BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200119T200000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20191231T202846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191231T202846Z UID:54456-1578513600-1579464000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Funeral Game DESCRIPTION:Bread & Butter Theatre presents the world premiere of Funeral Game\, by Lana Palmer. \nTwo sisters return to the family cabin to decide its fate. As they negotiate the present and future\, they must inevitably account for the past.  Funeral Game is a moving\, lyrical journey through memory and omission\, love and grief\, lost and found\, and the overwhelming power of family history. \nFeaturing Rachael Richman and Emma Attwood. Directed by Bruce Avery. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/funeral-game/ LOCATION:Potrero Stage\, 1695 18th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107 CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/FUNERAL-GAME_Rachael-Richman_Emma-Attwood_Photo-Credit-Lana-Palmer_Bread-and-Butter-Theatre_web.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bread &%3B Butter Theatre":MAILTO:info@breadandbuttertheatre.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20191124T192249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T225847Z UID:54032-1579201200-1579206600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Claire Rudy Foster / Shine of the Ever DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I’ve Never Done This Before) for their new book\, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! \nShine of the Ever is a literary mix tape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. By turns tender and punk-tough\, fierce and loving\, this collection of short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love\, screwing up and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. \n\n“The characters in Foster’s fiction are all achingly lonely and the victims of human error\, yes—but they’re also miracles of endurance whose devastations\, large and small\, illuminate the better parts of ourselves.” – Benjamin Percy\, author of The Dead Lands \n“Shine of the Ever is a compassionate ode to a Pixies-infused era. With its mix of fear and fearlessness\, it deftly portrays love on the fringes.” – Foreword Reviews \n\nClaire Rudy Foster is a queer\, trans writer from Portland\, Oregon. Their work on sex\, identity\, relationships\, and recovery appears in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. Foster is the author of I’ve Never Done This Before (978-0998072708\, Sept. 2016). Their essays and fiction have been recognized for excellence\, including four nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Foster holds an MFA in creative writing and teaches writing workshops in Portland. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Shine of the Ever\, email events@booksmith.com. URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-rudy-foster-shine-of-the-ever/ LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Shine-of-the-Ever.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T203000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20191227T172520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T172520Z UID:54679-1579201200-1579206600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel\, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. \nAbout Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe \nA challenging and innovative exploration of narrative\, emotion\, and the possibilities of language\, part dream vision\, part prose poem\, part series of dialogues about love\, nature\, politics\, the nature of good and evil\, and the meaning of human life. \nAbout the Author \nChristopher Bernard is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the founder\, a principal and co-editor (with Ho Lin) of the literary and arts webzine Caveat Lector and contributes regularly to the monthly online magazine Synchronized Chaos. His books include the novels A Spy in the Ruins and Voyage to a Phantom City; two books of stories\, In the American Night and Dangerous Stories for Boys; The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs; Chien Lunatique (poems); and numerous plays\, including most recently The Beast and Mr. James. His work has appeared in several anthologies and many periodicals\, including cultural and arts journalism in the New York Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere\, and poetry and fiction in literary reviews in the U.S. and U.K. He has also written plays that have been produced and radio broadcast\, in part or complete\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry films have been screened in San Francisco and his poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Puschcart Prize and Best of the Web. His diaries and journals are being compiled under the title “Voyage Around My Life.” His autobiographical essay appeared in Contemporary Authors\, Volume 180 (Gale Group). In 2019\, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a photographer and composer; an excerpt from his opera “Nachtstück: An Opera on the Death of Anton Webern\,” has been radio broadcast (KPFA). URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-of-Meditations-on-Love-and-Catastrophe-at-the-Liars-Cafe.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20191124T215858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T215858Z UID:54167-1579201200-1579208400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Confessions of a Psychedelic Journalist DESCRIPTION:For more than four decades\, Don Lattin has written about the social\, spiritual\, and political aspects of the psychedelic drug movement as a newspaper reporter\, freelance journalist\, and the author of four books of narrative non-fiction. \nIn the 1970s\, as a young reporter working in the East Bay\, Don broke one of the first investigative stories about the US Army’s past efforts to use LSD as a hostile interrogation tool. He also covered the first local campaign to legalize marijuana in the United States—a political movement that continues today in ongoing efforts to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms\, peyote\, and ayahuasca in cities and states across the nation. \nIn the 1980s and 1990s\, as a staff writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle\, Don wrote extensively about various cults\, sects\, and new religious movements including a generation of spiritual seekers inspired by psychedelic drug experiences in the 1960s and 1970s. \nJoin KQED Science senior editor Kat Snow for a conversation with Don as they look back on the long\, strange trip of his career as an award-winning reporter and best-selling author. \nThis is conversation does not promote\, facilitate\, or require the use of entheogens. This event and the views expressed by the presenter(s) are not a reflection of the views of California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, its Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research\, or the individuals employed by CIIS. URL:https://litseen.com/event/confessions-of-a-psychedelic-journalist/ LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Confessions.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20191124T220114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T220114Z UID:54170-1579201200-1579208400@litseen.com SUMMARY:The War That Used Up Words? Literature in Paris 1910-1940 DESCRIPTION:For decades\, works like Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris have captivated our imaginations with their images of lively cafés that were a refuge from cold and poverty\, of smoky clubs full of gin and jazz\, and above all\, of a city surging with creative energy. And rightly so—the decade after World War I was a time of radical experimentation in novels\, poetry\, painting\, dance and more.\nBut it is only part of the story. Writers on both sides of the Atlantic were tapping into forces that had long made Paris a beacon of innovation. In this talk we’ll explore the wider panoply of prewar and postwar writers and discuss how the war intensi ed the already-present quest for new modes of expression. Immerse yourself in this unforgettable period and leave with a deeper understanding of literature in Paris\, 1910–1940. \nJoin Melanie Blake of Classical Pursuits\nfor an evening of stories\, history and discussion. \nThursday\, January 16 at 7:00 PM \nAlliance Française San Francisco\n1345 Bush Street | San Francisco\, CA \nAlliance members $10\, non-members $15 URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-war-that-used-up-words-literature-in-paris-1910-1940/ LOCATION:Alliance Française de San Francisco\, 1345 Bush St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94109\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-War….jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20191230T225318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T225318Z UID:54787-1579201200-1579208400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Red Light Lit & The Los Angeles Press DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit and The Los Angeles Press doubleheader with a live musical score by AJ Bahnken🎈The performers explore love relationships\, sexuality\, and gender. Featured readers include Miah Jeffra\, Thea Matthews\, Bernadette McComish\, Mackenzie Studebaker\, and Linda Ravenswood. With a SURPRISE MUSICAL GUEST🔥 \nTickets $10. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please email Jennifer@redlightlit.com for volunteer opportunities✨ URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-the-los-angeles-press/ LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/RLL-LAP.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T220000 DTSTAMP:20260502T103658 CREATED:20200115T180631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T180631Z UID:54835-1579201200-1579212000@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Nocturnists: Transitions DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of medical storytelling on the theme of “Transitions\,” featuring stories by David Elkin\, Tobin Greensweig\, Catherine Humikowski\, Shaili Jain\, Christina Lee\, Ashley McMullen\, and Natasha Spottiswoode. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nocturnists-transitions/ LOCATION:Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA San Francisco\, CA\, 700 Howard St\, San Francisco\, 94103 CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/posterYBCA.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Nocturnists":MAILTO:emily@thenocturnists.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR