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SUMMARY:Miriam Toews and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Toews discusses her new novel\, Women Talking with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Women Talking \n“This amazing\, sad\, shocking\, but touching novel\, based on a real-life event\, could be right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.” –Margaret Atwood\, on Twitter \n“An astonishment\, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I’ve read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment\, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come.” —Lauren Groff\, author of FATES AND FURIES and FLORIDA \n“I am in awe of this novel. In Toews’s brilliant design\, eight women in a Mennonite hayloft manage to lay bare the rancid global root system of patriarchy. Their story is terrifying\, joyful\, gruesome\, and magnetic. What a reckoning–and what a gift.” Leni Zumas\, author of RED CLOCKS \n“A flawless\, ferocious work of art. I have yet to read a more scathing indictment of patriarchal violence\, or a more illuminating quest to comprehend the most vital contours of the human experience: what is agency\, what is meaning\, what is justice\, what is love. This is the kind of novel that changes you. Get ready.” —Laura van den Berg\, author of THE THIRD HOTEL \n\nAbout Women Talking \nOne evening\, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years\, each of these women\, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony\, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community\, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. \nWhile the men of the colony are off in the city\, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home\, these women–all illiterate\, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in–have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they’ve ever known or should they dare to escape? \nBased on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium\, Toews’s masterful novel uses wry\, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miriam-toews-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tony Perrottet: Cuba Libre! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nTONY PERROTTET\nCUBA LIBRE! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History \nAdvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nMost people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959. It was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures\, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Their movement successfully overthrew the island nation’s US-backed dictator\, Fulgencio Batista\, and has remained to this day an intense socialist provocation to the massive imperial capitalist country only ninety miles north of Cuba. \nTony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries-many of them kids just out of college\, literature majors and art students\, including a number of extraordinary young women-who defeated 40\,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details. He describes how Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sanchez kept the male guerrillas disciplined\, and he portrays a few of the North American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels. He gained access to private letters\, diaries\, videos\, and other documents no other historian has seen. Perrottet has used these as well as countless interviews to describe the years of guerrilla fighting throughout the Sierra Maestra mountains\, the final victory march into Havana\, the gradual building of a socialist state\, and\nthe accompanying Cold War tensions. \n“Perrottet takes us far beyond the basic facts of the Cuban Revolution to the juicy details that remind us that history is deeply human.” – Chris Ryan\, NY Times bestselling author \nTony Perrottet\, author of five previous books\, is a regular guest on the History Channel. \nSteve Wasserman is Executive Director of Heyday Books. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-perrottet-cuba-libre-che-fidel-and-the-improbable-revolution/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM\nDuring 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”. \nTHURS. MAY 2ND\, 7:30PM\nFeaturing: \nSHELLEY WONG\nTHEA MATTHEWS\nJENNY QI\nROSA DE ANDA\nJENNIFER HASEGAWA\nAISHWARYA VARDHANA\nCurated by Cassandra Rockwood-Rice\nMC’d by Nicole Noel \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch: Jocelyn Saidenberg
DESCRIPTION:Hear Bay Area poet Jocelyn Saidenberg present work in dialogue with the exhibition “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Many of the poets speaking in this bi-weekly series are rooted in the New Narrative tradition\, an experimental writing movement and theory that evolved in San Francisco. \n“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen” presents the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist\, Surrealist\, and activist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892-1972) in dialogue with ten contemporary artists to examine the complex and empowered representation of fluid identity. \nJocelyn Saidenberg is a Bay Area writer and performer\, whose books include “Mortal City\,” “Cusp\,” “Negativity\,” “Shipwreck\,” and “Dead Letter.” Her most recent book is “kith & kin” (The Elephants\, 2018). She is one of the editors of KRUPSKAYA Books and she teaches at University of California\, Berkeley and San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-jocelyn-saidenberg/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop: a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, lead by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill. Get your copy and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III (more TBD) and live music by Azuah Melara at 7pm. Emceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. FREE! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop (a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, led by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill). \nGrab your copy of the anthology and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III\, James Cagney\, Darius Simpson\, Leila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, the authors published in the anthology (Samuel Getachew\, Nicos Hubbard-Riley\, Julian Khalil Allen\, Elijah I. Hynson\, Damion Evans\, and Charles Hall)\, and live music by Azuah Melara starting at 7 PM. \nBoots Riley will speak at the beginning of the event about the importance of Black Joy. \nEmceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. DJ XCAIROCITOSX will weave together sounds and Two Mamacita’s pop-up kitchen will be on site. Tiny book making on the theme of “Joy” will be happening throughout the evening. On-site photography by Robbie Sweeny and Rohan DaCosta. Oh\, and did we also mention it is Oakland First Fridays?! \nThis event is FREE and open to all! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release-2/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190503T193000
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SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy\, D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her new collection\, The Octopus Museum. Also featuring readings by D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago. \nAbout The Octopus Museum \nThis collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction\, racism\, sexism\, and divisive politics. \nInformed by Brenda Shaughnessy’s craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother\, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages\, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents\, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable\, specific\, and multiple: school shootings\, nuclear attack\, loss of health care\, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future\, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind\, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking\, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves\, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization. \nAbout The Poets\nBrenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa\, Japan\, and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of four books of poetry\, including So Much Synth\, Human Dark with Sugar–winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award–and Our Andromeda\, which was a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University\, Newark. She lives in New Jersey.\nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He lives in San Francisco\, California. \nRoberto F. Santiago is a poet\, translator\, musician\, and performer. He earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence and MFA from Rutgers University. His first collection of poetry\, Angel Park (2015)\, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry and long-listed for an Able Muse Poetry Prize. Santiago is the recipient of an Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Lambda Foundation and Sarah Lawrence; in 2016\, he was named a Community of Writers fellow. He currently lives in Oakland and works in San Francisco as an educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-shaughnessy-d-a-powell-and-roberto-santiago/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bronze Age Greece: Mycenaeans & the Origins of Western Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Discover the magnificence of the Mycenaeans. Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars to present talks uncovering the Mycenaean story\, from ancient tales to the latest archaeological finds\, in an effort to deepen our understanding of the roots of Western Civilization. When the Bronze Age ended\, oral tales of the Mycenaeans remained and were composed half a millennium later by Homer in the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Most assumed these Homeric tales and the society they described largely were fiction\, until a few 19th-century archaeologists took those tales seriously and have come to proved the existence of these brilliant predecessors of the ancient Greeks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bronze-age-greece-mycenaeans-the-origins-of-western-civilization/
LOCATION:Marine’s Memorial Theater\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series featuring Terry Taplin\, William "Endlesswill" Davis\, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 3rd\, featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, and Caroline O’Connor Thomas!\nPlease join us on Friday\, May 3rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, \nand Caroline O’Connor Thomas! \n***** \nauthor bios & photos below. \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nTerry Taplin is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at Saint Mary’s College. Terry serves as Poetry Editor for MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, Co-Editor of Baest\, and is the Social Media Manager at speCt! books. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \nWilliam “Endlesswill” Davis\, 2016-2018 poet laureate of Hillsborough\, NC\, and author of Broken Perception and Falling Apples\, is a spoken word artist who is dedicated to continuing the tradition of poetry in living form. Ambitious in his craft and performance\, Endlesswill offers audiences unforgettable performances that evoke thoughtfulness\, introspection\, and connection as a community. William is a publisher\, graphic design artist\, basketball coach\, and radio host\, and manages to juggle all of that under the umbrella of being a father and a husband.  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer who lives in Oakland\, California.  Her poetry has appeared in 580 Split\, Tin House\, Sixth Finch and others. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag\, 2018) and a graduate of the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California. https://carolineoconnorthomas.com \nPosted by Casey at 9:09 PM No comments: 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-featuring-terry-taplin-william-endlesswill-davis-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190503T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T160000
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SUMMARY:Bronze Age Greece: Mycenaeans & the Origins of Western Civilization
DESCRIPTION:May 3\, 7:30-9:30pm\, and May 4\, 10am-4pm \nHumanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars to present talks uncovering the Mycenaean story\, from ancient tales to the latest archaeological finds\, in an effort to deepen our understanding of the roots of Western Civilization. \nWhen the Bronze Age collapsed\, all signs of state-level society disappeared from Greece\, and Mycenaeans disappeared from history. Yet\, their oral tales remained\, composed half a millennium later by Homer into the Iliad and the Odyssey. Most scholars came to assume the Homeric tales and even the society they described largely were fiction. Then a few 19th-century amateur archaeologists took those tales seriously and brought these brilliant predecessors of the ancient Greeks back from obscurity. \nThe program opens with an illustrated talk exploring the great tales of the Iliad and Odyssey\, along with other Mycenaean-derived myths that provided a look into this ancient society long before 19-century archaeologist would prove its existence. The Friday program includes a special lecture-performance-demonstration of Mycenaean literature\, music\, and performance culture. \nOn Saturday\, presentations delve further into Bronze Age Myth discussing how the Mycenaean legends and stories have become accepted as reality\, as science rises to claim authority away from literature through the archaeological findings. Finds from new excavations\, including the discovery of the grave of the so-called “Griffin Warrior\,” shed light on early Mycenaean culture and suggest that the myths and legends of the Homeric poems were already in circulation at the dawn of the Mycenaean civilization. \nThe program explores what life was like at a Mycenaean palatial center\, highlighting the everyday experiences of a bustling world with monumental architecture\, large-scale craft production\, and religious ritual\, and provides a growing picture of a trans-Mycenaean society in the north Aegean. \n$25-$80. \nPresented by Humanities West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bronze-age-greece-mycenaeans-the-origins-of-western-civilization-2/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T190000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:May 4-5\, 2019\, 10am – 7pm both days \nGet ready to come face-to-face with 250+ amazing authors at the 5th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival\, the most dynamic ever! \nThe Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. \nMeet national book award winners\, NY Times top 10 authors\, international writers\, YA and children’s book legends\, and a diverse cross-section of the of what the literary world has to offer. \nKeynote speakers include Anand Giridharadas (“Winners Take All”) in conversation with Robert Reich\, moderated by Kat Taylor. In addition to a wide breadth of programming\, explore tracks diving into immigration\, modern slavery\, motherhood\, the environment\, and prison reform. \nThe free outdoor fair features booksellers and independent authors\, reading lounges\, fine local eats\, free books\, and entertainment for all ages. \n#baybookfest #baybookfest2019 @baybookfest \nFree to $15. \nPresented by Bay Area Book Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-book-festival-2/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park\, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190504T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T170000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2019:\n \nMay 4\, June 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-6/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Music to my Eyes - Stories\, Music and Art From a Chicago Cabbie
DESCRIPTION:Author and artist Dmitry Samarov talks about and shows slides of art from his new book Music to My Eyes. Samarov has written for The Chicago Tribune\, The Chicago Reader\, and more; in Music to My Eyes he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage\, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he’s seen\, crossed paths with\, offered sofa space to\, and taken out to breakfast over the course of the past few decades. From well-known names like Nick Cave and Mission of Burma to lesser-known greats like Bill MacKay and Condo Fucks\, Samarov draws haunting portraits of artistry at the fringes of (and off the edges of) the mainstream\, while also offering poignant and memorable essays not only about their work\, but about musicianship and art\, creativity and commerce—the perils of selling out\, and the dangers of never doing so\, and above all else\, the thrill of creating something new. A love song and a lifer’s lament\, Music to My Eyes is an exquisite tribute to the trials and triumphs of independent music.  \nDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow\, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in first grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. \nHe has exhibited his work in all manner of bars\, coffeeshops\, libraries\, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up). He paints and writes in Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of Where To: A Hack Memoir.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-to-my-eyes-stories-music-and-art-from-a-chicago-cabbie/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press showcase
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press showcases four writers and a musician\, every first Saturday of the month\, at their new space at the Oakland Peace Center\, red wine and coffee\, Nomadic Press\, 111 Fairmount Avenue\, Oakland\, $10-$15\, no one turned away for lack of funds\, 7:00 (www.facebook.com/pg/NomadicPress/events)\n\nEVENT PAGE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-showcase/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190504T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T031932Z
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov: A Talk\, a Slide-show
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry Samarov: A Talk\, a Slide-show\nIntroduced by Ben Terrall\, publisher of the cult ‘zine\nNamaste Motherfu**er\n\n \nAuthor and artist Dmitry Samarov talks about and shows slides of art from his new book Music to My Eyes. Samarov has written for The Chicago Tribune\, The Chicago Reader\, and more; in Music to My Eyes he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage\, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he’s seen\, crossed paths with\, offered sofa space to\, and taken out to breakfast over the course of the past few decades. From well-known names like Nick Cave and Mission of Burma to lesser-known greats like Bill MacKay and Condo Fucks\, Samarov draws haunting portraits of artistry at the fringes of (and off the edges of) the mainstream\, while also offering poignant and memorable essays not only about their work\, but about musicianship and art\, creativity and commerce—the perils of selling out\, and the dangers of never doing so\, and above all else\, the thrill of creating something new. A love song and a lifer’s lament\, Music to My Eyes is an exquisite tribute to the trials and triumphs of independent music. \nDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow\, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in first grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. \nHe has exhibited his work in all manner of bars\, coffeeshops\, libraries\, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up). He paints and writes in Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of Where To: A Hack Memoir.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-a-talk-a-slide-show/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190504T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T213000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190430T201418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T201418Z
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SUMMARY:Ian McEwan Machines Like Me
DESCRIPTION:Ian McEwan is the author of Enduring Love (1997)\, Amsterdam (1998; Booker Prize)\, Atonement (2001)\, Saturday (2005)\, The Children Act (2014)\, and others. Twelve movies have been made from his novels and short stories\, five of them with screenplays by McEwan. \n\nIan McEwan’s Homepage\nIan McEwan’s Wikipedia page\n\n\n\nIn his new novel\, Machines Like Me\, Ian McEwan uses science fiction and counter-factual history to speculate about the coming of artificial intelligence and its effect on human relations. The opening page introduces a pivotal character\, “Sir Alan Turing\, war hero and presiding genius of the digital age.” \nThe evening with McEwan will feature conversation with Stewart Brand\, based on written questions from the audience\, along with some readings. \nIan McEwan is the author of Enduring Love (1997)\, Amsterdam (1998; Booker Prize)\, Atonement (2001)\, Saturday (2005)\, The Children Act (2014)\, and others. Twelve movies have been made from his novels and short stories\, five of them with screenplays by McEwan. \nStewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog (National Book Award)\, and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Clock of The Long Nowand Whole Earth Discipline. \nLong Now’s Seminars are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. These monthly talks were started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking. To follow the series\, you can watch the videos online\, share the highlights and subscribe to our podcasts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-mcewan-machines-like-me/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190505T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190329T104832Z
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SUMMARY:Wild Geese Sorrow
DESCRIPTION:Join poet and writer Jeffrey Thomas Leong as he takes us through the hidden history of the Chinese wall inscriptions at Angel Island. Drawing from his recent published works\, Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island and Writ\, Jeff will give us a glimpse at this dark\, yet relevant periods of the Chinese American experience. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer\, born in Southern California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.  For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for the City of San Francisco.  While earning his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began a project to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at the Angel Island Immigration Station.  These translations became the book Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island published by Calypso Editions in 2018. His new book Writ\, consisting of original poems also about the Angel Island detainee experience\, will be published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley in March 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-geese-sorrow/
LOCATION:North Beach Library\, 850 Columbus Ave.\, San Francisco
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190505T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190329T005549Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Noble & Todd Melicker reading
DESCRIPTION:Sun\, May 5\, 2:00pm – 3:45pm\nTodd Melicker and Joseph Noble read from their new books\, is this the body/if hovers\, and Within Hearing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-noble-todd-melicker-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190505T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190430T020725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T020725Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Heather June Gibbons\, Richie Hofmann\, Kim Shuck\, and Rose Whitmore\nHosted by Peter Kline \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press\, as well as two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Vermont Studio Center\, Academy of American Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and elsewhere in the Bay Area community. \nRichie Hofmann is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize\, and his poems appear in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Ploughshares\, The New York Times Style Magazine\, and many other magazines. His debut poetry collection is Second Empire (Alice James Books\, 2015)\, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. He is currently a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. She is author of four books with a fifth coming out later this year from City Lights. Shuck is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. \nRose Whitmore’s stories have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review\, Mid-American Review\, and The Missouri Review. Her essays have appeared in The Sun\, The Iowa Review\, The Colorado Review and Fourth Genre. She is the recipient of the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review\, a work-study scholarship from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference\, and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Rose lives in San Leandro with her chickens\, where she is working on a novel about weightlifting and Enver Hoxa’s communist regime in post-World War II Albania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-13/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190506T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190506T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190430T213857Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Henry \nSiamak Vossoughi\nElizabeth Gonzalez James\nKristen Staby Rembold\nKate Folk\nBianca Barela\nEmma Webster \nSarah Arantza Amador\nMelody Nixon\nChristopher Bernard\nRuth Crossman\nJeffrey Kingman\nGark Mavigan\nTony Press\nRachael Maier \nMonday May 6 @ Arion Press\, 1802 Hays Street\, The Presidio\, san francisco\nDoors at 6:30. Readings begin at 7pm sharp! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe received 82 submissions and accepted 15 (18%). Of those: \n\n6 (40%) are performing at Quiet Lightning for the first time\n9 are returning:\n\nSarah Henry 3x\nSiamak Vossoughi 22x\nKate Folk 3x\nEmma Webster 1x\nSarah Arantza Amador 1x\nRuth Crossman 1x\nJeffrey Kingman 1x\nGark Mavigan 1x\nTony Press 3x\n\n\n\nThis will be our 126 show and 99th issue of sPARKLE & bLINK. The curators of this show\, Meghan Thornton and Rohan DaCosta\, have given us a gift. Come and get it! \ndrinks will be available \nRegister / Donate / Take a tour of the press
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-7/
LOCATION:Arion Press\, 1802 Hays Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20170512T043051Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190506T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190506T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Jerry Ferraz birthday reading! followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Jerry Ferraz birthday reading! followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-jerry-ferraz-birthday-reading-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190327T224643Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of "On Blossoming"!
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Gia Lynne’s first book: On Blossoming! \nA bit about the party:\nLocated in the heart of the Mission District of San Francisco\, join us for a lively evening of book launching\, live music\, libations\, all things pleasure-positive\, and for talks by local activists focusing on the important subject of pleasure-focused education for all. Speakers and artists to be announced. \nA bit about the book:\nThis is not your typical sex ed book. Instead of typically puritanical views on sex and puberty\, On Blossoming focuses on incorporating the principles of pleasure into sex education for our youth and creates a new paradigm of human sexuality. This book takes on a taboo topic in our culture\, backed with a compelling mixture of research and personal experience. \nA bit about the writer:\nGia Lynne is a pleasure-positive writer\, educator\, and personal coach who is dedicated to researching and teaching the craft of pleasurable living and healthy sexuality. Fascinated by human sexuality and how that connects to our quality of life\, she offers a unique perspective on pleasurable living. \nTickets for this event are FREE unless you’d like to reserve a copy of the book to pick up at the event itself (and get it signed by the author!). All tickets reserved through Eventbrite provide admission to the event as well as entrance into the drawing for the door prizes given away during the event. \nLight bites will be available throughout the event and drinks will be available for purchase at Manny’s bar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-of-on-blossoming/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T220000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190430T211814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T211814Z
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SUMMARY:ODD SALON SAN FRANCISCO: SPITE
DESCRIPTION:ODD SALON SAN FRANCISCO: SPITE\n\nMAY 7 @ 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM\n$15 – $25\n\nEvent Navigation\n\n« San Francisco: Brainstorming for June\nOdd Salon NYC: BOWERY »\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nJoin us at Public Works SF for six tales of ill-will and bad-blood\, pernicious maliciousness and rancorous intent\, and the festering resentment that inspires vengeance\nODD SALON SF: SPITE\nTuesday\, May 7th 2019 \nFeaturing: \nAvani Gadani ~ Never Kill Just One: Lessons from Phoolan Devi\nAaron Doran ~ Church\, State\, and a Lotta Hate: The Investiture Controversy\nCourtney Brown ~ Two Wrongs Make a Spite: The Evolutionary Biology Dispute\nRobbin Arcega ~ Shuunen-bukai: Spirits of Spite\nMatt Mills ~ Edison’s Malice in the War of the Currents\nRaina Bird ~ Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Crocker’s Spite Fence \nCurated by Marci Bennett \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \nGET TICKETS>\n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT\n\n\nDetails\n\nDate:\nMAY 7\nTime:\n\n6:30 pm – 10:00 pm\n\nCost:\n$15 – $25\nEvent Category:\nPublic Works SF\nEvent Tags:\n2019\, Salons\, SF\nWebsite:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=57570441741\n\n\n\nOrganizer\n\nOdd Salon\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\nPublic Works SF\n\n161 Erie Street\nSan Francisco \, CA 94103 United States+ Google Map\n\nPhone:\n415 496 6738\nWebsite:\nhttp://publicsf.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-spite/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
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SUMMARY:Chia-Chia Lin
DESCRIPTION:   celebrating the release of her new novel \n                                                    The Unpassing \npublished by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \n \nOne of Esquire\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Literary Hub and Electric Literature‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 \nA searing debut novel that explores community\, identity\, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska \nIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel\, The Unpassing\, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. The father\, hardworking but beaten down\, is employed as a plumber and repairman\, while the mother\, a loving\, strong-willed\, and unpredictably emotional matriarch\, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school\, he falls into a deep\, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected\, too. She did not survive. \nRoutine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father\, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death\, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank\, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos\, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. \nWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness\, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful\, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality. \nChia-Chia Lin is a graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review and other journals. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Unpassing is her first novel. \nAdvance Praise for The Unpassing: \n\n\n\n“In this spare\, deeply felt debut novel\, Lin resists received wisdom about the American dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home.” —Adrienne Westenfeld\, Esquire \n“Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing is a searing\, open wound of a book\, marvelously alive and\, quite simply\, remarkable. Traversing the oftentimes brutal frontier of an isolated family living in an isolated environment\, I can’t think of another novel as of late that relentlessly tackles headlong our deepest struggles for a sense of place\, of home\, and belonging. How do we push through grief? How do we find peace with not only our loved ones but ourselves? What sacrifices must we endure for friendship and connection? This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any other.” —Paul Yoon\, author of The Mountain \n“The Unpassing is a devastating debut\, igneous\, aching as if with the glow of the great northern skies beneath which it is set. More than meditation on grief; more than immigrant saga\, or bildungsroman; more than new American gothic: here\, Chia-Chia Lin has written a novel of such strange\, brittle beauty as to resemble nothing else so much as living\, itself. Her prose—at once poetic and lucid\, by turns darkly comic and haunting—achieves something like the peculiar grammar of loss. I turned the last page with heartache and wonder\, a feeling of having been undone and remade.” —D. Wystan Owen\, author of Other People’s Love Affairs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chia-chia-lin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T210000
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SUMMARY:Paul Kerschen reads from The Warm South
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 07\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store.\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPaul Kerschen was born in 1978 and grew up in Arizona. He studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he received an Iowa Arts Fellowship and Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship\, and earned a doctorate in English literature at UC Berkeley. He has written for Music & Literature\, The Times Literary Supplement and others. The Drowned Library (Foxhead\, 2011) is a collection of short fiction. The Warm South is his first novel. He lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-kerschen-reads-from-the-warm-south/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T213000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190327T222806Z
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SUMMARY:ANAND GIRIDHARADAS In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin
DESCRIPTION:ANAND GIRIDHARADAS\nIn Conversation with Courtney E. Martin\nTuesday\, May 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAnand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World\, which explores the ways in which the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” through philanthropy preserve the status quo and obscure their own role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. His past books include India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking and The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas\, which has been adapted into a film\, to be released in 2019. He is also an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC\, as well as a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times\, as well as for The Atlantic\, The New Republic\, and The New Yorker. \nCourtney E. Martin is the author of five books\, including Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists and The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream. She is also the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network and has collaborated with a wide range of organizations\, including TED\, The Aspen Institute\, and the Obama Foundation. She won the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics and holds an honorary doctorate from ArtCenter College of Design.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anand-giridharadas-in-conversation-with-courtney-e-martin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T213000
DTSTAMP:20260413T052628
CREATED:20190329T094952Z
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 7\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Saint Mary’s College of California MFA in Creative Writing : Graduate Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the SMC MFA program on May 7\, 2019\, at the SMC campus in Moraga\, for a night of electrifying readings from our very own MFA candidates. The evening’s stellar authors include: Emily Alexander\, Michael DuBon\, Jordan Galerkin\, and Joanne Weber. \n  \nThe event will be hosted on campus at De La Salle Hall in Hagerty Lounge. Doors open at 8:00pm; readings begin at 8:15. The event will include delectable treats and adult beverages. \n  \nEmily Alexander is a writer\, a novice baker\, and a part-time jogger. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hobart Pulp\, Crab Creek Review\, and Glass. \n  \nMichael DuBon is a first-generation Nevada native of Guatemalan descent. He is a MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College of California\, graduating in May. His poetry has appeared in The Meadow. He is currently working on his memoir: The DuBonicles: A Guide to Exile. \n  \nJordan Galerkin writes short fiction & is currently working on a novel. She hopes to sell all the books so her pets can live their best lives. \n  \nJoanne Weber writes essays and children’s stories. When she’s not reading\, she likes to hike and bake bread. \n  \nThe Graduate Student Reading Series is hosted by the GSR Committee: Victoria Billings\, Michael DuBon\, Zoë Loos\, and Terry Taplin. \n  \nThe SMC MFA in Creative Writing offers students a campus environment that feels like a writing retreat within the bustling Bay Area. We have a stellar faculty that includes Marilyn Abildskov\, Brenda Hillman\, Lysley Tenorio and Matthew Zapruder\, as well excellent Visiting Writers. Our two-year program combines a studio writing workshop component with an analytical component\, offering concentrations in creative nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry. For more information visit www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-saint-marys-college-of-california-mfa-in-creative-writing-graduate-student-reading/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andrew Ross
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nStone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel \npublished by Verso Books \n\nThe story of Palestine’s stonemasons and the building of Israel \n\n\n“They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason\, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb\, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men\,” utilising some of the best-quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge\, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying\, cutting\, fabrication\, and dressing is Palestine’s largest employer and generator of revenue\, supplying the construction industry in Israel\, along with other Middle East countries and even more overseas. \nDrawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel\, Ross’s engrossing\, surprising\, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine\, and Palestinian labour\, have been used to build out the state of Israel—in the process\, constructing “facts on the ground”—even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For decades\, the hands that built Israel’s houses\, schools\, offices\, bridges\, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine–Israel conflict in a new light\, this book asks how this record of achievement and labour be recognised. \nAndrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and a social activist. A contributor to the Nation\, Village Voice\, New York Times\, and Artforum\, he is the author of many books\, including\, most recently\, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City and Nice Work if You Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. He lives in New York. \nPraise for Stone Men: \n\n“Meet ‘Michelangelo of Beit Fajjar’ and the other Palestinian stone-masons whose superb craft has fashioned Israel’s famous ‘white cities.’ Their hidden labor is the starting point for Ross’s brilliantly original exploration of how dispossession and exploitation continue to define the relationship of Israeli and Palestinian societies. This is radical journalism at its best—and I mean Pulitzer-Prize-quality best.” \n– Mike Davis\, author of Planet of Slums \n\n\n\n“When a writer as original and committed as Andrew Ross turns his attention to Palestine\, we know we are up for a unique set of observations. Ross uses the stone quarries of Palestine to weave a story that brings together geology\, politics\, military occupation\, water\, and environment. It is a story that is at once specific in its attention to details of matter and place and expansive as it takes us across the tragic history of this late manifestation of colonial domination.” \n– Eyal Weizman\, author of Hollow Land \n\n\n“Andrew Ross sheds a brilliant light on what he calls the ‘sweat equity’ of Palestinian laborers who were deprived by Israel’s system of occupation and apartheid of their land and livelihood and pushed as a result to build Israeli housing and infrastructure to survive and to resist ethnic cleansing. Ross enriches us not just with a meticulously researched dose of history and a logical argument for a postcolonial reality of ethical coexistence in historic Palestine. He takes us on a perspicacious journey of human stories\, ethical arguments and socioeconomic realities\, consciously refraining from speaking on behalf of Palestinians or depicting us as pitiful victims\, as many well-meaning white academics still do\, and thus contributing to understanding what justice in this land truly means and entails.” \n– Omar Barghouti\, Palestinian human rights defender \n\n\n“Just when you thought that there was no other way to amplify the atrocity of the Israeli occupation of Palestine\, along comes Andrew Ross with Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel. Here is a refreshingly clear picture of the labour that it takes to produce and reproduce Israeli society and the Israeli occupation. Ordinary Palestinians who break and lay the stones tell Andrew Ross their stories\, and he offers them to us as a gift of their resilience.” \n– Vijay Prashad\, author of the Poorer Nations
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-ross/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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