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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chaney Kwak and Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, June 8 at 6pm PT when Chaney Kwak is joined by Daniel Handler for the launch of his book\, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87694059629\n\nPraise for The Passenger\n“In The Passenger\, Chaney Kwak debuts with the ultimate freelancer revenge story: What do you do when the cruise ship you are covering on assignment starts to sink? The result is a gripping story of survival\, capitalism\, maritime history—nothing less than a very modern adventure\, and an instant classic of travel writing.”—Alexander Chee\, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\n\n“Chaney Kwak’s The Passenger is an unflinching debut about the calamity of survival. Kwak speaks through the silent archives of history—from thousands of Koreans who died at sea to the maritime disasters across the globe. With incendiary humor and transcendent clarity\, Kwak exhumes the crisis of our haunted relationships and goes beyond the headlines in every scrolling smartphone to demand a greater understanding of being alive.“—E. J. Koh\, author of The Magical Language of Others\n\n“Chaney Kwak’s The Passenger somehow\, in one slim volume\, manages to do it all: in this hybrid of investigative journalism and travel writing\, personal and familial memoir\, Kwak chronicles—with searing wit—his long hours aboard a sinking Viking cruise ship\, veering from his family’s history in post-WWII Korea to the history of successful lifeboat deployments\, all against the backdrop of his own failing relationship. Kwak observes human beings with a precise\, compassionate eye\, moving from poignancy as he contemplates his place in the universe to biting social commentary aimed at the Twitter-storm of armchair storm chasers hoping to capitalize on his doom. I loved this book. It left me longing\, guiltily\, for Kwak’s next misadventure.”—Lori Ostlund\, author After the Parade and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n\nAbout The Passenger\nIn March 2019\, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales\, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful\, harrowing\, funny\, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship.\n\nChaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road\, but this is a first even for him: trapped on the battered cruise ship\, he stuffs his passport into his underwear just in case his body has to be identified. As the massive cruise ship sways in surging waves\, Kwak holds on and watches news of the impending disaster unfold on Twitter\, where the cruise ship’s nearly 1\,400 passengers are showered with “thoughts and prayers.” Kwak uses his twenty-seven hours aboard the teetering ship to examine his family history\, maritime tragedies\, and the failing relationship back on shore with a man he’s loved for nearly two decades: the Viking Sky\, he realizes\, may not be the only sinking ship he needs to escape.\n\nThe Passenger takes readers for an unforgettable journey from the Norwegian coast to the South China Sea\, from post-WWII Korea to pandemic-struck San Francisco. Kwak weaves his personal experience into events spanning decades and continents to explore the serendipity and the relationships that move us–perfect for readers who love to discover the world through the eyes of a perceptive and humorous observer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-chaney-kwak-and-daniel-handler-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Slipping: Mohamed Kheir and Robin Moger in conversation with Yasmine El Rashidi
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n2:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm MT | 4:00 pm CT | 5:00 pm ET \n\n\nTwo Lines Press joins the Transnational Literary Series to celebrate Mohamed Kheir’s Slipping\, the Egyptian author’s first book to be brought into English by Robin Moger. Mohamed and Robin will be in conversation with Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi. \nMore details and registration information coming soon! \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nMohamed Kheir\n\n\nMohamed Kheir is a novelist\, poet\, short story writer\, journalist\, and lyricist. Slipping (Eflat Al Asabea\, Kotob Khan Publishing House\, 2018; Two Lines Press\, 2021) is his fourth novel and his first to be translated into English. He lives in Egypt.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nRobin Moger\n\n\nRobin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English currently based in Cape Town\, South Africa. He has translated several novels and prose works into English including Iman Mersal’s How To Mend (Kayfa ta)\, Nael Eltoukhy’s The Women of Karantina (AUC Press) and Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles (7 Stories Press).\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slipping-mohamed-kheir-and-robin-moger-in-conversation-with-yasmine-el-rashidi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Summer 2021 Performance
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, June 5\, 2021 when Babylon Salon’s reading & performance series hosts a special Zoom-based show\, featuring Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies); Joshua Mohr (Model Citizen: A Memoir; Sirens; All This Life); Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl) and more!\nReading at 5pm PT/8pm ET. As always\, free admission. Zoom registration info coming soon!\nCo-hosted by our friends at The Booksmith and The Bindery\, now offering curbside pickup. https://www.babylonsalon.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-summer-2021-performance/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: M. Leona Godin & Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, June 4 at 6pm PT when M. Leona Godin joins us to discuss her book\, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness\, with Maggie Nelson on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89741184404\n\nPraise for There Plant Eyes\n“There Plant Eyes is so graceful\, so wise\, so effortlessly erudite\, I learned something new and took pleasure in every page. All hail its originality\, its humanity\, and its ‘philosophical obsession with diversity in all its complicated and messy glory.’” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts\n\n“This sighted disabled person learned so much from There Plant Eyes! The book took me on a cultural journey that showed how blindness is beautiful\, complex\, and brilliant.” —Alice Wong\, editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century\n\n“Godin moves effortlessly from erudite explorations of the construction of ‘blindness’ to incisive and often funny examinations of technology that helps—or does not help—the blind individual to personal stories of her own life. I was only a few pages in before I realized that what I thought about being blind was either wrong or woefully insufficient. The reader will be lost in admiration for Godin’s gifts as a writer and cultural critic.” —Riva Lehrer\, author of Golem Girl: A Memoir\n\nAbout There Plant Eyes\nA probing\, witty\, and deeply insightful history of blindness—in Western culture and literature\, and in the author’s own experience—that ranges from Homer and Milton to Louis Braille\, Helen Keller\, and Stevie Wonder\n\nM. Leona Godin begins her fascinating\, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how “blindness” has\, for millennia\, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how\, in metaphorical terms\, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness\, as a consequence of which many blind people have to deal not just with their disability but also with expectations that they possess “superpowers.”\n\nGodin illuminates the often surprising history of both the physiological condition and the ideas that have attached to it. She incorporates an analysis of blindness in art and literature (from King Lear to Star Wars) and culture (assumptions of the blind as pure and magically wise) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane\, embossed printing\, digital technology) and a recounting of her own experience of gradually losing sight over the course of three decades. Altogether\, Godin gives us a revelation of the centrality of blindness and vision to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-m-leona-godin-maggie-nelson/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Show Us Your Spines QTPOC Resident's Reading (May/June)
DESCRIPTION:Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work with the SF Public Library Archives.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. Despite the pandemic\, RADAR is determined to make space for creatives\, so the residency lives on in the virtual world with the assistance of our Program Manager and SUYS co-conspirator\, Mason J. \nFor a month\, QTBIPOC writers work 1-on-1 with digital archives and QTBIPOC community members around a queer theme of their choice; writing/producing/directing pieces to be shared the following month at the Show Us Your Spines QTBIPOC Artist Residency Showcase. This show is the culmination of their work within the archives. \n▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ \nJune 3rd\, 2021 \nvia TWITCH TV (twitch.tv/studsf) \n6:00pm – FREE \nFeaturing… \nNefertiti Asanti \nAshton Young \nSydney Latimer aka Divinewords \nJon Wai-Keung Lowe \n  \nLearn more about RADAR Productions and Show Us Your Spines at https://www.radarproductions.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/show-us-your-spines-qtpoc-residents-reading-may-june/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Grace Perry and Greg Mania
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 3rd at 6pm PT when Grace Perry is joined by Greg Mania to discuss her book\, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86068674144\n\nPraise for The 2000s Made Me Gay\n“Millennials grew up in such a chaotic cultural moment but it all seemed inevitable and normal because we had nothing to compare it to\, and Grace’s witty and honest book helped me appreciate just how uniquely bizarre a time it was. It’s mind-blowing to see that I wasn’t the only weird teen girl who did the weird teen girl things I did. It’s fun to look back with her guidance. Her writing is so honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\, author of How May We Hate You?\n\n“A gay hike through the media that shaped my little gay life\, revisiting all of the big questions of my adolescence.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\n“Grace Perry’s debut essay collection is the peak of pop-culture–peppered Millennial reflection. This masterful first book will cut deep.” —Joel Meares\, editor in chief of Rotten Tomatoes\n\n“Perry specializes in the kind of writing that makes you feel like you’ve known her for years. [W]hip-smart…hilarious and sneakily thought-provoking.” —Morgan Olsen\, editor in chief of Time Out Chicago\n\nAbout The 2000s Made Me Gay\nFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor\, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media\, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman\n\n“Honest\, funny\, smart\, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen\, co-head writer of SNL\n\n“If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo\, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress\n\nToday’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes\, both fictional and real\, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead\, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace\, Gossip Girl\, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl\,” country-era Taylor Swift\, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And\, for better or worse\, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words\, gay as hell.\n\nThrow on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts\, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago\, which many seem to forget.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-grace-perry-and-greg-mania-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Ever After: Emiko Jean with Gloria Chao
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Eastwind Books\nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for Tokyo Ever After\, the latest from Emiko Jean. The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in this irresistible story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan! Emiko will read from and discuss her work with Gloria Chao. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be livecasted on Facebook Live.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tokyo-ever-after-emiko-jean-with-gloria-chao/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell in conversation with Alvin Orloff
DESCRIPTION:Brontez Purnell and Alvin Orloff discuss 100 Boyfriends\, SFPL’s On The Same Page selection for June 2021. Transgressive\, foulmouthed and brutally funny\, 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. Publisher’s Weekly writes\, “Purnell brilliantly immerses the reader in Black\, queer desire with humor\, self-awareness and just the right amount of vulgarity.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-in-conversation-with-alvin-orloff/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Carlo Rovelli
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 27 at 6pm PT when bestselling author Carlo Rovelli discusses his latest book\, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution\, on Zoom! \nPlease note this is a ticketed event. \nTickets include admission to the event and a copy of the book with signed bookplate!\nLimited free\, event-only tickets available. \nAbout the Event \n“Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” —Neil Gaiman \nGreen Apple Books proudly presents an evening with world-renowned theoretical physicist and author of the bestselling books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time\, Carlo Rovelli\, celebrating his latest book\, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution. \nThis evening will include a conversation between Rovelli and a special guest and will be followed by an audience Q+A. Tickets include event access and a signed copy of Helgoland. Zoom login information will be sent no later than the morning of event date\, Thursday\, May 27. \nAbout Helgoland \nA startling new look at quantum theory\, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time. \nOne of the world’s most renowned theoretical physicists\, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland\, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. \nHelgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics\, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves\, distant objects that seem to be magically connected\, cats that appear both dead and alive)\, quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory\, yet it is still profoundly mysterious. \nAs scientists and philosophers continue to fiercely debate the meaning of the theory\, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships rather than substances. We and everything around us exist only in our interactions with one another. This bold idea suggests new directions for thinking about the structure of reality and even the nature of consciousness. \nRovelli makes learning about quantum mechanics an almost psychedelic experience. Shifting our perspective once again\, he takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better comprehend our place in it. \nPraise for Helgoland \n“This entertaining and legible guide paints the history of quantum theory and lays out its possible meanings.” —Scientific American \n“Physicist Rovelli (The Order of Time) dazzles with this look at the ’almost psychedelic experience’ of understanding quantum theory…These are big ideas\, but Rovelli easily leads readers through the knotty logic\, often with lyricism…Readers who follow along will be left in awe.” —Publisher’s Weekly\, STARRED REVIEW \nAbout Carlo Rovelli \nCarlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the United States\, and is currently directing the Quantum Gravity research group of the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille\, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics\, Reality Is Not What It Seems\, and The Order of Time are international bestsellers that have been translated into more than forty languages. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-carlo-rovelli/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n \nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nJoin Litquake for the exclusive Bay Area launch of the new anthology The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco (Chronicle Prism)\, featuring stories from 25 acclaimed writers about living in one of the most turbulent cultural epicenters in the U.S. Join us for a rollicking evening of stories and conversation\, with The End of the Golden Gate contributors Gary Kamiya\, John Law\, Kimberly Reyes\, and Alia Volz. Moderated by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nA percentage of this book’s proceeds will be given to charities that help those in the bay experiencing homelessness. Every copy purchased offers a small way to help those in need. \nOver the last few decades\, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley\, tech companies\, and more. Countless articles\, blogs\, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become\, a place millions of people have loved to call home\, and yet are compelled to consider leaving. In this beautifully written collection\, writers take on this Bay Area-dweller’s eternal conflict: Should I stay or should I go? \nIncluding an introduction written by Gary Kamiya and essays from Margaret Cho\, W. Kamau Bell\, Michelle Tea\, Beth Lisick\, Daniel Handler\, Bonnie Tsui\, Stuart Schuffman\, Alysia Abbott\, Peter Coyote\, Alia Volz\, Duffy Jennings\, John Law\, and many more\, The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time\, shapeshifting to become something new for each generation of city dwellers. \nWith essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution\, gentrification\, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco’s most beloved neighborhoods\, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement\, as well as the fight to preserve the art\, music\, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love. \nGary Kamiya is an author\, journalist and historian of San Francisco. His latest book\, with artist Paul Madonna\, is Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City. He is also author of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. His award-winning history column “Portals of the Past” appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco. \nJohn Law has been involved in creating underground culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for 40 years. He was an original member of the legendary San Francisco urban adventure and pranks group The Suicide Club\, was integral to the creation of The Cacophony Society\, and is co-founder of the Burning Man Festival. Law is still involved in the worldwide urban exploration underground\, and collaborates with a number of artists and businesses on various projects. He is co-author of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp)\, and lives in San Francisco. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist\, and has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, and many other places. She’s written nonfiction for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, and poetry for journals including American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Columbia Journal\, and The Stinging Fly. She is author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for nonfiction from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and many other publications. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell and Ucross. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. She lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-end-of-the-golden-gate-writers-on-loving-and-sometimes-leaving-san-francisco/
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: Art Crime and the FBI
DESCRIPTION:Look behind the scenes at the stories of infamous art heists and the efforts to recover long lost works\, with one of the most famous art detectives in the world\, sharing tales from the trenches of his long career solving art crimes with the FBI. Drawing on cases he worked on personally\, this seminar explores notorious art heists and daring recovery operations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Wittman founded the FBI’s National Art Crime Team and served for 20 years as the FBI’s investigative expert. Wittman is responsible for recovering more than $300 million in stolen art and cultural property around the world. He authored the New York Times Best Seller Priceless-How I Went Undercover to Rescue The World’s Stolen Treasures. \nThis seminar will draw on cases that have made headlines over his long career in law enforcement. Wittman’s career has taken him from Spain to extract $50 million worth of Goya and Brueghel paintings from a Spanish mobster to France to save a priceless Rodin. He has rescued Rembrandts\, Renoirs and even the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king. He will also share his greatest challenge: working undercover to track the criminals behind the century’s largest unsolved art crime\, the $500-million-dollar theft from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston. \n\nTuesday\, May 25\nART CRIME AND THE FBI: HOW MASTERPIECES ARE STOLEN AND RECOVERED WITH ROBERT WITTMAN\nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n\n\n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-art-crime-and-the-fbi/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sorrowland & Victories Greater Than Death: A Conversation with Rivers Solomon & Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Green Apple\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited. Event will also be available to stream on Facebook Live. \nSee Less
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sorrowland-victories-greater-than-death-a-conversation-with-rivers-solomon-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T130000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, May 22 at 12pm PT when Rivers Solomon and Charlie Jane Anders discuss their latest books\, Sorrowland and Victories Greater Than Death!\n\nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host this launch event for River Solomon’s Sorrowland (MCD) and Charlie Jane Anders’ Victories Greater Than Death (Tor/Forge). Both authors will read from and discuss their work. Audience Q&A to follow.\nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation.\nRegistration is required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be available to stream on Facebook Live.\n\nAbout Sorrowland\nSorrowland is a triumphant\, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.\n\nVern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There\, she gives birth to twins\, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest\, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go\, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of\, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family\, Vern has to face the past\, and more troublingly\, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here\, monsters aren’t just individuals\, but entire nations. It is a searing\, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold\, unignorable voice in American fiction.\n\nRivers Solomon writes about life in the margins\, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award\, Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for a Lambda\, a Hurston/Wright\, an Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) and a Locus award. Solomon’s second book\, The Deep\, based on the Hugo-nominated song by Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping\, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and shortlisted for a Nebula\, Locus\, Hugo\, Ignyte\, Brooklyn Library Literary\, British Fantasy\, and World Fantasy award. Solomon’s short work appears in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review\, the New York Times\, the New York Times Magazine\, Guernica\, Best American Short Stories\, Tor.com\, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy\, and elsewhere. A refugee of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade\, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.\n\nAbout Victories Greater Than Death\nVictories Greater Than Death is a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from internationally bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders.\n\nOutsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy. “Just please\, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”\n\nTina never worries about being ‘ordinary’–she doesn’t have to\, since she’s known practically forever that she’s not just Tina Mains\, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon\, and one day soon\, it’s going to activate\, and then her dreams of saving all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy\, after all\, is intergalactic–she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero\, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil. But when the beacon activates\, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed–and everyone in the galaxy is expecting her to actually be the brilliant tactician and legendary savior Captain Thaoh Argentian\, but Tina….is just Tina. And the Royal Fleet is losing the war\, badly–the starship that found her is on the run and they barely manage to escape Earth with the planet still intact. Luckily\, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust\, and her best friend Rachel\, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.\n\nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy coming in April 2021\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future got 700\,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-rivers-solomon-and-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks 25th Anniversary Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Youth Speaks invites you to join us in celebrating 25 years of supporting and challenging young people to develop and amplify their voices as creators of societal change. Come for a night of youth poetry\, some special guests\, and learn more about our home for the next 25 years and beyond. The fundraiser will be emceed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph with special guests Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs with a special musical guest. \nTICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-25th-anniversary-fundraiser/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:Alice Sparkly Kat on Postcolonial Astrology
DESCRIPTION:Astrologer and author Alice Sparkly Kat is ushering in a new wave of astrology that is intersectional\, inclusive\, and geared towards queer and POC communities. In their cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language\, Alice uses our historical and collective constructs of the planets\, sun\, and moon to re-chart our subconscious history\, redefine the body in the world\, and assert our politics of the personal. \nAlice believes that too often\, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and cultural contexts: co-opted by neoliberalism\, used as a force of oppression\, or distilled beyond recognition into applications that belie their individual and collective power. Dedicated to unmasking the political power of astrology\, Alice shows how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation. \nJoin educator\, creator\, and astrologer Kirah Tabourn for a conversation with Alice Sparkly Kat on their work and their latest book\, Postcolonial Astrology. Kirah and Alice share insights into ways we can use astrology to challenge our own practices\, interrogate our truths\, and reshape our institutions to build better frameworks for communities of care. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/kat-sparkly-alice-may-21-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-sparkly-kat-on-postcolonial-astrology/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Rebecca Roanhorse
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 21 at 6pm PT when Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his latest book\, Son of the Storm\, with Rebecca Roanhorse on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89187601455\n\nPraise for Son of the Storm\n“A mesmerizing coming of age tale set against a thrilling\, fantastical adventure that introduces a beguiling new world…and then rips apart everything you think you know.” —S. A. Chakraborty\, author of City of Brass\n\n“It’s always refreshing to find fantasies that break with all the old conventions and tropes\, and Son of the Storm delivers on this like a flash of lightning in the dark! Set in a deftly craftedworld of forbidden sorcery\, magical beasts\, and fractured polities\, this tale follows three characters whose seemingly disparate journeys are set for a collision course that will rewrite the fate of whole peoples and empires. Suyi Davies Okungbowa has created an original and fully conceived new world of fantasy teeming with brilliant possibilities and demanding to be explored!”—P. Djeli Clark\, author of A Master of Djinn\n\n“Okungbowa’s world feels fully formed from the first pages\, sweeping readers away into an elaborately plotted tale of ancient magics and world-shattering politics. I\, like many others\, will be impatiently waiting for the next installment!”—Andrea Stewart\, author of The Bone Shard Daughter\n\n“Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!” —Jenn Lyons\, author of The Ruin of Kings\n\nAbout Son of the Storm\nFrom one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy\, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.\n\nIn the ancient. city of Bassa\, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead\, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy.\n\nBut when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist\, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history\, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-suyi-davies-okungbowa-and-rebecca-roanhorse-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T210000
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes...
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nan Online Open Mic\n& Community Listening Space\nw/Ned Buskirk & the You’re Going to Die team! \nThursday\, May 20th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm PST\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER FOR FREE NOW: https://bit.ly/3dwQpO2 \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… is an ONLINE open mic event\, the communal offering for us to gather during these uniquely difficult times\, to witness & be witnessed\, to embrace our shared mortality together\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nOpen mic sign-ups will be ON THE ZOOM CALL!\nIf you want to share [& remember you don’t have to share!]\, once you’re on the Zoom call\, look for posted instructions for signing up. REMEMBER: The open mic list fills up quickly\, so sign up as soon as you can.\nREGISTRATION is for attendance\, not for an open mic spot. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what you feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity. \nYou can donate via… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D or @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/chelseacoleman1184 or via chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-24/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Martha Wells and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 20 at 6pm PT when Martha Wells is joined by Annalee Newitz to discuss Fugitive Telemetry\, the latest in The Murderbot Diaries\, on Zoom!\n\nSigned copies available!\nSpecial Murderbot Diary will be available for the first 20 copies sold!\nBe sure to write “diary!” in your order comment to receive yours.\nWhile supplies last.\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89627822577\n\nPraise for The Murderbot Diaries\n“I love Murderbot!” —Ann Leckie\n\n“The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I’ve enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!” —N. K. Jemisin\n\n“We are all a little bit Murderbot.”—NPR\n\nAbout Fugitive Telemetry\nThe New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back!\nHaving captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.\n\nNo\, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had\, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.\nWhen Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station\, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was)\, how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward\, at least)\, and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)\n\nYes\, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-martha-wells-and-annalee-newitz-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Michael Lewis in conversation with Dave Eggers\nThursday\, May 20\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThe news out of China was not good: there were signs that a new disease might be big—scary big\, like a brushfire coming at you uphill. Authorities\, medical and political\, saw no reason to worry and little need for tests. Michael Lewis’s new riveting nonfiction thriller\, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story\, pits a rogue band of visionaries\, working under the radar\, against the weight and disinterest of officialdom. It is a race against time\, and the deadline is now…or yesterday. Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker\, Moneyball\, The Blind Side\, The Big Short\, and The Undoing Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis-in-conversation-with-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kevin McIlovy and Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, May 18 at 6pm PT when Kevin McIlvoy discusses his latest novel\, One Kind Favor\, with Peter Orner on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88148839841\n\nAbout One Kind Favor\nBased loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014\, ONE KIND FAVOR explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in the small fictional community of Cord\, North Carolina\, the ghosts who frequent the all-in-one bar and consignment shop take on the responsibility of unearthing the truth and acting as the memory for the town that longs to forget and continues to hate. A reimagined Kathy Acker\, the groundbreaking literary icon\, engages Lincoln in a love triangle and brings a transgressive post-punk esthetic to the mission. The down-the-rabbit-hole satirical storytelling of ONE KIND FAVOR\, Kevin McIlvoy’s sixth novel\, echoes Appalachian ghost stories in which haunting presences will\, at last\, have their way.\n\nAbout Kevin McIlvoy\nKevin McIlvoy is the author of seven previous books: five novels\, a book of short stories\, and a book of prose poetry. He is a retired Regents Professor of Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and teaches at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s\, Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, Missouri Review\, and other literary magazines. He lives in Asheville\, North Carolina.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kevin-mcilovy-and-peter-orner/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger\nTuesday\, May 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n\n\nWith compelling\, universal fluency\, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays the practical and emotional adversities of her diverse characters in elegant and direct prose. Whether describing hardships of a lonely Indian wife adapting to life in the United States or illuminating the secret pain of a young couple as they discuss their betrayals during a series of electrical blackouts\, Lahiri’s bittersweet stories are deeply compassionate\, while avoiding sentimentality. Also an accomplished translator\, Lahiri’s forthcoming novel\, Whereabouts\, is her first full-length self-translation. The book follows a woman wavering between stasis and movement\, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties\, as she wanders parks\, bridges\, piazzas\, streets\, stores\, coffee bars\, and the sidewalks around her house. Lahiri will also publish her first collection of poems in Italian\, Il quaderno di Nerina\, in 2021. Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies\, her debut story collection that explores issues of love and identity among immigrants and cultural transplants. She is the director of Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing. \nMonica Seger is a professor and scholar\, whose research and teaching addresses twentieth and twenty-first century Italian literature\, film and media; the environmental humanities; and gender studies. She serves as the Program Director for Italian Studies at William & Mary University\, and is affiliate faculty in the programs of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies; Film and Media Studies; and Environmental Science and Policy. Seger is the author of Landscapes in Between: Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film\, and is currently working on a new monograph considering narrative expressions of toxic embodiment in contemporary Italy. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jhumpa-lahiri-in-conversation-with-monica-seger/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210516T153000
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Meaning and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival.\n\nA presentation of readings by a diverse\, intergenerational\, cross-section of writers\, who include visual artists\, educators\, activists and professionals from the AAPI community\, who will share their stories and poems\, ranging from immigration stories and family memoir to gender and racial oppression\, anti-Asian hate and police violence\, written during the course of a writing workshop conducted by poet-playwright\, Genny Lim. The online APICC workshops have met every week\, throughout the pandemic. These memoir pieces were written in response to weekly writing prompts provided by Genny Lim. All levels and ages\, from emerging to advanced writers\, were welcomed and encouraged to explore and develop their individual voices and craft in a safe and communal atmosphere that allowed for constructive critique\, dialogue\, mutual support and growth.\n\n::READERS::\nLeila Beltran\nSharleen Boummer\nVickie Ya Rong Chang\nCarole Chinn Morales\nSusan Hayase\nSusan Kitazawa\nMei Lam\nMirah Lucas\nGrace Morizawa\nShizue Shikuma\nLeon Sun\nCasimiro Tolentino\nLeslie Yee-Murata\n\nABOUT GENNY LIM\nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Lim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the U.S.\, Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award and an anthology of Senior Asian American memoirs\, Window: Glimpses of Our Storied Past. She has worked with past Jazz legends\, such as Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Eddie Marshall and long-time collaborators\, Jon Jang\, John Santos\, Francis Wong and Del Sol String Quartet.\n\nABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF ASIAN AMERICA FESTIVAL\nThis year’s 24th annual United States of Asian American Festival (USAAF) presents over 20 different programs reflecting the artistic accomplishments and cultural diversity of San Francisco’s Pacific Islander and Asian American communities. USAAF showcases artists representing a diverse range of ethnic and cultural groups and aims to heighten the visibility of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) artists working in all disciplines – theater\, music\, dance\, film\, literature\, visual arts\, and more! Our goal is to nurture and empower these groups to be self-sufficient while providing the support they need to grow.\nThis year’s theme\, Forging Our Futures – SoMa & Chinatow n\, explores how we are fostering recovery\, resilience and regeneration in our communities\, what place-making and community building looks like\, past\, present and future and how we’re imagining and manifesting empowered future for ourselves and our communities.\n\nUSAAF 2021 is funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission \, San Francisco Grants for the Arts \, California Arts Council \, Fleishhacker Foundation \, Zellerbach Family Foundation \, startsmall and National Endowment for the Arts .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memory-meaning-and-memoir/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kristin Hersh and Black Francis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 14 at 6pm PT when Kristin Hersh is joined by Black Francis to discuss her latest book\, Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89661762829\n\nAbout Seeing Sideways\nA sequel to the critically acclaimed Rat Girl\, this beautifully written memoir takes readers on an emotional journey through the author’s life as she reflects on thirty years of music and motherhood. Hersh’s follow up to the bookseller favorite\, Don’t Suck\, Don’t Die\n\nDoony\, Ryder\, Wyatt\, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir\, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons’ voices rise from its pages\, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.\n\nThis story begins in 1990\, when Hersh is the leader of the indie rock group Throwing Muses\, touring steadily\, and the mother of a young son\, Doony. The chapters that follow reveal a woman and mother whose life and career grow and change with each of her sons: the story of a custody battle for Doony is told alongside that of Hersh’s struggles with her record company and the resulting PTSD; the tale of breaking free from her record label stands in counterpoint to her recounting of her pregnancy with Ryder; a period of writer’s block coincides with the development of Wyatt as an artist and the family’s loss of their home; and finally\, soon after Bodhi’s arrival\, Hersh and her boys face crises from which only strange angels can save them.\n\nPunctuated with her own song lyrics\, Seeing Sideways is a memoir about a life strange enough to be fiction\, but so raw and moving that it can only be real.\n\nAbout Kristin Hersh\nKristin Hersh is a solo artist and founding member of the bands Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. She is the author of Don’t Suck\, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt\, and Rat Girl\, which was named one of the ten best rock memoirs ever written by Rolling Stone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kristin-hersh-and-black-francis/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T133000
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SUMMARY:On Awakening Your Inner Shaman
DESCRIPTION:The stress\, conflict\, and crises of the outer world are a signal: the time has come to awaken your inner shaman. However\, you don’t need to be initiated into concealed mysteries to answer the call from Spirit. Marcela Lobos\, one of the world’s most respected shamanic teachers\, teaches us how to use the maps offered by the shamanic Medicine Wheel and the hero’s journey to activate our inner wisdom and live a self-realized existence of discovery\, healing\, and wholeness. \nFrom her war-torn childhood\, her initiation with the shamans of the Andes\, and her life today as a teacher and medicine woman\, Marcela’s story offers flesh-and-bones context for each step on the archetypal journey to Self. Her story is also an invitation to step out of your ordinary life and take the first steps on your quest for spiritual understanding and deep transformation. \nJoin CIIS faculty Susana Bustos for a conversation with Marcela as she talks about her latest book\, Awakening Your Inner Shaman: A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery through the Medicine Wheel\, and learn to walk the Medicine Path to find your own power and inner beauty. \nPlease Note: This live online conversation will have ASL interpretation. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/lobos-marcela-may-14-2021 ppforte@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-awakening-your-inner-shaman/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T203000
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SUMMARY:Poetry y Platica Live Online at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos hold space inside a colonized time and place we can still recognize as San Francisco. Spanglish antepasado recuerdos and palabras of our neighborhood memories\, the pocho American Dream stuffed into Donaldo Trump pinatas with the conejo en la luna looking down on us are spoken in three broken languages in these poems. \nJoin Josiah Luis Alderete and writer performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez for a special Zoomtastic event.  Free. Free your mind! \nClick HERE to join Zoom event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-y-platica-live-online-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T190000
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SUMMARY:Stacey Abrams in conversation with Rebecca Traister
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 13\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \n\n\nStacey Abrams was instrumental in driving an enormous number of voter registrations in Georgia\, including some 800\,000 new voters between the 2018 and 2020 elections. Those voters\, in turn\, were central to turning Georgia blue in the 2020 presidential election and Senate race. A tax attorney by training\, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives\, seven as Minority Leader\, and became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia\, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. One of Abrams’ many other talents: fiction writing. Her newest legal thriller is While Justice Sleeps. “Stacey Abrams is a true novelist\, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller\, favorably compared to many of the best\, starting with The Pelican Brief\, which it brings to mind. It’s fast-paced and full of surprises—a terrific read.”— Scott Turow \nRebecca Traister is the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist\, she has written about women in politics\, media\, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation\, The New York Observer\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Vogue\, Glamour\, and Marie Claire. Her other books include All The Single Ladies and Big Girls Don’t Cry. \nTicket includes a copy of While Justice Sleeps. Please note: a limited number of signed books were previously available — current purchases include un-signed copies. \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-abrams-in-conversation-with-rebecca-traister/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T183000
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SUMMARY:Nancy: Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones in conversation with Kathryn Scanlan
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET \n\n\nJoin us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy\, a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood\, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness. \nRegister for the event on our Crowdcast page. \nDon’t forget to buy the book and support one of our favorite indy bookstores\, Pilsen Community Books! \n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nBruno Lloret\n\n\nBruno Lloret (Santiago de Chile\, 1990) is a writer and researcher. He has published Nancy (Cuneta\, Santiago de Chile\, 2015; Two Lines Press\, 2020)\, which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Bolaño Award for novella\, and Leña (Overol\, Santiago de Chile\, 2018). He currently lives in London.\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\n\nEllen Jones\n\n\nEllen Jones is a literary translator from Spanish to English\, an editor\, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com.\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\n\nKathryn Scanlan\n\n\nKathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog and The Dominant Animal. She lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-bruno-lloret-and-ellen-jones-in-conversation-with-kathryn-scanlan/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T183000
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SUMMARY:Aunt Lute and POC United presents a Reading: Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Since the onset of the global pandemic in 2020\, isolation has been\, for good or bad\, a major feature of life for many people across the world. In this 90-minute event\, writers of color will share works honoring the pain\, joy\, injustice\, comfort\, and trauma of isolation. \nOur readers: \nNaima Coster is the author of two novels\, What’s Mine and Yours and her debut\, Halsey Street\, which was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. In 2020\, she received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor. \nNayomi Munaweera is an award-winning writer of the novels Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us. She lives in Oakland\, California\, and is finishing her third novel\, a psycho-sexual literary thriller. \nDevi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues\, which won the 7th annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize (2020) for best debut novel set in the South\, the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. The novel was named by The Washington Post as one of the 50 best books of 2019. \nAlba Hernandez is a writer inspired by Puerto Rico\, growing up in Bushwick\, and salsa. Her writing was highly commended in the Poetry Project series ‘House Party\,’ Like Light (Bright Hill Press)\, Calabash (A Journal of Caribbean and Arts and Letters)\, and most recently in Harvard’s Latinx Publication: PALABRITAS. \nTom Pyun has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net Anthology award. He’s been awarded fellowships at Vermont Studio Center\, VONA\, and Tin House. His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Bold Italic\, The Rumpus\, and Joyland\, and placed in competitions such as The Blue Mesa Review’s Summer Story Contest. \nThis event is the last event of a collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United to support marginalized writers\, made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \nFree \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aunt-lute-and-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T183000
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander: Twice Alive
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers \nLitquake is thrilled to present this launch event for the new poetry collection Twice Alive (New Directions)\, by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. With these searing ecological love poems\, Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies\, personal and environmental\, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and the tradition of Sangam literature\, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations. Forrest will read from and discuss his work. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nWhile conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist\, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. \nThroughout Twice Alive\, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness. \nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry\, and his 2018 collection Be With won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-twice-alive/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections\, Water/Music and So Forth\, on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84930241583\n\nAbout Water/Music\nExploring the space between nature and culture\, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy\, they move with ease from narrative to meditation\, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory\, and from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water / Music embraces and celebrates life’s mystery and the soul’s repose amid “talismans at twilight\, the whir of birds.”\n\nAbout So Forth\nA lyrical new volume from a poet “beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets” (Harold Bloom).\n\nWith irony\, in mourning tinged with eros\, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage\, aging\, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory\, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae\, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence “Legende of Good Women\,” with pre-Socratic philosophers\, and with lovers\, children\, and strangers—the strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary\, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-peter-filkins-and-rosanna-warren-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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