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SUMMARY:John Sayles at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Yellow Earth \nfrom Haymarket Books \n\nRich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth\, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose. \n\n\nIn Yellow Earth\, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota\, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer\, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. “An activist in his way\, a product of the Casino Era\,” Kildeer\, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby\, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. \nWhat follows\, with characteristic lyrical dexterity\, insight\, and wit\, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters\, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling. \nSet shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement\, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times. \nJohn Sayles works as a fiction writer\, screenwriter\, actor and feature film director.  His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award.  He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.  He has directed 18 feature films\, with another\, I Passed This Way\, currently in progress.  His films Matewan and Lone Star\, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun\, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses.  Yellow Earth is his fifth novel. \nWhat has been said about the work of John Sayles: \n“John Sayles is a living master. Yellow Earth reminds me what novels are for.” —Jennifer Haigh\, author of Heat and Light \nFilmmaker Sayles … is also a highly imaginative short story writer with a sure ear for dialogue\, a keen eye for group dynamics\, a flair for quickly establishing intriguing mise-en-scènes\, and the ability to animate a great spectrum of flinty characters … Sayles expresses his compassion and concern for those who struggle with poverty and prejudice\, seeking both to provoke and entertain.” —Booklist\n“Many writers can render credible characters in a credible world\, but only a few can do so with a warmth and a humor that is as wise as it is true.” —Chicago Sun-Times\n“[Sayles’s] ancestry is more like the reportorial vigor Jack London on one side and a little of the sweet impressionism of Stephen Crane on the other.” —The New York Times\n“John Sayles is one of the most important public historians of our generation.” —William Cronon\, President of the American Historical Association\n“John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself\, Sayles functions more independently than most directors\, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions.From The Return of the Secaucus Seven to Sunshine State\, his films have consistently expressed progressive political positions on issues including race\, gender\, sexuality\, class\, and disability.”  —University of Illinois Press\nSayles is a terrific writer. His breathtaking precision and attention to detail can make E.L. Doctorow’s historical novels look puny and slapdash by comparison. His ability to map the intersections of scores of plots and hundreds of fictional and real-life characters is truly stunning.”  —Adam Langer\, San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sayles-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax
DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Apogee Press at Lone Glen
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at 7 pm on Tuesday\, February 25th for a night of poetry revelry at The Bindery in San Francisco. The Lone Glen series will celebrate the beginning of its ninth year with Apogee Press\, featuring poets Elizabeth Robinson\, Barbara Tomash\, Laura Walker\, and Edward Smallfield\, who is also launching his latest book\, to whom it may concern. Whereas Smallfield explores the “lyric meditation\, [where] eros and erasure alternately fuse and efface until erasure becomes manifestation . . .”\, Walker assures us that narrative is “a music to live by”\, Tomash reminds us that “every word was once a poem”\, and Robinson allows us to “revel in the slippery meanings of common words as they pour through the security perimeters.” We look forward to witnessing each of these poets pour through their works and invite you to share their words with us. \nAbout the series: \nLone Glen\, now in its ninth year\, is a quarterly art-centric reading and performance series dedicated to creating a down-to-earth\, inclusive space among writers and artists of all genres. Suggested donation for this reading is $5-$10 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nAbout the Venue: \nThe Bindery\, an outcrop of The Booksmith\, is a magical bookstore/event space with a beer\, wine and cocktail bar\, located at 1727 Haight Street. The Bindery is wheelchair accessible. \nAbout the poets: \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing).  Her nonfiction essays have appeared recently in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time.  Robinson has received grants from the Fund for Poetry\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and the Maison Dora Maar.  With Jennifer Phelps\, she co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press in 2019. \nEDWARD SMALLFIELD is the author of to whom it may concern\, equinox\, The Pleasures of C\, and americana. He is also the author of several collaborative projects\, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson)\, locate (with Miriam Pirone)\, and lirio and anonymous (both with Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in Barcelona INK\, Denver Quarterly\, e-poema.eu\, Five Fingers Review\, New American Writing\, Páginas Rojas\, Parthenon West Review\, 26\, and many other magazines and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi\, Paou\, Paros\, and Sofia\, and lives in Barcelona with his wife\, the poet Valerie Coulton. \nBARBARA TOMASH is the author of four books of poetry: PRE- (Black Radish Books 2018)\, Arboreal (Apogee 2014)\, The Secret of White (Spuyten Duyvil 2009)\, and Flying in Water\, winner of the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award. An earlier version of PRE- was a finalist for the Colorado Prize and the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize. Before her creative interests turned her toward writing she worked extensively as a multimedia artist. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Web Conjunctions\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, OmniVerse\, and numerous other journals. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nLAURA WALKER is the author of story (Apogee Press\, 2016)\, Follow–Haswed (Apogee Press\, 2012)\, bird book (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press\, 2008)\, and swarm lure (Battery Press\, 2004). She grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley\, CA\, where she teaches creative writing. More information is available at laura-walker.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apogee-press-at-lone-glen/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emily Nemens: The Cactus League
DESCRIPTION:Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League. \nPraise for The Cactus League \n“Emily Nemens’s magnificent debut is a masterwork of great empathy and detail\, uncovering the realms of incredible pain and beauty enmeshed within every level of America’s pastime. If you love baseball\, you won’t put it down\, and if you don’t love baseball\, you might by the end.” —J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota and Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n“A debut? You’ve got to be kidding.The Cactus League reads like the work of a seasoned novelist. The way the story’s tension ramps\, the richly drawn characters\, the indelible imagery—you’ll never see a ball park the same—not to mention Emily Nemens’s knowledge of America’s pastime is downright encyclopedic. And while all those things are true\, absolutely true\, the heart of this amazing novel is Emily’s understanding of the crucibles faced by those both in the limelight and out of it. Goodyear and the rest of the gang are a cast for the ages. Hip hip hooray for this achievement.” —Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \n“The Cactus League is not just another baseball novel. I can’t think of another book that so carefully examines the complex ecosystem of professional sport. With both compassion and objectivity\, Emily Nemens deftly depicts the rich lives and stories that swirl beneath the ‘meaningless’ innings of spring training.” —Chris Bachelder\, author of The Throwback Special \nAbout The Cactus League \nAn explosive\, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball from Emily Nemens\, the editor of The Paris Review \nJason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions\, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome\, famous\, and talented\, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches\, writers\, wives\, girlfriends\, petty criminals\, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why—as they hide secrets of their own. \nHumming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch\, Emily Nemens’ The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster\, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor\, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland\, a resourceful spring-training paramour\, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison\, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters\, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It’s a journey that\, like the Arizona desert\, brims with both possibility and destruction. \nAnchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings\, Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving\, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-nemens-the-cactus-league/
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:The Evolving Universe with Brian Greene in conversation with Gina Pell
DESCRIPTION:Brian Greene is widely recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory.  Greene is co-founder and director of Columbia’s Institute for Strings\, Cosmology\, and Astroparticle Physics\, and his many books include The Elegant Universe\, The Fabric of the Cosmos\, and The Hidden Reality. His newest\, Until the End of Time: Mind\, Matter\, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe\, explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos\, and how our minds\, in coming to understand their own impermanence\, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative\, myth\, religion\, creative expression\, science\, the quest for truth\, and our longing for the eternal. \nGina Pell is the Content Chief of The What\, a lifestyle and culture publication with a global readership and engaged online community. She is an award-winning Creative Director and tech entrepreneur who was an early pioneer in the digital media space.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-evolving-universe-with-brian-greene-in-conversation-with-gina-pell/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lit Flicks: Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight"
DESCRIPTION:Lit Flicks is a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse\, presenting the best films adapted from written works\, and introduced by special guests. Lit Flicks bookstore\, operated by Borderlands Books\, will be open at all screenings. \nSpecial guest speaker: Eddie Muller (Noir City\, TCM’s Noir Alley). \nTalk at 7:30 pm\, screening at 7:50 pm. \n$16 \nGeorge Clooney. Handsome\, classy\, and undeniably the most suave man in Hollywood. His grin alone can melt every woman’s heart in a hundred mile radius\, and his cockiness is the envy of dudes the world over. He’s one smooth operator\, and no film exemplifies that better than OUT OF SIGHT. \nAs Jack Foley\, Clooney plays a bank robber who escapes from prison and winds up stuck in the trunk of his getaway car with U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez\, in arguably her best role). After she’s released\, Sisco remains in hot\, and I mean HOT\, pursuit of Foley (and who can blame her?) \nWe all want to hunt down George Clooney for the crime of devastating us with his charm\, but Jennifer Lopez might be the only one sexy enough to catch him. Also starring the excellent male specimens of Don Cheadle\, Ving Rhames\, and Dennis Farina\, this film\, based on the novel by the legendary Elmore Leonard\, is guaranteed to give you plenty of opportunities to swoon\, fist pump\, and worship at the altar of Clooney. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nEddie Muller\nEDDIE MULLER is a second generation San Franciscan\, product of a lousy public school education\, a couple of crazy years in art school\, and too much time in newspaper offices and sporting arenas. No college\, but he’s compensated by always hanging around smarter people\, an effortless… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-flicks-steven-soderberghs-out-of-sight/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The MFA in Writing Program presents Cristina García in conversation with Omar. F. Miranda
DESCRIPTION:Cristina García is the author of seven novels\, including: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, King of Cuba\, and\, most recently\, Here in Berlin; two Latinx anthologies: Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature; and a collection of poetry\, The Lesser Tragedy of Death. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. Currently\, she is playwright-in-residence at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. \nOmar F. Miranda is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. He teaches courses in British Romantic-era literature\, and his research focuses on exile and the birth of global celebrity culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a second-generation Cuban exile from Miami\, he grew up in a community that\, while attempting to recreate it abroad\, invariably longed for its true homeland across the Florida Straits.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-mfa-in-writing-program-presents-cristina-garcia-in-conversation-with-omar-f-miranda/
LOCATION:McLaren Complex – MC252\, USF\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:the system must be tried
DESCRIPTION:SF writer Kevin Simmonds reads from the system must be tried\, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-system-must-be-tried/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Around the World
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Conference of Women in Beijing\, but what kind of progress has really been made? One billion girls and women still lack the skills\, education\, and rights needed to participate in the labor market. Eighty percent of human trafficking victims are girls. Early marriage is still prevalent in many African countries and women’s economic participation rates are now on the decline globally. \nOne woman who has spent her life working to improve the lives of women and advocate for a just and fair world is Karen Sherman. Sherman has spent her life advocating for women in war-torn and transitional countries such as Iraq\, Afghanistan\, Bosnia\, Congo\, Nigeria\, Rwanda\, South Sudan\, Kosovo\, and the former Soviet Union. Sherman now serves as President of the Akilah Institute\, Rwanda’s only women’s college\, and was a senior executive at Women for Women International\, an organization that helps women survivors of war to rebuild their lives. \nIn her new memoir “Brick by Brick” Sherman tells\, not only her own story of moving her family to Kigali\, Rwanda in 2012\, but also those of women who survived the Rwandan genocide\, and how it forever changed her life. She’ll join us to discuss the book\, how economic empowerment brings choice for women\, what role governments and the private sector can play in supporting women\, and how women globally can be more connected to one another.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-hope-and-opportunity-for-women-around-the-world/
LOCATION:World Affaris Auditorium\, 312 Sutter Street\, Suite 200\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author visit and discussion with Anna Wiener\, author of UNCANNY VALLEY
DESCRIPTION:oin us for a visit and discussion with local author Anna Wiener\, author of UNCANNY VALLEY. Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online\, where she writes about Silicon Valley\, startup culture\, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. Anna will be in discussion with Ruby member Natalie So. \nThanks to the publisher\, we have 10 copies available to the first 10 Rubies who sign up for this event! You will be notified if you are one of the ten. We hope to have a discussion about the book itself\, so please purchase a copy from one of our local bookstores or borrow from a local library! \nAbout UNCANNY VALLEY \nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. An Amazon Best Book of January. One of Vogue’s 22 Books to Read This Winter\, The Washington Post’s 10 Books to Read in January\, ELLE’s 12 Best Books to Read in 2020\, The New York Times’s 12 Books to Read in January\, Esquire’s 15 Best Winter Books\, Paste’s 10 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2020\, and Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to Uncanny Valley for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-visit-and-discussion-with-anna-wiener-author-of-uncanny-valley/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dean A. Strang in conversation with Lara Bazelon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Dean A. Strang for his new book\, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial\, the Rise of the Justice Department\, and the Fall of the IWW. He’ll be in conversation with Lara Bazelon (Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction). \nBefore World War I\, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local\, ad hoc\, and quasi-military. Sheriffs\, mayors\, or governors would elevate strikebreakers to deputies or call out the state militia\, usually at the bidding of employers. \nAt the time one of the nation’s largest unions was the Industrial Workers of the World\, also known as the Wobblies. The IWW had members in critical industries across the country. In April 1917\, when the United States entered the war\, the government feared the threat of a labor strike from such a large number of workers could endanger or even halt war production. Officials in the relatively young Department of Justice determined that a more coordinated strategy would be necessary. \nTo prevent stoppages\, the DOJ embarked on a sweeping new effort—replacing gunmen with lawyers. The department systematically targeted the IWW\, resulting in the largest mass trial in U.S. history. The first of four indictments named 166 defendants in September 1917. The Chicago trial started with 112 men accused\, sitting on bleachers\, with one small defense team and a judge and prosecutors who did not know their names or faces. \nIn the first legal history of this landmark federal trial\, Dean A. Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats and played a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As the trial unfolded\, it became an exercise of raw force\, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure. \n\nDean Strang is familiar to millions through Netflix’s Making A Murderer. He is a criminal defense lawyer in Wisconsin and a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Strang is the author of two books of legal history\, his newest\, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial\, the Rise of the Justice Department\, and the Fall of the IWW\, and his earlier\, Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists\, Clarence Darrow\, and Justice in a Time of Terror. \nLara Bazelon is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she directs the criminal and racial justice clinics. Previously Lara was a trial attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and the director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction and a contributing writer for Slate and Politico Magazine. Her essays and op-eds have also been published in the New York Times\, the Atlantic Magazine\, the Washington Post\, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives with her two children in San Francisco and is currently working on a book about motherhood and ambition. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Keep the Wretches in Order\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dean-a-strang-in-conversation-with-lara-bazelon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Golden Arches in Black America
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Chatelain\nIn Conversation with Allyson Hobbs \nHear the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. \nOften blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans\, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In her new book\, Franchise\, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies\, black capitalists and civil rights leaders\, who – in the troubled years after King’s assassination – believed they had found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. \nMarcia Chatelain\, Ph.D. is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is a leading public voice on the history of race\, education and food culture. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, Chatelain lives in Washington\, DC. \nAllyson Hobbs\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of United States History and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the award-winning author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-golden-arches-in-black-america/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Sherman - Brick By Brick
DESCRIPTION:Karen Sherman\, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda\, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012 after a 25-year career working on women’s issues in developing countries and embattled parts of the world. More than a memoir of that year\, the book is a tribute to the women she met\, and how their stories profoundly impacted her own life. “In many ways\, our time in Rwanda surprised me.” says Sherman\, “It deepened my sense of perspective for what it takes to be a woman almost anywhere in the world today\, even when that womanhood is threatened or diminished by one’s family\, culture or society. There is much that women in the developed and developing worlds can learn from each other\, especially in this era of mass shootings and #MeToo.” Sherman and her three sons arrived in Rwanda after a tumultuous year in which her bid to become CEO of Women for Women International\, an organization that helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives\, had failed. She had worked there for close to a decade. \n“Like so many people in our modern\, success-driven society\, the job defined me\,” she writes. “But this work was much more than a job. Helping women who had survived war move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency resonated powerfully with me\, given my background and experiences. It felt right\, like what I was supposed to be doing. This failure felt personal. It was devastating.” So\, she took a one-year posting to Rwanda\, hoping it would distance her from the crises in her career and marriage and put her back in touch with the work on the ground. Throughout her career\, she had heard hundreds of personal stories from women who had endured war. The common thread was that all had managed to survive. “Now that we were living in Rwanda\,” she writes\, “I thought maybe\, if I could sit and talk with some of these women\, learn more about their perspectives and choices\, it might help to bring me back to myself.” For the rest of 2012 and into 2013\, Sherman oversaw the completion of a new Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza and the transitions of leadership in three of the four African countries where Women for Women worked. Each of the five hundred thousand bricks used to construct the Center were hand made by Rwandan women. “The architects of the Center would often talk about the process of building as ‘brick by brick.’ But I always thought of it as woman by woman\,” Sherman writes in the book’s prologue. “These women\, and so many of the survivors I worked with\, each in their own way\, had been able to build or rebuild their lives one step\, one small change\, in some cases\, one brick at a time\,” she realizes. “They’d held onto their dreams\, forged their own paths\, taken risks\, and led change in their families\, communities\, and countries. They had fully embraced their choices. In that moment I vowed to fully embrace mine.” \nKaren Sherman brings more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur\, strategist\, and executive level manager to her role as President of the Akilah Institute. Throughout her career\, Sherman has combined her expertise\, passion\, and transformative leadership skills to affect lasting change for women in conflict-affected countries and those in transition. She has global and sectoral experience in: Women and girls’ education around the world\, Women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship\, Women in conflict-affected countries. Across her different roles\, Sherman has worked with stakeholders at all levels\, from community groups to corporate leaders and heads of state\, to take programs from concept to scale. Most importantly\, her work has resulted in measurable impacts on women’s income\, health\, decision-making\, and social networks. Sherman serves as a thought leader and spokesperson on global women’s issues through the media\, public appearances\, and diverse social media platforms. She has been featured in multiple publications and was Executive Producer of The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope\, published by National Geographic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-sherman-brick-by-brick/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by Lauren Ito. \nReaders for this event: \n\nRAINA J. LEÓN\nGREER NAKADEGAWA-LEE\nAMANDA MUNIZ FERNANDEZ\nSKYE CABRERA\nE.K. KEITH\n\n\n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from previous months. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-3/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T203000
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CREATED:20191227T030812Z
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \n\n\n\n\nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind \nEdited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman \npublished by Semiotext(e) Books\, distributed by The MIT Press \nExamining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy\, whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. \nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind is the first major publication to address Bellamy’s prolific career as a genre-bending writer. Megan Milks made several trips to San Francisco in order to spend time with Bellamy and craft a provocative and fascinating profile of the writer. Originally delivered as a lecture at the Wattis Institute\, Andrew Durbin’s text takes the form of a personal essay\, expertly weaving anecdotes of his own encounters with Bellamy’s writing with insights into broader themes in her work. Academic Kaye Mitchell takes a close look at the role of shame and its relationship to femininity in particular texts by Bellamy. And Bellamy and her late husband Kevin Killian offer deeply personal\, emotionally wrenching ruminations on topics from the mundane (drawing) to the profound (mortality). These texts\, alongside archival photos and a complete bibliography\, make this book an important compendium on Bellamy. \nDodie Bellamy has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area’s avant-garde literary scene\, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. In her words\, she champions “the vulnerable\, the fractured\, the disenfranchised\, the fucked-up.” \nAnthony Huberman is the Director and Chief Curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Founding Director of the Artist’s Institute in New York.city li
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-and-anthony-huberman-in-conversation/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading and conversation with two poet/performers who each have worked and written extensively in relation to contemporary art practices. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nSuzanne Stein’s poetry publications and performance documents include New Sutras\, The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Passenger Ship. With the poet Steve Benson\, she is the author of DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011 and 2012. Suzanne was the founding editor\, and for eight years editor-in-chief\, of Open Space\, SFMOMA’s art and language platform and publication. After thirty years’ living and working in the Bay Area\, she resides now in San Diego\, California. \nAnne Lesley Selcer is author of Sun Cycle\, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize and Blank Sign Book\, a collection of essays on art. Her other publications include from a Book of Poems on Beauty\, winner of the Gazing Grain prize\, Banlieusard\, a commissioned book-length text for Artspeak\, and Untitled (a treatise on form) with 2nd Floor Projects. Anne Lesley’s work can be found in Jacket2\, Fence\, Hyperallergic\, Art Practical\, The Chicago Review\, Open Space\, and Gauss PDF\, as well as in art exhibition catalogs. Occasionally working in video\, performance\, or sound\, she is currently engaged in a series of collaborations with artists based on Sun Cycle. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSuzanne Stein at Open Space \nSuzanne Stein and Steve Benson\, DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, at Gauss PDF \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “What Imaginary Thing Is a Museum?” (on Ana Mendieta)\, at Art Practical \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “A Playboy Bunny Navigates the Politics of Dystopia” (on Monet Clark)\, at Hyperallergic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-stein-and-anne-lesley-selcer-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil: A Glyphic House at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Beau Beausoleil’s latest publication\, A Glyphic House. \nThis Day On The Calendar \nOn this day\nwe are trying to gather\nthe lives and moments\nthat need illuminating \nWe need to remember\nthe women who\nput their work down\non the factory floor \nand walked out\nto strike \nWe need to remember\nthe children\nwho were shot\nin their classrooms \nalong with\ntheir teachers \nThese two contradictory things\nare part of remembering\non this calendar day \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems\nof blood and salt \nTo help us  remember\nthe ones\nwho were spit on \nThe one who were\ndragged from\ntheir cars \nand beaten \nSmall  poems of blood\nand salt on this day \nto help us remember\nthose who were carried to\nthe rope \nAnd those\nwho gathered there\nand stood by\nwatching \nas close as\nmy arm to\nyours \nor even\na hundred cities\naway \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems of blood\nand salt \nshaped\nwith our hands \nPoems that when taken\ninto our lives\nmake us unable\nto swallow and forget \nall the lies that have carried\nus here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-a-glyphic-house-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Feb27_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-the-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Undocumented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:(Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets \nFormer poet-in-residence\, Alan Pelaez Lopez\, will celebrate their debut book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Kemi Bello and Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe\, both key figures in the immigrant rights movement and the immigrant poetry community will read alongside Alan. Afterward\, the poets will share words about what it means to create art and prioritize care for one another in the midst of border violence. \nIntergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien is an experimental poetry collection that pushes the boundaries of the undocumented immigrant experience via the poet’s refusal to belong to United Statian society and the refusal of a structured poetics. In fact\, the chaotic geographies of the manuscript (collages + photographs + emails) formulate theories of fugitivity that position the transAtlantic slave trade and North American Indigenous dispossession as root causes of the poet’s “illegal entry” as a five-year-old to the U.S. In this refusal of national belonging and form\, the book asks for a critical kinship that the law can never account for\, and thus\, Alan Pelaez Lopez negotiates legal status for new imaginaries of care. \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation\, and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. They are the author of the art and poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System\, 2020)\, and the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press\, 2020). Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and “Best of the Net\,” and appears (or is forthcoming) in Best New Poets\, Best American Experimental Writing\, POETRY\, The Georgia Review\, and others. They have received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable\, the Museum of the African Diaspora\, VONA/Voices\, and UC Berkeley. They live in Oakland\, CA. www.alanpelaez.com/ \nKemi Bello is a stubborn sometimes-writer and poet living in Oakland\, California. She believes in the power of narrative to reclaim and connect\, and her writings around the messiness of migration have been published in outlets like The Nation and Autostraddle. Kemi’s poetry performances have taken her to stages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Galeria de la Raza\, Litquake SF\, and the University of Illinois\, Chicago. www.kemibello.com \nDanyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe is a formerly undocumented\, Afro-Dominican writer\, podcaster\, and activist raised in The Bronx\, New York. Her work centers themes of immigration\, race\, and gender. She has been featured on NPR\, Bronx Museum of Arts\, People En Español\, and her work has traveled as far as Aruba’s “Poetry is an Island Festival.” Danyeli has also been the recipient of several social justice fellowships including Immigrant Justice Corps\, Vera Fellowship\, and NYIC Dream Fellowship\, where she researched policy\, provided legal services\, and organized for immigrant rights. In 2019\, she co-founded loose accents\, a Latinx immigrant podcast highlighting stories of immigration from the East to the West Coast. She currently resides in South Los Angeles where she provides legal services to low-income immigrant communities. www.danyelirodriguezdelorbe.com \nThis program will include a wine reception
URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-black-poetics-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monday-a-journal-of-poetry-prose-and-art/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell\, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, will be in conversation with Art Table’s Jan Wurm. \n“How to Do Nothing is genuinely instructive\, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival. You can knock the hustle — and you should.”—Akiva Gottlieb\, LOS ANGELES TIMES \n“Approachable and incisive. . . . The book is clearly the work of a socially conscious artist and writer who considers careful attention to the rich variety of the world an antidote to the addictive products and platforms that technology provides. . . . [Odell] sails with capable ease between the Scylla and Charybdis of subjectivity and arid theory with the relatable humanity of her vision.”—Nicholas Cannariato\, THE WASHINGTON POST \n“The sentiment behind How to Do Nothing is one of defiance.”—Casey Schwartz\, THE NEW YORK TIMES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cafe Society Presents":MAILTO:cafesociety.richmond@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T190000
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SUMMARY:Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini\, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020\, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini’s\, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living. \nSicilian born\, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author\, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled “La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini’s Vision (NYC\, 2008)”\, originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB. \nMore than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960)\, Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini’s filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta\, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. \nWith an interdisciplinary approach\, Zanetti explores Fellini’s enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema’s creation. \nRecognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time\, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory\, dreams\, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political\, Fellini’s films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City\, Paisan\, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria\, La Strada\, La Dolce Vita\, 8 1/2\, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year\, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d’Or\, four Academy Awards\, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy\, numerous Academy Award nominations\, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam\, David Lynch\, Juan Antonio Bardem\, Wojciech Has\, Emir Kusterica\, and many others. \nMore Fellini celebrations: \nCinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com \nBerkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fellini-turns-100-la-natura-morta-de-la-dolce-vita-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Reyes: Running to Stand Still
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new book\, Running to Stand Still. Also featuring readings from Jennifer Lewis\, Truong Tran\, and Kar Johnson. \nPraise for Running to Stand Still \n“Rich in literary and pop culture references\, the voice of Running to Stand Still is both specific and wide-ranging. Quotations from artists as disparate as Frank Bidart and The Killers splice and introduce poems. In one section\, Reyes repurposes screenshots of text messages; in another\, partial strikethroughs enable multiple readings. Through this juxtaposing of different forms and language\, Reyes weaves a deeply intimate portrait out of impossibly expansive themes: modern life\, Black womanhood\, family history\, and technology.”— Poets & Writers \n“These poems\, with through lines of gender\, race\, adventure\, desire\, build into a deeply moving provocation of loss and discovery. The brilliance of these poems is their achievement of discomfit as they simultaneously travel distance and move inward. . . . The title of this collection is a promise: how poetry can at once run and stand still\, and why that matters.”— Valerie Wallace\, author of House of McQueen \n“Pinballing between family lore\, social media\, and pop culture discourse\, Reyes deconstructs the casual discourses of contempt her narrators are invited to embrace outside and within blood lines\, however much ‘birthright belonging / is the maim.’ And yet\, betrayed by the human desire to belong (‘To be kept is to / be kept\, and what you wanted’)\, they—she—never quite reach escape velocity: Running to Stand Still is thus the poignant record of an orbit\, both victory and impasse.”— Tyrone Williams\, author of As iZ \nAbout Running to Stand Still \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.\nThese poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nAbout the Authors \nKimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, NY1 News\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal\, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn\, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press\, 2018)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills\, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTruong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing. He is the author numerous volumes of poetry including the upcoming book 100 Words (Omnidawn) co-authored with Damon Potter. He is a self taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society\, California Institute of Integral Studies\, SOMArts Gallery\, Telegraph Hill Gallery\, The San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair\, Avenue 12 Gallery and The Peninsula Museum of Art. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College. \nKar Johnson is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and bookseller in San Francisco. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Northridge Review\, Foglifter\, and the anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Kar has performed their work for series Red Light Lit\, The Racket\, RADAR\, and many others. They received their MFA from San Francisco State University. \nJennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills Press\, Midnight Breakfast\, sPARKLE & bLINK and X-Ray Lit Mag. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and she teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-reyes-running-to-stand-still/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T183000
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SUMMARY:DirtyMinds/OpenHearts Open Mic/Spoken word
DESCRIPTION:Dirty Minds/Open Hearts Poetry Society will present an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD event on Monday\, March 2 at 7pm at The Laundry at 3359 26th Street in San Francisco\, CA. \nCross street is Mission street in the Mission District of San Francisco. \nAll musicians\, singers\, Orators\, poets\, Hip Hop\, even magicians\, jugglers\, are welcome to attend. \nFirst timers to Experienced Open Mic are welcome \nSign up is day of event. \nFirst come\, first served. \n22 spots available. \nChoose any number\, one to 22. \n5 minute sessions \n8 minute sessions assigned by the Host. \n15 Feature Performer assigned by the Host. \nStart at 7pm \nNo fee. \nPlease support The Laundry with purchase of beer\, wine\, soda. \nHost: Mose Betta \nContact: \n415 483 6905 \nEmail: dirtyminds0penhearts@gmail.com \nContact me at other Open Mic events such as Bird /Beckett\, Sacred Grounds\, Cafe Bazzaar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirtyminds-openhearts-open-mic-spoken-word/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T213000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning @ Old Devil Moon
DESCRIPTION:March 2 @ Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St. @ Cortland\, 7pm\n\n\n\nGustavo Barahona-López\nJyoti Arvey\nNicole Henares\nJennifer Lewis\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nEmilie Osborn\nKeith Mark Gaboury\nMatt Leibel\nZephir O’Meara \nClyde Always\nJon Bennett\nKimi Sugioka\nDanielle Truppi\nTammy Zo Pollard\nPeter Bullen\nEmily Bornhop\nSerena Chan\nKelly Gray\nMackenzie Studebaker \n\n\n\nCurated by Sean Taylor & Jason Whitacre \nAdmission is a suggested $15 donation\, with all proceeds directly benefiting Bay Area artists. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. sPARKLE & bLINK featuring cover art by Claire Rabkin for the first 100 people! \n\nfrom Tools for the Exchange of Force by Claire Rabkin\n\n\nThe Children’s Book Project will be at our show! The Children’s Book Project is a non-profit that takes books without children and gives them to children without books. With 138\,600 free books given to children in the San Francisco Bay Area last year\, the Children’s Book Project anticipates giving away its 3 millionth book this spring. Bring a new or gently-used children’s book to support equity in literacy\, learning\, and life!\n\n\nTickets / RVSP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-old-devil-moon/
LOCATION:Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T220000
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon SF: MONUMENTAL
DESCRIPTION:~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, March 3 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more> \n___ \nODD SALON: Stories from the odd corners of history\, science\, art\, and adventure. \n\nWHAT: Six storytellers bring strange-but-true stories from history\, science\, art and adventure\, to the stage\, over cocktails.\nWHAT KINDS OF STORIES: Badasses and crackpots\, history’s worst ideas and most interesting eccentrics\, things that exploded\, heists\, hoaxes\, hidden treasures\, epic explorations and upsetting animal facts. For example.\nWHO: Experts and amateurs\, scientists and poets\, musicians and medievalists\, artists\, tech workers\, baristas\, and you. Each salon features selected speakers from an open call for submissions. Join us!\nWHERE: Public Works\, on Erie Street – one block from the 16th and Mission BART stop.\nWHEN: We open the doors for cocktails and conversations at 6:30; talks begin at 7:30. Get there early if you want to nab a seat.\nWHY: San Francisco deserves weird\, independent events\, and real world gatherings in this increasingly digital age.\nHOW: Against many odds.\nSNACKS? Yes! Pop-up food vendors serve snacks during the pre-salon cocktail hour.\nDRINKS? But of course.\nOTHER QUESTIONS? Drop us a line>\n\nOdd Salon is a fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation\, a 501c3 non-profit organization. \nwww.oddsalon.com | San Francisco Events Mailing List | Facebook | Twitter| |Instagram
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-monumental/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T190654
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SUMMARY:Opening celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Center\, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui\, and others tba
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special Tuesday evening event celebrating the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network—directed by Isabelle Pelaud\, writer and professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. Special guests will be DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Thi Bui\, author of the celebrated graphic ‘novel’ The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. They will be joined by Isabelle Pelaud (in conversation with DVAN co-founder Viet Thanh Nguyen)\, She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan and Julie Thi Underhill\, and by Danny Nguyen—with emcee Philip Nguyen. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is co-sponsored by DVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE\, and is free and open to the public.\n“Refugee to Detainee” presentation: Thi Bui (author of The Best We Could Do) \nDiscussion with DVAN co-directors: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathiser) & Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Professor in Asian American Studies) \nPoetry reading: She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan\, and Julie Thi Underhill \nA musical essay: Danny Nguyen \nEmcee: Philip Nguyen \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nDVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nLiving in Dreams: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud In Conversation with Vi Khi Nao (Feb. 7\, 2019) \nThi Bui with Lauren Markham\, One City One Book interview at the San Francisco Public Library (video\, posted Oct 29\, 2018) \nPaul Beatty in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fall 2017) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nDVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/opening-celebration-of-the-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-center-featuring-viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-others-tba/
LOCATION:Jack Adams Hall\, César Chavez Student Center\, SFSU\, SFSU\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Lisa Brown / The Phantom Twin\, with Wendy Macnaughton
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts our favorite illustrator\, Lisa Brown\, for her new book The Phantom Twin. She’ll be in conversation with Wendy Macnaughton. Please join us! \nA young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin in Lisa Brown’s The Phantom Twin\, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters\, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails\, causing Jane’s death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted\, altered\, and alone for the first time\, can Isabel build a new life that’s truly her own? \n\nLisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator\, author\, and cartoonist. Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book\, Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert. For adults\, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art. \nWendy Macnaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco\, The City in its Own Words\, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology\, Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them\, Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos\, The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert\, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes\, The Life\, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles. Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine\, and co-founder of  Women Who Draw. Before all that stuff\, she studied art and social work\, worked as a copywriter in advertising\, a campaign director for non-profits\, a bookseller in a used bookstore\, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. She also created the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda\, health education materials for nomadic tribes in Northern Kenya\, and a short film in Eastern Congo. She lives in Potrero Hill with her partner (and frequent collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul\, two cats and a dog. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Phantom Twin\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-lisa-brown-the-phantom-twin-with-wendy-macnaughton/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Javad Djavahery
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in conjunction with Restless Books and City Lights Booksellers present \nJavad Djavahery \nreading from his new novel \nMy Part of Her \ntranslated by Emma Ramadan\, published by Restless Books \nFor our unnamed confessor\, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There\, he is not the “poor relative from the North\,” but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou’s home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers\, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado\, he betrays and humiliates an unlikely suitor\, setting into motion a series of events that will have drastic repercussions for all of them as the country is forever transformed by the Iranian Revolution a few short years later.\nOver the next twenty years\, the lingering effects of that betrayal set the friends on radically different paths in the wake of political\, religious\, and cultural upheaval. Their surprising final reunion reveals the consequences of revenge and self-preservation as they each must decide whether and how to forget the past. Urgent and gorgeously written\, My Part of Her captures the innocence of youth\, the folly of love\, and the capriciousness of fate as these friends find themselves on opposing sides of the seismic rifts of history. \nIranian novelist and short story writer\, Javad Djavahery currently resides in Paris after being forced to flee Iran and claim refuge in France at the age of 20. For many years he lived as a political refugee\, waiting to return to his home country. During these years\, he owned nothing more than what could fit in a suitcase. When asked where he’s from\, Javad responds by saying that he was born once in Iran\, and then a second time at the age of 20 in Rennes\, his adoptive city. He have not returned to Iran since his departure\, which allows him “to preserve in my memory images of a country that no longer exists.” Shifting between literature and film\, he has produced many films and co-written numerous screenplays including Red Rose (directed by Sepideh Farsi). A bilingual author\, he has two short story collections in Persian. His first novel Soupir de l’Ange was published by Éditions de l’Aube. His second novel\, Ma part d’elle (My Part of Her) was published in 2017 by Gallimard. \nEmma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence\, RI where she is the co-owner of Riffraff\, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship\, a PEN/Heim grant\, and a Fulbright scholarship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javad-djavahery/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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