BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20180101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20180311T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20181104T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20190310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20191103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190321T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190321T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190129T225025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T225025Z
UID:49602-1553194800-1553202000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Tenderloin Cocktail Culture
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 21\, 2019\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\nGoogle Calendar  ICS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs San Francisco’s roaring vice district\, the Tenderloin of the early 20th century figures greatly into the development of cocktail culture. Many of the bars\, restaurants\, and hotels represented in The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project played a role in San Francisco cocktail history. Join us for a survey of the neighborhood’s historic bar culture and recipes from the innovators who shaped the modern cocktail landscape through a historical discussion\, guided tasting\, and hands-on class led by Shana Farrell\, author of Bay Area Cocktails: A History of Culture\, Community and Craft. In collaboration with the California Historical Society. \n— \nThis event is part of The Tenderloin Match Book: Historical Ephemera Project a multi-faceted project that also encompasses the publication of The Match Book: Vintage Matchbooks from San Francisco’s Tenderloin\, an artfully designed history book of the Tenderloin featuring the matchbooks of local businesses and cultural institutions; the Tenderloin Ephemera Exhibition\, featuring historical Tenderloin ephemera from the 1920’s-1950’s\, including bar signs\, glassware\, postcards\, menus\, matchbooks et al.; the first addition to the Tenderloin Museum’s permanent exhibit\, The Matchbook Map Exhibit\, featuring a searchable\, interactive touchscreen map that connects matchbook imagery to historical info on the associated business and address. \nThrough the everyday act of picking up a matchbook and striking a match\, one is transported to another place and time; the past is remembered through a pedestrian interaction with a tangible object. Matchbooks are emblems of local culture: accessible\, utilitarian ephemera that functioned as the chosen form of advertising for small businesses in an era before plastic lighters and health concerns about smoking. These ritual objects exist at a fascinating intersection of material culture\, local history\, and design art; matchbooks (and other local business ephemera) are striking populist artifacts that serve as portals to places and people in a neighborhood’s past. The Match Book: Tenderloin Historical Ephemera Project presents an illuminating new perspective on the Tenderloin’s often overlooked history\, enriches the detail and depth of the neighborhood’s narrative\, and ignites the Tenderloin community’s historical imagination. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, Program 7pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-cocktail-culture/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/tenderloin.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190321T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190321T220000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190320T211725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T211725Z
UID:50639-1553194800-1553205600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Benefit For Camp Fire Victims With a Literary Bent - Still Great Need in the Paradise Area
DESCRIPTION:Last fall’s Camp Fire in Butte County was the worst wildfire in California history killing at least 88 people (23 are listed as missing with most presumed to be dead)\, destroying over 18\,000 structures and doing an estimated $13 billion in damage. The flames were finally doused at the end of November\, but thousands of local residents are still struggling to find proper housing\, thousands are unemployed and all while dealing with the trauma of a disaster of biblical proportions. It will likely be a decade before the hospitals\, schools\, businesses and homes\, not to mention community\, are restored. \n\n\nBecause there is still a great deal of need in the Paradise area\, The Green Arcade is holding a benefit for the victims of the Camp Fire on Thursday\, March 21 at 7pm at the McRoskey Mattress Factory Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, 3rd Floor\, San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be a party wherein mutual aid is expressed through donations to the North Valley Community Foundation’s Camp Fire Relief Fund. \n\nThere will be music by The Deadliners: The World’s Most Literate Garage Band whose members are local literary luminaries: \n\nJonathan Alford (keyboards); Gary Kamiya (lead guitar\, author Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco); Mark Hertsgaard (rhythm guitar and vocals\, author Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth);  Zoe Fitzgerald Carter (rhythm guitar and vocals\, author Imperfect Ending: A Daughter’s Story of Love\, Loss and Letting Go); Mark Schapiro (harmonica\, author Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply); Greg McRae (drums); Dan Keller (bass). \n\nOur special guest will be Rebecca Solnit\, author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. \nThere will be door prizes and proceeds from all donations\, ticket sales and book sales will go to the Camp Fire Relief Fund. \n\n“We are coming together for the long-term recovery of Paradise. It’ll be at least ten years before this community is back together.” \n                                           — Elizabeth Goldblatt\, Chico\, CA \n\n\n\nTickets are $10 at Eventbrite.com or in person at The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St. Checks may be made out to: NVCF Camp Fire Relief Fund. \nSponsored by The Green Arcade\, The Bookstore in the Hub and hosted by The McRoskey Mattress Company.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benefit-for-camp-fire-victims-with-a-literary-bent-still-great-need-in-the-paradise-area/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Camp-Fire.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190321T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190321T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T005316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T005316Z
UID:50182-1553196600-1553203800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence: Dana Grigorcea and Alta L. Price
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nSwiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translator Alta L. Price discuss An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence. \nAn Instinctive Feeling of Innocence (Seagull Books) is the stunning second novel from Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea and translated by Alta L. Price. With humor and wit\, An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together—a world bursting with character and spirit.Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery\, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble\, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters\, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman’s self-discovery. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\nSHARE \n \n\n\n\n| ALL EVENTS >\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nDana Grigorcea\n\n\nDana Grigorcea is a Swiss-Romanian essayist\, novelist\, and children’s book author. Her debut novel\, Baba Rada\, won the Swiss Literary Pearl. She lives in Zürich.\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nAlta L. Price\n\n\n\nAlta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art\, architecture\, design\, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize\, she translates from Italian and German into English\, and is currently shortlisted for The Peirene Stevns Translation Prize. Her latest book translations include Corrado Augias’s The Secrets of Italy\, Jürgen Holstein’s The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic\, and Martin Mosebach’s The 21. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 4\, 3 Quarks Daily\, Maharam Stories\, Trafika Europe\, Words Without Borders\, and elsewhere. She is a member of ALTA\, PEN\, the Third Coast Translators Collective\, and Cedilla & Co.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-instinctive-feeling-of-innocence-dana-grigorcea-and-alta-l-price/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Grigorcea-event-390x390.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190321T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190321T220000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T074847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T074847Z
UID:49807-1553198400-1553205600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets are $12-20\, sliding. Seating is limited\, and this show often sells out — there’s no guarantee tickets will be available at the door. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is for mature audiences only. If you have any questions about the content\, don’t hesitate to reach out to events AT booksmith DOT com. Generally speaking\, we’d suggest the show is suitable for ages 18+. \n  \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Edna_in_a_Bottle_201812.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190324T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190324T160000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T112022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T112022Z
UID:49883-1553436000-1553443200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki - with new books
DESCRIPTION:Poets Karen Hildebrand and Ron Riekki – with new books \n  \nSun\, March 24\, 2pm – 4pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-karen-hildebrand-and-ron-riekki-with-new-books/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/birdbeckett-800x650_c.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190325T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190325T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T065735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T065735Z
UID:49777-1553542200-1553549400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:James Sturm
DESCRIPTION:James Sturm discusses his new graphic novel Off Season. \n\nPraise for Off Season \n“James Sturm’s Off Season is a big-hearted meditation on the shifting sands of family and manhood in our uneasy era—I swallowed this book whole and I’ll be pressing it on anyone who asks me for a great read this year.”—Emily Bazelon\, Cohost of Political Gabfest \n“A haunting examination of the inner life of men in the age of Trump. Off Season is the kind of novel we need in this moment\, forcing us to confront the personal despair at the heart of our national destiny. I was mesmerized by every image\, every word.”—Steve Almond\, Chost of Dear Sugars and author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country \n“Mr. Sturm knows when to let the images speak for themselves.” —New York Times \n“James Sturm’s graphic narratives are strongly grounded in American history\, drawing upon this history to tell fictional stories with ongoing relevance.” —Los Angeles Review of Books \n“Sturm’s… words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale\, the fable.” —NPR \n\nAbout Off Season \nRage. Depression. Divorce. Politics. Love. A visceral story that you can see\, taste\, and feel. \nHow could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season\, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton\, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump\, and the disorienting months that followed. \nWe see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in from the car\, Christmas-morning anticipation\, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum—and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief\, rage\, loss\, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation\, Off Season is unaffected and raw\, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. \nA truly human experience\, Off Season displays Sturm’s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate\, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless\, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sturm/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/off-season.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190326T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190326T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190129T232709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T232709Z
UID:49626-1553628600-1553635800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:PREET BHARARA In Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 26\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nPreet Bharara served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. He oversaw the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases and supervised an office of more than two hundred Assistant U. S. Attorneys\, who handled cases involving terrorism\, narcotics and arms trafficking\, financial and healthcare fraud\, cybercrime\, public corruption\, gang violence\, organized crime\, and civil rights violations. In March 2017\, Bharara was fired by President Trump. In 2017\, Bharara joined the NYU School of Law faculty as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the Executive Vice President of Some Spider Studios and the host of CAFE’s Stay Tuned with Preet\, a podcast focused on issues of justice and fairness. His is the author of Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime\, Punishment\, and the Rule of Law.\n \n \nJeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker\, a senior legal analyst at CNN and the author of Too Close to Call\, A Vast Conspiracy\, The Nine\, The Oath\, and most recently\, American Heiress. Well known for his ability to illuminate the complexities of our judicial system\, Toobin has covered some of the country’s most sensational news stories and high-profile cases such as the Starr investigation of President Clinton\, Martha Stewart’s legal battles\, the O.J. Simpson trial\, and numerous Supreme Court cases.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/preet-bharara-in-conversation-with-jeffrey-toobin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bhar_9780525521129_ap1_r1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190326T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190326T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T065907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T065907Z
UID:49780-1553628600-1553635800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Ashley M. Jones\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra
DESCRIPTION:Ashley M. Jones reads from her new poetry collection dark // thing. Also featuring readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Monica Sok\, and Yaccaira Salvatierra. \n\ndark // thing is a multi-faceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things\, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work\, full as it is of slashes of all kinds\, ultimately separates darkness from thingness\, affirming and celebrating humanity. \nAshley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University. Her debut poetry collection\, Magic City Gospel\, was published by Hub City Press in January 2017\, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies\, including the Academy of American Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Prelude\, Steel Toe Review\, Fjords Review\, Quiet Lunch\, Poets Respond to Race Anthology\, and The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a 2015 B-Metro Magazine Fusion Award. She currently lives in Birmingham\, Alabama\, where she is a board member of the Alabama Writers’ Conclave \, co-coordinator of the Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series\, founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival\, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. \nTongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, 2017)\, which received a 2018 American Book Award\, a 2018 California Book Award\, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year\, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. Eisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people\, and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco. \nMonica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of Year Zero\, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize. Other honors include fellowships from Hedgebrook\, The Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Jerome Foundation\, Montalvo Arts Center\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Poet-in-Residence at Banteay Srei in Oakland. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. \nYaccaira Salvatierra is a native Californian having lived in various cities from the San Diego/Tijuana border to the magical town of Arcata. She is inspired by people’s stories and a city’s movement. Her BA is in Latin American and Latino Studies from UC Santa Cruz and she has an MA in Education from San José State University where she is currently working on an MFA in poetry.  She is a teacher and lives with her two sons in San José.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-m-jones-tongo-eisen-martin-monica-sok-and-yaccaira-salvatierra/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dark-thing.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190326T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190326T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T075328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T075328Z
UID:49813-1553628600-1553635800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Namwali Serpell / The Old Drift
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Namwali Serpell‘s debut novel\, The Old Drift. Joining her in conversation is Michelle Quint. Please save the date and join us! \nOn the banks of the Zambezi River\, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls\, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation\, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history\, fairytale\, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human. \nIn 1904\, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river\, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark\, foggy with fever\, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black\, white\, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century\, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass\, their lives – their triumphs\, errors\, losses and hopes – form a symphony about what it means to be human. \nFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears\, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones\, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts\, microdrones and viral vaccines – this gripping\, unforgettable novel sweeps over the years and the globe\, subverting expectations along the way. Exploding with color and energy\, The Old Drift is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders\, and a meditation on the slow\, grand passage of time. \n  \n\n  \n“In turns charming\, heartbreaking\, and breathtaking\, The Old Drift is a staggeringly ambitious\, genre-busting multigenerational saga with moxie for days. . . . I wanted it to go on forever. A worthy heir to Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.” – Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties\n \n“From the poetry and subtle humor constantly alive in its language\, to the cast of fulsome characters that defy simple categorization\, The Old Drift is a novel that satisfies on all levels. Namwali Serpell excels in creating portraits of resilience – each unique and often heartbreaking. In The Old Drift the individual struggle is cast against a world of shifting principles and politics\, and Serpell captures the quicksand nature of a nation’s roiling change with exacting precision. My only regret is that once begun\, I reached the end all too soon.” – Alice Sebold\, author of The Lovely Bones\n \n“An astonishing novel\, a riot for the senses\, filled with the music and scents and sensations of Zambia. Namwali Serpell writes about people\, land\, and longing with such compassionate humor and precision there’s an old wisdom in these pages. In short\, make room on your shelf next to a few of your other favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Tsitsi Dangarembga\, and Edwidge Danticat jump to mind. It’s brilliant. This woman was born to write!” – Alexandra Fuller\, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight \n  \n\n  \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel. \n  \n  \nMichelle Quint is the Executive Editor of TED Books and Culture Curator for TED Conferences. She is the author of a young adult book\, The Defiant\, published by McSweeney’s in 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Old Drift\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-namwali-serpell-the-old-drift/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/old-drift.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190327T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190327T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T070026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T070026Z
UID:49783-1553715000-1553722200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Carolyn Forché
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Forché discusses her new memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. \n\nPraise for What You Have Heard Is True \n“In this searing\, vital memoir\, Carolyn Forché at last reveals the dark stories behind her famous early poems: she brings alive the brutality\, complexity and idealism of El Salvador in the late 1970s\, a time of revolution that echoes all too painfully in the present. What You Have Heard Is True\, a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political and human awakening\, is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” —Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“Carolyn Forché asks us not only to hear\, but to see\, the scale of human and moral devastation in El Salvador. For those of us who are citizens and residents of the United States\, Forché’s powerful\, moving\, and disturbing memoir also demands that we recognize our country’s responsibility for the atrocities committed by the El Salvadoran military. As is the case with her poetry\, Forché’s nonfiction asserts the need for truth—in our politics\, in our writing\, in our witnessing.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer \n“What You Have Heard Is True is as much an enthralling account of a life marked by an encounter as it is a document of a time and place. Carolyn Forche’s urgent and compelling memoir narrates her role as witness in an especially explosive and precarious period in El Salvador’s history. This incredible book shapes chaos into accountability. It marries the attentive sensibility of a master poet with the unflinching eyes of a human rights activist.” —Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nAbout What You Have Heard Is True \nThe powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire \nWhat You Have Heard is True is a devastating\, lyrical\, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation\, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy\, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life. \nCarolyn Forché is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. The relative of a friend\, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant. She’s heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer\, but according to her\, no one seemed to know for certain. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. Captivated for reasons she doesn’t fully understand\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension. \nTogether they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her\, but also to learn for himself just how close the country is to war. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, he is determined to save his country\, and Forché is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads and sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship\, as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. This is the powerful story of a poet’s experience in a country on the verge of war\, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Forche.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190328T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190328T170000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190329T030250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T030250Z
UID:50895-1553760000-1553792400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Karen Russell and Michael Ray
DESCRIPTION:Karen Russell discusses her new story collection\, Orange World with Zoetrope editor Michael Ray. \n\nPraise for Karen Russell \n“Amidst the leading pack of talents Karen Russell writes the most like she’s on fire\, as in: this close to revelations. Orange World is her best collection yet. Her imagination’s baroque syntax has been planed down to the absolute essentials\, allowing the power of her vision to speak for itself…This is prophetic work written with clarifying fury.”–John Freeman\, Lit Hub \n“Hilarious\, exquisite\, first-rate.” —Joy Williams\, The New York Times Book Review  \n“From apparent influences as disparate as George Saunders\, Saki\, Stephen King\, Carson McCullers and Joy Williams\, [Russell] has fashioned a quirky\, textured voice that is thoroughly her own: lyrical and funny\, fantastical and meditative.” —Michiko Kakutani\, The New York Times  \n“One of the most innovative\, inspired short-story collections in the past decade. . . . There’s absolutely no living author quite like Karen Russell.” —Michael Schaub\, NPR \n\nAbout Orange World \nFrom the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove\, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary\, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. \nKaren Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant\, arrestingly vivid\, unforgettable stories.  In“Bog Girl”\, a revelatory story about first love\, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog.  In “The Prospectors\,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory\, and find themselves fighting for their lives.  In the brilliant\, hilarious title story\, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal\, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral\, slippery\, purgatorial space\, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. \nAbout Karen Russell \nKAREN RUSSELL won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction\, and her first novel\, Swamplandia! (2011)\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the “5 under 35” prize from the National Book Foundation\, the NYPL Young Lions Award\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, and is a former fellow of the Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She currently holds the Endowed Chair at Texas State University’s MFA program\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon with her husband and son. More at https://karenrussellauthor.com. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-russell-and-michael-ray/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/russell.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190328T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190328T203000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190130T002948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T002948Z
UID:49653-1553799600-1553805000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/adobe.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190328T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190328T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190130T230902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T230902Z
UID:49710-1553799600-1553806800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Ruby Ray
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nRuby Ray: Kalifornia Kool / Photographs 1976-1982 \nIntroduction by Carl Abrahamsson \npublished by Trapart \n\n\n\nSpanning music\, art and literature\, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s were diverse but united by a DIY\, anti-authoritarian attitude. Photographer Ruby Ray was there to capture it all in the same spirit. With her work appearing in the legendary punk zine Search & Destroy and its successor RE/Search\, Ray was at the epicenter of\, and a key participant in\, a vital cultural moment vibrant with provocation and creativity. A local experimental music and art scene supported artists like Bruce Conner and William S. Burroughs\, and attracted groundbreaking bands like Devo\, the Mutants\, Boyd Rice and the Dead Kennedys\, as well as established international bands like Throbbing Gristle\, the Clash and the Sex Pistols. Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool collects the photographer’s images from this time: live shots\, backstage parties\, apartments overflowing with youthful exuberance\, elegant portraits of key people and photographic experiments. Her work captures a time and a place where West Coast open-mindedness\, youth\, art\, music and electricity merged. \n\n\n\n“Late 70s\, early 80s… Ruby Ray and her camera\, capturing the movers and shakers of the San Francisco punk and industrial scenes… And then some… Performance art\, music\, literature\, photos\, videos made with a “fuck you” and “do it yourself” attitude. Ruby sees and Ruby captures… Knowns and unknowns\, winners and losers\, sane and insane\, constructive and destructive… William Burroughs with his gun\, Bruce Conner being fueled by punk energy\, Sex Pistols’ last ever gig in San Fran\, Throbbing Gristle\, The Cramps live at Napa Mental Hospital\, Search and Destroy Magazine\, and bands and gigs galore… Devo\, Mutants\, Slits\, Bags\, Dead Kennedys\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Roky Erickson\, Nico\, DOA\, Chrome\, Factrix\, Boyd Rice\, Z’EV\, Flipper… You name’em and there was Ruby Ray: the spectacularly talented lens of Kalifornia Kool. We should be grateful for her work. It’s invaluable\, evocative\, loud\, sexy and more inspiring now than ever before… Ruby’s images open up a portal to a mythic and frenzied scene and show that it’s true: all mythologies are real… Turn up the volume and dive into this one.” – Carl Abrahamsson\, from the Introduction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruby-ray/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ruby-Ray.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190328T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190328T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T070220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T070220Z
UID:49787-1553801400-1553808600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Adam Morris and Chris Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Adam Morris discusses his new book\, American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation with Chris Jennings. \n\nAbout American Messiahs \nA history with sweeping implications\, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. \nMania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed\, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine\, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones\, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. \nAfter years of studying these emblematic figures\, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates\, these charismatic\, if flawed\, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality\, gender conformity\, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue\, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-morris-and-chris-jennings/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/morris.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190328T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190328T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T075841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T075841Z
UID:49819-1553801400-1553808600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Julie Moss / Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery and Women Sports Film Festival hosts a special evening with Julie Moss for her new book\, co-written with Robert Yehling\, Crawl of Fame: Julie Moss and the Fifteen Feet that Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend. Please join us! \n  \nIn 1982\, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky\, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore\, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known\, 140.6-mile combination of swimming\, cycling\, and running. Julie brought no experience or appreciable training beyond running two marathons. She did bring a latent willpower that\, the world soon found out\, wouldn’t be denied. What happened next changed Ironman forever…. After becoming the unlikely leader during the marathon\, the final leg of the Ironman\, Julie fell and lost all bodily function fifteen meters (50 feet) from the finish. While on hands and knees\, she watched her rival pass her. Thirty seconds later\, she crawled across the line – stunning the millions who were watching on television. \n \n  \nAt age twenty-three\, Julie became the instant global icon\, and the public face of fitness and endurance sports – which exploded in popularity\, partly because of her inspiration. That this young co-ed would represent such a new sport was unlikely. That she would inspire millions to change the courses of their lives in the three decades since was unthinkable. Yet\, it happened. And keeps happening. In April 2017 Julie won her age group in the Ironman North American Championships – racing 25 minutes faster than her 1982 Ironman. How does a 58-year-old woman beat the time of her 23-year-old self? Crawl of Fame is the long-awaited release of her incredible story. Julie describes how she found her greater purpose while lying across the finish line at Ironman 1982 – and how that greater purpose as a woman\, athlete\, endurance sports symbol and\, now\, iconic figure has defined her life and inspired others since. Several endurance sports athletes have written memoirs\, but none have changed a sport so dramatically as Julie Moss. Now\, readers will join the inner and outer journey of one of the world’s most impressive athletes\, a woman who has already inspired millions – with millions more to come. \n  \n\n  \nJulie Moss is a member of the Ironman Hall of Fame\, U.S.A. Triathlon Hall of Fame and a ten-time Ironman competitor.  She was the 2012 Triathlon Business International Female Athlete of the Year and was the 2017 Ironman North American Champion in her age group. Julie has served as a commentator for ABC\, NBC\, CBS\, and the Goodwill Games. Julie is a member of the Hoka One One sports team\, which has been featured inPeople\, Sports Illustrated\, ESPN: The Magazine\, The New York Times\, and the Los Angeles Times.  She lives in San Diego\, California. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Crawl of Fame\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-moss-crawl-of-fame-julie-moss-and-the-fifteen-feet-that-created-an-ironman-triathlon-legend/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/crawl.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190329T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190329T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190129T232847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T232847Z
UID:49629-1553887800-1553895000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:EAR HUSTLE In Conversation with Al Letson
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 29\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\nEar Hustle presents stories of life inside prison\, shared by those living it. The podcast is a partnership between ​Nigel Poor\,​​ a Bay Area visual artist\, and ​Earlonne Woods​​\, formerly incarcerated at​ San Quentin State Prison​\, and was co-founded with fellow inmate ​Antwan Williams. ​​The Ear Hustle team works in San Quentin’s media lab to produce stories that are sometimes difficult\, often funny and always honest\, offering a nuanced view of people living within the American prison system. \nIn addition to co-producing and co-hosting Ear Hustle\, Poor is also a visual artist whose work explores the various ways people make a mark and leave behind evidence of their existence. Her work can be found in various museum collections including the SFMOMA\, the M.H. deYoung Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C. She is also a professor of photography at California State University\, Sacramento. \nIn November 2018\, California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Woods’ sentence after 21 years of incarceration. Upon his release\, Woods was hired by PRX as a full-time producer for Ear Hustle\, and will continue to work with Poor\, contributing stories about re-entry. \nAl Letson is the host of the award wining public radio/podcast Reveal\, from Center for Investigative Reporting. Prior to that\, Letson created and hosted the Peabody Award winning public radio program State of the Re:Union (SOTRU). Letson’s background in theater\, slam poetry\, and playwriting informs his interdisciplinary work. \nThis event is a benefit for Prison University Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ear-hustle-in-conversation-with-al-letson/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ear-Hustle.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190331T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190331T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190131T080025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T080025Z
UID:49822-1554048000-1554055200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Cindy Derby / How to Walk an Ant
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Cindy Derby‘s debut picture book\, How to Walk an Ant. Please save the date and join us for this special afternoon event\, which will include a puppetry performance — with ant puppets! — and innovative activities for adults and their kids. \n  \nThere are nine steps to becoming an ant walker\, and Amariyah\, the expert ant walker\, is here to show you how it’s done. This irreverent and quirky picture book follows a young girl as she goes through the process of walking ants\, from polite introductions to tragic leash entanglements. In the end\, this unique book shows that as long as you’re doing what you’re best at\, you may find a like-minded friend to tag along. \n  \n\n  \nCindy Derby is an illustrator and author based out of San Francisco. How to Walk an Ant is her first picture book (Roaring Brook Press\, March 2019). Other picture book titles (as illustrator) include: Climbing Shadows by Shannon Bramer (Groundwood Books\, 2019); Outside by New York Times best selling author Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2020); The Boy and the 800-Pound Gorilla by Jackie Azua Kramer (Candlewick Press\, 2020). Cindy’s background is in puppetry and she has performed all over the world. She received her Master of Arts from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was awarded grants from organizations such as The Jim Henson Foundation and Puppet Animation Scotland to assist in the creation of her shows. In 2014 Cindy won the grand prize for her illustration portfolio at the international SCBWI conference in Los Angeles. Her work is done in watercolor\, india ink\, gouache and inktense pencils. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Walk an Ant\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-cindy-derby-how-to-walk-an-ant/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HowtoWalkanAntCover.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20170407T031610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061843Z
UID:25871-1554145200-1554152400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190401T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T032901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T032901Z
UID:50266-1554145200-1554152400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:POETS! - Michael Koch + Robert Anbian followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:A Night Horn Press celebration…  On April 1st\, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release\, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-koch-robert-anbian-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/bird.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190401T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190401T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T034352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T034352Z
UID:50280-1554147000-1554154200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Meredith May / The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Meredith May for the launch of her book\, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss\, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees. More information to be announce\, but please save the date and join us! \nMeredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature. \nThe bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival\, and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n\n  \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Honey Bus\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-meredith-may-the-honey-bus-a-memoir-of-loss-courage-and-a-girl-saved-by-bees/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The-Honey-Bus.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190401T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190401T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T213323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T213323Z
UID:50342-1554147000-1554154200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:K Chess
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nK Chess discusses her new novel\, Famous Men Who Never Lived. \n\nPraise for Famous Men Who Never Lived \n“With an eerie and ingenious premise\, K Chess explores in a fresh way the most universal of human experiences: loss\, regret\, and the longing for what might have been. With its refugees from a parallel universe\, this inventive book does what only fiction can do: describes an impossible world in order to more clearly show us our own.”—Karen Thompson Walker\, author of The Age of Miracles \n“Famous Men Who Never Lived is a fascinating novel: complex\, uncanny\, powerful. K Chess adroitly enacts Joyce’s  ‘cracked looking glass’ and gives us an off-kilter reflection that allows us to really see who we are. The wit\, elaboration\, and detail of her invention are spectacular.”—Dana Spiotta\, author of Innocents and Others \n“The novel jumps off from a fascinating premise into strange and fertile territory. K Chess constructs not just one universe\, but two\, and delicately entangles them to create a rich\, engrossing exploration of displacement\, history\, memory\, of the past and the present. Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling\, Famous Men Who Never Lived is a smart\, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable debut.”—Charles Yu\, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe \n  \nAbout Famous Men Who Never Lived \nFor readers of Station Eleven and Exit West\, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities\, the communities that come together through circumstance\, and the power of art to save us. \nWherever Hel looks\, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States―an alternate timeline―she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her\, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others\, like her partner Vikram\, attempt to assimilate\, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead\, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts―a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback―and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. \nBut the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing\, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger\, guilt\, and grief over what she has truly lost.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/k-chess/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GA1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190402T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T210708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T210708Z
UID:50303-1554231600-1554238800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nRheea Mukherjee reads from The Body Myth \nAdam Nemett reads from We Can Save Us All \nAbout The Body Myth: \nA moving exploration of loss\, Mukherjee delivers an intense and unexpected modern love story as Mira reconciles reality with desire. \nMira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam\, a modern bustling city in India\, and the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone\, and with only the French existentialists as companions\, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park. Mira runs to help her but is cautious\, for she could have sworn the woman looked around to see if anyone was watching right before the seizure began. \nMira is quickly drawn into the lives of this mysterious woman Sara\, who suffers a myriad of unexplained illnesses\, and her kind\, intensely supportive husband Rahil\, striking up intimate\, volatile and fragile friendships with each of them that quickly become something more. \nPraise for The Body Myth \n“Witty\, melancholic\, and dramatic by turns\, Rheea Mukherjee’s THE BODY MYTH is a touching love story about misfits searching for togetherness\, even if that togetherness might not be healthy for all concerned… THE BODY MYTH is a compelling tale\, rich in emotional undercurrents and empathy for its unconventional characters.”\n—Foreword Reviews\, \n“Rheea Mukherjee has written a thought provoking and memorable meditation on the meaning of life. In seductive prose\, THE BODY MYTH\, explores the depths and boundaries of relationships\, conventional and unconventional\, and the meaning of intimacy in sickness and health. A fine novel.”\n—Soniah Kamal\, award winning author of ‘Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan’ \n“Like the Rasagura fruit Rheea Mukherjee so eloquently writes about\, THE BODY MYTH is a tender love story at its core: sweet\, sour\, and bursting with wisdom. An intoxicating read.”\n—Neel Patel\, author of IF YOU SEE ME\, DON’T SAY HI \nAbout We Can Save Us All: \nWelcome to The Egg\, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war\, climate disasters create a global state of emergency\, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. \nFunded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs\, a student revolution incubates at The Egg\, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth—an impassioned heroine with a dark secret—propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide\, inspiring a cult-like following. As the final superstorm arrives\, they toe the line between good and evil\, deliverance and demagogues\, the damned and the saved. \nIn this sprawling\, ambitious debut\, Adam Nemett delves into contemporary life in all of its chaos and unknowing.  We Can Save Us All is a brave\, ribald\, and multi-layered examination of what may be the fundamental question of our time: just who is responsible for fixing all of this? \nPraise for We Can Save Us All \n“Adam Nemett is the kind of smart and the kind of funny we need right now. WE CAN SAVE US ALL has the savvy\, dangerous feel of early Don DeLillo.”\n—Sam Lipsyte\, author of ‘THE ASK’ and ‘THE SUBJECT STEVE’ \n“Adam Nemett has done something superheroic here. WE CAN SAVE US ALL is a wild and uproarious debut that is also wise and deeply felt. Come for the costumes\, comedy\, and psychedelics; stay for the searching questions about what it means to live an honorable life—to try to be one of the Good Guys—at the (maybe) end of time.”\n—Justin Taylor\, author of ‘THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY’\, ‘FLINGS’\, and ‘EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER’ \n“Adam Nemett is a terrific new writer\, and in WE CAN SAVE US ALL he has crafted a wildly entertaining and often moving book about what it’s like to be young and rebellious in a dangerous world.”\n—Tom Barbash\, bestselling author of ‘ON TOP OF THE WORLD’\, ‘STAY UP WITH ME’\, and ‘THE LAST GOOD CHANCE’ \nabout the authors: \nRheea Mukherjee’s fiction and non-fiction has been published in several publications including Scroll.in\, Southern Humanities Review\, Out of Print\, QLRS and Bengal Lights\, among others. Her previous stories have been Pushcart nominees\, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Finalists\, and semi-finalists for the Black Lawrence Press Award. She co-founded Bangalore Writers Workshop in 2012 and currently co-runs Write Leela Write\, a Design and Content Laboratory in Bangalore. You can learn more about Rheea at www.rheeamukherjee.com. \nAdam Nemett serves as creative director and author for The History Factory\, where he’s written award-winning nonfiction books for Lockheed Martin\, Brooks Brothers\, City of Hope Medical Center\, and Huntington Bank\, and directed campaigns for 21st Century Fox\, Adobe Systems\, HarperCollins\, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\, New Balance\, Pfizer and Whirlpool. An excerpt of his debut novel\, WE CAN SAVE US ALL\, was anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader. He is the writer/director of the feature film\, The Instrument (2005). Adam’s work has been published\, reviewed and featured in Variety\, LA Weekly\, The New Yorker\, Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, as well as many others. \nabout the publisher: \nUnnamed Press is an independent publisher based in Los Angeles\, California. Unnamed Press publishes literary fiction and non-fiction\, with an emphasis on debuts by women\, underrepresented voices and people of color\, as well as internationally focused speculative and fantasy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unnamed-press-city-lights-with-rheea-mukherjee-adam-nemett/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CityLights.gif
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190402T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190402T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T215047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T215047Z
UID:50347-1554233400-1554240600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:T Kira Madden and Pam Zhang
DESCRIPTION:T Kira Madden discusses her new memoir\, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls\, with Pam Zhang. \n\nPraise for Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Harrowing and beautiful. What seems most miraculous about Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is the way T Kira Madden forges out of such achingly difficult material a memoir as frank and funny and powerful and surprising as this\, her utterly gorgeous debut.” —Lauren Groff\, author of FLORIDA and FATES AND FURIES \n“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is sad\, funny\, juicy and prickly with deep and secret thoughtful places. It is raucous and poignant at once and I recommend it highly.” —Mary Gaitskill\, author of THE MARE and SOMEBODY WITH A LITTLE HAMMER \n“I’ve never read such a gorgeous and raw depiction of girlhood\, the terrible vulnerability of adolescence\, and the humiliation that often goes hand in hand with desire. Madden is fearless about diving deep into the darkest aspects of herself and her past\, and that’s what makes her work riveting and urgent. An absolutely necessary book.” —Julie Buntin\,author of MARLENA \n“This open\, defiant memoir is the long-awaited daughter of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina. Madden captures the dangers and longings of a perilous girlhood with prose so vivid and sensuous we feel her past in our bodies. A mesmerizing piece of art I won’t soon forget.” —Claire Vaye Watkins\, author of GOLD FAME CITRUS AND BATTLEBORN \n\nAbout Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \nAcclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer\, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton\, Florida\, a place where she found cult-like privilege\, shocking racial disparities\, rampant white-collar crime\, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. \nAs a child\, Madden lived a life of extravagance\, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions\, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification\, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. \nWith unflinching honesty and lyrical prose\, spanning from 1960s Hawai’i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality\, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It’s a story about trauma and forgiveness\, about families of blood and affinity\, both lost and found\, unmade and rebuilt\, crooked and beautiful. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/t-kira-madden-and-pam-zhang/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/girls.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190403T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T210849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T210849Z
UID:50306-1554318000-1554325200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Lynn Breedlove
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \n45 Thought Crimes \nfrom Manic D Press \n45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver’s seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years\, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the political climate to focus on his own self destruction. When that didn’t work\, he got sober and committed his life to art. After publishing his first two books and spending a career on tour\, life took an unexpected turn. Breedlove spent the next decade caring and grieving for his mother\, and founding / running a nonprofit to serve his LGBT community. But when the world threatens to end\, the only moment that matters becomes now. Breedlove began writing this book the morning after the 2016 election\, at the dawn of the coup. Newly in love and acutely aware of what was at stake\, he questioned and confirmed life lessons learned\, with Prince\, Bowie\, Leonard Cohen\, and his ancestors as muses. \nLynn “Lynnee” Breedlove is the author of the novel Godspeed\, was the singer for the band Tribe 8\, and was the writer/performer of Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show\, a comic solo show on gender and the ensuing book\, which won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the transgender category. He is the entrepreneurial founder of Homobiles\, the indie non-profit startup that’s a ride service for the LGBTIQQ community and its allies\, which\, along with his creative work\, won him the 2012 Harvey Milk LGBT Club Award for Activism. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynn-breedlove/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lynn.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T033032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T033032Z
UID:50269-1554404400-1554413400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan - poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:Marina Lazzara\, Ava Koober & Patrick James Dunagan – poetry reading
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-lazzara-ava-koober-patrick-james-dunagan-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/bird-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190320T211304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T211304Z
UID:50258-1554404400-1554413400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph \nMino Yanci \nAmbrose Akinmusire \nAdam Mansbach \nZoé Samudzi \nJanae Johnson \nMona Webb \nJeff Chang \nRyan Peters \nLauren Whitehead \nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BethanieHines49-Destiny-Arts-Hero-v2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190405T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190405T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190320T211326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T211326Z
UID:50260-1554490800-1554499800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \n  \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \n  \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \n  \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BethanieHines49-Destiny-Arts-Hero-v2-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190406T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190320T211350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T211350Z
UID:50262-1554577200-1554586200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States \nCurated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph \nSFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab \nThursday\, April 4 – Saturday\, April 6\, 7pm & 8:30pm \nSunday\, April 7\, 6pm & 7:30pm \nSFJAZZ.org \nAmerican Dream States challenges writers of different genres to respond to a key piece of writing on the American Dream and perform these new creative responses in collaboration with an all star band. \nWith \nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nMino Yanci\nAmbrose Akinmusire\nAdam Mansbach\nZoé Samudzi\nJanae Johnson\nMona Webb\nJeff Chang\nRyan Peters\nLauren Whitehead\nTongo Eisen-Martin \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-american-dream-states-curated-by-sfjazz-poet-laureate-marc-bamuthi-joseph-2/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BethanieHines49-Destiny-Arts-Hero-v2-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190406T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T011843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T011843Z
UID:50215-1554579000-1554586200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Managing California: Governor Newsom's Chief of Staff Ann O'Leary
DESCRIPTION:Ann O’Leary is Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff. In that role\, she is charged with helping to manage the 5th largest economy in the world. She is one of most important political figures in California and she is the one is the room. How is she thinking about her role? How will she help the Governor prioritize and strategize? What are her goals? Who is this incredible woman? \nCome join the discussion and meet Ann! \nMore about Ann below: \nAnn O’Leary is Chief of Staff to the Governor of California\, Gavin Newsom. Prior to joining the Governor’s office\, O’Leary was a law partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where she focused her practice on representing tech companies\, philanthropies and non-profit organizations\, and led numerous pro bono efforts. O’Leary brings decades of experience in government\, politics\, social policy\, and non-profit leadership. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Co-Executive Director of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project. She co-founded the national non-profit organization\, the Opportunity Institute\, as a continuation of her work as Senior Vice President of Next Generation– where she launched a national early childhood education initiative “Too Small to Fail” in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation. \nEarlier in her career\, she was a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; Executive Director of UC Berkeley Law’s Center on Health\, Economic and Family Security; the legislative director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; and a policy advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President William Jefferson Clinton. O’Leary has served on numerous non-profit boards\, including KQED\, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR and PBS affiliate; the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings\, which works in key communities across the South to equip incarcerated young people with the academic\, workforce and social emotional skills they need to be successful; and\, the East Bay Community Law Center\, which provides free legal services to low-income community members. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College\, a M.A. in Education Policy from Stanford University\, and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. Ann is the proud mother of a 6th grader and 3rd grader\, and is the first Chief of Staff to a California Governor to hold the job while parenting school age children (and she is a very grateful co-equal coparent with Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Goodwin Liu).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/managing-california-governor-newsoms-chief-of-staff-ann-oleary/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/52634632_10161540229675261_8264142094029815808_o.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190407T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190407T150000
DTSTAMP:20260510T124545
CREATED:20190227T033329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T033329Z
UID:50272-1554645600-1554649200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Random Poetics
DESCRIPTION:What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute An ideology Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues\, In a provocative evening in Glen Park
URL:https://litseen.com/event/random-poetics/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/bird.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR