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SUMMARY:Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the Chapters Retablos\, The Way Over\, Consuelo\, El Judío\, La Migra\, La Llorona\, Nothing Happens\, The Quince\, Mexican Apology\, El Segundo\, Neto\, My Right Foot\, and Jeep in the Water\nFebruary 19 – March 15\nDirected by Sheila Balter and Jim Cave \nWord for Word’s latest full production is from author & playwright Octavio Solis. Retablos is a coming of age memoir; each chapter a memory tale\, verging on fable\, which paints a dreamlike picture of life in El Paso in the 60’s and ’70’s. Drawing from his own childhood\, Solis says that he wrote these stories “to see how that skinny brown kid riding his bike out there in the desert made sense of his complicated\, deeply beautiful and troubled world.” Octaviosolis.net \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\n\n“A retablo is a devotional painting\, playwright Octavio Solis tells us. In this poignantly written\, heart-warming coming-of-age memoir\, Solis pays tribute to those cornerstone moments in his life\, negotiating borders at once personal and cultural\, with such color that the reader is left spellbound. Astonishing\, what more can I say?”\n—Greg Sarris\, author of How a Mountain Was Made and longtime Word for Word friend \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Evening with Octavio Solis\nJoin us on February 27. The evening’s performance of Retablos will be followed by a conversation with the author\, moderated by Greg Sarris. Both writers are longtime friends of Word for Word. Mr. Solis is a nationally renowned playwright in addition to being a prose author\, and Greg Sarris is Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The evening includes a reception and book signing to cap off the night. \n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-retablos-by-octavio-solis/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Kate Schatzand Miriam Klein Stahl for their new book\, Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People. Please join us! \nFrom the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural movements in American history. \n\n“An engaging\, fascinating\, and necessary book that speaks truth to power.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \n\nIn Rad American History A-Z\, each letter of the alphabet tells the story of a significant moment in America’s progressive history–one that isn’t always covered in history classes: A is for Alcatraz\, and the Native occupation of 1969; C is for the Combahee River Raid\, a Civil War action planned in part by Union spy Harriet Tubman; Z is for Zuccotti Park\, and the Occupy movement that briefly took over the world. \nPaired with dynamic paper-cut art by Miriam Klein Stahl\, the entries by Kate Schatz explore several centuries of politics\, culture\, art\, activism\, and liberation\, including radical librarians\, Supreme Court cases\, courageous youth\, punk rocker grrrls\, Southern quilts\, and modern witches. In addition to the twenty-six core stories\, short sidebars expand the discussion\, and dictionary-style lists refer readers to additional key moments. So while F is for Federal Theater Project\, a New Deal-era program that employed thousands of artists\, F is also for Freedom Rides and First Amendment. E is for Earth First!\, but also for Endangered Species Act and Equal Rights Amendment. \nThere are tales of triumph\, resilience\, creation\, and hope. Each engaging\, fact-filled narrative illustrates an eye-opening moment that shows us how we got to now–and what we need to know about our histories to create a just and sustainable future. \n\n“I wish I’d had Rad American History A–Z when I was growing up; it’s a book I hope to read to my children one day. In such chaotic political times\, this is a critical tool for young people to know how change happens\, and to know that they\, too\, can make change happen. This book belongs on all library shelves as a transformative approach to history as we know it.”– Alicia Garza\, cofounder of Black Lives Matter Global Network \n\nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. With illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl\, she is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is an artist\, educator\, and activist. She is the illustrator of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, and paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School\, where she has taught since 1995. Photo by Casey Orr. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 Rad American History A-Z\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-american-history-a-z-movements-and-moments-that-demonstrate-the-power-of-the-people/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Nomadic Press \nwith Tureeda Mikell\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Ayodele Nzinga\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Genny Lim\, James Cagney\, Dr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett\, music by Azuah \nNomadic Press is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that supports the works of emerging and established writers and artists. Through publications (including translations) and performances\, Nomadic Press aims to build community among artists across disciplines. \nTo learn more visit: www.nomadicpress.org \nEducator\, consultant\, poet\, griot/elocutionist/story medicine woman\, Tureeda Mikell began working the healing arts in 1977 via poetry\, storytelling\, and QiGong energy therapy. Mikell is the founder of Tree of Life Health Literacy Project and works in collaboration with California Poets in the Schools. In 2018\, Mikell was the Eth-Noh-Tec NuWa Delegate from the US to Beijing\, China\, in Gengcun Village of renowned storytellers in collaboration with the University of Beijing on mission to heal cultural boundaries. Mikell has been a featured reader with Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, California\, presented Al Young (named poet laureate of California in 2015) with the lifetime achievement award at the 2018 Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has opened for Saul Williams at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. She is a BAWP Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education\, has worked and read with the late Amiri Baraka via EastSide Arts Alliance\, and is one of the co-founders of the Black Writers Conference in Otisville\, New York.  Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press\, 2020) is her first full-length collection of poetry. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first began performing his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar’s Thursday night readings and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe\, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show\, “The Spanglish Power Hour\,” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nAyodele Nzinga is a renaissance woman. A writer\, lyricist\, director\, producer\, actress\, dramaturg\, and social architect; her motto is\, “I create\, therefore I am.” Her work appears in Juice Magazine\, VISION Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, Pan African Journal of Poetry\, Environmental Terrorist Anthology\, Say it Loud\, Black Magnolias Literary Journal\, and ChickenBones: A Journal. Her book\, Horse Eaters\, is available from Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection\, SorrowLand Oracle\, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2020. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His book\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series)\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. She has collaborated with such jazz legends as the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis\, and Eddie Marshall\, as well as Bay Area musicians Broun Fellinis\, John Santos\, Anthony Brown\, Francis Wong\, and Jon Jang. She has appeared at jazz festivals throughout the US and poetry festivals in Venezuela\, Italy\, and Bosnia. \nLim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the author of five poetry collections—Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo—and is the co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, which won the American Book Award. A recipient of a SF Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship\, Lim is currently at work on a book of poetry about Jazz legends from the Behop Era and beyond. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland\, California. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Cagney is the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner for his first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog. \nDr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett is a long-time scholar activist and writer who was instrumental in the development of the academic field of Black/Ethnic Studies. Along with such major literary artists as Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) and Sonia Sanchez\, he was a major contributor to the establishment  of the Black Arts Movement. Dr. Garrett’s plays\, short fiction\, and social essays have been published in Black Scholar\, Journal of Pan African Studies\, and the seminal BAM collection\, Black Fire. James Garrett is presently at work on a  memoir of his life in political movements in the US\, Africa\, and the Americas from the 1960s to the present. \nAzuah’s music weaves roots in alternative folk and soul with a poet’s sensibility and an unforgettable voice to create an infectious sound all her own. A Bay Area native\, she has played all over the West Coast from the Roxy in Los Angeles to stages in Oakland and San Francisco. Known for her evocative lyrics and haunting melodies\, Azuah captures the listener’s ear from first note to last strum with a sound that can only come from the depths of an old soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Harmony and Discord
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can. NOTAFLOF \nThis month’s readers: \nAnna Held\nKar Johnson\nLoria Mendoza\nGiavanna Ortiz de Candia\nC Pam Zhang
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-march/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie M. Flynn
DESCRIPTION:Katie M. Flynn discusses her debut novel\, The Companions. \nPraise for The Companions \n“Beautifully atmospheric and emotionally intense\, The Companions is an unnerving and engrossing story. The radiant\, somber voice of this near-future speculative novel ratchets the suspense while also illuminating what makes us human and how we endure beyond death. This is a spellbinding novel that will linger with you.” —Kassandra Montag\, author of After the Flood \n“With deft narration and unforgettable characters\, Katie M. Flynn weaves a tale of high-tech\, dystopian reincarnation. Each detail is beautifully sketched and thrilling to discover\, creating a near-future world of endless fascination. The Companions is a compelling\, gripping\, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction.” —Jennie Melamed\, author of Gather the Daughters \n“This sweeping novel of near-future dystopia has an ensemble cast and covers continents and years of time\, but it never loses its intimacy and immediacy. There’s a deeply moving humanity to each of these characters—even the ones who aren’t quite human. I loved this book so much I didn’t want it to end.” –Dan Chaon\, author of Ill Will \nAbout The Companions \nStation Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. \nIn the wake of a highly contagious virus\, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers\, the living can’t go out\, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms\, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying\, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death\, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation\, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. \nSixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate\, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands\, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away\, searching for the woman who killed her. \nLilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac’s journey through an exquisitely imagined Northern California\, the story is told from eight different points of view—some human\, some companion—that explore the complex shapes love\, revenge\, and loneliness take when the dead linger on.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-m-flynn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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