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SUMMARY:City Arts & Lectures NADINE BURKE HARRIS
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Indre Viskontas\nMonday\, December 3\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs a pediatrician working in the Bay View-Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco\, Nadine Burke Harrisnoticed that the children who came to her clinic with health problems—including ADHD\, asthma\, and eczema—had histories of severe adversity. Her research has shown that exposure to violence and stress affects the developing brains and bodies of children\, resulting in increased instances of substance dependence\, impulse control\, engagement in high-risk behavior\, and heart disease or cancer. In response to her findings\, Harris founded the Center for Youth Wellness which provides care coordination\, mental health services\, nutrition\, holistic interventions\, and medication when necessary. She is the author of The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. \nIndre Viskontas is a cognitive neuroscientist at University of California\, San Francisco and on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has published groundbreaking work on the neural basis of memory and creativity and is co-host of the podcast Inquiring Minds. Her forthcoming book\, How Music Can Make You Better\, comes out Spring 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-arts-lectures-nadine-burke-harris/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norma Cole with Steve Dickison: An Omnidawn Party
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of two new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press \nFate News \nby Norma Cole \nand \n\n\n\nInside Song  \nby Steve Dickison \nabout Fate News: \nAll timing all the time! Fate News is poetry in the crosshairs of action (kairos) and clock time (chronos). With a topical setlist in four sections\, “Local\,” “On-Going\,” “Stay Songs\,” and “Harmolodics\,” Fate News relentlessly pierces the surface of lyric gesture. Its osmotic exchanges and searching encounters vibrate with the clarity of fiercely delicate shouts and murmurs\, undertones and overtones. The vision of “Mount Fiasco” is on fire. \nNorma Cole is a poet\, translator\, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities\, Where Shadows Will\, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. To Be At Music: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her visual work has been shown at 2nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto\, Canada\, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. \n\n\n\nabout Inside Song : \nThese poems sense music as a generative force\, always gone other ways than culture and commerce need and declare it to travel. Half the book (Zora Neale Hurston) obliquely teases out the practice of “fieldwork” as the study of “getting into the crowd\,” and half follows from Charlie Haden’s deployment of “liberation music” as communitarian voice in the face of acts of State targeted at peoples and persons. \nSteve Dickison teaches at San Francisco State University\, where he directs The Poetry Center. His work has appeared in SFMOMA’s Open Space\, BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Poetry\, and Bomb\, which awarded him the 2014 Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. \nOmnidawn Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand the community of writers and readers through the work we choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Omnidawn began in 2001 with the intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. At the core of Omnidawn’s mission is the belief that lively\, culturally pertinent\, emotionally and intellectually engaging literature can be of great value\, and they participate in the dissemination of such work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norma-cole-with-steve-dickison-an-omnidawn-party/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg
DESCRIPTION:On December 4\, The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes Parkland activist\, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and author David Hogg\, to San Francisco to share his personal story and vision for change in our country. \n“Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg” will include a lecture and Q&A at Minnesota Street Project followed by a reception and book signing with Hogg at the Museum of Craft and Design. Both arts venues are located within walking distance of each other in the historic Dogpatch district in San Francisco. David Hogg’s new book\, “#NeverAgain” will be on sale during the event at both locations and in advance of the lecture at MCD’s Store. \nConcurrently\, Al Farrow: Divine Ammunition\, a new exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed artist Al Farrow will be on view at the Museum of Craft and Design. Farrow is known for his works that employ used munitions-bullets\, guns\, grenades\, bombs-to make powerful sculptures of reliquaries and holy sites. Through his chosen media\, Farrow reclaims tools of destruction to evoke peaceful social commentary. \nTimes and Locations\n7:00-8:00 PM | Lecture and Q&A\nAt Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota St.\, San Francisco \n8:30-9:30 PM | Reception & Book Signing\nAt Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third St\, San Francisco \nTicket Details\nLecture and Q&A only | $30 public\, $25 MCD Members and students*\nLecture\, Q&A\, Reception and Book Signing with Author | $60 public\, $55 MCD Members and students*\n*Members and students will be required to present current membership cards or student ID upon entry. \nLecture\, Q&A\, Reception and Book Signing with Author – $60 (Lecture and Q&A only – $30). \nPresented by Museum of Craft and Design.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/designing-change-a-conversation-with-david-hogg/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Wall of Birds
DESCRIPTION:Jane Kim and Thayer Walker discuss their new book\, The Wall of Birds:One Planet\, 243 Families\, 375 Million Years. \n\nAbout The Wall of Birds \n\nA celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds\, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s magnificent 2\,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim. \n  \nPart homage\, part artistic and sociological journey\, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds’ remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick\, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted in exacting detail\, The Wall of Birds lets readers explore these amazing creatures family by family and continent by continent. Throughout\, beautifully crafted narratives and intimate artistic reflections tell of the evolutionary forces that created birds’ dazzling variety of forms and colors\, and reveal powerful lessons about birds that are surprisingly relevant to contemporary human challenges. \n  \nFrom the tiny five-inch Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird to the monstrous thirty-foot Yutyrannus\, The Wall of Birds is a visual feast\, essential for bird enthusiasts\, naturalists\, and art lovers alike.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wall-of-birds/
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:1st Tuesday's Spoken Word & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:1st Tuesday’s Spoken Word TV showcase is a community event that creates a positive space for expression through the arts. \nWe highlight local talent and bring awareness to local business\, including Radio Africa and Kitchen Cuisine and the new Cafe Envy. \nThis event is an upscale\, black carpet affair where artists receive lots of press coverage\, exposure and a great experience to share their art. We highlight spoken word artists\, poets\, storytellers\, singers\, artists and more. \nJoin us every 1st Tuesday from 7:30-9:30pm. This is a free event & Cafe Envy’ has extended their Happy Hour menu just for this special evening. \nWe’re doing this to build community & on our own so come out and support. \n#BigMouthProductions #1stTuesdaysRemixTV #BayviewHuntersPoint
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1st-tuesdays-spoken-word-open-mic/
LOCATION:Cafe Envy\, 1701 Yosemite Ave\, San Francisco\, 94124
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:George Lakey
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nHow We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning \nby George Lakey \nfrom Melville House \nA lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns — teaching us how to achieve real progressive change. \n\nToday’s new direct action campaigns require a new\, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey’s How We Win is that timely guide. The Women’s March of January 21\, 2017 was estimated at four million people — the largest assembly of activist protest in U.S. history. Many of those assembled were in the streets for the first time\, or returning after a period of inactivity. \nLakey\, a lifelong activist\, helps us understand our political moment (extreme polarization\, ripe for political change)\, teaches us how to plan a campaign to overcome that polarization\, demonstrates how to launch these ideas into action\, and shows us how to grow and sustain our movements. This is what democracy looks like. \nGEORGE LAKEY has been active in direct action campaigns for six decades. Recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where he was the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change\, Lakey was arrested for the first time at a civil rights demonstration in March 1963\, and most recently on March 29\, 2018 in the Power Local Green Jobs Campaign. He lives in Philadelphia. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Lakey: \n“If you want to be a soldier\, you can go to West Point. If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker — well\, this is an awfully good place to start. George Lakey has been near the center of American resistance for decades\, and so he has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights — not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual!” \n–Bill McKibben\, co-founder of 350.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-lakey/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2ND SET: ‘OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM’ ANTHOLOGY RELEASE
DESCRIPTION:WED. DEC. 5TH\, 7PM \nBy popular demand\, we’ve added a second night of readings from the newly released Overthrowing Capitalism: Volume Five. \nFeatured readers: \n\nLincoln Bergman\nWilliam Crossman\nAnita Odena Cruz\nRomeo Cruz\nCarol Denney\nArnoldo Garcia\nLapo Guzzini\nDan Katz\nKaren Melander Magoon\nJanice Mirikitani\nAlejandro Murguia\nJeanne Powell\nStephen Schur\nNina Serrano\nCathleen Williams\nNellie Wong\nAndrena Zawiinsky\nFady Zouby\nFacilitator:\nRosemary Manno
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2nd-set-overthrowing-capitalism-anthology-release/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Poetry from USF's Graduate Program in Writing
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the concluding event in Prof. D. A. Powell‘s “San Francisco Poetics\,” an open classroom experience celebrating poets in San Francisco. The founding director of the University of San Francisco’s Master of Fine Arts degree in writing program\, Aaron Shurin (pictured)\, will read and discuss his own work and how it relates to ideas of community and culture in San Francisco. Graduate students from the USF’s MFA program will read poems written this semester. Please join us! \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event open to the public. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-poetry-from-usfs-graduate-program-in-writing/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joshua Rivkin and R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Rivkin discusses his new biography\, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for Chalk \n\n“Reviled when young\, revered when old\, the elusive Twombly surprisingly emerges in this fascinating biography\, which traces the difficulties of tracking down the man as thoroughly as it fills in the blurred\, half-erased likeness. This is the record of a heroic journey of discovery.” —acclaimed author and memoirist Edmund White\n \n\n“Joshua Rivkin’s sensitive eye and investigative ambition expand and enrich our understanding of Cy Twombly’s genius in this tenderly rendered biography.”—Rachel Corbett\, author of You Must Change Your Life \n\n“So much more than a study of the life and work of the famously guarded Twombly. At once candid and tender\, meditative and unsparing . . . this book is a gift to Twombly devotees and newcomers alike—as imbued with beauty\, genius\, and vitality as the artist’s work that is its subject.” —Lacy Johnson\, author of The Other Side \n\nAbout Chalk \n\nThe first book to explore the life and work of painter Cy Twombly\, one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century \nCy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history—including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy and the United States where he perfected his room-size canvases\, he managed his public image carefully and rarely gave interviews. \nUpon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable paintings\, writer Joshua Rivkin became obsessed himself with the mysterious artist\, and began chasing every lead\, big or small—anything that might illuminate those works\, or who Twombly really was. \nNow\, after unprecedented archival research and years of interviews\, Rivkin has reconstructed Twombly’s life\, from his time at the legendary Black Mountain College to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective; from his heady explorations of Rome in the 1950s with Robert Rauschenberg to the ongoing efforts to shape his legacy after his death. \nIncluding previously unpublished photographs\, Chalk presents a more personal and searching type of biography than we’ve ever encountered\, and brings to life a more complex Twombly than we’ve ever known. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-rivkin-and-r-o-kwon/
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:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon\, reading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center In Common Writers Series will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. For our second program in the series\, renowned novelist and essayist Kiese Laymon is joined by San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free and open to the public. \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, traveling to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. He’ll read and join Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, then the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. 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. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\nreading from their works\nThursday DEC 6\n*6:30 door; readings 7:00pm sharp @ Marcus Books\n3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (one block west of MacArthur BART)\, Oakland\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \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/new-date-in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
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:Chaya Bhuvaneswar in conversation with Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s new book \nWhite Dancing Elephants \nfrom Dzanc Books \nIn luminous\, vivid\, searingly honest prose\, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning\, bold\, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. One woman’s miscarriage is juxtaposed against the story of the Buddha’s birth. Another cheats with her best friend’s husband\, only to discover it’s her friend she most yearns for. In three different stories\, three artists struggle to push courageous works into the world\, while a woman with an incurable disease competes with her engineer husband’s beautiful android. \nCombining the speculative elements and wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood\, Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros\, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and memorable new voice. White Dancing Elephants is the winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry forthcoming in Natural Bridge\, Quiddity\, apt magazine\, Hobart and more. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. She received the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize\, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship\, and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received four Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \nLouise Aronson is a geriatrician\, writer\, educator\, and professor of medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco (UCSF) where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers\, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine\, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award\, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award\, as well as numerous awards for her teaching\, educational research and writing. She is the author of the PEN America debut fiction award finalist\, A History of the Present Illness\, and the forthcoming non-fiction Elderhood: Redefining Medicine\, Life\, and Old Age in America. Her articles\, essays and stories appear regularly in literary and medical journals\, newspapers and blogs\, including the New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, JAMA\, Narrative Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and the Lancet. \nPRAISE FOR WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans—gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.”\n—Jamie Ford\, author of House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”\n—Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.”\n—Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n“From the first page\, I was swept away by the riveting undertow of Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s inventive and spellbinding stories\, each moment cast in powerfully intelligent prose. White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable debut; we are so lucky to hold this book in our hands.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.”\n—Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.”\n—Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a master of literary stealth. Seduced by her luminous\, intimate voice\, I was unprepared for the shattering force of her honesty and insight. Authentic\, fearless and wholly original\, White Dancing Elephants is a knockout collection.”\n—Jillian Medoff\, author of This Could Hurt \n“Filled with dark music\, nuance\, and intelligence\, White Dancing Elephants takes readers on a thrilling journey. In sharp takes\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar unfolds the complexities of race and gender\, tragedy and eros. This unforgettable collection will hold its readers captive to the very last page.”\n—Diana Abu-Jaber\, author of Life Without a Recipe \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s stories reveal a rare sensitivity to the strange and complicated acrobatics of the human heart. These are astonishing\, urgent portraits of people trying to see the world for what it is and what it might be.”\n—Emily Geminder\, author of Dead Girls and Other Stories \n“White Dancing Elephants dazzles from the start.  There are so many wonderful stories in this collection that center on female characters of color in all sorts of situations.  Readers are treated to deep characters\, mesmerizing language\, and a story that propels forward across a city and the landscape of a mind effortlessly.  This is a new gifted voice in contemporary literature and we are so lucky to have it!”\n—Victoria Chang\, American Book Award-winning author of Barbie Chang \n“The stories in White Dancing Elephants show impressive dexterity and range. The prose can be rich and intricate one moment\, then shifts registers into sharp humor; the characterization is many-dimensional; Bhuvaneswar’s ability to take on larger topics\, such as Bhopal\, and to locate and intensify their complexity within individuals is amazingly fine.”\n—Peter Rock\, Alex-award winning author of My Abandonment \n“Bhuvaneswar’s stories are as insightful as they are ineffable and as devastating as they are delightful. As I read these important and hilarious tales about the lives of queer people of color\, I kept asking myself\, ‘You can do this in writing?’”\n—Emma Eisenberg\, GLAAD-nominated journalist and author of The Third Rainbow Girl \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s deft and poignant stories bring the whole damned world into clearer focus. A pure pleasure to read\, White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable book that will stay with me for a long time.”\n—Skip Horack\, author of The Other Josep \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-in-conversation-with-louise-aronson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS will occur at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday December 6th\, 7-9 pm\, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)\, and others. lapsarians n. (lap-?ser-?-?n) Believers in the Fall. Origin: Latin lapsus\, a fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-lapsarians/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?
DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?\nA multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s underground clubbing by pájaros\, maricones\, mariposas\, mariquitas and those who love them. \nCurated by artists Juliana Delgado Lopera & Rebeka Rodriguez in collaboration with Aunt Lute Books\, this 1980s Latinx fashion extravaganza will include: \n*A runway featuring YOU – fabulous young and elder queers! \n*A kiki panel on the resiliency of people living and performing on 16th street in the 80s and 90s [FULL LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED] \n*A cute and cuir photo booth \n*DRAG! \nAnd more! Bring your best looks for a chance to win some fabulous prizes (glamorous books)! \nThis event is FREE! Ages 21 and up. The Stud is ADA accessible. \n  \n  \nWhen:  December 6\, 2018 @ 7pm\nWhere: The Stud (399 9th St\, San Francisco\, CA) \n===== \nAbout the curators:\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is currently the Creative Director of RADAR Productions. \nRebeka Rodriguez is an artist\, curator\, and cultural producer working in San Francisco communities. She is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the founder of BYOQ\, a daytime music\, art & performance festival. \nAunt Lute Books is a nonprofit women’s publishing press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years\, we have been publishing literature that voices the perspectives of women who have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing.         \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/would-you-be-caught-dead-in-that-outfit/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181208T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jaymee Goh (The Sea is Ours: Steampunk Tales of Southeast Asia)\nJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems)\nBryan Thao Worra (On the Other Side of the Eye)\nAlan Chazaro (Ghost Town Literary Review)\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-18/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181208T213000
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CREATED:20181031T224850Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Lally will read from and sign his new book Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017
DESCRIPTION:From a ’60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump\, Another Way to Play collects more than a half century of engaged\, accessible\, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O’Hara\, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader’s synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets\, from the political arena\, from Hollywood\, from the depths of the underground\, and from everywhere in between.  As Lally himself writes: “I suffered\, I starved\, and so did my kids\, / I did what I did for poetry I thought / and I never sold out\, and even when I did / nobody bought.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lally-will-read-from-and-sign-his-new-book-another-way-to-play-poems-1960-2017/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181208T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181208T220000
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CREATED:20181128T222540Z
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SUMMARY:Tongues of Fire Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:TONGUES OF FIRE Reading Series \n8pm \nbound together anarchist collective bookstore\, 1369 Haight St. \nFeaturing Anna Allen\, James Warner\, Phyllis Oscar\, and others!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongues-of-fire-reading-series/
LOCATION:Bound Together Bookstore\, 1369 Haight St\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181209T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181209T180000
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CREATED:20181031T222758Z
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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-8/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181210T210000
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CREATED:20181029T024444Z
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank in conversation with John Lindsay-Poland
DESCRIPTION:  \ndiscussing their new books \nThe Long Honduran Night: Resistance \, Terror\, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup \nBy Dana Frank \nfrom Haymarket Books \nand \nPlan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism \nby  John Lindsay-Poland \npublished by Duke University Press \nabout The Long Honduran Night: \n\n\nA story of resistance\, repression\, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. \n\n\nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States. \nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \nabout Plan Colombia: \nFor more than fifty years\, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200\,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia\, the Colombian military killed more than 5\,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2005 massacre in the San José de Apartadó Peace Community and the subsequent investigation\, official cover-up\, and response from the international community. He examines how the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid and official indifference contributed to the Colombian military’s atrocities. Drawing on his human rights activism and interviews with military officers\, community members\, and human rights defenders\, Lindsay-Poland describes grassroots initiatives in Colombia and the United States that resisted militarized policy and created alternatives to war. Although they had few resources\, these initiatives offered models for constructing just and peaceful relationships between the United States and other nations. Yet\, despite the civilian death toll and documented atrocities\, Washington\, DC\, considered Plan Colombia’s counterinsurgency campaign to be so successful that it became the dominant blueprint for U.S. military intervention around the world. \nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nJohn Lindsay-Poland is Healing Justice Associate at the American Friends Service Committee and author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama and Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism published by Duke University Press. \n\n\n\n\nReviews\n\n\n\n“I congratulate and thank Dana Frank for giving us this book and for documenting the role of the United States in the long night of terror that we have lived in Honduras since the 2009 coup d’etat. Her contribution to historic memory stands as our witness.” \n—Bertha Oliva\, general coordinator\, Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras \n  \n“Dana Frank has written a searing portrait of a nation in crisis\, a book that is startling\, enraging\, and humane all at once. Her most important accomplishment is never losing sight of the hardships and treachery that ordinary Hondurans have had to endure these last several years\, nor the dignity with which they have survived it all.” \n−Daniel Alarcon\, Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante\, author of At Night We Walk in Circles \n  \n“The Long Honduran Night breaks the deafening silence that has followed recent American intervention in Honduras. It graphically documents the awful legacy of this intervention.” \n−Stephen Kinzer\, award-winning author and foreign correspondent \n  \n“If you’ve any interest at all in Honduras\, U.S. foreign policy\, Central America\, why so many Central Americans are migrating north…or in a powerful\, informative\, and extremely good read\, do pick up Dana Frank’s book\, The Long Honduran Night. It’s a surprisingly readable book that tells not only the tragic story of another failed state and the forces that continue to work against establishing real democracies in Central America\, but also inspires in its stories of everyday people— in Honduras and the United States— who work against difficult odds to create change\, often by placing their lives at risk.” \n−María Martin\, independent journalist \n  \n“Free from academic jargon\, conversant with modern Honduran history\, and steeped in passion\, this testimonial book is the best primer\, in English\, about the coup\, and resistance to it\, that destroyed Honduran democracy on June 28\, 2009. Dana Frank not only registers her solidarity movement and legislative initiatives in the U.S. on behalf of the multifaceted resistance to the coup and defense of Human Rights\, her keen outsider’s eye brings the novice gaze of contemporary Honduran political life into the country’s cities and villages\, its valleys and mountains\, as well as into demonstrations and street marches\, conversations in cabs\, radio stations\, and more. Almost ten years after the coup\, Frank’s book transits seamlessly between the social fabric and intimate lives of hundreds of Hondurans she has met personally during her many years in the country. Frank manages this while referencing key historical processes and their current legacies\, an important and necessary feat on its own\, but also valuable because it informs the current plight of Hondurans who flee their country into the U.S. seeking asylum in the aftermath of 2009 coup.” \n−Dario A. Euraque\, Professor of History and International Studies\, Trinity College \n  \n“A historian and activist offers a damning indictment of corruption\, human rights violations\, and failed U.S. policy in Honduras. Frank (Emerita\, History/Univ. of California\, Santa Cruz; Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth’s Sit-Down\, 2012\, etc.) offers a heady mix of personal experience\, historical context\, and contemporary condemnation of the chain of events that brought Honduras into a state of chaos. She examines events in Honduras following the coup d’état that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 and the constitutional crisis and regime that followed. Despite the author’s lobbying of Congress to influence Honduran policy\, the region destabilized and fell into a quagmire of corruption and violence. Also unhelpful were the State Department\, which insultingly viewed Latin America as America’s “backyard\,” and other areas of the U.S. government that consciously chose to look the other way even as it continued to “dance with dictators.” These days\, Honduras has a notorious reputation for violence\, especially in the wake of its refugee crisis\, exemplified by the much-publicized “caravan” of 57\,000 undocumented\, unaccompanied minors that fled Central American countries in 2014. “Those parents had known exactly how brutal the alternatives were at home\,” writes Frank. “Just like the parents who sent their kids north\, they were trying to imagine\, and build\, a future for their loved ones.” As to the cause\, the author boldly calls it as it is: “But let’s be clear: those gangs and drug traffickers took over a broad swath of daily life in Honduras in part because the elites who ran the government permitted and even profited from it. Who was the gang\, in this story?” Readers who aren’t invested in Latin American history or politics may find the political narrative somewhat lackluster\, but the author’s on-the-ground reports are gripping. Frank even finds times for a bit of dark humor: “When\, exactly\, did I start using the term ‘axe murderer’ all the time?”An important\, little-known history that offers much truth and little reconciliation.” \n−Kirkus Reviews \n  \n“I have covered Honduras ever since the 2009 coup. Dana Frank’s insightful and very human portrait of the country’s resistance is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what’s really going on in Honduras and why it matters.” \n−Adam Raney\, journalist\, Al Jazeera English and Univision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-in-conversation-with-john-lindsay-poland/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon 'ODDMENTS 2018'
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Dec 11th for our annual celebration of strange stories\, curious happenings\, odd ends\, and unclassified wonders:\nODDMENTS\nFeaturing our favorite stories from this year’s submissions that just wouldn’t fit into any theme\, the official welcoming of our 2018 Fellows of Odd Salon\, plus our once-annual holiday shop full of odd gifts for the curious minded Oddling in your life. \nCurated by Annetta Black \nGET TICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-oddments-2018/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181211T200000
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CREATED:20181128T220351Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Book Readings presents 'Great Gift Books'
DESCRIPTION:Authors Sumiko Saulson\, Jim Provenzano\, and Colleen McKee present and read from their latest works
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-lgbtq-book-readings-presents-great-gift-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181211T203000
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SUMMARY:The Racket!
DESCRIPTION:The summer’s over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let’s gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on THE DARK. Hosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181211T210000
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:presenting a polyphonic play of interconnected stories \nfrom the new book \nVanishing Act \nby Roman Muradov \nfrom Fantagraphics Books \nWritten and drawn in thirteen styles\, from comedy and confession to prophecy and interpretative dance\, Vanishing Act is a polyphonic play of interconnected stories\, synchronized in time and space on one melancholy evening. A paranoid man rehearses the upcoming party. A disheveled actor expounds on the conceptual potential of sitcoms. A beloved dog disappears into the Internet and starts a cult. A couple runs their argument in reverse. A bored seagull excretes the entire known universe. Vanishing Act is governed by one looping constraint that unifies all of the disparate threads: each following story starts in the middle of the previous one\, overlapping until the end of the night\, and back into the beginning of the book. \nRoman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Vogue\, and Lucky Peach\, among others. He has also designed books for Penguin Random House\, including the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Muradov makes his home in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181211T213000
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SUMMARY:Emily Yoon\, Sam Sax\, Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nEmily Yoon\, Sam Sax and Monica Sok read their latest poems. \n\nAbout A Cruelty Special To Our Species \n\nA piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender\, race\, and violence from a sensational new talent \n  \nIn her arresting collection\, urgently relevant for our times\, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women\, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women\,” women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. \n  \nIn wrenching language\, A Cruelty Special to Our Species unforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power\, bringing powerful voice to an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. “What is a body in a stolen country\,” Yoon asks. “What is right in war.” \n  \nMoving readers through time\, space\, and different cultures\, and bringing vivid life to the testimonies and confessions of the victims\,Yoon takes possession of a painful and shameful history even while unearthing moments of rare beauty in acts of resistance and resilience\, and in the instinct to survive and bear witness. \n  \nAbout Bury It \n\nsam sax’s bury it\, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death\, rituals of passage\, translation\, desire\, diaspora\, and personhood. What’s at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says “bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant\, wild\, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously.” In this phenomenal second collection of poems\, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross\, the bridges we burn\, and bridges we must leap from.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-yoon-sam-sax-monica-sok/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181212T210000
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CREATED:20181031T002258Z
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SUMMARY:Marcia Douglas: Natural Herstory Remix
DESCRIPTION:In 2008\, Douglas began performing Natural Herstory\, a one-woman multimedia performance drawing from her poetry and fiction to explore Jamaican women’s voices. Natural Herstory Remix is a continuation of that project\, with a focus on The Marvellous Equations of the Dread\, examining what a hybrid (fiction/poetry/one-drop beat) novel might become when given voice and stage. It is directed by University of Colorado Theatre professor Cecilia Pang. \ncelebrating the release of \nThe Marvellous Equations of the Dread \npublished by New Directions Books \nAbout The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: \n“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man\, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree\, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too\, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley\, no one but his long-ago love\, the deaf woman\, Leenah\, and\, in the way of this otherworldly book\, when Bob steps into the street each day\, five years have passed. Jah ways are mysterious ways\, from Kingston’s ghettoes to London\, from Haile Selassie’s Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica\, Marcia Douglas’s mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novel—in bass riddim—carries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion. \nMarcia Douglas is the author of novels and poems and performs the one-woman show\, “Natural Herstory.” She teaches creative writing and Caribbean literature at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Her The Marvellous Equations of the Dread was longlisted for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcia-douglas-natural-herstory-remix/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: LOVE\, LOSS & FIRE - A CAMP FIRE FUNDRAISER
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 12\, 2018\n7:00 PM  10:00 PM\nThe San Francisco Columbarium (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents…\nLove\, Loss & Fire – A Camp Fire Fundraiser \nLet’s gather together\, out of the smoke & heartbreak\, to honor & support community affected by the deadliest fire in California history – an open mic offering\, w/special musical guests…\nBobby Jo Valentine\nChelsea Coleman\nScott Ferreter\nMorgan Bolender\n& more… \nDoors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nEnds at 10pm\n@ The San Francisco Columbarium\n1 Loraine Court\nSan Francisco\, CA 94118 \nTICKETS BY DONATION: https://bpt.me/3909391 \nProceeds go to the North Valley Community Foundation – https://www.nvcf.org \nVENUE: Located off the beaten path\, at the end of a residential cul-de-sac in the Richmond District\, the copper-domed\, Neo-Classical columbarium is a hidden gem & an architectural wonder. The structure features a large rotunda\, mosaic tile floors\, ornate stained-glass windows & a domed skylight. A colossal 45-foot atrium is surrounded by intricate balconies\, with each of the 4 floors providing a glimpse into San Francisco’s history. Big thanks to Bobby Jo Valentine for the idea & to Brian Kestenblatt for the space! \nOPEN MIC: Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to share\, arrive early. If you’re going to perform\, please keep it under 5 MINUTES. If you feel compelled to\, share whatever you want\, but you don’t have to perform anything at all – the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPARKING: There is a parking lot\, but space is limited. Public transportation is recommended. \nCOMFORT: The space was built in the late 1800s\, so there is no heat\, but a limited number of blankets will be available for use. Dress warmly! \nThe Camp Fire is the deadliest & most destructive wildfire in California history. It is also the deadliest wildfire in the United States\, as well as the seventh-deadliest U.S. wildfire overall. Named after Camp Creek Road\, its place of origin\, the fire started on November 8\, 2018\, in Butte County\, in Northern California. The fire has caused 77 civilian fatalities\, injured 12 civilians & five firefighters\, covered an area of about 140\,000 acres\, & destroyed 11\,862 structures\, including 9\,700 single-family homes & 118 apartment buildings\, with most of the damage occurring within the first two days. \nThe fire forced the evacuation of Paradise\, Magalia\, Centerville\, Concow\, Pulga\, Butte Creek Canyon\, & Yankee Hill & threatened the communities of Butte Valley\, Chico\, Forest Ranch\, Helltown\, Inskip\, Oroville\, & Stirling City. Within the first day\, the fire essentially destroyed the community of Concow & the town of Paradise\, incinerating homes\, businesses\, churches\, a hospital\, schools\, & a rest home. \nCAMP FIRE STATISTICS: http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2277
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-love-loss-fire-a-camp-fire-fundraiser/
LOCATION:The San Francisco Columbarium\, 1 Loraine Ct\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sara Mumolo and Caroline O'Connor Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Sara Mumolo and Caroline O’Connor Thomas read from their latest poetry collections\, Day Counter and Unusual Light Source. \n\nSara Mumolo’s previous book is Mortar. Her poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms\, Action Yes\, Entropy\, Lana Turner\, PEN Poetry Series\, Typo\, and Volt\, among others. She serves as the associate director for the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer currently residing in the Bay Area. Originally from the east coast\, Caroline obtained her BA in English from the University of Southern Maine. In 2012 she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where she attended St. Mary’s College of California\, receiving her MFA in Poetry in 2014. Following graduation\, she attended the Tin House Summer Workshop as one of their 2014 Poetry Scholars. Caroline’s poetry & other writing has appeared in a number of publications. Her first chapbook Unusual Light Source is forthcoming from White Stag Publishing in Fall 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-mumolo-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
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:City Arts & Lectures JAMES FORMAN\, JR.
DESCRIPTION:JAMES FORMAN\, JR.\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nThursday\, December 13\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nJames Forman\, Jr. has devoted his life to fighting institutionalized racism. After clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor\, Forman joined the Public Defender Service in Washington\, D.C.\, where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults charged with crimes. Frustrated with the lack of education and job training opportunities for his clients\, Forman founded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School\, an alternative school for previously arrested youth. Forman is a law professor at Yale University. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book\, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America\, Forman examines the war on crime that began in the 1970s\, why it was supported by many African American leaders\, and how it has contributed to the mass incarceration of people of color. \nLara Bazelon is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics. Previously\, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-arts-lectures-james-forman-jr/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Story Telling 'HAPPY ENDINGS'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 13th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of ‘Yeah\, We go there’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ YOU? I’m reviewing story pitches now! (send your pitch to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com) \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by Rachel Lark \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \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. \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! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, storytelling coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is also the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling\, that’s now headed into year 12 (“The original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about the art of storytelling and its ability reduce social anxiety and connect strangers. A former dating site community manager\, this story-loving southerner founded Bawdy Storytelling (Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage). Monthly in San Francisco and Seattle and touring nationally\, Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred – at Bawdy\, 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. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”)\, and is also the host and curator of Bona Fide storytelling and BawdySlam story slam. Her true stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own award-winning Bawdy Storytelling podcast (Best Sex Podcast from Marie Claire\, Uproxx and Esquire Magazine\, plus Bustle voted Bawdy a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship”). You can follow Dixie’s antics at @Bawdy\, at facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & she’s always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Born and raised in the Bay Area\, Charra Steele is feisty\, kinky\, sometimes a bit socially awkward and an all around people pleaser. When she’s not cooking\, spanking asses or reading smut\, you can probably find her crocheting adorable BDSM teddy bears. Getting in front of a crowd is not something that she would usually volunteer to do – unless\, of course\, it’s to spank a juicy booty. \n❤ When singing on his best behavior\, Jefferson Bergey is a sought-after private event vocalist\, M.C.\, and consultant for the award-winning Lucky Devils Band as well as a solo artist for Ivy Hill Entertainment. Alongside his busy performance calendar he maintains a full schedule as a voice coach for beginning singers at the Starland School of Music in Alameda and privately at his studio in North Oakland. \nWhen he isn’t performing in a family-friendly environment\, Bergey takes great delight in participating in shows that could very well be considered family-unfriendly. Bergey writes and performs his own unique genre of (Immature) Adult Contemporary in various comedy shows\, podcasts\, storytelling events\, and house concerts. It’s coffee shop singer-songwriter folk music… if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. Definitely not for the very young or the very old and quite possibly conservative. Most notably he’s become a regular performer in San Francisco’s Bawdy Storytelling for which he writes custom songs for host and creator Dixie De La Tour. He has released an album of live studio takes titled ‘Come For Me’\, inspired by and largely comprised of those sex-centric Bawdy compositions. The title song which features him Tuvan throat-singing\, also appeared on Kevin Allison’s popular RISK! podcast. Follow him at @jeffersonbergey on Twitter and see all his upcoming shows at JeffersonBergey.com \nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & 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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-story-telling-happy-endings/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LABORFEST ANTHOLOGY – ‘GIVING VOICE’
DESCRIPTION:LABORFEST ANTHOLOGY – ‘GIVING VOICE’\n\nFRI. DEC. 14TH\, 7PM\nJoin us for a reading celebrating the release of Giving Voice\, a LaborFest anthology spanning 2005-2017. \nReaders: \n\nNellie Wong\nJerry Path\nMargaret Cooley\nKeith Cooley\nAlice Rogoff\nPhyllis Holliday\nAdele Kearney\n\nWe are involved in the struggles to have our voices heard\, our outsider voices. Even though our writing appears in the same anthology\, please recognize that we are all very different. The themes and concerns of our writing are as varied as we are. It contains memoir\, fiction\, poetry. \nlaborfest writers\n\nHaving initiated the workers’ writing workshop that blossomed into the LaborFest Writers Group\, I am in awe of its continuance and growth\, now publishing a brilliant anthology of their work\, giving voice to working class desires\, woes\, courage\, and resistance while trapped in this merciless capitalist reality. \nroxanne dunbar-ortizHistorian\, Author; “Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-anthology-giving-voice/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Wall in conversation with Jonathon Keats
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nAlien Life\, Antimatter\, and Human Space Travel \nat the fabulous Bar Fluxus\, 18 Harlan Place\, San Francisco\, CA 94108 \ncelebrating the release of \nOut There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life\, Antimatter\, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious) \nby Michael Wall \npublished by Grand Central Publishing \n\nWe’ve all asked ourselves the question. It’s impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books\, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely the beginning\, touching off a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier. He considers\, for instance\, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which\, top NASA officials told Wall\, is only drawing closer). What would the first aliens we meet look like? Would they be little green men or mere microbes? Would they be found on a planet in our own solar system or orbiting a star far\, far away? Would they intend to harm us\, and if so\, how might they do it? And might they already have visited? \nOUT THERE is arranged in a simple question-and-answer format. The answers are delivered in Dr. Wall’s informal but informative style\, which mixes in a healthy dose of humor and pop culture to make big ideas easier to swallow. Dr. Wall covers questions far beyond alien life\, venturing into astronomy\, physics\, and the practical realities of what long-term life might be like for we mere humans in outer space\, such as the idea of lunar colonies\, and even economic implications. Dr. Wall also shares the insights of some of the leading lights in space exploration today\, and shows how the next space age might be brighter than ever. \nDr. Michael Wall is a senior writer at Space.com who has written extensively about the search for alien life. His work also has appeared in Scientific American\, NBC News\, Fox News and a number of other outlets. He holds a graduate certificate in science journalism from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Before becoming a writer\, Dr. Wall worked as a biologist; he earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Sydney in Australia and has 15 peer-reviewed publications. He’s based in San Francisco\, where he also chronicles the space tech revolution in Silicon Valley. \nJonathon Keats is a writer\, critic\, conceptual artist\, and experimental philosopher known for creating large scale thought experiments. He is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine\, and has contributed to Art & Antiques\, Art+ Auction\, Art in America\, ARTnews\, Artweek\, The Christian Science Monitor\, Wired Magazine\, Forbes\, Salon.com\, and The Washington Post. He is the author of numerous books\, the most recent being Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future from Oxford University Press. His conceptual art has been exhibited at many venues including the Berkeley Art Museum\, the Hammer Museum\, and the Wellcome Collection. His most recent show is on exhibit at the MODERNISM Gallery in San Francisco\, titled Intergalactic Omniphonics: Orchestrating Live Music For Life Throughout The Universe. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-wall-in-conversation-with-jonathon-keats/
LOCATION:Bar Fluxus\, 18 Harlan Place\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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