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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday\, April 27th\, 2019\, all day long\, from opening at 9 am to close at 11 pm! Check back for our events and opportunities this year\, or sign up for our events emails. \nWhat is Independent Bookstore Day? \nIndependent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.  Every store is unique and independent\, and every party is different. But in addition to authors\, live music\, cupcakes\, scavenger hunts\, kids events\, art tables\, readings\, barbecues\, contests\, and other fun stuff\, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online. \nWhy are we celebrating independent bookstores? \nIndependent bookstores are not just stores\, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. \nIn a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads\, bookstores are not a dying anachronism.  They are living\, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact\, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2019/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago\, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he’s broadening that warning: the entire human game has begun to play itself out. \nJoin us for an event with one of America’s most outspoken climate activists. Since authoring his landmark 1989 book on climate change\, The End of Nature\, McKibben’s work continues to provoke authority. In 2007\, Deep Economy predicted the “shop local” movement while criticizing the too-rapid growth of multi-national corporations as they bleached away main streets across America. He founded Step It Up\, 350.org\, was outspoken against the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline\, and offered a frequent voice of dissent in the 2016 election. \nIn his new book\, Falter\, McKibben looks beyond the threat of climate change — to artificial technology\, robotics\, and a rampant onslaught of new technologies\, threatening the variety of human experience. At the core of McKibben’s most recent work is an essential question: What do we want our future to be?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:David Zeltser\, The Night Library
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, APRIL 28\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 26th\, 2019. \nThe Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries\, perfect for book lovers of all ages! \nAfter a young boy goes to sleep upset that he’s getting a book for his birthday\, he’s visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude\, the two stone lions who guard the New York Public Library. Soon\, he’s magically whisked away from his cozy home in the Bronx\, and the two mighty lions show him the wonder of the library. There\, the inquisitive Latino boy discovers the power of books and their role not only in his own life\, but also in the lives of the people he loves. \nRaul Colon’s gorgeous\, rich art creates an immersive world in this book about books\, which is sure to capture the imaginations of kids and adults and inspire them to grab their library cards and dive into the worlds of stories. \nDAVID ZELTSER emigrated with his family from the former Soviet Union at age five. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in physics\, he was admitted to vet school to study wildlife medicine\, but ultimately came back to his first love–storytelling. David and his friend Julia Chiapella cofounded the Santa Cruz Young Writers Program’s tutoring and writing center at the Museum of Art & History. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his wife\, Fiona; their daughter\, Naomi; and their dog\, Ella.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-zeltser-the-night-library/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190608T200000
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SUMMARY:Night Shift: A Jewish Cultural Experience
DESCRIPTION:Night Shift is a Jewish cultural experience. It’s a new take on Shavuot-the holiday that celebrates Jewish culture and literacy. Come gather at Town and Country Village in Palo Alto after normal operating hours\, and shift your perspective as to what is possible there. \nExplore your favorite yoga studios\, coffee shops and book stores in a whole new way. Night Shift is an immersive and multidisciplinary festival of Jewish culture\, complete with live music\, text study\, performance art\, conversation\, movement and-of course-delicious food to eat. \nFood will be available for purchase throughout the program at various Town and Country food shops\, including Ayelet Babka. \nNight Shift is a collaboration of Town and Country\, OFJCC and BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. \nFor more information\, please contact Zoe Jick at zjick@paloaltojcc.org. \nFor more information about the OFJCC-BINA partnership\, visit https://www.paloaltojcc.org/Jewish-Life/Bina. \nEarly Bird Rate: $18 | Price increases on May 15 to $25. \nPresented by The Oshman Family JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/night-shift-a-jewish-cultural-experience/
LOCATION:Town and Country Village\, El Camino Real & Embarcadero Road\, Palo Alto\, 94301
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series : Francesca Bell\, Dane Cervine\, and Lee Rossi
DESCRIPTION:Francesca Bell\, Dane Cervine\, and Lee Rossi \n  \nWell-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, May 14\, 7:00pm\nfeature: Kimy Martinez \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nBio and program description to come. \nupcoming in Well-RED:\nJune 11: Francesca Bell\, Dane Cervine\, and Lee Rossi\nJuly 9: Jade Bradbury and Rachelle Escamilla\nAugust 13: Greg Mahrer\, Alexandra Mattraw\, and Kathleen Winter\nSeptember 10: TBA\nOctober 8: Beau Williams and Tim J. Myers\nNovember 12: Caesura release party\nDecember 10: Red Wheelbarrow release party.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series-francesca-bell-dane-cervine-and-lee-rossi/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190711T210000
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SUMMARY:phren-Z Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z—a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers—is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 3rd\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-live-reading-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kalyn Josephson with Tara Sim
DESCRIPTION:We’re launching Kalyn Josephson’s debut novel\, The Storm Crow a thrilling new fantasy that follows a fallen princess as she ignites a rebellion to bring back the magical elemental crows that were taken from her people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire\, magical\, elemental Crows are part of every aspect of life until the Illucian empire invades\, destroying everything. That terrible night throws Princess Anthia into a deep depression. Her sister Caliza is busy running the kingdom after their mother’s death\, but all Thia can do is think of all she has lost. But when Caliza is forced to agree to a marriage between Thia and the crown prince of Illucia\, Thia is finally spurred into action. And after stumbling upon a hidden Crow egg in the rubble of a rookery\, she and her sister devise a dangerous plan to hatch the egg in secret and get back what was taken from them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Storm Crow is everything we love about YA fantasy\, with an enchanting world and original magic that keeps the story fresh. Clashing kingdoms\, thrilling action\, and an imperfect heroine makes this book a must-read” Adrienne Young (Sky in the Deep) \nKalyn will be chatting with Tara Sim\, author of the Timekeeper series and we couldn’t be more excited
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kalyn-josephson-with-tara-sim/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190718T210000
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Third Thursdays at Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader: Jan Steckel!\nOpen mic to follow.\nFree and open to the public. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest poetry book is Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018). Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, New Verse News\, November 3 Club\, Assaracus and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest three times\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nIf you wish to be included in the Willow Glen Poetry Project\, please email it to willowglenpoetry@gmail.com. If you cannot email your poem see Dennis Richardson. It’s still okay to just read your poem and not blog it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-third-thursdays-at-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Pushpa Macfarlane":MAILTO:graphique05@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T193000
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SUMMARY:This is Now: Richard A. Clarke on Cyber Threat
DESCRIPTION:Cyberwar”— or cyber-anything\, for that matter— has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it’s not fiction\, it’s certainly not entertainment\, and – as terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke warns us— multiple cyberwars are underway already. The battlefronts range from simple identity theft to the disruption of nuclear programs and medical care. The Pentagon even has a word for this new front line: the fifth domain. That’s where ongoing skirmishes for our security as individuals and as citizens are being fought. \n\nRichard Clark has long experience in American security matters. He’s served as a key advisor on intelligence and counterterrorism to three US presidents. In 1998 President Bill Clinton appointed him as the National Coordinator for Security\, Infrastructure Protection\, and Counterterrorism for the U.S. National Security Council. His latest book\, The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country\, Companies\, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats\, calls on that long experience to tackle one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in modern security. \nJoin us at Kepler’s as he shares deep research from boardrooms\, government conference rooms\, and quantum computing labs—  all in pursuit of “cyber resilience”\, a position of strength against web hacking\, election interference\, and other boogeymen of the digital realm that are all too real.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-richard-a-clarke-on-cyber-threat/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190805
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SUMMARY:CREATIVITY FOR CHANGE ~ CalPoets' 2019 Statewide Symposium with Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:For 55 years\, California Poets in the Schools has brought the powerful magic of poetry creation and performance to over one million students.  Our work is more important than ever!  Studies show that student involvement in the arts is linked to higher academic performance\, increased standardized test scores\, greater involvement in community service and lower dropout rates.  Creativity is the #1 desired skill in today’s job market.  Poetry instruction builds empathy and a sense of belonging in the classroom setting.  Poetry and the arts can be a powerful\, healing tool for schools and communities recovering from natural disasters and other traumas such as gun violence. \nThis weekend conference is open to the public and geared towards literary teaching artists (for all audiences)\, classroom educators\, poets\, MFA candidates and more.  Content will be engaging for those brand new to teaching the literary arts and to the “old hats” among us. \nAt this Symposium\, workshops will be geared towards the theme of Creativity for Change.  How can poetry in the classroom be a transformational tool for positive change?  How can our lesson plans respond swiftly with resilience and flexibility to the most pressing issues of our time?  How do we need to change and grow ourselves in order to best serve our communities? We will learn from experts in our midst and pool our best practices for a weekend of learning\, networking\, community-building\, poetry readings and some good old-fashioned fun. \nJuan Felipe Herrera will join us as our creative writing workshop leader\, keynote reader and presenter.  In 2015 Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the 21st United States Poet Laureate\, the first Mexican American to hold the position. Herrera grew up in California as the son to migrant farmers\, which he has commented strongly shaped much of his work. A Washington Post article tells the story that “As a child\, Herrera learned to love poetry by singing about the Mexican Revolution with his mother\, a migrant farmworker in California. Inspired by her spirit\, he has spent his life crossing borders\, erasing boundaries and expanding the American chorus.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creativity-for-change-calpoets-2019-statewide-symposium-with-juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:Saint Francis Retreat Center\, 49 Mission Vineyard Rd\, San Juan Bautista\, --Select One--\, 95045
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190805T190000
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SUMMARY:Josie Iselin\, The Curious World of Seaweed
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Josie Iselin for a discussion and signing of her beautiful new book\, The Curious World of Seaweed—a deep dive and exploration into a somewhat neglected corner of our coastal natural history. Iselin brings together the contemporary and the historical into a fabulous volume that tells the tale of sixteen iconic seaweed and kelp. \nThe Curious World of Seaweed is a delightful exploration of the natural and cultural history of Pacific Coast marine algae\, from the collection and study of seaweed by Russian explorers inching their way down through the Pacific Northwest to the work of intrepid biologists\, many of them women\, dedicated to understanding this unappreciated but key element of marine ecosystems. This book builds upon Iselin’s previous book on seaweed to bring together  historical as well as contemporary imagery and seaweed specimen pressings. Addressing the particular life and form of such kelps as bull kelp and giant kelp to the particulars of coralline algae and sea grasses\, this book tells the tales of our near shore bounty from the algal point of view. Throughout the writings are historical botanical illustrations and Iselin’s signature\, Marimekko-like portraits of each specimen that reveal their vibrant colors–whether rosy\, “olivaceous\,” or grass-green–and whimsical shapes. Iselin posits that we can learn not only about the seaweeds but also from them: their resilience\, their resourcefulness\, their poetry and magic. \nJosie Iselin is the photographer\, author and designer of ten books\, with new projects in development in her San Francisco studio\, Loving Blind Productions. Her books focus on those forms in nature we find at hand and in particular\, at the beach. Her newest book is titled The Curious World of Seaweed: Stories from the Pacific Coast and features sixteen visually rich narratives of our iconic West Coast seaweeds and kelps. Josie’s mission is to produce enticing\, original and well-designed books that combine art and science\, leaving the reader with new information about\, and an appreciation for\, the world around them. Josie continues her research into the ecology of the seaweed and sea otter native to our Western oceans. Josie holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard and an MFA from San Francisco State University. \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 3rd\, 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Curious World of Seaweed (Hardcover)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josie-iselin-the-curious-world-of-seaweed/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T210000
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SUMMARY:Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Stacey Lee’s powerful\, compelling\, and critically acclaimed new novel\, The Downstairs Girl\, about family\, community\, and the importance of writing your own history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*”Though society may try to push aside those it sees as different\, Jo demonstrates that everyone has a place and a story to be told. Unflinching in its portrayals of racism yet ultimately hopeful and heartfelt\, this narrative places voices frequently left out of historical fiction center stage.” —School Library Journal\, starred review \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy day\, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night\, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady\, “Dear Miss Sweetie.” When her column becomes wildly popular\, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society’s ills\, but she’s not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie\, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta’s most notorious criminal\, Jo must decide whether she is ready to step into the light. \nStacey Lee is the author of Under a Painted Sky\, Outrun the Moon\, and Secret of a Heart Note and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Stephanie Garber\, author of Caraval\, Legendary\, and Finale\, will be joining Stacey on stage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stacey-lee-with-stephanie-garber/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190814T190000
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SUMMARY:Beth Macy\, Dopesick
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author and journalist Beth Macy for a discussion and signing of her important book\, Dopesick—the only book to fully chart the devastating opiod crisis in America. An instant New York Times and indie bestseller\, Dopesick is “a harrowing\, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency.” (New York Times). This event is part of our year-long effort\, 2020 Vision. \nIn this masterful work\, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. \nBeginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics\, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996\, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man\, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills\, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs\, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution\, jail\, and death. \nThrough unsparing\, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic\, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times\, Beth Macy shows\, astonishingly\, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all\, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families. \nBeth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke\, Virginia for three decades\, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards\, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. \n“Heartbreaking\, exhaustively researched…a fierce indictment of racism\, corporate greed and wily dealers…a terrifying\, essential read.” —People \n“Macy is a terrific reporter\, scrupulous in detailing the significance of her findings…Dopesick‘s second section–filled with gut-wrenchingly candid interviews with addicts and their families–is the most essential\, placing broken faces onto horrifying data sets.” —Entertainment Weekly \n“Macy reports on the human carnage with respect and quiet compassion.” —The San Francisco Chronicle \n“Beth Macy writes about our opioid epidemic but Dopesick is not about the drugs. It’s a book about kids and moms and neighbors and the people who try to save them. It’s about shame and stigma and desperation. It’s about bad policy\, greed and corruption. It’s a Greek tragedy with a chorus of teenage ghosts who know how to text but can’t express how they feel.” —Senator Tim Kaine \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 12th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-macy-dopesick/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOKS & BREWS: Kira Jane Buxton at Discretion Brewing
DESCRIPTION:Books & Brews continues with a special author event at Discretion Brewing\, 2703 41st Avenue\, Suite E\, Soquel. \nAuthor event: Kira Jane Buxton will join us at Discretion Brewing to discuss her new book\, Hollow Kingdom. One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author. “A plucky hero\, a boisterous tale\, startling prose and eerie events combine for a thoroughly enjoyable account of the end of the world as we know it. The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead.” ―Karen Joy Fowler. \n  \nOur Books & Brews event series combines our love of literature and our love of craft beer. Four book-focused events will be held at some of our favorite beer houses this summer. Enjoy special offers and discounts at each beer house on the night of their event. BONUS: Pick up a Books & Brews Passport in the store. Get it stamped at two or more events in the series and you’ll be entered to win a $150 Bookshop gift card. Learn more about our Books & Brews series here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-kira-jane-buxton-at-discretion-brewing/
LOCATION:Discretion Brewing\, 2703 41st Avenue\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190819T200000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
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SUMMARY:Spanish Book Discussion Group La Forma de Las Ruinas - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
DESCRIPTION:En el año 2014\, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de paño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán\, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obsesiona. Pero nadie\, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos\, sospecha las razones profundas de su obsesión. \n¿Qué conecta los asesinatos de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán\, cuya muerte partió en dos la historia de Colombia\, y de John F. Kennedy?¿De qué forma puede un crimen ocurrido en 1914\, el del senador liberal colombiano Rafael Uribe Uribe\, marcar la vida de un hombre en el siglo XXI? Para Carballo todo está conectado\, y las coincidencias no existen. Tras un encuentro fortuito con este hombre misterioso\, el escritor Juan Gabriel Vásquez se ve obligado a internarse en los secretos de una vida ajena\, al tiempo que se enfrenta a los momentos más oscuros del pasado colombiano. \nUna lectura compulsiva\, tan bella y honda como apasionante\, y una indagación magistral en las verdades inciertas de un país que no acaba de conocerse.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/la-forma-de-las-ruinas-juan-gabriel-vasquez/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T213000
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SUMMARY:Téa Obreht\, Inland
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop is delighted to welcome Téa Obreht\, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife\, back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel\, INLAND—an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape\, a stunning tale of perseverance and family\, and a love letter to the complicated and glorious American West. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn the lawless\, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893\, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband\, a newspaperman who has gone in search of water for the parched household\, and her elder sons\, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time (and enduring her thirst) with her youngest son\, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home\, and her husband’s seventeen-year-old cousin\, who communes with spirits. \nLurie is an immigrant—a man born under Ottoman rule who comes to America as a child—and a former outlaw who is haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him\, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected companion who inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Nora’s and Lurie’s stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. \nTéa Obreht is the author of The Tiger’s Wife\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. An international bestseller\, it has sold over a million copies worldwide\, with rights sold in 37 countries. Obreht was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and was named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She was the 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and was a recipient of the 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She was born in Belgrade\, in the former Yugoslavia\, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College. \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 21st.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tea-obreht-inland/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190829T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
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SUMMARY:Catamaran Literary Reader\, Fall 2019 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:Contributors to the Fall 2019 Issue of Catamaran Literary Reader will join us for a live reading in celebration of the issue launch. Readers featured at this issue launch event will be announced at a later date. \nCatamaran was founded in 2012 in the Tannery Arts Center Studios in Santa Cruz\, California. Their mission is to capture the vibrant creative spirit in fiction\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction and to publish the best writing they can find in a narrative\, together with fine art. The magazine is full size on high quality paper for your reading pleasure\, and it is a full color experience\, like walking into an art gallery. They seek to present diverse national and international voices around the themes of the natural world and the environment\, the arts and artistic spirit\, and the personal journey and freedom. \nFor more on Catamaran Literary Reader visit their website or Facebook page. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 27th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catamaran-literary-reader-fall-2019-issue-launch/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2019
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island\n\nSunday\, Sept 15\, 2019\, 11a – 4pm\nYouth readings\nA literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale\nNeighborhood Heroes curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nMusic + Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nLive painting by ArtSpan\nBeer courtesy Lagunitas\nRSVP / SUBMIT\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Quiet Lightning \nNow in its 10th year\, Quiet Lightning is a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit with the mission to foster community based on literary expression and to provide a safe and supportive arena for said expression. Its flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a completely blind selection process and different curators for every show\, for which there are no introductions or banter. The shows are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people at each show. All participating artists are paid and the shows are free to attend. We’ve now produced 126 shows\, featuring 1\,200+ readings by 900+ different authors in 80+ venues and 100+ books. Quiet Lightning also maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nAbout California State Parks \nThe mission of CA State Parks is to provide for the health\, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity\, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources\, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation. \nAbout Kearny Street Workshop \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nAbout ArtSpan \nArtSpan believes in the power of art to enrich lives. For 20-plus years we’ve championed an inclusive art experience and provided diverse audiences with an authentic connection to local art and artists. We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy\, while bolstering the next generation of artists and encouraging the public to engage in preserving and furthering our vibrant art community. \nWith crucial support from SOMArts Cultural Center \nSOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with the space\, mentorship and support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions\, SOMArts fosters access to arts and culture for collective liberation and self-determination. \n\nimage: Angel Island by Evan Karp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2019/
LOCATION:Ayala Cove\, Angel Island\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190927T210000
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SUMMARY:Olivia Gatwood\, Life of the Party: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Olivia Gatwood for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection\, Life of the Party. A thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry weaves together her own coming of age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. In precise\, searing language—at times blistering and riotous\, at times soulful and exuberant—she explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. \n“Gatwood writes about the women who were forgotten and the men who got off too easy with an effortlessness and empathy and anger that yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me. Imagine\, we get to live in the age of Olivia Gatwood. Goddamn.” —Jamie Loftus\, writer and comedian\, Boss Whom Is Girl and The Bechdel Cast \n“Life of the Party is an electrifying collection of poems about the agonies and ecstasies of being a young woman.” —Leigh Stein\, author of Land of Enchantment \n“Olivia Gatwood is a revolution of woman\, a flurry of insight harnessing the language of self-assessment and acceptance. Her poems invite a contemporary understanding of sexuality and the feminine form\, feminism and inclusion\, intersection and advocacy. Her metaphors and images are both breath and being. This book is an offering to the silenced\, for firepower and reflection. A haystack of hallelujahs resides in these pages.” —Mahogany Browne\, author of Black Girl Magic \nOlivia Gatwood has received national recognition for her poetry\, writing workshops\, and work as an educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. She is the author of the poetry chapbook New American Best Friend\, and her poems have appeared in such publications as Muzzle magazine\, Winter Tangerine\, Poetry City\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, and The Missouri Review. As a finalist at Brave New Voices\, Women of the World Poetry Slam\, and the National Poetry Slam\, Gatwood has been featured on HBO\, HuffPost\, MTV\, VH1\, and the BBC\, among other media outlets. She is a full-time touring artist\, and has performed at more than two hundred schools and universities worldwide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/olivia-gatwood-life-of-the-party-poems/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T210000
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SUMMARY:Litquake Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, OCTOBER 15\, 2019 – 7:00PM \n  \nFunny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird \nIt’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie\, Micah Perks\, Peggy Townsend\, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRead more about Litquake\, celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary\, here. \nAbout the writers: \nElizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction and received the California Book Award for fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Tin House\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and others. \nMicah Perks is the author of four books\, most recently a book of linked short stories\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape and the novel What Becomes Us\, winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, residencies at MacDowell and Blue Mountain Center\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. \nWallace Baine is an award-winning journalist and arts writer who regularly contributes to Santa Cruz Good Times\, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, the Chicago Quarterly Review\, and as part of the Santa Cruz Noir collection of short stories. His most recent book is a history of Bookshop Santa Cruz called A Light in the Midst of Darkness. \nPeggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper journalist and author of the bestselling 2018 mystery novel\, See Her Run and its follow-up\, The Thin Edge\, both published by Thomas &  Mercer. As a reporter\, she has covered serial killers\, murder trials and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. When she isn’t outdoors\, she’s either writing magazine profiles for UC Santa Cruz or working on her third novel. She divides her time between Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. \nLiza Monroy is the author of three books: the novel Mexican High\, the memoir The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love\, and the essay collection Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the LA Times\, The Washington Post\, O\, Marie Claire\, Jezebel\, Catamaran\, and other publications. One of her columns for the New York Times‘ “Modern Love” will appear in this fall’s anthology of the “most popular and unforgettable essays” of the series. She teaches writing at UC Santa Cruz and lives downtown with her husband\, two tiny humans\, a pug and unruly potbellied pig Señor Bacon. Currently\, she is writing her second novel\, a dark comedy of technology and obsession.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191017T210000
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SUMMARY:Deepak Chopra\, Metahuman
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to present an evening with New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra\, who will share his new book\, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. \nDeepak Chopra will discuss his latest book and take questions from the audience; the event will conclude with a booksigning. Tickets are $35.00 ($37.74 w/service fee) and include entry to the event and one hardcover copy of Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential\, to be collected at the event. Purchase tickets at Brown Paper Tickets. \n \nDeepak Chopra MD\, FACP\, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing and Jiyo.com\, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” \nDr. Chopra is Board Certified in Internal Medicine\, Endocrinology and Metabolism\, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians\, and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California\, San Diego\, and host of his podcast Deepak Chopra’s Infinite Potential. The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Chopra #17 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. \nIn conjunction with his medical achievements\, Chopra is recognized as a prolific author of over 86 books translated into over forty-three languages\, with twenty-six books reaching the status of New York Times Bestsellers. His latest national bestseller\, The Healing Self\, co-authored with leading geneticist Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi\, discusses the importance of our immune system to lifelong health and was selected as one of the Top 8 Science Books to Read in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deepak-chopra-metahuman/
LOCATION:santa cruz civic auditorium\, 307 Church St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T210000
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SUMMARY:Tui Sutherland\, Wings of Fire
DESCRIPTION:Tui T. Sutherland—bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series\, the Menagerie trilogy\, and the Pet Troubleseries—will join us to read and sign copies of her enthralling new books\, Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic\, Book 3) and The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire\, Book 13). \nThe Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire\, Book 13) \nThe New York Times bestselling series continues with a thrilling revelation—brand-new tribes of dragons! There are dark secrets in the jungle\, though—some that Sundew is keeping\, and some that she’s only just beginning to discover. And now that a new war is upon them\, Sundew and her friends must unearth the oldest secret in the jungle—even if what they find has the power to destroy them all. \nHidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire Graphic\, Book 3) \nThe #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the third graphic novel adaptation! Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being “a lazy RainWing.” Maybe she wasn’t meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny\, but Glory is sharp and her venom is deadly…even if that’s still a secret. \nTui T. Sutherland is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wings of Fire series\, the Menagerie trilogy\, and the Pet Trouble series\, as well as a contributing author to the bestselling Spirit Animals and Seekers series (as part of the Erin Hunter team). In 2009\, she was a two-day champion on Jeopardy! She lives in Massachusetts with her wonderful husband\, two awesome sons\, and two very patient dogs. To learn more about Tui’s books\, visit her online at tuibooks.com. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by October 22nd\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tui-sutherland-wings-of-fire/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T200000
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SUMMARY:Dav Pilkey\, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome worldwide bestselling children’s author Dav Pilkey back to Santa Cruz for a ticketed event at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium to celebrate his new Dog Man book\, For Whom the Ball Rolls. Produced in partnership with Allterra Solar\, and cosponsored by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nTickets are on sale via Brown Paper Tickets. General Admission Tickets are $21.00 (plus service fee). Each ticket contains two general admission seats (one adult\, one child) for Dav Pilkey’s presentation\, a photo line number to meet Dav Pilkey\, access to all games and activities\, and one copy of Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls with signed book plate (distributed at the event). \n \nJoin us for Dav Pilkey’s Do Good Tour event in Santa Cruz—featuring a presentation and live drawing by Pilkey\, immersive activities and games for kids\, photo-ops with Dog Man and Captain Underpants\, and of course\, meeting Dav Pilkey himself! Each ticket package access to the event and all activities\, as well as a copy of Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls with a signed book plate. \nDoors will open and activities will begin at 4:30 pm with Pilkey’s presentation beginning at 6:00 pm. Dav Pilkey will be giving a presentation at 6:00 pm. His presentation will be followed by activities\, games\, and giveaways\, as well as his photo op line. Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Civic Auditorium during the event. \nThe Supa Buddies have been working hard to help Dog Man overcome his bad habits. But when his obsessions turn to fears\, Dog Man finds himself the target of an all-new supervillain! Meanwhile\, Petey the Cat has been released from jail and starts a new life with Li’l Petey. But when Petey’s own father arrives\, Petey must face his past to understand the difference between being good and doing good. \nDav Pilkey’s wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes\, including empathy\, kindness\, persistence\, and the importance of being true to one’s self. \nDAV PILKEY is the creator of many acclaimed children’s books\, including Dogzilla\, Kat Kong\, god bless the gargoyles\, and the bestselling Captain Underpants series. His book The Paperboy received a Caldecott Honor. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. www.pilkey.com \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dav-pilkey-dog-man-for-whom-the-ball-rolls/
LOCATION:santa cruz civic auditorium\, 307 Church St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Strout\, Olive Again
DESCRIPTION:A LITERARY SOIREE WITH ELIZABETH STROUT\nIn Conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie\nOffsite & Ticketed Event at DNA’s Comedy Lab\nCosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz & KAZU 90.3 \nJoin us for a very special evening when #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout joins us to discuss her highly anticipated new novel\, Olive\, Again\, in which she continues the life of her beloved character Olive Kitteridge. Strout will be in conversation with writer Elizabeth McKenzie at this ticketed event\, cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and KAZU\, which will take place at DNA’s Comedy Lab. \nThis great night out\, perfect for book groups and literature lovers\, will also feature a book signing by Elizabeth Strout\, raffle prizes and giveaways\, plus refreshments (including wine and beer) available for purchase. Literary Soiree attendees will have a chance to win great prizes\, including advanced reading copies of fall’s buzz books\, Elizabeth Strout’s paperback books\, tickets to Bookshop Santa Cruz’s upcoming event with Erin Morgenstern of Night Circus fame\, and more. Each attendee will leave with great book recommendations after they stop by curated book stations in the lobby hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz Book Group Ambassadors. Stations will feature selections including “The 5 Best Books My Book Club Have Ever Read” and “Surviving 2020: Books That Will Make You Believe in Humanity.” \nTickets are $32 and include entry for one person to the soiree and one copy of Olive\, Again. \n \nPraise for Olive\, Again: \n“Beautifully written and alive with compassion….A thrilling book in every way.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n“As direct\, funny\, sad\, and human as its heroine\, Strout’s welcome follow-up to Olive Kitteridge portrays the cantankerous retired math teacher in old age. Strout again demonstrates her gift for zeroing in on ordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people to highlight their extraordinary resilience.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-strout-olive-again/
LOCATION:DNA’s Comedy Lab & Experimental Theatre\, 155 S River St\, Sanata Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
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SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/impromptu-writing-online-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T203000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Linda Lappin \nWillow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nLinda Lappin is a former Professor of English\, retired in 2018. Her latest collection tentatively called “Falling Home” is in the first round of editing and revision work with April Ossmann (formerly with Alice James Books). She has an MFA from San Jose State University where she was fortunate in meeting and taking classes with Ishmael Reed\, Naomi Shehab Nye\, Jane Hershfield (through the Montalvo seminars)\, Sam Mao\, and Alan Soldofsky. She has studied with Ellen Bass and Molly Fisk (poetry bootcamp). Through the MFA she published her first collection “Not Far from the Tree” and while there published individual poems in Convergence\, Coe Review\, Sanskrit\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Though many of her poems are narrated from Boulder Creek\, he now lives in San Jose\, California. Do not confuse her with the other Linda Lappin living in Italy\, please. \nupcoming at Third Thursdays:\nDecember: Laurence Snydal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #75: Literary Salon | Foster City
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations: Literary Salon #75\nThursday\, November 21\, 2019\n7-9pm\nat Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\, Foster City \nA literary salon featuring curated works of Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers. Powered by California Writers Club SF Peninsula Branch. \nWith fine Poets & Authors\, featuring:\nJordan Sher + Neetal Parekh\nChuck Brickley + Aileen Cassinetto\nMegan McDonald + Korie Pelka\nCarole Bumpus + Lisa Meltzer Penn\nLaila Kramer + Dana Kwan \n& Special Musical Guest Karen Soohoo \nBay Area Generations: – Literary Salon #75\n@ Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\nComfy cafe | Food available for purchase \nGet Tickets! http://bit.ly/BAG75tx\nMap: http://bit.ly/BAGPenelope \nDoors Open: 6:30 p.m. Show: 7:00 p.m.\nSuggested donation $10\, includes chapbook\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 400 hundred notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nSubmit to our next show! http://bit.ly/BAG76fbs \nWebsite: www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nHelp us keep presenting good literature readings.\nDonate here: www.paypal.me/BayAreaGenerations \n#reading #books #poetry #sflit #writers #openmic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-75-literary-salon-foster-city/
LOCATION:Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\, 3 Plaza View Ln\, Ste N\, Foster City\, CA\, 94404\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
CREATED:20191120T042744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T042744Z
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SUMMARY:San José Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:feature: tba\nHosted by Santa Clara Couty Poet Laureate Mighty Mike McGee\ndoors and sign up list opens at 6:00pm\nsign up list closes at 6:55pm\nShow starts at 7pm\ncash prizes for 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd place\nFollow the Slam on Facebook! \nCaravan Lounge\n98 S Almaden Ave\nin downtown San José at the corner of San Fernando St. and Almaden Ave.\nAdmission Free\n21 and over\, cash bar (they do have an atm)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam-3/
LOCATION:Caravan Lounge\, 98 S Almaden Ave\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
CREATED:20191220T044820Z
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SUMMARY:VeteransWrite meetings
DESCRIPTION:led by Nick Butterfield\, Jeffrey Leonard\, and Amy Meier\nFirst Friday of each Month\, 1pm-4pm\nMLK Library\, contact VeteransWrite@yahoo.com if interested in attending\nAdmission FREE \nPoetry Center San Jose is offering a monthly writing group to veterans of any age\, any military experience and to family members of veterans. All levels of writing experience from beginner to experienced are welcome. \nSmall group setting to a maximum of 12 participants. Emphasis on poetry including prose poems. Format includes examples\, prompts and guidance given by facilitators\, time provided to write individually\, and for participants to read to group and receive group feedback if desired. Goal is to give voice to the experiences of veterans and family members. Subject matter is unrestricted. \nNick Butterfield served for 10 years in USN-R as a Hospital Corpsman. He was activated during Operation Desert Storm\, and has worked in Family Practice as a Nurse Practitioner in a FQHC Community Clinic and with the Health Care for the Homeless Project for last 17 years. Nick has been writing poetry since he was 13 years old and has participated in the Willow Glen Poetry Project and other local venues since 1996. His poems have been in 4 anthologies and 2014 issue of Ceasura with poem entitled “PTSD.” \nJeffrey Leonard served in the U.S. Army between 1966-1968. Drafted out of San Jose State\, he trained as a 11C40\, leaving the service as an E-5. He is a 12th generation descendant of men who have served in every major conflict dating back to pre-Revolutionary America. A survivor of the Vietnam Era\, he is drawn to the stories of the returning soldiers and how their lives unfold after they remove the uniform. Writing–especially poetry–is a powerful tool that Jeffrey uses to express conflicting\, mysterious\, dark\, and difficult thoughts and emotions. He has spent the last 30 years as an Elementary Educator. \nAmy Meier was born in New York City and has lived in the San Jose\, CA area for over 30 years. Amy’s poems have been published in Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Portside\, and Remembering\, An Anthology of Poems Read at Willow Glen Books. She has been a featured reader at Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose\, California\, Stone Griffen Gallery and TEN10 Gallery in Campbell\, CA. In 2015 Amy founded VeteransWrite\, a writing group for veterans and their family members\, currently meeting once a month on the San Jose State University campus\, and performed with this group at the 2016 San Jose Poetry Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veteranswrite-meetings/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T222027
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SUMMARY:Abigail Hing Wen with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Abigail Hing Wen’s highly anticipated\, romantic\, and layered debut\, Loveboat\, Taipei\, praised as “an intense rush of rebellion and romance” by Stephanie Garber (NYT bestselling author of the Caraval series).  This dazzling\, fun-filled romantic comedy of our dreams is “Fresh as a first kiss” (Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl)\, “a story about finding your place—and your people—where you least expected.” (Kelly Loy Gilbert\, author of Picture Us in the Light) Think Crazy Rich Asians meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. \n“Our cousins have done this program\,” Sophie whispers. “Best kept secret. Zero supervision.” \nAnd just like that\, Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn. Gone is the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. In its place\, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound\, adults turn a blind eye\, snake-blood sake flows abundantly\, and the nightlife runs nonstop. \n\n\n\n\nLike Ever\, the students of Loveboat are all hiding their own secrets and insecurities—and when their lives collide\, it’s guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget. \n“Abigail Wen’s LOVEBOAT\, TAIPEI is smart and raucous at the same time\, full of both thoughtful\, cultural learning moments and drama drama drama! I lived vicariously through the characters’ crazy adventures and hope there will be more stories from them in the future.” —Evelyn Skye\, NYT bestselling author of The Crown’s Game \nAbigail Hing Wen holds a BA from Harvard\, a JD from Columbia Law School\, an MFA from the Vermont School of Fine Arts. Loveboat\, Taipei is her first novel. \n Abigail will be in conversation with Sabaa Tahir\, NYT bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. \nCome celebrate with us. We could not be more excited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/abigail-hing-wen-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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