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SUMMARY:KSW Presents Meng Jin and Mimi Lok
DESCRIPTION:Kearny Street Workshop celebrates the latest book releases from Meng Jin and Mimi Lok!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOn Friday\, February 7th\, KSW Presents Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods (HarperCollins\, 2020)\, and Mimi Lok\, author of Last of Her Name (Kaya Press\, 2019). This reading is a celebration of their books\, powerful stories about Asian women that bend time and place in their journeys to seek answers and connection in the aftermath of grief\, displacement\, and diaspora. \n+++ \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information. Apply here: https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/157639/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok \nWHEN: Friday\, February 7th\, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. \nWHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. \nHOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale\, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. \n*There is limited seating at the venue\, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event\, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll work to accommodate you. \nFEATURES \nMENG JIN was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco with her partner Neel and her puppy Tofu. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel. \nABOUT LITTLE GODS \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nMIMI LOK is the author of the story collection Last of Her Name. The title story was a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, and was 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 cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. \nABOUT LAST OF HER NAME \nMimi Lok’s Last 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 contemporary urban California\, the book features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. Last of Her Name offers a meditation on female desire and resilience\, family and the nature of memory. \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \nWe are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. We will only be able to accept up to five readers. \nEligibility: We welcome writers of all genres\, and strive to spotlight those of the Asian Pacific diaspora and people of color. We are especially interested in showcasing emerging writers who have had little stage time or few publications. \nAt this time\, KSW Presents cannot provide payment for writers who submit to be a part of this reading series\, but we are actively pursuing funding for this program. \nHow to Apply: Submit work that explores this upcoming event’s theme\, that can be read or performed within 3 minutes or less. Apply here (no fee): https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/157639/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok \nABOUT KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nSOCIAL MEDIA \nSocial media posts featuring images have a higher chance of being seen! \nPlease share any social media posts with our official event flyer. \nHandles to tag: \nTwitter: @kearnystreet \nInstagram: @kearnystreetworkshop
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LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax\, Jay Deshpande\, and Kai Carlson-Wee at City Lights Books!
DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review\, AGNI\, Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and Civitella Ranieri and is a winner of the Scotti Merrill Award. He is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. (ISBN 9781936919338) \nKai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL\, published by BOA Editions in 2018. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, Riding the Highline\, has screened at film festivals across the country. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax-jay-deshpande-and-kai-carlson-wee-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series Feb
DESCRIPTION:About Last Night – Join us for an evening of laughter\, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls will once again climb on our stage to share true tales of their most intimate and embarrassing one night stands. \nAbout Last Night is a monthly San Francisco one night stand / poor life choice storytelling series. This event features real people sharing hilarious (way too personal) stories about horrifying one night stands\, awkward hookups\, and embarrassing sexual adventures. Come join us for a night of complete and utter hysteria\, and unlike most of your one night stands\, we can promise you that you won’t regret it! \nHave a story you’d like to tell? Visit our website: www.aboutlastnightstorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-last-night-a-one-night-stand-storytelling-series-feb/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, and Tony-nominated producer. His work has appeared internationally in Time magazine\, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. In 2014\, he received the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants\, he founded the non-profit media and culture organization Define American\, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. An elementary school named after him will open in his hometown of Mountain View\, California in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-in-conversation-with-jose-antonio-vargas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Manny’s monthly open mic! Everyone is welcomed. \nCome to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nFebruary 7th\, 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-3/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX\nSaturday February 8\, 2pm\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review\, Primary Treasure Magazine\, and Spectrum Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy M. Vasquez is an entrepreneur\, published author\, San Francisco Educator\, healer\, artist and unapologetically Black. Jeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, healer and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist\, he has performed at many community events as well as educational and correctional facilities. Serving as a keynote speaker at conferences\, colleges\, universities\, and public schools nationwide\, Jeremy continues to use his pain as a platform for change. With his poetry\, he has been called to free people through stories \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate and bring awareness to Latinos of African Descent through art\, performances\, workshops\, classes and historical archives in El Tecolote. Paseo Artistico honors The Mission District’s Ancestors of African Descent and the movements for racial justice both locally and throughout the Americas.   \nmore info at www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-poetry-with-afro-mexican-poet-jeremy-vasquez-afro-salvadorena-writer-olivia-pena/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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 Jenee Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-neale-hurston-stories-from-the-harlem-renaissance-3/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:P: Carl Becoming a Man
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir\, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg\, and co-founder of Howlround\, a free and open platform for theater-makers worldwide. When working with Claudia Rankine on her new play “The White Card\,” Carl was transitioning\, and this book came from that experience. “On March 16 of 2017 I become a man\, a white man\,” writes Carl\, just months after Trump’s election\, two months shy of Carl’s fifty-first birthday\, and just a few more months away from the eruption of the #MeToo movement. \nAgainst the backdrop of our pivotal political moment\, Carl’s personal journey interweaves with a broader mission: Carl delivers a cutting\, clear-eyed dissection of gender and identity in America. Carl has a unique vantage point—having moved through the world for decades as a woman before walking those same streets as a man. And he uses his first-hand experience to shine a light on the subtle double standards and injustices that run through the daily lives of millions in America. Even as Carl is finally able to celebrate his arrival in the world as the man he has always known himself to be\, he must reimagine masculinity and challenge it. “To construct that man\,” he writes\, “knowing what I know as a woman\, is my work now.” \nCarl delivers a singular\, heart-baring story—about what it’s like to transition at age fifty\, to become oneself after waiting a lifetime\, and how this transformation ripples through all the habits and relationships (including his roles as spouse and sibling) he has built over half a century. \nP. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation\, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018\, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington\, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes and teaches. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-one years\, the writer Lynette D’Amico\, and their dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/p-carl-becoming-a-man/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nFEB\n8\n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, Poetry\, Reading\nQueerbound Queer Open Mic\n\nSaturday\, February 8\, 2020\n6:00 PM 9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQueerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Charles Yu and Meng Jin!
DESCRIPTION:January’s Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu\, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism\, science fiction\, and poetry\, and tons more. We’re going to turn all your bodily fluids into bodily druids! \nWhen: Saturday\, Feb. 8\, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open 7 PM\nWho: Charles Yu\, Meng Jin\, Tracy Clark Flory\, Aaron Glantz\, Juliette Wade and Barbara Tomash\nHow much: $5 to $20 sliding scale\, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nWhere: The Make Out Room\, 3225 22nd. St.\, San Francisco\, CA \nAbout the readers/performers: \nCharles Yu is the author of three books\, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award\, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series\, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX\, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Wired. \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel is Little Gods. \nTracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan\, Elle\, Esquire\, Marie Claire\, Salon\, The Guardian\, Women’s Health\, and the yearly “Best Sex Writing” anthology. She has appeared on “20/20\,” MSNBC and NPR. \nAaron Glantz is the author of Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins\, Hedge Fund Magnates\, Crooked Banks\, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream. He’s a journalist at Reveal\, whose work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings\, numerous laws\, and criminal probes by the DEA\, FBI\, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. A two-time Peabody Award-winner\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, multiple Emmy nominee\, and winner of the Selden Ring and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award\, his work has appeared in New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, NBC Nightly News\, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour. His previous books include The War Come Home and How America Lost Iraq. He lives in San Francisco. \nJuliette Wade never outgrew of the habit of asking “why” about everything. This path led her to study foreign languages and to complete degrees in both anthropology and linguistics. Combining these with a fascination for worldbuilding and psychology\, she creates multifaceted science fiction that holds a mirror to our own society. The author of short fiction in magazines including Analog\, Clarkesworld\, and Fantasy & Science Fiction\, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Aussie husband and her two sons\, who support and inspire her. Her debut novel\, Mazes of Power\, will come out from DAW publishing on February 4\, 2020. \nBarbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently\, PRE- (Black Radish Books) and Arboreal (Apogee). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-featuring-charles-yu-and-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
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:20200210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T210000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century\nIn conversation with Janine Zacharia \n6:00 pm: Complimentary wine and cheese reception\n7:00 pm: Talk \nThe Levy family established itself in Salonica (now Thessaloniki\, Greece) in the 18th century and for two centuries published books and newspapers for the region’s Sephardic Jews. With the Ottoman Empire’s collapse\, the Levys scattered throughout the world but kept in touch through letters. Drawing on this rich correspondence\, Stein\, the award-winning author of Extraterritorial Dreams uses the family’s experience to trace the history of Sephardic Jews through the twentieth century\, showing how individual lives were affected by world wars\, shifting political boundaries and the Holocaust – which wiped out several branches of the Levy family. \nJanine Zacharia is the Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University\, and writes regularly about foreign affairs\, the intersection of technology and national security\, and media trends for the San Francisco Chronicle\, Slate and other news outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-abrevaya-stein/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000
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CREATED:20200131T185651Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Winter in San Francisco. Baby\, it’s cold outside–comparatively\, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday\, February 11\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in you-know-where. Dale Corvino is joining us from New York City! He’ll be joined by local glitterati Denise Conca\, Wayne Goodman\, Rob Rosen\, and Cass Sellars–each of them reading from new fiction. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and door prizes on the stroke of 7! http://bit.ly/2RjGosI \nMore about the authors:\nDale Corvino’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including online at the Rumpus and Salon. He received the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction\, was a finalist in the 2017 Saints + Sinners Short Fiction contest\, and won the 2018 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook contest. WORKER NAMES was published in 2019. Most recently\, he reflected on his visit to Santiago\, Chile during the massive popular uprising and the legacy of queer writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review. www.dalecorvino.com \nDenise Conca is an anti-capitalist artist\, writer\, and cashier living in San Francisco. Her short works have appeared in Sinister Wisdom’s “Dump Trump” issue and in RFD magazine. Her recently published book\, A RECURSIVE NATURE\, explores the sexual exploits of a middle-aged leather dyke living on the margins of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco and is available at San Francisco Public Library and independent bookstores. Conca is featured in the short documentary film Refuse and Refashion which she wrote\, co-produced\, and directed. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing or recording\, Goodman enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, gay\, and Black composers. ALL THE RIGHT PLACES is a collection of short stories\, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past\, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship. \nRob Rosen is the author of the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES\, and editor of the anthologies Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1\, 2\, Lust in Time 3 and 4. www.therobrosen.com \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional living in the East Bay. She has led investigations in criminal\, theft\, corporate and financial fraud. Formerly an editor of a small magazine and creative journalist\, she’s always been a writer at heart. She loves writing about powerful women\, their adventures\, and searches for justice. FINDING SKY is her fourth novel and the first standalone after the Lightning Series. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and England but spent much of her on the East Coast. In addition to writing she works in interior design and event planning and loves everything wine. www.casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-winter-2020-reading-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: February
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can\, NOTAFLOF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-february/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T210000
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CREATED:20191124T170056Z
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SUMMARY:Amina Cain: Indelicacy
DESCRIPTION:Amina Cain discusses her new novel\, Indelicacy\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Indelicacy \n“In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking inside the landscapes where she lives. She looks at a landscape then moves inside another\, and as we read it begins to seem that the landscapes in paintings and in fiction are eerily the same. In a deeply pleasing way\, reading this novel is a bit like standing in a painting\, a masterful study of light and dark\, inside and out\, freedom and desire. Amina Cain is one of my favorite writers. I loved reading this book.” —Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First \n“Acutely observed\, Indelicacy is an exquisite jewel box of a novel with the passion and vitality found only in such rare and necessary works as The Hour of the Star and The Days of Abandonment. Through this timeless examination of solitude\, art\, and friendship\, Amina Cain announces herself as one of the most intriguing writers of our time.” —Patty Yumi Cottrell\, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n“Amina Cain redefines strangeness and freedom in this beautiful and unusual novel that resembles fairy tales and ghost stories but feels intensely contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \nAbout Indelicacy \nA ghostly feminist fable\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. \nIn “a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch” (Blake Butler)\, a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing\, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man\, but having gained a husband\, a house\, high society\, and a maid\, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now\, however passively\, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? \nReminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature\, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys\, Octavia Butler\, Clarice Lispector\, and Jean Genet\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost\, a fable without a moral\, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing\, class\, desire\, anxiety\, pleasure\, friendship\, and the battle to find one’s true calling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amina-cain-indelicacy/
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:20200212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T173000
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SUMMARY:Arthur Kleinman
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History\, Anthropology\, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present \nArthur Kleinman \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThe Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor \nfrom Viking Books \nA moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today’s world. \nWhen Dr. Arthur Kleinman\, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist\, began caring for his wife\, Joan\, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease\, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor\, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan\, and he describes the practical\, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. \nCaregiving is long\, hard\, unglamorous work–at moments joyous\, more often tedious\, sometimes agonizing\, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system\, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves\, and of our doctors. To give care\, to be “present” for someone who needs us\, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences\, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life\, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human. \n\nArthur Kleinman\, MD\, is one of the most renowned and influential scholars and writers on psychiatry\, anthropology\, global health\, and cultural issues in medicine. Educated at Stanford University and Stanford Medical School\, he has taught at Harvard for over forty years. He is currently professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Having spent decades doing field research in China and Taiwan\, he is also a leading expert on East Asia\, and was the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard’s Asia Center from 2008 to 2016. He is also the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering\, Healing\, and the Human Condition\, now widely taught in medical schools. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arthur-kleinman/
LOCATION:UCSF Parnassus Campus\, 530 Parnassus Avenue\, 5th Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
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CREATED:20191220T072109Z
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Intergenerational Conversations: Dating & Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of conversations and stories! The theme will be around “relationships and dating through the years”. We are inviting younger and older folks to share their own experiences and thoughts. \nTopics will range from finding dates to choosing date spots to breaking up. Over the decades\, how do you or did you go about finding dates? Has it become easier to have so many choices through your phone? Date spots and activities always elicit strong reactions. Which ones did you enjoy most? Breakups have never been easy but has it become too impersonal in the era of texting? Was “ghosting” a thing back then? \nRegardless of all these technological and societal changes\, are we all continuing to approach relationships similarly to years past? \nWe will have a few older adults share their personal stories and we will split into small pairs of young people and older adults to discover and answer questions about relationships. \nFree liquid courage will be provided! Let’s have fun and get to know people of different ages in our community. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-intergenerational-conversations-dating-relationships-2/
LOCATION:Red Victorian\, 1665 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nDanielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T210000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked-2/
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:20200213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
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CREATED:20200126T202245Z
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SUMMARY:b\, Book\, and Me Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa\, b\, Book\, and Me\, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There will be readings from Two Lines editors\, drinks\, and snacks. Entry is free but please rsvp! \nMore about b\, Book\, and Me \nBest friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent\, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it’s painfully obvious they don’t. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in baseball hats\, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells the whole class about b’s dying sister and how her family is poor\, and each of them finds herself desperately alone. The only place they can reclaim themselves\, and perhaps each other\, is beyond the part of town where lunatics live—the End. \nIn a piercing\, heartbreaking\, and astonishingly honest voice\, Kim Sagwa’s b\, Book\, and Me walks the precipice between youth and adulthood\, reminding us how perilous the edge can be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor / Kim Sagwa\n\n\nKim Sagwa is one of South Korea’s most acclaimed emerging writers. She is the author of several novels\, story collections\, and works of nonfiction\, and has been shortlisted for several major South Korean awards\, including the Munji Prize and the Young Writers Award. Kim contributes columns to two major Seoul newspapers\, and she co-translated John Freeman’s book How to Read a Novelist into Korean.\n\n\n\n\n\nTranslator / Sunhee Jeong\n\n\nBased in Seoul\, Sunhee Jeong is a Korean-English translator and editor of literary and multimedia productions. She is also a scholar of visual studies\, intersectionality and critical theory.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/b-book-and-me-happy-hour/
LOCATION:DaDa Bar\, 65 Post St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200207T185207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T185207Z
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SUMMARY:Harlem of The West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
DESCRIPTION:In the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the West captures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, and reveals a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harlem-of-the-west-the-san-francisco-fillmore-jazz-era/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute Library\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200131T195451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T195451Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! (Copy) (Copy) at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVoz Sin Tinta\, our monthly bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! Hosted and curated by Rene Vaz and Marguerite Munoz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-bi-lingual-poetry-reading-and-open-mic-night-copy-copy-at-alley-cat-books/
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:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20191227T022259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T022259Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland/
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:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200126T014805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T014805Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Valentine's Show
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Valentine’s a day early with Red Light Lit. The show is a mashup of poetry\, storytelling\, and art set to a live score by Nick Jaina. Featuring the photography of Kim Huynh\, the music of Sarah Gagnon\, and dancers Kara Davis\, Tristan Ching Hartmann & Mackenzie Studebaker. Readers include: Peter Thomas Bullen\, Kar Johnson\, Lisa Martinovic\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\, and Thea Matthews. \nTickets are $15 at the door\, $20 day of show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-valentines-show/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200207T191218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T191218Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland-at-city-lights-books/
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:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T223000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200126T003445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T003445Z
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SUMMARY:So This Sucks: A Night of Heartbreak & Disappointment
DESCRIPTION:Heartbroken? Join us. Single? Join us. Not single? Well let’s be real\, you live in the Bay Area\, so chances are you will be VERY soon. It’s better to be safe than sorry. \nFrom the creators of About Last Night – San Francisco’s favorite one night stand storytelling series comes our annual Valentine’s day show: SO THIS SUCKS. Come hear true tales of heartbreak and disappointment from the choppy waters of our favorite subject: Love. You might laugh\, you might cry\, you might do a little bit of both. But as the old saying goes\, broken hearts are way stronger together and laughter truly is the best medicine! \nThe Black Box Theater At The Palace Of Fine Arts – 3601 Lyon Street \nDoors open at 7:00 pm\, show begins at 7:30 pm.\nStick around after for the post show Heartbreak cocktail hour from 9:30 – 10:30pm \n*21+ \nPRESALE: $10 & $15\nLAST MINUTE / AT DOOR: $20
URL:https://litseen.com/event/so-this-sucks-a-night-of-heartbreak-disappointment/
LOCATION:The Black Box Theater at The Palace of Fine Arts\, 3601 Lyon St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123-1019\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T223000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200126T020614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T020614Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:You’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 HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Feb13_SF\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 financial 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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSome words from Destiny Grace on her musical offering for the evening: “Music has always been a healer in my life. It’s held me when a body couldn’t; it’s given me the power to alchemize my grief into something beautiful and way less scary or intimidating. For me\, creating songs is like choosing specific emotions or memories and building them altars of remembrance that I can return to whenever I need to. Writing & playing music acts as a tool to articulate my sometimes painful emotions into something less abstract and more concrete; something not only I can find catharsis in\, but when shared\, can also build a bridge to others who have shared experiences.” \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/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-22/
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:20200214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200203T203920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T203920Z
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SUMMARY:CAFÉ SOCIETY PRESENTS ROBERT HASS
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass reads from his new collection\, Summer Snow\, in Point Richmond. \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \n  \nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco\, 2010)\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco\, 2008)\, Sun Under Wood (Ecco\, 1996)\, Human Wishes (1989)\, Praise (1979)\, and Field Guide(1973)\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-robert-hass/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cafe Society Presents":MAILTO:cafesociety.richmond@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20200131T195918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T190554Z
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SUMMARY:Love Songs for Dyslexic Hearts: A Night of Poetry at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Kim Shuck and the legendary bloodflower. Featuring Jack Hirschman\, Rusty Rebar\, Wrob Rosenberger\, Jack Mellender\, James Zealous\, and the legendary bloodflower! The second hour is an OPEN MIC so be sure to sign up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-songs-for-dyslexic-hearts-a-night-of-poetry-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T172708
CREATED:20191227T165517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T165517Z
UID:54635-1581710400-1581715800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Enter Generations
DESCRIPTION:ENTER GENERATIONS: A Night of Intergenerational QTPOC Brilliance\, curated by Shannon Prasad\, Greg Pond\, and Dazie Grego-Sykes with the support of Queer Rebels\, in their first ever queer inter-generational curatorial residency. Join us for a free night of performances featuring community elders\, Maria Medina\, Blackberri and Mali. Each of these legends will be collaborating with emerging or mid-career artists to create original performances creating conversations that have been lost throughout our generations. These performers include The Global Street Dance Masquerade\, Chibueze Crouch\, Gabriel Christian\, SNJV\, Mirza\, Benny Avalos\, and Ferny Miguel. Together with our evening’s host\, the talented Baruch Porras-Hernandez. \nAt this critical moment\, we feel the urgency in sharing the rich stories and experiences of our QTPoC community. It is vital that we take up space as a community. This multi-generational evening of performance is the beginning of a conversation and a reclaiming of our own Queer Histories. \n*Work in Progress Show will be held on Friday Jan 24th 2020 8:00 – 9:00pm at CounterPulse.* \n**This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL interpreter.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enter-generations/
LOCATION:Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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