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SUMMARY:Word for Word Presents: “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…  A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage
DESCRIPTION:Word for Word Presents:\n“EXACTLY!” THEY SAID…\nA Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage  \nSUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED\nNovember 1-7 \nHaving transformed short stories verbatim to the stage for the past 25 years\, Word for Word now wants to extend this singular experience to writers throughout California. The selected short stories reflect many points of view\, from a rich diversity of California’s writers. Festival activities will include a writers salon featuring Greg Sarris (Grand Avenue\, Watermelon Nights\, How A Mountain was Made) and Amy Tan (“The Bonesetter’s Daughter”\, “The Joy Luck Club”) and other activities. The festival will culminate in staged readings of five jury selected short stories by adults and six jury selected stories by teens\, performed in Word for Word’s signature Off the Page style.  \nClick Here to see a full list of winners\, including picture and bios. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFESTIVAL SCHEDULE\nLaunch of the Festival Of Short Stories\nwith Greg Sarris and Amy Tan\nFriday November 1\, 7 PM\nJewish Community High School of the Bay\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco 94115 \nKick of the festival with a writer’s Salon with two of Word for Word’s favorite authors\, Greg Sarris and Amy Tan! These two luminaries will speak about the nature of the short story and their experiences with having Word for Word bring their works to the stage. \nWord for Word will revisit snippets the companies past productions of “Citizen” (Sarris) and “Immortal Heart” (Tan). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I am so in love with Word for Word and what they do. I come from a community who generally does not read. After my American Indian community had seen Slaughterhouse\, they were inspired to read.”  \n–Greg Sarris \nGreg Sarris is a Native American author whose books include Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Word for Word is a marvel. While respecting the author’s every word\, the company also manages to create something completely new\, going well beyond the page into an art that has no words. I was completely bowled over by the acting\, the stage\, the costumes\, the choreography—the sheer power of the experience of watching words come to life.” \n–Amy Tan \nAmy Tan is the celebrated author of The Joy Luck Club\, The Bonesetter’s Daughter\, Saving Fish from Drowning\, and other novels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO FESTIVAL LAUNCH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #1\nFeaturing “Arithmetic” by Michael Alenyikov\, “The 14 Mission” by Anita Cabrera”\, “The Ruins” by Lindsey Crittenden \nSaturday\, November 2\, 8 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdult Winners – Program #2\nFeaturing “Blue Ruin” by Katherine Lieban\, “Cancer Poems” by Kim Addonizio \nSunday\, November 3\, 5 PM – Z Below\, 470 Florida St\, San Francisco 94110 \nThis program features staged readings of our jury selected winners. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO ADULT PROGRAM #2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeen Winners\nFeaturing”Middle School Advice” by Kenzo Fukuda\, “Atop the Saltback Mountain” by Tess Horton\, “Here’s a Theory Darling” by Sofi Orkin\, “The Magnolia Man” by Stella Pfahler\, “Matter of the Heart and Mind” by Charlotte Pocock and “Cancer” by Maya Reihanian  \nThursday\, November 7\, 7:30 PM – Children’s Creativity Museum at Yerba Buena Gardens \nThis program features staged readings from our teen category. Come out and revel at our next generation of writers! \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS TO TEEN WINNERS\n\n\n\n\nStand with the bear! Be a literary champion and support California writers by sponsoring or partnering with “Exactly!” They Said…\nSponsorship / Partner benefits available.\nContact Vanessa Flores at vflores@zspace.org or at 415. 659.8134 to learn more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-exactly-they-said-a-festival-of-short-stories-by-california-writers-brought-straight-to-the-stage/
LOCATION:various venues\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ANDRÉ ACIMAN & ANDREW SEAN GREER In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:Andre Aciman is a memoirist\, essayist\, novelist\, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name\, Aciman’s best-known novel\, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel\, Find Me\, catches up with beloved characters Elio and Oliver in adulthood. Aciman is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \nNovelist Andrew Sean Greer is the author of six books including The Confessions of Max Tivoli (“enchanting\, in the perfumed\, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov”  – John Updike) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Less\, a comedy about a man fleeing the humiliations of love\, middle-age\, and failure by accepting invitations that lead to a trip around the world and back. \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. His past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Sally Mann\, Zadie Smith\, Michael Chabon\, and Edward St. Aubyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-andrew-sean-greer-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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