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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Reyna Grande with Carolina De Robertis / A Dream Called Home
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for Reyna Grandeand her new memoir A Dream Called Home. She’ll be in conversation with Carolina De Robertis. Please join us! \n  \nFrom bestselling author Reyna Grande—whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country—comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. \nWhen Reyna Grande was nine-years-old\, she walked across the US–Mexico border in search of a home\, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother\, an abusive\, alcoholic father\, and a school system that belittled her heritage. \nWith so few resources at her disposal\, Reyna finds refuge in words\, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nAlthough her acceptance is a triumph\, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna\, who is now once again estranged from her family and support system. Again\, she finds solace in words\, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer\, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. \nThrough it all\, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible\, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to “a fierce\, smart\, shimmering light of a writer” (Cheryl Strayed); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “speak[ing] for millions of immigrants whose voices have gone unheard” (Sandra Cisneros); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. \nTold in Reyna’s exquisite\, heartfelt prose\, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how\, by daring to pursue her dreams\, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure. \n  \n\n  \nReyna Grande is the recipient of the 2015 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Her first novel\, Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria\, 2006)\, received a 2006 El Premio Aztlan Literary Award\, a 2007 American Book Award\, and a 2010 Latino Books Into Movies Award. Her second novel\, Dancing with Butterflies(Washington Square Press\, 2009) was critically acclaimed and was the recipient of a 2010 International Latino Book Award\, Best Women’s Issues\, and a 2010 Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club Selection. She was also a 2003 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. The Distance Between Us was a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist and has been selected by numerous city-wide read programs\, including Rochester Reads 2018\, MacReads 2018\, One Book/One Michiana 2018\, All Henrico Reads 2018\, Timberland Reads Together 2017\, Telluride One Book/One Canyon 2017\, Estes Park One Book/One Valley 2017\, Saginaw One Book/One Community 2016\, Camarillo Reads 2016\, Roswell Reads 2015\, and One Maryland/One Book 2014\, among others. To learn more about Reyna Grande and her work\, visit www.reynagrande.com. Reyna’s author photo was taken by Imran Chaudhry. \n  \nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. She is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature\, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\, which features essays by leading thinkers and writers in response to the shifting political atmosphere in the U.S. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. She is currently at work on her fourth novel\, The Burning Edge of the World. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-reyna-grande-with-carolina-de-robertis-a-dream-called-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:As part of their Mazza Writer in Residency for October 1–6\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta will be joined by celebrated Nicaraguan poet—and SF State faculty member in Latina/Latino Studies—Daisy Zamora\, with the two poets reading from their works\, followed by a conversation between them and in response to their audience. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. Please join us! \nA Nicaraguan Californian via Mexico raised both in Huntington Park and Highland Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta lives in a rent controlled apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco. An artist\, writer\, reproductive justice activist\, patient advocate\, and lapsed full spectrum doula who supports themself through working at a neighborhood cafe and cleaning houses\, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s work attempts\, as fellow poet Lauren Levin writes\, to “include direct revolutionary action\, up to and including revolutionary violence\, as part of a continuum of care\, and their use of this redefinition of care-work to rethink gendered paradigms.” Their first book\, The Easy Body\, was published by Oakland queer art & publishing collective Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2017. Photo: Dickie Bahto. \nDaisy Zamora is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Latin American poetry.  Her work is known for its uncompromising voice and wide-ranging subject matter that explores and expresses the realities of  everyday life while encompassing human rights\, politics\, revolution\, feminist issues\, literature\, art\, history\, and culture.  During Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution she was a combatant for the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front)\, and during the final 1979 Sandinista offensive became the voice and program director for clandestine Radio Sandino.  After the triumph of the revolution\, she was appointed Vice Minister of Culture for the new government. She worked with fellow poet and mentor Ernesto Cardenal\, Minister of Culture to create and implement numerous programs that successfully revitalized the war‑damaged cultural life of Nicaragua\, including a popular\, highly successful national literacy program that brought books and reading\, poetry\, and visual arts to even the remotest areas of the country. \nAuthor of numerous books of poetry in Spanish\, as well as a collection of political essays\, she also edited the first comprehensive anthology of Nicaraguan women poets published in Latin America.  Her latest poetry collection\, La violenta espuma\, was published in Madrid by renowned Spanish poetry publisher Visor in late December 2017.  Also recently\, she was featured in director Jenny Murray’s award winning documentary ¡Las Sandinistas!\, soon to be aired on PBS. Among her poetry books in English\, The Violent Foam: New & Selected Poems\, a bilingual collections\, was published by Curbstone Press.  Life for Each\, was published in England by Katabasis in 1994;  an earlier collection\, Riverbed of Memory\, was published by City Lights Books in 1992\, and Clean Slate by Curbstone Press in 1993. \nA political activist and advocate for women’s rights throughout her life\, for the last several years she has taught poetry workshops at a number of universities and colleges\, and has been a lecturer of Latin American culture and literature for the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the University of San Francisco\, and currently at San Francisco State University. She resides in Managua and San Francisco\, where she lives with her husband\, U.S. poet and writer George Evans. Photo: Frank Pineda. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nin performance\, participants tba\nSaturday OCT 6\n7:00pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\, San Francisco\, free and open to the public\nsupported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation \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\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-tatiana-luboviski-acosta-with-special-guest-daisy-zamora-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
DESCRIPTION:Murakami has a new book out on 10/9 (preorder link below)\, and censors in Hong Kong have declared it ‘obscene\,’ so naturally\, we’re going in. \nDon’t worry if you haven’t read The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: consider this a gross Murakami bingo night\, with swag\, and probably copies of the new book to give away to lucky folks. BYO Cutty Sark. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early.  Tickets on sale now! \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \n— \nCritics are saying: \n… the most despicable literary event possible. \nI’m so lost and so scared \n… an affront to literature. \nwonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting. \ncome if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before. \nShipwreck will bring you to madness and you may never return. \nI do not care for this. \nlovingly rendered artisanal small batch nightmares \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Sims
DESCRIPTION:Multi-media conceptual artist\, writer and activist visits City Lights to celebrate the release of his video poem chapbook\, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San Francisco Session \nThe AfroDixie music project confronts the song “Dixie” – the anthem of the Confederacy subversively by remixing\, remapping and cross-appropriation with a collection of 14 tracks of Dixie in the many genres of black music: Spiritual\, Blues\, Gospel\, Jazz\, Funk Calypso\, Samba\, Soul\, R&B\, House\, Hip Hop. To critically engage this project with both historical and current social- political-cultural themes\, the artist has been hosting listening sessions around the country\, inviting poets\, artists\, scholars\, activist and community members to respond to the music. This session has visited Martha’s Vineyard Film Center\, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Bowery Poetry Club. Special guest poets/writers and performers in the Bay Area will be invited to respond to the various tracks. \nThis sound performance is a part of the artist’s 16-year multi-media project\, Recoloration Proclamation\, a 16 yearmultimedia project which explores the complexity of identity\, cultural appropriation/remixing\, white supremacy\, visual terrorism in the context of Confederate iconography and African-American culture. This system of works features recolored Confederate flags\, a noose hanging installation in Gettysburg\, a 13 southern states Confederate flag funeral\, videos\, site specific performances\, a play\, a documentary film\, the music project AfroDixieRemixes\, the annual Burn and Bury Confederate Flag Memorial and most recently the outside performance and Kennedy Museum exhibition of The Proper Way to Hang to a Confederate Flag at Ohio University.  For more context\, review John Sims’ CNN Op-Ed piece\, Don’t Resurrect the Confederacy – de-zombify it.  \nThe City Lights event will feature\, as an opening act video poems from the text of Sims’ limited edition artist chapbook\, Blazing Grace produced especially for this event. The event is also in conjunction with the group exhibition\, “Reinterpretation as Resistance: Artists Questioning Normative Iconography” which includes various element of John Sims’ RecolorationProclamation. The show is curated by Aaron Wilder at The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San José State University\, October 2-November 2\, 2018. \nFor more info this music\, see the infomercial\, liner notes\, music video\, participating musicians. To preview the music tracks go to www.afrodixieremixes.com. \nJohn Sims\, a Detroit native\, is a multi-media conceptual artist\, writer and activist creating projects spanning the areas of installation\, text\, music\, film\, performance and large scale activism. His main projects are informed by mathematics\, the politics of sacred symbols/anniversaries and the agency of poetry. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\,   CNN\, NBC News\, USA Today\, NPR\,The Guardian\, ThinkProgress\, Al Jazeera\,  Art in America\, Sculpture\, BOMB\, Science News\, Nature and Scientific American. He has written for CNN\, Al Jazeera\, The Huffington Post\, Guernica Magazine\, and The Rumpus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sims/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit with Josiah Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is a mashup of live music\, photography\, storytelling and poetry set to a live score. Featuring musician Josiah Johnson (The Head and The Heart)\, photographer Erin Wilson (aka #ErinTheArtist)\, poets Thea Matthews & Christine No\, and writers Peter Bullen\, Matt Carney\, Jessie Carver and Ari Moskowitz. \nSelf-Portrait by Erin Wilson\, @psychodelicpandaparty \nPianoFight’s not just a theater\, it’s also a restaurant and bar!\n★★★★½ on Yelp\n★★★★½ on Google\n★★★★★ on Facebook \n“Reasonably priced New American bites and cocktails in an unpretentious setting” – Zagat \n“The best party spot in the neighborhood” – The Bay Bridged \n“A hot SF scene” – SF Chronicle \nIf you plan on dining\, we recommend you arrive 1.5 hours early so you have plenty of time to eat before the show. Restaurant seating is first come first serve. Drinks are always allowed in the theaters. \nPARKING\nStreet parking is free after 6pm. We’re located 2 blocks from Powell BART\, numerous muni lines and there are 3 parking lots within 1 block.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-with-josiah-johnson/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft
DESCRIPTION:Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft discuss Flights. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Flights \n\nFlights is a novel about travel in the 21st century and human anatomy. From the 17th  century\, we have the story of the real Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen\, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg\, discovering in so doing the Achilles tendon. From the 18th century\, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death in spite of his daughter’s ever more desperate protests\, as well as the story of Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw\, stored in a tightly sealed jar beneath his sister’s skirt. From the present we have the trials and tribulations of a wife accompanying her much older professor husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands\, the quest of a Polish woman who emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager but must now return to Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart\, and the slow descent into madness of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanished on a vacation on a Croatian island and then appeared again with no explanation. \n  \nThrough these narratives\, interspersed with short bursts of analysis and digressions on topics ranging from travel-sized cosmetics to the Maori\, Flights guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/man-booker-international-prizewinners-olga-tokarczuk-and-jennifer-croft/
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:BINDERY: an afternoon with children's books authors Jim Averbeck\, Julie Downing\, Christy Hale\, and Yuyi Morales
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings by children’s books authors Jim Averbeck (Trevor)\, Julie Downing (Tessa Takes Wing)\, Christy Hale (Water Land: Land and Water Forms from Aroud the World)\, and Yuyi Morales (Dreamers). Please join us! \n  \nTrevor \nby Jim Averbeck \n  \nTrevor is a lonely yellow canary looking for a friend. \nHe stretches his wings the width of his boring cage and notices the tree outside stretching its branch. And on the end of that branch? Another canary! But he’s so shy and quiet. \nTrevor knows just how to make him feel comfortable. \nThis is an elegantly told\, truly unique tale by author Jim Averbeck and illustrator Amy Hevron\, of a canary who befriends a lemon and finds that you don’t have to be two of a kind to form a meaningful and lasting friendship. \n  \nJim Averbeck works\, plays\, and evades the law in San Francisco\, California. His first book\, In a Blue Room\, was a Charlotte Zolotow Honor book. His popular books Except If and Oh No\, Little Dragon! feature charming protagonists with pointy teeth. His book\, The Market Bowl and his middle grade novel A Hitch at the Fairmont were Junior Library Guild Selections. His book\, One Word From Sophia\, was an IndyNext Top 10 for Summer 2015. Check out his newest picture books: Trevor\, from Neal Porter Books and Two Problems for Sophia from Margaret K. McElderry Books. Spy agencies can find Jim online at jimaverbeck.com. Author photo by Sonya Sones. \n  \n\n  \nTessa Takes Wing\nby Richard Jackson\, illustrated by Julie Downing \n  \nIt’s almost morning and everyone’s asleep. Everyone except Tessa. \n  \nQuiet as a mouse\, Tessa takes flight . . . UP . . . UP until she’s flying high above her crib. Her first stop: her sister Maggie’s blue elephant! Then\, Maggie’s fire truck . . . and her polka-dot umbrella. But she better be quiet and quick before her daddy hears and stops all her fun! \n  \nJulie Downing was born in Denver\, Colorado\, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives in San Francisco\, CA\, where she can see a corner of the Golden Gate Bridge from her studio window. Noted for rich\, jewel like watercolor illustrations\, she has illustrated over 45 picture books. Julie’s work has been featured at The Society of Illustrator’s Original Art Show in NYC and has been exhibited at galleries throughout the United States and England. She has won numerous awards for her work\, including a Parent’s Choice Award\, the New York Public Library Best Books Award\, APAAL Best Illustrated Book\, and the Irma Black Silver Medal. She was selected to appear in Talking with Artists Too\, a book about 12 of the nation’s best Children’s’ Book Illustrators. Julie also teaches illustration to both graduate and undergraduate students at the Academy of Art University and UC Berkeley Extension. You can see more of her work at juliedowning.com. \n  \n\n  \nWater Land: Water and Land Forms Around the World\nwritten and illustrated by Christy Hale \n  \nA lake turns into an island. \nA cozy bay into a secluded cape. \nA gulf with sea turtles transforms into a peninsula surrounded by pirate ships. \n  \nThis unique information book for the very young switches between bodies of water and corresponding land masses with the simple turn of a page. Readers will delight as the story of Water Land unfolds and will see just how connected the earth and the water really are. \n  \nChristy Hale has illustrated numerous award-winning books for children\, including two that she also wrote: The East-West House: Noguchi’s\nChildhood in Japan and Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building\, an ALA Notable\, a Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Award Recipient\, an International Reading Association Award winner\, a California Eureka! Award winner\, and much more. An art director\, designer\, and educator\, Hale teaches Writing for Picture Books at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She lives with her family in Palo Alto\, California. \n  \n\n  \nDreamers \nby Yuyi Morales \n  \nCaldecott Honor artist and five-time Pura Belpré Award winnerYuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope … and reading. \nIn 1994\, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa\, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned\, but she didn’t come empty-handed. \nShe brought her strength\, her work\, her passion\, her hopes and dreams…and her stories. Caldecott Honor artist and five-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales’s gorgeous new picture book Dreamers is about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly’s passage was not easy\, and Yuyi spoke no English whatsoever at the time. But together\, they found an unexpected\, unbelievable place: the public library. There\, book by book\, they untangled the language of this strange new land\, and learned to make their home within it. \nDreamers is a celebration of what migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It’s a story about family. And it’s a story to remind us that we are all dreamers\, bringing our own gifts wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain\, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. \n  \nBorn in Xalapa\, Mexico\, where she currently resides\, Yuyi Morales lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she still maintains close relations with booksellers and librarians. Professional storyteller\, dancer\, choreographer\, puppeteer\, and artist\, she has won the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration five times\, for Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book (2003)\, Los Gatos Black on Halloween (2006)\, Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book (2008)\, Niño Wrestles the World (2013)\, and Viva Frida (2014)\, also a Caldecott Honor Book. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens with doors at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-an-afternoon-with-childrens-books-authors-jim-averbeck-julie-downing-christy-hale-and-yuyi-morales/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Terrian Walling and George Gerard
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Sunday\, October 7th at 7:00 p.m. to welcome Terrian Walling and George Gerard as they read from their (with Ramazan Saral) collection of collaborative poems and prose\, Tegara.  \n  \nAbout Tegara\nTegera is a collection of collaborative poems and prose written by three individuals who live on different parts of the planet. As you journey through the book\, you will realize that Tegera is not a classical poem book. The reader becomes a traveller and an active participant in the process of timelessness. You have the freedom to follow APEƩ\, TaW\, or GeoS through the seven realms of Tegera. You can choose to read the book linearly\, or to choose your own path through Land\, Forest\, Shore\, Sea\, Mountain/Fire\, Air/Space\, and The Unknown. With complimentary celestial art created by the Turkish artist Yaren Gezer\, this book will transport you to where you need to be. \n  \n  \nTerriann Walling\nTerriann Walling holds an honours degree in English\, a Bachelor’s degree in Education\, and a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Saskatchewan. She is currently a High School teacher with Saskatoon Public Schools in Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, Canada. She teaches at Bedford Road Collegiate with amazing staff and students (shout out to Bedford!). She has 4 fantastic kids\, Noah\, Liam\, Claire and Hannah. Her main area of study is Twentieth Century American Literature and Literary Trauma Theory with a particular interest in modernism and William Faulkner. She is a writer and a poet whose passions lie in collaborative work\, both academically as well as creatively. \n  \nRamazan Saral\nRamazan Saral is a research assistant at the Department of English Language and Literature at Ege University\, Turkey. He is currently a PhD candidate at the same department focusing on Scottish Romanticism. He is the director of the English Drama Club. He teaches poetry and academic writing. \n  \nGeorge Gerard\nGeorge Gerard is currently a Product Manager in San Francisco\, California. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Syracuse University. His main area of research study focused on human memory and emotion. He pursues his love of writing and art through collaborative partnership and discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/47617/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Launch for Cary McClelland / Silicon City
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Cary McClelland andSilicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of The Valley\, an intimate\, eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. More TBA soon — save the date and join us! \n  \nSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists\, and known as the birthplace of the Beats\, the Black Panthers\, and the LGBTQ movement\, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes\, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions—have started to show. \n  \nInspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history\, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change\, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters\, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. The crisp and vivid stories of Silicon City’s diverse cast capture San Francisco as never before. \n  \nThe book opens with a longtime tour guide recounting the history of the original Gold Rush and observing how little the people of his city pay attention to its history; it ends on Fisherman’s Wharf\, with the proprietor of an arcade game museum reminding us that even today’s technology will become relics of the past. In between we hear from people who have passed through Apple\, Google\, eBay\, Intel\, and the other big tech companies of our time. And we meet those who are experiencing the changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury\, an Oakland rapper\, a pawnbroker in the Mission\, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge\, and a woman who runs a tattoo parlor in the Castro. \n  \nSilicon City masterfully weaves together a candid conversation across a divided community to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city—and a cautionary tale for the entire country. \n  \n\n  \nCary McClelland is a writer\, filmmaker\, lawyer\, and rights advocate whose work has taken him around the world. He met his wife in San Francisco\, where they settled down and built their first home. They now live in Brooklyn with their son. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-launch-for-cary-mcclelland-silicon-city/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Jason Bayani
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nEnjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nThis year see’s a new host and curator\, Jason Bayani\, artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop (the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American multi-disciplinary arts organization in the country) as well as a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene whose work has been published in Fourteen Hills\, Muzzle Magazine\, Mascara Review\, the National Poetry Slam anthology Rattapallax\, Write Bloody’s classroom anthology Learn Then Burn\, and other publications. \nLearn more here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-jason-bayani-2/
LOCATION:Yerba Buena Gardens\, 750 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T200000
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SUMMARY:Writing Hope: Queer Authors in Times of Oppression
DESCRIPTION:The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present hopeful readings from various Queer Authors written during time of oppression
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-hope-queer-authors-in-times-of-oppression/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voices of Witness @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:with Mateo Hoke\, Taylor Pendergrass\, and Mohammed “Mike” Ali \ncelebrating the release of \nSix By Ten: Stories From Solitary Confinement \nEdited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass\, \npublished by Haymarket Books \n\nThis compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confinement is the first book in a new Voice of Witness series with Haymarket Books. \nAn estimated 80\,000 Americans are held in solitary confinement in prisons across the country. Solitary confinement\, often in cells no bigger than six-by-ten-feet\, means twenty-four hours per day with little or no meaningful human contact. \nSix By Ten explores the mental\, physical\, and spiritual impacts of America’s widespread embrace of solitary confinement\, as told through the first-person narratives of individuals subjected to solitary confinement\, family members on the outside\, and corrections officers. \nEach chapter presents a different individual’s story and shows how Americans from all over the country and all walks of life find themselves held in solitary for years or even decades at a time. In addition to evocative first-hand accounts\, the book also includes essays and analysis on how solitary became such a prominent feature of the US prison system today. \nMateo Hoke is writer\, journalist\, and co-editor of Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation. \nTaylor Pendergrass is a lawyer and activist focused on criminal justice reform. He currently works for the American Civil Liberties Union. \nMohammed “Mike” Ali grew up in the Bay Area after his family immigrated to the United States from Fiji. Growing up romanticizing gang life\, he escalated through youth detention\, jails\, and prisons before landing in solitary in a private immigration detention facility in Arizona. \nVoice of Witness is nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. We explore urgent and underrepresented human rights issues and force space for marginalized voices to be heard and seen through our two core programs: (1) Our oral history book series\, which illuminates firsthand accounts of injustice\, and (2) Our education program\, which brings these stories and ethics-driven oral history methodology to classrooms and communities across the U.S. \nCritical Praise for Six By Ten: \n“Some of the people in Six by Ten were convicted of crimes\, but this book convicts the United States of an incomparably greater crime: blighting the lives and searing the souls of untold hundreds of thousands of men\, women\, and teenagers by a practice that more enlightened countries consider inhuman. You will not find a more riveting indictment anywhere of our reckless use of solitary confinement\, nor one told through such a variety of moving\, poignant voices.” \n—Adam Hochschild\, author\, King Leopold’s Ghost \n“The voices heard in this powerful collection are haunting. As these men and women make inescapably clear\, the practice of removing human beings from everything that makes them sane and stable—keeping them for days\, months\, and years in utter isolation without light\, touch\, sound\, space\, and hope—is unimaginably cruel. Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake up call for all citizens. The use of solitary confinement is deeply immoral and we must insist that it be banned in all of our nation’s prisons. Immediately.” \n—Heather Ann Thompson\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author\, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voices-of-witness-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Small Fry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lisa Brennan-Jobs for Small Fry\, her smart\, frank\, and captivating coming-of-age memoir. \n  \nNote: Seating is limited for what will surely be a big night. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please pre-order a copy of Small Fry below\, and put your request in the ‘comments’ field. Thanks!  \n  \nBorn on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young\, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older\, her father took an interest in her\, ushering her into a new world of mansions\, vacations\, and private schools. His attention was thrilling\, but he could also be cold\, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school\, Lisa decided to move in with her father\, hoping he’d become the parent she’d always wanted him to be. \n  \nSmall Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy\, wise\, and funny\, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents’ fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family\, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties\, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice. \n  \n\n  \nLisa Brennan-Jobs lives in Brooklyn\, NY. Small Fry is her first book. Her articles and essays have appeared in Vogue\, O Magazine\, Southwest Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Harvard Advocate\, and the Los Angeles Times. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kramer Bussel (Best Women’s Erotica\, Sex and Cupcakes)\nCassandra Dallett (Collapse)\nChristine No (The Rumpus\, Story Magazine) \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-16/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Havrilesky
DESCRIPTION:Heather Havrilesky discusses her new essay collection\, What If This Were Enough? \nPraise for What If This Were Enough? \n“Heather Havrilesky is a singular talent and an indomitable force. When it comes to the tension between thinking and feeling\, of being out in the world and being alone with yourself\, there is no one sharper\, wiser\, funnier\, most honest\, or more insightful. In What If This Were Enough\, readers will find a splendid mix of Havrilesky’s familiar and intimate ‘Ask Polly’ voice and the authority and erudition of a seasoned cultural critic. I couldn’t get enough.”—Meghan Daum\, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects Of Disucssion \n“There’s an effortlessness to Heather Havrilesky’s writing that is incredibly rare. Her funniest sentences are still empathetic. Her darkest confessions are still pretty funny. It doesn’t seem to matter what she’s writing about\, or what point she’s trying to make. She’s just good at it.”—Chuck Klosterman\, author of But What If We’re Wrong? and Killing Yourself to Live \n“Heather is that dear friend you run into at a bad party at which you’re stuck and you say ‘Oh thank God you’re here’ and spend the rest of the night making dark and hilarious jokes about the party\, other attendees\, and the human condition. Thank God she’s here.”—Jake Tapper\,author of The Hellfire Club and The Outpost \nAbout What If This Were Enough? \nBy the acclaimed critic\, memoirist\, and advice columnist\, an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday \nHeather Havrilesky’s writing has been called “whip-smart and profanely funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “required reading for all humans” (Celeste Ng). In her work for New York\, The Baffler\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Atlantic\, as well as in “Ask Polly\,” her advice column for The Cut\, she dispenses a singular\, cutting wisdom–an ability to inspire\, provoke\, and put a name to our most insidious cultural delusions. \nWhat If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters–many of them original to the book\, others expanded from their initial publication–Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us. We’ve convinced ourselves\, she says\, that salvation can be delivered only in the form of new products\, new technologies\, new lifestyles. From the allure of materialism to our misunderstandings of romance and success\, Havrilesky deconstructs some of the most poisonous and misleading messages we ingest today\, all the while suggesting new ways to navigate our increasingly bewildering world. \nThrough her incisive and witty inquiries\, Havrilesky urges us to reject the pursuit of a shiny\, shallow future that will never come. These timely\, provocative\, and often hilarious essays suggest an embrace of the flawed\, a connection with what already is\, who we already are\, what we already have. She asks us to consider: What if this were enough? Our salvation\, Havrilesky says\, can be found right here\, right now\, in this imperfect moment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/47620/
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:Litquake 2018
DESCRIPTION:Full schedule is here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-2018/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Irish Arts & Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Arts & Writers Festival brings together Irish writers and audiences in the historic and intimate town of Los Gatos\, CA (located an hour south of San Francisco) for an arts and culture festival held in several venues over three days. Additional events in 2018 are scheduled for Berkeley\, Oakland and San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irish-arts-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Los Gatos CA\, Los Gatos\, California\, CA\, 95030
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Arts &amp%3B Writers Festival":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:When : Thu\, October 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescription : Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-27/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Fellow poets and friends Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley\, respectively from San Francisco and Reno\, Nevada\, will read from their work then join in conversation with each other and in response to questions from the audience. Note: this event is re-scheduled from an earlier date (the SFSU campus was unexpectedly closed due to a massive campus-wide power outtage last Fall 2017). Free and open to the public. \nWriter and artist Steven Seidenberg is the author of Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press\, 2017)\, a collection of photographs with an accompanying cycle of aphorism\, Itch (Raw Art Press\, 2014)\, Null Set (Spooky Actions Books\, 2015)\, and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism\, most recently Duration Knows No Law (ypolita press\, 2016). His prose work Situ is forthcoming from Black Sun Lit in Spring 2018\, and another photo collection\, Kanazawa Void\, is due out in Fall 2018 from Daylight Books. He has had solo shows of his work in various galleries in the US and abroad\, with upcoming exhibitions in Rome and at the University of Rochester. He is co-editor of the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch. (Instance Press)\, and curates the False Starts reading series at The Lab in San Francisco. \nJared Stanley is a writer and artist. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry\, including EARS\, The Weeds\, and Book Made of Forest\, as well as many chapbooks\, pamphlets\, artist editions\, and ephemera\, including A Continual Hint\, Green Hearts and Fire to You\, How the Desert Did Me in\, and Special Newlands Extraction Rubbing. Other writing has recently appeared in Triple Canopy\, Literary Hub\, The Offing\, and Poem-a-Day. Stanley has received fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. He was born in Arizona\, raised in the East Bay\, and lives in Reno\, Nevada. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIDEO: Steven Seidenberg and Alan Felsenthal\, Readings in Contemporary Poetry\, DIA Art Foundation\nVIDEO: Jared Stanley and C. D. Wright\, reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room\, Harvard University \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\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-seidenberg-and-jared-stanley-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:Walter Mosley
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nJohn Woman \npublished by Atlantic Monthly Press \nWalter Mosely requires no introduction. His award-winning\, critically-adored body of work has sold millions of copies the world over. Though he is perhaps best known for his mysteries featuring the character Easy Rawlins\, over the course of his long and prolific career\, he has also written a handful of penetrating literary novels that wrestle with questions political and philosophical. His latest book is such a novel: the result of nearly 20 years of incubation\, it is a dazzling and convention-defying novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman. \nJOHN WOMAN recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman\, an unconventional history professor—while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. \nAt twelve years old\, Cornelius\, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman\, secretly takes over his father’s job at a silent film theater in New York’s East Village. Five years later\, as Herman lives out his last days\, he shares his wisdom with his son\, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears\, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself—as Professor John Woman\, a man who will spread Herman’s teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman\, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. \nEngaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history\, JOHN WOMAN  is a compulsively readable\, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories\, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world. It is essential reading in an age defined by fake news and alternative facts. \nWalter Mosley is the author of more than fifty critically-acclaimed books\, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and includes literary fiction\, science fiction\, political monographs\, and a young adult novel. In 2013\, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame\, and he is the winner of numerous awards\, including an O. Henry Award\, the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award\, a Grammy\, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City. \nPraise for Walter Mosley \n“A writer whose work transcends category and qualifies as serious literature.”—Time\n“Mosley is one of the most humane\, insightful\, powerful prose stylists working today in any genre. He’s also one of the most radical…. Immerse yourself in the work of one of our national treasures.”\n—The Austin Chronicle \n“When reviewing a book by Walter Mosley\, it’s hard not to simply quote all the great lines. There are so many of them. You want to share the pleasures of Mosley’s jazz-inflected dialogue and the moody\, descriptive passages reminiscent of Raymond Chandler at his best.”\n—Washington Post\, on Down the River Unto the Sea \n“A daring\, beautifully wrought story that incorporates elements of allegory\, meditative reflection and the lilt of lyric tragedy. ”—Los Angeles Times\, on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey \n“With Mosley\, there’s always the surprise factor—a cutting image or a bracing line of dialogue.”\n—New York Times Book Review\, on And Sometimes I Wonder About You \n“Mosley’s invigorating\, staccato prose and understanding of racial\, moral\nand social subtleties are in full force.”—Seattle Times\, on Known to Evil \n“[Mosley has] revitalized two genres\, the hard-boiled novel and the American behaviorist novel.”\n—Roberto Bolaño \n“Mosley is the Gogol of the African-American working class—the chronicler par excellence of the tragic and the absurd.”—Vibe \n“[Mosley] has a special talent for touching upon these sticky questions of evil and responsibility without getting stuck in them.”—New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walter-mosley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Psychic Bandwidth - San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:  \nPSYCHIC BANDWIDTH San Francisco \n  \nPOETRY MUSIC DANCE \n  \nhttp://events-cillavee.blogspot.com/2018/08/psychic-bandwidth-san-francisco.html \n  \nWHO \nCilla Vee Life Arts – with Cilla Vee\, Gino Robair\, Cheryl Leonard\, Ivy Johnson\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Eric Kupers and the CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (plus others TBA) \n  \nWHAT \nPsychic Bandwidth – chance operations of cross-disciplinary performance modes \n  \nWHEN \nThursday October 11th – 8pm -10pm \n  \nWHERE \nLuggage Store Gallery – 1007 Market St. San Francisco\, CA 94103 \n  \nHOW MUCH \nSliding scale $6 – $15 \n  \nOutsound Presents at LSG Creative Music Series \n  \nCilla Vee Life Arts presents: \nPSYCHIC BANDWIDTH \n  \nDefinition: \nData transfer capacity of the mind. \n  \nPerformance: \nPsychic Bandwidth – chance operations of cross-disciplinary performance modes. \nImprovized collaborations of Sound with Movement\, Spoken Word and other Performance Arts test the Psychic Bandwidth of artists and audience alike. \nDuos\, Trios\, Quartets and All. \nPicked randomly on the spot. \nUnpredictable. \nEach artist could do anything at any moment. \nDo we have the Psychic Bandwidth to absorb it all? \nTo see everything. To hear everything. \nTo catch and process each interaction. \nCasting our psychic net wide and reeling it all in to our consciousness. \n  \nAsheville NC’s Cilla Vee Life Arts commissions some of the Bay Area’s finest improvisers to throw down in this mix! \n  \nCilla Vee Life Arts \nCILLA VEE LIFE ARTS is an inter-disciplinary arts organization founded in 2002 in the South Bronx by Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) – now based in Asheville NC.\nIt serves as an umbrella for multiple projects that focus on collaboration and facilitation. With a mission of blurring boundaries and crossing categories\, CVLA draws from a diverse pool of artists with a wide range of artistic backgrounds.\nPerformances can include anything from dance\, movement\, music\, sound\, text\, film and video\, visual and performance art to installation and beyond. \n“When it’s summer in the city\, people do weird things. Performers especially. ….“Beguiling”\nJohn Rockwell – New York Times \n  \nCilla Vee Life Arts – http://www.cillavee.com/ \n  \nThis Fall Cilla Vee is touring cross-country and the west coast in order to connect and collaborate with area artists in each location. \n  \nARTIST INFORMATION \nCilla Vee – http://cebhomepage.blogspot.com \nGino Robair – http://www.ginorobair.com/ \nCheryl E Leonard – http://www.allwaysnorth.com/ \nIvy Johnson – https://ivyjohnsonblog.wordpress.com/ \nTongo Eisen-Martin – http://www.blackfirepress.com/ \nEric Kupers – http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/ \nInclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble – https://www.facebook.com/CSUEBIIE/ \n  \n  \nCilla Vee  \n  \nClaire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance\, music\, text\, media\, visual and installation art. \nClaire has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow\, the New York \nBotanical Gardens\, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout the USA\, Canada\, Europe\, Japan and Pakistan. \nClaire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations. She also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute with Plymouth University\, UK. \nOn moving to the USA in 1992\, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina\, as well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee. \nOnce based in New York in 2002\, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and\, with the support of arts advocates such as Chashama\, Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art\, began to develop and present her signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects. \n  \nShe is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance art. \nClaire now uses Asheville NC as her home-base. \n  \nGino Robair \nGino Robair has created music for dance\, theater\, radio\, television\, silent film\, and gamelan orchestra\, and his works have been performed throughout North America\, Europe\, and Japan. He was composer in residence with the California Shakespeare Festival for five seasons and served as music director for the CBS animated series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. His commercial work includes themes for the MTV and Comedy Central cable networks. \nRobair is also one of the “25 innovative percussionists” included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld\, 2001). He has recorded with Tom Waits\, Anthony Braxton\, Terry Riley\, Lou Harrison\, John Butcher\, Derek Bailey\, Peter Kowald\, Otomo Yoshihide\, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet\, and Eugene Chadbourne\, among many others. In addition\, Robair has performed with John Zorn\, Nina Hagen\, Fred Frith\, Eddie Prevost\, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282\, Myra Melford\, Wadada Leo Smith\, and the Club Foot Orchestra. \nRobair is a founding member of the Splatter Trio and the heavy-metal band\, Pink Mountain. In addition\, he runs Rastascan Records\, a label devoted to creative music. \nAs a writer about music technology\, Robair has contributed to Mix\, Remix\, Guitar Player\, and Electronic Musician (EM) magazine\, where he was an editor for 10 years. He is the author of two books\, including The Ultimate Personal Recording Studio (Thompson; 2006). \n  \nCheryl Leonard \n Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer\, performer\, and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds\, structures\, and objects from the natural world. Her projects cultivate stones\, wood\, water\, ice\, sand\, shells\, feathers\, and bones as musical instruments\, and often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. She uses microphones to explore the subtle intricacies of sounds and develops compositions that highlight these unique voices. Intrigued by cross-disciplinary collaboration\, Leonard has produced installations and multimedia works with visual artists and scientists; composed for film\, video\, dance\, and theater; and designed sounds for museums. Her music has been performed worldwide and is available on multiple record labels. Her awards include residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen\, Djerassi\, the Arctic Circle\, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus\, and Villa Montalvo\, and grants from the National Science Foundations’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program\, American Composers Forum\, American Music Center\, and ASCAP. \n  \nIvy Johnson \nIvy Johnson is a poet and performance artist in Oakland\, CA. \nHer book\, As They Fall\, is a collection of 110 notecards for aleatoric ritual and was published by Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2013. \nShe is co-founder of The Third Thing\, an ecstatic feminist performance art duo. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published their self-titled chapbook\, The Third Thing\, in 2016. Her book Born Again just came out with The Operating System. \n  \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \n  \nEric Kupers \nEric Kupers has co-directed\, choreographed\, and performed with Dandelion Dancetheater since its inception. Eric is a Professor of Dance at Cal State University East Bay. He is the director of Bandelion (his core research collaboration within Dandelion Dancetheater founded in 2006\,) as well as the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (founded in 2006\,) which brings together students\, alumni\, community members and professional performers with and without disabilities and from diverse cultures to create original performance works. Eric has been a resident artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center\, CELLspace\, Jon Sims Center for the Arts\, and ODC Theater. \n  \nIIE  \nThe CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (IIE) is directed by Professor Eric Kupers and is part of the CSU East Bay Theatre and Dance Department.\nMade up of students\, alumni\, faculty\, staff\, community members and professional artists with and without disabilities\, the IIE creates original\, inclusive performance works and performs throughout the Bay Area and on tour every year. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/psychic-bandwidth-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Luggage Store\, 1007 Market Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books five-year anniversary October ride
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our October anniversary ride! \n  \nCombining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which twelve San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. This anniversary ride marks the thirty-year anniversary of the naming of the original twelve streets. \nThe resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat! For fans of specific authors\, we invite you to bring an excerpt to read along our route\, or anecdote to share. Check out the full map for route info and authors represented: https://burritojustice.com/bikes-to-books-map/ \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. \nEvent is free. Maps and our expanded poster version will be available for purchase!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-five-year-anniversary-october-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author Event! C. Arellano / E. de la Cruz / D. Foxx / L. Herrera y Lorenzo
DESCRIPTION:Please  join authors Cathy Arellano\, Estela de la Cruz\, Dino Foxx\, and Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano\, a multi-generational group representing voices of various genders and sexualities. Some of our friendships go back decades\, some of us met in community in more than one location\, and some of us will be meeting for the first time. But we all know the highs and lows of hooking up\, breaking up\, and falling apart. \nBooks featured: \nI Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me by Cathy Arellano \nFor the Hell of It by Estela de la Cruz \nWhen the Glitter Fades by Dino Foxx \nAmorcito Maricón by Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-c-arellano-e-de-la-cruz-d-foxx-l-herrera-y-lorenzo/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181014T153000
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SUMMARY:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal for Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal for Litquake
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-for-litquake/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-7/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T210000
DTSTAMP:20260506T000247
CREATED:20170324T014130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061746Z
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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-19/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T210000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shuck-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T220000
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SUMMARY:Advice: A Night of Stories with Porchlight
DESCRIPTION:We could all stand to hear some wisdom and guidance right about now. The Bay Area’s long-running Porch Light Storytelling Series returns with “advice”-themed tales from Steve Almond\, Dickson Lam\, Sands Hall\, Writer\, Sisonke Msimang\, Maggie Rowe\, and Betty Charbonnet Reid Soskin\, the nation’s oldest park ranger. Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 7 pm\, show at 8 pm. $20 adv / $25 door
URL:https://litseen.com/event/advice-a-night-of-stories-with-porchlight/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T000247
CREATED:20180422T232602Z
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180825T063232Z
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SUMMARY:John Freeman in conversation with Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:This event cosponsored by LITQUAKE in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Press \ncelebrating the release of \nFreeman’s Literary Journal: POWER Issue \npublished by Grove Press \nFrom the voices of protestors to the encroachment of a new fascism\, everywhere we look\, power is revealed. Spouse to spouse\, soldier to citizen\, looker to gazed upon\, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. Its hoarding is itself a demonstration. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary annual Freeman’s explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval. \nMany of the writers are women. Margaret Atwood posits it is time to update the gender of werewolf narratives. Aminatta Forna shatters the silences which supposedly ensured her safety as a woman of color walking in public spaces. Power must often be seized. The narrator of Lan Samantha Chang’s short story finally wrenches control of the family’s finances from her husband only to make a fatal mistake. Meanwhile the hero of Tahmima Anam’s story achieves freedom by selling bull semen. Australian novelist Josephine Rowe recalls a gallery attendee trying to take what was not offered when she worked as a life-drawing model. Violence often results from power imbalances— Booker Prize winner Ben Okri watches power stripped from the residents of Grenfell Tower by ferocious neglect. But not all power must wreak damage. Barry Lopez remembers fourteen glimpses of power\, from the moment he hitched a ride on a cargo plane in Korea to the glare he received from a bear traveling with her cubs in the woods\, asking—do you plan me harm? \nFeaturing work from brand new writers Nicole Im\, Jaime Cortez\, and Nimmi Gowrinathan\, as well as from some of the world’s best storytellers\, including US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith\, Franco-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani\, and Turkish novelist Elif Shafak\, Freeman’s: Power escapes from the headlines of today and burrows into the heart of the issue. \nJohn Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist\, Tales of Two Cities\, Tales of Two Americas\, and Maps\, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages. \nRebecca Solnit is a prolific writer\, and the author of many books including Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things To Me\, Savage Dreams\, Storming the Gates of Paradise\, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City. Her writing has appeared in Harpers\, UK Guardian\, and Tom Dispatch. She has received numerous honors for her work including the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology\, the Harvard Mark Lynton History Prize\, the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society\, and numerous fellowships. \nLitquake is the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast\, Litquake continues its mission as a ten-day literary spectacle for booklovers\, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions\, unique cross-media events\, and hundreds of readings. Whether it’s poets reciting in a cathedral\, authors discussing science versus religion in a library\, or novelists reading in a beekeeping supply store\, the goal remains the same: whet a broad range of literary appetites\, present the literary fare in a variety of traditional and unlikely venues\, and make it vivid\, real\, and entertaining. To learn more visit: http://www.litquake.org/ \nPraise for Freeman’s: \n“There’s an illustrious new literary journal in town . . . [with] fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights . . . alike.”—Vogue.com \n“A terrific anthology . . . Sure to become a classic in years to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle \n“Ambitious.”—O Magazine \n“Freeman draws from a global cache of talent . . . An expansive reading experience.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Looking at what John [Freeman] has put together in this first edition\, I’m struck by how many names I don’t know and how diverse and global it is. My only disappointment is that it’s going to be twice a year—I think we need it 4 times a year.”—James Wood\, Radio Boston \n“Illuminating . . . Perfect reading for our ever-accelerating times.”—NPR’s Book Concierge \n“Freeman’s is fresh\, provocative\, engrossing.”—BBC.com \n“A first-rate anthology of bold\, searching and personal writing by emerging and established writers.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune \n“Freeman’s sets a new standard for literary journals . . . It’s refreshing and full of nuanced stories that will linger with you long after you finish them.”—Chicago Literati \n“[An] infinitely relatable and beautifully crafted prose and poetry anthology . . . Freeman has assembled a thoughtful and profoundly accessible collection of work that connects our vulnerabilities\, our expectations and our hopes.”—Newcity Lit \n“[A] thrillingly unique collection of voices.”—Toronto Star
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-freeman-in-conversation-with-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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