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SUMMARY:Becoming Eve with Abby Chava Stein
DESCRIPTION:Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn\, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe\, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family\, Abby was poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. \nWithout access to TV or the Internet\, and never taught to speak English\, she suppressed her desire for a new body while looking for answers wherever she could find them\, from forbidden religious texts to smuggled secular examinations of faith. Finally\, she orchestrated a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity—a radical choice that forced her to leave her home\, her family\, her way of life. \nJoin Randi Reed\, Keshet\, for a conversation with Abby as she shares her journey and paints a portrait of a life that every human being can relate to— the vulnerability and the glory\, the frustrations and the revelations\, the shedding of one identity and growing into another. \nCopies of Abby Chava Stein’s book\, Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman\, will be available for sale at this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/becoming-eve-with-abby-chava-stein/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T193000
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SUMMARY:Mimi Lok: Last of Her Name
DESCRIPTION:Mimi Lok discusses her new book\, Last Of Her Name\, with Rachel Khong. \nPraise for Last Of Her Name \n“Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and deeply felt debut that affirms all that is great about short fiction. Lok’s collection brings startling intimacy to her characters\, all of them struggling with dislocation and belonging. “Woman in the Closet\,” has to be considered a new classic. I can’t think of a collection that better speaks to this moment of global movement and collective rupture from homes and history\, and the struggle to find meaning despite it all.”— DAVE EGGERS\, author of The Parade \n“What a basket of jewels! Each of these stories is elegant\, poignant and multi-faceted. A true pleasure.”— GISH JEN\, author of The Girl at the Baggage Claim \n“A truly beautiful and wide ranging collection. There is love\, longing\, grief\, displacement\, endurance. And from the gut punch of the opening story to the wonderful novella that anchors the book\, not a word is wasted. So many lines spoke directly in my ear: “Night after night they sleep\, but rarely at the same time. Without knowing it they take turns watching each other.” A book to stay up with\, a book that will make you not want to sleep..”— PETER ORNER\, author of Maggie Brown & Others \nAbout Last Of Her Name \nLAST OF HER NAME is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, LAST OF HER NAME features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nIn the novella “The Woman In The Closet\,” a homeless woman finds refuge in the unlikeliest of places\, while in “Motet”\, a teenage girl navigates art and emotional allegiances with her ex-opera singer stepmother. In “The Wrong Dave\,” a soon-to-be-married architect takes up a covert correspondence with a grief-stricken woman who may or may not be writing to the right person. “Wedding Night” centers on an unconventional romance threatened by societal mores. The title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, LAST OF HER NAME offers a unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mimi-lok-last-of-her-name/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T180000
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers / The Captain and the Glory
DESCRIPTION:When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time\, a new leader vows to step forward. Though he has no experience\, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law\, and though he has often remarked he doesn’t much like boats\, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Until one day a famous pirate appears on the horizon. \n\n\n\nDave Eggers is the author of twelve books\, including The Parade; The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France’s Prix Médicis Étranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The Guardian\, the New Yorker\, The Best American Travel Writing\, and the Best American Essays. He is the founder of McSweeney’s\, an independent publishing company\, and cofounder of Voice of Witness\, a book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. He is the cofounder of 826 National\, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers with locations around the country\, and of ScholarMarch\, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Northern California with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-the-captain-and-the-glory/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell: Book Discussion and Author Visit!
DESCRIPTION:“I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental\, noncommercial activity and thought\, for maintenance\, for care\, for conviviality.” —Jenny Odell \nJoin us in reading HOW TO DO NOTHING by Jenny Odell and discussing it together! Because this book has resonated deeply with so many of us here at The Ruby (and\, indeed\, speaks so much to the mission of our space itself!)\, here’s a chance to discuss it all together as a group. The author\, Bay Area native Jenny Odell\, will join us for part of the discussion! Come with your questions and thoughts. \nThanks to the generosity of Melville House\, the first 7 Rubies who sign up will receive a free book! (If you already own the book\, please let us know so we can pass it along to someone who doesn’t yet!) \nFor a taste of the book\, check out Jenny Odell’s Medium post: https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb \n“To capitalist logic\, which thrives on myopia and dissatisfaction\, there may indeed be something dangerous about something as pedestrian as doing nothing: escaping laterally toward each other\, we might just find that everything we wanted is already here.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell-book-discussion-and-author-visit-tickets-70826603277
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell-book-discussion-and-author-visit/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Intergenerational Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:When was the last time you went to a party with someone older than 70 who was not your grandma? Let’s celebrate 2019 together! \nPlease join us for the evening and meet people of all generations. If you’ve been to one of our intergenerational events or have never heard of us\, it doesn’t matter\, because ALL are welcome! The event is FREE\, but younger adults\, please consider BYOB/F to share with others. Invite your friends\, co-workers\, neighbors\, and partners! \nCome hear about what MLMS does in your community and learn about ways to get involved next year. We offer a memoir making program where every volunteer is matched with an older adult and they work together over the course of 3-4 months to create a memoir for the senior author. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-intergenerational-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Red Victorian\, 1665 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington
DESCRIPTION:Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington \ndiscussing Charlton D. McIlwain’s new book \nBlack Software: The Internet\, Racial Justice\, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter \npublished by Oxford University Press \n \nActivists\, pundits\, politicians\, and the press frequently proclaim today’s digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book\, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact\, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers\, entrepreneurs\, hobbyists\, journalists\, and activists. But this is a history that is virtually unknown even in our current age of Google\, Facebook\, Twitter\, and Black Lives Matter. \nBeginning with the simultaneous rise of civil rights and computer revolutions in the 1960s\, McIlwain\, for the first time\, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans\, computing technology\, and the Internet. In turn\, he argues that the forgotten figures who worked to make black politics central to the Internet’s birth and evolution paved the way for today’s explosion of racial justice activism. From the 1960s to present\, the book examines how computing technology has been used to neutralize the threat that black people pose to the existing racial order\, but also how black people seized these new computing tools to build community\, wealth\, and wage a war for racial justice.Through archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history\, Black Software centralizes African Americans’ role in the Internet’s creation and evolution\, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United States and across the globe. \nCharlton D. McIlwain is Vice Provost of Faculty Engagement & Development at New York University\, and Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School. He is also the Founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies\, and the co-author of Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns\, winner of the 2012 APSA Ralph Bunche Award. \nE. David Ellington is Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society (SVBS). SVBS is a global\, invite-only\, private\, member-driven ecosystem supporting blockchain and cryptocurrency related projects across industries and for social impact. SVBS members are active investors primarily in technology. They collectively represent more than $1.5 Trillion in investment capital.  The SVBS mission is three words: “Fund the Revolution.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlton-d-mcilwain-in-conversation-with-e-david-ellington/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Frank: What is Missing
DESCRIPTION:Michael Frank discusses his new novel What Is Missing with Lindsey Crittenden. \nPraise for What Is Missing \n“Michael Frank’s masterful and psychologically acute first novel—which leads us with equal confidence through the light-saturated streets of Florence and the hushed and polished halls of Upper East Side New York—asks the most urgent questions about biology and nurture\, about filial and parental love\, and about what we’re willing to suffer to find out who we are. This is a wise and necessary book\, one I’ve been recommending ardently to everyone I know. ” —Julie Orringer\, author of The Flight Portfolio \n“This sophisticated erotic triangle of a novel is by turns sensuous and harrowing\, driven by a point of view roulette masterfully played. For a reader unfamiliar with the experience of assisted reproduction\, Michael Frank’s novel is an eye-opener. The ethics-testing extremes here left me thinking about the dire need to balance power between women and men long after I sped to the last page.” —Rachel Howard\, author of The Risk of Us \n“The novel is filled with trenchant moments of sweetness and betrayal\, as well as a stunning reveal of the harrowing gauntlet infertile women go through to conceive. This is an intricate and dynamic examination of familial ties: both what strengthens them and what can tear them apart.” — Publisher’s Weekly \nAbout What Is Missing \nCostanza Ansaldo\, a half-Italian and half-American translator\, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband\, an eminent writer\, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth\, and there she meets\, first\, Andrew Weissman\, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old\, and\, soon afterward\, his father\, Henry Weissman\, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in—as it happens—reproductive medicine. \nWith three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence—of a child\, a parent\, a partner\, or a clear sense of identity—What is Missing offers Costanza\, Andrew\, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York\, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father\, a son\, and—for Costanza—a potential mother.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-frank-what-is-missing/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Kline and Susan Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kline discusses his new poetry collection Mirrorforms with Susan Steinberg. \nPraise for Mirrorforms \nIn Mirrorforms\, Peter Kline has invented and perfected a new poetic form; in and through its strict and tricky confines\, he takes the reader on remarkably diverse journeys. From a sexy Godhunger out of Donne (“Is there a place for me / deep in a secret pocket / of your black leather jacket / to pass eternity?”) to wordplay worthy of Stevens (“Whatever // ––whiffles your whirligig / ––pips you ––pops your Bud/  ––puts pepper in your pud…”). From dramatic Monologues (Shapeshifter\, Narcissist\, Catcaller) through various Studies\, to a beautiful and moving series of elegiac Votives\, these mirrors reflect — and reflect upon— loneliness and estrangement; vulnerability and kink: a wide spectrum of the shadings of our emotions. One of the speakers tells us\, “I’ve been a courtesan / to an immense Amen.” Amen to that\, and to seeing\, someday soon\, Kline’s funhousing “Mirrorform” take its rightful place in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. -Moira Egan \nWith laser focus and a fixed stare\, Peter Kline’s Mirrorforms shows us how brevity can reflect an expansive emotional spectrum\, marrying wit and pathos in the most unexpected ways. Risky and formally inventive\, playful yet rigorous\, these poems work like mirrors facing one another; they give a sense of the infinite—the endless joys\, losses\, and mysteries that make our world.-Bruce Snider \nAbout Mirrorforms \nPeter Kline’s Mirrorforms is a daring\, experimental collection of poems in which language reaches its most pressurized state. Kline has invented a new poetic form\, the mirrorform\, which he uses with musical verve to essentialize thought and intensify feeling.  The result is that these poems achieve jewel-like precision: each darkly glinting facet reveals the nuances and ambiguities of longing\, transgression\, and faith. These poems are sharply ironic\, darkly funny\, and ferocious\, and mark out a unique place in contemporary American poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-kline-and-susan-steinberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Tyrone Williams
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center is honored to host Tyrone Williams\, presenting this year’s annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, in its 34th iteration since the inaugural talk in 1985. The Oppen Lecture is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust. Admission is $10\, $5 low income\, and free for SF State students. \n\nIn times of dire word-thirst due to a malabsorption of History’s artifacts\, we turn to Tyrone Williams’s codes & keys to crack the truly ‘alter’ political realms. Master of micro-tonic excavations of symbolic significance\, Williams pares down the logical fripperies of Civilizations’ intentionalities. Here\, neither the world-out-there nor the world-in-here predominate\, but rather an intermundia of “belaborated” rites & rituals sound out some of the rarest and most provocative poetry of our times. —Rodrigo Toscano\n\nTyrone Williams was born in Detroit\, Michigan and earned his BA\, MA\, and PhD at Wayne State University. He is the author of a number of chapbooks—including Convalescence (1987); Futures\, Elections (2004); Musique Noir (2006); and Pink Tie (2011)\, among others—and his six books of poetry include c.c. (2002)\, On Spec (2008)\, The Hero Project of the Century (2009)\, Adventures of Pi (2011)\, Howell (2011)\, and As Iz (2018). A limited-edition art project\, Trump l’oeil\, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. \nWilliams’s work draws on a variety of sources to challenge and investigate language\, history\, and race. In a 2011 interview with the Volta\, Williams noted\, “I don’t ‘revere’ the English language but I use it and\, on occasion\, abuse it.” And of his interest in grammar and linguistics\, he stated: “every grammatical marker is purposeful…every torque of the language renders ‘meaning’ problematic—which seems to me the precise ‘condition’ of African-American existence in particular and ‘American’ life in general.” \nHe and Jeanne Heuving edited the anthology\, Inciting Poetics (2019)\, and Williams is the editor of African American Literature: Revised Edition (2008). He teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati\, Ohio. More at his website\, Heretofore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured audio\, George Oppen at The Poetry Center: \nCharles Reznikoff and George Oppen: February 19\, 1963 \nGeorge Oppen: February 21\, 1968 \nGeorge Oppen: October 29\, 1969
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-george-oppen-memorial-lecture-tyrone-williams/
LOCATION:The Unitarian Center\, 1187 Franklin Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A World Without Wars - Part 2
DESCRIPTION:IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY\n\nNINA SERRANO\nARNOLDO GARCIA\nJULIE ROGERS\nDIEGO DE LEO\nJEANNE POWELL\nCAROL DENNEY\nNILOUFAR TALEBI\nHILTON OBENZINGER\nAGNETA FALK\nLAPO GUZZINI\nSARAH MENEFEE\nMAURO FORTISSIMO\nMARIA CRISTINA GUTIERREZ\nGENNY LIM\nMARTIN HICKEL\nLISBIT BAILEY\nADRIAN ARIAS\nPAULINE CRAIG\nKAREN MELANDER MAGOON\nJACK HIRSCHMAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-world-without-wars-part-2/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T210000
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SUMMARY:Adam Mansbach & W. Kamau Bell
DESCRIPTION:Adam Mansbach is a novelist\, screenwriter\, humorist\, and cultural critic\, as well as the author of the “children’s books” Go the F*** to Sleep and You Have to F***king Eat. His other books include Rage Is Back\, The End of the Jews\, and Angry Black White Boy. F***\, Now There Are Two of You is his latest book. \nSociopolitical comedian  W. Kamau Bell is the host and executive producer of the CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″\, African American\, Heterosexual\, Cisgender\, Left-Leaning\, Asthmatic\, Black and Proud Blerd\, Mama’s Boy\, Dad\, and Stand-Up Comedian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-mansbach-w-kamau-bell/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T213000
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Come to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nDecember 6th\, the one and only Randy James will be organizing our monthly open-mic night for the community. Anyone with something to read in welcome to our strange. Be BRAVE and be BEAUTIFUL. \nSign-up at 7PM. \nSee you there! \n****event will be taking place at the front.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-food-for-thought-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T170000
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SUMMARY:Lightning Strikes: A benefit for Saint Mary's Rising Writers
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nSaturday\, December 7\, 2019 – 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDolby Chadwick Gallery 210 Post St #205\, San Francisco\, CA 94108\, USA\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nLightning Strikes II is art catalogue\, art opening\, poetry reading and fundraiser that features 22 pairings of poets and visual artists. The 44 contributors are distinguished by their exceptional talent and often world-renowned reputations. This diverse group includes visual artists\, writers\, actors\, curators\, musicians\, editors\, a Buddhist priest\, and the Chief Attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. They have received impressive recognitions for their creative efforts\, including a Pulitzer Prize\, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, a Golden Globe\, Grammy awards\, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards\, Guggenheim Fellowships\, a MacArthur “Genius” Grant\, roles as U.S.\, New York State\, and San Francisco Poet Laureates\, membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Pushcart Prizes\, National Book Awards\, a Pew Fellowship\, and a National Humanities Medal given by Barack Obama. \nThis event is open to ticket-holders only. \nWe greatly appreciate your contribution. 100% of the ticket proceeds goes to support the MFA in Creative Writing program scholarship fund at Saint Mary’s College\, founded by poets Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass. \nPlease note: Due to high demand and limited space\, many ticket-holders will need to stand during the reading. Thank you in advance for your patience\, and for your enthusiasm for this exciting event.  Lightning Strikes II is accompanied by a hard cover 68 page\, limited-edition fully illustrated catalogue of the same name. Each ticket-holder will receive a copy. \nLightning Strikes II features 22 pairings of poets and visual artists. The 44 contributors are distinguished by their exceptional talent and often world-renowned reputations. This diverse group includes visual artists\, writers\, actors\, curators\, musicians\, editors\, a Buddhist priest\, and the Chief Attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. They have received impressive recognitions for their creative efforts\, including a Pulitzer Prize\, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, a Golden Globe\, Grammy awards\, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards\, Guggenheim Fellowships\, a MacArthur “Genius” Grant\, roles as U.S.\, New York State\, and San Francisco Poet Laureates\, membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Pushcart Prizes\, National Book Awards\, a Pew Fellowship\, and a National Humanities Medal given by Barack Obama. \nPoet and artist pairings: \nNaomi Shihab Nye and John DiPaolo \nDevorah Major and Mayme Kratz \nBilly Collins and Gary Ruddell \nPeter Coyote and Kai Samuels-Davis \nJane Hirshfield and Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann \nCharlie Pendergast and Alex Kanevsky \nBrenda Hillman and Vanessa Marsh \nTess Taylor and Ann Gale \nAda Limón and David Kelso \nTamsin Smith and Danae Mattes \nRenny Pritikin and Maria Porges \nKathleen Brennan and Lisa Russell \nErik Campbell and Éric Antoine \nDavid Whyte and Louise LeBourgeois \nDean Rader and Robert Kingston \nRobert Hass and Edwige Fouvry \nLouise Glück and Lisa McCutheon \nMatt Gonzalez and Ian Kimmerly \nTom Waits and Lou Ros \nSara Mumolo and Travis Collinson \nMatthew Zapruder and Elizabeth Fox \nJack Hirschman and Matt Gonzalez \nDolby Chadwick Gallery has been an ardent supporter of young and emerging creative talent since its founding more than twenty-three years ago. Since the galleries inception the promotion of the literary arts has been a meaningful complement to that of the visual arts. Lightning Strikes II continues in the spirit of this tradition\, championing burgeoning creative talent and fostering community relations through its support of the literary scholarship program at Saint Mary’s College. \n\n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nFor more information or questions\, write to writers@stmarys-ca.edu or call Krista Varela Posell at extension x4762
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lightning-strikes-a-benefit-for-saint-marys-rising-writers/
LOCATION:Dolby Chadwick Gallery\, 210 Post Street\, Suite 205\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Jamel Brinkley and Chia-Chia Lin: Winter 2019
DESCRIPTION:presents our Winter Reading\nSaturday\, Dec 7\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)  \n\n\nfeaturing\n\n\n\nJamel Brinkley\n(A Lucky Man)\nFinalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction\n“A Lucky Man is just one of those collections that takes your breath away: the voices we hear\, the people we meet\, they scratch and pull and ache and rage\, revealing secrets we usually keep hidden. Every line is pitch perfect. Jamel Brinkley is a writer of extraordinary talent.” —Daniel Alarcón\, author of The King is Always Above the People\n\nChia-Chia Lin\n(The Unpassing)\nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\n“A singularly vast and captivating novel . . . What makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s mythmaking about itself.” –Brian Haman\, The New York Times Book Review\n \nand many more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-jamel-brinkley-and-chia-chia-lin-winter-2019/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191024T153840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T153840Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Zinn Book Fair: Strike! Discovering Our Power
DESCRIPTION:Howard Zinn Book Fair 2019\nSunday December 8th\n10am to 6pm\nCity College of San Francisco\, Mission Campus\n1125 Valencia Street \nWe are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair will take place on December 8\, 2019 at CCSF Mission Campus. The theme of this year’s book fair is “Strike! Discovering Our Power.” We selected this theme to celebrate the ways in which everyday people discover their ability to work together. Inspired by the wave of strikes across the United States in the past year\, the massive General Strikes in India\, and the recent uprisings in Algeria and Sudan\, we expand the idea of the strike to include all of the ways people can take collective action to preserve their homes\, protect life on earth\, respect indigeneity\, shut down the machinery that produces racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, and inequality\, and build movements that are strong enough to last. The Strike! is not only about withdrawing our labor\, but about redirecting it to create a better world. \nThe Howard Zinn Book Fair will host dozens of 90 min session slots for workshops\, readings\, panels and performances.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-zinn-book-fair-strike-discovering-our-power/
LOCATION:San Francisco City College\, 1125 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Howard Zinn Book Fair":MAILTO:zinnbookfair@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191124T194313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T194313Z
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SUMMARY:Small Press Book Bazaar!
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public; museum admission is free on this day \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet us at SFMOMA and around the Bay for Local Affairs\, a series dedicated to local arts communities. Join us as we celebrate Bay Area culture and artists of all disciplines\, and share ideas\, good will\, food\, and drink. \nThis holiday season\, join us for a festive book sale on opening day of the new exhibition Printed Publics: Contemporary Art and Design Publishing in the Bay Area. In collaboration with The Black Aesthetic\, Cantíl\, Colpa Press\, The Poetry Center\, and Small Press Distribution\, we’ve invited a number of small local presses to present their diverse wares. Get a jump on holiday gift buying — or shop for yourself! \n\nVendors\n2727 California Street\nAtelos\nAunt Lute Books\nCommune Editions\nFiction Advocate\nFloss Editions\nilletante collective\nKelsey Street Press\nKRUPSKAYA\nLAND AND SEA\nMost Ancient\nNIAD Art Center\nNight Diver Press\nNomadic Press\nProject Kalahati\nRE/Search\nRITE Editions\nSming Sming Books\nStripe SF\nTBW Books\nTransgress Press\nUndertone Collective\nVisible Publications\nWolfman Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-press-book-bazaar/
LOCATION:SF MoMa\, 151 Third St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191024T155900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T155900Z
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SUMMARY:Girls Who Run the World
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Dec 8 \nStarts at: 5:00 pm \n\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission  $20\nMembers get 10% off. \nPop-Up Kid Entrepreneur Maker Fair: 4:00 pm\nPanel Discussion: 5:00 pm \nExcited about this program? Your support makes it possible. Please consider donating with your purchase.\n______________________________________________________ \nWith Diana Kapp\, Robyn Sue Fisher\,\nJane Marie Chen & Tina Sharkey \nFuture entrepreneurs\, take note! Learn from three bold businesswomen who are changing the rules and shaping a supportive business environment for women entrepreneurs. Find out how Robyn Sue Fisher (Smitten Ice Cream)\, Jane Marie Chen (Embrace) and Tina Sharkey (Brandless) turned their creative ideas into winning companies while breaking down barriers. Join us for this important conversation and walk away inspired! The discussion will be moderated by Diana Kapp\, author of the new woman-to-woman playbook Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business. For ages 12 and up! \nMake an afternoon of it!\nJoin us at 4:00 pm in the Pottruck Family Atrium for a pop-up maker fair featuring crafts and products from local kid entrepreneurs. Smitten Ice Cream will also be scooping samples for you to taste! \n“All girls should dare to dream big\, and Girls Who Run the World gives them the tools to not only achieve those dreams\, but to change the world while they’re doing it.”\n– Arianna Huffington\, Founder & CEO\, Thrive Global \nRobyn Sue Fisher is the founder and CEO of Smitten Ice Cream. An ice cream fanatic with a knack for invention\, Robyn founded Smitten Ice Cream in 2007 to spread joy and create the freshest\, most flavorful ice cream the world had ever known. \nJane Marie Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace\, a social enterprise startup that aims to help the 15 million premature and low birth-weight babies born every year\, through a low-cost infant warmer. \nTina Sharkey is the co-founder of Brandless\, a direct-to-consumer brand that makes hundreds of fairly-priced\, consciously curated\, high-quality items. \nDiana Kapp is a journalist and the author of Girls Who Run the World. Her feature pieces on education\, culture\, Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship have appeared in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and San Francisco Magazine\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/girls-who-run-the-world/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191024T154531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T154531Z
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SUMMARY:DA do SF 7
DESCRIPTION:Come to SPECS Bar on Sunday\, December 8 at 6pm as 3RP Co-directors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges present their annual Dada Journal MAINTENANT reading with Bay Area contributors –SF Poets & Legends Carol Dorf\, Lorene Zouzounis\, Robert Duncan\, Jack Hirschman\, Maw Shein Win\, Allison Davis\, Tom Stolmar\, Marc Olmsted\, Suzy Kaplan Olmsted\, Richard Stone\, Neeli Cherkovski\, Mahnaz Badihian\, Gerald Nicosia\, Mara Patricia Hernandez\, Santiago Amaya\, Julian Mithra\, and all the way from Brussels –Marina Kazakova!!! \nWe will have copies of our internationally renowned MAINTENANT 13: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art on hand for purchase and signing. \nAnd stay for a special musical performance by Fitz and Webber –Wendy Fitz on Piano and Steve Webber on Bass. 8-10pm. \nSpec’s Bar is in North Beach\, right across the street from City Lights Bookstore at 12 William Saroyan Place. Admission its free. Showtime is 6-8\, but to get the full Spec’s experience\, come early and stay late!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/da-do-sf-7/
LOCATION:Specs Bar\, 12 William Saroyan Place\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Three Rooms Press":MAILTO:info@threeroomspress.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191031T061715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T061715Z
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SUMMARY:Mondo Bummer 10th Anniversary Non-Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating Mondo Bummer’s 10th anniversary! \nMondo Bummer started in 2009 as sort of a joke and grew into a small press / mail art project that’s published 40+ titles. In honor of the fact that Mondo Bummer hasn’t published anything new in a few years\, the theme of this event is not-publishing and not-writing. \nMondo Bummer authors including Lauren Levin\, Taylor Brady\, Sarah Fontaine\, Wendy Trevino\, and others will give short talks on not-writing and/or do anything other than read poems. \nThere will be\n*cake\n*Mondo Bummer books (and other things) for sale \nMore information about Mondo Bummer at http://mondobummer.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mondo-bummer-10th-anniversary-non-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191210T033344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T033344Z
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SUMMARY:Bedtime Stories: Beach Fest
DESCRIPTION:It’s been cold\, and\, “we need the rain\,” can only go so far. We at Bedtime Stories are ready to have a Beach party to beach about that\, holidays\, family\, work\, the state of the world\, and more! Enjoy the heated indoor section of the Eagle\, comedy\, lyric\, and storytelling\, and allow us to transport you somewhere new. \nDoors begins at 8:00pm\, not long after SF Eagle’s weekly open mic. Suggested donation of $5 at the door\, no one turned away for lack of funds. \nPerformances by\nSage Curtis\nJD Fierce\nLuigi Diazz\n& more! \nBedtime Stories is:\nA variety show with a reading series vibe\nOriginal content from local artists\n“An introvert’s dream night out”\n“A show where your eyes don’t need to be glued to the stage. You can stare into space\, close your eyes\, relax a little.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bedtime-stories-beach-fest/
LOCATION:San Francisco Eagle\, 398 12th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191210T025341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025341Z
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SUMMARY:You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty
DESCRIPTION:In this powerful storytelling event\, award-winning performer Kimberly Dark shares stories from her new book\, FAT\, PRETTY\, AND SOON TO BE OLD (AK Press\, 2019)\, in order to remind us: “You don’t owe anyone pretty\,” and “We are creating the world\, even as it creates us.” \nIn this moving and hilarious show\, Kimberly Dark invites her audience to live in the experience of the body\, not the appearance of the body. Drawing from her own experience as a fat\, queer\, white-privileged\, recently disabled\, inevitably aging\, gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face\,” Kimberly Dark deftly blends storytelling and social analysis to reveal the presence of everyday appearance privilege (and stigma). Join her to explore how the architecture of this social world constrains us and how we might help one another break free. \nTuesday\, December 10\, 7pm at Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102\n$15 suggested donation\, with no one turned away due to lack of funds.\n\nThere will be a book signing after the event. \n— \n“Sexy and often fearless and real … Kimberly Dark is hilarious and heart breaking.” —Terese Mailhot\, NYT bestselling author of Heartberries \n“Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self—mind\, body\, and spirit\, full throttle\, without apology … Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan \n“Dark explores the real of her own stories to question the currency of beauty and appearance. What have we actually been sold? What have we bought into about our bodies? Has the exchange ever really been worth the price?” —Sonya Renee Taylor\, author of The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love \n— \nKimberly Dark is a writer\, sociologist and raconteur\, working to reveal the hidden architecture of everyday life one clever essay\, poem\, and story at a time. The author of three books\, ten plays and numerous essays\, she’s been touring internationally for more than twenty years. More at kimberlydark.com \nThis venue is ADA accessible. For further info\, visit: https://www.counterpulse.org/visiting/ \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/you-dont-owe-anyone-pretty/
LOCATION:Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="AK Press":MAILTO:info@akpress.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191024T153123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T153123Z
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SUMMARY:An evening with Kal Spelletich
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Kal Spelletich\nTuesday\, December 10\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nin conversation with Catharine Clark \ndiscussing his new project \nSignificance Machines and Purposeful Robots \n‘Significance Machines and Purposeful Robots’ is an exhibit of work by Kal Spelletich at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art through December 2019 that includes life size praying robots\, photos\, sound machines\, drawings\, videos and interactive sculptures which explore the question: can technology do spiritual work? Via audience operated robots that are meditative and violent\, Spelletich’s work enacts a liberated awareness and pushes his audience to a creative response to in their own lives. \nCity Lights celebrates the release of the catalog for this show. The catalog is enshrined inside a unique artifact produced in a limited edition. The artifact is composed of a suitcase shell that contains a mechanized spinning stone Buddha\, LED lights\, sound recording of spiritual music\, a speaker\, laser cut text on acrylic\, caliper measuring tool\, assorted photos\, drawings and prints\, a thumb drive with videos photos and texts\, pen\, paper\, laser cut marble\, folded sculpture\, monograph\, and whiskey. The catalogue was organized by Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art curator\, April Bojorquez\, with a forward by Lauren MacDonald\, and an interview by Catherine Clarke that provide perspectives on the work and the artist in relation to contemporary art and technology issues. \nKal Spelletich builds interactive machines and robots. He scours the world for industrial items in which the technology can be repurposed. Spelletich has collaborated with artists all over the world though his home base is in San Francisco. Kal works with bio-morphic sensors\, (sometimes uncontrollable) that trigger his robots and provide viewers with a hands-on interactive experience. His work mines the space between what robots and humans can and cannot do. Recent exhibits of his work have been held in Namibia\, Lubjianna\, Berlin\, Vienna\, New York\, India\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco. A monographic exhibit of his work will be presented at Saint Mary’s College in August 2019. Spelletich’s practice is across genres and his work extends to curating exhibits and activism. His projects have been featured in the NY Times\, PBS\, and in other critical journals and media. \nCatharine Clark is the founder of the Catharine Clark Gallery\, established in 1991. The internationally acclaimed gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition\, they also curate changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room. New exhibits open every six weeks. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary dealer for an acclaimed roster of international artists: Sandow Birk\, Lenka Clayton\, Chris Doyle\, Al Farrow\, Nina Katchadourian\, Kara Maria\, Deborah Oropallo\, Stephanie Syjuco\, Josephine Taylor\, Masami Teraoka\, and Wanxin Zhang. In 2016\, Catharine Clark founded BOX BLUR\, an initiative to bring visual and performing art into dialogue within the non-proscenium-based space of the gallery. To learn more visit: https://cclarkgallery.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-kal-spelletich/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191205T145136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T145136Z
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SUMMARY:Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking\, Remaking\, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos\, 2019). \nFederici surveys the paradigms that govern how the body is conceived and the disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. \nSilvia Federici is a feminist writer\, teacher\, and militant. Her books include Witches\, Witch-Hunting\, and Women; Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Revolution at Point Zero. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University and co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silvia-federici-book-launch-of-beyond-the-periphery-of-the-skin/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191024T154212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T154212Z
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SUMMARY:US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Joy Harjo\, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation\, made history this year when she became the 23rd US Poet Laureate\, making her the first Native American poet to hold the honor. \nHarjo has championed the art of poetry – “soul talk\,” as she calls it – for over four decades. To her\, poems are “carriers of dreams\, knowledge and wisdom\,” and through them\, she tells an American story of tradition and loss\, reckoning and myth-making. Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct\, inventive lyricism that helps us reimagine who we are. \nHarjo is the author of several poetry collections including Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings\, She Had Some Horses and An American Sunrise. Her memoir\, Crazy Brave\, won the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, among other honors. Also a renowned musician\, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally\, solo and with her band\, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning albums including Red Dreams\, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way\, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/us-poet-laureate-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191023T082210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T143358Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Room For Dessert
DESCRIPTION:The perfect ending to the year and any good meal. We’re satisfied. We’re bloated. We’ve got those full-belly-bedroom-eyes. But you know what\, Sunbeams? We still need a little sweetness\, some decadence\, some hospitality\, some whipped cream on top of this 10-year-long-year. \nJoin us to make your final course of 2019 sweet. ♥ \n___ \nHAPPY 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 \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions. \nThis month’s writers are: \nBridget Callahan\nCasey Childers\nKimberly Gomes\nTomas Moniz\nSteve Wilson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-room-for-dessert/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T223000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
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SUMMARY:YG2D: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Dec10\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time).\nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yg2d-poetry-prose-everything-goes-the-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="You're Going to Die":MAILTO:ned@yg2d.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton
DESCRIPTION:Roy Scranton reading from his new novel\n\nI  ❤Oklahoma ! \npublished by Soho Books \n\nSuzie’s seen it all\, but now she’s looking for something she lost: a sense of the future. So when the chance comes to work with a maverick video artist on his road movie about Donald Trump’s America\, she’s pretty sure it’s a bad idea but she signs up anyway\, hoping for an outside shot at starting over. \nA provocative\, genderqueer\, shapeshifting musical romp through the brain-eating nightmare of contemporary America\, I Heart Oklahoma! is a book about art\, guns\, cars\, American landscapes\, and American history. This kaleidoscopic novel moves from our bleeding-edge present to a furious Faulknerian retelling of the Charlie Starkweather killings in the 1950s\, capturing in its fragmented\, mesmerizing form the violence at the heart of the American dream. \nRoy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (published by City Lights Books)\, and co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He grew up in Oregon\, dropped out of college\, and spent several years wandering the American West. In 2002\, he enlisted in the US Army. He served from 2002 to 2006\, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research\, then completed his PhD in English at Princeton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191205T143517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T143517Z
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SUMMARY:Grace Paley's Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Judith Arcana\, author of Grace Paley’s Life Stories\, will read and share from her decades-long friendship with Grace and their history of activism and writing. She’ll be joined in reading\, conversation\, and celebration by Maxine Hong Kingston\, Gwyn Kirk\, and Martha Richards.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-paleys-birthday/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191210T025844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025844Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime Flux
DESCRIPTION:Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan)\, Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah)\, Jen Burke Anderson\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-flux/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T064007
CREATED:20191024T150612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150645Z
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SUMMARY:SOSADTODAY’S Melissa Broder performs “Eating Alone in My Car”
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nSOSADTODAY’S MELISSA BRODER\nperforms “Eating Alone in My Car”\nWednesday\, December 11\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \nPoet\, novelist\, advice columnist and heroine to anyone with “issues\,” Melissa Broder is author of the novel The Pisces and the poetry collection Last Sext\, as well as the voice behind the viral Twitter account @sosadtoday and an essay collection based on the account. In her podcast Eating Alone in My Car\, Broder rants about everything from mortality to Poptarts to depression while wielding a dark humor that is honest and open. Her other writing includes the “So Sad Today” column for Vice\, the “Beauty and Death” column at Elle.com\, and the forthcoming Milk Fed. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sosadtodays-melissa-broder-performs-eating-alone-in-my-car/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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