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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die Presents: GRIEF & HEALING w/Writing & Music
DESCRIPTION:a YG2D Workshop \nThis 4-session communal workshop offers a chance to creatively express ourselves & engage with our own [& collective] grief & healing through writing & music. It’s a chance to connect to community\, remember we’re not alone\, and tap into our innate wisdom to creatively face our unique experiences of being mortal. \nFOUR SESSIONS! \nWHEN: Wednesdays\, April 7th-April 28th\nTIME: 7-8:45p\nLOCATION: ZOOM\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $80-250 \nWe offer the workshop on a sliding scale\, but ask about further financial support if you need it to attend!\n***Two (2) full scholarships are available for BIPOC*** \nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \nFOR MORE DETAILS EMAIL: ned@yg2d.com\nEVENT ON FACEBOOK
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host the launch event for Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (Flatiron Books)\, a sweeping\, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice\, a mother motivated by her own past\, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Gabriela will read from and discuss her work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nFrom 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers\, from Cuba to Mexico\, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political\, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of a collection of extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers\, the legacy of the memories they carry\, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them\, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled\, honest\, human roots. \nIn present-day Miami\, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen\, a Cuban immigrant\, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen\, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement\, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding\, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. \nGabriela Garcia is author of the novel Of Women and Salt (March 30\, 2021). Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Tin House\, Zyzzyva\, Iowa Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Black Warrior Review\, and elsewhere. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award\, a Steinbeck Fellowship\, and residencies and fellowships from Breadloaf\, Sarabande Books\, Lighthouse Works\, the Keller Estate\, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She has an MFA in fiction from Purdue University\, where she also taught creative writing. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico\, Gabriela was raised in Miami and currently lives in the Bay Area. In her past life she worked in music\, magazines\, technology\, and feminist and immigrant rights organizing. Follow her at www.gabrielagarciawriter.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriela-garcia-of-women-and-salt/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck's Poetry Night\, One City One Book Edition
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER \nNatasha Dennerstein\, Molly Fisk\, Kelly Grace Thomas\, Kelliane Parker and Ramona “Mona” Webb lead a One City One Book inspired reading. \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Dennerstein 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. \nMolly Fisk edited California Fire & Water\, A Climate Crisis Anthology\, with a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. She’s the author of The More Difficult Beauty\, Listening to Winter\, and Houston\, We Have a Possum among other books and has won grants from the NEA\, the California Arts Council and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Fisk lives in the Sierra foothills\, where she teaches writing to cancer patients\, provides weekly commentary to community radio and works as a radical life coach. Connect –  Website | Patreon | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nKelly Grace Thomas is the winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle\, a 2018 finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award\, a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Next nominee. Boat Burned\, her first full-length collection\, was released by YesYes Books in January 2020. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Best New Poets 2019\, the Los Angeles Review\, Tinderbox\, Nashville Review\, Sixth Finch\, Muzzle\, DIAGRAM and more. They have received fellowships from Tin House\, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, Kenyon Review Young Writers’ and more. Connect – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nKelliane Parker is a Bay Area poet and co-host of My Word Open Mic. Parker has performed in the Bay Area\, and her work has been featured in local anthologies. Her work gives voice to survivors of sexual abuse and other violent trauma to heal and break the cycle. \nRamona “Mona” Webb is a scholar\, practitioner\, teaching performance artist and Afro-Creek queer activist. Mona formerly served as Artistic Director of Project ABLE and Lyrical Minded415\, which is an Art Based Learning for Equity seasonal course implemented in SFUSD’s Title I Neglected school sites. For 10 years Mona served as poetry Slammaster of San Francisco. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne City One Book\n\n\nEvents and workshops curated around SFPL’s One City One Book selection. One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is a citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time. For more information\, see sfpl.org/onecityonebook.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shucks-poetry-night-one-city-one-book-edition/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Daniel B. Summerhill
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic Night\, April 8 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail Address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nFOLLOW THE ZOOM LINK TO RECEIVE A LOGIN TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc–sqjMvGtGhX_EMTqCBCfQsJKvF_gJG \nOnce you register via Zoom\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Daniel B. Summerhill \nDaniel B. Summerhill is Assistant Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition Studies at California State University Monterey Bay. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Obsidian\, Button Poetry\, Rust and Moth\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, The Hellebore\, The Lilly Review and others. He has performed in over 30 states\, The UK and was invited by the U.S Embassy to guest lecture and perform in Durban\, South Africa. He holds an MFA from Solstice of Pine Manor College. 
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LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell and Friends\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: film still from 100 Boyfriends Mixtape (2016)\, 14 min. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-brontez-purnell-and-friends-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Pitch-o-Rama\, literary agent pitch festival
DESCRIPTION:As you likely know\, we have been holding the Pitch-o-Rama literary pitch festival annually for more than 20 years. In 2020\, we changed to a digital format. \nOn April 10\, 2021\, we will hold our second-ever virtual Pitch-O-Rama. We have learned a lot from last year to make it even better for you and are greatly expanding our great group of fiction editors\, agents\, and publishers. You gave excellent feedback last year\, we listened and are excited to have fab new folks to hear your marvelous book ideas. The feedback we received for last year’s Pitch-o-rama was fantastic\, most said they preferred pitching virtually for many reasons. \nJoin us for Virtual Pitch-O-Rama 2021! Click here to see a full list of agents and publishers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pitch-o-rama-literary-agent-pitch-festival/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alonzo King in conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Alonzo King in conversation with Steven Winn \nWednesday\, April 14\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \n \n\n\nHailed as a visionary choreographer\, Alonzo King is altering the way we look at ballet. King calls his works “thought structures” created by the manipulation of energies that exist in matter through laws\, which govern the shapes and movement directions of everything that exists. He has guided Alonzo King LINES Ballet with his unique artistic vision since 1982. A former commissioner for the city and county of San Francisco\, and a writer and lecturer on the art of dance; his contributions appear in the books Masters of Movement: Portraits of American Choreographers and in Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alonzo-king-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T180000
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SUMMARY:High Dawn 8: Choi / Morgan / Foster / Suzuki
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-april.eventbrite.com \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBased in Berkeley\, CA\, 최 Lindsay is a poet and translator working between English\, Korean\, and Swedish. They are the author of Transverse (Futurepoem\, 2020)\, and a chapbook\, Matrices (speCt! books\, 2017). They are a Kundiman fellow and a Ph.D. student in English literature at UC Berkeley. More of their work can be found in Omniverse\, Amerarcana\, and Aster(ix) Journal\, and elsewhere. \nRecent projects include a creative manuscript in and out of translation on the colonial history of leprosy in Korea. Their editorial work includes a print journal of translations and experiments in collaboration between Swedish and American poets\, released in Sweden\, Denmark\, and the U.S\, edited collaboratively by Berkeley Poetry Review and Ordkonst. They are a founding co-editor\, with Noah Ross\, of the chapbook press MO(O)ON/IO. Their work has been translated to French\, and will appear in the forthcoming issue of NIOQUES\, 22/23: Nouvelle Poésie Des États-Unis (New U.S. Poetry)\, edited by DoubleChange Collective\, and translated by Abigail Lang. Visit them at lindsaychoi.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a writer and artist\, Saretta Morgan’s current work uses text\, etching\, sculpture\, and video to engage relationships between ecology\, Black diaspora and migration in the United States Southwest. She is based between Phoenix and Mohave Valley\, Arizona where she teaches creative writing at Arizona State University and is an active member of the grassroots humanitarian aid organization\, No More Deaths Phoenix\, which supports the safe passage of migrants in the U.S. Mexico borderlands. \nSaretta is author of the chapbooks\, Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018) and room for a counter interior (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs\, 2017). She has received support from the Jerome Foundation\, Arizona Commission on the Arts\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics\, Virginia Piper Foundation\, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, among others. Recent work can be found at Triple Canopy\, The Colorado Review\, and Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Ted Roeder \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoet\, essayist\, and educator Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; the chapbook A History of the Bitch (forthcoming\, Sputnik and Fizzle\, 2020); and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her next poetry collection\, Thingification is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2021. Monkey Talk\, a multi-genre series about race\, paranoia\, aesthetics and surveillance is in development with support from a 2020 Creative Capital Foundation grant. She has been an artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora\, at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and at Macdowell. A 2020-2021 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University\, Dr. Foster holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She was raised in New Orleans\, and her family goes generations back in Louisiana. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nkaori suzuki is a tokyo-born music maker/composer currently living in oakland\, ca. seeking modes of heightened listening-and-being in her spiraling sound visions\, she uses high-droning modified acoustic instruments\, electroacoustic sound technologies\, intensely high register electronics\, tape\, and other elements necessary to spin her often loud\, auditory transmissions. \nher projects include solo compositions and durational music for vhf-combination tones; collaborative immersive light-sound happenings; drumming in the oakland-based minimalist psych-punk group\, night collectors; and playing amplified cello and guitar in the ecstatic music band. \nsuzuki has performed widely in numerous venues across the u.s\, japan\, europe\, mexico\, and canada\, and has published her recordings on independent labels in germany and the u.s. she currently teaches in the music department at the center for contemporary music at mills college.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-8-choi-morgan-foster-suzuki/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Frank Mortimer and Bob Tanem
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, April 16 at 6pm PT when Frank Mortimer discusses his new book\, Bee People and the Bugs They Love\, with KSFO’s Bob Tanem\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795539844\n\nPraise for Bee People and the Bugs They Love\n“It is an achievement to convey so much knowledge so accessibly without once seeming overbearing. The main reason it all works is the honest descriptions of friendships that spring up around a shared\, all-absorbing interest in bees. The book is written in a stylistically assured voice and with a structure that makes it easy to follow. And Mortimer intersperses useful facts about his passion in a successful and funny book that is sure to swell the ranks of the world’s beekeepers.”\n—The New York Times\n\n“Frank Mortimer’s BEE PEOPLE AND THE BUGS THEY LOVE is the bee’s knees and getting a ton of buzz. Bee smart\, people\, and read this un-BEE-lievably interesting look at the quirky world of beekeeping.”\n—Harlan Coben\, #1 New York Times bestselling author\n\n“If the world of beekeepers has a top ambassador\, it’s Frank (The Beeman) Mortimer. Bee People and the Bugs They Love is a delightful portrayal for non-beekeepers of what life is like for those of us who are always thinking about bees.\n—Tom Seeley\, author of The Lives of Bees\n\n”Bee People takes a long look at your first beekeeper’s meeting\, that first bee sting\, capturing your first swarm and tasting your first honey…My advice\, read Mortimer’s book first\, before you become a beekeeper. If you do\, you will become a beekeeper. He gets it right. And Bee Nerd Alert: You will meet some of the best people in the world – beekeepers.“\n—Kim Flottum\, author\, The Backyard Beekeeper\, and editor-in-chief of Bee Culture Magazine\n\nAbout Bee People and the Bugs They Love\nA fascinating foray into the obsessions\, friendships\, scientific curiosity\, misfortunes and rewards of suburban beekeeping—through the eyes of a Master Beekeeper…\n\nWho wants to keep bees? And why? For the answers\, Master Beekeeper Frank Mortimer invites readers on an eye-opening journey into the secret world of bees\, and the singular world of his fellow bee-keepers. There’s the Badger\, who introduces Frank to the world of bees; Rusty\, a one-eyed septuagenarian bee sting therapist certain that honey will be the currency of the future after the governments fail; Scooby the “dude” who gets a meditative high off the awesome vibes of his psychedelia-painted hives; and the Berserker\, a honeybee hitman who teaches Frank a rafter-raising lesson in staving off the harmful influences of an evil queen: “Squash her\, mash her\, kill\, kill\, kill!”\n\nFrank also crosses paths with those he calls the Surgeons (precise and protected)\, the Cowboys (improvisational and unguarded) and the Poseurs\, ex-corporate cogs\, YouTube-informed and ill-prepared for the stinging reality of their new lives. In connecting with this club of disparate but kindred spirits\, Frank discovers the centuries-old history of the trade; the practicality of maintaining it; what bees see\, think\, and feel (emotionless but sometimes a little defensive); how they talk to each other and socialize; and what can be done to combat their biggest threats\, both human (anti-apiarist extremists) and mite (the Varroa Destructor).\n\nWith a swarm of offbeat characters and fascinating facts (did that bee just waggle or festoon?)\, Frank the Bee Man delivers an informative\, funny\, and galvanizing book about the symbiotic relationship between flower and bee\, and bee and the beekeepers who are determined to protect the existence of one of the most beguiling and invaluable creatures on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-frank-mortimer-and-bob-tanem/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Environmental Justice\, Writers tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Elise Ficarra \nPresented in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition \nSupported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Academy of American Poets in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jonathon Keats and Alla Efimova
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, April 18 at 6pm PT when Jonathon Keats is joined by Alla Efimova to discuss the new monograph\, Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82380142783\n\nAbout Thought Experiments\nJonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions\, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions\, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change\, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities—from the absurd to the profound. Since the turn of the millennium\, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.” These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas\, offering provocations\, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities—systematically asking “what if?”—these projects probe the world in which we live\, exploring the potential for societal change.\n\nAbout Alla Efimova\nAlla Efimova\, Ph.D.\, is a contemporary art curator and museum specialist with a background in critical theory. She is the founder and principal of KunstWorks\, a consulting firm that addresses the growing need for legacy planning among artists of the post-war generation. As the former Director and Chief Curator of The Magnes at the University of California Berkeley\, one of the largest museum collections of Jewish art and history\, Efimova engaged cutting-edge scholars as guests curators and collaborators and commissioned important regional and international artists to create site-specific projects\, including two works by Jonathon Keats. She also co-published two of his artist books together with Modernism Inc.: Yod the Inhuman and Zayin the Profane. Efimova is an author of several books and catalogs and has taught at the University of California Berkeley\, Santa Cruz\, and Irvine as well as the San Francisco Art Institute.\n\nAbout Jonathon Keats\nAcclaimed as a “poet of ideas” by The New Yorker and a “multimedia philosopher-prophet” by The Atlantic\, Jonathon Keats is an artist\, writer and experimental philosopher based in the United States and Europe. His conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society\, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He has exhibited and lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide\, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano\, and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO. He is the award-winning author of four books of nonfiction on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design – most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future (Oxford University Press) – and three book-length works of fiction. A contributing editor to both Discover Magazine and Art & Antiques\, he also authors a weekly online art and design column for Forbes. He has been an artist-in residence at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics\, UC Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station\, and the LACMA Art + Technology Lab\, a Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Asheville\, an Imaginary Fellow at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination\, and a research fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment. He is currently a Polar Lab artist at the Anchorage Museum\, a visiting scholar at San Jose State University’s CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, a research associate at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill\, and an artist-in-residence at both the SETI Institute and UC San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center. He serves as co-director and principal philosopher for Earth Law Center’s Interspecies Technology Transfer Consortium and as founding director and curator of the Museum of Future History. He is represented by Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonathon-keats-and-alla-efimova/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jakob Guanzon and Lysley Tenorio
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 21 at 6pm PT when Jakob Guanzon discusses his debut novel\, Abundance\, with Lysley Tenorio on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84964860993\n\nPraise for Abundance\n“Jakob Guanzon’s excellent debut novel\, Abundance\, is the story of a father and son scraping by in a country that relegates its most vulnerable to day-to-day survival. Despite that struggle\, Guanzon infuses his characters with spirit and fight\, and renders them in prose that is sharp\, blunt\, and lyrical\, all at once. To read Abundance is to understand America in ways both shockingly new and startlingly familiar. Contemporary American fiction is lucky to add this book to its shelves.”—Lysley Tenorio\, author of The Son of Good Fortune\n\n“From the table of contents\, Guanzon had me hooked. This haunting and fiercely passionate story takes America’s capitalist heart to task. Here is an unforgettable accounting of family\, fever\, and the fortunes of our strip mall society.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark\n\n“A quest\, a page-turner\, and above all a love story\, Abundance lays bare one father’s brutal\, tender hustle to care for his son in a winner-take-all world. Henry’s meticulously plotted journey\, unfolding in heart-stopping prose\, marks Jakob Guanzon as a debut author with compassion and talent to burn.”—Mia Alvar\, author of In the Country\n\nAbout Abundance\nA wrenching debut about the causes and effects of poverty\, as seen by a father and son living in a pickup\n\nEvicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve\, Henry and his son\, Junior\, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later\, things are even more desperate. Henry\, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids\, is down to his last pocketful of dollars\, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday\, and Henry has a job interview tomorrow.\n\nTo celebrate\, Henry treats Junior to dinner at McDonald’s\, followed by a night in a real bed at a discount motel. For a moment\, as Junior watches TV and Henry practices for his interview in the bathtub\, all seems well. But after Henry has a disastrous altercation in the parking lot and Junior succumbs to a fever\, father and son are sent into the night\, struggling to hold things together and make it through tomorrow.\n\nIn an ingenious structural approach\, Jakob Guanzon organizes Abundance by the amount of cash in Henry’s pocket. A new chapter starts with each debit and credit\, and the novel expands and contracts\, revealing the extent to which the quality of our attention is altered by the abundance—or lack thereof—that surrounds us. Set in an America of big-box stores and fast food\, this incandescent debut novel trawls the fluorescent aisles of Walmart and the booths of Red Lobster to reveal the inequities and anxieties around work\, debt\, addiction\, incarceration\, and health care in America today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jakob-guanzon-and-lysley-tenorio/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T193000
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SUMMARY:Unity and Struggle: A Collective Address with Tongo Eisen-Martin\, San Francisco's Poet Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Register Here \n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nPlease join Tongo Eisen-Martin\, San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate\, and family for an evening of poetry and exposition on the revolutionary potentials of art; as beautifully no incarnation of craft exists outside of the movements\, renaissances; the people who pass us through. FREE \nRegistration required. Event to be held on Zoom. \nFeaturing: \n\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nBiko Eisen-Martin\nMahogany Browne\nJive Poetic\nJoyce Lee\n\n  \nEisen-Martin is a poet and the founder of Black Freighter Press. His book Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, Pocket Poet series)\, received a 2018 American Book Award\, the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His previous book\, someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His forthcoming book\, A Good Earth: City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 62\, will be published in September 2021. \nEisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is a graduate of Columbia University. \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, Eisen-Martin spent time as a child hanging out at the Western Addition Cultural Center\, now the African American Art and Culture Complex\, where he later taught writing workshops. In his vision for Poet Laureate\, he aims to organize poetry circles in underserved neighborhoods throughout the City and recruit and nurture artists from San Francisco’s marginalized communities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unity-and-struggle-a-collective-address-with-tongo-eisen-martin-san-franciscos-poet-laureate/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T173000
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SUMMARY:Launch Event for American Geography in Honor of Barry Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Radius Books and The Green Arcade invite you to join Sandra S. Phillips\, Debra Gwartney\, Toby Jurovics\, and Beverly Dahlen to celebrate the launch of AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LAND USE FROM 1840 TO THE PRESENT\, including live readings of recent work from Robert Adams and Barry Lopez.\n\nBooks signed by Sandra Phillips can be ordered from The Green Arcade’s Online Shop: www.TheGreenArcade.com \n\nHere is the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q5YOD4eKT12vqHqyW534EA\n\nDrawing primarily from the vast permanent collection of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, American Geography charts a visual history of land use in the United States.\n\n\nFrom the earliest photographic records of human habitation to the latest aerial and digital imagery\, from nearly uninhabited desert and isolated mountainous territories to suburban sprawl and densely populated cities\, this compilation offers an increasingly nuanced perspective on the American landscape. \nDivided by region\, these photographs address ways in which different histories and traditions of land use have given rise to different cultural transitions: from the Midwestern prairies and agricultural traditions of the South\, to the riverine systems in the Northeast\, and the environmental challenges and riches of the far West. \nAmerican Geography provides a complex\, thought-provoking survey featuring work from Robert Adams\, Dawoud Bey\, Barbara Bosworth\, Debbie Fleming Caffery\, William Eggleston\, Mitch Epstein\, Terry Evans\, LaToya Ruby Frazier\, Emmet Gowin\, Lee Friedlander\, Dorothea Lange\, An-My Lê\, Trevor Paglen\, Wendy Red Star\, Mark Ruwedel\, Victoria Sambunaris\, Stephen Shore\, Alec Soth\, and Carleton E. Watkins\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-event-for-american-geography-in-honor-of-barry-lopez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T183000
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nNews alert\, nonfiction fans! Litquake has secured the participation of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning biographer T.J. Stiles for our Seismic Salon series. Called “a superb researcher” by the Washington Post\, Stiles received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, and the 2010 Pulitzer for Biography (as well as the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction) for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He is also author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War\, which was a New York Times notable book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. A Guggenheim fellow\, he has taught creative nonfiction at Columbia. He currently serves on the governing boards of the Authors Guild\, the Organization of American Historians\, and the Society of American Historians. And if politics are your thing\, T.J. loves to talk about that as well. \nBuy T.J. Stiles’ books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T200000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Jewelle Gomez
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, April 22 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail Address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nREGISTER IN ADVANCE VIA ZOOM TO RECEIVE A LINK TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtce2vrzwiEt0a_Tbt0aZXjd2UWKjmTNNB \nOnce you register\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Jewelle Gomez \nJewelle Gomez\, (Cape Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway) is a novelist\, essayist\, poet\, educator\, and public speaker. She’s the author of eight books including the first Black Lesbian vampire novel\, THE GILDA STORIES\, which has been in print more than 25 years and was recently optioned by Cheryl Dunye for a TV mini-series. Her work has appeared numerous anthologies including “Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora\,” and “Red Indian Road West.” Her plays about James Baldwin and Alberta Hunter have been produced in San Francisco and New York City. Follow @VampyreVamp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-featuring-jewelle-gomez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T203000
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Connection and Community
DESCRIPTION:The American Dream as it has been defined for more than a century is about the well-paying job\, the nuclear family\, and upward mobility. But what both clouds and defines that dream is the distance between us\, our neighbors\, and that we\, our communities\, are defined by the dichotomy of winners and losers. What has been lost in many people’s day to day and in the larger American Dream is the key element that helped many of us to succeed in the first place-community. \nJoin author and activist Mia Birdsong and CIIS Director of Diversity and Inclusion Rachel Bryant for a conversation on reclaiming family\, friendship\, and communities. Sharing insights from her book\, How We Show Up\, Mia shows that what separates us isn’t only the ever-present injustices built around race\, class\, gender\, values\, and beliefs\, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. Mia highlights how we can return to our inherent connectedness to find strength\, safety\, and support in vulnerability and generosity\, in asking for help\, and in being accountable. \nDiscover how showing up-literally and figuratively-points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we want. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/birdsong-mia-april-22-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reclaiming-connection-and-community/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T180000
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SUMMARY:Alley Cat Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day: Poetry reading with Kim Shuck and 5 Poets!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday April 24th starting at 5pm.\nWe will be wrapping up our celebration of Independent Bookstore Day with some of our favorite poets!\nZoom:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86715102063\nPassword: Password will be messaged to those who respond as “Going.”\nThe bookstore will also be open for the celebration. Please keep in mind the current capacity is 12 people and a mask is required.\nWe are honored to host:\nKim Shuck\nhttps://kimshuck.com\nPaul Corman-Roberts https://www.nomadicpress.org/paulcormanroberts\nKitty Costello http://www.freedomvoices.org/new/kitty-costello-upon-waking\nLourdes Figueroa\nhttps://www.lourdesfigueroa.net\nMason J.\nhttps://www.nomadicpress.org/store/crossbonesonmylife\nGreg Pond\nhttps://nomadicground.tumblr.com/…/i-fell-by-greg-pond
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alley-cat-celebrates-independent-bookstore-day-poetry-reading-with-kim-shuck-and-5-poets/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T190000
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SUMMARY:At The Door: Chapter Three
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly reading series\, uplifting only Black & Brown voices. If you didn’t attend last month’s event… you missed out. Here’s your chance to make it up.\nFeatured Readers:\nEmily Hoang\nRebeca Flores\nRandy James\nSumeera J.\nTureeda Mikell\n\nWe look forward to seeing you in community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-chapter-three/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T131500
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CREATED:20210415T051439Z
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SUMMARY:Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros Virtual Celebration
DESCRIPTION:It’s a celebration of literacy\, books and nature! We invite you and your family to enjoy stories\, songs\, crafts and learn about special places to visit in the City. We are bringing the festival to your home\, we hope you can join us. \nEs una celebracion de la lectura\, libros y la naturaleza. Los invitamos con su familia para que disfruten cuentos\, canciones\, manualidades y aprenden acerca de lugares especiales dentro de la cuidad. Traemos el festival a sus hogares\, esperamos que pueden acompanarnos. \nTune in on Facebook and on YouTube. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/04/25/dia-de-los-ninosdia-de-los-libros-virtual-celebration sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-de-los-ninos-dia-de-los-libros-virtual-celebration/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
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SUMMARY:Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo in conversation with Carribean Fragoza
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.   \n\ncelebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines\, published by City Lights Books. Sesshu & Arturo will be in conversation with their fellow City Lights author Carribean Fragoza! \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\nBooks related to this event: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nELADATL \nA History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines\nSesshu Foster\, Arturo Ernesto Romo\ndue out in April 2021\nAvailable for pre-order. A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel\, as told by its death-defying\, aero-acrobatic heroes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sesshu-foster-arturo-ernesto-romo-in-conversation-with-carribean-fragoza/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T194410
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: The Rise and Fall of Angkor
DESCRIPTION:Explore the quintessential “lost city” of Angkor Wat with us during this very special interactive seminar led by Charles Higham\, archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand.\nHow did the mighty civilization of Angkor in Cambodia come to be\, and why did it collapse? This seminar will explore the impact of climate change on the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire. \nThere are two fundamentals to life in Southeast Asia: the arrival of monsoon rains and the importance of securing a predictable rice harvest. New research has shown that a period of weakened monsoon led to an agricultural crisis in the late prehistoric period (about 200AD). Motivated by decreased rice yields\, this ingenious ancient society developed systems of reservoirs and irrigation to counter the lower rainfall. However\, the unintended consequence of these technological advancements was a steep rise in social inequality and the rise to power of the God-Kings of the Kingdom of Angkor. During their peak\, they built the epic complex known as Angkor Wat\, unrivaled in its scale and grandeur. But\, after six centuries of prosperity\, a second climatic change brought catastrophe and the system collapsed. \nCharles Higham is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand. He is an archaeologist with a particular interest in the origins of Southeast Asian civilizations. His excavations in Thailand and Cambodia have greatly increased our understanding of how the great Kingdom of Angkor began\, how God-Kings were revered\, and with a climatic deterioration\, how it came to an end. \nTuesday\, April 27\, 6pm\nCAMBODIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF ANGKOR WITH CHARLES HIGHAM \nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-the-rise-and-fall-of-angkor/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82328254294\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82328254294#  or +12532158782\,\,82328254294#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSz0Pf0cW \nAbout We Are the Land \n“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews \nRewriting the history of California as Indigenous. \nBefore there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAbout the Authors \nWilliam J. Bauer\, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. \nDamon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College\, in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-damon-b-akins-and-william-j-bauer-jr-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers \nTo close out National Poetry Month\, Litquake is thrilled to welcome former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to our Seismic Salon\, where he will discuss poetry\, his work\, and career. Herrera also served as California State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014. His many published collections include the recent Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems\, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse\, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate\, Calling The Doves\, Jabberwalking\, and Upside Down Boy\, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. \nBuy Juan Felipe Herrera’s books at City Lights. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits\nThursday\, April 29\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nRachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Freighter Press\, a celebration: with Mahogany L. Browne\, Christopher Malec\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and readings from the final book by the late Q.R. Hand Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Tonya M. Foster \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages: Mahogany L. Browne and Q.R. Hand Jr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-freighter-press-a-celebration-with-mahogany-l-browne-christopher-malec-josiah-luis-alderete-tongo-eisen-martin-and-readings-from-the-final-book-by-the-late-q-r-hand-jr/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T140000
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SUMMARY:Astra Taylor with Robert Reich
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, May 2\, 2021\n1:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021\, 05/04/2021\, 05/05/2021\nDONATE \n \n\n\nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include What is Democracy? (2018)\, Zizek! (2005)\, and An Examined Life (2008). Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her new book\, Remake the World: Essays\, Reflections\, Rebellions\, tackles the rising popularity of socialism\, the problem of automation\, the politics of listening\, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world\, the future of the university\, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe\, and more. Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day\, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens. \nRobert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, he has written fifteen books\, including The System\, Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Saving Capitalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/astra-taylor-with-robert-reich/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210502T190000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon - May 2021
DESCRIPTION:Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton). Her memoir-in-essays\, Bukowski in a Sundress\, was published by Penguin. She has received NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships\, Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay\, and her poetry has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. She lives in Oakland\, CA. https://www.kimaddonizio.com\nChanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields (LSU Press). Her recent poems appear in Gettysburg Review\, Poetry\, and the Southern Review. She has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the MacDowell Colony\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, among others\, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Chanda is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.\nNeha Chaudhary-Kamdar is a former Stegner Fellow in Fiction and has an MFA from Boston University\, where she received the William A. Holodnak Prize for her work. She was born and raised in Hyderabad\, India\, and often writes about the lives of Indian women. Her work has been published in Salamander Magazine and in the Anthology of New Indian Writers. She lives in Oakland\, CA\, and is working on her first novel.\nJim Whiteside is the author of a chapbook\, Writing Your Name on the Glass (Bull City Press\, 2019) and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His recent poems have appeared in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review\, Pleiades\, and Boston Review. Originally from Cookeville\, Tennessee\, he holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Oakland\, California.\n——-\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021\nTime: May 2\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://usfca.zoom.us/j/85144902927…\nMeeting ID: 851 4490 2927\nPasscode: 088938
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-may-2021/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing\, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: \nSIDE A \nRohan DaCosta \nNaomi Rosenthal \nCarol Dorf \nSiamak Vossoughi \nLauren Ito \nMichael Warr \nDawn Angelicca Barcelona \nEmily Dezurick-Badran \nSIDE B \nCarol Dorf \nSally Love Saunders \nSiok-Hian Tay-Kelley \nCharles Kruger \nAlexander Laurence \nNick Plett \nGenie Cartier \nSara Biel \nPaolo Bicchieri \nSara Biel \nCarolyn Wilsey \nAndrew Paul Nelson \nChun Yu \nLauren Parker \nMary Gayle Thomas \nLeah Mueller \nAll selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 110\, featuring cover art by Stuart Robertson! \nPlease note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content)\, but RSVP is required. \nIf you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are two easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation of any amount: \nPaypal or Venmo \nOr consider supporting us on Patreon! \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nIf you’d like to purchase the book you can do that here for $10 + shipping\, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue. \nA note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book\, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds\, donations or not\, go toward local artists and independent businesses. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nKevin Dublin is a writer of poetry\, prose\, scripts\, and code originally from the small town of Smithfield\, NC. His words have recently appeared in The Racket\, Cincinnati Review\, North Carolina Literary Review\, Sparkle + Blink\, and he is author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego (Finishing Line Press\, 2017). Kevin holds an MFA from San Diego State\, leads workshops all over the bay area\, including Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, and enjoys making video adaptations of poetry and developing web apps for writers. \nAntony Fangary is a Coptic-American Poet\, Educator\, and Artist living in San Francisco. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Oakland Review\, New American Writing\, Interim\, Welter\, and elsewhere. His chapbook\, HARAM\, was published by Etched Press in 2019. Antony was Honorable Mention of the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize\, Finalist for the 2019 Wabash Prize\, Runner-up for the 2020 Test Site Poetry Series\, and holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. \nCan’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text\, like all of our previous readings! Find them\, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more\, @ Litseen. \nNot on our mailing list yet? Sign up for email updates of upcoming Quiet Lightning events and calls for submissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-literary-mixtape-curated-by-kevin-dublin-antony-fangary/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Arisa White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Arisa White’s new poetry collection\, WHO’S YOUR DADDY\, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3. MK and Vickie read from their newest collections\, DEAR ANIMAL\, and PALM FROND WITH ITS THROAT CUT\, respectively.\nJoin us from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time on Zoom. Get the link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-arisa-white-friends/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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