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SUMMARY:Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society – Litquake 2019\nSunday\, October 13\, 2019\, 5:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Litquake present \nTales of the San Francisco Cacaphony Society \nwith John Law and friends \ncelebrating the release of the revised edition of the counter culture classic \n  \nTales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society \nproduced by Kevin Evans\, John Law\, and Carrie Galbraith \npublished by Last Gasp Books \nA template for pranksters\, artists\, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity\, for years to come. \nTales Of The San Francisco Cacophony Society tells the history of the most influential underground cabal that you have never heard of. \nRising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club\, The Cacophony Society\, at its zenith\, hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities\, and influenced much of what was once called the underground. \nFlash Mobs\, Urban Exploration\, and Culture Jamming are a few of the pop culture trends that Cacophony helped kick off. \nChuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club\, Burning Man and Internet social networking powerhouse Laughing Squid were informed and inspired by Cacophony. The Burning Man Festival actually began as a Cacophony event as did the annual\, and now world-wide SantaCon. \nCacophony events could range from something as simple as climbing the Golden Gate Bridge or having a discussion over drinks about a movie seen together\, to something as elaborate as The Atomic Café — an event involving a hundred bedraggled “nuclear holocaust Survivors” mounting elaborate costumed rituals throughout the bowels of a massive abandoned tooth paste factory. \nYes…. Cacophony was that strange. \nCacophony’s heyday was concurrent with the rise of the internet. The story of this group is of historical significance for this reason. Information about upcoming pranks\, street theater and other events hosted by Cacophony was spread by paper flyers posted on telephone poles and left in coffee shops\, by the Societies mailer “Rough Draft” and by word of mouth. Then\, with the genesis of personal computing and social networking\, the jokers\, artists and troublemakers of Cacophony were among some of the first non-geeks to explore the power of this new and world changing way of communicating. \nBurning Man\, Urban Exploration\, flash mobs and the like were avenues of creativity with their roots in Cacophony\, that spread like wildfire through the mechanism of these new communication technologies. \nWhat has been said about the Cacaphony Society: \n“Find out what you are afraid of and go live there” — Chuck Palahniuk\, Fight Club \n“A book every lover of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy.” — Margaret Cho
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tales-of-the-san-francisco-cacophony-society-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Poppick: Fear of Description
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Poppick reads from his new poetry collection\, Fear of Description. \nPraise for Fear of Description: \n“No matter where a reader begins in Fear of Description\, the end is near and a beginning closer.  As far as this book travels\, it’s always there to meet itself\, though its trajectory is never predictable.  There is also the ancient lament of the worker/writer\, trying to sing a timeless song in an age of ring tones. Poppick’s stop-motion ability to convey multitude in moments is genius—Merwin-like in its sensorial clarity\, and\, where the poet chooses formal restriction\, Keatsian in density and bloom.” —Brenda Shaughnessy\, author of Our Andromeda \n“In Fear of Description\, Daniel Poppick\, like many of the most interesting writers of our time\, folds the labor of writing into the content of his poetry\, stirs it around\, and comes up with something genuinely free. The wildness of his lines had me amazed and grateful.” —Lucy Ives\, author of Impossible Views of the World  \n“Fear of Description is a bold book. Through Poppick’s memories we relive that brief window of youth when friendship is the magic audience that grounds us. In a world that seems stingy and random\, Poppick and his friends glean meaning from seances\, road trips\, shared economic anxiety\, houses\, and shaving rituals. Tears\, like the dead\, sneak up on them.” —Jennifer Moxley\, author of The Open Secret  \nAbout Fear of Description \nFrom Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments\, narrative poems that find millennials adrift–in political upheaval and personal crisis–and trying to find their way back to one another \nWinner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy \nThese poems tell the story of a generation in crisis: at odds with its own ideals\, precariously (or just un-) employed\, and absolutely terrified of seeing itself in the planet’s future. Is our contemporary moment pure tragedy\, or a dark joke? Can it be both? Cutting back and forth in time and ranging between elegiac lyrics and autobiographical accounts of a group of poets moving from Iowa to Brooklyn in the years just before and after the 2016 election\, Fear of Description reinvigorates the prose poem\, exploring the slippery terrain between grief and friendship\, artifice and technology\, writing and ritual\, hauntings and obsessions–searching for joy in art but instead finding it in pitch darkness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-poppick-fear-of-description/
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:TA-NEHISI COATES In Conversation with Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:TA-NEHISI COATES\nIn Conversation with Michael Chabon\nMonday\, October 14\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nNote: Ta-Nehisi Coates will be appearing at the Sydney Goldstein Theater on both Monday\, October 14 and Tuesday\, October 15\, at 7:30pm \nEach ticket includes a copy of Coates’ new novel The Water Dancer \nIn his debut novel\, The Water Dancer\, Ta-Nehisi Coates tells the story of a young man born into slavery\, who journeys from the plantation-dense South to the rebellious rumblings of the North\, on a path that glimmers with magic and loss. Coates’ ever-relevant writing takes on a prescient force\, as his 2014 cover story for The Atlantic\, “The Case for Reparations\,” re-enters the national discourse\, in the build-up to the 2020 election. Coates is a distinguished writer-in-residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\, and the author of The Beautiful Struggle\, We Were Eight Years in Power\, and Between The World And Me. He is also the current author of the Marvel comics The Black Panther and Captain America. \nAn “immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist” (The New York Times)\, Michael Chabon is celebrated for his remarkable ability to transport his readers.  His many novels include Moonglow\, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, and Telegraph Avenue.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ta-nehisi-coates-in-conversation-with-michael-chabon/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson
DESCRIPTION:Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to San Francisco on Monday\, October 14 at Davies Symphony Hall\, for a special limited book tour for his new book\, “Letters from an Astrophysicist”: http://bit.ly/NDT2019-SF \nDr. Neil deGrasse Tyson\, the host of National Geographic’s StarTalk\, bestselling author and Director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium\, will be presenting an evening of engaging conversation on science\, exploration and the world as we know it. \nTyson\, a native of New York City is host of StarTalk\, a radio and television series\, as well as FOX’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. He is a New York Times bestselling author of 11 books and is also a frequent guest on The Daily Show. President George W. Bush appointed Tyson in 2001 and 2004 to serve on commissions studying the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and the implementation of the U.S. space exploration policy\, respectively. Tyson is also the recipient of 18 honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal\, the highest award given by NASA to non-government citizens. \nVIP seating includes a copy of Dr. Tyson’s new book\, Letters from an Astrophysicist\, and an exclusive post show photo opportunity with Dr. Tyson. Purchasers will be contacted via e-mail on their order a few days prior to the performance with specific details. \nEach ticket purchase includes a copy of Dr. Tyson’s new book\, Letters from an Astrophysicist\, redeemable at the performance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-neil-degrasse-tyson/
LOCATION:SHN: Broadway in San Francisco\, 1182 Market St Ste 200\, San Francisco\, California\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-6/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeanette Winterson - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:Jeanette Winterson – Litquake 2019\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118\n\nCity Lights in conjunction with Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and Litquake present \nJeanette Winterson in a special performance and booksigning \n \ncelebrating the release of her new novel \nFrankissstein \npublished by Grove Atlantic Press \nat \nJewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA 94118 \nAdmission: $30.00 \nfor ticket purchase visit: https://www.jccsf.org/ \nIn 1816\, nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley wrote a story about creating a non-biological life-form. Her creation\, Frankenstein\, has fueled creative imagination for over 200 years. \nNow with the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) redefining our future\, Shelley’s story has been reimagined for the 21st century by one of our finest novelists. How close are we to a future in which homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? What will we do when we get there? And what are the possibilities of AI – and the responsibilities of creating it? \nEnjoy an evening of animated readings and thought-provoking entertainment when Jeanette Winterson takes to our stage to read from her latest creation\, Frankissstein. Explore the  fascinating possibilities of transhumanism\, artificial intelligence and queer love. \nCity Lights will be selling books at this event. \nJeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester\, England. After graduating from Oxford University\, she published her first novel\, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit\, at age twenty-five\, to widespread acclaim and a BAFTA for her BBC TV adaption. Twenty-seven years later\, she revisited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written ten novels for adults\, as well as children’s books\, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanette-winterson-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an incredible evening celebrating literature with the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of There\, There. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, where he now teaches. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. His first novel There There won the PEN/Hemingway Award\, was 2019 Pulitzer Fiction finalist\, was longlisted for a National Book Award\, and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by many publications. \nPlease keep an eye on this event page for forthcoming ticketing information.https://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumap/southeast.htm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-tommy-orange/
LOCATION:Knuth Hall\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco\, California\, 94132
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hexing the Patriarchy with Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a magical evening with Ariel Gore\, Michelle Gonzales (The Spitboy Rule)\, MK Chavez (Dear Animal)\, Dani Burlison (All of Me)\, Michelle Threadgould\, and Four Elements Fitness (Oakland).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hexing-the-patriarchy-with-ariel-gore/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dr. M Jackson: The Secret Lives of Glaciers
DESCRIPTION:Dr. M Jackson discusses her new book\, The Secret Lives of Glaciers. \nPraise for The Secret Lives of Glaciers \n“This outrageous book\, rich with revelation and stewardship\, is\, at its deepest level\, an icy blue love story to make us reconsider what it means to be fully alive – and open to wonder – in our ever-changing world.” Kim Heacox\, Author\, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire \n“M Jackson brings a powerful combination of skills to bear in her ambitious task of complicating our understanding of the rapidly dwindling masses of ice with which we share this planet. Blending hands-on science\, vivid descriptive writing\, affecting personal anecdote\, and insightful cultural observation\, The Secret Lives of Glaciers is a hypnotic and inspiring book–essential reading for anyone who loves nature and is concerned about the human species’ continued existence within it.” Tim Weed\, Author\, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing \n“M Jackson is a master storyteller\, weaving evocative anecdotes and historical and scientific narratives into an intricate dance of the relationship between man and ice. Jackson writes eloquently\, her stories of the real\, concrete effects of climate change on the people of Iceland both informative and heart-wrenching. ” Dr. Michele Koppes\, Glaciologist & Geographer \nAbout The Secret Lives of Glaciers \nGeographer\, adventurer\, environmental educator\, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change worldwide. \nSeeking to understand the wild diversity and complexity that exists between people and ice\, Jackson lived for a year on the south-eastern coast of Iceland\, chronicling in The Secret Lives of Glaciers the cultural and societal impacts of glacier change on local communities. Jackson interviewed hundreds of Icelanders living in close proximity to ice\, seeking to understand just what was at stake as the island’s ice disappeared. \nPainstakingly detailed\, Jackson recounts stories of glaciers told by people throughout the region\, stories exploring the often conflicting and controversial plasticity of glaciers\, the power glaciers enact in society\, the possible sentience of glaciers\, and the range of intertwined positive and negative consequences glacier change produces throughout Iceland. The Secret Lives of Glaciers reaches beyond Iceland and touches on changing glaciers everywhere\, revealing oft-overlooked interactions between people and ice throughout human history. \nThe Secret Lives of Glaciers delivers a critical message: understanding glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society worldwide experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earth’s systems. Instead of creating another catalogue of all the ice the world is losing\, The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores what we may yet find with glaciers: hope for humanity\, and the possibility of saving this world’s glaciers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-m-jackson-the-secret-lives-of-glaciers/
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:TA-NEHISI COATES In Conversation with Chris Jackson
DESCRIPTION:TA-NEHISI COATES\nIn Conversation with Chris Jackson\nTuesday\, October 15\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nNote: Ta-Nehisi Coates will be appearing at the Sydney Goldstein Theater on both Monday\, October 14 and Tuesday\, October 15\, at 7:30pm \nEach ticket includes a copy of Coates’ new novel\, The Water Dancer \nIn his debut novel\, The Water Dancer\, Ta-Nehisi Coates tells the story of a young man born into slavery\, who journeys from the plantation-dense South to the rebellious rumblings of the North\, on a path that glimmers with magic and loss. Coates’ ever-relevant writing takes on a prescient force\, as his 2014 cover story for The Atlantic\, “The Case for Reparations\,” re-enters the national discourse\, in the build-up to the 2020 election. Coates is a distinguished writer-in-residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\, and the author of The Beautiful Struggle\, We Were Eight Years in Power\, and Between The World And Me. He is also the current author of the Marvel comics The Black Panther and Captain America. \nChris Jackson is the publisher and editor-in-chief of One World\, a newly relaunched imprint of Random House. He’s the editor of a wide range of award-winning and bestselling authors\, including Ta-Nehisi Coates\, Jenna Wortham\, Bryan Stevenson\, Michelle Alexander\, Trevor Noah\, and Nikole Hannah-Jones. His own writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, Callalloo\, The Atlantic.com\, and other outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ta-nehisi-coates-in-conversation-with-chris-jackson/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox / Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith celebrates the launch of the new book by Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox\, Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women’s Running Revolutionary. please join us! \n“A story lost to history illuminates the unique way sports supports feminism . . . A story about what running really is: competing with other runners and not against them.” – Kirkus Reviews \nFifty-two years ago\, a girl known as Mighty Moe broke the women’s world marathon record at a small race in Toronto. This was an era when girls and women were discouraged from the sport and the longest track event at the Olympics for women was 25.6 miles shorter than a marathon. Thirteen-year-old Moe’s world-beating victory was greeted with chauvinistic disapproval and accusations of cheating—as were many of her achievements in the sport she had excelled at from the age of ten. Within less than two years\, the controversy took its toll and Maureen quit running. \nHere is the untold story of Mighty Moe’s tenacity and triumph in the face of adversity as a young athlete—and of a grown-up Maureen finding her way back to the sport decades later. This inspiring biography for readers and racers of all ages showcases the truly groundbreaking achievements of an unassuming\, amazing young athlete. \nMighty Moe includes an introduction by Kathrine Switzer\, the first woman to officially register and run in the Boston Marathon (and Maureen’s only fellow female competitor at the 1967 record-setting race)\, and an afterword by Des Linden\, the first-place finisher of the 11\,628 women who raced the 2018 Boston Marathon. \n\nRachel Swaby and Kit Fox produced the Runner’s World podcast “Human Race\,” where Mighty Moe’s story was first told. Rachel is the author of Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World (a Random House adult title) as well as its MG version\, Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World\, and Kit is a magazine editor at Hearst. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Might Moe\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request signed copies of Rachel’s other books\, order here and do the same.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-rachel-swaby-and-kit-fox-mighty-moe-the-true-story-of-a-thirteen-year-old-womens-running-revolutionary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops – Litquake 2019\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nprint/ops : a roundtable about technology \nwith Jim Fingal and friends \nWhen developing software systems\, engineers typically seek to automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil — defined as tasks that are manual\, repetitive\, tactical\, devoid of enduring value\, and that scale linearly as a system grows. That works great in the electronic world software systems — but how does this idea apply to the world of small magazines and publishers where we have physical objects to produce and somehow get to people? \nLogic Magazine hosts a round-table of small publishers who get into the nitty-gritty details of the hacks\, kludges\, and workarounds we’ve put into place in our digital systems to enable small groups of people to produce and distribute physical print objects AT SCALE. (Or not so much.)\nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine-print-ops-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mesha Maren and M. Randal O'Wain
DESCRIPTION:M. Randal O’Wain and Mesha Maren discuss their new works\, Meander Belt: Family\, Loss and Coming of Age in the Working Class South and Sugar Run. \nAbout Meander Belt \nIn Meander Belt M. Randal O’Wain offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis\, Tennessee\, came to fall in love with language\, reading\, writing\, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labor and what this does to his relationship with his family\, whose livelihood and sensibility are decidedly blue collar. Straining the father-son bond further\, O’Wain leaves home to find a life outside Memphis\, roaming from place to place\, finding odd jobs\, and touring with his band. From memory and observation\, O’Wain assembles a subtle and spare portrait of his roots\, family\, and ultimately discovers that his working-class upbringing is not so antithetical to the man he has become. \nAbout Sugar Run \n“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut\, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \nIn 1989\, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later\, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop\, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains\, she heads south in search of someone she left behind\, as a way of finally making amends. There\, she meets and falls in love with Miranda\, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a fresh start. But what do you do with your past—and with a town and a family that refuses to forget\, or to change? \nSet within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia\, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life\, the use and treachery of makeshift families\, and how\, no matter the distance we think we’ve traveled from the mistakes we’ve made\, too often we find ourselves standing in precisely the place we began. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mesha-maren-and-m-randal-owain/
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:Caleb Woods / Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Caleb Woods for his first book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry. Please join us! \nHarnessing Darkness traces the struggle of living with mental illness. Through sections aptly titled Birth\, Life\, Death\, and Rebirth\, Caleb Woods gives readers the experience of what it’s like to live in the mind of someone who struggles with a roller coaster of emotions on a daily basis. Caleb chooses to open the doors of his mind\, allowing you to see not only the dark\, but the light. Caleb lets each nightmare\, depressed thought\, and abundance of anxieties come to the surface with harrowing and hopeful poems about the struggles of living with mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. Experience loss\, pain\, heartbreak\, and hope with Harnessing Darkness. \n\nCaleb Woods began writing at a young age\, first to cope with bullying at school and later to soothe his depressing thoughts. Growing up in the small town of Pisgah\, Alabama\, he was surrounded by religion and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his faith with his sexual orientation. Caleb was told he would spend an eternity in hell for being gay – and he believed it. He was first officially diagnosed with PTSD in high school after his closest friend died unexpectedly. He moved away to college but ignored his symptoms and didn’t seek help for his mental illness. After years of suffering silently\, he began to accept his sexual orientation and eventually met his now husband\, Luke. Despite a happy marriage\, Caleb continued to suffer with symptoms of PTSD. At their peak\, the night terrors and panic attacks finally drove him to seek professional help. His doctor quickly confirmed that PTSD was the diagnosis and it wasn’t something to be taken lightly. Today\, Caleb receives treatment for PTSD\, panic disorder\, and depression by attending reoccurring therapy sessions. Throughout these years\, Caleb wrote poetry about his specific struggles surrounding mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. In his debut book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry\, he reveals his most personal thoughts – some dark\, some light\, some suffering\, some uplifting\, but all existential. Currently\, Caleb lives with his husband in Birmingham\, Alabama. He is a full-time writer\, author\, and poet who enjoys reading\, traveling\, playing board games\, and collecting pop culture memorabilia. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The Bindery bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Harnessing Darkness\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caleb-woods-harnessing-darkness-expressing-mental-illness-through-poetry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T213000
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SUMMARY:ZADIE SMITH
DESCRIPTION:ZADIE SMITH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nZadie Smith is known for her emotionally rich stories\, superb dialogue\, and unique perspective on contemporary culture. Smith wrote her widely acclaimed debut novel White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge before going on to cement her reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation with Swing Time\, The Autograph Man\, On Beauty\, and NW. Grand Union\, her debut short-story collection\, moves across genres and perspectives\, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian\, offering a sharply alert collection about time and place\, identity and rebirth\, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves\, and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zadie-smith/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Reading: Sehba Sarwar\, Fan Wu\, and liz gonzález
DESCRIPTION:This literary event celebrates women of color authors\, who will be reading from and talking about their writing and how their various backgrounds influence their creative works. Award-winning Pakistani writer and artist\, Sehba Sarwar\, will read from her recently-published debut novel Black Wings. This book is about a story of a mother and daughter who struggle to meet across the generations\, cultures and secrets that separate them. Bay Area-based writer Fan Wu will read from her critically acclaimed novels including Beautiful as Yesterday\, a book about two sisters who were born and brought up in China and now reside in the United States. Her writing explores the impact of history and memories on one’s life. And fourth-generation Southern Californian liz gonzález will share from her multi-genre collection Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds. Her book explores memories\, pivotal experiences and cultural influences that shaped her when growing up as a nontraditional Catholic Mexican American in San Bernardino.  A book sale and signing will follow the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-reading-sehba-sarwar-fan-wu-and-liz-gonzalez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T183000
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CREATED:20190930T192836Z
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SUMMARY:Betabrand Podcast Theatre with Mary Ladd and Don Asmussen
DESCRIPTION:A Betabrand Podcast Theatre event featuring author Mary Ladd and illustrator Don Asmussen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betabrand-podcast-theatre-with-mary-ladd-and-don-asmussen/
LOCATION:Betabrand\, 780 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T171757
CREATED:20190823T011649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T011649Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Caren Beilin\, reading and in conversation with Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-caren-beilin-reading-and-in-conversation-with-amy-berkowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
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SUMMARY:The Velvet Underground Experience - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Velvet Underground Experience – Litquake 2019\nThursday\, October 17\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \nHat & Beard Press\, the San Francisco Rock & Roll Book Club\, and Litquake present an evening about The Velvet Underground \nwith  JC Gabel\, ML Heath\, and Richie Unterberger  \nwith rare screenings of Velvet Underground footage. \ncelebrating the release of two new books from Hat & Beard Press \nThe Velvet Underground Experience \nEdited by JC Gabel and Margot Ross \nand \nMy Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed \nEdited and with texts by Pat Thomas\, Compiled by Michael Heath \nAbout The Velvet Underground Experience: \nAt the heart of 1960s avant-garde New York was the convergence of Lou Reed\, John Cale\, Sterling Morrison\, and Moe Tucker\, heralding an unprecedented musical revolution. The Velvet Underground was a unique group for its time\, fueled by the visual arts\, poetry\, and stage performance\, as much by ideas of sexual transgression and the subversion of social norms. \nCompiled from archival ephemera\, unpublished photographs\, films\, album covers\, posters\, fanzines\, letters\, testimonies\, and poems\, this monograph gathers anew the Velvet Underground Experience exhibition that opened in Paris in 2016 for a US audience\, recreating the sound\, visual\, and emotional experiences of the underground scenes in New York\, where extravagances were always allowed. \nThis updated monograph explores the genesis and history of a group that\, despite its colorful collaboration with Andy Warhol\, was overlooked by success during its brief existence (1965-1970). Too radical\, too transgressive\, and too uninhibited for their time\, the Velvet Underground has become a cultural phenomenon over the decades\, one that continues to fascinate audiences around the world. \nAbout My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed: \nDuring his first major sit-down with the music press in 1977\, between claiming all his songs were about guilt and revenge\, Elvis Costello casually remarked\, “I don’t really listen to Lou Reed’s records\, but I never miss an interview with him.” \nIndeed\, for all his publicly expressed loathing of the press in general and music journalists in particular\, during his long career as a rock artist\, Lou Reed was never less than entertaining in his dealings with the Fourth Estate. In fact\, one could go so far as to claim that\, for Lou\, the press became as much an implement of expression as singing\, composing\, and playing music. In a style at times very much informed by his mentor Andy Warhol\, Reed could play the media like a Marshall-amped Stradivarius. \nTo the majority of his fans\, the apotheosis of Reed’s relationship with the press\, and most prominently regarded to this day\, was the series of combative tête-à-têtes between Lou and the late great music journalist Lester Bangs\, published in CREEM Magazine during the 1970s. \nMy Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed features 30+ interviews spanning his solo career\, from the golden era of print rock-journalism\, to the first online blogs. The compilation is one fan’s humble attempt to move beyond the Bangs canon\, and delve deeper into the distance and intimacy\, cactus and mercury\, that constituted Lou’s post-Velvet Underground public media image. \nThis anthology will be an intimate portrait of Reed who\, in addition to being notoriously prickly (to put it mildly)\, was also intelligent\, articulate\, and deeply passionate about what was important to him\, both as a person and as a creative artist. \nHat & Beard is an independent\, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house. With their book imprint\, Hat & Beard Press\, they create original\, illustrated nonfiction books of pop-cultural and historical significance that draw on existing cult audiences.  As a production house\, via Hat & Beard Projects\, they produce artist monographs in conjunction with art galleries\, museums\, nonprofits\, and artists themselves. They also champion the redesign and reissue of classic visual culture titles worth a second look. Hat & Beard Films works as the motion picture production arm of the company. \nFounded in 2011\, San Francisco’s Rock ‘n Roll Book Club is a loose group of regulars and non-regulars who enjoy music and reading about it. They generally meet every other month at a bar’s backroom to discuss a book and listen to related music\, over drinks and sometimes food mentioned in the book. They read new releases\, classic memoirs\, biographies\, oral histories and music criticism\, usually focusing on music from the 60s and 70s\, preferably including sex\, drugs\, and good writing. They’ve met with authors Alice Bag (via skype)\, Robert Gordon (via Skype)\, Pauline Butcher (via Skype)\, John Einarson (via Skype)\, Evelyn McDonnell (via Skype)\, and Greil Marcus and V. Vale (RE/Search). To learn more visit: The Rock & Roll Book Club
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-velvet-underground-experience-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanna Howard with Rita Bullwinkel & Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Howard discusses her new memoir Rerun Era with Rita Bullwinkel and Forrest Gander. \nPraise for Rerun Era \n”Rerun Era is both a romp and a deep dive through a late-70s-and-80s childhood\, where many of us were remanded to the television for caretaking\, fueled on the intoxicants of processed foods\, where the day was vast and sometimes\, particularly if you were down south\, crushing with heat or emptiness or endless lots of red mud. There is a warm hilarity that moves through this book and a kind of cracking pain that follows. It’s a story of time\, family\, culture\, and subjectivity we all need to read\, written with a wild\, quiet\, and wide intelligence.”—Renee Gladman \n“Children are given the gift and burden of feeling the infinite in a single afternoon\, an hour\, an event—Rerun Era\, a wonderfully tactile and intimate book\, returns that gift to its readers. Each chapter explodes with the force and shine of fireworks on an unlit night.”—Catherine Lacey \n“Joanna Howard has a masterful understanding of the way memory bends time and forms startling new structures from the patterns of good sameness\, bad sameness\, strange sameness that compose our lives. She tunnels through this sameness to the glorious specificity at its core\, so that these swathes of childhood recaptured feel like they belong to me\, even though I know that I never witnessed my own life with such penetrating beauty or insight. Rerun Era is startling and new on every page\, a book that you will find yourself in\, lose yourself in\, and long to return to again and again.”—Alexandra Kleeman  \nAbout Rerun Era \nRerun Era is a captivating\, propulsive memoir about growing up in the environmentally and economically devastated rural flatlands of Oklahoma\, the entwinement of personal memory and the memory of popular culture\, and a family thrown into trial by lost love and illness that found common ground in the television. Told from the magnetic perspective of Joanna Howard’s past selves from the late ’70s and early ’80s\, Rerun Era circles the fascinating psyches of her part-Cherokee teamster truck-driving father\, her women’s libber mother\, and her skateboarder\, rodeo bull-riding teenage brother. \nIlluminating to our rural American present\, and the way popular culture portrays the rural American past\, Rerun Eraperfectly captures the irony of growing up in rural America in the midst of nationalistic fantasies of small town local sheriffs and saloon girls\, which manifested the urban cowboy\, wild west theme-parks\, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Written in stunning\, lyric prose\, Rerun Era gives humanity\, perspective\, humor\, and depth to an often invisible part of this country\, and firmly establishes Howard as an urgent and necessary voice in American letters. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-howard-with-rita-bullwinkel-forrest-gander/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T203000
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CREATED:20190930T192155Z
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SUMMARY:Disasterama! Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Disasterama!: Adventures in The Queer Underground 1977 – 1997 by Alvin Orloff. A compelling and hilarious memoir of social life in the queer underground at a time when the manic frivolity of queer liberation and youth collided with the deadly reality of plague. \nOrloff will be in conversation with Alia Volz\, author of the forthcoming memoir\,  Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco. There will also be a show from The Disasterama Dancers and Tony Vaguely.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disasterama-release-party/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T171757
CREATED:20190823T011839Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:In Common Writers Series\, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFree and open to the public \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-amy-berkowitz-and-caren-beilin-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T171757
CREATED:20191002T000855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T000855Z
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SUMMARY:K.R. MORRISON\, WILLIAM TAYLOR JR\, ZARINA ZABRISKY\, JON BENNETT\, JULIE VALIN\, TODD CIRILLO
DESCRIPTION:K.R. MORRISON\, WILLIAM TAYLOR JR\, ZARINA ZABRISKY\, \nJON BENNETT\, JULIE VALIN\, TODD CIRILLO\nFRI. OCT. 18TH\, 7PMAn evening of poetry and music featuring the following Bay Area writers: \n\nK.R. MORRISON\nWILLIAM TAYLOR JR.\nZARINA ZABRISKY\nJON BENNETT\nSongcraft by San Francisco writer/songwriter\nJULIE VALIN\nfrom Grass Valley\, CA\nTODD CIRILLO\nfrom New Orleans\, LA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-r-morrison-william-taylor-jr-zarina-zabrisky-jon-bennett-julie-valin-todd-cirillo/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T220000
DTSTAMP:20260410T171757
CREATED:20190827T022628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T022628Z
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SUMMARY:APAture 2019 & Litquake present Proclaim (a literary arts showcase)
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Litquake 2019 \nJoin us at Arc Gallery & Studies for APAture 2019 presents Proclaim (a literary arts showcase)! Featuring Jennifer S. Cheng\, Jayinee Basu\, Sagaree Jain\, Celeste Chan\, Christine No\, Lisa Kee Hamasaki\, Jen Soong\, Angie Sijun Lou. For artist bios click here! \nThis year\, in honor of the 20th anniversary of APAture\, our theme is DECLARE. DECLARE is an acknowledgement of both the legacies of our past and the legacies we’ll establish in the future. We invite you to submit work related to legacies\, families (chosen\, biological\, or beyond)\, communities\, decolonization\, representation\, futurism\, agency\, and more. We also welcome work across all themes. \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 20 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2019: Declare will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists! You don’t want to miss this! \nAPAture 2019: Declare Festival Schedule: \n(Multiple Locations in SF) Arc Gallery & Studios 1246 Folsom St. | Hotel Utah 500 4th St. | American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina St. | Roxie Theater 3117 16th St. | SOMArts 934 Brannan St. \n**OPENING RECEPTION\, BOOK ARTS SHOWCASE\, AND CLOSING RECEPTION ARE FREE. ALL OTHER SHOWCASES ARE TICKETED EVENTS** \nAPAture Opening Reception and Visual Arts Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2426475590955249/\nfeat. Anh Bui\nFriday\, October 4th\, 6-10 pm (Opening Reception)\nSaturday\, October 4th – 27th (Visual Arts Showcase on display)\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nMusic Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1033721316830856/\nfeat. Versoul\nFriday\, October 5th\, 9-1 am\nHotel Utah\, 500 4th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94107 \nBook Arts Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2487329794721381/\nfeat. Anand Vedewala\nSunday\, October 13th 1-4 pm\nAmerican Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street. San Francisco 94103 \nLiterary Arts Showcase\nfeat. Jennifer S. Cheng\nSaturday\, October 18th\, 7-10 pm\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nFilm Showcase\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2362679250672771/\nfeat. Alle Hsu\nSunday\, October 20th\, 2:30-5 pm\nRoxie Theater\, 16th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nPerforming Arts Showcase\nfeat. Hien Huynh\nSaturday\, October 25th\, 8-10pm\nSOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \nAPAture Closing Reception\nSunday\, October 27th\, 1-4 pm\nArc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103 \n#APAture2019 #Declare \nPLEASE NOTE: \nREFUNDS CAN BE GIVEN UP TO ONE DAY BEFORE EVENT\nIF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND\, BUT WISH TO DONATE\, YOU MAY PURCHASE A PRE-SALE GENERAL TICKET IN LIEU. GENERAL DONATIONS ARE ALSO GLADLY ACCEPTED\, AND CAN BE MADE THROUGH OUR WEBSITE\nALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE FUNDING OF APATURE 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apature-2019-litquake-present-proclaim-a-literary-arts-showcase/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T210000
DTSTAMP:20260410T171757
CREATED:20190822T231603Z
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SUMMARY:Ed Hardy: Deeper Than Skin
DESCRIPTION:Legendary American tattoo artist Ed Hardy discusses his groundbreaking tattoos\, flash\, drawings\, and artworks with Jeff Gunderson\, contributor to Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin:Art of the New Tattoo. \nAbout Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin \nEd Hardy’s (b. 1945) unique vision spans decades\, creating an indelible mark on popular culture. Accompanying a major exhibition\, this profusely illustrated survey of his life in art traces his inspirations\, rooted both in traditional American tattooing of the first half of the twentieth century and in the imagery of Japan’s ukiyo-e era. Hardy\, raised in Southern California\, became intrigued with tattoo art at the age of ten\, setting up shop in his parents’ den. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1960s\, he rejected a graduate fellowship from Yale to apprentice at studios up and down the West Coast. It was his intention to rescue tattooing from its subculture\, “outsider” status and elevate it to at least the level of folk art. \nHardy’s success at breathing new life into the art form is chronicled in a plethora of tattoo designs\, paintings\, drawings\, prints\, and three-dimensional work spanning fifty years. While the world that inspires him may be lost\, Hardy’s distinct visual language is vibrantly alive within American visual vernacular\, synonymous to some with the spirit of the West Coast itself. \nDonald Edward Talbott Hardy was born in 1945 in Des Moines\, Iowa\, and grew up in Corona del Mar\, on the Southern California coast. For over twenty years\, Hardy worked exclusively as a tattoo artist\, developing the medium’s potential and fueling the late twentieth-century boom in the practice. In the late 1980s he returned to painting\, drawing\, and printmaking while continuing to tattoo\, and his work was exhibited widely. In the millennial year 2000\, Hardy created a 4- by 500-foot scroll painting\, 2000 Dragons. He describes this piece as a decisive turning point in its scale and expansive gesture that freed him to explore abstract elements along with recognizable forms in his art. In 2005\, Hardy licensed his designs to Christian Audigier\, who developed popular merchandise featuring Hardy’s tattoo imagery. \nHardy has written and published more than thirty books on alternative art under his imprint Hardy Marks. In 2010\, Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World\, a film by Emiko Omori was released\, and in 2013\, Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos\, an autobiography with Joel Selvin\, was published by St. Martin’s Press. Hardy divides his time between San Francisco and Honolulu\, where he has had a home and studio since the 1980s. \nJeff Gunderson has been the Librarian and Archivist at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1981. He has written on the history of California photography\, the San Francisco art scene of the 1940s\, and done presentations on artists Joan Brown\, Elmer Bischoff\, Ed Ruscha\, Charles Howard\, the history of LGBTQ art in San Francisco\, the history of Bay Area conceptual art\, and the influence of art libraries on artists.  He also did the introductory essay to Black Power/Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch.  He is currently working on a collection of essays about open water swimming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-hardy-deeper-than-skin/
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:2019 Moby Dick Reading Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Breaching on Saturday\, October 19: San Francisco’s 2019 Moby Dick reading marathon. Mark your calendars for this tribute to a classic American novel – and start storing up sleep for this 24-hour literary voyage. Info at: https://maritime.org/events/mobydick/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-moby-dick-reading-marathon/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T190000
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SUMMARY:Pam Grossman / Waking the Witch
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special late afternoon event in conjunction with the Modern Witches Confluence\, presenting Pam Grossman for her new book Waking the Witch. Please join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Seats are limited\, and advance tickets are highly recommended. Tickets can be purchased here. Unless otherwise noted here tickets will be available at the door. \n\nWitches have been with us for centuries and have a long history of being associated with evil and diabolism. But beginning in the 19th century\, the archetype of the witch got reclaimed and reframed as an agent of positive – if subversive – transformation. This illustrated talk will excavate and celebrate the evolution of this magical\, feminist icon. Touching on historical events\, pop occulture in film and television\, and her own personal story\, author and podcast host Pam Grossman will trace how the witch went from hideous hag to Hermione\, and discuss the ways in which witches continue to reflect our fears and fantasies about feminine power today. \n\nPam Grossman is the creator and host of The Witch Wave podcast and the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women\, Magic\, and Power(Gallery Books) and What Is A Witch (Tin Can Forest Press). Her writing has appeared in such outlets as the New York Times\, TIME.com\, Sabat Magazine\, HuffPost\, and her occulture blog\, Phantasmaphile. She is co-founder of the Occult Humanities Conference at NYU\, and her art exhibitions and magical projects have been featured in such publications as Artforum\, Art in America\, and the New Yorker. You can find her at PamGrossman.com and @Phantasmaphile. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThe Bindery bar opens with the store at 2pm. Event starts at 5pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Waking the Witch\, order below and put your request in the comments field. To request signed copies of any of Pam’s other books\, follow the same instructions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-grossman-waking-the-witch/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litcrawl Hits The Green Arcade with Sonoma County Writers Camp and Queer Words Podcast
DESCRIPTION:Once again the city-wide events of Litquake descend on us for two Litcrawl readings this Saturday night. \nOne of the most anticipated literary nights of the year\, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl is a massive\, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10\,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004\, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique\, resonant brand: smart and silly\, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars\, cafes\, galleries\, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations\, tattoo parlors\, barbershops\, and laundromats). \nPhase one: 5:00pm-6:00pm\nSonoma County Writers Camp \nWith Nayomi Munaweera – Island of a Thousand Mirrors; Lucy Jane Bledsoe – A Thin Bright Line; Shanthi Sekaran – Lucky Boy; Ellen Sussman – A Wedding in Provence; Devi Laskar -The Atlas of Reds and Blues; and Elizabeth Stark – Shy Girl. \nPhase 2: 6:30-7:30\nQueer Words Podcast \nWith Richard May – Inhuman Beings and Ginger Snaps: Photos & Stories (with photographer David Sweet); Nona Caspers – The Fifth Woman; Avery Cassell – Behrouz Gets Lucky. \nFor more details see: Litquake.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litcrawl-hits-the-green-arcade-with-sonoma-county-writers-camp-and-queer-words-podcast/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series at Litcrawl 2019
DESCRIPTION:Hazel Reading Series is back and is excited to participate at Litcrawl 2019 with some of the best writers of 2019!\nJoin us on October 19th\, Phase II\, 6:30-7:30 pm\, at The Woods\, for another unforgettable night of prose and poetry. \nFeaturing:\nCeleste Chan\nKirin Khan\nRaina León\nSara Marinelli\nDominica Phetteplace \nThe readers\nCeleste Chan teaches creative writing to LGBTQ youth with Queer Ancestors Project and coordinates QTPOC Free School. A Hedgebrook\, Lambda\, and VONA fellow\, she works across documentary\, creative writing\, performance\, and oral history projects. From 2008-2018\, she co-directed Queer Rebels\, a queer and trans people of color arts project\, and toured work to Austin\, New York\, Montreal\, Tijuana\, Berlin\, and beyond. A Hedgebrook\, Lambda Literary\, and VONA fellow\, Celeste’s work can be found in several journals and anthologies\, including cream city review and The Rumpus. www.celestechan.com \nKirin Khan is a writer living in Oakland\, California\, who calls\nAlbuquerque\, New Mexico\, her hometown\, and Peshawar\, Pakistan\, her homeland. Kirin is an alumnus of VONA\, Las Dos Brujas\, and the Tin House Writers Workshop\, and she is a 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow\, a 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow\, a 2018 AWP Writer to Writer Mentee\, and a 2018 Steinbeck Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Margins\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, Your Impossible Voice\, 7×7 LA\, and elsewhere. Currently\, Kirin is working on her first novel. \nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book\, sombra : (dis)locate\, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook\, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. www.rainaleon.com \nBorn and raised in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing appears in Blue Mesa Review\, New American Writing\, and many Italian publications. She teaches Comparative Literature and Humanities at the USF and SFSU. She is the co-foudner and curator of the Hazel Reading Series\, an all-women reading series; and every week she hosts an Italian music program on KUSF radio. Sara is currently working on her first novel.\nwww.saramarinelli.com \nDominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Clarkesworld\, Lightspeed\, Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, Wigleaf\, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and Best Microfiction 2019. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, a Barbara Deming Award and fellowships from I-Park\, Marble House Project and the MacDowell Colony. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-at-litcrawl-2019/
LOCATION:the woods\, 910 Valencia st.\, San Francisco\, CA - California\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nia King - - Queer and Trans Artists of Color Vol III ft. Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is so excited to welcome back Nia King to discuss her new anthology Queer and Trans Artists of Color Volume Three. She will be joined by several contributors including\, Anthony James Williams\, Luna Merbruja\, Paradise Khanmalek\, and co-editor Maliha Ahmed. \nFor the last year\, Nia King and co-editor Maliha Ahmed have been hard at work on Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 3\, featuring interviews with Anthony J. Williams\, Osa Atoe\, Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite\, Ah Mer Ah Su\, Gabby Rivera\, Joamette Gil\, Mey Rude\, Kai Cheng Thom\, Jia qing wilson-yang\, Sarah Burke\, Sam Levin\, Arielle Twist\, Paradise Khanmalek\, Qwo-Li Driskill\, and Kamal Al-Solaylee! The launch party will be a talk show-style event where Nia interviews queer and trans artists of color live before an audience. \nThis event will be free and open to the public. There will also be free food for all in attendance! \n  \nAbout the Contributors: \nNia King is a queer Black/Lebanese/Hungarian Jewish author and podcaster from Canton\, MA who lived in Oakland\, CA from 2008-2019. She has been hosting and producing We Want the Airwaves podcast (available in iTunes) since 2013. She self-published her first book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives\, with co-editors Jessica Glennon-Zukoff and Terra Mikalson in 2014\, and her second book\, Queer & Trans Artists of Color\, Volume 2\, edited by Elena Rose\, in 2016. Nia’s writing and comics have been published at Colorlines.com\, East Bay Express\, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She received a Best of the East Bay Award in 2016 and was featured in KQED’s Bay Brilliant series (formerly Women to Watch) in 2018. She loves and misses Oakland dearly. You can find more of her work at niaking.com. \nAnthony James Williams (they/them pronouns) is a Black queer non-binary writer\, sociology PhD student\, and facilitator. They’re responsible for popularizing the hashtag #MasculinitySoFragile and their published writing (Hazlitt\, The Outline\, Electric Lit) focuses on race\, sexuality\, and mental health. Their prior Black student organizing led the University of California system to divest $25 million from private prisons. Find them on twitter @anthoknees or antjwilliams.com. \nLuna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan writer and artist. They are the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated poetry book\, Heal Your Love. They have published short stories and essays in The Resilience Anthology\, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic\, and the second edition of Colonize This! Feel free to follow their work at luna.merbruja.com\, IG: @LunaMerbruja\, or contact by email: lunamerbruja@gmail.com. \nParadise Khanmalek is an Iranian American artist\, poet\, and graphic designer from Los Angeles. She creates illustrated books of poetry\, takes photographs\, and most recently self-published a book of semi-academic poetic text about entropy\, gender\, and the semiotics of the visual world. Find her work online at Pardislili.com and @Humanchandelier on Instagram. \n  \nIf you are interested and able to help contirbute to the fund to pay for artists travel expenses\, ASL interpretation at the event and a caterer please check out https://www.gofundme.com/f/queer-amp-trans-artists-of-color-volume-3-launch?member=2377338 \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSaturday\, October 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nia-king-queer-and-trans-artists-of-color-vol-iii-ft-anthony-james-williams-luna-merbruja-paradise-khanmalek-and-co-editor-maliha-ahmed/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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