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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:My Word Open MIC Welcomes Tureeda Mikell & Barbara Saunders
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing powerful women poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-word-open-mic-welcomes-tureeda-mikell-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions among fiction\, the essay\, and poetry. She was the 2018–19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ On Our Mind program\, a yearlong series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading-group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018.  Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nPrageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\nreading and in conversation\nThursday March 12\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n  \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 and ATA: Artists’ Television Access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-dodie-bellamy-and-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:On Astrology and Real Relationships
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to friendship\, family\, and romance\, we all want the same things: to love and be loved\, to communicate\, to fight fair\, and to feel okay in our own skin. \nBeloved Bay Area astrologer and host of the popular podcast\, Ghost of a Podcast\, Jessica Lanyadoo has turned her skills towards relationships and matters of the heart\, doing the math on why we are the way we are\, and why our actions might not reflect our desires. \nJessica’s first book\, Astrology for Real Relationships\, is a modern\, practical guide to relationships of all kinds designed to help everyone understand their blind spots\, blocks\, and fears so they can make choices that leave them happy and fulfilled. Jessica offers astrological tools to illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family\, your friends\, and yourself. \nJoin Jessica for an evening full of real talk about attraction\, dating\, sex\, frenemies\, self-love\, and how to deal with family. Discover how to build and maintain strong connections-with your crushes\, your spouse\, your boss\, or your mom-and uncover and get what you really want in relationships\, not what you think you should want. \n$20. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/full-calendar/lanyadoo-jessica-march-13-2020 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-astrology-and-real-relationships/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miah Jeffra's The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Reading and Release
DESCRIPTION:Help Alley Cat give a big congratulations to Miah Jeffra on their newest book\, The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Featuring a star-studded slew of readers including: Carson Beker\, Jennifer Lewis\, Juli Delgado Lopera\, Monique Mero and Baruch Porras-Hernandez! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miah-jeffras-the-fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Deb Olin Unferth: Barn 8
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nDeb Olin Unferth discusses her new novel\, Barn 8\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Barn 8 \n“Barn 8 is a novel like no other: An urgent moral fantasia\, a post-human parable\, a tender portrait of animal dignity and genius.”—Dana Spiotta \n“Deb Unferth’s hilarious\, off-kilter genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilization. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens. You are really really going to love these chickens . . .”—Jenny Offill \n“Like Flannery O’Connor\, Deb Olin Unferth does things entirely her own way\, and that way is impossible to describe. . . . This very funny and absurd novel is also as serious as the world.”—Zachary Lazar \n“I leap to read anything Deb Olin Unferth writes\, and her latest book\, Barn 8\, is further proof of her singular talent\, her gigantic heart. While Unferth’s characters try to save hens\, her miracle of a novel might\, in turn\, save you.”—R.O. Kwon \nAbout Barn 8 \nAn unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers \nTwo auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious\, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. \nDeb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices\, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter\, a former director of undercover investigations\, hundreds of activists\, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens\, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters\, their earnest efforts to heal themselves\, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. \nFunny\, whimsical\, philosophical\, and heartbreaking\, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity\, razor-sharp wit\, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama\, a tour de force for our time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth-barn-8/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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