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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T190000
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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert + Cody-Rose Clevidence
DESCRIPTION:a reading & conversation with\nCODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE &\nTC TOLBERT \nTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014) and 3 chapbooks\, TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). S/he is Core Faculty in the low residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. His favorite thing in the world is Compositional Improvisation (which is another way of saying being alive). www.tctolbert.com \nCody-Rose Clevidence’s 1st book\, BEAST FEAST\, was published by Ahsahta press in 2014. They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, Pearl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert-cody-rose-clevidence/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Peter Thomas Bullen\, Grady Chambers\, and Tess Taylor\nHosted by Peter Kline \nPeter Thomas Bullen\, hairdresser and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley\, began writing late\, not just late in life\, but also late at night. Later still he discovered that if you are standing in front of a room\, holding text and trembling slightly\, people will give you their attention. This made him happy. His work has appeared in sparkle & blink\, eleven eleven\, Red Light Lit\, and the LA Review of Books. In October\, his first chapbook\, Wallflower\, came out from Nomadic Press. He blogs at wetriedourbest.wordpress.com. \nGrady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. Poems of his have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Adroit Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Diode Poetry Journal\, Barrow Street\, Midwestern Gothic\, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland\, and is a 2015-2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nTess Taylor’s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. Her first book\, The Forage House\, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book is Work & Days\, which Stephen Burt called “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle\, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor recently was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to study and lecture at Queen’s University Belfast\, in Northern Ireland\, for six months in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-3/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: The Racket
DESCRIPTION:Noah Sander‘s new monthly reading series – people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff… bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-reading-the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Sticky Pages
DESCRIPTION:Come to “Sticky Pages\,” three gay authors reading their erotic writing\, Monday\, December 5\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Free admission\, hot readings\, and sexy door prizes! Andrew Demcak reads erotic poetry from Zero Summer\, Rick May shares bedtime stories from Inhuman Beings: Encounters of Men and Not-Men\, and Rob Rosen excerpts the juicy bits from his latest novel Midlife Crisis. Want more? You know you do. See you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sticky-pages/
LOCATION:Center for Sex and Culture\, 1349 Mission St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Bill Ayers\, here on a national tour to celebrate the release of his latest book\, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto. \n  \nIn an era defined by mass incarceration\, endless war\, economic crisis\, catastrophic environmental destruction\, and a political system offering more of the same\, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible. \nIn critiquing the world around us\, Ayers uncovers cracks in the system\, raising our sights for radical change\, and envisioning strategies for building a movement to create a more humane\, balanced\, and peaceful world. \n  \n“For Bill Ayers\, it is the freedom of our collective imagination that links the contemporary world—ensconced as it is in pervasive militarism\, racist violence\, and environmental devastation—to the flourishing of our planet. This is a manifesto that should be read by everyone who wants to believe that “another world is possible.” — Angela Y. Davis\, author of Abolition Democracy and Freedom is a Constant Struggle \n“With huge numbers of us recognizing the need for transformative change\, this ambitious and exuberant book perfectly matches its historical moment. Ayers fearlessly confronts the intersecting crises of our age—endless war\, surging inequality\, unchecked white supremacy and perilous planetary warming—while mapping emancipatory new possibilities. From the first page\, his courage is contagious.” — Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine \n“Demand the Impossible is more than a book\, more than a manifesto. It is a torch. Bill Ayers’ vision for a humane future is incendiary—fire that incinerates old logics and illuminates new paths. If we do not end the violence of militarism\, materialism\, caging\, dispossession\, debt\, want\, ignorance\, and global warming\, our very survival is impossible. Read aloud.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-ayers/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Equal Justice: Post-Obama
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Adachi has served as elected Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco since March 2002 and has worked as a deputy public defender in San Francisco for 15 years. From 1998-2001\, he served as the Chief Attorney of the office. As the only elected Public Defender in the state of California\, Mr. Adachi oversees an office of 93 lawyers and 60 support staff. The office represents more than 23\,000 people each year and provides a panoply of innovative programs\, including Drug Court\, Mental Health Court\, Clean Slate expungement services\, and a full-service juvenile division. The public defender’s community MAGIC programs address the root causes of juvenile crime in San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods by linking families with educational\, health and community services. \nDeRay Mckesson is a protestor\, activist\, and educator focused primarily on issues of innovation\, equity\, and justice. Born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland\, he graduated from Bowdoin College and has advocated for issues related to children\, youth\, and families since he was a teen. Mckesson has served as an educator\, student leader\, and founding director of an after-school/out-of school program. He has also provided leadership to the executive teams of large urban school districts. Spurred by the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson\, Missouri\, Mckesson has become a leading voice in the effort to confront the system and structures that have led to the mass incarceration and police killings of black and other minority populations. He is co-founder of the Protestor Newsletter and Campaign Zero. \nW. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!\, a live radio show that transform the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America\, a documentary series in which Bell travels around the country exploring subjects and locations out of his comfort zone and digging into the complexities of race and culture in America. Before hosting for CNN and KALW\, Bell was best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In its brief time\, Totally Biased was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/equal-justice-post-obama/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:December Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read in absolute silence. Cocktails and food will be available. This event is FREE to attend. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit the school library of the June Jordan School for Equity. \nThis month\, DJ Please Be Quiet I’m Trying to Read (AKA Lemony Snicket) will be spinning records by Joseph Haydn and Count Basie. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here: http://eepurl.com/bZXqKb
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161207T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Michael Goorjian
DESCRIPTION:“Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason\, I have not . . . ” \nIn What Lies Beyond the Stars\, these words ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard\, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen. On the verge of a psychotic break\, Adam begins to have a recurring dream of his early childhood and the hauntingly rustic town of Mendocino California where he grew up. Convinced he has left something behind there\, something vital to his present sanity\, Adam walks away from his current life to figure out what that is. \nOne night on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean\, lost in thoughts of suicide\, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious woman. Later he realizes that she is Beatrice\, a long forgotten childhood friend whose fiery spirit and red hair had filled his young heart with immeasurable wonder. The coincidence of their reunion only deepens as Adam discovers that Beatrice has returned to Mendocino also due to a recurring dream\, eerily similar to his own. \nAre they lost soul mates drawn together through time and space? As Adam begins to hope that his life could be more than a bleak virtual wasteland\, he finds himself a pawn in a game that pits dark forces against those few quixotic souls who still search for meaning\, beauty\, and magic in the world. \nMichael Goorjian is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, filmmaker\, and writer. His acting credits include Party of Five\, Leaving Las Vegas\, and SLC Punk. As a filmmaker\, he achieved widespread recognition for his first major independent film\, Illusion\, starring Kirk Douglas. Other directing credits include the Louise Hay documentary\, You Can Heal Your Life\, Wayne Dyer’s l’m The Shift\, and the Hay House film anthology\, Tales of Everyday Magic. Michael lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-goorjian/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Chris Andrews on César Aira
DESCRIPTION:Chris Andrews joins us to talk about his newest translation\, Ema\, the Captive\, from the prolific Argentine writer César Aira. \nMore event details to come. \nChris Andrews is a translator and professor at the University of Western Sydney\, Australia. He has translated numerous books by César Aira and Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño\, as well as a critical study of poetry and science and a collection of poems. \nCésar Aira is an Argentine author and translator who has written more than 80 novels and translated and edited works from multiple languages. Aira also writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship\, and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please join us for the final Salon of 2016!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-chris-andrews-on-cesar-aira/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161130T032246Z
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Radio Heart
DESCRIPTION:MC: PAUL OCAMPO\, KSW Board Member \nparty \nto gather artists\, activists\, citizens of the bay area\, in resistance and solidarity. we will dance\, drink\, and poetry. \nchapbook launch \nto celebrate the publication of radio heart; or\, how robots fall out of love (finishing line press\, 2016) by margaret rhee.\n\nmany of these poems were written with the guidance of truong tran and kearny street workshop. we want to take time to honor where the poetry emerged from\, we write together\, and not alone. \nfeaturing \nDEBBIE YEE\nVIRGIE TOVAR\nSEAN Y MANZANO\nMARIA FIANI\nDANIEL REDMAN\nISELA FORD with\nMARGARET RHEE \naward ceremony \nto honor artist and poet TRUONG TRAN for years of service\, mentorship\, and friendship to writers and artists of color in the bay area. to celebrate and express our gratitude for his indomitable\, gorgeous radical spirit fighting for what is fair and good. \nthis award will be given by CAPRE (Concerned Artists and Poets for Racial Equity) in light of the post-elections\, and the need for resistance. \nwe will celebrate truong with testimonials of his mentorship and impact of his art and poetry\, we also invite attendees to share their words of resistance in the space. \nALSO\, \non display\, speciality books by graphic design firm THE MYSTERY PARADE: themysterparade.com \nCAKE – DRINKS – PRETTY THINGS \nBIOS: \nIsela Ford\, born in Mexico and later emigrated to San Francisco\, in the mid-seventies\, is committed to improving the lives of marginalized peoples and creating opportunities for their voices to be heard. Growing up in the Mission District during the 1970’s and 1980’s set the foundation for learning\, growing\, and appreciating people and cultures from all walks of life. Her appreciation and committment uplifting disenfranchised people\, particularly people of color\, led her to work for the SF Department of Public Health\, specifically working with adults in SF jails for over 15 years. \nMaria is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her academic work focuses on P.T.S.D.\, moral injury\, and suicide; in addition to her academic life\, she is an ARC fellow\, a YBCA arts fellow\, co-founder of the Life Writing Student and New Scholar Network and co-founder of an art collective titled (Un)Forbidden: a Valediction \nPaul was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US at eleven years old. He earned a Master’s degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA and MFA in creative writing at ASU. He has been published in anthologies and magazines including Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace and The New Engagement. He currently works at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus. \nVirgie Tovar travels around the world lecturing on the social effects of fat discrimination and diet culture. She is the founder of Babecamp\, a 4 week online course designed for women who want to break up with diet culture but don’t know how. She started thr hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, Al Jazeera and NPR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistance-radio-heart/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T213000
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SUMMARY:West Marin Review Launch party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in the new West Marin Review\, Volume 7. This award-winning literary and arts journal features prose\, poetry\, and art selected from contributors from across the nation\, but the focus this night is on local writers and artists\, several from San Francisco. West Marin Review is published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists\, writers\, and editors from West Marin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-launch-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161129T053945Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Holidays w/ Poetry + Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Ring in the holidays with a swingin’ evening of poetry and jazz\, featuring: \n\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nJazz Poet Extraordinaire\nLucho\nCubano Saxophonist\n\n…and a lineup of poets and musicians from both sides of the Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-holidays-w-poetry-jazz/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T220000
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: See You in the Morning Light
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://seeyouinthemorninglight.bpt.me\n$15 in advance and $15 at the door.\n(If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact ned@yg2d.com.) \nAn evening of music & art\, a communal grief release\, a live presentation of Deep Pools’ new album SEE YOU IN THE MORNING LIGHT. \n“See You In The Morning Light” is Scott Ferreter’s attempt to shine light on the beauty that grief offers when it is fully felt. In 2012\, he moved back to his hometown of Sacramento upon getting the news that his father was dying of stage 4 stomach cancer. During that time\, he played music constantly as he soaked up his father’s last days alongside his family\, and would spend 4 years trying to capture the vibrancy of those days in sound. His intention was to make an album that would invite listeners more deeply into the experience of being alive on a planet where everything eventually leaves. \nAll said and done\, the record has 22 musicians\, was recorded across 6 different studios\, and includes field recordings from around the world. The vision was to put as much care into the microscopic sounds as the major ones and to give as much space for the difficult feelings as the pleasant ones. Instead of planning out a normal recording process\, Scott continually listened to what the record was asking of him\, and this meant that the final trajectory of the record ended up being far more bizarre and magical than anything he could have planned. Some of his closest friends and favorite musicians recorded on the record\, including the legendary Suzanne Ciani. \nDeep Pools: http://www.deep-pools.com/ \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-see-you-in-the-morning-light/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
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SUMMARY:Dillon\, Hart\, + Hannibal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from poets Russell Dillon\, Matt Hart\, and Shauna Hannibal hosted by Jason Morris
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dillon-hart-hannibal/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161018T004717Z
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SUMMARY:Beagle\, Raeff\, Yim Caples\, + Aggarwal
DESCRIPTION:Peter S. Beagle (Summerlong\, The Last Unicorn)\nAnne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us)\nVariny Yim (The Immigrant Princess)\nGarrett Caples (Retrievals)\nVidhu Aggarwal (The Trouble with Humpadori) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beagle-raeff-yim-caples-aggarwal/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T030316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030316Z
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SUMMARY:Rosenthal\, Duncan\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Lizard (poetry\, Chax\, 2016) and Manhatten (cross-genre\, Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). Her interview collection A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area was published by Dalkey Archive in 2010. From 2009–2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from Chicago\, she lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury. \nAja Couchois Duncan’s poetry collection Restless Continent was published by Litmus Press in 2016. Duncan\, a Bay Area educator\, writer and coach of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent\, is the recipient of a 2005 Marin Arts Council Award Grant for Literary Arts and a 2013 James D. Phelan Literary Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along. \nArisa White is the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury\, 2016)\, Hurrah’s Nest (Virtual Artists Collective\, 2012)\, and A Penny Saved (Willow\, 2012). In 2013–14 she received a Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera\, and a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund a project called dear Gerald. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a BFA faculty member at Goddard College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosenthal-duncan-white/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161118T031822Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer welcomes Nomadic Press\, an innovative publisher based in Oakland and Brooklyn. The press publishes books\, chapbooks\, and periodicals and fosters community through frequent readings in both cities. Founder J.K. Fowler presents 3 Queer authors published by the press and Queer musician Azuah. M.K. Chavez reads from her new full-length poetry collection Dear Animal\, Arisa White from her poetry chapbook Black Pearl\, and Kwan Booth from selected writing. Azuah is a singer\, songwriter\, and guitarist. For more information on Nomadic Press\, see nomadicpress.org. Free admission\, refreshments\, and door prizes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161129T061652Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit w/ Maria Popova
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco\, she has written on geography\, community\, the environment\, art\, politics\, hope\, and feminism in her seventeen books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and  2016’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, River of Shadows\, Men Explain Things to Me\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com\, Solnit is a contributing editor to Harper’s\, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851). \nMaria Popova is the highly creative mind behind Brain Pickings. Founded in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven of Popova’s close friends\, Brain Pickings is now one of the fastest growing literary sites on the Internet. A resource for writings spanning art\, science\, psychology\, design\, philosophy\, history\, politics\, anthropology\, and more\, the site explores how these different disciplines illuminate one another to glean some insight into that grand question of how to live\, and how to live well. Popova has written for Wired UK\, The Atlantic\,The New York Times\, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab\, among others\, and is a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-w-maria-popova/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161129T055448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055448Z
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SUMMARY:December Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nMaya Pindyck\nMaya Pindyck is the author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books)\, Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, and Locket\, Master (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Series). A multidisciplinary artist\, she has received grants and fellowships in support of her work from the Historic House Trust of New York City’s Contemporary Art Partnerships Program\, the Abortion Conversation Project\, Squaw Valley Writers\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been recently published in Waxwing\, The Wide Shore\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Feminist Wire. Currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Teachers College\, Maya teaches at Parsons School of Design and Long Island University and facilitates youth writing workshops through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. \nKatherine Agard\nKatherine Agard is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently based in California. Her writing has been supported by Lambda Literary\, Kimbilio\, Callaloo and VONA/Voices\, the University of California – San Diego and Harvard University. She writes and performs her relationship to color – material\, socio-cultural\, spiritual – and the language which allows us to perceive it. You can find out more about her work at http://www.kmagard.com \nChloe Caldwell\nChloe Caldwell is the author of the novella Women and two essay collections Legs Get Led Astray and I’ll Tell You in Person. Her work has appeared in the Sun\, Salon\, Vice\, Catapult\, Hobart\, Nylon\, the Rumpus\, Men’s Health\, and Lenny\, among others. She teaches personal essay and memoir writing in New York City and lives in Hudson\, NY. \nGrace Rosario Perkins\nBased in Oakland CA but having spent most of her life moving between city centers\, the Navajo Nation\, and the Gila River Indian Community\, Grace Rosario Perkins is interested in disassembling her personal narrative and reassembling it as one that layers words\, objects\, faces\, and signifiers built from cultural dissonance\, language\, and history. \nGrace is one of the core founders of Black Salt Collective\, an all women of color art collective that is a recent SFMOMA SECA Award nominee\, has had their collaborative work screened in six countries\, and recently curated a 30+ artist show titled “Visions into Infinite Archives” at SOMArts in SF which received press from publications such as the SFChronicle\, Dazed Magazine\, KQED\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T030447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030447Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Gevirtz w/ Lauren Shufran
DESCRIPTION:The poems in Susan Gevirtz‘ Hotel abc function as ethnographic notes\, exposing the fact that we are all under the thumb of circadian rhythm\, struggling to negotiate our shared condition. Reporters and hotel guests leave and enter the book\, revealing that the face of the beloved is also an icon\, that some sounds can only be heard in certain places and that the origins of language are impossible to locate. \nLauren Shufran is a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz\, where she is finishing her dissertation on the influence of Reformed theology on British love poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries. Her first book of poems\, Inter Arma\, won the Motherwell prize and was published by Fence Books in 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-gevirtz-w-lauren-shufran/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T020359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020359Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Carr
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney’s presents a reading of poetry by Emily Carr in her new book “Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them\, or a Sonnet.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-carr/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T223000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T031301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T031301Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Happy Endings
DESCRIPTION:“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekl \nWednesday\, Dec 14th\, 2016\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\nRemember: Party at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\nTickets at http://bit.ly/happyendingsf\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\nInvite & Share this event – & Please JOIN US! \nThis Evening of ‘It’s All gonna be OK’ stories includes:\n❤ Bawdy Storytelling (storyteller!) First timer Jefferson Bergey\n❤ Got a story? Pitch it to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\n❤ Dirty\, dirty – & Clever! – songs by Shirley Gnome\n❤ VIP includes Reserved Seating – & Sex Toys!\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the Splash Zone\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nThe Nation’s Original Sex + Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ As a vocalist\, MC\, and band-leader\, Jefferson Bergey spends a majority of his musical life on his best behavior performing at private and corporate events all over Northern California. With numerous Bay Area creative projects he’s been featured at Sweetwater\, The Independent\, The John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics Summer Games in Long Beach\, Facebook\, and The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. As a family-friendly wedding-singer he was recently the cover-story in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook. Alongside his busy performance calendar he maintains a full schedule as a voice coach for beginning singers at the Starland School of Music in Alameda and privately at his studio in North Oakland.\nYet Bergey lives a musical double-life where he takes delight in singing songs that are clearly not for all-ages or the quietly conservative. From a mind that is clearly in the gutter of Tin Pan Alley\, Bergey combines the flavors of bluesy 1950’s soda-shop pop with the acoustic soft-rock sentiments of the 1970’s. He’s a self-proclaimed musical theater dork with a penchant for pornographic puns. Bergey shares his unique brand of polite vulgarity as one of the regular songwriters for Bawdy Storytelling\, San Francisco’s original sexual storytelling show. Thanks to Dixie De La Tour\, he’s released of an album of those sex-centric custom compositions titled ‘Come For Me’ and the title-song was recently heard on the RISK! podcast. You can find him on Spotify\, iTunes\, and at jeffersonbergey.com. \n❤ From the heart of the West coast of Canada comes internationally acclaimed cabaret comedian\, Shirley Gnome! Known for her clever lyrics\, honest insights\, and gorgeous voice\, the naked truth never sounds so smooth. You may be thinking it – but this shameless songstress sings it loud and proud with “the voice of an angel dry-humping a cloud.” Fans of Garfunkel and Oats\, Flight of the Conchords and Tenacious D\, get ready to be taken to the next level. It’s award-winning\, taboo\, sexually empowering comedy that is NOT for the faint of heart. More info at ShirleyGnome.com \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-happy-endings/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T030605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030605Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Dale Scott
DESCRIPTION:Peter Dale Scott is a poet and political researcher whose artistic works are shaped by the subjects of his nonfiction. \nNation correspondent Larry Bensky commented that Scott has spent his career documenting “an old-boy network of far rightists\, gonzo adventurers\, profiteers\, drug-and gunrunners\, religious fanatics\, and intelligence freelancers who intersect regularly with the various government agencies they once served.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-dale-scott-2/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161217T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T031534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T031534Z
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SUMMARY:George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Frances Richard
DESCRIPTION:The George Oppen Memorial Lecture\nFrances Richard \n“The Mind’s Own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political” \nSaturday DEC 17\n6:00pm* @ Unitarian Center\n1187 Franklin (at Geary)\, San Francisco\,\nadmission: $10; low income $5\nfree for SFSU students and Poetry Center members \nsupported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust\n*Please note early 6pm start time \nThe Poetry Center’s annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, presented each year since 1985\, will be given this December by poet\, scholar\, and art writer Frances Richard. \nFrances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003)\, as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions\, 2008). She writes frequently about contemporary art and is co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and an Editors Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine; currently she is editing a volume of essays titiled Joan Jonas Is On Our Mind (Wattis Institute). She teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. \nGeorge Oppen (April 24\, 1908 – July 7\, 1984) was an American poet\, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry — and to the United States — in 1958\, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. Early and late in his life\, Oppen lived in San Francisco\, where he befriended many of the younger poets active in the area. \nThe George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, established at The Poetry Center in 1985\, generally addresses the work of Oppen and his contemporaries. An edition of the Selected George Oppen Memorial Lectures\, edited by Michael Cross\, is scheduled for publication in 2017 by the National Poetry Foundation\, in Orono\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-oppen-memorial-lecture-frances-richard/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161217T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161217T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161201T020616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020616Z
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SUMMARY:100% Mixed Zine Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:100% Mixed Zine is by and for multi ethnic Asian and Pacific Americans\, featuring interviews\, visual art\, poetry\, and feelings ♥. \nAfter nearly a year of working on the zine and making new friends\, Monika and Jess are ready to release their project 🙂 We’d like to invite you all to join us for a lil party\, and to thank our contributors\, interviewees\, and all who helped us along the way. Bring your friends and family to join in on the fun\, all ages are welcome. \nThe event will include readings\, performances\, and bringing our mixed community together in one room! Some food and drink will be provided\, but if yall wanna turn this into a potluck\, feel free to bring something to share :^) \nLuv\,\nMonika & Jess
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-mixed-zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161222T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161223T024715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T024715Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:It’s the most wonderful time of the year\, and we’re closing out 2016 with a top-notch line up of readers featured in the newly released Lonely Planet anthology\, edited by our own Don George! The collection gathers stories from some of the best writers in the world and we are so fortunate to have many of them right here in the Bay Area including Marilyn Abildskov\, Natalie Baszile\, and Jeff Greenwald who will be reading for us this month. What a way to celebrate our wonderful community of travelers and writers\, and herald in the holiday season! \nCome for cheer\, and let us say cheers to you: our amazing travel writing tribe. Our readings start promptly at 7 pm but we can always be found in the Library Bar at 6 pm. We hope to see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170105T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170105T223000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161223T025428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T025428Z
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose\, & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1400455\n$10 in advance and $10 day of show online and at the door. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-5/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20170109T095548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T095548Z
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SUMMARY:New Year\, New Books!
DESCRIPTION:Authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Rob Rosen\, and Aya de Leon read from their new books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-year-new-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161018T233231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T233231Z
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SUMMARY:Manjula Martin
DESCRIPTION:About Scratch: \nA collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner\, Alexander Chee\, Nick Hornby\, and Jonathan Franzen on the realities of making a living in the writing world.\nIn the literary world\, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job\, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless\, confusing\, and often controversial conversation that\, despite our bare-it-all culture\, still remains taboo. In Scratch\, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money?\nAs contributors including Jonathan Franzen\, Cheryl Strayed\, Roxane Gay\, Nick Hornby\, Susan Orlean\, Alexander Chee\, Daniel Jose Older\, Jennifer Weiner\, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money\, MFA programs\, teaching fellowships\, finally getting published\, and what success really means to them\, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money\, work and life\, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers\, and for anyone interested in the future of literature\, Scratch is the perfect bookshelf companion to On Writing\, Never Can Say Goodbye\, and MFA vs. NYC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/manjula-martin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T142533
CREATED:20161017T233029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233029Z
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SUMMARY:Zadie Smith w/ Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:British novelist\, essayist and short story writer Zadie Smith is known for her unique perspective on contemporary culture\, superb dialogue\, and emotionally rich stories.  Smith wrote her widely acclaimed debut novel White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge and went on to cement her reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation with The Autograph Man\, On Beauty\, and NW. Her newest novel Swing Time follows the lives of two aspiring dancers growing up in a poor London neighborhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zadie-smith-w-dave-eggers/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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