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SUMMARY:Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed\, Nicole Mabry\, Peter Kline
DESCRIPTION:Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. \nWe are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday\, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed\, Nicole Mabry\, and Peter Kline. \nThis virtual reading will occur on Zoom at 7:30 PM. \nTHIS EVENT REQUIRES ADVANCE REGISTRATION. \nRegister for this meeting here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsf-qqqzsoHdAZ4S9KORubUVSsEY-U9rk1\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout the Readers: \nRaised in the great state of Kansas\, Farooq Ahmed is a graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program and of Brown University\, where he studied biochemistry. He is a Contributing Editor for Photonics magazine\, and his writing has appeared in the Financial Times\, Nature\, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His work has been lauded by the South Asian Journalists Association\, and he lives in Los Angeles. KANSASTAN is his debut novel. \nNicole Mabry grew up in Northern California but has lived in Queens for the past 17 years. She went to college at UCLA and Cal State Hayward\, graduating with degrees in Art History\, Photography and Digital Graphics. She currently works at NBCUniversal managing Photography Post Production for Bravo\, SYFY and USA Network. Her award-winning photography has graced the covers of books internationally and has been featured in shows throughout the city. After a successful 20-year career in photography\, she decided to take a left turn and go from telling a story with an image\, to telling a story with words. Nicole’s debut novel\, an apocalyptic women’s fiction thriller\, was inspired by a dream she had when a real life snow storm shut down all forms of public transportation in the city. PAST THIS POINT tells the story of one woman and her dog fighting to survive during a deadly virus outbreak that renders New York City a ghost town. \nA former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Merrill House and Clampitt House resident\, Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in Stanford University’s Master of Liberal Arts Program. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Deviants (SFASU Press\, 2013)\, and Mirrorforms\, which was published by Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in the fall of 2019. \nDixon Place Literary Programs are generously supported by the Axe Houghton Foundation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. \nWe’d be so grateful if you considered making a donation to keep the literary fires burning at Dixon Place. If you can\, please donate here: \nhttps://shop.vendini.com/dixonplace/product-details/donation/054d4ca95ace388c1932e38137522652
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guerrilla-lit-farooq-ahmed-nicole-mabry-peter-kline/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
DESCRIPTION:A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen\, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire outcomes predicted by climate science. Those inheriting our planet’s environmental problems expect to encounter challenges\, but they may not have the skills to grapple with the feelings of powerlessness and despair that may arise. Author and professor Sarah Jaquette Ray releases her new book A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety (UC Press)\, an “existential tool kit” for the climate generation. Combining insights from psychology\, sociology\, social movements\, mindfulness\, and the environmental humanities\, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt\, resist burnout\, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nSarah Jaquette Ray\nSarah Jaquette Ray teaches environmental studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata\, California\, and is also the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-sarah-ray-and-a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: I'VE GOT A SONG FOR THAT
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 27\, 2020\n6:30 PM 9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents: I’ve Got a Song for That\nwith Scott Ferreter\, The Singer and The Songwriter\, Chelsea Coleman & just 10 uniquely precious participants. \nI’ve Got A Song For That is You’re Going to Die‘s way of bringing songs right to the doorsteps of your heart. \nWe invite you to this intimate gathering with our most powerful songwriters in which songs are offered directly to your places of pain\, your longings\, & your aching humanity. In this unique space\, songs & stories are offered in service of an even deeper togetherness. This will be an intentionally small\, closed group in order to offer a safe & contained space that wouldn’t be possible in a larger gathering. \nIGASFT is an explicitly interactive offering\, which relies on everyone arriving with a willingness to share. While the space will be supportive & gentle\, the content might span the human experience—expect realness\, connection\, & feeling. \nDATE: Wednesday\, May 27th\nTIME: 6:30pm – 9pm\nLOCATION: Zoom\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $40 – $100 \nTO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT\, PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL WITH THE SUBJECT LINE “I’ve Got a Song For That” TO thu@yg2d.com.\nYou’ll receive a confirmation email with payment instructions.\nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \n***Two (2) full scholarships are available with one (1) of those scholarships reserved specifically for QTBIPOC. For more information e-mail thu@yg2d.com*** \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-ive-got-a-song-for-that/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T190000
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SUMMARY:Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nJoin us for an event with Alka Joshi\, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging… but the exquisite story we’re about to share is guaranteed to sweep you away to another time and place. \nWe know you’ll love Alka’s debut\, The Henna Artist\, as much as we do. Beautiful and compellingly readable\, this novel effortlessly evokes post-Raj 1950s Jaipur\, all while completely enmeshing you in the conflicts and politics that drive the courageous protagonist Lakshmi Shastri. Against all odds\, and after fleeing an arranged marriage to an abusive older man\, the teenaged Lakshmi carves out a living for herself as a henna artist\, friend\, and confidante to wealthy\, upper-caste women within the grand Pink City. Then\, as a grown woman several years into this new life\, an exciting twist suddenly threatens to unravel all that Lakshmi has built. \nIn conversation with our own award-winning in house journalist\, Angie Coiro\, this is one literary conversation you do not want to miss. \nMore than just a romantic work of historical fiction\, The Henna Artist is based off Alka’s late mother’s life— but this story serves as a reimagining of what life might have been like if Alka’s mother hadn’t been in an arranged marriage at 18\, with three children by 21. Instead\, the novel recreates her life as if she had been able to pursue the independence and education that she never enjoyed in real life… the independence and education that Alka’s mother advocated for her. \nCaptivating and smart\, this is the perfect read for your digital book group— a novel that will transport you completely each time it is opened. \nRegistration for this event is open\, with the additional options of making a tax-deductible donation to Kepler’s Literary Foundation\, or supporting Kepler’s Books with a (non-tax-deductible) book purchase.  Donations will go toward Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs online\, in local schools and throughout our community.  \n**Registration will close one hour before the event; please reserve your spot early to guarantee access\, as registrations are limited.** 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. \n——- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \n(Purchase AFROPESSIMISM here) \n——— \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nJustin Desmangles is chairman of the Before Columbus Foundation\, administrator of the American Book Award\, and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz\, now in its fifteenth year. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism‘s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n—Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n—Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii-in-conversation-with-justin-desmangles/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:One Person\, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
DESCRIPTION:Program will air Thursday May 28th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices on racial justice. In her National Book Critics Circle Award-winning bestseller White Rage\, she chronicled the history of systemic injustices that have impeded black progress in America\, from Reconstruction to the present day. In One Person\, No Vote\, longlisted for the National Book Award\, she zeros in on the fallout from the 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “impeccably researched\, deftly written” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) book offers a whip-smart\, riveting analysis of the disenfranchisement of voters of color\, with insights that have proven\, in the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections\, to be resoundingly prescient — and\, for the 2020 elections\, more urgent than ever. \nAnderson will be in conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee\, one of the most well-regarded\, outspoken\, and trailblazing members of the U.S. House of Representatives\, and currently the only African American woman in House Democratic leadership. This empowering and galvanizing conversation will enlighten us about how voter suppression has worked in the past and\, most importantly\, what we can do now to deny it a future. \nOur series on Voting Rights has been generously supported by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\, Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation\, Guy and Jeanine Saperstein\, and Mal Warwick Donordigital. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarol Anderson\, One Person\, No Vote \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-person-no-vote-carol-anderson-in-conversation-with-congresswoman-barbara-lee/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda
DESCRIPTION:During the Shelter in Place\, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets\, writers\, and translators\, and the local presses who publish them. \nOur second event features Deborah A. Miranda\, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir\, published by Heyday. Deborah’s reading will be streamed on Facebook Live and Instagram Live on Thursday\, May 28 at 7PM. \nDeborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Her mixed-genre book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (Heyday 2013)\, received the 2015 PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. She is also the author of four poetry collections: Indian Cartography\, The Zen of La Llorona\, Raised by Humans\, and the forthcoming Altar for Broken Things. She is coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. Deborah lives in Lexington\, Virginia with her wife Margo and a variety of rescue dogs. She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quarantine-storytime-deborah-a-miranda/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book\, HOME BAKED: MY MOM\, MARIJUANA\, AND THE STONING OF SAN FRANCISCO. Our discussion will be webcast on GGP’s Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \n  \n(Order your copy in paper at bit.ly/GGPHomeBaked\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at bit.ly/LibroHomeBaked.) \n  \nDescription \nA blazingly funny\, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood \n  \nDuring the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life. \n  \nDecades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \n  \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. \n  \nAbout the Author \nALIA VOLZ is a homegrown San Franciscan. Her writing appears in The Best American Essays 2017\, the New York Times\, Tin House\, Threepenny Review\, River Teeth\, Nowhere magazine\, Utne Reader\, New England Review and the recent anthologies Dig If You Will the Picture: Writers Reflect on Prince and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. A 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow\, Volz has also been an Artist in Residence with Writing Between the Vines and the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers awarded her the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship twice. She was runner-up of The Moth’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014 and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \n  \nPraise For… \nOne of She Reads’ “Most Anticipated Memoirs of 2020” \nOne of Alma’s “Favorite Books for Spring 2020” \n  \n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” \n—Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks \n  \n“In Home Baked\, Alia Volz manages not only to write about her parents with clear-eyed compassion and empathy\, she also gives us a rich history of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. As I read\, her family and the city came alive for me: every person and street were vivid\, complicated\, tragic\, and beautiful. I loved this engrossing\, informative\, funny\, and heartbreaking book. Volz is a true talent.” \n—Edan Lepucki\, bestselling author of Woman No. 17\, California\, and others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-alia-volz-reading-from-home-baked-my-mom-marijuana-and-the-stoning-of-san-francisco/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T120000
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SUMMARY:Gennifer Choldenko\, Avi And Aimee Lucido For Towne Center Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. Fridays will feature readings for kids\, and we’re incredibly lucky and thrilled to feature Gennifer Choldenko\, Avi\, and Aimee Lucid to support the wonderful Towne Center Books. \nAll proceeds benefit Towne Center Books. Buy a gift card now! \n\nMay 29 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennifer-choldenko-avi-and-aimee-lucido-for-towne-center-books/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T190000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen\, John Moir
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen\, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-11-with-jon-franzen-john-moir/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200529T190000
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets\, fiction writers\, essayists\, comedians and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T140000
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SUMMARY:Eastwind (virtual) Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! This month\, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang’s debut novel\, How Much of These Hills is Gold. \nWe will be holding discussions on our Facebook group throughout the month. Our Live Book Club Zoom Discussion is on Saturday\, May 30th at 2pm. Register to receive the meeting link!\nRSVP here: https://howmuchofthesehills.eventbrite.com \nBook Club members can use coupon code GOLD10 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com\nBuy the Book: http://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p2062/How_Much_of_These_Hills_Is_Gold_%28Hardcover%29.html \nJoin our Facebook group: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~\nAbout the book:\nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape–trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones and the specters of a ravaged landscape\, as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future.\nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. \nAbout the author:\nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastwind-virtual-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T163000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200518T001531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T001531Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic & Other Earthly Ills
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket\, you can access the registration link. More ticketing info below. \nPurchase tickets on Eventbrite: tiny.cc/pandemicpoetry \nJoin award-winning poets Nellie Wong\, Genny Lim\, Kim Shuck\, Maw Shein Win\, and Alice Rogoff reading a selection of their works. These five Bay Area poets will share their lifelong experience of current events past and present through verse. \nNellie Wong\, Oakland Chinatown born\, has published four books\, featured in the documentary film “Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian-American Poets” and has a building at Oakland High School named after her. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jaz Poet Laureate emeritus. An author of 5 poetry collections and her play Paper Angels was broadcast on PBS television in the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the co-winner of the American Book Award. \nKim Shuck is a bead artist\, educator\, and writer. She is the current 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco and the solo author of seven books. In 2019 she received a National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. \nAlice Rogoff is the author of four poetry books including the winner of a Blue Light Book Award. She is one of the editors of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, a member of the Labor Fest writers’ group\, and is an activist for many causes. \nMaw Shein Win’s poetry books include “Score and Bone” and “Invisible Gifts: Poems”. Her second full-length poetry collection “Storage Unit for the Spirit House” will be published in Fall 2020. \nThis event is a benefit and fundraiser for the Freedom Socialist Newspaper Fund Drive. \nYou can choose one of four levels of donation for your ticket (fees not incl.): \nTier 1 – $6\nTier 2 – $10\nTier 3 – $20\nTier 4 – $30 \nSponsored and hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area \nFor info: bayareafsp@socialism.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-the-time-of-the-pandemic-other-earthly-ills/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200506T193352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200506T193352Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Escape Online
DESCRIPTION:SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading\, but I’m crossing my fingers we’ll be back at Nick’s Lounge this summer. See below for how to donate to Nick’s and how to sign up in advance to read at SNS on ZOOM. \nIn honor of our confinement\, our captive imaginations\, and our imminent release into the virus-infested world\, the theme for May is ESCAPE. \nShare your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nMAY FEATURED PERFORMERS: Vida Felsenfeld and José Luis Gutiérrez \nSaturday\, May 30\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on May 23. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. To sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nTo prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. We will be using the Waiting Room feature again and only letting in people we can verify. This worked great last month thanks to help from Abe Becker and Liz Cahill \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 984-6555-3687\nPassword: 127085 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android:\nhttps://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/98465553687?pwd=Q05DNCtoTkZrMmkxRXZEZVJ4bTdwQT09 \nOr Telephone: +1 669 900 6833 \nSUPPORT Nick’s Lounge on GoFundMe:\nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/nicks-lounge-karaoke-support-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nJosé Luis Gutiérrez is the author of two poetry collections\, “A World Less Away” and recently\, “The Motel Entropy & Other Sorrows.” He was born in Miami in 1975\, and grew up in Panama. He now lives in the Bay Area\, where he works as an interpreter in the medical and legal sectors. He’s also a screenwriter and filmmaker. When he isn’t working he can be found playing guitar\, swimming\, hiking\, writing poems or enjoying a good cigar. Buy books on his website at joseluisgutierrez.net. \nVida Felsenfeld was born and raised in Oakland\, by her mother with 11 other siblings. She attended Catholic school and graduated from college at age 40. It was then\, that she discovered she was an artist and embarked upon becoming a flamenco dancer and poet. \nHer poems have been published in Rag Zine\, an Art and Literary Zine\, Berkeley Times Fifth Annual Poetry Edition\, Penumbra Art & Literary Annual\, and Milvia Street Art & Literary Journals. She’s been a featured reader at various Bay Area literary events\, including poetry reading at Eves at The Beat Museum\, the Berkeley Annual Poetry Festival\, Alameda Island Poets\, Lyrics and Dirges\, Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery and the Milvia Street Annual Poetry Book celebration. She has performed her Rock the Dot Project: Poetry/Flamenco dance pieces at Broad Statements: Perspectives on Womxnhood\, the Berkeley Annual Poetry Festival\, La Misión Flamenca and the Melissa Cruz Student showcases\, Deadication I and II. She continues to dance and teach flamenco to children. Most recently she submitted her first poetry manuscript for publication.s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-escape-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200514T013839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T013839Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves
DESCRIPTION:Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference\, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race\, gender\, sexuality\, migration\, culture and religion\, will share work that honors their 13-year-old selves — and the surprise\, disbelief\, pride\, love\, and even derision those 13-year-old selves might have for the grown and poetry folx they have become. Participants will each open their readings by addressing themselves as their younger selves might experience them now. An unforgettable evening of vulnerable intimacy\, physical distancing\, and social connection. With Hari Alluri\, Nico Amador\, Faisal Mohyuddin\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, and Seema Reza. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nNico Amador\nNico Amador is a poet\, community organizer and facilitator based in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry\, Vol 3\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, Hypertext Review\, Poets Reading the News\, Poet Lore\, Bedfellows… Read More →\n\n \nCynthia Dewi Oka\nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket). Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in ESPNW\, Hyperallergic\, Guernica\, Scoundrel Time\, Academy of American Poets\, American Poetry… Read More →\n\n \nSeema Reza\nSeema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and online in McSweeney’s\, The Feminist Wire\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Offing\, Full Grown People\, and The Nervous Breakdown\, among others. She has performed… Read More →\n\n \nFaisal Mohyuddin\nFaisal Mohyuddin is a writer\, artist\, and educator. He is the author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children\, winner of the 2017 Sexton Prize in Poetry and a 2018 Summer Recommendation of the Poetry Book Society. His other awards include the Prairie Schooner’s Edward Stanley… Read More →\n\n \nHari Alluri\nHari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya)\, Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers)\, and the chapbook The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press\, 2016). Winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Poetry Fellowship for Poets of Color\, his current projects are supported by grants from… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ode-to-our-13-year-old-selves/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200515T213422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T213422Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors\, Jon Sack\, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) \ncelebrating his new graphic novel \nWindows on the World \nCo-authored with Zack Anderson \nIllustrations by Jon Sack \npublished by Fantagraphics Books \n———–– \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n———— \n(Click Here) for reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nThe book for this event may be purchased at this link : \n>Purchase WINDOWS ON THE WORLD here< \n————- \nSet in a New York City in mourning\, this poignant graphic novel explores the push-and-pull between love and obligation. \nOn the morning of September 11\, 2001\, an undocumented worker named Balthazar busses tables at New York City’s famous Windows on the World restaurant. Back in Mexico\, his family watches their TV screen in horror as the Twin Towers collapse. Refusing to give up hope that Balthazar is alive\, his son Fernando embarks on a treacherous journey across the border to New York to find him. Along the way\, Fernando learns what it means to be undocumented in America — encountering at turns an indifferent bureaucracy and a supportive group of fellow immigrants who help guide him through his quixotic mission to bring his family back together. \nNow a major motion picture! \nRobert Mailer Anderson is a San Francisco Library Laureate as well as a novelist\, screenwriter\, producer\, and activist. He is the author of the novel Boonville. \nJon Sack is a US and UK based artist and writer whose comic books include La Lucha and Iraqi Oil For Beginners. \nJacqueline Danell Obradors is an actor and has appeared in numerous feature film that include Six Days\, Seven Nights (1998)\,  Deuce Bigalow:Male Gigolo (1999)\, Tortilla Soup (2001)\, A Man Apart(2003) and Unstoppable (2004). She has also appeared on the television crime drama NYPD Blue (2001–2005.) \nJay Walsh play Vocals\, Guitars\, and Piano for the musical combo DOUGLAS FIR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-mailer-anderson-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200521T172238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T172238Z
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SUMMARY:America’s Most Unusual Marriage:  Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein
DESCRIPTION:Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant Rose Pastor Stokes spent her first twelve years in America in a sweatshop\, only to skyrocket to the upper class when she married an heir to a massive mining and real estate fortune. It’s a classic Cinderella story: that is\, if Cinderella converted her prince to socialism\, became an antiwar and labor activist\, caused a scandal by promoting birth control access\, and was dubbed “one of the most dangerous influences of the country” by a sitting President. \nThis tale of a volatile\, bright-burning Gilded Age marriage could only exist in the America of Jay Gatsby\, bootleggers\, and the Lost Generation: an era of glamour and privation\, of big dreams and bigger inequities. An era\, as Hochschild reveals\, with far more parallels to our own than anything in the Brothers Grimm. Only Hochshild could do justice\, in words and images\, to a crusader who was far ahead of her own time\, but strikingly relevant to ours. Hochschild will be joined by Monika Bauerlein\, CEO and award-winning editor of Mother Jones.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/americas-most-unusual-marriage-adam-hochschild-on-rebel-cinderella-in-conversation-with-monika-bauerlein/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200516T222442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200516T222442Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System
DESCRIPTION:So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit\, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to imagine the top tourist destinations in our solar system that our great-grandchildren will be visiting. \nUsing spectacular images from space probes and the world’s largest telescopes\, we will explore the most intriguing future “tourist destinations” among the planets and moons in our cosmic neighborhood. Our stops will include the 4\,000-mile lava channel on Venus\, the towering Mount Olympus volcano on Mars (three times the height of Mount Everest)\, the awesome Verona Cliffs on the moon Miranda (which are the tallest “lover’s leap” in the solar system)\, the recently discovered salt-water steam geysers on Saturn’s intriguing moon Enceladus (nicknamed “Cold Faithful.”). We’ll finish with the latest images of the eerie vistas on Pluto. \nAndrew Fraknoi retired in 2017 as the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College\, and now teaches non-credit astronomy courses for older adults at The Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco and the OLLI program at SF State.  Fraknoi has appeared regularly on local and national radio\, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language\, and was the California Professor of the Year in 2007. He is the lead author on a college astronomy textbook and a children’s book When the Sun Goes Dark. He also writes science fiction and has published three stories in the last few years. The International Astronomical Union has named Asteroid 4859 Asteroid Fraknoi to honor his contributions to the public understanding of science. \nThis is the perfect get-away from our current problems\, rooted in real science with a hopeful view of the future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-fraknoi-visit-the-top-tourist-sights-of-the-solar-system/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200515T165312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T165312Z
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SUMMARY:DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 2\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel\, DEAR EDWARD. \nThis book is one of Kathleen’s recent favorites. Samantha of GGP said this about DEAR EDWARD: “I’m a little reluctant to reveal the details of the events that propels this extraordinary novel forward. A plane crash leaving only one young survivor seems repellently gloomy and yet Napolitano has given us one of the most hopeful stories I’ve ever read!” \nPlease join us even if you have not read the book yet. We’ll play a sample from the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84683199803. \nYou can order a hardcover of DEAR EDWARD at bit.ly/EdwardHC\, or an audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at bit.ly/EdwardAB.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dear-edward-by-ann-napolitano-ggp-online-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200515T213650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T213650Z
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SUMMARY:Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi \ncelebrating Ali Araghi’s new novel \nThe Immortals of Tehran \npublished by Melville House \n——— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Crowdcast platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Crowdcast before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Crowdcast. \n——— \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n(Re-visit this link) in the near future to make reservations \n———- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at these links : \n(To be posted) \n———– \n\nAs a child living in his family’s apple orchard\, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather’s every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father’s death\, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy’s own fated role in the story. \nAhmad grows up to suspect that something must be interfering with his family\, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine\, loss\, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him\, each turn of Ahmad’s life is a surprise: from street brawler\, to father of two unusually gifted daughters; from radical poet\, to politician with a target on his back. These lives\, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his\, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution. \nExploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism\, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incantatory power of words and the revolutionary sparks of love\, family\, and poetry—set against the indifferent\, relentless march of time. \nAli Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator. He earned his MA in Ancient Cultures and Languages at the University of Tehran and has translated Samuel Beckett into Persian. After completing his MFA from the University of Notre Dame\, he is currently working on his PhD in Comparative Literature\, International Writers Track\, at Washington University. He won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and has published stories and translations in Prairie Schooner\, The Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Asymptote\, and Hayden’s Ferry Review\, among others. He lives in St. Louis. \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran\, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled\, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans and in 2017 her second titled A Good Country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-araghi-in-conversation-with-laleh-khadivi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200523T195255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200523T195255Z
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SUMMARY:We Are the Voices & City Lights Live Present: Alli Warren + Cedar Sigo
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Alli Warren’s new poetry book \nLittle Hill \npublished by City Lights \nEvent co-presented by We Are the Voices \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. \n——- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \n(Purchase Little Hill here) \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“Little Hill is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley \n“Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best.”––CAConrad \n“Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. . . . Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism \nAlli Warren published her Poetry Center Book Award-winning debut\, Here Come the Warm Jets\, with City Lights in 2013. She is also the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat Books\, 2017)\, as well as numerous chapbooks. She has edited the literary magazine Dreamboat\, co-curated the (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand\, co-edited the Poetic Labor Project\, and contributed to SFMOMA’s Open Space. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, and BOMB. She has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005. \nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews\, Journals\, and Ephemera\, on Joanne Kyger (Wave Books\, 2017)\, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry\, including Royals (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Language Arts (Wave Books\, 2014)\, Stranger in Town (City Lights\, 2010)\, Expensive Magic (House Press\, 2008)\, and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and University Press Books. \nAbout We Are the Voices: Through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, this project connects Mills College students with local and national poets\, performers\, writers\, and scholars to collaborate around transformative art and critical scholarship. \nLed by Mills Professor Sheila Lloyd\, We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For: Poetry\, Performance\, and Public Humanities is a five-year\, multi-pronged project that brings visiting artists and scholars to campus\, broadening the conversation for Mills students and building connections with our local community.city
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-voices-city-lights-live-present-alli-warren-cedar-sigo/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T180000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200514T014022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200514T014022Z
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster\, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column\, and cofounder of The Toast comes this hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture—from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure. In Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s most personal work to date\, he offers vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition\, family dynamics\, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters\, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables\, Columbo\, Nora Ephron\, Apollo\, and the cast of Mean Girls\, Something That May Shock and Discredit You will make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg is the “Dear Prudence” advice columnist at Slate\, the cofounder of The Toast\, and the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-daniel-mallory-ortberg-and-something-that-may-shock-and-discredit-you/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Meredith Talusan in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan / Fairest: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She’ll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in 7 Dogs)! Please join us. \n“A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival.” – Ocean Vuong \n“Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs.” – The New York Times Book Review \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nFairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism\, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village\, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship\, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother\, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States\, Talusan came to be perceived as white. An academic scholarship to Harvard provided access to elite circles of privilege but required Talusan to navigate through the complex spheres of race\, class\, sexuality\, and her place within the gay community. She emerged as an artist and an activist questioning the boundaries of gender. Talusan realized she did not want to be confined to a prescribed role as a man\, and transitioned to become a woman\, despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved. Throughout her journey\, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability and love that will remind readers of works such as Call Me By Your Name and Giovanni’s Room. Her evocative reflections will shift our own perceptions of love\, identity\, gender\, and the fairness of life. \n\nMeredith Talusan is an award-winning author and journalist who has written for The Guardian\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Nation\, WIRED\, SELF\, and Condé Nast Traveler\, among many other publications\, and has contributed to several essay collections. She has received awards from GLAAD\, The Society of Professional Journalists\, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is also the founding executive editor of them.\, Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ digital platform\, where she is currently contributing editor. Photo by Albrica Tierra. Photo by Albrica Tierra. \nProfessor Jennifer Finney Boylan\, author of fifteen books\, is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her column “Men & Women” appears on the op/ed page of the New York Times on alternate Wednesdays. She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America\, the nonprofit advocating for authors\, readers\, and freedom of expression.  From 2011 to 2018 she served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD; she was co-chair of GLAAD’s board of directors from 2013-17. She also is a member of the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College\, and the Sirenland Writers’ Conference in Positano\, Italy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-meredith-talusan-in-conversation-with-jennifer-finney-boylan-fairest-a-memoir/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 4\, 2020\n6:30 PM 9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.\nan online community event\nfor enlivening connection\nfeaturing words & music from\nThe Feelings Parade\nThe Singer and The Songwriter\nChelsea Coleman\nNick Jaina\nJordan Edelheit\nNed Buskirk\n& more\, more\, more…. \nYou’re Going to Die offers a mortally conscious & enliveningly entertaining experience\, proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their mortal magic…\nHonestly. We just wanna have a fun night together.\nWe might cry\, but mainly we’re gonna laugh & sing a lot. \nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm\nShow at 7pm\nEnds at 9pm\nREGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/3gbDTmr \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @YG-2D\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T203000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200602T055238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T055238Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : A Necessary Distraction
DESCRIPTION:The Racket Weekly : A NECESSARY DISTRACTION\, JUNE 4th\, 7PM \nZOOM LINK TO COME \nYou know what’s good right now? Distraction. We know it looks different for all of us\, but regardless if it’s a drink or two at the end of the day\, a deep dive into an epic\, a six film movie marathon\, a wet cloth over your eyes\, a dog\, a cat\, a mouse\, a bird\, a documentary on tigers – whatever it might be it is more necessary than ever. Our quintet of readers will be discussing their distractions\, what’s keeping the bad thoughts at bay\, or inviting them into stay. \n6/4 PST\, 7PM\, ZOOOOOOOOOOM. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nJames Cagney\nEmily Pinkerton\nWesley Cohen\nChris Danzig
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-a-necessary-distraction/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T210000
DTSTAMP:20260614T183426
CREATED:20200529T025144Z
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SUMMARY:Author Alex George Discussing THE PARIS HOURS | GGP Online Zoom Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, June 4\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Alex George\, discussing his new historical fiction novel\, THE PARIS HOURS. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87893211762. \n  \n(Order your copy of THE PARIS HOURS in hard cover at bit.ly/GGPParisHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at bit.ly/GGPParisLibro.) \nMay 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“Alex George has woven a beautiful tapestry of a historical novel in The Paris Hours through four colorful\, intertwining threads. Each of the characters will touch your heart with their stories of love\, loss\, the ravages of war\, and their search for answers and a path to pick up the broken pieces of their lives. Lush with descriptions of 1927’s Paris and the appearance of many famous cultural figures of the era\, The Paris Hours will transport readers to a time and place they will be reluctant to leave until the last unexpected moment.”\n— Betsy Von Kerens\, The Bookworm of Omaha\, Omaha\, NE \nDescription\n\n“Like All the Light We Cannot See\, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline\, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World \nOne day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time. \nParis between the wars teems with artists\, writers\, and musicians\, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens\, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost. \nCamille was the maid of Marcel Proust\, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks\, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren\, an Armenian refugee\, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio\, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories\, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax\, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for. \nTold over the course of a single day in 1927\, Alex George’s The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories\, told together\, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit. \nAbout the Author\n\nA native of England\, Alex George read law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris. He has lived in the Midwest of the United States for the last sixteen years. He is the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival\, and is the owner of Skylark Bookshop\, an independent bookstore in downtown Columbia\, Missouri. \nAlex is the author of The Paris Hours\, A Good American\, and Setting Free the Kites.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-alex-george-discussing-the-paris-hours-ggp-online-zoom-chat/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Eves At The Virtual Beat
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nJune’s Eves At The Virtual Beat will feature \nAmalia Alvarez\nLyndsey Ellis\nLeticia Hernandez\nNaomi Quiñonez\nAlia Volz\nOphelia Williams\nhosted by Janice Blaze Rocke\ncurated by Nicole Henares \nTopic: Eves At The Beat On Zoom\nTime: Jun 4\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83865957296?pwd=L3Vhc0szQkdZTTJRblh4M2MrVFRPUT09 \nMeeting ID: 838 6595 7296\nPassword: 077226\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,83865957296#\,\,1#\,077226# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,83865957296#\,\,1#\,077226# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 838 6595 7296\nPassword: 077226\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kebI0idpfg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman\, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman and Mary Ellen Hannibal. \nBill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ \nSy Montgomery’s 28 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig\, her memoir of life with her pig\, Christopher Hogwood\, is an international bestseller. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think\, just published by Penguin Press\, and the New York Times bestseller\, The Genius of Birds. \nMary Ellen Hannibal is a long-time journalist focused on natural history and literature. Her most recent book\, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction\, was named one of 2016’s best non-fiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Books on B in Hayward. Shop online now! \n\nJune 5 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben-sy-montgomery-jennifer-ackerman-mary-ellen-hannibal-for-books-on-b/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with Eileen Donahoe / Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book\, co-authored with Zara Houshmand\, Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life. He’ll be in conversation with Eileen Donahoe. This event will be held on June 5th\, Saka Dawa\, a day celebrating Buddha’s birth\, enlightenment\, and parinirvana (passing from this life). It is said that Saka Dawa is an especially auspicious day for spiritual practice. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets are on sale here and below. \n \nPurchase of the book will also grant you access to a brief one-on-one with Tenzin following the event\, during which he’ll be happy to virtually sign your book. Due to time constraints\, this offer is valid for the first 100 book sales. \nYou may purchase the book here or below — be sure to include a note in the special field that you’d like to attend the event. \nDon’t hesitate to reach out with any questions: events@booksmith.com. \n\n“A necessary and captivating narrative of spiritual courage and truth seeking far beyond the veil of our contemporary delusions.” – Sting \nBorn in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family\, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was only six years old when he began having visions of a mysterious mountain peak\, and of men with shaved heads wearing robes the color of sunset. “It was as vivid as if I were watching a scene from life\,” he writes. And so at the age of ten\, he ran away from boarding school to find this place—taking a train to the end of the line and then riding a bus to wherever it went. \nStrangely enough\, he ended up at a Buddhist monastery that was the place in his dreams. His frantic parents and relatives set out to find him and\, after two weeks\, located him and brought him home. But he continued to have visions and feel a strong pull to a spiritual life in a tradition that he had never heard of as a child. Today\, he is a revered monk and teacher as well as President and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where he works to build bridges among communities and religions.\n \nRunning Toward Mystery is the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi’s profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker. At its heart is a story of striving for enlightenment\, the vital importance of mentors in that search\, and of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way\, among them the Dalai Lama\, Archbishop Desmond Tutu\, and Mother Teresa. “Teachers come and go on their own schedule\,” Priyadarshi writes. “I clearly wasn’t in charge of the timetable and it wasn’t my place to specify how a teacher should teach.” And arrive they did\, at the right time\, in the right way\, to impart the lessons that shaped a life of seeking\, devotion\, and deep human connection across all barriers.\n \nRunning Toward Mystery is the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation\, and a riveting narrative of just how exciting that journey can be. \n\nEVENT SCHEDULE: All time are Pacific Time \nBe sure to join us early for a live musical prelude \n\n12:55 PM: Musical Prelude by members of Del Sol Quartet\n1:05 PM: Welcome by Brewster Kahle\, Founder\, Internet Archive\n1:10-2:10 PM: Conversation with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi and Eileen Donahoe\, an expert in human rights\, cyber security and foreign policy\n2:10-2:30 PM: Q & A\n2:30-2:45 PM: Break\n2:45-3:45 PM: 1 on 1 with the author for a Virtual Book Signing (limited to first 100 book buyers thru this Booksmith link.)\n\n\nThe Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker\, philosopher\, educator and a polymath monk. He is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \n  \nEileen Donahoe is Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPI) at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. She served as the first US Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the Obama Administration. After leaving government\, she was Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch where she represented the organization worldwide on human rights foreign policy\, with special emphasis on digital rights\, cybersecurity and internet governance. Among her many degrees\, Donahoe received a Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union Cooperative Program with UC Berkeley. \nViolist Charlton Lee and cellist Kathryn Bates are members of the Del Sol String Quartet. The internationally-acclaimed quartet is a leading force in the Bay Area music scene\, championing music by living artists that explores aspects of social change\, technology\, and artistic innovation. Del Sol has premiered hundreds of works\, released 9 albums\, and produces vibrant productions and educational experiences. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-the-venerable-tenzin-priyadarshi-in-conversation-with-eileen-donahoe-running-toward-mystery-the-adventure-of-an-unconventional-life/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #12 with Julia Chiapella\, Julie Murphy\, Cynthia White
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella\, Julie Murphy\, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-12-with-julia-chiapella-julie-murphy-cynthia-white/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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