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SUMMARY:Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
DESCRIPTION:Watch & share this talk on YouTube\, Facebook\, Twitter and Long Now Live. \nWhat is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For much of human history\, these questions have been the province of religion and philosophy. What answers can science provide? \nIn this talk\, Sean Carroll will share what physicists know\, and don’t yet know\, about the nature of time. He’ll argue that while the universe might not have purpose\, we can create meaning and purpose through how we approach reality\, and how we live our lives. \nSean Carroll is a Research Professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology\, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research has focused on fundamental physics and cosmology\, especially issues of dark matter\, dark energy\, spacetime symmetries\, and the origin of the universe. \nRecently\, Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics\, the emergence of spacetime\, and the evolution of entropy and complexity. Carroll is the author of Something Deeply Hidden\, The Big Picture\, The Particle at the End of the Universe amongst other books and hosts the Mindscapes podcast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sean-carroll-the-passage-of-time-and-the-meaning-of-life/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Ian Manuel with Messiah Ramkissoon
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 4 at 6pm PT when we welcome Ian Manuel for the launch of his book\, My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime\, Punishment\, Hope\, and Redemption\, with Messiah Ramkissoon on Zoom!\n\nLimited signed bookplates available.\nIn partnership with Youth Justice Network\nwith proceeds benefitting the Prisoners Literature Project\nGreen Apple will donate 10% of each copy sold to PLP\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88615146964\n\nAbout My Time Will Come\nAt fourteen Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole. My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art.\n\n“Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking\, but he takes us places we need to go to understand why we must do better.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy\n\n“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges\, prosecutors\, juvenile probation officers\, sociologists\, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see\, today\, thirty years later\, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will Come\n\nThe United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders\, mostly youth of color\, to life in prison without parole\, regardless of the scientifically proven singularities of the developing adolescent brain—a heinous wrinkle in the scandal of mass incarceration. In 1991\, Ian Manuel\, then fourteen\, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys\, he shot Debbie Baigrie\, a young white mother of two\, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson\, attorney and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative\, has insisted\, none of us should be judged by only the worst thing we have ever done.\n\nCapturing the fullness of his humanity\, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa\, Florida—a neighborhood riddled with poverty\, gang violence\, and drug abuse—and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances\, only to find himself\, partly through his own actions\, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life\, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the at once wrenching and inspiring story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system\, and how his victim\, an extraordinary woman\, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom\, which was achieved by a crusade on the part of the Equal Justice Initiative to address the barbarism of our judicial system and bring about “just mercy.”\n\nFull of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption\, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case\, through his dedication to writing poetry.\n\nAbout Ian Manuel\nIan Manuel lives in New York City. He is a motivational speaker at schools and social organizations nationwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-ian-manuel-with-messiah-ramkissoon/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:New Voice Series\, featuring Dan Lau\, with others tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Carlos Quinteros III \nThe Poetry Center is delighted to announce the New Voice series\, initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that will pair a poet alum of SF State\, a current SF State graduate student poet in Creative Writing\, and a current undergraduate student poet at SF State (any major)\, to each read their work and engage in conversation. For the premier event\, poet Dan Lau has been invited to appear along with student poets on Wednesday May 5\, 4:00 pm Pacific Time. \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, New Voice Series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-voice-series-featuring-dan-lau-with-others-tba/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Imagine Us\, the Swarm Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 5 | 6-7:30pm PST\nvia Zoom\nno fee \nKSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us\, The Swarm (Nightboat Books). In this collection of essays in verse\, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American\, queer and gendered experiences. Following the death of the poet’s father\, Imagine Us\, The Swarm contemplates vengeance\, eschews forgiveness and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. Moving between the past and the present\, Leung imbues memories with something new to alter time and design a different future. \nThis launch party will feature a reading from Leung’s new book in addition to readings by Truong Tran\, Hari Alluri\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, Angie Sijun Lou and Addie Tsai. There will also be a raffle\, giveaways\, and trivia games woven into the night. \nMuriel Leung\n\nMuriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm from Nightboat Books in 2021\, and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Leung co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently\, Leung is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. \n\n\nHari Alluri\n\nHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Fellowship for Poets of Color and recipient of grants from the Canada Council of the Arts\, his work appears recently or soon in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies\, as well as Apogee\, Solstice\, Tinderbox\, Witness and elsewhere. Alluri’s collaborations lately are through BIPOC Writing Community\, Community Building Art Works\, The Cultch\, The Digital Sala\, Massy Books and Soft Cedar. \n\n\nJanice Sapigao\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José\, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry\, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2017). She is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \n\n\nAddie Tsai\n\nAddie Tsai (she/they) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color\, and teaches courses in literature\, creative writing\, dance and humanities at Houston Community College. She also teaches in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA in Creative Writing. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin\, which made the 2021 Rainbow Book List\, and received press in Autostraddle\, Bustle\, Lambda Literary Review and others. Addie’s writing has been published in Foglifter\, VIDA Lit\, the Texas Review and elsewhere. They are the Fiction Co-Editor at Anomaly\, Staff Writer at Spectrum South and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \n\n\nTruong Tran\n\nTruong Tran is a poet ad visual artist. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at California Institute of Integral Studies\, The Telegraph Hill Gallery\, SOMArts\, Mina Dresden Gallery\, and The Peninsula Museum of Art. His books include\, Placing The Accents\, The Book of Perceptions\, Dust and Conscience\, Within The Margin\, Four Letter Words\, 100 Words and the much anticipated Book of the Other (October 2021). He is currently The Adjunct Professor of Poetry at Mills College where he teaches graduate courses about poetics and the crossing of writing and visual art. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAngie Sijun Lou\n\nAngie Sijun Lou is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Poetry Northwest\, FENCE\, Black Warrior Review\, the Adroit Journal\, the Asian American Literary Review\, Hyphen\, the Margins and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and a calculus instructor at San Quentin State Prison. She has received fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center\, Millay Colony and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imagine-us-the-swarm-book-launch/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\nLitquake is excited to welcome Natalie Baszile\, author of the New York Times bestseller Queen Sugar (now a series on OWN network) to our Seismic Salon series! Natalie has made the leap from fiction to nonfiction in her newest book\, We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers Land and Legacy\, which is published April 6. This anthology of poetry\, essays\, and interviews examines Black people’s connection to the American land\, from Emancipation to today. Natalie has a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA\, and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2014\, and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Lenny Letter\, The Bitter Southerner\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The Rumpus\, and a number of anthologies. \nBuy Natalie Baszile’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-natalie-baszile/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michelle Zauner & Bowen Yang
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017). In a new memoir\, Crying in H Mart\, Zauner reflects on her experience being raised by a Korean immigrant in the Pacific Northwest\, and particularly her memories related to food. When her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and Zauner moved back to Oregon to care for her\, she was forced to reckon with her identity and upbringing. Zauner writes about the process of beginning to chase down her mother’s history\, culture\, and the flavors of Korea to re-gain the feeling of home in the wake of her loss. \nBowen Yang is a featured player on Saturday Night Live\, where he wrote for one season before moving on-screen. He can also be seen recurring on Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora From Queens\, as well as in the TV shows Broad City\, High Maintenance\, Jon Glaser Loves Gear\, and the upcoming series Girls5eva. He is the co-host of the popular comedy podcast “Las Culturistas\,” along with fellow comedian Matt Rogers. This past year\, Yang was featured in TIME as one of “23 People Who Are Changing What’s Funny Right Now\,”as well as one of their TIME 100 NEXT: Artists\, and was featured in this year’s Out100 list. \nPhoto Credits: \nBarbora Mrazkova \nMary Ellen Matthews/NBC
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-zauner-bowen-yang/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alison Bechdel in conversation with George McCalman
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Alison Bechdel in conversation with George McCalman \n\n\nFriday\, May 7\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nAlison Bechdel‘s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For grew wildly in response to her family memoirs\, the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home\, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical\, and Are You My Mother? She has become a cultural household name for the concept of the Bechdel Test\, a metric used when considering the representation of women in fiction. Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont\, among many other honors. Her new memoir\, The Secret to Superhuman Strength\, delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination\, from childhood to adulthood\, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s (“Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!”) to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. \nGeorge McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco. His studio\, McCalman.Co\, designs brands for a range of cultural clientele. Additionally\, he’s a visual columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle\, featured in the “Observed” and “First Person” columns. His first book\, Illustrated Black History\, is due to be published by Amistad/Harper Collins Fall 2021. \nTicket includes a hardcover copy of Bechdel’s new memoir The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Books will be mailed the week of the event. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alison-bechdel-in-conversation-with-george-mccalman/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us for story time with Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith on Saturday\, May 8 at 12pm PT to celebrate\, Brave in the Water\, on Zoom!\n\nAn event especially for young readers!\nSan Francisco children’s book authors Stephanie Wildman and Emma Bland Smith will each read a story\,\nfollowed by a special opportunity to ask them any questions you may have about being a children’s book author!\nHow do they come up with storybook ideas?\nDo they make those drawings themselves?\nWhat books do they like to read?\nJoin us to find out and ask your own question!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83364102484\n\nAbout Brave in the Water\nAre you afraid to put your face in the water? So is Diante. He would like to play in the pool with other children. He’s not afraid to hang upside down\, though\, and he’s surprised to learn his grandma is. Can Diante help Grandma and become brave in the water?\n\nAbout Stephanie Wildman\nStephanie M. Wildman\, author of the forthcoming Brave in the Water\, became a Professor Emerita after serving as the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Chair at Santa Clara Law. She directed the school’s Center for Social Justice and Public Service. In 2007 the Society of American Law Teachers\, the largest national organization of law school faculty honored her with their Great Teacher Award. Her most recent books include: Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America 3d (with Richard Delgado\, Angela A. Harris\, Juan F. Perea\, and Jean Stefancic) (2015); Social Justice: Professionals Communities and Law (with Martha R. Mahoney and John O. Calmore) (2013) and Women and the Law Stories (with Elizabeth Schneider) (2011). Her book\, Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America\, (with contributions by Margalynne Armstrong\, Adrienne D. Davis\, & Trina Grillo) won the 1997 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Meyers Center for Human Rights. She has authored dozens of law review articles and journalistic pieces. She is a grandmother\, mother\, spouse\, friend\, good listener\, and she is able to sit “criss-cross apple sauce” thanks to her yoga practice.\n\nAbout Emma Bland Smith\nEmma Bland Smith is the award-winning author of Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7\, the Most Famous Wolf in the West\, as well as other fiction and nonfiction books for children. Many of Emma’s books include animals—wolves\, dogs\, pigs\, even alligators! Emma is a librarian and author and lives in San Francisco with her husband\, two kids\, dog\, and cat—but no wolf\, pig\, or alligator. Visit her online at emmabsmith.com and on Twitter at @emmablandsmith.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-stephanie-wildman-and-emma-bland-smith-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David Mitchell in conversation with Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: David Mitchell in conversation with Pico Iyer\nSaturday\, May 8\, 2021\n2:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \n \n\n\nDavid Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet\, Black Swan Green\, Cloud Atlas\, Number9Dream\, Ghostwritten and The Bone Clocks. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, his latest novel Utopia Avenue follows the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times; of stardom’s wobbly ladder; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of voices in the head\, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music\, madness\, and idealism. \nPico Iyer is a travel writer\, essayist\, and novelist\, whose many books include Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk\, The Man Within My Head\, and The Art of Stillness\, a beautiful and thoughtful investigation of the benefits of quiet contemplation and travel to “nowhere.” \nNOTE: this is an afternoon event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-mitchell-in-conversation-with-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Eric Nguyen and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, May 10 at 6pm PT when Eric Nguyen joins us to discuss his debut novel\, Things We Lost to the Water\, with Lydia Kiesling on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88925265993\n\nPraise for Things We Lost to the Water\n“I was captivated. The writing is absolutely gorgeous…The voice is strong and this is a powerful novel…Well worth a read. Really enjoyed.”—Roxane Gay\, via Goodreads\n\n“This is an elemental book\, of water\, for sure\, but also of other elements of life\, including love and loss. Vietnamese people know all about these elements\, coming from a country whose entire length is bordered by a sea\, and from a history saturated with loss. Love is one element that has enabled their survival\, but sometimes at a cost. Eric Nguyen’s powerful novel ripples and gleams with the unpredictable flow and surge of love\, which\, like water\, can drown us or sustain us. From a war to a hurricane\, from an ocean to a flood\, Things We Lost to the Water proves itself to be a novel that sustains us.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer\n\n“Exquisitely well-written\, Things We Lost to the Water is a tender\, haunting story of loss\, love\, family and survival. A moving and powerful debut.”—Charles Yu\, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown\n\nAbout Things We Lost to the Water\nA stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped.\n\nWhen Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons\, she is jobless\, homeless\, and worried about her husband\, Cong\, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America\, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong\, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.\n\nBut with time\, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss\, her sons\, Tuan and Binh\, grow up in their absent father’s shadow\, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward\, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh\, now going by Ben\, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity—as individuals and as a family—threatens to tear them apart\, un­til disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eric-nguyen-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stress and Resilience with Elissa Epel & Dacher Keltner
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Stress and Resilience\nwith Elissa Epel & Dacher Keltner\nTuesday\, May 11\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\n\n\nTICKETS\nThis event appears in the series\nConversations on Science & Health: A Miniseries \nElissa Epel\, Ph.D\, is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California\, San Francisco. Her research aims to elucidate mechanisms of healthy aging\, and to use this science to help vulnerable populations. She studies psychological\, social\, and behavioral processes related to chronic psychological stress that accelerate biological aging\, with a focus on overeating and metabolism. With her colleagues\, Epel develops and tests interventions that combine behavioral\, psychological\, and mindfulness training\, in order to improve stress resilience and physiological homeostatic capacity and slow aging. Epel is the Director of the Aging\, Metabolism\, and Emotions Center\, and the Consortium for Obesity Assessment\, Study\, & Treatment\, (COAST)\, and Associate Director of the Center for Health and Community.  She is also the co-author of The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger Longer\, which integrates the science of cell aging with practical daily tips. \nDacher Keltner is a professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. His research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion\, awe\, love\, beauty\, and humility\, as well as power\, social class\, and inequality. He is the author of several books\, including Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life\, The Compassionate Instinct\, and The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. He has also consulted for Apple\, Pinterest\, Google\, the Sierra Club\, and served as a scientific consultant for Pixar’s Inside Out and for the Center for Constitutional Rights in its work to outlaw solitary confinement. Keltner is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stress-and-resilience-with-elissa-epel-dacher-keltner/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections\, Water/Music and So Forth\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84930241583\n\nAbout Water/Music\nExploring the space between nature and culture\, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy\, they move with ease from narrative to meditation\, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory\, and from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water / Music embraces and celebrates life’s mystery and the soul’s repose amid “talismans at twilight\, the whir of birds.”\n\nAbout So Forth\nA lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom).\n\nWith irony\, in mourning tinged with eros\, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage\, aging\, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory\, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae\, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence “Legende of Good Women\,” with pre-Socratic philosophers\, and with lovers\, children\, and strangers—the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary\, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-peter-filkins-and-rosanna-warren-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T183000
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander: Twice Alive
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers \nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for the new poetry collection Twice Alive (New Directions)\, by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. With these searing ecological love poems\, Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies\, personal and environmental\, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and the tradition of Sangam literature\, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations. Forrest will read from and discuss his work. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nWhile conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist\, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. \nThroughout Twice Alive\, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness. \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry\, and his 2018 collection Be With won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-twice-alive/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T183000
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents a Reading: Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Since the onset of the global pandemic in 2020\, isolation has been\, for good or bad\, a major feature of life for many people across the world. In this 90-minute event\, writers of color will share works honoring the pain\, joy\, injustice\, comfort\, and trauma of isolation. \nOur readers: \nNaima Coster is the author of two novels\, What’s Mine and Yours and her debut\, Halsey Street\, which was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. In 2020\, she received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor. \nNayomi Munaweera is an award-winning writer of the novels Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us. She lives in Oakland\, California\, and is finishing her third novel\, a psycho-sexual literary thriller. \nDevi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues\, which won the 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South\, the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. The novel was named by The Washington Post as one of the 50 best books of 2019. \nAlba Hernandez is a writer inspired by Puerto Rico\, growing up in Bushwick\, and salsa. Her writing was highly commended in the Poetry Project series ‘House Party\,’ Like Light (Bright Hill Press)\, Calabash (A Journal of Caribbean and Arts and Letters)\, and most recently in Harvard’s Latinx Publication: PALABRITAS. \nTom Pyun has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Anthology award. He’s been awarded fellowships at Vermont Studio Center\, VONA\, and Tin House. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Bold Italic\, The Rumpus\, and Joyland\, and placed in competitions such as The Blue Mesa Review’s Summer Story Contest. \nThis event is the last event of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nFree \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aunt-lute-and-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T183000
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SUMMARY:Nancy: Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones in conversation with Kathryn Scanlan
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET \n\n\nJoin us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy\, a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood\, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness. \nRegister for the event on our Crowdcast page. \nDon’t forget to buy the book and support one of our favorite indy bookstores\, Pilsen Community Books! \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nBruno Lloret\n\n\nBruno Lloret (Santiago de Chile\, 1990) is a writer and researcher. He has published Nancy (Cuneta\, Santiago de Chile\, 2015; Two Lines Press\, 2020)\, which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Bolaño Award for novella\, and Leña (Overol\, Santiago de Chile\, 2018). He currently lives in London.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\n\nEllen Jones\n\n\nEllen Jones is a literary translator from Spanish to English\, an editor\, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com.\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nKathryn Scanlan\n\n\nKathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog and The Dominant Animal. She lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-bruno-lloret-and-ellen-jones-in-conversation-with-kathryn-scanlan/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T190000
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SUMMARY:Stacey Abrams in conversation with Rebecca Traister
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 13\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \n\n\nStacey Abrams was instrumental in driving an enormous number of voter registrations in Georgia\, including some 800\,000 new voters between the 2018 and 2020 elections. Those voters\, in turn\, were central to turning Georgia blue in the 2020 presidential election and Senate race. A tax attorney by training\, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives\, seven as Minority Leader\, and became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia\, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. One of Abrams’ many other talents: fiction writing. Her newest legal thriller is While Justice Sleeps. “Stacey Abrams is a true novelist\, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller\, favorably compared to many of the best\, starting with The Pelican Brief\, which it brings to mind. It’s fast-paced and full of surprises—a terrific read.”— Scott Turow \nRebecca Traister is the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist\, she has written about women in politics\, media\, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation\, The New York Observer\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Vogue\, Glamour\, and Marie Claire. Her other books include All The Single Ladies and Big Girls Don’t Cry. \nTicket includes a copy of While Justice Sleeps. Please note: a limited number of signed books were previously available — current purchases include un-signed copies. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-abrams-in-conversation-with-rebecca-traister/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T122426
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SUMMARY:Poetry y Platica Live Online at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos hold space inside a colonized time and place we can still recognize as San Francisco. Spanglish antepasado recuerdos and palabras of our neighborhood memories\, the pocho American Dream stuffed into Donaldo Trump pinatas with the conejo en la luna looking down on us are spoken in three broken languages in these poems. \nJoin Josiah Luis Alderete and writer performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez for a special Zoomtastic event.  Free. Free your mind! \nClick HERE to join Zoom event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-y-platica-live-online-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T122426
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SUMMARY:On Awakening Your Inner Shaman
DESCRIPTION:The stress\, conflict\, and crises of the outer world are a signal: the time has come to awaken your inner shaman. However\, you don’t need to be initiated into concealed mysteries to answer the call from Spirit. Marcela Lobos\, one of the world’s most respected shamanic teachers\, teaches us how to use the maps offered by the shamanic Medicine Wheel and the hero’s journey to activate our inner wisdom and live a self-realized existence of discovery\, healing\, and wholeness. \nFrom her war-torn childhood\, her initiation with the shamans of the Andes\, and her life today as a teacher and medicine woman\, Marcela’s story offers flesh-and-bones context for each step on the archetypal journey to Self. Her story is also an invitation to step out of your ordinary life and take the first steps on your quest for spiritual understanding and deep transformation. \nJoin CIIS faculty Susana Bustos for a conversation with Marcela as she talks about her latest book\, Awakening Your Inner Shaman: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery through the Medicine Wheel\, and learn to walk the Medicine Path to find your own power and inner beauty. \nPlease Note: This live online conversation will have ASL interpretation. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/lobos-marcela-may-14-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-awakening-your-inner-shaman/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kristin Hersh and Black Francis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 14 at 6pm PT when Kristin Hersh is joined by Black Francis to discuss her latest book\, Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89661762829\n\nAbout Seeing Sideways\nA sequel to the critically acclaimed Rat Girl\, this beautifully written memoir takes readers on an emotional journey through the author’s life as she reflects on thirty years of music and motherhood. Hersh’s follow up to the bookseller favorite\, Don’t Suck\, Don’t Die\n\nDoony\, Ryder\, Wyatt\, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir\, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons’ voices rise from its pages\, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.\n\nThis story begins in 1990\, when Hersh is the leader of the indie rock group Throwing Muses\, touring steadily\, and the mother of a young son\, Doony. The chapters that follow reveal a woman and mother whose life and career grow and change with each of her sons: the story of a custody battle for Doony is told alongside that of Hersh’s struggles with her record company and the resulting PTSD; the tale of breaking free from her record label stands in counterpoint to her recounting of her pregnancy with Ryder; a period of writer’s block coincides with the development of Wyatt as an artist and the family’s loss of their home; and finally\, soon after Bodhi’s arrival\, Hersh and her boys face crises from which only strange angels can save them.\n\nPunctuated with her own song lyrics\, Seeing Sideways is a memoir about a life strange enough to be fiction\, but so raw and moving that it can only be real.\n\nAbout Kristin Hersh\nKristin Hersh is a solo artist and founding member of the bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. She is the author of Don’t Suck\, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt\, and Rat Girl\, which was named one of the ten best rock memoirs ever written by Rolling Stone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kristin-hersh-and-black-francis/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210516T153000
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Meaning and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival.\n\nA presentation of readings by a diverse\, intergenerational\, cross-section of writers\, who include visual artists\, educators\, activists and professionals from the AAPI community\, who will share their stories and poems\, ranging from immigration stories and family memoir to gender and racial oppression\, anti-Asian hate and police violence\, written during the course of a writing workshop conducted by poet-playwright\, Genny Lim. The online APICC workshops have met every week\, throughout the pandemic. These memoir pieces were written in response to weekly writing prompts provided by Genny Lim. All levels and ages\, from emerging to advanced writers\, were welcomed and encouraged to explore and develop their individual voices and craft in a safe and communal atmosphere that allowed for constructive critique\, dialogue\, mutual support and growth.\n\n::READERS::\nLeila Beltran\nSharleen Boummer\nVickie Ya Rong Chang\nCarole Chinn Morales\nSusan Hayase\nSusan Kitazawa\nMei Lam\nMirah Lucas\nGrace Morizawa\nShizue Shikuma\nLeon Sun\nCasimiro Tolentino\nLeslie Yee-Murata\n\nABOUT GENNY LIM\nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Lim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S.\, Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award and an anthology of Senior Asian American memoirs\, Window: Glimpses of Our Storied Past. She has worked with past Jazz legends\, such as Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Eddie Marshall and long-time collaborators\, Jon Jang\, John Santos\, Francis Wong and Del Sol String Quartet.\n\nABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF ASIAN AMERICA FESTIVAL\nThis year’s 24th annual United States of Asian American Festival (USAAF) presents over 20 different programs reflecting the artistic accomplishments and cultural diversity of San Francisco’s Pacific Islander and Asian American communities. USAAF showcases artists representing a diverse range of ethnic and cultural groups and aims to heighten the visibility of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) artists working in all disciplines – theater\, music\, dance\, film\, literature\, visual arts\, and more! Our goal is to nurture and empower these groups to be self-sufficient while providing the support they need to grow.\nThis year’s theme\, Forging Our Futures – SoMa & Chinatow n\, explores how we are fostering recovery\, resilience and regeneration in our communities\, what place-making and community building looks like\, past\, present and future and how we’re imagining and manifesting empowered future for ourselves and our communities.\n\nUSAAF 2021 is funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission \, San Francisco Grants for the Arts \, California Arts Council \, Fleishhacker Foundation \, Zellerbach Family Foundation \, startsmall and National Endowment for the Arts .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memory-meaning-and-memoir/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T190000
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SUMMARY:Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger\nTuesday\, May 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n\n\nWith compelling\, universal fluency\, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays the practical and emotional adversities of her diverse characters in elegant and direct prose. Whether describing hardships of a lonely Indian wife adapting to life in the United States or illuminating the secret pain of a young couple as they discuss their betrayals during a series of electrical blackouts\, Lahiri’s bittersweet stories are deeply compassionate\, while avoiding sentimentality. Also an accomplished translator\, Lahiri’s forthcoming novel\, Whereabouts\, is her first full-length self-translation. The book follows a woman wavering between stasis and movement\, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties\, as she wanders parks\, bridges\, piazzas\, streets\, stores\, coffee bars\, and the sidewalks around her house. Lahiri will also publish her first collection of poems in Italian\, Il quaderno di Nerina\, in 2021. Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies\, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. She is the director of Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing. \nMonica Seger is a professor and scholar\, whose research and teaching addresses twentieth and twenty-first century Italian literature\, film and media; the environmental humanities; and gender studies. She serves as the Program Director for Italian Studies at William & Mary University\, and is affiliate faculty in the programs of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies; Film and Media Studies; and Environmental Science and Policy. Seger is the author of Landscapes in Between: Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film\, and is currently working on a new monograph considering narrative expressions of toxic embodiment in contemporary Italy. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jhumpa-lahiri-in-conversation-with-monica-seger/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kevin McIlovy and Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 18 at 6pm PT when Kevin McIlvoy discusses his latest novel\, One Kind Favor\, with Peter Orner on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88148839841\n\nAbout One Kind Favor\nBased loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014\, ONE KIND FAVOR explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in the small fictional community of Cord\, North Carolina\, the ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker\, the groundbreaking literary icon\, engages Lincoln in a love triangle and brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of ONE KIND FAVOR\, Kevin McIlvoy’s sixth novel\, echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will\, at last\, have their way.\n\nAbout Kevin McIlvoy\nKevin McIlvoy is the author of seven previous books: five novels\, a book of short stories\, and a book of prose poetry. He is a retired Regents Professor of Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s\, Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, Missouri Review\, and other literary magazines. He lives in Asheville\, North Carolina.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kevin-mcilovy-and-peter-orner/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T190000
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SUMMARY:Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers\nThursday\, May 20\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThe news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big—scary big\, like a brushfire coming at you uphill. Authorities\, medical and political\, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests. Michael Lewis’s new riveting nonfiction thriller\, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story\, pits a rogue band of visionaries\, working under the radar\, against the weight and disinterest of officialdom. It is a race against time\, and the deadline is now…or yesterday. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker\, Moneyball\, The Blind Side\, The Big Short\, and The Undoing Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis-in-conversation-with-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Wells and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 20 at 6pm PT when Martha Wells is joined by Annalee Newitz to discuss Fugitive Telemetry\, the latest in The Murderbot Diaries\, on Zoom!\n\nSigned copies available!\nSpecial Murderbot Diary will be available for the first 20 copies sold!\nBe sure to write “diary!” in your order comment to receive yours.\nWhile supplies last.\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89627822577\n\nPraise for The Murderbot Diaries\n“I love Murderbot!” —Ann Leckie\n\n“The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I’ve enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!” —N. K. Jemisin\n\n“We are all a little bit Murderbot.”—NPR\n\nAbout Fugitive Telemetry\nThe New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back!\nHaving captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.\n\nNo\, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had\, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.\nWhen Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station\, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was)\, how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward\, at least)\, and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)\n\nYes\, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-wells-and-annalee-newitz-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes...
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nan Online Open Mic\n& Community Listening Space\nw/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team! \nThursday\, May 20th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: https://bit.ly/3dwQpO2 \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nOpen mic sign-ups will be ON THE ZOOM CALL!\nIf you want to share [& remember you don’t have to share!]\, once you’re on the Zoom call\, look for posted instructions for signing up. REMEMBER: The open mic list fills up quickly\, so sign up as soon as you can.\nREGISTRATION is for attendance\, not for an open mic spot. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/chelseacoleman1184 or via chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-24/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 21 at 6pm PT when Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his latest book\, Son of the Storm\, with Rebecca Roanhorse on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\n\nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass\n\n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn\n\n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter\n\n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings\n\nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.\n\nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy.\n\nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:Alice Sparkly Kat on Postcolonial Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Astrologer and author Alice Sparkly Kat is ushering in a new wave of astrology that is intersectional\, inclusive\, and geared towards queer and POC communities. In their cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language\, Alice uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets\, sun\, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history\, redefine the body in the world\, and assert our politics of the personal. \nAlice believes that too often\, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism\, used as a force of oppression\, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. Dedicated to unmasking the political power of astrology\, Alice shows how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. \nJoin educator\, creator\, and astrologer Kirah Tabourn for a conversation with Alice Sparkly Kat on their work and their latest book\, Postcolonial Astrology. Kirah and Alice share insights into ways we can use astrology to challenge our own practices\, interrogate our truths\, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/kat-sparkly-alice-may-21-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-sparkly-kat-on-postcolonial-astrology/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks 25th Anniversary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Youth Speaks invites you to join us in celebrating 25 years of supporting and challenging young people to develop and amplify their voices as creators of societal change. Come for a night of youth poetry\, some special guests\, and learn more about our home for the next 25 years and beyond. The fundraiser will be emceed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph with special guests Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs with a special musical guest. \nTICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-25th-anniversary-fundraiser/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 22 at 12pm PT when Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders discuss their latest books\, Sorrowland and Victories Greater Than Death!\n\nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow.\nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation.\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be available to stream on Facebook Live.\n\nAbout Sorrowland\nSorrowland is a triumphant\, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.\n\nVern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There\, she gives birth to twins\, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest\, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go\, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of\, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family\, Vern has to face the past\, and more troublingly\, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here\, monsters aren’t just individuals\, but entire nations. It is a searing\, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold\, unignorable voice in American fiction.\n\nRivers Solomon writes about life in the margins\, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award\, Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for a Lambda\, a Hurston/Wright\, an Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) and a Locus award. Solomon’s second book\, The Deep\, based on the Hugo-nominated song by Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping\, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and shortlisted for a Nebula\, Locus\, Hugo\, Ignyte\, Brooklyn Library Literary\, British Fantasy\, and World Fantasy award. Solomon’s short work appears in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review\, the New York Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, Guernica\, Best American Short Stories\, Tor.com\, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy\, and elsewhere. A refugee of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade\, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.\n\nAbout Victories Greater Than Death\nVictories Greater Than Death is a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders.\n\nOutsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy. “Just please\, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”\n\nTina never worries about being ‘ordinary’–she doesn’t have to\, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains\, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon\, and one day soon\, it’s going to activate\, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy\, after all\, is intergalactic–she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero\, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates\, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed–and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian\, but Tina….is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war\, badly–the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily\, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust\, and her best friend Rachel\, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy coming in April 2021\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future got 700\,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rivers-solomon-and-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sorrowland & Victories Greater Than Death: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon & Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Green Apple\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be available to stream on Facebook Live. \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sorrowland-victories-greater-than-death-a-conversation-with-rivers-solomon-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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