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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monday-a-journal-of-poetry-prose-and-art/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell\, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, will be in conversation with Art Table’s Jan Wurm. \n“How to Do Nothing is genuinely instructive\, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival. You can knock the hustle — and you should.”—Akiva Gottlieb\, LOS ANGELES TIMES \n“Approachable and incisive. . . . The book is clearly the work of a socially conscious artist and writer who considers careful attention to the rich variety of the world an antidote to the addictive products and platforms that technology provides. . . . [Odell] sails with capable ease between the Scylla and Charybdis of subjectivity and arid theory with the relatable humanity of her vision.”—Nicholas Cannariato\, THE WASHINGTON POST \n“The sentiment behind How to Do Nothing is one of defiance.”—Casey Schwartz\, THE NEW YORK TIMES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T170000
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SUMMARY:Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini\, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020\, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini’s\, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living. \nSicilian born\, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author\, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled “La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini’s Vision (NYC\, 2008)”\, originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB. \nMore than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960)\, Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini’s filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta\, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. \nWith an interdisciplinary approach\, Zanetti explores Fellini’s enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema’s creation. \nRecognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time\, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory\, dreams\, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political\, Fellini’s films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City\, Paisan\, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria\, La Strada\, La Dolce Vita\, 8 1/2\, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year\, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d’Or\, four Academy Awards\, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy\, numerous Academy Award nominations\, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam\, David Lynch\, Juan Antonio Bardem\, Wojciech Has\, Emir Kusterica\, and many others. \nMore Fellini celebrations: \nCinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com \nBerkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fellini-turns-100-la-natura-morta-de-la-dolce-vita-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Reyes: Running to Stand Still
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new book\, Running to Stand Still. Also featuring readings from Jennifer Lewis\, Truong Tran\, and Kar Johnson. \nPraise for Running to Stand Still \n“Rich in literary and pop culture references\, the voice of Running to Stand Still is both specific and wide-ranging. Quotations from artists as disparate as Frank Bidart and The Killers splice and introduce poems. In one section\, Reyes repurposes screenshots of text messages; in another\, partial strikethroughs enable multiple readings. Through this juxtaposing of different forms and language\, Reyes weaves a deeply intimate portrait out of impossibly expansive themes: modern life\, Black womanhood\, family history\, and technology.”— Poets & Writers \n“These poems\, with through lines of gender\, race\, adventure\, desire\, build into a deeply moving provocation of loss and discovery. The brilliance of these poems is their achievement of discomfit as they simultaneously travel distance and move inward. . . . The title of this collection is a promise: how poetry can at once run and stand still\, and why that matters.”— Valerie Wallace\, author of House of McQueen \n“Pinballing between family lore\, social media\, and pop culture discourse\, Reyes deconstructs the casual discourses of contempt her narrators are invited to embrace outside and within blood lines\, however much ‘birthright belonging / is the maim.’ And yet\, betrayed by the human desire to belong (‘To be kept is to / be kept\, and what you wanted’)\, they—she—never quite reach escape velocity: Running to Stand Still is thus the poignant record of an orbit\, both victory and impasse.”— Tyrone Williams\, author of As iZ \nAbout Running to Stand Still \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.\nThese poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nAbout the Authors \nKimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, NY1 News\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal\, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn\, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press\, 2018)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills\, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTruong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing. He is the author numerous volumes of poetry including the upcoming book 100 Words (Omnidawn) co-authored with Damon Potter. He is a self taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society\, California Institute of Integral Studies\, SOMArts Gallery\, Telegraph Hill Gallery\, The San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair\, Avenue 12 Gallery and The Peninsula Museum of Art. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College. \nKar Johnson is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and bookseller in San Francisco. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Northridge Review\, Foglifter\, and the anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Kar has performed their work for series Red Light Lit\, The Racket\, RADAR\, and many others. They received their MFA from San Francisco State University. \nJennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills Press\, Midnight Breakfast\, sPARKLE & bLINK and X-Ray Lit Mag. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and she teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-reyes-running-to-stand-still/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DirtyMinds/OpenHearts Open Mic/Spoken word
DESCRIPTION:Dirty Minds/Open Hearts Poetry Society will present an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD event on Monday\, March 2 at 7pm at The Laundry at 3359 26th Street in San Francisco\, CA. \nCross street is Mission street in the Mission District of San Francisco. \nAll musicians\, singers\, Orators\, poets\, Hip Hop\, even magicians\, jugglers\, are welcome to attend. \nFirst timers to Experienced Open Mic are welcome \nSign up is day of event. \nFirst come\, first served. \n22 spots available. \nChoose any number\, one to 22. \n5 minute sessions \n8 minute sessions assigned by the Host. \n15 Feature Performer assigned by the Host. \nStart at 7pm \nNo fee. \nPlease support The Laundry with purchase of beer\, wine\, soda. \nHost: Mose Betta \nContact: \n415 483 6905 \nEmail: dirtyminds0penhearts@gmail.com \nContact me at other Open Mic events such as Bird /Beckett\, Sacred Grounds\, Cafe Bazzaar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirtyminds-openhearts-open-mic-spoken-word/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning @ Old Devil Moon
DESCRIPTION:March 2 @ Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St. @ Cortland\, 7pm\n\n\n\nGustavo Barahona-López\nJyoti Arvey\nNicole Henares\nJennifer Lewis\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nEmilie Osborn\nKeith Mark Gaboury\nMatt Leibel\nZephir O’Meara \nClyde Always\nJon Bennett\nKimi Sugioka\nDanielle Truppi\nTammy Zo Pollard\nPeter Bullen\nEmily Bornhop\nSerena Chan\nKelly Gray\nMackenzie Studebaker \n\n\n\nCurated by Sean Taylor & Jason Whitacre \nAdmission is a suggested $15 donation\, with all proceeds directly benefiting Bay Area artists. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. sPARKLE & bLINK featuring cover art by Claire Rabkin for the first 100 people! \n\nfrom Tools for the Exchange of Force by Claire Rabkin\n\n\nThe Children’s Book Project will be at our show! The Children’s Book Project is a non-profit that takes books without children and gives them to children without books. With 138\,600 free books given to children in the San Francisco Bay Area last year\, the Children’s Book Project anticipates giving away its 3 millionth book this spring. Bring a new or gently-used children’s book to support equity in literacy\, learning\, and life!\n\n\nTickets / RVSP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-old-devil-moon/
LOCATION:Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon SF: MONUMENTAL
DESCRIPTION:~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, March 3 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more> \n___ \nODD SALON: Stories from the odd corners of history\, science\, art\, and adventure. \n\nWHAT: Six storytellers bring strange-but-true stories from history\, science\, art and adventure\, to the stage\, over cocktails.\nWHAT KINDS OF STORIES: Badasses and crackpots\, history’s worst ideas and most interesting eccentrics\, things that exploded\, heists\, hoaxes\, hidden treasures\, epic explorations and upsetting animal facts. For example.\nWHO: Experts and amateurs\, scientists and poets\, musicians and medievalists\, artists\, tech workers\, baristas\, and you. Each salon features selected speakers from an open call for submissions. Join us!\nWHERE: Public Works\, on Erie Street – one block from the 16th and Mission BART stop.\nWHEN: We open the doors for cocktails and conversations at 6:30; talks begin at 7:30. Get there early if you want to nab a seat.\nWHY: San Francisco deserves weird\, independent events\, and real world gatherings in this increasingly digital age.\nHOW: Against many odds.\nSNACKS? Yes! Pop-up food vendors serve snacks during the pre-salon cocktail hour.\nDRINKS? But of course.\nOTHER QUESTIONS? Drop us a line>\n\nOdd Salon is a fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation\, a 501c3 non-profit organization. \nwww.oddsalon.com | San Francisco Events Mailing List | Facebook | Twitter| |Instagram
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-monumental/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Opening celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Center\, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui\, and others tba
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special Tuesday evening event celebrating the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network—directed by Isabelle Pelaud\, writer and professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. Special guests will be DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Thi Bui\, author of the celebrated graphic ‘novel’ The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. They will be joined by Isabelle Pelaud (in conversation with DVAN co-founder Viet Thanh Nguyen)\, She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan and Julie Thi Underhill\, and by Danny Nguyen—with emcee Philip Nguyen. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is co-sponsored by DVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE\, and is free and open to the public.\n“Refugee to Detainee” presentation: Thi Bui (author of The Best We Could Do) \nDiscussion with DVAN co-directors: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathiser) & Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Professor in Asian American Studies) \nPoetry reading: She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan\, and Julie Thi Underhill \nA musical essay: Danny Nguyen \nEmcee: Philip Nguyen \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nDVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nLiving in Dreams: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud In Conversation with Vi Khi Nao (Feb. 7\, 2019) \nThi Bui with Lauren Markham\, One City One Book interview at the San Francisco Public Library (video\, posted Oct 29\, 2018) \nPaul Beatty in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fall 2017) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nDVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/opening-celebration-of-the-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-center-featuring-viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-others-tba/
LOCATION:Jack Adams Hall\, César Chavez Student Center\, SFSU\, SFSU\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Lisa Brown / The Phantom Twin\, with Wendy Macnaughton
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts our favorite illustrator\, Lisa Brown\, for her new book The Phantom Twin. She’ll be in conversation with Wendy Macnaughton. Please join us! \nA young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin in Lisa Brown’s The Phantom Twin\, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters\, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails\, causing Jane’s death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted\, altered\, and alone for the first time\, can Isabel build a new life that’s truly her own? \n\nLisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator\, author\, and cartoonist. Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book\, Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert. For adults\, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art. \nWendy Macnaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco\, The City in its Own Words\, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology\, Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them\, Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos\, The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert\, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes\, The Life\, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles. Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine\, and co-founder of  Women Who Draw. Before all that stuff\, she studied art and social work\, worked as a copywriter in advertising\, a campaign director for non-profits\, a bookseller in a used bookstore\, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. She also created the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda\, health education materials for nomadic tribes in Northern Kenya\, and a short film in Eastern Congo. She lives in Potrero Hill with her partner (and frequent collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul\, two cats and a dog. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 Phantom Twin\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-lisa-brown-the-phantom-twin-with-wendy-macnaughton/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Javad Djavahery
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in conjunction with Restless Books and City Lights Booksellers present \nJavad Djavahery \nreading from his new novel \nMy Part of Her \ntranslated by Emma Ramadan\, published by Restless Books \nFor our unnamed confessor\, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There\, he is not the “poor relative from the North\,” but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou’s home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers\, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado\, he betrays and humiliates an unlikely suitor\, setting into motion a series of events that will have drastic repercussions for all of them as the country is forever transformed by the Iranian Revolution a few short years later.\nOver the next twenty years\, the lingering effects of that betrayal set the friends on radically different paths in the wake of political\, religious\, and cultural upheaval. Their surprising final reunion reveals the consequences of revenge and self-preservation as they each must decide whether and how to forget the past. Urgent and gorgeously written\, My Part of Her captures the innocence of youth\, the folly of love\, and the capriciousness of fate as these friends find themselves on opposing sides of the seismic rifts of history. \nIranian novelist and short story writer\, Javad Djavahery currently resides in Paris after being forced to flee Iran and claim refuge in France at the age of 20. For many years he lived as a political refugee\, waiting to return to his home country. During these years\, he owned nothing more than what could fit in a suitcase. When asked where he’s from\, Javad responds by saying that he was born once in Iran\, and then a second time at the age of 20 in Rennes\, his adoptive city. He have not returned to Iran since his departure\, which allows him “to preserve in my memory images of a country that no longer exists.” Shifting between literature and film\, he has produced many films and co-written numerous screenplays including Red Rose (directed by Sepideh Farsi). A bilingual author\, he has two short story collections in Persian. His first novel Soupir de l’Ange was published by Éditions de l’Aube. His second novel\, Ma part d’elle (My Part of Her) was published in 2017 by Gallimard. \nEmma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence\, RI where she is the co-owner of Riffraff\, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship\, a PEN/Heim grant\, and a Fulbright scholarship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javad-djavahery/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evan Bloom\, Rachel Levin\,&; George McCalman: Eat Something
DESCRIPTION:Evan Bloom\, co-owner of Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen\, Rachel Levin\, and George McCalman discuss their new cookbook Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews. \nPraise for Eat Something \n“My Russian-born mother always used to ask\, “Is it good for the Jews?” And I have to say that Eat Something not only is good for the Jews but also will make them chuckle and enjoy cooking. This book offers a fresh California perspective and a dash of cultural irreverence.” – Joyce Goldstein\, chef & author \n“This book is an extremely entertaining and haimish guide to Jewish food and the role it plays in our lives.” – Josh Russ Tupper\, 4th generation co-owner of Russ & Daughters \n“This book embodies the spirit of Jewish soul food we all need right now. Equally delicious and inspiring\, it satisfies like a holiday brisket\, with a joy that lasts for days (minus the heartburn).” – David Sax\, author of Save the Deli \nAbout Eat Something \nFrom nationally recognized Jewish brand Wise Sons\, the cookbook Eat Something features over 60 recipes for salads\, soups\, baked goods\, holiday dishes\, and more. \nThis long-awaited cookbook (the first one for Wise Sons!) is packed with homey recipes and relatable humor; it is as much a delicious\, lighthearted\, and nostalgic cookbook as it is a lively celebration of Jewish culture. \nStemming from the thesis that Jews eat by occasion (and with enthusiasm)\, the book is organized into 19 different events and celebrations chronicling a Jewish life in food\, from bris to shivah\, and all the makeshift and meaningful events in between\, including: Shabbat\, Passover\, the high holidays\, first meal home from college\, J-dating\, wedding\, and more. \n• Both a Jewish humor book and a cookbook\n• Recipes are drawn from the menus of their beloved Bay Area restaurants\, as well as all the occasions when Jews gather around the table.\n• Includes short essays\, illustrations\, memorabilia\, and stylish plated food photography. \nWise Sons is a nationally recognized deli and Jewish food brand with a unique Bay Area ethos—inspired by the past but entirely contemporary\, they make traditional Jewish foods California-style with great ingredients. \nRecipes include Braided Challah\, Big Macher Burger\, Wise Sons’ Brisket\, Carrot Tzimmes\, and Morning After Matzoquiles\, while essays include Confessions of a First-Time Seder Host\, So\, You Didn’t Marry a Jew\, and Iconic Chinese Restaurants\, As Chosen by the Chosen People.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evan-bloom-rachel-levin-george-mccalman-eat-something/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Homeless Activist Poet Sarah Menefee Reads From Her New Book Cement
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco poet and homeless activist Sarah Menefee’s latest\, voices from the streets and of comrade angels; along with Haitian-born poet and performer Boadiba\, with her thrilling poetry\, storytelling and ritual: A lively evening is expected!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homeless-activist-poet-sarah-menefee-reads-from-her-new-book-cement/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Odd Mondays March 2020 Reading: Larkin\, Sindell & Subramanian
DESCRIPTION:Odd Mondays offers you three very different novels for March: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian\, THE PUGILIST POETS OF VENICE by Jon Sindell\, and SWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT by Allie Larkin. Hear excerpts from these very original works Monday\, March 9\, 6:30pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and free refreshments. \nHere’s more about the books:\nA PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian\nIn the tight-knit community known as Heaven\, a ramshackle slum hidden between luxury high-rises in Bangalore\, India\, five girls on the cusp of womanhood forge an unbreakable bond. Muslim\, Christian\, and Hindu; queer and straight; they are full of life\, and they love and accept one another unconditionally. Whatever they have\, they share. When the local government threatens to demolish their tin shacks in order to build a shopping mall\, the girls and their mothers refuse to be erased. Together\, they wage war on the bulldozers sent to bury their homes\, and\, ultimately\, on the city that wishes that families like them would remain hidden forever. \nTHE PUGILIST POETS OF VENICE by Jon Sindell\nMeet Hammerhead Hirsch\, a charismatic middle-aged boho known in the 60s as “The Pugilist Poet” for his Golden Gloves boxing crown and Beat poetry chops. Thirty years later\, Head has become a first-time father and his joy is immense—until the mom bolts. Can Head last fifteen rounds as a single dad with a paltry income\, scanty prospects\, biting personal demons\, and a “ball-and-chain” kid? The tale is told by a worshipful youth who accompanies Head and his son every step of the way on a ten-year-long\, three-way journey of struggles\, missteps\, love\, and growth. \nSWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT by Allie Larkin\nWhen recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida\, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch\, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook\, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes\, but first\, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water. Then\, Katie’s college love Luca\, a documentary filmmaker\, enters the scene. She struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own\, in this thoughtful\, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-march-2020-reading-larkin-sindell-subramanian/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alec Karakatsanis / Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Alec Karakatsanis for his new book\, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFormer public defender and civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis has made it his mission to challenge the fact that we have developed two legal systems in this country: one for the rich\, and one for the poor. He and his organization\, Civil Rights Corps\, have brought lawsuits across the nation challenging cash bail\, modern-day debtors’ prisons\, and prosecutorial misconduct. They have won landmark cases that strike at the heart of America’s crisis of mass human caging\, freeing tens of thousands of people from jail and returning tens of millions of dollars to his clients and their families. Composed of three essays written across the span of this rising star’s dynamic legal career\, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System calls for a radical and collective reckoning with the way our criminal punishment system has evolved. \n\nA former public defender\, Alec Karakatsanis is the founder of Civil Rights Corps\, an organization designed to challenge systemic injustice in the criminal legal system. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice and was awarded the Stephen B. Bright Award for contributions to indigent defense in the South by Gideon’s Promise. Karakatsanis is interested in ending human caging\, surveillance\, the death penalty\, immigration laws\, war\, and inequity. The author of Usual Creuelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System\, he lives in Washington\, DC. \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Usual Cruelty\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alec-karakatsanis-usual-cruelty-the-complicity-of-lawyers-in-the-criminal-injustice-system/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Kate Schatzand Miriam Klein Stahl for their new book\, Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People. Please join us! \nFrom the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural movements in American history. \n\n“An engaging\, fascinating\, and necessary book that speaks truth to power.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \n\nIn Rad American History A-Z\, each letter of the alphabet tells the story of a significant moment in America’s progressive history–one that isn’t always covered in history classes: A is for Alcatraz\, and the Native occupation of 1969; C is for the Combahee River Raid\, a Civil War action planned in part by Union spy Harriet Tubman; Z is for Zuccotti Park\, and the Occupy movement that briefly took over the world. \nPaired with dynamic paper-cut art by Miriam Klein Stahl\, the entries by Kate Schatz explore several centuries of politics\, culture\, art\, activism\, and liberation\, including radical librarians\, Supreme Court cases\, courageous youth\, punk rocker grrrls\, Southern quilts\, and modern witches. In addition to the twenty-six core stories\, short sidebars expand the discussion\, and dictionary-style lists refer readers to additional key moments. So while F is for Federal Theater Project\, a New Deal-era program that employed thousands of artists\, F is also for Freedom Rides and First Amendment. E is for Earth First!\, but also for Endangered Species Act and Equal Rights Amendment. \nThere are tales of triumph\, resilience\, creation\, and hope. Each engaging\, fact-filled narrative illustrates an eye-opening moment that shows us how we got to now–and what we need to know about our histories to create a just and sustainable future. \n\n“I wish I’d had Rad American History A–Z when I was growing up; it’s a book I hope to read to my children one day. In such chaotic political times\, this is a critical tool for young people to know how change happens\, and to know that they\, too\, can make change happen. This book belongs on all library shelves as a transformative approach to history as we know it.”– Alicia Garza\, cofounder of Black Lives Matter Global Network \n\nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. With illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl\, she is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is an artist\, educator\, and activist. She is the illustrator of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, and paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School\, where she has taught since 1995. Photo by Casey Orr. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 Rad American History A-Z\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-american-history-a-z-movements-and-moments-that-demonstrate-the-power-of-the-people/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Nomadic Press \nwith Tureeda Mikell\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Ayodele Nzinga\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Genny Lim\, James Cagney\, Dr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett\, music by Azuah \nNomadic Press is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that supports the works of emerging and established writers and artists. Through publications (including translations) and performances\, Nomadic Press aims to build community among artists across disciplines. \nTo learn more visit: www.nomadicpress.org \nEducator\, consultant\, poet\, griot/elocutionist/story medicine woman\, Tureeda Mikell began working the healing arts in 1977 via poetry\, storytelling\, and QiGong energy therapy. Mikell is the founder of Tree of Life Health Literacy Project and works in collaboration with California Poets in the Schools. In 2018\, Mikell was the Eth-Noh-Tec NuWa Delegate from the US to Beijing\, China\, in Gengcun Village of renowned storytellers in collaboration with the University of Beijing on mission to heal cultural boundaries. Mikell has been a featured reader with Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, California\, presented Al Young (named poet laureate of California in 2015) with the lifetime achievement award at the 2018 Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has opened for Saul Williams at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. She is a BAWP Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education\, has worked and read with the late Amiri Baraka via EastSide Arts Alliance\, and is one of the co-founders of the Black Writers Conference in Otisville\, New York.  Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press\, 2020) is her first full-length collection of poetry. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first began performing his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar’s Thursday night readings and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe\, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show\, “The Spanglish Power Hour\,” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nAyodele Nzinga is a renaissance woman. A writer\, lyricist\, director\, producer\, actress\, dramaturg\, and social architect; her motto is\, “I create\, therefore I am.” Her work appears in Juice Magazine\, VISION Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, Pan African Journal of Poetry\, Environmental Terrorist Anthology\, Say it Loud\, Black Magnolias Literary Journal\, and ChickenBones: A Journal. Her book\, Horse Eaters\, is available from Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection\, SorrowLand Oracle\, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2020. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His book\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series)\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. She has collaborated with such jazz legends as the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis\, and Eddie Marshall\, as well as Bay Area musicians Broun Fellinis\, John Santos\, Anthony Brown\, Francis Wong\, and Jon Jang. She has appeared at jazz festivals throughout the US and poetry festivals in Venezuela\, Italy\, and Bosnia. \nLim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the author of five poetry collections—Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo—and is the co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, which won the American Book Award. A recipient of a SF Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship\, Lim is currently at work on a book of poetry about Jazz legends from the Behop Era and beyond. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland\, California. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Cagney is the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner for his first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog. \nDr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett is a long-time scholar activist and writer who was instrumental in the development of the academic field of Black/Ethnic Studies. Along with such major literary artists as Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) and Sonia Sanchez\, he was a major contributor to the establishment  of the Black Arts Movement. Dr. Garrett’s plays\, short fiction\, and social essays have been published in Black Scholar\, Journal of Pan African Studies\, and the seminal BAM collection\, Black Fire. James Garrett is presently at work on a  memoir of his life in political movements in the US\, Africa\, and the Americas from the 1960s to the present. \nAzuah’s music weaves roots in alternative folk and soul with a poet’s sensibility and an unforgettable voice to create an infectious sound all her own. A Bay Area native\, she has played all over the West Coast from the Roxy in Los Angeles to stages in Oakland and San Francisco. Known for her evocative lyrics and haunting melodies\, Azuah captures the listener’s ear from first note to last strum with a sound that can only come from the depths of an old soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Harmony and Discord
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can. NOTAFLOF \nThis month’s readers: \nAnna Held\nKar Johnson\nLoria Mendoza\nGiavanna Ortiz de Candia\nC Pam Zhang
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-march/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Katie M. Flynn
DESCRIPTION:Katie M. Flynn discusses her debut novel\, The Companions. \nPraise for The Companions \n“Beautifully atmospheric and emotionally intense\, The Companions is an unnerving and engrossing story. The radiant\, somber voice of this near-future speculative novel ratchets the suspense while also illuminating what makes us human and how we endure beyond death. This is a spellbinding novel that will linger with you.” —Kassandra Montag\, author of After the Flood \n“With deft narration and unforgettable characters\, Katie M. Flynn weaves a tale of high-tech\, dystopian reincarnation. Each detail is beautifully sketched and thrilling to discover\, creating a near-future world of endless fascination. The Companions is a compelling\, gripping\, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction.” —Jennie Melamed\, author of Gather the Daughters \n“This sweeping novel of near-future dystopia has an ensemble cast and covers continents and years of time\, but it never loses its intimacy and immediacy. There’s a deeply moving humanity to each of these characters—even the ones who aren’t quite human. I loved this book so much I didn’t want it to end.” –Dan Chaon\, author of Ill Will \nAbout The Companions \nStation Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. \nIn the wake of a highly contagious virus\, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers\, the living can’t go out\, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms\, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying\, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death\, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation\, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. \nSixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate\, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands\, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away\, searching for the woman who killed her. \nLilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac’s journey through an exquisitely imagined Northern California\, the story is told from eight different points of view—some human\, some companion—that explore the complex shapes love\, revenge\, and loneliness take when the dead linger on.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-m-flynn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shana Redmond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nEverything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson \nfrom Duke University Press \nFrom his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights\, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century’s greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson’s continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater\, art\, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life\, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication\, care\, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone. \nShana L. Redmond is Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is coeditor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader\, also published by Duke University Press\, and author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora. \nPraise for Everything Man \n\n\n“Formally challenging and beautifully conceived\, Everything Man is a model for scholarship and thinking as well as a powerful addition to the body of work on Paul Robeson\, freedom movements\, sound studies\, music\, and beyond. It will make a tremendous impact.” — Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake \n“Shana Redmond’s ingenious reframing of Paul Robeson as Afrofuturist media artist is but one quality marking Everything Man as a milestone contribution to Robeson scholarship. Redmond compels readers to reconsider Robeson as a radical modernist—one whose innovative embrace of electronic media technology (film\, sound recording\, telegraph) transforms our understanding of him from remote Black Communist icon to protean\, creative contemporary. In lucid and evocative prose Redmond narrates how Robeson democratized sonic and visual modernity while engaged in anticapitalist justice work. Redmond illuminates the afterlife of Robeson’s voice and presence too—his appearances in postmodern art practices and the many places Robeson’s footpaths took Redmond where she discovered he was still revered by the far-flung descendants of the man’s midcentury comrades and congregants.” — Greg Tate\, author of Flyboy 2li
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shana-redmond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MariNaomi / Distant Stars
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes MariNaomi back for the final volume of her Life on Earth trilogy\, Distant Stars. Please join us! \nCelebrated cartoonist MariNaomi concludes her tale of growing up\, falling in and out of love\, and possible alien interventions. Shy\, self-deprecating Paula Navarro is coming into her own — and it’s making her new girlfriend\, Johanna\, a little nervous. Paula’s former friend Emily Baker is learning to look inward. Brett Hathaway\, Emily and Paula’s mutual ex-hook-up\, is torn about reconnecting with his estranged dad. And Nigel Jones is smitten with his tutor\, Claudia — whose disappearance and reappearance remains a mystery to everyone around her. As Claudia and her guardians put the final plan in motion\, they’ll reveal the truth that links everyone’s fate. \n\nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of four comic memoirs and creator of the Cartoonists of Color database. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and many cats and dogs. Visit her website at marinaomi.com. Author photo by Jolene Siana. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — 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 Distant Stars\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marinaomi-distant-stars/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Colum McCann & Isabel Allende
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nCo-presented with JCCSF\n\nIrish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers\, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book\, Apeirogon\, tells the story of two fathers – one Palestinian and one Israeli – who learn of each other’s grief and reach across borders to work towards peace. In conversation with Isabel Allende. $30\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nColum McCann\nIrish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers\, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book… Read More →\n\n \nIsabel Allende\nIsabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, including The House of the Spirits\, Of Love and Shadows\, Eva Luna\, Paula\, In the Midst of Winter\, and the forthcoming A Long Petal of the Sea. Her books have been translated into more than… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colum-mccann-isabel-allende/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T210000
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CREATED:20200221T011609Z
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SUMMARY:Happy 7th Birthday Voz Sin Tinta!
DESCRIPTION:Voz Sin Tinta is turning 7! To celebrate our special day\, we want YOU to come out and read or come and share space.\nWe will ONLY HAVE A COMMUNITY OPEN MIC. We would not have made it seven years without the community\, and we want to continue to support you all just like you support us.\nThat’s right! TWO HOURS OF OPEN MIC.\nBring food! Bring drinks! Bring adult drinks! Bring a friend! Bring some art to share! Bring yourself! Just come celebrate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-7th-birthday-voz-sin-tinta/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200311T150850Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Cathy Park Hong with Vanessa Hua / Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nBooksmith hosts Cathy Park Hong for her new book\, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning\, a ruthlessly honest\, emotionally charged\, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human. She’ll be in conversation with Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities and A River of Stars). Please join us! \n\n“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.” – Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nPoet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir\, cultural criticism\, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism\, this collection is vulnerable\, humorous\, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship\, art and politics\, identity and individuality\, will change the way you think about our world. \nBinding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants\, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame\, suspicion\, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small\, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. \nWith sly humor and a poet’s searching mind\, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language\, to shame and depression\, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art\, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth. \n\nCathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Boston Review\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University–Newark MFA program in poetry.\nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of the national bestseller\, A River of Stars\, and a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities.  For more than two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the diaspora. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow\, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and among other publications. The daughter of Chinese immigrants\, she teaches at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, and elsewhere. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 Minor Feelings\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-park-hong-with-vanessa-hua-minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Juliana Delgado Lopera / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Juliana Delgado Lopera and her debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical. More information to be announced\, but please do yourself a favor and save the date! \nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. She is the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and has received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, she served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — 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 Fiebre Tropical\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-juliana-delgado-lopera-fiebre-tropical/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Calico Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:In March 2020\, Two Lines Press will launch a new book series dedicated to capturing vanguard works of translated literature—curated around a particular theme\, region\, language\, historical moment\, or style—in vibrant\, collectible editions. \nWe’re calling it Calico.  \nThe first Calico book\, That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction\, will be published on March 10th. This book collects seven short stories from mainland China and Hong Kong\, all of them erring on the side of the strange\, the speculative. Government mushroom housing? It’s got it. Uncanny fermented grandma teas? Oh yeah. An aging newscaster engaged in an illicit affair with her boss\, who just so happens to get off to her reading the news? Why\, but of course. \nIn a country where the government provides one narrative while real life is often very different\, That We May Live showcases how the speculative provides cover from which Chinese writers can challenge the government’s story and explore their own—and just how difficult it can be to discern reality from absurdity\, comedy from horror. With works from previously untranslated writers and rising stars of international literature—all translated by some of the best Chinese translators around—in addition to being delightfully absorbing\, can be thoughtfully uncomfortable reading experience when you look for the truths at the stories’ surreal edges.” \nThat We May Live features work from Dorothy Tse (translated by Natasha Bruce)\, Enoch Tam (translated by Jeremy Tiang)\, Zhu Hui (translated by Michael Day)\, Chan Chi Wa (translated by Audrey Heijns)\, Chen Si’an (translated by Canaan Morse) and Yan Ge (translated by Jeremy Tiang). \nWe’re excited. We hope you are too. \nMore information about our Calico celebration coming soon! \n  \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calico-launch-party/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Prageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the first of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation. She was the 2018-19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s On Our Mind program\, a year-long series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018. Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nDodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma\nreading and in conversation\nFriday March 13\n7:00 pm @ Artists’ Television Access\n992 Valencia Street (at 21st)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-prageeta-sharma-and-dodie-bellamy-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T193000
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_March12_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-23/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Jessi Jezewska Stevens with Rita Bullwinkel: The Exhibition of Persephone Q
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJessi Jezewska Stevens discusses her new novel\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for The Exhibition of Persephone Q \n“A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q’s perspective is skewed and searching at once\, and through her eyes\, we see afresh not only New York’s post-9/11 landscape but also the world of art\, and love\, and the process of becoming.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Finally a book that exposes how dull Occam’s Razor has become after all these years. Adroitly crafted\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a fun\, urbane look at the faulty heuristics of perception and authenticity. Proof positive that in the age of Photoshop and Trumpian Denialism\, the simplest explanation no longer applies.” —Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n“The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a resonant and uncanny novel\, a moving meditation on “how casually one version of reality detaches from the truth; it peels away naturally\, like damp wallpaper in a neglected room.” Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a promising\, persuasive new writer\, and I will be surprised if this doesn’t turn out to be one of the strongest debut novels of 2020.” —Justin Taylor\, Bookforum \nAbout The Exhibition of Persephone Q \nPercy is pregnant. She hasn’t told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband—certainly she means to—but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now\, instead of sleeping\, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood\, all the while fretting over her marriage\, her impending motherhood\, and the sinister ways the city is changing. \nAmid this alienation—from her husband\, home\, and rapidly changing body—a package arrives. In it: an exhibition catalog for a photography show. The photographs consist of a series of digitally manipulated images of a woman lying on a bed in a red room. It takes a moment for even Percy to notice that the woman is herself . . . but no one else sees the resemblance. \nPercy must now come to grips with the fundamental question of identity in the digital age: To what extent do we own our own image\, and to what extent is that image shaped by the eyes of others? \nCapturing perfectly the haunted atmosphere of Manhattan immediately after 9/11—and the simmering insanity of America ever since—Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a darkly witty satire about how easy it is to lose ownership of our own selves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessi-jezewska-stevens-the-exhibition-of-persephone-q/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'ISLAGIATT'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-islagiatt/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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