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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling "Dirty Dozen"
DESCRIPTION:Saturday February 23rd\, 2019\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM\, Stories at 7:00 PM\n\n\n(NOTE: This is our Early Show)\n\n\nTickets $25 in Advance / $30 at the Door\n\nOr see BOTH SHOWS with a Full Evening Wristband!\n\n\nWant to sample Bawdy Storytelling? Listen to our podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nThis Evening of Stories and Songs includes:\n❤ Artist\, Educator & ‘SuperNova of Kink’ Midori\n❤ More Storytellers to come – stay tuned!\n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by Rachel Lark\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nOn Saturday February 23rd\, come to Bawdy – the birthday candle you just can’t blow out – to celebrate TWELVE YEARS of Groundbreaking Storytelling-with-an-Edge.\n\n\nFor this big Anniversary blowout\, we’ll have the notorious and heroic onstage to tell their own scandalously revealing tales\, so expect a star-slutted event that will leave no turn un-stoned\, go behind the green door\, and give you everything you’ve come to love about Bawdy.\n\n\nFor the past Decade (plus 2)\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together on the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between.\n\n\n \n\n\nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! VIP Packages will be chock full of brand new bawdiness to take home with you. Our VIP & Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone – our Anniversary shows always SELL OUT.\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 6:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\n\n\n\nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling Celebrates a Dirty Dozen (7:00 PM\, SF)? Contact Bawdy Storytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-dirty-dozen/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Best of Bawdy' (10 PM\, SF)
DESCRIPTION:Saturday February 23rd\, 2019\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 9:30 PM\, Stories at 10:00 PM\n\n\n(NOTE: This is our Late Show)\n\n\nGeneral Admission $25 in Advance / $30 at the Door\n\nOr see BOTH SHOWS with a Full Evening Wristband!\n\n\nWant to sample Bawdy Storytelling? Listen to our podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nYou choose the Winners! The evening includes:\n❤ Best of Bawdy Survey coming soon\n\n❤ Hosted by Bawdy’s Founder\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ Music by the inimitable Rachel Lark\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nOn Saturday February 23rd\, come to Bawdy – the birthday candle you just can’t blow out – to celebrate TWELVE YEARS of Groundbreaking Storytelling-with-an-Edge.\n\n\nFor this big Anniversary blowout\, we’ll have the notorious and heroic onstage to tell their own scandalously revealing tales\, so expect a star-slutted event that will leave no turn un-stoned\, go behind the green door\, and give you everything you’ve come to love about Bawdy.\n\n\nFor the past Dozen years\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together on the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between.\n\n\n \n\n\nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! VIP Packages will be chock full of brand new bawdiness to take home with you. Our VIP & Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone – our Anniversary shows always SELL OUT.\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 6:30 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\n\n\n\nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Best of Bawdy’ (10 PM\, SF)? Contact Bawdy Storytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-best-of-bawdy-10-pm-sf/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing
DESCRIPTION:More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give tips on how to finish a book and share interesting stories from their writing journeys. The talk will be followed by Q&A\, book signing\, and refreshments provided by the writers. The program will be conducted in Mandarin. \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-chinese-writers-discuss-their-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christie Aschwanden / Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden for her new book Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery. More information to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nIn recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks and shakes to compression sleeves\, foam rollers\, electrical muscle stimulators\, and sleep trackers. \n  \nIn Good to Go\, Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through this strange world. She investigates whether drinking Gatorade or beer after training helps or hinders performance; she examines the latest trends among athletes\, from NFL star Tom Brady’s infrared pajamas to gymnast Simone Biles’ pneumatic compression boots to swimmer Michael Phelps’ “cupping” ritual; and she tests some of the most controversial methods herself\, including cryochambers\, float tanks\, and infrared saunas. \n  \nAt a time when the latest recovery products and services promise so much\, Good to Go seeks answers to the fundamental question: Do any of them actually help the body recover and achieve peak performance? \n  \n\n  \nChristie Aschwanden is the lead writer for science at FiveThirtyEight and health columnist for the Washington Post. A finalist for the National Magazine Award\, her writing has appeared in Outside\, Discover\, Smithsonian and O\, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Colorado. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \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 Good to Go\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christie-aschwanden-good-to-go-what-the-athlete-in-all-of-us-can-learn-from-the-strange-science-of-recovery/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
DESCRIPTION:Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anya-martin-and-nick-mamatas-2/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190225T213000
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SUMMARY:Tommy Orange
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nWith his stunning debut novel\, There There\, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and where they live. The fierce and sorrowful novel grapples with the complex and painful history of a multigenerational Native American family living in Oakland\, at once celebrating their rich spiritual heritage and illuminating the profound consequences of systematic discrimination. A recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, Orange is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. He does not take the responsibilities and impact of his public voice lightly\, telling PBS that “when people think the only way to be Native or the only way to look Native is based on a historical\, head-dressed feathered image\, you have already disappeared.” \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, music critic\, and the author of Who We Be\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\, and We Gon’ Be Alright. He is the former Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and currently serves as Vice President of Narrative\, Arts\, and Culture at Race Forward
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-orange-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T170000
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SUMMARY:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU\nIn Conversation with Alexis Madrigal\nMonday\, April 8\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist\, and the co-founder of string field theory\, a branch of the theoretical framework of string theory. His work follows the directive of Einstein\, attempting to develop a Theory of Everything that unites the four fundamental forces of the universe. His books include The Future of the Mind\, Physics of the Future\, Physics of the Impossible\, and Parallel Worlds. His most recent\, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars\, Interstellar Travel\, Immortality\, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth considers the concrete\, scientific possibility of moving human civilization to outer space\, drawing upon astrophysics\, artificial intelligence\, and cutting-edge developments in robotics\, nanotechnology\, and biotechnology to make a case for the potentials of sustainable human life as it intersects with new technology. Dr. Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS: This Morning\, host of two weekly science radio programs\, Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science and a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.\n\n\nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/destiny-beyond-earth-interstellar-travel-immortality-with-dr-michio-kaku-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T190000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. \nFor more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi <iranyi@me.com> \n  \nPosted in BOOK CLUB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nSophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon \nby Maxine Gordon (Author)\, Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword)\, Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) \npublished by University of California Press \nSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)\, one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography\, history\, and memoir\, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began\, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition\, the blend of research\, anecdote\, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter\, “Man\, you ought to leave your karma to science.” \nDexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums\, on film\, and in jazz lore–even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom\, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son\, father\, husband\, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself. \n\n\nMaxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. As an oral historian and archivist in the fields of jazz and African American cultural history\, Sophisticated Giant fulfills the promise she made to her late husband\, jazz saxophonist and Academy Award-nominated actor Dexter Gordon\, to complete his biography.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-gordon-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-jazz-legend-dexter-gordon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
DESCRIPTION:  \n   reading from \nMinutes of Glory and Other Stories \npublished by The New Press \nA dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time” \n\n\n\nNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, although renowned for his novels\, memoirs\, and plays\, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree” (“Mugumo” in this collection)\, written in 1960\, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda\, to the playful “The Ghost of Michael Jackson\,” written as a professor at the University of California\, Irvine\, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. \nCovering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ’s collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society; big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British; and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ’s most beloved stories\, “Minutes of Glory\,” tells of Beatrice\, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city’s beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. \nPublished for the first time in America\, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa’s best-loved writers. \nOne of the leading writers and scholars at work today\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in Limuru\, Kenya\, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not\, Child; and Petals of Blood\, as well as Birth of a Dream Weaver\, Wrestling with the Devil\, and Minutes of Glory (all from The New Press).\nCurrently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, Ngũgĩ is recipient of twelve honorary doctorates\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of \n\n\n\nThis thrilling testament to the human spirit had\, for me\, a fierce resonance. . . . I could not help feeling that his luminous words were meant for those victims and many others being persecuted across the world\, a way of urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and silence. (Ariel Dorfman\, The New York Times Book Review) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Engrossing … At once exhilarating and defiant\, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir is a thought-provoking document of a grim time in Kenyan history.” (Publishers Weekly) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Washington Post reviews Birth of a Dream Weaver\, saying “every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience.” (The Washington Post)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ngugi-wa-thiongo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nona Caspers and Friends
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Nona Caspers’ latest book\, the novel\, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said\, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal of bereavement\, showing how death elevates the mundane and affects everything humans do\, see and think.” The San Francisco Chronicle called the book “… mesmerizing\, moving…” \nYears after Caspers’s unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident\, she finds herself wondering\, “What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?” In vivid\, richly detailed vignettes\, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss. At times dryly comical\, at other times radiantly surreal\,The Fifth Woman is a testament to the resurrecting power of memory and enduring love. \nCaspers will share the stage with two of her former graduate students from the Creative Writing program at SFSU. Author signing and book sale by Dog Eared Books Castro to follow event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nona-caspers-and-friends/
LOCATION:James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lloyd Kahn
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of The Pacific Ocean: Lloyd Kahn’s Latest Book\, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast \nfrom Shelter Publications \nPreceded by Discussion and Vintage Photos of NorCal Surfing in the ’50s — Before Wetsuits \n\n\n\nLloyd Kahn is the editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications\,  an independent California publisher. Shelter Publications specializes in books on building and architecture\,as well as health and fitness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lloyd-kahn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate Lew Ellingham’s 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book\, 2018; new narrative exponent\, poet\, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about his Semiotext(e) book Fascination\, (his newest is Stage Fright: Selected Plays from San Francisco Poets Theater); and poet Patrick Mellon launches his first book\, Alkali Shores\, the most recent publication from local publisher Ithuriel’s Spear. \n\nLew’s new offering is 2018\, “Give Me My Words”\, the author’s manuscripts chronologically presented through 2018\, with the addition of a memoir or eulogy\, “Compton”\, the final story of a friend who recently died\, an Alzheimer’s victim — almost all the settings are in San Francisco\, prose poems or stories usually a single page in length\, gathered in a jumbled mind.\n\nPatrick Mellor’s new poetry book from Ithuriel’s Spear\, Alkali Shores\, is his first book of poems and was written over the last 15 years. Its aim is to represent the intersection of biological and cultural history expressed in individual human cognition and universal mythology.\nMellor has studied paleobiology\, botany\, and philosophy at Oxford and San Francisco State universities\, specializing in the botany and ecology of the California deserts\, philosophy of mind and early modern rationalism. \nKevin Killian will read from Fascination\, a memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. \nFascination brings together an early memoir\, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work\, Bachelors Get Lonely. The two together depict the author’s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up\, boozy\, drug-ridden world of Long Island’s North Shore in the 1970s. Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope\,” Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows\, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: ‘You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'” \n  \n The fun begins at 7pm. All welcome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-sf-poet-lew-ellingham-celebrates-birthday-with-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:REBECCA SOLNIT
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRebecca Solnit is an incisive voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment\, western and indigenous history to literary criticism\, and from hope and disaster to popular power and social change. She has published twenty books\, including three collections of essays–Hope in the Dark\, Men Explain Things to Me\, and The Mother of All Questions–as well as a trilogy of atlases of American cities and a work of literary criticism on Eadweard Muybridge. Her most recent work\, Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)\, brings a measure of light and hope to the sobering topics of police brutality\, lack of gun regulation\, and other acts of violence in America. Solnit is a columnist at Harper’s and a frequent contributor to The Guardian. \nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film\, What is Democracy? (2018)\, collapses time and space\, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question\, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame\, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The Guardian)\, and features the political activists and thinkers Cornel West and Silvia Federici. Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her essays have been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, n+1\, The New York Times\, and The Baffler\, where she is a contributing editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents a panel discussion on the future of artificial intelligence and the nature of human existence. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nAdvances in artificial intelligence have forever altered the way we live — from Alexa in your living room to autonomous vehicles and drone warfare — and AI is poised to define the coming decades for better or worse. Tech giants\, including Google and Facebook\, are engaged in an AI arms race\, while Elon Musk\, the late Stephen Hawking\, and other thought leaders have warned that unsupervised\, self-improving machine learning poses a major threat to society. So where is AI headed next\, and how will this rapidly emerging technology impact our world? \n  \nIn Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI\, science world luminary John Brockman has assembled twenty-five of the most important scientific thinkers to discuss the groundbreaking opportunities and potential dangers that AI presents. The result is an unparalleled round-table examination of the mind\, thinking\, intelligence\, and what it means to be human. \n  \nJoining us for an evening of conversation are four Bay Area contributors: \n  \n–  Chris Anderson: former EIC of Wired; cofounder and CEO of 3DRobotics.\n–  Anca Dragan: UC Berkeley professor; cofounder of the prestigious Berkeley AI Research Lab. \nLeading the panel is Possible Minds editor John Brockman\, founder of the powerhouse international literary and software agency Brockman\, Inc. as well as the publisher of Edge.org\, an online salon that the Guardian has called the worlds smartest website. \n  \nPlease join us! \n  \n\n  \n“Pithy essays on artificial intelligence. . . . Readers . . . will not find a better introduction than this book.” – Kirkus \n  \n“While the [Possible Minds] authors disagree on the answers\, they agree on the major question: what dangers might AI present to humankind? Within that framework\, the essays offer a host of novel ideas. . . . Enlightening\, entertaining\, and exciting reading.” – Publishers Weekly \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n  \n– Duration of event is subject to authors’ preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Possible Minds\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-possible-minds-twenty-five-ways-of-looking-at-ai/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel\, author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Will Durst\nCome to the scathing! Join Russian émigré Iossel (journalist\, novelist) and the Bay’s most illustrious political satirist Durst in what will be a raucous and biting exchange. Why suffer?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-author-of-notes-from-cyberground-trumpland-and-my-old-soviet-feeling/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jen Beagin
DESCRIPTION:Jen Beagin discusses her new novel\, Vacuum in the Dark \n\nPraise for Jen Beagin \n“How can you resist a love story in which the object of desire is named Mr. Disgusting? Like Denis Johnson\, Jen Beagin is able to find humanity and wonder (and yes\, love) in some of the most forlorn and hopeless corners of our world.”— Tom Perrotta\, author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers \n“Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin is like one of those old-fashioned classics by Charles Bukowski or John Fante or\, more recently\, Denis Johnson\, a shambling\, lyrical dispatch from the dive bars and the flop houses where the downtrodden\, divested of hope\, livelihood\, good health\, and any number of other markers of respectability\, nevertheless retain full possession of their hearts and minds\, their integrity\, their souls\, too\, perhaps–and no one nearly as triumphantly as Mona Boyle\, Beagin’s heart-breaking hero & alter-ego. Rare is the encounter with such a frank and unflinching voice reporting from life on the edge\, and rarer still the humor and compassion that Beagin manages to locate in some of the country’s\, and the psyche’s\, darkest corners. This book invaded my dreams\, took over my conversation\, and otherwise seduced me totally.”— Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End \n“Jen Beagin has one of the freshest voices I’ve read in years – funny\, wise\, whip-smart and compassionate. I tore through Pretend I’m Dead with a deep sense of affection for all of its beautifully flawed characters and their bittersweet lives.”— Jami Attenberg\, author of The Middlesteins and All Grown Up \n\nAbout Vacuum in the Dark \nMona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos\, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend—a junkie named Mr. Disgusting\, long story—and her efforts to restart her life since haven’t exactly gone as planned. For one thing\, she’s got another bad boyfriend. This one she calls Dark\, and he happens to be married to one of Mona’s clients. He also might be a little unstable. \nDark and his wife aren’t the only complicated clients on Mona’s roster\, either. There’s also the Hungarian artist couple who—with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares—reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood\, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place. As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth\, Mona winds up on an eccentric\, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future. \nThe only problems are Dark and her past. Neither is so easy to get rid of. \nA constantly surprising\, laugh-out-loud funny novel about an utterly unique woman dealing with some of the most universal issues in America today\, Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable\, astonishing read from one of the freshest voices in fiction today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jen-beagin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 28\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include Zizek! (2005) and An Examined Life (2008). Her most recent film\, What is Democracy? (2018)\, collapses time and space\, doggedly pursuing the eponymous question\, while exploring a conglomeration of threads that refuse to be constrained by the camera’s frame\, continuing the conversation rather than offering decisive answers. The film has been called “a deliberate challenge to complacency” (The Guardian)\, and features the political activists and thinkers Cornel West and Silvia Federici. Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Her essays have been published in The Nation\, The Washington Post\, n+1\, The New York Times\, and The Baffler\, where she is a contributing editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-is-democracy-film-screening-and-discussion-with-director-astra-taylor/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nTranslators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true literary icons” (Literary Hub)—João Gilberto Noll—celebrating the release of Lord\, Two Lines Press’s third novel from the Brazilian legend called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine. \nCalled “masterful\, sensuous\, and disquieting” by Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza\, Lordis the intense follow-up to Noll’s Quiet Creature on the Corner and Atlantic Hotel. Morris\, who translated two Noll titles for Two Lines Press and holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University\, joins with Edgar Garbelotto\, who has translated Lord\, for a fascinating\, in-depth conversation. \nFind out just how one translates Noll’s quietly surreal sentences\, and how translators carefully maintain Noll’s atmosphere of menace and the surreal that many American critics have compared to the films of David Lynch. Also learn about Noll’s unique perspective on questions of identity\, his subversive reworking of classic noir tropes\, and the queer identity that underlies his highly original literary aesthetic. \n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nJoão Gilberto Noll\n\n\nJoão Gilberto Noll (1946–2017) is the author of nearly twenty books. His work appeared in Brazil’s leading periodicals\, and he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation\, King’s College London\, and the University of California at Berkeley\, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti\, and the recipient of more than ten awards in all\, he died in Porto Alegre\, Brazil\, at the age of 70.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nEdgar Garbelotto\n\n\nEdgar Garbelotto’s translations have appeared in venues including the Kenyon Review and Asymptote. An MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois\, he is the author of the novel Terra Incognita\, written in both Portuguese and English.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nAdam Morris\n\n\nAdam Morris has a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of João Gilberto Noll’s Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press\, 2017) and Quiet Creature on the Corner (Two Lines Press\, 2016)\, and Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House Books\, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely\, including in BOMB magazine\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lord-edgar-garbelotto-and-adam-morris-on-joao-gilberto-noll/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Spring Reading \nSaturday\, Mar 2\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n—\nJoe Loya\nJoe Loya’s essays and book reviews have been published in dozens of national newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed memoir  The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber\, and wrote and performed a one-man show of the same name at the Thick House in San Francisco. He has appeared on CBS News\, CNN\, MSNBC\, FOX’s O’Relly Factor\, and other TV shows to comment on cultural events. In 2007 the documentary Protagonist featured the story of his radical life change. He is one of the founders of Own Your Story and he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel A Kind of Freedom was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\, with her family.\n\n\nSarah Stone \nSarah Stone’s new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater (WTAW Press) appeared on the Millions Most Anticipated list for October and LitHub’s 21 Books You Should Read This October. Her previous novel\, The True Sources of the Nile\, has been taught in courses on literature\, ethics\, and the rhetoric of human rights. It was a BookSense 76 selection\, has been translated into German and Dutch\, and was included in Geoff Wisner’s A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa. She’s the co-author\, with her spouse and writing partner Ron Nyren\, of the textbook Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Scoundrel Time; Ploughshares; StoryQuarterly; The Believer; the San Francisco Chronicle; The Millions; The Writer’s Chronicle; Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear\, Risk\, and Hope; and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Stanford Continuing Studies. \nMaw Shein Win\nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese-American poet and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, Poetry International\, Fanzine\, and others. She is a member of the SF Writers’ Grotto and is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California. Along with Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. A collaborative book with paintings by artist Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press (2016). Her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in April 2018 and was a #2 City Lights Books bestselling paperback.\n\n\nIrving Ruan \nIrving Ruan is a writer\, actor\, comedian\, playwright\, and engineer. His work has been published in The New Yorker\, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Funny Or Die\, CollegeHumor\, and elsewhere. He is also an editor for Slackjaw and a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He graduated from the University of California\, San Diego with a degree in Computer Science and has studied improv\, sketch writing\, and satire at The Second City in Chicago. Irving lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-4/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, March 3rd for an intimate evening of poetry at the next installment of Bazaar Writers Salon. \nReadings by Esther Lin\, Austin Smith\, Melissa Stein\, and Amos White\nHosted by Peter Kline \nEsther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of The Ghost Wife\, winner of the 2018 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship\, and was awarded the Crab Orchard Review’s 2018 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel\, Crazyhorse\, Indiana Review\, Pleiades\, Ploughshares\, Triquarterly\, and elsewhere. Currently she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow and organizes for the Undocupoets\, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community. \nAustin Smith is the author of two poetry collections\, Almanac and Flyover Country\, both published through the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His poems have appeared in numerous journals\, including The New Yorker\, Poetry Magazine\, Ploughshares\, New England Review and Threepenny Review. He has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant in prose. He currently teaches courses in poetry\, fiction\, environmental literature and documentary journalism at Stanford University\, and lives in Pescadero\, California. \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA\, Pushcart Prize\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nAmos White is an awarded American haiku poet and author\, producer and civil rights activist. He is recognized for his vivid literary imagery and breathless poetic interpretations. Amos is published in several national and international reviews and anthologies. He is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, Executive Producer and Host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show\, and President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series\, and board member with the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM). www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-12/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-23/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T213000
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SUMMARY:THE WHOLE-BRAIN CHILD: NEUROSCIENCE OF THE DEVELOPING BRAIN WITH DR. DANIEL SIEGEL
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Steven Winn\nMonday\, March 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Daniel Siegel is a leading expert on psychiatry and psychotherapy\, focusing on the brain’s impact on the well-being of children and adults. A clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine\, and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center\, Dr. Siegel is the author and editor of multiple articles\, essays\, anthologies\, and textbooks on neurobiology\, both for the professional world and the public. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute\, an educational organization that teaches courses in developing mindfulness through examination of interpersonal relationships and biological processes. Dr. Siegel has additionally written five parenting books\, which use facets of neurobiology as the basis for healthful child-rearing. His most recent book\, Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence\, takes a close look at the science that underlies meditation and mindfulness\, and teaches readers how to cultivate an attentive state of being in order to develop a healthier\, happier\, brain and life.\n\n\nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Good Housekeeping\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. He is the author of Come Back\, Como.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-whole-brain-child-neuroscience-of-the-developing-brain-with-dr-daniel-siegel/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T213000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. \nMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness\, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes\, an ethnography of ancestral grief\, and an inventory of figureheads\, idioms\, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive\, joke and declaration\, songs of congregation and self-conception.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T213000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! \nCurated by Christine No + Chad Koch\, submissions are open through Feb 6. \nThe Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, site of Quiet Lightning 125. Photo by Aubrie Pick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-6/
LOCATION:The Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, 1625 Post St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T044332Z
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SUMMARY:DOOMED
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes\, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas\, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits\nODD SALON: DOOMED\n  \nFeaturing: \nTamar Baskind ~ Emanuel Ringelblum & the Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto \nLeonard Apeltsin ~ Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes Wrong \nLin Lawhn ~ Caledonia\, Conquered: How a Parcel of Rogues Doomed Scottish Independence \nKyle Weaver ~ Neitzche in a Nutshell: A Legacy of Miserable Counterculture \nNatalie Descalzi ~ The Alleged Arctic Conquests of Admiral Byrd \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan ~ History Distilled: Star Crossed Sodas & Lost Elixirs \nCurated by Christian Cagigal \nTuesday\, March 5th 2019 \n  \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. \n*Discounted Early Bird Tickets are available only up to Midnight\, Monday Feb18.* \n  \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \n \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doomed/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LOGIC Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC A magazine about technology \nHost: Jim Fingal\, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey\, Alexis C. Madrigal\, Fred Turner\, Ellen Ullman\, and Julia Carrie Wong \nTwo years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights. They are a print magazine about technology that publishes three times per year\, with a small digital footprint. A great deal of enthusiasm has been generated by LOGIC. They continue to expand their editorial line to generate better conversations about technology and its effects on culture. \nTo celebrate the second anniversary of Logic’s launch\, join us for a conversation at City Lights about the state of technology writing. \nHow are writers telling the story of technology? And how has the way they are telling that story changed in recent years\, as a string of revelations and scandals fosters a darker mood about the role of technology in our lives? \nTo discuss these questions\, we’ll hear from friends of the magazine who write about technology in different genres: \nMegan Rose Dickey is a senior reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity\, inclusion and social justice. She also covers the on-demand economy\, artificial intelligence and transportation. \nAlexis C. Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. \nFred Turner is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand\, the Whole Earth Network\, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism\, and a professor of Communication at Stanford University\, where he studies media\, technology and American cultural history. \nEllen Ullman is a computer programmer\, writer\, and novelist.  Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Wired\, The New Yprkl Times and Salon.  She is the author of a novel\, The Bug\, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine\, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. She lives in San Francisco. \nJulia Carrie Wong is a technology reporter for Guardian US\, based in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-turns-two/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eva Hagberg Fisher with Tabitha Soren / How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Eva Hagberg Fisher for her first book\, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship. Eva will be in conversation with Tabitha Soren. Please join us! \n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs\, alcohol\, therapists\, boyfriends\, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it\, but always temporarily. Then\, at age thirty\, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey\, and when her illness hit a critical stage\, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable\, she needed help\, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. \nHow to Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person’s life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship\, and the recovery — of many stripes — that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut\, delivered by a caring soul\, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with empathy\, pain\, fear\, and the secret truths inside all of us\, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart — and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy. \n  \n\n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher‘s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, Tin House\, Wallpaper*\, Wired\, Guernica\, and Dwell\, among other places. She lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTabitha Soren left a successful career in television in 1999 to start another one as a photographer. Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Oakland Museum of California; Transformer Station\, Cleveland\, Ohio; Pier 24 Photography\, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art\, Indiana; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, New Orleans. Her work has been featured in Dear Dave\, McSweeney’s\, Vanity Fair\, New York Times Magazine\, Blink\, Slate\, New York\, Sports Illustrated\, California Sunday Magazine\, and ESPN The Magazine. She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery\, Los Angeles \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Loved\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eva-hagberg-fisher-with-tabitha-soren-how-to-be-loved-a-memoir-of-lifesaving-friendship/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 5\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk & Chelsea Coleman \nADDITIONAL MARCH SHOW ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: https://sforce.co/2BDvO7q\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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \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-19/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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