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SUMMARY:Let's Create The World We Want! The 4th Howard Zinn Book Fair
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nIt’s been a tough year in the US for anyone who cares about fairness\, justice and equality and a lot of folks may be giving into cynicism and even despair over the apparent destruction of the few vestiges of democracy left in this country. However\, one bright spot is the 4th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair which focuses on The World We Want!\n\n\n \n\n\nWe gather together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of nearly 60 readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future with visions that excite our passions. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. There will also be a big room full of radical book sellers\, publishers and community organizations who all have fresh\, vibrant views on the kind of world we could have and are working hard to make that happen.\n\n\n \n\n\nWe will have over 120 speakers\, including:\n\n\n \n\n\n* Adam Hochschild\, NY Times Best-Selling author of Spain in Our Hearts and King Leopold’s Ghost\n\n\n \n\n\n* Sekou Odinga\, former Black Panther Party member and recently released political prisoner\, author of In the Whirlwind\n\n\n \n\n\n* Rebecca Solnit\, Harper’s contributing editor and author of The Mother of All Questions and Men Explain Things to Me will discuss What’s Next for the Resistance\n\n\n \n\n\n* Punk icon\, Michelle Cruz Gonzales\, author of the Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Punk Band\n\n\n \n\n\n* Sasha Lilly\, local activist\, Pacifica Radio host and author/editor of numerous books including Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult\n\n\n \n\n\nWe will also have a five session track dedicated to exploring what ‘Black Reconstruction In Our Time’ would look like based on the seminal writings of W.E.B. Du Bois.\n\n\n \n\n\nYou can see our full line-up of amazing speakers and exhibitors at: howardzinnbookfair.com\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Howard Zinn Book Fair has become one of the largest gatherings of progressive-thinking people in SF in recent years and is sure to cheer even the most jaded cynic. Please join us Sunday\, Nov. 19 from 10am to 6pm at SF City College’s Mission Campus at 1125 Valencia Street near 22nd and help create the world we really want!\n\n\n \n\n\n\nChild care will be available\, the Mission Campus cafe will be open and\, thanks to a bunch if generous donors\, the whole event is free!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lets-create-the-world-we-want-the-4th-howard-zinn-book-fair/
LOCATION:City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus\, 1125 valencia Street\, San Francisco\,\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-8/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171121T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
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SUMMARY:Avotcja + David Hathwell
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/avotcja-david-hathwell/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
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SUMMARY:Gail Mitchell + Michael Koch
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gail-mitchell-michael-koch/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171128T210000
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SUMMARY:Spring Washam: A Fierce Heart
DESCRIPTION:“Cultivating a fierce heart is about learning to embrace it all\, even the most painful aspects of our life—every experience and all of ourself.”\n– Spring Washam \nIn A Fierce Heart\, Spring Washam shares her contemporary\, unique interpretation of the Buddha’s 2\,500-year-old teachings\, with short chapters that get to the heart of mindfulness\, wisdom\, loving kindness\, and compassion. \nWoven throughout the book are stories from the author’s life\, family\, and ancestors\, along with many soulful\, heartfelt stories from all over the world. Washam’s teachings focus on social action\, multiculturalism\, and youth\, making the Dharma welcoming to as large and wide a community as possible. \nAnyone who has suffered will benefit from the life-saving teachings of this charismatic teacher. Her humor\, enthusiasm\, and energy are a refreshing addition to the pantheon of books on mindfulness. \n—\nSpring Washam is a founding member and core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center\, and a well-known meditation and dharma teacher based in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-washam-a-fierce-heart/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171129T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171129T210000
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SUMMARY:Helen Benedict w/ Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Helen Benedict for her new novel Wolf Season. She’ll be in conversation with Ayelet Waldman (A Really Good Day). Join us! \nAfter a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York\, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed. Rin\, an Iraq War veteran\, tries to protect her blind daughter and the three wolves under her care. Naema\, a widowed doctor who fled Iraq with her wounded son\, faces life-threatening injuries and confusion about her feelings for Louis\, a veteran and widower harboring his own secrets and guilt. Beth\, who is raising a troubled son\, waits out her marine husband’s deployment in Afghanistan\, equally afraid of him coming home and of him never returning at all. As they struggle to maintain their humanity and find hope\, their war-torn lives collide in a way that will affect their entire community. \nHelen Benedict\, a professor at Columbia University\, writes frequently about justice\, women\, soldiers\, and war. She is the author of seven novels\, including Wolf Season (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press) and Sand Queen\, a Publishers Weekly “Best Contemporary War Novel.” A recipient of both the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism\, Benedict is also the author of five works of nonfiction and the play The Lonely Soldier Monologues: Women at War in Iraq. She lives in New York. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-benedict-w-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter '17 Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday Dec 2\, Babylon Salon welcomes an all-female lineup of award-winning writers: ACHY OBEJAS (Ruins; Days of Awe) Poet ARISA WHITE (Hurrah’s Nest: A Penny Saved); BARBARA JANE REYES (Invocation to Daughters; To Love as Aswang); LAURIE ANN DOYLE (World Gone Missing); and KATE FOLK (2016-18 Affiliate Artist at the the Headlands Center for the Arts) \n@ The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE ADMISSION– Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-17-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T073012Z
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell & Avotcja - POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-powell-avotcja-poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171022T024814Z
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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Sam Sax
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Sam Sax read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing \nWinner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award \nIn this affecting poetry debut\, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems\, Shanahan–queer and mixed-race–confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance\, informed by colonialism and his mother’s immigration to the United States from Morocco\, navigating racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.” \nAbout Madness \nWinner of the 2016 National Poetry Series CompetitionIn \nIn this powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-sam-sax/
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:20171206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Main Library as Rabih Alameddine reads from\, and discusses\, his new novel The Angel of History. \nSet over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic\, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life\, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring\, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour\, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life\, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana’a\, Stockholm\, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound\, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabih-alameddine/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171208T023108Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime ATTRACTORS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature readings from: Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun)\,\nRaina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge)\,\nJanine Kovac (Spinning)\,\nAndrew J. Thomas (Strangeland)\,\nand Sam Gong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-attractors/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170721T233843Z
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SUMMARY:Sam Sax + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Sam Sax’s new poetry collection \nMADNESS \npublished by Penguin Books \nAn “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition \nIn this ­­­powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it. \nsam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n\nD. A. Powell is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, the trilogy of Tea\, Lunch\, and Cocktails\, and Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His last two books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches in the English department at University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-sax-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171119T030932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171119T030932Z
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SUMMARY:The Nocturnists Holiday Party Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The Nocturnists is a night of physicians telling stories about their most memorable\, moving\, humorous\, absurd\, and trying experiences. For more information\, read about us here. \nWe have great plans for 2018\, but in order to make them a reality\, we need your continued support! So please join us for a festive holiday party on the evening of Friday\, December 8th at The Bindery\, an intimate literary enclave in The Haight. We’ll have drinks\, finger food\, music\, a live Q&A with emergency medicine physician and writer Ben Lerman\, PLUS you’ll get an exclusive first listen to our upcoming podcast. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nocturnists-holiday-party-fundraiser/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Nocturnists":MAILTO:emily@thenocturnists.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
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SUMMARY:Karen + Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Karen and Jim Shepard discuss their new books from Tin House\, The Tunnel at the End of the Light and Kiss Me Someone. \nAbout Kiss Me Someone \nBold and unapologetic\, Karen Shepard’s Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood\, stability and uncertainty\, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class\, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex\, but for all of their rationality they’re drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard’s stories explore what we do to lessen our burdens of sadness and isolation; her characters\, fiercely true to themselves\, are caught between their desire to move beyond their isolation and a fear that it’s exactly where they belong. \nAbout The Tunnel at the End of the Light \nGiven that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political\, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions\, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage\, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe\, for example\, that our country always means well when intervening abroad? The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions\, in that regard\, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the “high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness” captured in GoodFellas\, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a “portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders’ conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge\,” he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films–Chinatown\, The Third Man\, and Badlands among others–in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-jim-shepard/
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:20171209T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171208T023646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023646Z
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SUMMARY:Paseo Artístico - How Do You Carry Home With You?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE neighborhood celebration that will bring an eclectic mix of music\, entertainment and art activities at venues along the 24th Street corridor. \n— DECEMBER 9 EVENT SCHEDULE — \nPrecita Eyes Muralists | 2981 24th Street\n11 AM to 12:30 PM\nBILINGUAL GUIDED MURAL TOUR\n– Trace decades of visual storytelling on our bilingual guided mural tour through the 24th Street Corridor. \nColibri | 2919 24th St\n1 PM to 4 PM\nBROWN SANTA CLAUS\n-With your family or friends\, take a picture with Brown Santa! \nAlley Cat Books | 3036 24th Street\n1 PM to 3 PM\nLIVE SCREEN PRINTING\n– A live screen printing workshop and demonstration lead by renowned Mission printmaker Calixto Robles. \nBook Mobile\n1 PM to 4 PM\nFREE BOOKS\n– The San Francisco Public Libraries Book Mobile will be accessible to the neighborhood and will be providing free books. \nGalería de la Raza |2857 24th St\n3 PM to 5 PM\nSCREEN PRINTING & POETRY READINGS\n-Suavecita Press\n– QR Hand\n– Thea Matthews\n– Rene Vaz\n– Joyce Lee \nBrava for Women in the Arts | 2781 24th Street\n2 PM to 4 PM\nLATINX POETRY READINGS\n– Juliana Lopera\n– Cathie Arrellano\n– Maya Chincilla\n– Denise Benevides \nDance Brigade’s Dance Mission | 3316 24th Street\n4:30 PM to 6 PM\nCENTRAL AMERICAN FOLKLÓRICO DANCE CLASS\n– Chavalos de Aquí y Alla’s folklórico dance group\, Danzas por Nicaragua and dance director\, Diana Aburto will be teaching the basics of folkloric dance\, a preview of the main regional dances from Nicaragua and dances from the pacific and Atlantic coast. Folkloric dance skirts will be provided to participants. \nMission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 2868 Mission Street\n12 PM to 3 PM\nART EXHIBIT & STENCIL MURAL WORKSHOP\n– EXHIBIT: Xanath Mirell\n– Otomí Stencil mural workshop\n– Screening of: Boy and The World \nAcción Latina | 2958 24th St\n1 PM to 3 PM\n– Free public reading and presentation by author Adriana Camarena of the first two issues of “Unsettled in the Mission.”\n4 PM\n-Screening of: Your Name \nArtillery AG | 2751 Mission Street\n1PM to 5PM\nMURAL WORKSHOP & LIVE MUSIC\n-1PM-3PM Mural Workshop\n-3PM Dj Leydis de Cuba\n-3:30PM Chhoti Maa from Mexico\n– 4PM Bocafloja from Mexico \n—\nTHANK YOU TO OUR 24TH STREET / MISSION DISTRICT PARTNERS\, SPONSORS\, MERCHANTS\, AND SUPPORTERS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-how-do-you-carry-home-with-you/
LOCATION:Latino Cultural District\, 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171209T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170816T010909Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks December
DESCRIPTION:Becky Chambers (A Closed and Common Orbit)\nDean Rader (Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry)\nDavid D. Levine (Arabella and the Battle of Venus)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-december/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171210T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171208T025547Z
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SUMMARY:Scholes\, Loory\, + Bisson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, December 10\, for a lively evening of reading and discussion with authors Ken Scholes and Ben Loory\, moderated by Bay Area author\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nKen Scholes  is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories.  His series\, The Psalms of Isaak\, is published by Tor Books; Hymn\, the final volume in the series\, debuts on December 5. Ken’s short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award\, France’s Prix Imaginales\, the Endeavour Award and a scattering of others.  His eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman\, a sailor who never sailed\, a soldier who commanded a desk\, a preacher (he got better)\, a nonprofit executive\, a musician and a government procurement analyst.  He has a degree in History from Western Washington University. \nBen Loory is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying\, as well as a picture book for children\, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, READ Magazine\, and Fairy Tale Review\, been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts\, and performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London. He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Hosted by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Connie Willis\, Gene Wolfe\, Laurie King\, Nancy Kress\, Lev Grossman\, Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Cory Doctorow\, Peter S. Beagle\, and many others. We hope you will join us! \n$10 at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of both authors’ work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scholes-loory-bisson/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171211T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171119T031013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171119T031013Z
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SUMMARY:A Dyke\, a Pervert\, + a Transwoman Walk into a Bookstore...
DESCRIPTION:Authors Deb Busman\, Jordy Jones\, and Natasha Dennerstein read from their recent works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-dyke-a-pervert-a-transwoman-walk-into-a-bookstore/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171022T023622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T023622Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew McIntosh
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \ntheMystery.doc \npublished by Grove Press \nFunny\, highly inventive\, and deeply moving\, theMystery.doc is a vast\, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy\, a tragedy\, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11\, the book follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel\, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become\, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads\, search results\, web chats\, snippets of conversation\, lines of code\, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts\, classical works of literature—and the story of a man who wakes up one morning without any memory of who he is\, his only clue a single blank document on his computer called themystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy\, first love to artificial intelligence\, the book explores what makes us human—the stories we tell\, the memories we hold on to\, the memories we lose—and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story\, part memoir\, part documentary\, part existential whodunit\, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything—and everyone—is in danger of slipping away.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-mcintosh/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171214T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171214T223000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171208T022229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T022229Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Gifted'
DESCRIPTION:Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change.\nDoors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm.\nCome early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7:15 PM\n\nTickets: $30 reserved premium seating\, $20 advance general admission.\nThis Evening of Kinky Stories & Songs includes: \n\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ YOU? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\n❤ Brillliantly Sex Songs by Shirley Gnome\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front – grab em in advance\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-gifted/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T230000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171208T030206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T030206Z
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SUMMARY:A Very Special Merry Mortal You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:A Very Special Merry Mortal \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… \nFEATURING JOHN ELLIOTT \n& his new album… \nAn open mike & concert… \nFriday\, December 15th!!! \nAt the Swedish American Music Hall! \nDoors at 7pm \nShow at 8pm \nTickets $15
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-very-special-merry-mortal-youre-going-to-die/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171216T223000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171208T025259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T025259Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Holiday Show
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit’s Holiday Show emceed by Jenn Stokes\, comedy by Emily Van Dyke\, musical guest Laura Weinbach\, and readings from Peter ThomasBullen\, JiaJing Liu\, Kimmer Pierce and Kimberly Reyes alongside a live score by David Williams and piano by accompaniment Sarah Dineen – Private Parlor Show at The Lost Church. \nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1595636\n$15 before and $20 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We 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. \nOnline sales are active until 9:30pm the night of show (unless sold out). You can purchase tickets right at the door using a card via your phone and the above Ticketfly.com link. Old-fashioned cash is also accepted. \nAges 12 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-holiday-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170324T014123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T073112Z
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SUMMARY:Poets Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate) & Jerry Ferraz - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic every first & third Monday
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-9/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170324T014123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T073112Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-9/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180113T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171022T012819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T012819Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Rob Reid (After On\, Year Zero)\nFrances Stroh (Beer Money)\nBrontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down) \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/writers-with-drinks-8/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20171222T073027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T073027Z
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SUMMARY:Stephen Kopel and Clyde Always - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-kopel-and-clyde-always-poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170621T002404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T002404Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:“Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today\, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. . .”  The Guardian \nMaggie Nelson is a poet\, critic\, and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial\, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\, and The Argonauts– “a beautiful\, passionate and shatteringly intelligent meditation on what it means not to accept binaries but to improvise an individual life that says\, without fear\, yes\, and.”—Chicago Tribune. Nelson is also the author of four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180123T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170621T002245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T002245Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Alarcón
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Alarcón is the author of At Night We Walk in Circles\, which was a finalist for the 2014 Pen-Faulkner Award\, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight\, the novel Lost City Radio\, and the graphic novel City of Clowns. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Times Magazine\, Granta\, n+1\, and Harpers\, and he was named one of the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” He is Executive Producer of “Radio Ambulante\,” distributed by NPR\, and is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-alarcon/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180128T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20180128T230104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180128T230104Z
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SUMMARY:David Henderson
DESCRIPTION:David Henderson makes a rare appearance in San Francisco to read his poetry and talk with the audience\, returning from his longtime home on New York’s Lower East Side. Free.\n\n\n\n\nHenderson became connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop\, where he served as an editor its magazine and the three Umbra anthologies. His best-known books of poetry are De Mayor of Harlem (1970) and Neo-California (1998)\, and he has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. \nThe author of the lyrics to Sun Ra’s composition Love in Outer Space\,Henderson has also recorded with saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman (Science Fiction) and David Murray and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris. Henderson is the author of ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix\, Voodoo Child (2009)\, and the writer and producer of an award-winning documentary on African American beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Foundation. \nRecent publications include prose and poetry in the anthologies Beats at Naropa (2009)\, Obama\, Obama (2012)\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry (2013) and Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (2014). A poet-in-residence at the City College of New York\, Henderson has taught in its SEEK program and has been a visiting professor at University of California\, Berkeley; University of California\, San Diego; State University of New York\, Stony Brook; and Wesleyan University. Most recently he became the first fellow of lost and found at the Poetics Document Initiative at City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-henderson/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T184443
CREATED:20170324T014123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061639Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-10/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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