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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Manic D Press Authors
DESCRIPTION:Authors representing Manic D Press will read from their works. Readers will be Daphne Gottlieb\, Thea Hillman\, Ailvin Orloff\, + Larry-Bob Roberts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-manic-d-press-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alia Malek
DESCRIPTION:Alia Malek discusses her new book\, The Home That Was Our Country\, with Micheline Marcom. \n\nPraise for The Home That Was Our Country \n\n“In The Home That Was Our Country\, Alia Malek masterfully weaves together the personal and the political\, and in so doing creates an unforgettable portrait of modern Syria in all its complexities and tragedies. Malek renders multiple generations of family\, friends and neighbors vividly but unsentimentally\, and what emerges is a portrait of a great people held back by tyranny. As Syria suffers through its darkest days\, she reminds us of the humans behind the statistics. Completely engrossing and lucid\, the book explains Syria’s devolution better than anything I’ve read.”―Dave Eggers \n“What Alia Malek has done in The Home That Was Our Country is nothing short of extraordinary. With deep love and clear-eyed honesty\, she weaves together the story of a family and the history of a country. Malek addresses the personal and the political like no other writer I have read recently. This book is an urgent and necessary read.”―Laila Lalami\, author of THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT \n“Alia Malek’s beautiful\, arresting portrait of a Syrian family over generations takes you straight to the heart of that country’s agony. Malek brings you inside the intimate world of a Damascus apartment building\, while weaving in her own experiences as a journalist-laying bare the struggle for freedom like no other work I know. The Syrian war is perhaps the most profound moral and political crisis of our era\, and this unforgettable book will forever change the way you see it and the Middle East.”―Anand Gopal\, author of NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING \n\nAbout The Home That Was Our Country \n\nAt the Arab Spring’s hopeful start\, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment\, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent’s decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building\, past and present\, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims\, Christians\, Jews\, Armenians\, and Kurds-who worked\, loved\, and suffered in close quarters\, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family’s home as the country comes apart\, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship\, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria’s future.\nThe Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched\, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history\, society\, and politics. Teeming with insights\, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history\, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-malek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bayani\, Lee\, Rader\, Roberts\, + Lin
DESCRIPTION:Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show\, “Locus of Control” in 2016. \nJoyce Lee is a writer\, educator and performance poet. Joyce is an Oakland\, California native whose gift with words and expression have made her an international talent and a surprise to herself. Growing up ignorant to her own poverty and reared in a hyper-conservative religion that often silenced womyn is what made Joyce Lee the blunt activist and fierce womynist she is. Although Joyce was a late bloomer to performance poetry (she didn’t know it existed until 2008) Joyce Lee is the 2009 and 2010 Oakland Grand Slam champion\, the 2014 Ill List champion\, a storyteller for NPR’s Snap Judgement and is working on her first book of collected writings entitled My Soul Is A Witness. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book of the year. He has won numerous awards for his writing\, including the 2016 Common Good Books Prize\, judged by Garrison Keillor. Dean writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Huffington Post. Two new collections of poetry appeared in 2017: A book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). Publisher’s Weekly writes “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.” \nMg Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum\, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently\, she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, two hens\, one puppy\, and geologist husband. \nMusical guest Cynthia Lin is a modern day jazz ukulele diva based in San Francisco\, California. The creator of the #100DaysofUkuleleSongs project\, Cynthia is known for her dazzling ukulele acoustic covers and tutorials on YouTube.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bayani-lee-rader-roberts-lin/
LOCATION:Esplande\, Yerba Buena Gardens\, 761 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Irène Mathieu + special guests
DESCRIPTION:Irène Mathieu is a pediatrician\, writer\, and public health researcher. She is the 2016 winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize and author of the poetry chapbook the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press\, 2014) and book orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press\, 2017). Irène has been a Fulbright scholar and a Callaloo fellow\, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a poetry book reviewer for Muzzle Magazine\, an editor for the humanities section of the Journal of General Internal Medicine\, and a contributing author on the Global Health Hub blog. Irène holds a BA in International Relations from the College of William & Mary and a MD from Vanderbilt University. \nLisa Alden is a Mensan\, WashU alum\, and lecturer in creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in Berkeley with her sons. \nKimberly Reyes has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Callaloo\, and Columbia University\, and is currently a William Dickey Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\,Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, Honey\, NY1 News\, and The Best American Poetry blog. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, Columbia Journal Online\, Moko Magazine\, Yemassee\, New American Writing\, and Belleville Park Pages. \nFisayo Adeyeye has works published in Noble / Gas Qtrly\, Nailed Magazine\, The Birds We Piled Loosely\, and work forthcoming in Print Oriented Bastards\, New American Writing\, and This Magazine. He is the former Poetry Editor of Fourteen Hills\, a Co-Curator of the VelRo Graduate Reading Series. His chapbook Blackfish was a finalist for the 2015 Best Prize Chapbook Contest (Big Lucks). His first full length book Cradles is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in April 2017. \n  \nAs always\, this reading is free and welcome to all who’d like to attend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irene-mathieu-special-guests/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T200000
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SUMMARY:EXIT Press Playwrights Panel
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco is a national epicenter of new theatre\, but most “world premieres” languish in a limbo of one-off productions\, never to be seen again. But local imprint EXIT Press is out to change that dynamic\, publishing the works of local playwrights in order to give them life beyond their initial run\, documenting our unique theatrical history one play at a time. Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak\, lead theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle\, to discuss the process of playwriting–from page to stage to publication. With Allison Page\, Aren Haun\, Martin Schwartz\, Stuart Bousel\, and Terry Baum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/exit-press-playwrights-panel/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T233000
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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T210000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. \nPraise for Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \n“Dr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, shortlisted for 2014 Man Booker Prize \n“If aging be a lamp\, then Morayo\, the protagonist in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a mesmerising glow. Astute\, sensual\, funny\, and moving.” —NoViolet Bulawayo\, author of We Need New Names\, shortlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize \n“From the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. A beautiful\, important new novel. ” —Peter Orner\, author of Love and Shame and Love \nAbout Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \nMorayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband.\nA subtle story about ageing\, friendship and loss\, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T210000
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Call of the Wild
DESCRIPTION:The wonders of nature … the unbridled power of nature’s wrath … in the end\, we all know that no matter what we do\, nature ultimately has the last say. This month we venture into the wild to hear stories from six storytellers about their brushes with nature\, for better or worse. Join us at the next Fireside! \nStorytellers \nScott Sanders\nDhaya Lakshminarayanan\nAndy Sewell\nNeshama Franklin \nMore TBD
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-call-of-the-wild/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T213000
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CREATED:20170503T235026Z
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge & Free Me Fast
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Mireya Ixchel A.K.A. ‘Lil’ Deya\, Aleja Cobarruviaz\, Joey B. Gomez\, singer/songwriter Astu\, and Special Guests. Open Mic sign-up at 7:15pm. \nLUNADA Literary Lounge & FREE ME FAST\nAt the height of Spring\, under the full moon\, Galeria de la Raza presents Lunada Literary Lounge in collaboration with Free Me Fast\, for an evening of youth spoken word & community Open Mic\, featuring: \n~ MIREYA IXCHEL a.k.a. ‘LIL’ DEYA\n~ ALEJA COBARRUVIAZ\n~ JOEY B. GOMEZ\n~ ASTU\nLUNADA’s OPEN MIC invites poets\, emcees\, musicians\, storytellers\, laureates and first-timers to share their voices under the lunar spotlight. SIGN-UP 7:15PM: 8 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. \nHosted & curated by Sandra García Rivera & Maddy Clifford \nAlso featuring DJ Chris “L7” Cuadrado providing the musical backdrop\, and artwork and free posters by fine artist and illustrator Ozi Magaña.  \n$5.00 ADMISSION\nFree for youth under 18 \n \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nFREE ME FAST is a project that highlights the voices and visions of incarcerated youth. Students at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center strengthened their writing skills in weekly literary arts workshops led by teaching artist MADDY CLIFFORD\, a WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence* grant recipient. Inspired by the students’ poems\, visual artist OZI MAGAÑA created unique paintings\, which resulted in a poster series that celebrates the bravery and creative imagination of youth. Free Me Fast honors the arts as a vital resource that stretches our imagination\, whether inside concrete walls or within our communities.  (@freeme.fast on Instagram) \n*The San Francisco Arts Commission’s WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence (WCTAIR) grant program supports teaching artists in community settings to teach free creative writing workshops to youth. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMireya Ixchel\, A.K.A. ‘Lil’ Deya\, is a 14-year old singer\, rapper\, and songwriter\, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses her music as a way to spread messages of hope to her people and express the experiences in her life. Mireya has been a featured performer for the Xicana Moratorium\, The Courage Awards- Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) 5-Year Gala\, Reclaiming Cinco de Mayo\, and the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice Convening. She thrives to help build a better community around her and for future generations. \nHome grown in the Bayview\, Aleja Cobarruviaz is an 11th grade Queen in training. She finds solace in writing\, rhyming\, and producing. She is also a published author in two different publications.  Her passions include: reading comic books\, rapping\, mixing and producing music as well as being a participant in the Artists as Activist Class at her high school. She is founder and co-leader of the Hip Hop is Culture Club at the Bay School of San Francisco. She wants to be a scriptwriter\, director\, and actor for DC Comics. \nJoey B. Gomez is an 18 year-old aspiring artist. He’s in search of new opportunities in order to create a better way of living.  He was born and raised in San Francisco and wishes to share past experiences with those who have faced similar situations. Making a difference in at least one person’s life is his main priority. \nAstu is an Eritrean singer/songwriter debuting out of Oakland\, CA. Her growing acclaim can be attested to her soulful r&b vocals and addictive melodies. Astu’s bold and honest lyrics explore her experiences of love\, redemption and black womanhood. Astu is currently recording her premiere album to be released in the summer of 2017.\nMADlines aka Maddy Clifford is a rapper\, educator and activist. She has been teaching poetry workshops at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center for the past four years.  She is also part of a band called FR333 and is co-founder of BrujaLyfe\, a curatorial platform that throws concerts\, leads workshops and facilitates healing forums.  madlinesinfo.com \nOzi Magaña is a Bay Area fine artist and illustrator. He draws upon the energy\, experience and aesthetic of his environment and community to create imaginative pieces. His work has appeared in galleries in Denver\, Oakland and San Francisco. ozimagana.com \nChris “L7” Cuadrado is a poet\, MC\, hip hop producer\, photographer\, graphic artist\, director\, and community organizer from Inglewood CA\, currently based in Santa Cruz\, CA. L7 centers his community and oppressed people’s within his work and seeks to challenge and dismantle structures/systems of power that reproduce our oppression. Follow: Lsiete.tumblr.com & https://soundcloud.com/lsiete
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-free-me-fast/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book\, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian literature and the challenges of translating from the language. \nLight snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simon-wickhamsmith-on-mongolian-poet-tseveendorjin-oidov/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents Mirrors\, Smoke\, & Getting Woke: Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see a multimedia production of original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… Mirrors reflect our nature\, ideas have other ideas\, the rebellion starts on Powell Street\, legacies lurk in the shadows\, and money falls out your wazoo!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-mirrors-smoke-getting-woke-short-plays-by-short-people-2/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="StageWrite":MAILTO:elana@stagewrite.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T210000
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy + Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nWriters Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 \nEdited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian \nPublished by Nightboat Books \nIn the twenty years that followed America’s bicentennial\, narrative writing was re-formed\, reflecting new political and sexual realities. With the publication of this anthology\, the New Narrative era bounds back to life\, ripe with dramatic propulsion and infused with the twin strains of poetry and Continental theory. Arranged chronologically\, the reader will discover classic texts of New Narrative from Bob Glück to Kathy Acker\, and rare materials including period interviews\, reviews\, essays\, and talks combined to form a new map of late twentieth-century creative rebellion. \nDodie Bellamy is the author of numerous works of prose. Her latest book is When the Sick Rule the World. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts. \nKevin Killian is a San Francisco-based poet\, novelist\, playwright\, and art writer. He is the author of fifteen books and co-wrote Poet Be Like God\, a biography of the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). City Lights published his novel Impossible Princess\, winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Erotica . \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss shares her touching memoir\, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love. \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience–of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T213000
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CREATED:20170501T125533Z
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SUMMARY:Glori Simmons
DESCRIPTION:Glori Simmons discusses her new story collection\, Suffering Fools\, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. \n\nAbout Suffering Fools \n\nA woman running a halfway house for paroled sexual predators is left wondering if her favorite has committed his most unthinkable crime yet. A groundskeeper who has just discovered that his ex is pregnant digs up an infant’s tombstone inscribed with his own name. A traumatic traffic collision sends an aging couple back into their decades long marriage. Whether it be a dying man spying on two teenage lovers or a new mother running from her colicky infant\, the nine stories in Suffering Fools spring from the dark corners of our psyches\, revealing the fears and contradictions that give shape to unconditional love. Suffering Fools is the winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glori-simmons/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170320T102531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T102531Z
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Simon Wickhamsmith
DESCRIPTION:Two Voices Salon: Translator Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov\n\nCenter for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street\, Suite 700 | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nDoors at 5:30. Event will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. \n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book\, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian literature and the challenges of translating from the language. \nLight snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation! \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-simon-wickhamsmith/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170514T120000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170503T115920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T002820Z
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SUMMARY:Rewrite Your Life
DESCRIPTION:REWRITE YOUR LIFE WEEKEND IMMERSIVE\nA HEALING CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP\nLearn how to write the book you’re meant to write in this weekend workshop. You’ll be introduced to the powerfully therapeutic value of creative writing and taught to transform your life experiences into healing fiction with the bones to be the next great American novel. Class size is limited. \nIn this 3-day intensive\, you will be shown: \n\nthe science behind the healing power of transforming fact into fiction\na simple yet powerful model for sifting through pivotal life experiences to select the one you most need to write about\n\n\npractical guidance in plumbing your past to create memorable characters and to craft a compelling plot\ndirection on how to use the power of smell\, sound\, taste\, and touch memories to access your past as well as craft cinematic setting\nthe POP method\, a wildly effective tool for pulling all your words together and crafting a novel in one year’s time\nhow to set and keep personal writing and self-improvement goals in your everyday life
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rewrite-your-life/
LOCATION:Grace Cathedral\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, 1100 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170502T004501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T004501Z
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents Mirrors\, Smoke\, & Getting Woke: Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:StageWrite presents Mirrors\, Smoke\, & Getting Woke: Short Plays by Short People \nCome see a multimedia production of original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… Mirrors reflect our nature\, ideas have other ideas\, the rebellion starts on Powell Street\, legacies lurk in the shadows\, and money falls out your wazoo!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-mirrors-smoke-getting-woke-short-plays-by-short-people/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="StageWrite":MAILTO:elana@stagewrite.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170422T005049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170422T005940Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard Reads from Chien Lunatique
DESCRIPTION:Love\, Modernity\, and the Internet Just who\, or what\, is le chien lunatique? \nThe poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems – profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing – distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new – the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nPre-publication Comments on\nChristopher Bernard’s\nCHIEN LUNATIQUE \n“An extraordinary\, and extraordinarily strange\, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends.”\n– Jack Foley \n“. . . poems of diamond-like brilliance\, filled with despair\, passion\, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage\, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness.”\n– Mary Mackey\, author of Sugar Zone and\nthe novel The Village of Bones \n“Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority\, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling.”\n– Ernest Hilbert\, author of Caligulan \n“An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection.” – Simon Perchik \n“ ‘The Wife of the Painter’ . . . takes my breath away . . . . ‘Midnight’ is . . . a masterpiece\, yet so modest as to almost escape notice.”\n– Curt Barnes \n“In this provocative collection of poems\, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness.”\n– Philip Fried
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-reads-from-chien-lunatique/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T163000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170509T000524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T000524Z
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SUMMARY:Butchertown Book Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:BUTCHERTOWN BOOK RELEASE PARTY: At Stookey’s Club Moderne \n“One Bad Weekend in One Bad Town . . . Butchertown.” \n“A darkly fascinating novel. Butchertown is incendiary”— David Corbett\, award-winning author of Mercy of the Night. \n“Burchfield rounds up a great cast of gangsters and gunsels to bat his wide-eyed hero around.”—Don Herron\, author of the Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs and The Dashiell Hammett Tour \n“A sexy\, violent non-stop thrill ride deep into the seedy underbelly of post-World War I San Francisco!” Critic’s Report\, The BookLife Prize\, sponsored by Publishers Weekly. \nOakland\, CA\, 5/5/2017 – The first official book release party for Butchertown\, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay will be held this coming Saturday May 13\, 2017 at Stookey’s Club Moderne\, 895 Bush Street (at Taylor) from 3:00-4:30 PM\, with doors opening at 2:30. The author will read from Butchertown\, plus an excerpt from an upcoming novel and will provide signed copies of Butchertown for sale. \nButchertown tells the story of Paul Bacon\, ex-Navy boxer\, Jazz-Age playboy and junior city attorney\, who’s moved to California expecting sunshine and sandy beaches. But all he’s found is lonely misery in the chilly fog-choked canyons of 1920s San Francisco. \nThen\, one foggy night\, he meets Molly Carver. Alluring\, irresistible\, mysterious\, she lures Paul across San Francisco Bay to her hometown of Evansville\, to what she claims is the California promised in the travel brochures. \nBut Molly’s promise is only camouflage for a dangerous game. Evansville is no paradise but a whirling sewer of sin and perdition; a wilderness of slaughterhouses\, factories\, oil refineries\, gambling dens\, brothels\, and speakeasies even more decadent than San Francisco. And within its grimy\, gritty heart\, a gang war smolders\, ready for someone to throw a match. \nThey don’t call it Butchertown for nothing. \nABOUT THE VENUE: Stookey’s Club Moderne\, located at 895 Bush at Taylor\, between Nob Hill and Union Square\, is a lounge evoking the style of post-prohibition San Francisco (1930-1940). \nThe bar’s classic cocktails and Streamline-Moderne design\, brings its guests back in time and into the mood of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco. \nContact:\nThomas Burchfield\namblerhouse@att.net\n(510) 817-4432\nhttp://amblerhouse.blogspot.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/butchertown-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Stookey’s Club  Moderne\, 895 Bush St. at Taylor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
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CREATED:20170504T005603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T005603Z
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Museum Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:The Tenderloin Museum marks its 2nd anniversary in the midst of an important year in the history of San Francisco – it’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the 100th anniversary of the “anti-vice” Tenderloin neighborhood shutdown. On Saturday\, May 13\, the Tenderloin Museum is inviting its friends and neighbors to celebrate the Tenderloin’s unique contributions to San Francisco history with daylong free museum admission and free public programs from 4 pm to 9 pm\, featuring accounts of the “Invisible Circus” from the Diggers\, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist David Talbot\, the first-ever reading of the new play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, and a dynamic jazz night by SF Recovery Theater. We’re excited to show off the best the neighborhood has to offer and celebrate the 31 square blocks we call home. \n Programming Schedule: \n4pm\, The Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Remembered \nCome hear what the Summer of Love was like in the Tenderloin. Judy Goldhaft (original participant in the Diggers) and Eric Noble (Diggers archivist) talk with LisaRuth Elliott (Shaping San Francisco’s co-director) about who the Diggers were\, and their radical anti-capitalist philosophy and activities. They will share archival materials and personal experiences from the Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Happening at Glide Church on February 24\, 1967. Stories about the “Invisible Circus” became legend in San Francisco’s hip community for years. Originally billed as a 72 hour event\, participants were thrown out within 24 hours. See the poster from the event and hear stories of the spectacle from the Diggers themselves. \n5pm\, David Talbot on the Summer of Love\, Season of the Witch\, and the Tenderloin \nAuthor of the best selling book on San Francisco’s Summer of Love and its aftermath\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Talbot gives his unique perspective on this seminal time in history. \n6pm\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot \nJoin us for the first-ever reading of scenes from a new play about Tenderloin history\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, based on events surrounding the United States’ first-ever anti-police riot by the LGBTQ community. Followed by dazzling drag performances by co-authors Donna Personna & Collette LeGrande\, and joined by Olivia Hart (all featured in James Hosking’s film about Aunt Charlie’s bar\, Beautiful by Night). The play is being co-produced by the Tenderloin Museum and writer Mark Nassar\, co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, and will premiere this fall in the Tenderloin. \n7:30\, SF Recovery Theater: Night at the Black Hawk \nJoin us for a raucous tour-de-force performance of some of the best musical talent in the neighborhood! Night at the Black Hawk is a live jazz concert\, part of an ongoing series that reflects on the lives and stories of the artists\, musicians\, and residents that lived in the shadow of the Black Hawk Jazz Club. \nParticipant Bios \nA former member of the Diggers\, Judy Goldhaft is an activist who has used art\, theater and education to further social change in urban and rural locations to promote community empowerment and bioregional ecological education. Judy has performed dance\, street theater\, life acting\, multispecies theater and single person performance pieces. Judy has been a guiding force with the ecological educational nonprofit Planet Drum Foundation since its inception in 1973\, serving currently as its director. She also gardens\, and is a maker\, repairer\, and reuser. \nAfter reading a copy of the Digger Papers while living in Ohio in 1968\, Eric Noble dropped out of college and made his way across the country to find the Diggers. From 1968 to 1971 he lived a peripatetic existence in lots of different communes along the way. Once in San Francisco in 1971\, he moved into the Kaliflower commune\, an offshoot inspired by the Diggers. Learning about how prolific the Digger movement had been in terms of written material\, he collected whatever he could find and became known as the Digger archivist\, so named by Peter Berg. His project\, the Digger Archives have been online in some form since 1995\, and continue to inspire people all over the world. \nShaping San Francisco is a participatory community history project dedicated to uncovering and sharing the overlooked and forgotten histories of the City. Through Free Public Talks\, Walking and Bicycle History Tours\, and our digital archive at Foundsf.org\, Shaping San Francisco seeks to make history together\, recognizing that “History is a Creative Act in the Present.” shapingsf.org\, foundsf.org\, diggers.org\, planetdrum.org \nDavid Talbot is a bestselling author\, journalist\, media entrepreneur and political activist. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pioneering online publication Salon and a former senior editor of Mother Jones magazine. In recent years\, he has built a reputation as a popular historian with books such as the national bestseller Season of the Witch and the New York Times bestsellers The Devil’s Chessboard andBrothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Talbot has written for Time magazine\, The New Yorker\,Rolling Stone\, and other publications. He is currently a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also a cofounder of San Francisco Vision\, a progressive coalition that fights for “San Francisco values.” \nMark Nassar along with Tenderloin Museum director Katie Conry conceived of the idea of an interactive play based on the Compton’s Cafeteria riot\, inspired by the Tenderloin Museum’s exhibits on the subject. Nassar\, in collaboration with long-term Tenderloin drag queens Donna Persona and Collette LeGrande\, has spent the past year writing the play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. He boasts an impressive record of artistic success\, having written plays and screenplays\, and has also acted in theater\, TV and film. Mr. Nassar is also the co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, the longest running Off-Broadway comedy in New York City history. More recently\, he wrote the screenplay\, A Line in the Sand\, a film directed by Jeffrey Chernov\, in which he also had a principal role. In 2008\, the film won Best Feature and the Audience Award at numerous film festivals\, as well as the Grand Jury prize at the Canada International Film Festival. He also attended the Djerassi Artists Residency in Woodside\, California\, where he completed a new play\, Shouting in the Wilderness\, and is currently playing Sal the owner in San Francisco’s immersive hit – The Speakeasy. \nCollette LeGrande is the twice former Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has raised funds for charity in the Tenderloin for 30 years\, supporting AIDS Emergency Fund\, Magnet\, Mama Reinhardt’s Toys for Tots\, and many others. She has worked at Aunt Charlie’s since 1998 and organizes her own bi-weekly drag show\, the Dream Queens Revue. \nDonna Personna is an artist and performer\, who first hit the stage with the legendary Cockettes. She was the subject of the 2013 Iris Prize-winning short “My Mother\,” by Jay Bedwani\, and is currently in production with Bedwani on another documentary film. She serves on the board of directors committees for Trans March and the Transgender Day of Remembrance\, working to gain wider visibility for transgender rights. \nOlivia Hart is a chef by day and performer by night. She is the current Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has organized and hosted numerous events to benefit the LGBT community and\, in particular\, organizations that support addiction recovery and sober living. \nThe San Francisco Recovery Theatre is a grassroots organization with a lot of local and some municipal support. It is funded by grants from the art and health community in San Francisco with no full time staff\, but with a core group of dedicated actors\, composed mainly of people in recovery. Its mission is to meet people where they are\, provide a medium of communication and deliver a message of hope\, consequence and solutions. http://sfrecoverytheatre.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-museum-turns-two/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T232258Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Author Deborah Fleming \nAward winning hippie/Vietnam War novel Without Leave published by Black Mountain Press. Winner of the 2013 Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press\, the novel Without Leave places brave people into the hippie experience and turbulent antiwar movement of the 1960s and addresses the existential question of freedom of the will. \nPublished 47 years since the “Summer of Love” and 49 years since the troop surge that ushered in the full-scale American commitment to the Vietnam War\, Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70. David Shields goes AWOL from the Navy where he’d hoped to find training and focus for his life but instead finds boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco in 1967 he meets and falls in love with an artist\, Diane Cavanagh\, who drops out of college after a brutal rape and the death of the black man she loved. Through turmoil and separation\, they find they cannot escape their past.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fleming/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
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CREATED:20170415T084714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T005945Z
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SUMMARY:Mama Says: QTPOC Lineage + Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:MAMA SAYS: QTPOC Lineage and Storytelling\nMay 13\, 2017\nGaleria de la Raza\nshow @ 6pm\nafter party @ 8pm\n$5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds) \nFeaturing…\nIndira Allegra\nMyriam Gurba\nRoberto F. Santiago\nGrace Rosario Perkins\nJosé Iñiguez\n \nIndira Allegra is a recipient of the Oakland Individual Artist (2015) and Queer Cultural Center grants (2014) and has been honored with the Jackson Literary Award (2014)\, Lambda Literary Fellowship (2012) and Windgate Craft Fellowship (2015). Allegra’s commissions include works for the SFMOMA\, de Young Museum\, The Wattis Institute\, Petty Biennial\, SFJAZZ Poetry Festival\, the City of Oakland and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her time-based works have screened at festivals such as MIX NYC (2013)\, Perlen Hannover LGBT Festival (2010)\, Bologna Lesbian Film Festival (2010) and Outfest Fusion (2009).Allegra’s writing has been widely anthologized\, she has contributed works to Cream City Review\, HYSTERIA Magazine\, make/shift Magazine\, Konch Magazine and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art and Thought among others. In 2014 she was the Dr. and Mrs. Ella Tag Lecturer at East Carolina University and a Lylle Parker Women of Color Speaker at the University of Oregon. Allegra has completed workshops and residencies at The Banff Centre in Canada (2012) Ponderosa Center for Movement and Discovery in Stolzenhagen (2016) and Takt in Berlin (2016). She is a 2017 Artist in Residence at Djerassi Residence Arts Program and the Headlands Center for the Arts. \nMyriam Gurba\nMyriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word artist\, visual artist\, and writer from Santa Maria\, California. She currently lives and teaches in Long Beach\, California. Her most recent novel\, Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories\, explores Mexican stories and traditions from a feminist lens. \nRoberto Santiago\nRoberto F. Santiago is a poet\, translator\, and lead singer in a solo act who produces his own music\, and dances rips into his pants. Roberto received an MFA from Rutgers University\, BA from Sarah Lawrence College\, and is the recipient of the 2011 Alfred C. Carey Prize for Poetry. Currently\, he works as College and Career Coordinator at a high school in San Francisco. Be it pedaling past the canals in Amsterdam or the smell of rain in rural Québec\, he has begun to rewrite his own passport. Roberto also writes and produces his own music\, and has been known to dance until he rips his pants. His frst full-length collection of poems\, Angel Park\, will be released April 2015 by Lethe Press. His poetry has been published in such anthologies/journals as Assaracus – Sibling Rivalry (2014)\, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action(2014)\, Hypothetical: A Review of Everything Imaginable(2014)\, and Te Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep you Company – CavanKerry (2013). \nGrace Rosario Perkins\nCapturing feeling through her artwork in a multitude of ways\, Grace Rosario Perkins creates visionary pieces by evoking thought\, feeling and language onto mediums that allow us to create our own thoughts\, feelings and language. Coming from a line of artists and having spent a majority of her time living on the Akimel O’odham Indian and on the Navajo Nation reservations\, Grace’s upbringing has affected her artwork greatly through the years\, and has created a unique spin on the way language and artwork come together. Repetitive motifs of women\, mountainscapes\, abstract patterns and shapes all built from a consciousness in which memory\, familial identity\, pop culture and obsessive mark-making are paired with texts. \nJosé Iñiguez\nJosé Luis Iñiguez is a Central Valley artist currently based in Oakland\, California. He received his Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in San Francisco\, California. Trained as a ceramist; yet\, his practice is not solely that\, he infuses his visions with tactile procedures and assemblage\, utilizing found objects and waste. Iñiguez’s work is encircled with many planes of his identity. His recent investigation immersed his practice into a spiritual quest\, weaving in his Roman Catholic upbringing with the occult.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mama-says-qtpoc-lineage-storytelling/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170430T032405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T032405Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Higgs\, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, + Cassandra Troyan
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-higgs-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-cassandra-troyan/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T213000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170417T112205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T112205Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 13\, 2017:\n \nLindy West (Shrill)\nJulia Vinograd (Graffiti: Poems\, Suspicious Characters: Poems)\nMeg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\nGeorge Higgins (There\, There)\nZahra Noorbakhsh (#GoodMuslimBadMuslim) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-4/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170514T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170514T220000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170511T040214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170511T040214Z
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SUMMARY:Standing O Storytelling Graduation Performance
DESCRIPTION:Standing O Storytelling’s inaugural graduating class is ready to take the stage! Join us for stories from a new crop of storytellers that you can expect to see on stages all over the bay area soon.\nThese storytellers deserve a standing ovation for their hard work and dedication to the art of storytelling. If you wanna be the first to see and hear new stories from these Standing O graduates\, this is your chance…get your tickets in advance to grab your seat. \nOur Graduating Storytellers include:\n– Christina McFadden\n– Saren O’Grady\n– Bandee\n– Lora Lewis\n– David ‘Hearty’ Heartlife\n– Lisa Spitalewitz\n– Debby Jensen\n– Ana Nelson\n– Johanni Thunstrom\n– Hervé Mazoyer\n– Johanni Thunstrom (not performing)\n– Ana Nelson (not performing) \nThis is also Dixie De La Tour’s birthday\, so we’ll have cake\, too!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/standing-o-storytelling-graduation-performance/
LOCATION:StageWerx\, 466 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170515T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170515T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170320T103059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T010942Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Gaitskill
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Signing with Mary Gaitskill for “Somebody with a Little Hammer”.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-gaitskill/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170414T030146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170512T031715Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170515T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170515T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T020501
CREATED:20170429T022133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170429T022133Z
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SUMMARY:The Odd Mondays Series
DESCRIPTION:The Odd Mondays Series at Folio Books \nMonday\, May 15th\, 7 PM \n3957 24th Street\, San Francisco \nA LITERARY POTPOURRI \nFeaturing Authors: Erika Atkinson\, Michael Helquist\, Andrew McIntyre\, Laynie Tzena. \nFREE ADMISSION \nERIKA ATKINSON signed up with the Canadian Foreign Service in Washington\, D.C.\, for several years\, after which she worked in administrative positions in schools\, colleges\, and universities across Canada\, the United States\, and various parts of Europe before settling in Bernal Heights in 1984. She is the author of five books. Two of them\, Happily Lost in Time and Place\, and More Miles and Moments\, are collected stories about adventures of happenstance\, about characters\, situations\, and experiences that were never planned. In her book Frozen Stillness\, she recounts her journey to Antarctica in 2010. Her first collection of poetry\, Exhort the Goddesses\, was compiled in 2015 to honor the Supreme Court’s historic decision that same sex marriage be declared legal across the United States. The most recent book\, Ode to the Castro\, is her dedication to the neighborhood she loves\, where she has now lived and played for nearly two decades. \nMICHAEL HELQUIST is an awarding-winning author\, journalist\, and historian. He has published in “Ms. Magazine\,” “The Advocate”\, “American Medical News”\, and “The Oregon Historical Quarterly.” As a medical journalist\, he consulted for the World Health Organization\, the Centers for Disease Control\, and the U.S. State Department. He was inspired to write the biography\, Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions\, because of Dr. Equi’s fierce struggle as an outsider to achieve independence\, and her commitment to social and economic justice. Helquist lived in Noe Valley for five years before relocating to the North Panhandle neighborhood. \nAfter years of traveling\, ANDREW McINTYRE has found a settled existence in San Francisco. He attended universities in England\, Scotland\, Japan\, and the United States\, and holds master’s degrees in Economics and Comparative Literature. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines\, including “The Mississippi Review\,” “3:AM Magazine”\, “Long Story Short”\, “The Copperfield Review”\, and “Pindeldyboz.” In 2002\, he was a finalist in Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize. His short story collection\, The Short\, the Long\, and the Tall\, was published by Merilang Press in December\, 2010. He lives in San Francisco. \nLAYNIE TZENA is a writer\, performer\, and visual artist based in San Francisco. Her work has been published in “Bayou”\, “Event”\, “The Michigan Quarterly Review”\, “Sonora Review”\, and “Zone 3\,” among others; she has received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry\, was named on of the “New Voices in Michigan Poetry”\, and has been a Cranbrook Fiction Scholar. “Glimmer Train” recently included her short story\, “Egg\,” in the top 25 of its “Family Matters” competition. Tzena has been a featured performer at the Austin International Poetry Festival\, the Marsh Café\, the Monkey House\, and on Michigan Public Radio. \nConsider joining us for a no-host pizza/salad or other entré dinner ($15-20)\, before the reading\, 5:30 p.m. at the Haystack Pizza Restaurant\, south side of 24th near Sanches Street. \nThe 24 line and the 48 line and the J Church are the nearby Muni transportation lines available. \nwww.oddmondays.com \nOdd Mondays is presented by Judith and Ramón Sender and Folio Books. \n“You shall know the truth\, and the truth shall make you odd.” -Flannery O’Connor
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-odd-mondays-series/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hala Alyan
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate a dazzling new literary voice\, Hala Alyan\, and her debut novel\, Salt Houses\, about a Palestinian family caught between present and past\, between displacement and home. \nOn the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding\, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel\, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day\, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can’t escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City\, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990\, Alia and her family once again lose their home\, their land\, and their story as they know it\, scattering to Beirut\, Paris\, Boston\, and beyond. Soon Alia’s children begin families of their own\, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. Lyrical and heartbreaking\, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hala-alyan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fenton Johnson
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Public Library presents  Fenton Johnson for a Launch Party in celebration of his new work\, Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays. Fenton will be in conversation with Andrew Lam\, author of Birds of Paradise Lost–which was a 2013 California Book Awards-finalist for First Fiction. \nPart retrospective\, part memoir\, Fenton Johnson’s collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality\, religion\, geography\, the AIDS crisis\, and more. Johnson’s wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco\, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way\, he investigates questions large and small: What’s the relationship between artists and museums\, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What’s the difference between empiricism and intuition? \nThe collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times\, All Things Considered and elsewhere\, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic\, from Burning Man\, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball. \nEverywhere Home is the latest title in Sarabande’s Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. \nFenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds\, Scissors\, Paper\, Rock\, and Crossing the River\, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper’s\, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University. \nThe thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans\, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath\, of murder\, arrest\, re-education camps and new economic zones\, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force\, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration\, and in so doing\, the human heart. \nAndrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New American Media\, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR s All Things Consideredfor many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, theChicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. Birds of Paradise Lostis his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fenton-johnson-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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