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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Wednesday\, May 3rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Marissa Moss\, reading from and discussing her graphic memoir Last Things. \n  \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \n  \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \n  \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \n  \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience―of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light. \n  \nMarissa Moss has written more than seventy books\, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Best known for the Amelia’s Notebook series (over 5 million sold)\, her books are popular with teachers and children alike. Her picture book\, Barbed Wire Baseball\, won the California Book Award\, Gold medal. Marissa is also the founder of Creston Books\, an independent children’s publishing house.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NYMBC: The Love Panel at Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club is excited to present a star studded\, award-winning panel with Rachel Cohn\, author of Kill All Happies\, and Jennifer E. Smith\, author of Windfall. Rachel and Jennifer will be in conversation with Nina LaCour\, author of We Are Okay; Stacey Lee\, author of The Secret Heart of a Note; and Elizabeth Eulberg\, author of Just Another Girl! Join us at Opera Plaza for a night focusing on love\, in all its\, ridiculous\, tragic\, wonderful forms. \nThis event will be moderated by Christy\, YA blogger for Tales of the Ravenous Reader. Christy is the resident sci-fi reader and also enjoys contemporary\, thrillers/mystery\, romance\, paranormal\, and YA non-fiction. In addition to contributing to Ravenous Readers\, she blogs for talks about superheroes on Sunday for Forever Young Adult. You can find her at Bay Area author events and on Twitter\, Instagram\, and Goodreads as diamondxgirl. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nNot Your Mother’s Book Club\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nymbc-the-love-panel-at-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Winifred M. Reilly
DESCRIPTION:With writing appearing on Huffington Post\, The Good Men Project\, XOJane\, and on her blog\, Speaking of Marriage\, psychotherapist Winifred M. Reilly\, M.A.\, MFT celebrates the launch of her refreshing and witty book\, It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help from My Spouse and How You Can\, Too. \nIt Takes One to Tango is a groundbreaking guide that shows how one determined partner acting alone can spark lasting\, significant change in a marriage\, often accomplishing change that cannot be made any other way. It doesn t matter how short-fused\, argumentative\, or seemingly impossible your partner can be or how long you ve been stuck.\nMarriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly has this message for struggling partners: Take the lead. Doing so is effective and powerful. Through Reilly’s own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage\, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nFocus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage\nTake a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing\, cajoling\, or resorting to threats\nIdentify the big picture issues at the basis of your repetitive fights and learn how to unhook from them\nBe less reactive\, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations\nDevelop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change\n\nCombining psychological theory\, practical advice\, and personal narrative\, It Takes One to Tango is a fresh and engaging guide that will empower those who choose to take a bold\, proactive approach to creating a loving and lasting marriage. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winifred-m-reilly/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Paul Madonna back to the store for the release of his new book\, On to the Next Dream. Join us! \nPaul’s popular comic\, “All Over Coffee” had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-3/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie Volume 14 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of everyone’s favorite pie — Humble Pie\, that is! We’re throwing a party in honor of the launch of Volume 14! \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-volume-14-launch-party/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Cotton Reading of 'Pictures From Home'
DESCRIPTION:Join SFMOMA at 6 p.m. in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1 (by the Richard Serra Sculpture) for a reading by independent curator Charlotte Cotton from Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home to celebrate the republication of this acclaimed work. This is a pre-event reading. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlotte-cotton-reading-of-pictures-from-home/
LOCATION:SFMOMA\, 151 Third Street \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Allardice
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street\, Thursday May 4th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kevin Allardice\, reading from and discussing his book Family\, Genus\, Species. \n  \nAt a sprawling urban farm in the hills above Berkeley\, a woman’s attempt to give a birthday present to her four-year-old nephew erupts into an epic quest\, increasingly nightmarish and violent\, to survive our deepest cultural chasms. A wickedly funny satire of parenting and privilege\, sex and politics\, set in the shadow of civil unrest. \n  \n“Kevin Allardice harnesses his great powers of description and ingenious sense of narrative for this viciously funny satire\, Family Genus Species. Laurence Sterne would have been proud to call Mr. Allardice a descendent.” – Michael Kimball\, author of Big Ray\, Us and Dear Everybody. \n  \n“With poignant wit\, Kevin Allardice draws us into this backyard fairytale and social satire. Vee is a memorable protagonist\, quirky and brave and tender. Fast-paced and suspenseful\, FAMILY\, GENUS\, SPECIES is compelling and utterly original.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \n  \nKevin Allardice is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint\, 2014) . He was born in Oakland\, California\, and was a Henry Hoyns fellow in fiction at the University of Virginia\, where he received his MFA in 2010. His short stories\, winner of the of the Donald Barthelme Prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, have appeared in The Santa Monica Review\, The Florida Review\, Gulf Coast\, The North American Review\, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-allardice/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - May Edition
DESCRIPTION:May is approaching\, and Hazel Reading Series is blooming with its wonderful line-up of writers. Join us at The Mission Cultural Center for our May edition. \nFeaturing:\nGuest Reader: Natasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Snorkel\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review and Foglifter. Her collections Anatomize (2015) and Triptych Caliform (2016) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her recent chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \nJennifer Barone nominated by Ingrid Keir \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.comfor more. \nAlexandra Mattraw nominated by Sarah Rosenthal \nAlexandra Mattraw is a poet and educator whose Celtic maternal great grandparents settled in Oakland and its vicinity in the early 1900s. Her full length book\, small siren\, emerges from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society in 2018. Alexandra’s various collections have previously been named finalists at 1913 Press\, Colorado Review\, Nightboat Books\, and elsewhere. She is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm\, which is forthcoming in mid May from Dancing Girl Press. You can find her poems and criticism in places including 1913 Journal of Forms\, American Letters & Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, The Volta\, and VOLT. A Bay Area Correspondent School member and co-founder of Artists for Sustained & United Resistance (ASUR)\, Alexandra also curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its sixth year: http://loneglen.wordpress.com/. She hopes you will join her and several other poets at Octopus Salon on May 16th to celebrate “A Poetry of Ritual.” \nJenny irizary nominated by Lisa Gray \nJenny Irizary is currently working on a memoir about growing up along the Russian River. Her work has been published in Sick Lit\, Squalorly\, District Lit\, Communion\, Lavender Review\, and other journals. Her poem\, “If You Want Any More Proof She’s Not Puerto Rican\,” was the winner of Green Briar Review’s 2016 poetry contest. \nThe Poetician nominated by Thea Matthews\n(Bio to follow soon) \nStacy Carlson nominated by LJ Moore\n(Bio to follow soon) \nNo one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-may-edition/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Liana Steinmetz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/liana-steinmetz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
DESCRIPTION:Spring is the season for transformations\, so it’s about time Shipwreck made a lady of itself. Join us forPygmalion\, George Bernard Shaw’s musings on class\, gender\, and why the English language makes no goddamn sense. Maybe we can make some rain fall in the plains (if you know what we’re saying [we don’t]). \n  \nFeatured writers: Ivan Hernandez\, Jennie Kendrick\,Alan Leggitt\, Na’amen Tilahun\, April winner India Sabater\, and more TBA. \n  \n  \nSeating is limited and seats do sell out. Tickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason. Tickets on sale now. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-bernard-shaws-pygmalion/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi w/ Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Gyasi’s highly acclaimed debut novel\,  Homegoing\, begins with the story of two half-sisters\, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery\, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power\, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow\, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history\, each life indelibly drawn\, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day. Homegoing was named ‘Debut Novel of the Year’ by NPR and ‘2016 Notable Book’ by The New York Times. \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, a music critic\, Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University\, and the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-w-jeff-chang/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Drop Leaf Press: Taitano + Shanley
DESCRIPTION:We’re back! Drop Leaf Press returns with a reading at Alley CatBooks to celebrate the release of two poetry chapbooks: Lehua Taitano’s SONOMA and Maxwell Shanley’s forthcoming chapbook (TBA). Each book is hand-bound and includes cover art and lettering by illustrator and designer Mary Lundquist. They’ll be joined by two readers: Clarissa Mendiola and a special guest. Please gather with us for an evening of libations\, snacks\, and poetry. Books are $9; cash or card accepted. \nGet it early: Buy SONOMA at Alley Cat Books (SF)\, Diesel\, A Bookstore (Oakland)\, or purchase our titles from the Drop Leaf Press online store:http://dropleafpress.com/store \nNote: Maxwell Shanley’s chapbook (TBA) is headed to the printers. We’ll announce when it’s available in our shop/in stores. Pics to come! \nABOUT THE READERS: \nLEHUA M. TAITANO\, a native Chamoru from Yigo\, Guåhan (Guam)\, is a queer poet\, writer\, and artist. She is the author of A Bell Made of Stones (TinFish Press\, 2013) and a chapbook of short fiction\, appalachiapacific\, which won the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award. Her poetry\, essays\, and Pushcart Prize- nominated fiction have appeared in Poetry\, Narrative Witness\, Oxalis\, Witness\, Storyboard\, and The Yellow Medicine Review\, among many others. She has served as an APAture Featured Literary Artist (Kearny Street Workshop) and as a contributing Kuwentuhan poet (The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University). Taitano currently serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator on the Executive Board of the Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Literary\, and Interdisciplinary Studies Conference. \nMAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University. His work from his forthcoming chapbook (TBA\, Drop Leaf Press\, 2017) has previously appeared in New American Writing and Slipstream. \nCLARISSA MENDIOLA: As a Chamoru woman raised on the mainland\, home is straddling the International Date Line\, where it is today and tomorrow simultaneously. Clarissa’s work attempts to describe that place\, however disorienting. Her work can be found in As Us\, Literary Hub\, Omniverse\, and The Offending Adam. Clarissa has an MFA in Writing from California College of Arts\, was a 2011 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence\, and teaches creative writing summer camps for junior high school students. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. \nDANIEL SUÁREZ is the son of Cuban immigrants. He currently lives in Chicago\, Illinois and is a Substitute Teacher. His poems can be found in the Columbia Poetry Review\, RHINO\, Eleven Eleven\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and other print and online journals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drop-leaf-press-taitano-shanley/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:National Endowment for the Arts Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 5th for a fundraiser and postcard writing party to benefit The National Endowment for the Arts. A portion of our profits will be donated to the NEA and postcards will be provided to write to your representatives! We will also have readings by NEA fellows R.O. Kwon\, Maxine Chernoff\, Javier Zamora and Monica Sok as well as music by Rachel Fannan and Evan Lanam. Complimentary beverages will be provided by Boulevard Brewing Company!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-endowment-for-the-arts-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mariko Tamaki
DESCRIPTION:The Main Children’s Center celebrates Children’s Book Week!\nRegister HERE \nJoin us for a special event: Graphic novel author Mariko Tamaki will discuss her book This One Summer\, acclaimed by reviewers as a powerful coming-of-age story. \nSaturday\, May 6\, at 4 p.m.\, in the Main Children’s Center \nMariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer. Her works include the graphic novels This One Summer  and Skim\, both with Jillian Tamaki\, and Emiko Superstar\, with Steve Rolston. Her first YA novel (You) Set Me on Fire  was published by Penguin Canada. She lives in Oakland\, California. Visit her website at marikotamaki.blogspot.com/. \nChildren’s Book Week is the annual celebration of children’s books and reading. Established in 1919\, it is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. The program is administered by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is the anchor sponsor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariko-tamaki/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Meetze\, Claire Marie Stancek\, + Andrew Wessels
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-meetze-claire-marie-stancek-andrew-wessels/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170507T130000
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SUMMARY:Embodied Writing Workshop: Movement\, Writing + Tea
DESCRIPTION:with Jennifer Barone (innerlotusyoga.com) and Ingrid Keir (featherpress.org) \nDid you know the body has a story to tell? Using breath\, movement and meditation techniques from Yoga\, Kundalini\, Qi Gong and more\, we will bring awareness to our body and practice writing from a place of deep listening\, allowing our stories to rise through a series of writing exercises and movement. For writers and yogis of all levels. Stay after to mingle and enjoy The Center SF’s beautiful tea room and a variety of herbal teas. \nPlease bring:\n• Stretchy yoga / workout clothing to wear for comfort\n• Mats and props are available\, but feel free to bring your own mat\n• a notebook and pen to write with \nDesigned for: writers who want to move more and yogis who want to try creative writing\, all levels welcome.\nNot reccommended for: those with serious injuries\, or who may find it hard to sit on the floor. \n$35. Early Bird Rate if registered by April 26th\n$45. after April 26th and at the door \nRegister on EventBrite\, see link below. Or visit http://www.thecentersf.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/embodied-writing-workshop-movement-writing-tea/
LOCATION:The Center SF\, 548 Fillmore Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
DESCRIPTION:Cutthroat\, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works\, as powerful\, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively\, the pieces in this anthology trumpet a stirring call to action on today’s most crucial issues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truth-to-power-writers-respond-to-the-rhetoric-of-hate-and-fear/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170507T200000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Adam Giannelli\, Ben Hoffman\, and Edgar Kunz\nMusic by Dana Kletter\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. \nBen Hoffman’s fiction has received the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award and been published by American Short Fiction\, Granta\, The Missouri Review\, Zoetrope\, and others. He lives in Oakland and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nDana Kletter is a writer and musician\, the only Wallace Stegner fellow/Jones Lecturer in Fiction (to date) with a gold record. Her work has appeared in The Sun\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Phoenix\, and Independent\, and on Mammoth\, Hannibal\, Interscope\, and Rykodisc Records. \nEdgar Kunz is a poet from Massachusetts. His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets\, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, Vanderbilt University\, Stanford University\, and\, most recently\, the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems appear in AGNI\, Narrative\, New England Review\, Best New Poets\, and other places. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-5/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages\, David D. Levine + Robyn Bennis
DESCRIPTION:** It’s Debut Novel Drink Night!** \nHelp us raise funds for the American Bookbinders Museum by sampling a cocktail concocted just for this event! \nDoors and bar open at 5:30PM\nEvent begins at 6:30PM \n$10 at the door benefits the American Bookbinders Museum\nno one turned away for lack of funds / cash or Square\nAll proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEach author will read a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books – please feel free to bring your own books from home. \nAll proceeds from the event benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEllen Klages: Her short fiction has appeared in science fiction and fantasy anthologies and magazines\, both online and in print\, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Black Gate\, Eclipse\, and Firebirds Rising. Her story\, “Basement Magic\,” won the Best Novelette Nebula Award in 2005. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award\, she is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop. Her first novel\, The Green Glass Sea\, about two misfit eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during WWII\, while their parents are creating the atomic bomb\, came out in October 2006. Her second novel\, White Sands\, Red Menace\, was published in 2008\, also from Viking. A collection of her short fiction\, Portable Childhoods\, came out from Tachyon Publications in 2007. \nHer brand-new new collection\, Wicked Wonders\, also from Tachyon\, will be available for sale at this event. \nIn addition to her writing\, she serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and was somewhat notorious as the past auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions at Wiscon. When she’s not writing fiction\, she sells old toys and magazines on eBay\, and collects lead civilians. \nDavid D. Levine: Levine’s debut novel\, a Regency interplanetary airship adventure novel titled Arabella of Mars\, will be available at this event. His “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story\, his story “Nucleon” won the James White Award\, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Campbell\, Sturgeon\, and Locus. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Realms of Fantasy\, Tor.com\, numerous anthologies and websites\, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies\, as well as his collection Space Magic from Wheatland Press\, which won the Endeavour Award for the best SF or Fantasy book by a Pacific Northwest writer. A contributor to George R. R. Martin’s bestselling shared-world series Wild Cards\, Levine is also a member of Book View Cafe\, a writer-owned publishing cooperative\, and Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc.\, a nonprofit organization which produces OryCon. He has narrated podcasts for Escape Pod\, PodCastle\, and StarShipSofa and the audiobook of Space Magic\, and his video production “Dr. Talon’s Letter to the Editor” was a finalist for the Parsec Award. In 2010 he spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station\, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert. \nRobyn Bennis: Bennis is a scientist living in Mountain View\, California\, where she works in biotech but dreams of airships. She has done research and development involving human gene expression\, neural connectomics\, cancer diagnostics\, rapid flu testing\, gene synthesis\, genome sequencing\, being so preoccupied with whether she could that she never stopped to think if she should\, and systems integration. Her apartment is within sight of Hangar One at Moffett Airfield\, which was once the West Coast home to one of America’s largest airships\, the USS Macon. Her debut novel\, The Guns Above\, will be available at this event. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Moderated by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Jeffrey Ford\, Lev Grossman\, Brian & Wendy Froud\, Samuel R. Delaney\, Cory Doctorow\, Karen Joy Fowler\, and Nalo Hopkinson. We hope you will join us! \nThe American Bookbinders Museum’s entrance is located at 366 Clementina Alley\, off 5th Street\, between Howard and Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are located at 5th & Mission\, and 3rd & Folsom. The closest BART station is Powell Street — just turn down 5th Street\, cross Mission and Howard\, and turn left onto Clementina. NOTE: there is NO access to Clementina from 4th Street due to construction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages-david-d-levine-robyn-bennis/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Manic D Press Authors
DESCRIPTION:Authors representing Manic D Press will read from their works. Readers will be Daphne Gottlieb\, Thea Hillman\, Ailvin Orloff\, + Larry-Bob Roberts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-manic-d-press-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170508T213000
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SUMMARY:Alia Malek
DESCRIPTION:Alia Malek discusses her new book\, The Home That Was Our Country\, with Micheline Marcom. \n\nPraise for The Home That Was Our Country \n\n“In The Home That Was Our Country\, Alia Malek masterfully weaves together the personal and the political\, and in so doing creates an unforgettable portrait of modern Syria in all its complexities and tragedies. Malek renders multiple generations of family\, friends and neighbors vividly but unsentimentally\, and what emerges is a portrait of a great people held back by tyranny. As Syria suffers through its darkest days\, she reminds us of the humans behind the statistics. Completely engrossing and lucid\, the book explains Syria’s devolution better than anything I’ve read.”―Dave Eggers \n“What Alia Malek has done in The Home That Was Our Country is nothing short of extraordinary. With deep love and clear-eyed honesty\, she weaves together the story of a family and the history of a country. Malek addresses the personal and the political like no other writer I have read recently. This book is an urgent and necessary read.”―Laila Lalami\, author of THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT \n“Alia Malek’s beautiful\, arresting portrait of a Syrian family over generations takes you straight to the heart of that country’s agony. Malek brings you inside the intimate world of a Damascus apartment building\, while weaving in her own experiences as a journalist-laying bare the struggle for freedom like no other work I know. The Syrian war is perhaps the most profound moral and political crisis of our era\, and this unforgettable book will forever change the way you see it and the Middle East.”―Anand Gopal\, author of NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING \n\nAbout The Home That Was Our Country \n\nAt the Arab Spring’s hopeful start\, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment\, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent’s decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building\, past and present\, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims\, Christians\, Jews\, Armenians\, and Kurds-who worked\, loved\, and suffered in close quarters\, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family’s home as the country comes apart\, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship\, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria’s future.\nThe Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched\, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history\, society\, and politics. Teeming with insights\, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history\, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-malek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bayani\, Lee\, Rader\, Roberts\, + Lin
DESCRIPTION:Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show\, “Locus of Control” in 2016. \nJoyce Lee is a writer\, educator and performance poet. Joyce is an Oakland\, California native whose gift with words and expression have made her an international talent and a surprise to herself. Growing up ignorant to her own poverty and reared in a hyper-conservative religion that often silenced womyn is what made Joyce Lee the blunt activist and fierce womynist she is. Although Joyce was a late bloomer to performance poetry (she didn’t know it existed until 2008) Joyce Lee is the 2009 and 2010 Oakland Grand Slam champion\, the 2014 Ill List champion\, a storyteller for NPR’s Snap Judgement and is working on her first book of collected writings entitled My Soul Is A Witness. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book of the year. He has won numerous awards for his writing\, including the 2016 Common Good Books Prize\, judged by Garrison Keillor. Dean writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Huffington Post. Two new collections of poetry appeared in 2017: A book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). Publisher’s Weekly writes “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.” \nMg Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum\, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently\, she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, two hens\, one puppy\, and geologist husband. \nMusical guest Cynthia Lin is a modern day jazz ukulele diva based in San Francisco\, California. The creator of the #100DaysofUkuleleSongs project\, Cynthia is known for her dazzling ukulele acoustic covers and tutorials on YouTube.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bayani-lee-rader-roberts-lin/
LOCATION:Esplande\, Yerba Buena Gardens\, 761 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Irène Mathieu + special guests
DESCRIPTION:Irène Mathieu is a pediatrician\, writer\, and public health researcher. She is the 2016 winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize and author of the poetry chapbook the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press\, 2014) and book orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press\, 2017). Irène has been a Fulbright scholar and a Callaloo fellow\, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a poetry book reviewer for Muzzle Magazine\, an editor for the humanities section of the Journal of General Internal Medicine\, and a contributing author on the Global Health Hub blog. Irène holds a BA in International Relations from the College of William & Mary and a MD from Vanderbilt University. \nLisa Alden is a Mensan\, WashU alum\, and lecturer in creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in Berkeley with her sons. \nKimberly Reyes has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Callaloo\, and Columbia University\, and is currently a William Dickey Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\,Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, Honey\, NY1 News\, and The Best American Poetry blog. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, Columbia Journal Online\, Moko Magazine\, Yemassee\, New American Writing\, and Belleville Park Pages. \nFisayo Adeyeye has works published in Noble / Gas Qtrly\, Nailed Magazine\, The Birds We Piled Loosely\, and work forthcoming in Print Oriented Bastards\, New American Writing\, and This Magazine. He is the former Poetry Editor of Fourteen Hills\, a Co-Curator of the VelRo Graduate Reading Series. His chapbook Blackfish was a finalist for the 2015 Best Prize Chapbook Contest (Big Lucks). His first full length book Cradles is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in April 2017. \n  \nAs always\, this reading is free and welcome to all who’d like to attend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irene-mathieu-special-guests/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T200000
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SUMMARY:EXIT Press Playwrights Panel
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco is a national epicenter of new theatre\, but most “world premieres” languish in a limbo of one-off productions\, never to be seen again. But local imprint EXIT Press is out to change that dynamic\, publishing the works of local playwrights in order to give them life beyond their initial run\, documenting our unique theatrical history one play at a time. Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak\, lead theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle\, to discuss the process of playwriting–from page to stage to publication. With Allison Page\, Aren Haun\, Martin Schwartz\, Stuart Bousel\, and Terry Baum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/exit-press-playwrights-panel/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T233000
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CREATED:20170429T031921Z
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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. \nPraise for Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \n“Dr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, shortlisted for 2014 Man Booker Prize \n“If aging be a lamp\, then Morayo\, the protagonist in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a mesmerising glow. Astute\, sensual\, funny\, and moving.” —NoViolet Bulawayo\, author of We Need New Names\, shortlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize \n“From the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. A beautiful\, important new novel. ” —Peter Orner\, author of Love and Shame and Love \nAbout Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \nMorayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband.\nA subtle story about ageing\, friendship and loss\, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika/
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=UTC:20170510T210000
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Call of the Wild
DESCRIPTION:The wonders of nature … the unbridled power of nature’s wrath … in the end\, we all know that no matter what we do\, nature ultimately has the last say. This month we venture into the wild to hear stories from six storytellers about their brushes with nature\, for better or worse. Join us at the next Fireside! \nStorytellers \nScott Sanders\nDhaya Lakshminarayanan\nAndy Sewell\nNeshama Franklin \nMore TBD
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-call-of-the-wild/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge & Free Me Fast
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Mireya Ixchel A.K.A. ‘Lil’ Deya\, Aleja Cobarruviaz\, Joey B. Gomez\, singer/songwriter Astu\, and Special Guests. Open Mic sign-up at 7:15pm. \nLUNADA Literary Lounge & FREE ME FAST\nAt the height of Spring\, under the full moon\, Galeria de la Raza presents Lunada Literary Lounge in collaboration with Free Me Fast\, for an evening of youth spoken word & community Open Mic\, featuring: \n~ MIREYA IXCHEL a.k.a. ‘LIL’ DEYA\n~ ALEJA COBARRUVIAZ\n~ JOEY B. GOMEZ\n~ ASTU\nLUNADA’s OPEN MIC invites poets\, emcees\, musicians\, storytellers\, laureates and first-timers to share their voices under the lunar spotlight. SIGN-UP 7:15PM: 8 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. \nHosted & curated by Sandra García Rivera & Maddy Clifford \nAlso featuring DJ Chris “L7” Cuadrado providing the musical backdrop\, and artwork and free posters by fine artist and illustrator Ozi Magaña.  \n$5.00 ADMISSION\nFree for youth under 18 \n \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nFREE ME FAST is a project that highlights the voices and visions of incarcerated youth. Students at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center strengthened their writing skills in weekly literary arts workshops led by teaching artist MADDY CLIFFORD\, a WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence* grant recipient. Inspired by the students’ poems\, visual artist OZI MAGAÑA created unique paintings\, which resulted in a poster series that celebrates the bravery and creative imagination of youth. Free Me Fast honors the arts as a vital resource that stretches our imagination\, whether inside concrete walls or within our communities.  (@freeme.fast on Instagram) \n*The San Francisco Arts Commission’s WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence (WCTAIR) grant program supports teaching artists in community settings to teach free creative writing workshops to youth. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMireya Ixchel\, A.K.A. ‘Lil’ Deya\, is a 14-year old singer\, rapper\, and songwriter\, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses her music as a way to spread messages of hope to her people and express the experiences in her life. Mireya has been a featured performer for the Xicana Moratorium\, The Courage Awards- Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) 5-Year Gala\, Reclaiming Cinco de Mayo\, and the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice Convening. She thrives to help build a better community around her and for future generations. \nHome grown in the Bayview\, Aleja Cobarruviaz is an 11th grade Queen in training. She finds solace in writing\, rhyming\, and producing. She is also a published author in two different publications.  Her passions include: reading comic books\, rapping\, mixing and producing music as well as being a participant in the Artists as Activist Class at her high school. She is founder and co-leader of the Hip Hop is Culture Club at the Bay School of San Francisco. She wants to be a scriptwriter\, director\, and actor for DC Comics. \nJoey B. Gomez is an 18 year-old aspiring artist. He’s in search of new opportunities in order to create a better way of living.  He was born and raised in San Francisco and wishes to share past experiences with those who have faced similar situations. Making a difference in at least one person’s life is his main priority. \nAstu is an Eritrean singer/songwriter debuting out of Oakland\, CA. Her growing acclaim can be attested to her soulful r&b vocals and addictive melodies. Astu’s bold and honest lyrics explore her experiences of love\, redemption and black womanhood. Astu is currently recording her premiere album to be released in the summer of 2017.\nMADlines aka Maddy Clifford is a rapper\, educator and activist. She has been teaching poetry workshops at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center for the past four years.  She is also part of a band called FR333 and is co-founder of BrujaLyfe\, a curatorial platform that throws concerts\, leads workshops and facilitates healing forums.  madlinesinfo.com \nOzi Magaña is a Bay Area fine artist and illustrator. He draws upon the energy\, experience and aesthetic of his environment and community to create imaginative pieces. His work has appeared in galleries in Denver\, Oakland and San Francisco. ozimagana.com \nChris “L7” Cuadrado is a poet\, MC\, hip hop producer\, photographer\, graphic artist\, director\, and community organizer from Inglewood CA\, currently based in Santa Cruz\, CA. L7 centers his community and oppressed people’s within his work and seeks to challenge and dismantle structures/systems of power that reproduce our oppression. Follow: Lsiete.tumblr.com & https://soundcloud.com/lsiete
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-free-me-fast/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book\, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian literature and the challenges of translating from the language. \nLight snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simon-wickhamsmith-on-mongolian-poet-tseveendorjin-oidov/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents Mirrors\, Smoke\, & Getting Woke: Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see a multimedia production of original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… Mirrors reflect our nature\, ideas have other ideas\, the rebellion starts on Powell Street\, legacies lurk in the shadows\, and money falls out your wazoo!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-mirrors-smoke-getting-woke-short-plays-by-short-people-2/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="StageWrite":MAILTO:elana@stagewrite.org
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