracy  borrows a citation from Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\,” 2019 being the bicentennial of Whitman’s birth. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American poets in support of the Poetry Coalition\, this event is free and open to the public. \nWe’ll open this evening’s program at 6:00 pm with an unstructured\, informal and contemplative gathering in the Ruth Asawa Garden of Remembrance\, which is dedicated to the 19 San Francisco State University Japanese American students who were imprisoned in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. The garden is located on the SF State campus\, just west of the César Chavez Student Center\, between Burke Hall and the Creative Arts Building. \nAt 7:00 pm\, we’ll move upstairs to The Poetry Center\, Room 512 in the Humanities Building. Brandon Shimoda will present his poetry\, and Aisuke Kondo will present his art\, then the two of them will join in conversation\, together with the audience. Both our featured artists’ current work is being considered and created in relation to the internment during World War II of Japanese American citizens and Japanese nationals living on the West Coast of the US in federally administered concentration camps—both artists’ grandfathers were among those imprisoned. \nBrandon Shimoda was born in California\, in the San Fernando Valley. His recent books are The Desert (poetry and prose\, The Song Cave)\, Dept. of Posthumous Letters (drawings to accompany text by Dot Devota and Caitie Moore\, Argos Books)\, and The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir\, forthcoming from City Lights). He is currently researching-writing-disintegrating a book on the ongoing afterlife-ruins of Japanese American incarceration. His writings on Japanese-American incarceration have appeared in/on The Asian American Literary Review\, Densho\, Hyperallergic\, The Margins\, The New Inquiry\, and elsewhere\, and he has given talks on the subject at the University of Arizona\, Columbia University\, Fairhaven College\, and the International Center of Photography. Shimoda is also the co-editor\, with Thom Donovan\, of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books\, 2014). He lives in Arizona. \nAisuke Kondo Born and raised in Japan and currently based in Germany\, Aisuke Kondo explores questions of belonging\, identity\, memory\, and history across a variety of media\, from collage and gallery installation to video and performance. In 2008\, he completed a Meisterschüler in Fine Art at Berlin University of Arts. After his university graduation\, he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to research on his great-grandfather who was incarcerated at Topaz concentration camp in Utah during World War Ⅱ. Currently\, he is working in the Bay area on a grant from the Cultural Affairs Agency in Japan in order to conduct fieldwork as a visiting scholar in Asian American Studies at SF State. In his current “Matter and Memory” series (2017-present)\, Kondo retraces his great-grandfather’s life as an immigrant in the US from his arrival in the early 1900s. Kondo has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Turnaround in Sendai\, Japan (2018)\, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin (2018)\, MINTMOUE in Los Angeles (2017) and Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto\, Japan (2016). His works are on view\, along with an extensive interview with the artist\, at aisukekondo.com \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brandon-shimoda-with-aisuke-kondo-reading-art-presentation-and-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke
DESCRIPTION:  \ncelebrating her new book \nFoursome:Alfred Stieglitz\, Georgia O’Keeffe\, Paul Strand\, Rebecca Salsbury \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition–the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene–and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-burke/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WHERE EAGLES DARE
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer hosts commentary and film clips\nThursday\, March 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nCo-presented with Telluride Film Festival \nJoin Geoff Dyer for a hilarious scene-by-scene commentary of cult classic World War II film Where Eagles Dare (1968). With its historical inaccuracies\, camp SS officers\, and inexplicable plot twists\, starring a magnificent\, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood\, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies\, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is Geoff Dyer’s tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: a scene-by-scene analysis taking us from its snowy\, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. \nGeoff Dyer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.  He is the author of many books\, including Out of Sheer Rage\, an unorthodox and comedic exploration of the work of writer and poet D. H. Lawrence\, But Beautiful\, a genre-defying book on jazz and jazz musicians\, and Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room\, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker(1979). His books have won numerous prizes and have been translated into twenty-four languages. He  currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/where-eagles-dare/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shobha Rao with Ingrid Rojas Contreras / Girls Burn Brighter (paperback launch)
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes San Francisco author Shobha Rao for the paperback launch of her debut novel Girls Burn Brighter\, which was recently named a best book of the year by many outlets\, including NPR and The Washington Post. She’ll be joined by our friend and yours\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree). Please join us! \n  \nPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor\, they are ambitious\, and they are girls. After her mother’s death\, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to care for her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household\, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful\, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic\, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond arranged marriage. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away\, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. \n  \nHer journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld\, on a harrowing cross-continental journey\, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles\, Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within. \n  \n\n  \nShobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection\, An Unrestored Woman\, and the novel\, Girls Burn Brighter. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She is currently the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School in New York City. \n  \n  \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Girls Burn Brighter\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras-girls-burn-brighter-paperback-launch/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leland de la Durantaye and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Leland de la Durantaye discusses his new novel\, Hannah Versus the Tree with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Hannah Versus the Tree  \n“An heiress to the ancient money of a storied family seeks revenge for personal and global wrongs in this powerful debut novel of […] stark beauty and even starker consequence.” —Kirkus \n“Hannah Versus The Tree is unlike anything I have ever read—thriller\, myth\, dream\, and poem combined. It tells the story of a terrible act of violence and a terrible act of revenge\, but in ways that hardly resemble contemporary fiction. Sometimes I thought I was reading the Chorus’s part from a lost Greek tragedy\, or perhaps an impossibly updated Beowulf. Written in an immaculate\, lyrically charged\, uncannily autonomous prose\, this lovely novel is at once a modern story about money and politics and sexual violence\, and an ancient fable of grievance and justice.” —James Wood \n“Betrayal and vengeance have rarely been so elegantly rendered as in this searing novel. It invokes Roman history and mythology to accompany an aristocratic\, brutalized girl who is sacrificed by the family matriarch in a fatal flaw of judgment. The beautiful prose exposes and illumines the cost of underestimating an extraordinary girl.” —Amy Hempel \n\nAbout Hannah Versus the Tree \nHannah is a fiercely intelligent young woman\, daughter of a powerful family’s black sheep son\, and raised to question who has been\, is\, and will be damaged by business deals meant to protect and maintain the dynasty. A devastating wrong is done to her when she opposes a family scheme and her response is a battle cry of astounding violence and beauty. As haunting as Shelly Jackson or Thomas Bernhard\, as enthralling as Nabokov or Joyce\, Leland de la Durantaye’s debut novel is a radical departure from contemporary storytelling. At once the story of a terrific act of vengeance and of a lifelong love\, Hannah versus the Tree presents a new literary genre\, the mythopoetic thriller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leland-de-la-durantaye-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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