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SUMMARY:30 Years of Street Sheet
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to our new office to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Street Sheet newspaper! For three decades Street Sheet has been documenting the realities facing poor and homeless San Franciscans\, and providing a platform for homeless journalists\, storytellers\, poets\, photographers\, and artists who are otherwise ignored. \nWe will be hosting an open mic with featured performers from our Street Sheet team and plenty of space for you to jump up and share poems\, songs\, or memories. We will provide a light dinner\, some adult beverages\, and delicious baked goods! \nWHEN: December 12th @5:30-8pm\nWHERE: Coalition on Homelessness\, 290 Turk Street San Francisco \nFeaturing\n* Tone Oliver\nMotivational Performer and MC\, Tone Oliver has been honing his sound and story as an artist for over 15 years. LA born\, Bay Area based MC offers a refreshing flow and witty\, yet wise word play that often leaves listeners inspired. Oliver has been covered by the SF Chronicle\, KQED and KTVU Fox 2. The father\, rapper and actor is currently working on his 5th solo album\, “Keep Going” set to drop late 2019. \n*Zach K \n* Wayfairy\nhttps://www.facebook.com/wayfairy/\nWayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. \nACCESSIBILITY NOTE: Finally wheelchair accessible by elevator! Please let us know if you need the elevator when you ring up so we can buzz you in the correct entrance. There are two single stall gender neutral bathrooms available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/30-years-of-street-sheet/
LOCATION:Street Sheet\, 280 Turk St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Michael Eric Dyson
DESCRIPTION:Michael Eric Dyson Ph.D.\, Op-Ed Columnist\, The New York Times; Professor of Sociology\, Georgetown University; Author\, JAY-Z: Made in America \nThis program is part of our Good Lit series\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation \nMichael Eric Dyson is known for his many talents. He is an outspoken academic and sociologist\, social critic\, best-selling author\, a popular figure in political news media\, an ordained Baptist minister and\, in his own words\, one of the country’s leading “hip-hop intellectuals.” Often in Dyson’s work\, these concepts all intersect to reflect a well-rounded picture of black life in America. Now Dyson has set his analytical sights on someone who\, he argues\, is one of the greatest American poets of all time: Jay-Z. \nJoin INFORUM and Dyson for an evening of all things Hova—from Jay-Z’s humble beginnings as a hustler in 1980s New York City to his meteoric rise to fame and his eventual recognition as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Dyson will explore how Jay-Z’s 30-year career has changed not just hip-hop but also the music industry\, business\, politics and social justice. Join us for an exploration of the life of a great literary figure and learn how he provided the blueprint. \nLocation: Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\nTime: 5:30 p.m. check-in\, 6:30 p.m. program\nNotes: Dyson photo by Nina Subin \nAll ticket sales are final and nonrefundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-michael-eric-dyson/
LOCATION:Commonwealth Club of California\, 110 The Embarcadero\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T200000
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SUMMARY:Performance | 2019 Poets-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the culminating event of our 2019 Poets-in-Residence program. Tonya Foster and Alan Peláez López will perform their poetry at a reading to celebrate their work created during the Poets-in-Residence program at MoAD. Joining Tonya and Alan will be MoAD Poetry Coordinator and 2018 Poet-in-Residence Raina Léon\, and the Ruth Assawa San Francisco School for the Arts Spoken Arts Director Aimee Suzara. \nThis program will include a wine reception and is free to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/performance-2019-poets-in-residence/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
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SUMMARY:Last Voz of 2019!
DESCRIPTION:End 2019 right with an amazing night of poetry! As usual we will have snacks\, drinks\, three features\, and an open mic!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/last-voz-of-2019/
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:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T203000
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SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams
DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams reading from her new book\n\nErosion: Essays of Undoing \npublished by Sarah Critchton Books/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nFierce\, timely\, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist \nTerry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist\, fervent activist\, and stirring writer\, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays\, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land\, of the self\, of belief\, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered\, worn\, and whittled away through wind\, water\, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. \nShe looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument\, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest\, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction\, citing the drought outside her door and at times\, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge\, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders\, art\, and\, always\, in the land itself. She asks\, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?” \nTerry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds\, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She and her husband Brooke Williams divide their time between Cambridge\, Massachusetts and Castle Valley\, Utah. \nWhat has been said about the work of Terry Tempest Williams \n“An apostle of life and earth and a soul-revving teller of true stories\, Williams (The Hour of Land\, 2016) brings lyricism\, candor\, mystery\, and factual exactitude to the deeply affecting essays collected here . . . Williams’ exquisite testimony of wonder and wisdom is vitalizing and crucial.”\n—Booklist\, starred review \n“In a collection of passionate\, galvanizing essays\, activist and teacher Williams shares her intimate connection to the as-yet untamed landscapes of the American West . . . Williams writes with a poetic optimism . . . Stirring.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“This anthology of grief\, anger\, and even hope capably reflects Williams’ wise voice.”\n—Kirkus \n“These essays are a joy to read. Terry Tempest Williams is a wise and fierce defender of the wild Earth.”\n—Leslie Marmon Silko\, author of The Turquoise Ledge \n“Terry Tempest Williams’s voice in the clamor is like a hot desert wind blowing away the litter in a crowded room and leaving behind only what has weight\, what is essential. These are essays about the courage to face what is most brutal and monstrous\, by finding what is most beautiful and merciful.”\n—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Call Them by Their True Names \n“Luminous\, fearless\, brutally honest. But with this latest book\, Williams takes her spiritual love of the American West—along with her grief\, anger and exasperation at what we continue to do to this place—to a new level. If John Muir ever wrote like this\, most of the West would be in wilderness protection by now. As well\, she knows her way to the human heart.”\n—Timothy Egan\, author of The Immortal Irishman \n“Terry Tempest Williams has rewritten the rules for the way we must engage the natural world and each other. Erosion is both a shout from the edge of what we were and a beckoning to what we must become. Pick up your courage and this book; be prepared to take notes—and action.”\n—Alexandra Fuller\, author of Quiet Until the Thaw \n“Terry Tempest Williams is our great activist laureate. Working out of the lineage of Dickinson\, O’Keeffe\, D. H. Lawrence\, and\, later\, Abbey and Peacock\, she is nonetheless singular and extraordinarily original. She is rooted as juniper yet ephemeral as a sand dune. The forces that have eroded her are rapture and grief. What remains is elemental beauty.”\n—Rick Bass\, author of For a Little While \n“These are the most dangerous of all days for humans on Earth\, and Erosion is the book for our time. Writing on the edge of the sacred\, Terry Tempest Williams’s message bears the power and emotional gifts of a close call with a charging grizzly. There are no stray words. Terry writes with a purity glimpsed in certain outcrops of crystalline rock or the waters filling a chain of alpine lakes. I believe there is no more important writer working today.”\n—Doug Peacock\, author of In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tempest-williams/
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:20191212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi
DESCRIPTION:IBRAM X. KENDI\nin conversation with Jelani Cobb\nThursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nTICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nCultural Studies \n\n\nIbram X. Kendi is a historian and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His books include The Black Campus Movement and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\, in which Kendi chronicles how racist ideas were developed\, disseminated and enshrined in American society\, leading us to a present state of racism that is more sophisticated and insidious than ever. Kendi’s newest book\, How to Be An Antiracist\, re-energizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America\, asking us to think about what an antiracist society might look like\, and how we can play an active role in building it. \nJelani Cobb has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2015\, writing on subjects of race\, politics\, history\, and culture. Cobb’s books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress\, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\, and the collection\, The Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. He is the Ira J. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University\, specializing in post-Civil War African American history\, 20th century and modern American politics\, and the history of the Cold War.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T193000
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SUMMARY:YG2D: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 12\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Dec12\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).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yg2d-poetry-prose-everything-goes/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
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CREATED:20191023T083238Z
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SUMMARY:Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the press’s 45th Anniversary\, with readings by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. Forty-five years later\, the press\, still located in the East Bay\, remains true to its commitment to bring out a wide range of voices\, including the gifted work of trans and genderqueer authors. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their third-floor loft space\, this event is co-sponsored by Kelsey St. Press and The Poetry Center\, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Free and open to the public. \nMei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing\, grew up in Massachusetts\, and lives in northern New Mexico. She has published twelve books of poetry\, including five books with Kelsey St Press. Recent works include I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems and A Lit Cloud\, a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. Her latest book\, A Treatise on Stars\, is forthcoming from New Directions\, along with a new edition of Empathy. \nChing-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi/Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, recombinant (Kelsey Street Press\, 2017; 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry)\, to make black paper sing (speCt! Books\, 2019)\, and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press\, 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press\, 2009). Born of Chinese immigrants\, they have received fellowships from Kundiman\, Lambda\, Watering Hole\, Callaloo\, Can Serrat\, Storyknife\, and Imagining America and are a member of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. A community organizer\, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Riverside and Boston. In Autumn 2019\, they join the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell as an assistant professor. More at chinginchen.com \nAndrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg\, writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook\, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions\, 2016; download the PDF)\, attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Andrea’s first book\, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019)\, is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. They toured with Sister Spit 2018 and live in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelsey St. Press
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelsey-st-press-45th-anniversary-celebration-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-ching-in-chen-andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join Fourteen Hills press to celebrate OPPRESSORFACE\, the 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award winning book of poetry written by Rob Hendricks.\nThere will be drinks\, food\, a prize drawing. and a reading by Rob Hendricks.\nOther readers include: Truong Tran\, Vanessa Marie Hamill\, Steven Kennedy\, Jens Mikkelsen\, London Pinkney\, and Izabella Santana. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-michael-rubin-book-award-release-party/
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:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
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CREATED:20191210T033705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T033705Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrical Opposition: Unplugged
DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to join us for an intimate showcase of socially-conscious\, acoustic hip-hop music. \nBased in Bay Area\, CA\, Lyrical Opposition creates safe platforms that foster lyrical expression for hip-hop artists\, spoken word poets\, and other artistic talents through gatherings\, icebreakers\, freestyles\, cyphers\, artist development workshops\, panel discussions\, training and fellowship. \nDecember 13\, 2019 Delaplane will host a live acoustic performance by Bay Area based rapper\, poet\, and performer Fego Navarro and Dela Paz\, in an intimate setting. \nLimited seating available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrical-opposition-unplugged/
LOCATION:483 14th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
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SUMMARY:The Fire Thieves in the Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston\, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. \nThe SFAC is pleased to welcome the The Fire Thieves Poetry Series—an inter-generational and inter-sectional collaboration between established\, mid-career and new poets working\, producing\, and presenting new work—to the gallery for an evening of readings dear to their hearts. A selection of accomplished Native poets read their work surrounded by the powerful and uplifting photographs on view in the exhibition The Continuous Thread. The evening’s readers include Jewelle Gomez\, playwright\, novelist and social justice activist; Stephen Meadows\, Ohlone poet and KFOF folk music dj; Linda Noel\, Poet Laureate emerita of Ukiah; and Ramona Webb\, artist in word\, movement\, and culture change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fire-thieves-in-the-gallery/
LOCATION:San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries\, 401 Van Ness Ave\, Ste 126\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T210000
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts
DESCRIPTION:Jeff VanderMeer joins us to discuss his new novel\, Dead Astronauts. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead \n“VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell\, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing\, one fixed destiny\, but as either peaceful or catastrophic\, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates–for these are our children\, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created.” —Wai Chee Dimock\, The New York Times Book Review \n“The conceptual elements in VanderMeer’s fiction are so striking that the firmness with which he cinches them to his characters’ lives is often overlooked . . . Borne is VanderMeer’s trans-species rumination on the theme of parenting . . . [Borne] insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know that you\, a mere person\, might be crushed by indifferent forces at a moment’s notice\, then quickly forgotten.” —Laura Miller\, The New Yorker \nAbout Dead Astronauts \nA messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish\, centuries old\, who hides a secret\, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past\, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. \nJeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where\, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company\, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future\, the fate of Earth—all the Earths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-dead-astronauts/
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:20191213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T213000
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SUMMARY:Vera Polozkova in San Francisco | presented by M.ART
DESCRIPTION:// For English please scroll down // \nM.ART представляет премьеру поэтического концерта Веры Полозковой «Высокое разрешение» в Сан-Франциско на сцене театра Marines’ Memorial. \nБилеты в продаже! \nВпервые в США Вера Полозкова исполнит свою новую программу\, в которой поэтическая часть предельно точно сочетается с музыкой и видеорядом. Стихи\, которые вошли в новое представление\, так или иначе несут в себе отголоски путешествий поэта и перемен в её жизни\, но все так же остаются о вечных темах — о любви и страхе\, богатстве душевном и денежном\, возрасте и людях. \nИмя Веры Полозковой уже давно известно всем\, кто интересуется русской поэзией. Вере было всего 15\, когда вышел ее первый авторский сборник стихов\, мгновенно ставший сенсацией современной русской литературы. Сейчас она продолжает оставаться самым популярным молодым поэтом России\, выпустив два авторских сборника стихов «Непоэмание» и «Осточерчение»\, а также книгу «Фотосинтез»\, созданной совместно с Ольгой Паволгой. Полозкова — феномен нового поколения. Она заставила аудиторию социальных сетей заново полюбить поэзию и стала флагманом новой литературной волны. \n«Ты всегда наедине со стихотворением\, и каждое проделывает в тебе индивидуальную работу. Это даже вопрос соавторства\, потому что каждый читает стихотворение по-своему\, и для него оно о чем-то еще» — Вера Полозкова. \nM.ART — некоммерческий негосударственный проект\, продвигающий современную российскую культуру в Великобритании\, Израиле и США.\n______________ \nM.ART presents a poetry evening “High Resolution” by Vera Polozkova\, in San Francisco on the stage of the Marines’ Memorial Theatre. \nTickets are available! \nFor the first time in the States\, Vera Polozkova will perform her new show\, where poetry is supplemented by music and visual elements with extreme precision. The poems included in the new program somehow echo Polozkova’s travels and changes in her life\, while still revolving around the same eternal themes — love and fear\, money and spiritual wealth\, aging and people. \nVera Polozkova is well-known to those interested in Russian poetry. Vera was only 15 when she published her first collection of poems\, instantly becoming a sensation in contemporary Russian literature. Nowadays\, she continues to be Russia’s most popular young poetess\, having published two collections of poems — “Nepoemanie” and “Ostocherchenie” — as well as a book “Photosynthesis” together with photographer Olga Pavolga. Polozkova is a phenomenon of the new generation. She made the audience of social media fall back in love with poetry\, and became the flagship of the new wave in literature. \n“You are always one-on-one with a poem\, and each one of them makes its way inside of you. One can even call it co-authorship\, because every person reads a poem in their own way\, and for each reader it’s about something else” — Vera Polozkova. \nM.ART is a non-profit\, non-governmental project promoting contemporary Russian culture in Britain\, Israel and the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vera-polozkova-in-san-francisco-presented-by-m-art/
LOCATION:Marine’s Memorial Theater\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="M.Art":MAILTO:yourfriends@mart.foundation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191120T043323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T185337Z
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SUMMARY:Instead of Your Office Party: Quiet Lightning's 10 Year Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Save the date: Our 10-year anniversary party is Saturday\, December 14!\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, December 14\, 2019 @ The Bindery\, 7-10pm \n10 years to the date of our first show\, we’re throwing a party to celebrate: \n1200+ readings\n900+ local writers\n129 live shows\n108 publications\n90 venues\n60 curators\n10 years\n1 party \n! \nReadings by: \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel. Author photo by Peg Skorpinksi. \nKim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco\, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile\, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale’s. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand\, keys\, pen and notebook and cat’s cradle string at all times. Shuck is widely published in journals\, anthologies and a couple of solo books. She enjoys volunteering in SFUSD elementary school classrooms to share her loves of origami\, poetry and basket making… in other words\, math of various kinds. In 2019 Shuck was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. \nSusan Steinberg is the author of Machine\, Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Noah Doely. \nMimi Lok is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize\, and a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she co-founded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Last of Her Name\, a collection of stories\, was published in October\, 2019. Mimi currently lives in San Francisco\, CA. \n&: \n:: video highlights from our first 10 years ::\n:: portrait-monials: get your portrait done by Connie Zheng while you testify ::\n:: make a tv show out of literature (and we’ll broadcast it) ::\n:: have your tarot read ::\n:: visit the wishing well ::\n:: enter the raffle :: \nand more! \nTickets are only $10 (that’s just $1 per year!) but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you’d like another 10 years of Quiet Lightning\, consider being a supporter and donating an extra $10+. We’ll save you a seat and give you a surprise at the door (plus you can write off your donation).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/instead-of-your-office-party-quiet-lightnings-10-year-anniversary/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191024T150109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150109Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Alvin Orloff (Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground)\nOlga Zilberbourg (Like Water and Other Stories)\nMegan E. O’Keefe (Velocity Weapon)\nFEATURING SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall! \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, TBA.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-26/
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:20191217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191213T052207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T052220Z
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SUMMARY:Music Release Party and Solstice Celebration with Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
DESCRIPTION:Mat and Yvonne will serenade us with some of the songs on their new album\, discuss the companion book and we’ll toast the coming of the light!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorking Class Heroes is a collection of American working-class\, pre–World War II folk songs revived by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore. Here the duo presents 20 songs written both by folk canon heavyweights and lesser known but equally gifted songwriters. Both beautiful and emotionally arresting\, the album is a collection of stories as much as songs—stories of the women and men who (sometimes literally) gave their lives to emancipate the working class.\n\n \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. Recent projects include the re-publication of Songs of Freedom by Irish revolutionary\, James Connolly\, the recording and publication of Working Class Heroes and the launch of Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. He is the author of five books including\, in 2017\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams.\nYvonne Moore is a singer and band leader originally from Schaffhausen\, Switzerland. In addition to recording numerous albums of her own music\, Moore is co-founder and treasurer of the Association “Art in History and Politics.” The purpose of the Association is to discover\, publish and popularize music\, graphic art and texts created by participants in conflicts such as the struggle to abolish slavery. Her exploration of the songs of Sarah Ogan Gunning led to the making of Working Class Heroes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-release-party-and-solstice-celebration-with-mat-callahan-and-yvonne-moore/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191220T063653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T063653Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Wiener with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSpecial Events \n\n\nAnna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker\, covering Silicon Valley\, startup culture\, and technology. Her first memoir\, Uncanny Valley\, is a humorous and penetrating reflection on the absurdities\, contradictions\, excesses\, and deficiencies that she observed and was complicit in while working in the tech industry. Her writing has appeared in n+1\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, The New Republic\, New York\, Harper’s\, and the Times Magazine. \nPhotography credit: Russell Perkins
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-wiener-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191220T065641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T065641Z
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SUMMARY:Zora Neale Hurston: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\n\nCo-presented by Litquake and MoAD\n\nIn 1925\, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York\, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period\, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life\, transforming her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later\, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. \nReleased just in time for Black History Month\, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick(Amistad Press) unveils an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration\, gender and class\, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume\, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories\, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting\, satiric humor\, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions. \nWith readings and discussion from UC Berkeley African American studies professor Chiyuma Elliott\, poet and CCA professor Tonya M. Foster\, and bestselling novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Moderated by writer and radio journalist Jenee Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow. $10 general\, $5 student/senior\, free for MoAD members \n*NOTE: This event will be recorded for Litquake’s Lit Cast podcast\n \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nJenee Darden\nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, public speaker\, mental health advocate and proud Oakland native. She hosts KALW’s arts segment Sights & Sounds and is their East Oakland reporter. Jenee has reported for NPR\, Time\, Ebony\, Los Angeles Times\, and other outlets. She blogs… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nChiyuma Elliott\n\n\n \nTonya Foster\nTonya M. Foster was raised in New Orleans. She is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature\, and of Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts. A poet and essayist\, she is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna\, 2015)\, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire… Read More →\n\n \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton\nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton\, born and raised in New Orleans\, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award\, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-neale-hurston-stories-from-the-harlem-renaissance/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191219T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191220T072234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T072234Z
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted by My Life\, My Stories! The theme is FAMILY. \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of older adults in our community. We match a volunteer with one older adult\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give older adults a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \nCheck back soon for bios of each of our speakers. All ticket sales go directly back to the organization. Purchase your ticket here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191220T050321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T050321Z
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SUMMARY:Radar Productions / Show Us Your Spines: November Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with RADAR Productions and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the SF Public Library! QTPOC writers who were participants of the Show Us Your Spines Writer’s Residency will be reading at Alley Cat Books to showcase the work they did during their time at the Hormel Center. \nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with Hormel Center LGBTQIA archives around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at a local venue.\nRADAR Productions is the longest running queer feminist spoken word literary production organization. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼\nDecember 20th 2019\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St\n6:00pm\nFREE \nFEATURING… \nAlexander Torres\nClem Breslin\nJianda Monique\nMuriel Leung \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼\nAlex Torres is a queer Chicanx man. A graduate of Stanford University\, he is currently pursuing his PhD in Latinx and Queer literature at UC Berkeley. Before that\, he taught at an underserved public university in Bogotá\, Colombia as a Fulbright Scholar and curated an exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center. A Ford Predoctoral Fellow\, a Beinecke Scholar\, and a Mellon Mays Fellow\, Alex is dedicated to serving POC communities in academia. \nClem Breslin is a trans masculine-identified poet. They studied poetry in their undergraduate days at Sarah Lawrence College. By day they work as a QA Engineer at Twitter and by night they roam the streets looking for their next Aperol Spritz. They live in Oakland and are a proud card carrying Sagittarius. \nJianda Monique: A conscious artist\, musician\, vocalist/guitarist and oft-published writer\, featured Om Lounge 10 recording artist Jianda Monique is a poet\, photographer\, filmmakers\, creative-spirituality coach and singer-songwriter with singles/albums that are both self-released and available on several international independent labels including: Om Records\, Merck\, Ghostly\, Kinkysweet\, Jam Recordings/Jam Music Australia and Gammaphone\, as well as her self-titled solo CD. A lover of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, she’s also been published in several literary publications\, and written myriad reviews and opinion pieces. \nMuriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review\, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. Currently\, she is a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She is from Queens\, NY.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-show-us-your-spines-november-resident-reading/
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:20191226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191226T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191217T052847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191217T052847Z
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SUMMARY:Martinis & Writers with Literary Speakeasy
DESCRIPTION:Come raise a glass at Literary Speakeasy and celebrate the closing of another year! We have five amazing artists for you this month\, including poet Natasha Dennerstein; authors Danny Thanh Nguyen\, Alvin Orloff\, and Olga Zilberbourg; and musical guest Dawn Oberg. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel. \nLiterary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. Arrive early and receive a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. \nDanny Thanh Nguyen’s short stories and personal essays have appeared in The Journal\, Foglifter\, South Dakota Review\, Entropy\, New Delta Review\, Gulf Coast\, and other magazines. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary Foundation\, Kundiman\, and Ragdale Foundation. Danny recently received an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for his collection of essays about parallel survivalism between Southeast Asian American refugee communities and queer leather communities in the post-AIDS epidemic era. He runs a social media persona project he calls “Sluterary Thirsterature” on Instagram: @engrishlessons. \nDawn Oberg is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is influenced by multiple genres\, including jazz and cabaret. In 2008\, she released her first solo album\, Horticulture Wars\, followed by Rye in 2013 and Bring in 2015. Mic’s Dan Weiss named Oberg’s song “Nothing Rhymes with Orange” one of the 16 best anti-Donald Trump songs of 2017. \nAlvin Orloff spent the 1980s working as a telemarketer and exotic dancer while concurrently attending U.C. Berkeley and performing with The Popstitutes\, a performance art/homocore band. In 1990 he and his bandmates founded Klubstitute\, a queer cabaret featuring spoken word\, theater\, drag\, and musical acts. In 1995 the club closed its doors and Orloff turned to writing. He published three novels before penning his recent memoir of life in the queer underground during the height of the AIDS crisis\, Disasterama! He lives in San Francisco. \nOlga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut\, LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES was published in September 2019 by WTAW Press. She grew up in St. Petersburg\, Russia and makes her home in San Francisco. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Lit Hub\, Electric Literature\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, World Literature Today\, Tin House’s The Open Bar\, and elsewhere. She serves as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martinis-writers-with-literary-speakeasy/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191227T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191227T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191227T171952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T171952Z
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SUMMARY:Zora Neale Hurston | Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by MoAD & Litquake \nIn 1925\, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York\, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period\, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life\, transforming her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later\, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Released just in time for Black History Month\, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (Amistad Press) unveils an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration\, gender and class\, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume\, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories\, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting\, satiric humor\, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions. \nWith readings and discussion from UC Berkeley African American studies professor Chiyuma Elliott\, poet and CCA professor Tonya M. Foster\, and bestselling novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Moderated by writer and radio journalist Jeneé Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-neale-hurston-stories-from-the-harlem-renaissance-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191228T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191210T025538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T025538Z
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SUMMARY:GhostTourSF's "Memories of Glen Park": Zine Release
DESCRIPTION:Ghost Tour: San Francisco is an ongoing art project charting collective memories of San Francisco neighborhoods. The third section focuses on Glen Park. The upcoming zine “Memories of Glen Park” is an illustrated collection of autobiographical stories of the neighborhood. This reading celebrates the release of the zine and the corresponding artwork. Selected authors: \nElina Ansary (project creator) \nGail Bensinger \nLiliana Silva \nJessamyn Ansary \nWith original music by Jesse Cobb. \nAfter party with charity art raffle at Glen Park Station Bar to follow. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ghosttoursfs-memories-of-glen-park-zine-release/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Elina Ansary":MAILTO:Elinamansary@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191219T071548Z
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SUMMARY:Vi Ruggiero + Lauren Napier
DESCRIPTION:Join Vic Ruggiero and Lauren Napier as they return to the Beat Museum for an evening of melodies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vi-ruggiero-lauren-napier/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191120T044400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T050032Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at the Balboa Theater
DESCRIPTION:January 6\, 2020\, 7pm at The Balboa Theatre\nCurated by Sophia Passin and Kathleen Torrez\, all selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 103\, featuring cover art by Golbanou Moghaddas! \n\n“Torn for Attachment” by Golbanou Moghaddas\, cover artist for sPARKLE & bLINK 103\n\nAfter the readings (and a hearty intermission: beer\, wine\, and snacks are available at the concession stand)\, we will screen our feature-length film Water Under the Bridge (directed by Katie Wheeler-Dubin and Mila Puccini\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets / RSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-balboa-theater/
LOCATION:Balboa Theater\, 3630 Balboa St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200107T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191124T192543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T192543Z
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SUMMARY:Aaron Cohen / Move On Up
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Cohen \ndiscusses the subject of his new book \nMove On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power \npublished by the University of Chicago Press \n  \nCurtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago’s place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans\, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up\, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together\, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America’s future through their sophisticated\, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable grooves like “We’re a Winner” and “I Plan to Stay a Believer.” Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation\, while Maurice White of Earth\, Wind\, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the campaign of Chicago’s first black mayor\, Harold Washington\, in 1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago’s homegrown record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and freedom\, Chicago’s black middle class faced limited economic opportunities and deep-seated segregation\, all against a backdrop of nationwide deindustrialization. \nDrawing on more than one hundred interviews and a music critic’s passion for the unmistakable Chicago soul sound\, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil. \nAaron Cohen is the author of Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace‘ (Bloomsbury). He teaches humanities\, journalism and English composition at City Colleges of Chicago and received a Public Scholar fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2016. Cohen’s articles have appeared in The Chicago Tribune\, DownBeat\, Washington Post and The Nation and he is the two-time recipient of the Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music writing from the American Society of Composers\, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-cohen-move-on-up/
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:20200108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191124T165635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T165635Z
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SUMMARY:EJ Koh: The Magical Language of Others
DESCRIPTION:E.J. Koh discusses her new memoir The Magical Language of Others. \nPraise for The Magical Language of Others \n“The Magical Language of Others is an exquisite\, challenging\, and stunning memoir. E. J. Koh intricately melds her personal story with a broader view of Korean history. Through these pages\, you are asked to experience one family’s heartbreak\, trauma\, and complex love for each other. This memoir will pierce you.”–Crystal Hana Kim\, If You Leave Me \n“A coming-of-age story\, a family story\, and a meditation on language and translation\, with an emotional range to match.”–Caitlin Horrocks\, The Vexations \nAbout The Magical Language of Others \nAfter living in America for over a decade\, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work\, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family’s new California home. Overnight\, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love–letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. \nThe letters lay bare the impact of her mother’s departure\, as Eun Ji gets to know the woman who raised her and left her behind. Eun Ji is a student\, a traveler\, a dancer\, a poet\, and a daughter coming to terms not only with her parents’ prolonged absence\, but her family’s history: her grandmother’s Jun’s years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon\, the horrors her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre. Where\, Koh asks\, do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words–in Korean\, Japanese\, English\, or any language–to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love? \nThe Magical Language of Others is a fearless and poetic mind grappling with forgiveness\, reconciliation\, legacy\, and intergenerational trauma–conjuring an epic saga and love story between mothers and daughters spanning four generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ej-koh-the-magical-language-of-others/
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:20200108T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191231T202846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191231T202846Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bread &amp%3B Butter Theatre":MAILTO:info@breadandbuttertheatre.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191125T192449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191125T192449Z
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SUMMARY:Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s
DESCRIPTION:Editor David L. Ulin in conversation with Oscar Villalon\, Managing Editor\, ZYZZYVA\nCosponsored by Alta Magazine \nCool\, dispassionate\, and incisive\, Joan Didion’s voice is electric on the page. Using autobiographical elements to stunning literary effect\, she has captured the anarchic convulsions and anxious contradictions of the waning American century and the coming new millennium with incomparable clarity and force. Now\, Library of America inaugurates a definitive three-volume edition of Didion’s collected writings with the landmark works of the 1960s and 1970s\, books that established her as one of the most original and influential literary figures of our time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-didion-the-1960s-70s/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T064726
CREATED:20191125T192253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191125T192253Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night!
DESCRIPTION:It’s open mic night at Simple Pleasures! Join us for an evening of music and story-telling at our favorite neighborhood cafe. Sign up is at 7pm\, and each performer gets about 10 minutes to speak\, sing\, or strum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Simple Pleasures Cafe\, 3434 Balboa St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Simple Pleasures Cafe":MAILTO:r.ahmed@simplepleasurescafe.net
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