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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nFEB\n8\n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, Poetry\, Reading\nQueerbound Queer Open Mic\n\nSaturday\, February 8\, 2020\n6:00 PM 9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQueerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel & Shazam at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A WOMEN-ONLY open mic featuring poet Jan Steckel and singer-songwriter Shazam. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. \nSinger\, songwriter\, and consummate musician Suzanne Cimone\, aka Shazam\, is a magical weaver of music and words for healing. She is a member of the all-female California original country-rock band\, the “Bad Ass Boots.” Shazam can improv anything with her voice\, keyboard\, horn\, and harmonica. She is a delight to see and hear perform. \nOther wonderful artists will entertain and delight you!!\n$7 to $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of eight special prizes. Come celebrate with us! Adult women only please. Cis and trans women welcome. \n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\, Fireside Room \nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser. Produced by Linda & Carolyn Zeiser. For information or to sign up to perform\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com. \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women artists: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. \nWIP is scent-free and wheelchair accessible (no accessible bathroom).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-shazam-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Charles Yu and Meng Jin!
DESCRIPTION:January’s Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu\, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism\, science fiction\, and poetry\, and tons more. We’re going to turn all your bodily fluids into bodily druids! \nWhen: Saturday\, Feb. 8\, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open 7 PM\nWho: Charles Yu\, Meng Jin\, Tracy Clark Flory\, Aaron Glantz\, Juliette Wade and Barbara Tomash\nHow much: $5 to $20 sliding scale\, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nWhere: The Make Out Room\, 3225 22nd. St.\, San Francisco\, CA \nAbout the readers/performers: \nCharles Yu is the author of three books\, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award\, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series\, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX\, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Wired. \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel is Little Gods. \nTracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan\, Elle\, Esquire\, Marie Claire\, Salon\, The Guardian\, Women’s Health\, and the yearly “Best Sex Writing” anthology. She has appeared on “20/20\,” MSNBC and NPR. \nAaron Glantz is the author of Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins\, Hedge Fund Magnates\, Crooked Banks\, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream. He’s a journalist at Reveal\, whose work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings\, numerous laws\, and criminal probes by the DEA\, FBI\, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. A two-time Peabody Award-winner\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, multiple Emmy nominee\, and winner of the Selden Ring and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award\, his work has appeared in New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, NBC Nightly News\, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour. His previous books include The War Come Home and How America Lost Iraq. He lives in San Francisco. \nJuliette Wade never outgrew of the habit of asking “why” about everything. This path led her to study foreign languages and to complete degrees in both anthropology and linguistics. Combining these with a fascination for worldbuilding and psychology\, she creates multifaceted science fiction that holds a mirror to our own society. The author of short fiction in magazines including Analog\, Clarkesworld\, and Fantasy & Science Fiction\, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Aussie husband and her two sons\, who support and inspire her. Her debut novel\, Mazes of Power\, will come out from DAW publishing on February 4\, 2020. \nBarbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently\, PRE- (Black Radish Books) and Arboreal (Apogee). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-featuring-charles-yu-and-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century\nIn conversation with Janine Zacharia \n6:00 pm: Complimentary wine and cheese reception\n7:00 pm: Talk \nThe Levy family established itself in Salonica (now Thessaloniki\, Greece) in the 18th century and for two centuries published books and newspapers for the region’s Sephardic Jews. With the Ottoman Empire’s collapse\, the Levys scattered throughout the world but kept in touch through letters. Drawing on this rich correspondence\, Stein\, the award-winning author of Extraterritorial Dreams uses the family’s experience to trace the history of Sephardic Jews through the twentieth century\, showing how individual lives were affected by world wars\, shifting political boundaries and the Holocaust – which wiped out several branches of the Levy family. \nJanine Zacharia is the Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University\, and writes regularly about foreign affairs\, the intersection of technology and national security\, and media trends for the San Francisco Chronicle\, Slate and other news outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-abrevaya-stein/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Niloufar Talebi: Self-Portrait In Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Niloufar Talebi visits to share from her new hybrid and poetic memoir\, Self-Portrait In Bloom\, the literary accompaniment to her recent opera\, both inspired by the great Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou. This talented author will consider what it means to be an outsider\, insider\, woman in the #Metoo era\, an artist from a sanctioned country\, and a spectator of squashed uprisings in Iran—all while still cherishing a sense of humor.  \nMemoirist Firoozeh Dumas calls Self-Portrait In Bloom “A brutally honest memoir of a life built by words\, destroyed by words\, rebuilt by words.” Tamim Ansary says that the writing is “not just poignant\, it’s wrenching.” Released in the 40th anniversary year of the Iranian revolution\, this book is part-memoir\, part-biography\, and a part-history of literature in Iran that delves deep into culture and personal history. Talebi pays powerful homage to Tehran\, the city of her childhood. In fragments of prose\, poetry\, and photographs\, her lyrical exploration reimagines the memoir form. \nHow do monumental changes in culture and place impact the creation of art and self? In an interview with Firoozeh Dumas\, Talebi translates these rich questions and histories into an even richer artistic present. \nDon’t miss this utterly unique book in its full bloom\, at Kepler’s on February 10th. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nTickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Niloufar Talebi by Devlin Shand Photography.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/niloufar-talebi-self-portrait-in-bloom/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Brenda Shaughnessy
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently The Octopus Museum. She’s the recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She is currently writing an opera libretto for the composer Paola Prestini\, commissioned by The Atlanta Opera. Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-brenda-shaughnessy/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernadez Castillo\, Children of the Land at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. Castillo will be in conversation with Nathan Osorio at this event\, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A portion of the sales of Children of the Land will be donated to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s Immigration Program. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His poetry and translations have appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, The Grief Diaries\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere. His reviews and interviews featuring poets such as Juan Felipe Herrera and Rigoberto González have appeared in Columbia Journal\, UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute\, Publishers Weekly\, and Letras Latinas’ La Bloga. His chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship by Evie Shockley and was previously selected as a finalist for the 2016 Atlas Review Chapbook Contest. In 2019\, he was also selected as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 9th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernadez-castillo-children-of-the-land-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jean Day and Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Jean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in 2021.Recent poems can also be seen in Brooklyn Rail\, Chicago Review\, The Delineator\, Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French). Earlier works include Daydream (Litmus\, 2016)\, Early Bird (O’Clock\, 2014)\, and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books. She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, a scholarly humanities journal\, and does advocacy work for members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE). \n  \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist from San Francisco. Works he has authored include The Sissies (Futurepoem); Terra Firmament (Krupskaya); and a chapbook\, Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-and-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Reading Series\nTuesday\, February 11\, 7:00pm\nfeatures: Tshaka Campbell and James Cagney\nopen mic follows \nPoetry cat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$3 donation at the door\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nbios to come. \nUpcoming in Well-RED:\nFeb. 11: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney\nMar. 10: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo\nApr. 14: Poetry Month Open Mic\nMay 12: Mimi Ahern & Roger Abe of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society with Mary Lou Taylor\nJune 9: Andrena Zawinski & tba
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-tshaka-campbell-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Winter in San Francisco. Baby\, it’s cold outside–comparatively\, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday\, February 11\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in you-know-where. Dale Corvino is joining us from New York City! He’ll be joined by local glitterati Denise Conca\, Wayne Goodman\, Rob Rosen\, and Cass Sellars–each of them reading from new fiction. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and door prizes on the stroke of 7! http://bit.ly/2RjGosI \nMore about the authors:\nDale Corvino’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including online at the Rumpus and Salon. He received the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction\, was a finalist in the 2017 Saints + Sinners Short Fiction contest\, and won the 2018 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook contest. WORKER NAMES was published in 2019. Most recently\, he reflected on his visit to Santiago\, Chile during the massive popular uprising and the legacy of queer writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review. www.dalecorvino.com \nDenise Conca is an anti-capitalist artist\, writer\, and cashier living in San Francisco. Her short works have appeared in Sinister Wisdom’s “Dump Trump” issue and in RFD magazine. Her recently published book\, A RECURSIVE NATURE\, explores the sexual exploits of a middle-aged leather dyke living on the margins of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco and is available at San Francisco Public Library and independent bookstores. Conca is featured in the short documentary film Refuse and Refashion which she wrote\, co-produced\, and directed. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing or recording\, Goodman enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, gay\, and Black composers. ALL THE RIGHT PLACES is a collection of short stories\, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past\, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship. \nRob Rosen is the author of the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES\, and editor of the anthologies Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1\, 2\, Lust in Time 3 and 4. www.therobrosen.com \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional living in the East Bay. She has led investigations in criminal\, theft\, corporate and financial fraud. Formerly an editor of a small magazine and creative journalist\, she’s always been a writer at heart. She loves writing about powerful women\, their adventures\, and searches for justice. FINDING SKY is her fourth novel and the first standalone after the Lightning Series. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and England but spent much of her on the East Coast. In addition to writing she works in interior design and event planning and loves everything wine. www.casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-winter-2020-reading-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer San Francisco":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200204T025518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T025744Z
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SUMMARY:Evelyn Skye: Cloak of Night w/ Stacey Lee
DESCRIPTION:You know Evelyn Skye from the wonderful New York Times bestselling The Crown’s Game\, The Crown’s Fate\, and Circle of Shadows. \nThe wait for her sequel is finally over! We are so very excited to invite you to the launch party of Cloak of Night\, the exciting end to this thrilling duology that is full of dangerous action\, heartbreaking romance\, and incredible magic. \nAfter the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts\, Sora\, Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick are truly alone in the fight to save their kingdom. Empress Aki is missing\, and everyone else who could help them is a prisoner to Prince Gin’s mind control. At least Sora understands what they’re up against. Or so she believes\, until she overhears Gin bargaining with the god of war for immortality and learns that ryuu magic may be a more insidious danger than she realized. Suddenly\, the stakes are higher and even more personal for Sora—not only must she stop a seemingly indestructible Prince Gin\, but she must also unravel the secrets of ryuu magic before it is too late for nearly everyone she loves. Sora Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick face dangerous obstacles at every turn\, but the greatest challenge may be discovering who they truly are and what\, if anything\, they are capable of. The fate of a kingdom rests in their hands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining Evelyn on stage is Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl\, Outrun the Moon\, Under a Painted Sky\, and The Secret of a Heart Note
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evelyn-skye-cloak-of-night-w-stacey-lee/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20191120T035125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T035125Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: February
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can\, NOTAFLOF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-february/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20191124T170056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T170056Z
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SUMMARY:Amina Cain: Indelicacy
DESCRIPTION:Amina Cain discusses her new novel\, Indelicacy\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Indelicacy \n“In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking inside the landscapes where she lives. She looks at a landscape then moves inside another\, and as we read it begins to seem that the landscapes in paintings and in fiction are eerily the same. In a deeply pleasing way\, reading this novel is a bit like standing in a painting\, a masterful study of light and dark\, inside and out\, freedom and desire. Amina Cain is one of my favorite writers. I loved reading this book.” —Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First \n“Acutely observed\, Indelicacy is an exquisite jewel box of a novel with the passion and vitality found only in such rare and necessary works as The Hour of the Star and The Days of Abandonment. Through this timeless examination of solitude\, art\, and friendship\, Amina Cain announces herself as one of the most intriguing writers of our time.” —Patty Yumi Cottrell\, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n“Amina Cain redefines strangeness and freedom in this beautiful and unusual novel that resembles fairy tales and ghost stories but feels intensely contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \nAbout Indelicacy \nA ghostly feminist fable\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. \nIn “a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch” (Blake Butler)\, a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing\, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man\, but having gained a husband\, a house\, high society\, and a maid\, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now\, however passively\, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? \nReminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature\, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys\, Octavia Butler\, Clarice Lispector\, and Jean Genet\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost\, a fable without a moral\, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing\, class\, desire\, anxiety\, pleasure\, friendship\, and the battle to find one’s true calling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amina-cain-indelicacy/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20191227T022514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T022514Z
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SUMMARY:Arthur Kleinman
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History\, Anthropology\, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present \nArthur Kleinman \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThe Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor \nfrom Viking Books \nA moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today’s world. \nWhen Dr. Arthur Kleinman\, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist\, began caring for his wife\, Joan\, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease\, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor\, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan\, and he describes the practical\, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. \nCaregiving is long\, hard\, unglamorous work–at moments joyous\, more often tedious\, sometimes agonizing\, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system\, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves\, and of our doctors. To give care\, to be “present” for someone who needs us\, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences\, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life\, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human. \n\nArthur Kleinman\, MD\, is one of the most renowned and influential scholars and writers on psychiatry\, anthropology\, global health\, and cultural issues in medicine. Educated at Stanford University and Stanford Medical School\, he has taught at Harvard for over forty years. He is currently professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Having spent decades doing field research in China and Taiwan\, he is also a leading expert on East Asia\, and was the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard’s Asia Center from 2008 to 2016. He is also the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering\, Healing\, and the Human Condition\, now widely taught in medical schools. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arthur-kleinman/
LOCATION:UCSF Parnassus Campus\, 530 Parnassus Avenue\, 5th Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20191220T072109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T072109Z
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Intergenerational Conversations: Dating & Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of conversations and stories! The theme will be around “relationships and dating through the years”. We are inviting younger and older folks to share their own experiences and thoughts. \nTopics will range from finding dates to choosing date spots to breaking up. Over the decades\, how do you or did you go about finding dates? Has it become easier to have so many choices through your phone? Date spots and activities always elicit strong reactions. Which ones did you enjoy most? Breakups have never been easy but has it become too impersonal in the era of texting? Was “ghosting” a thing back then? \nRegardless of all these technological and societal changes\, are we all continuing to approach relationships similarly to years past? \nWe will have a few older adults share their personal stories and we will split into small pairs of young people and older adults to discover and answer questions about relationships. \nFree liquid courage will be provided! Let’s have fun and get to know people of different ages in our community. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-intergenerational-conversations-dating-relationships-2/
LOCATION:Red Victorian\, 1665 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200207T231530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T231530Z
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SUMMARY:Jeneé Darden at Alameda Authors Series IV
DESCRIPTION:Details:  \nThe fourth annual Alameda Authors Series\, sponsored by\, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library\, returns with award winning journalist and book author Jeneé Darden. \nMs. Darden will speak about her book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, a collection of poetry and essays that reflect her journey through Black womanhood. With heart and humor\, Darden engages us in conversations about race\, love\, sex\, and mental health. Like a rose\, being a Black woman in this society comes with its thorns and beauty. Darden brings that complexity to every page.  \nReservations requested: \n https://jeneedarden-aauw2020.eventbrite.com \nPraise for When a Purple Rose Blooms: \n“When a Purple Rose Blooms is more than a series of essays and poems. Jeneé Darden’s debut collection is a homegrown Oakland spellbook\, a womanist battle cry\, a spiritual incantation of Black joy\, self-love\, and healing for contemporary African American sistren.” \n– Aya de León\, author of Uptown Thief\, The Boss\, and The Accidental Mistress\, and director of Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley \n“A wealth of wisdom\, humor\, grit\, warmth\, and sensuality. When a Purple Rose Blooms candidly shows a Black woman’s quest to embrace her entire self while navigating contemporary America. Very few works spit fire and water like this one. Darden gets to the core of what it means to feel without apology\, love radically\, and get Queened up while honoring the Queen in others as well.” \n– Lyndsey Ellis\, writer\, editor\, and award recipient of 2018 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund \n“Jeneé Darden’s When a Purple Rose Blooms is a daring book of poems and essays\, depicting family\, pop culture\, self-love\, racism\, and other issues\, especially those that impact women. This truth-telling book heralds with allusions\, historical references\, blues\, East Oakland\, and inter-generational camaraderie\, praise\, and ‘God’s Image.’ These poems and essays tell us what’s happening\, and display much intelligence.” \n– Lenard D. Moore\, author of The Geography of Jazz\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Mount Olive \nAbout the author: \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, author\, public speaker\, mental health advocate and proud Oakland native. She covers stories about East Oakland at KALW News 91.7 FM and hosts the arts segment Sights & Sounds.  Jenee has reported for NPR\, Time\, The LA Times\, Ebony and other outlets. She also hosts the blog and podcast Cocoa Fly. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a womanist collection of essays and poetry about her personal experiences with race\, mental health and love as a Black woman. Jeneé holds a BA in ethnic studies from UC San Diego and a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact AAUW Alameda at alameda-ca@aauw.net or see our Web site at http://alameda-ca.aauw.net/ \nEvent telephone: 510.463.4966 Kevis Brownson (leave message)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenee-darden-at-alameda-authors-series-iv/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alameda AAUW":MAILTO:alameda-ca@aauw.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200203T214331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T214331Z
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SUMMARY:Meng Jin - Little Gods
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Meng Jin to read from her new book\, Little Gods on Wednesday\, February 12tht at 7pm. \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meng-jin-little-gods/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200203T220830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T221008Z
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nDanielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200210T192513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T192513Z
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200126T202245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T202245Z
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SUMMARY:b\, Book\, and Me Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa\, b\, Book\, and Me\, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There will be readings from Two Lines editors\, drinks\, and snacks. Entry is free but please rsvp! \nMore about b\, Book\, and Me \nBest friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent\, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it’s painfully obvious they don’t. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in baseball hats\, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells the whole class about b’s dying sister and how her family is poor\, and each of them finds herself desperately alone. The only place they can reclaim themselves\, and perhaps each other\, is beyond the part of town where lunatics live—the End. \nIn a piercing\, heartbreaking\, and astonishingly honest voice\, Kim Sagwa’s b\, Book\, and Me walks the precipice between youth and adulthood\, reminding us how perilous the edge can be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor / Kim Sagwa\n\n\nKim Sagwa is one of South Korea’s most acclaimed emerging writers. She is the author of several novels\, story collections\, and works of nonfiction\, and has been shortlisted for several major South Korean awards\, including the Munji Prize and the Young Writers Award. Kim contributes columns to two major Seoul newspapers\, and she co-translated John Freeman’s book How to Read a Novelist into Korean.\n\n\n\n\n\nTranslator / Sunhee Jeong\n\n\nBased in Seoul\, Sunhee Jeong is a Korean-English translator and editor of literary and multimedia productions. She is also a scholar of visual studies\, intersectionality and critical theory.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/b-book-and-me-happy-hour/
LOCATION:DaDa Bar\, 65 Post St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200207T185207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T185207Z
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SUMMARY:Harlem of The West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
DESCRIPTION:In the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the West captures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, and reveals a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harlem-of-the-west-the-san-francisco-fillmore-jazz-era/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute Library\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20200131T195451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T195451Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! (Copy) (Copy) at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVoz Sin Tinta\, our monthly bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! Hosted and curated by Rene Vaz and Marguerite Munoz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-bi-lingual-poetry-reading-and-open-mic-night-copy-copy-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T121136
CREATED:20191227T022259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T022259Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Valentine's Show
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Valentine’s a day early with Red Light Lit. The show is a mashup of poetry\, storytelling\, and art set to a live score by Nick Jaina. Featuring the photography of Kim Huynh\, the music of Sarah Gagnon\, and dancers Kara Davis\, Tristan Ching Hartmann & Mackenzie Studebaker. Readers include: Peter Thomas Bullen\, Kar Johnson\, Lisa Martinovic\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\, and Thea Matthews. \nTickets are $15 at the door\, $20 day of show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-valentines-show/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile will be ending in May\, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a close look at all our lives. Two of our features honed their chops at the original Café Babar and remain performers of towering skill\, and the third is blazing a trail as we speak. Three-time SF Slam Team member and former Lake County Poet Laureate Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga will share some of his Filipino American gaze\, while special educator\, Union activist\, and longtime Berkeley resident Tim Xonnelly will endow us with some true Bay Area queerness. And “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen will vibe us with some next-gen activist energy. \nSo come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \n  \nBabar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \nfeaturing\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nTim Xonnelly\nand “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen \nand you\, in our all-inclusive open mic \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nThree-time SF Poetry Slam team member\, Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga honed his poetic and spoken word skills at Cafe Babar on a weekly basis. Gonzaga is an esteemed member of the arts\, activism\, and healing communities. The sixth Poet Laureate of Lake County\, former bookstore co-owner\, and resident of Harbin Hot Springs\, Gonzaga was displaced by the devastating Valley Fire in 2015. He has recently returned to San Francisco where he is working on his first novel. Born in the Philippines and raised in the East Bay\, Gonzaga has been a dervish\, minister\, writer\, freelance journalist\, editor\, social justice activist\, arts educator\, youth mentor\, and martial artist. He states: “Giving expression and voice to our grief\, rage\, hopes\, and joys serve the healing of an individual\, and in turn\, a community.” \nTim Xonnelly is a special educator and Union activist living in downtown Berkeley since 1991. He’s recently had poetry published in Be About It\, Naked Bulb 2018 Anthology\, the-fabulist.org\, 11 Eleven\, Cross Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel. \nBorn in Stockton\, CA\, Anna Allen has been writing fairy tales and tragedies since childhood. Her work has appeared in various literary mags and journals. You can read some of her work on Sparkle and Blink\, Chronically Lit\, The Scribelrus\, and Little Death Lit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-22-up-close-and-personal/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Craig Vachon\, The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley
DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes Craig Vachon for a reading and signing of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley\, his entertaining tale of a befuddled but highly capable venture capitalist who is compelled to chart his own course on a global quest to save his new brain-computer interface tool from falling into some very\, very wrong hands. \nRalph Gibsen isn’t your typical spy. In fact\, he may not be a spy at all. He’s lumpy\, blundering and abysmal at chatting up the fairer sex. Yet\, he is attracting a significant amount of attention from the intelligence community. After all\, as a 30-year Silicon Valley mainstay\, he can phish your passwords\, bust firewalls\, and has developed software used by millions to circumvent government censorship. And now\, he thinks he has stumbled upon a cabal who is pushing to misuse his own technology for world domination. \nRalph helps create an educational Tool that maps a learner’s neurological processes and pinpoints the exact moment a student learns. But the Tool can also manipulate people’s beliefs. At least\, that what several influential people think. Soon\, Ralph finds himself the target of increasingly complex attacks on his businesses\, reputation\, freedom\, and life. \nRalph enlists an eclectic group of ‘frenemies’ to thwart this nefarious plot. McKenna may or may not still work for the CIA. Beautiful Eva may work for the Chinese government\, who wants the Tool for themselves. Even Ralph’s lovely wife Jen could be involved… Ralph simply isn’t equipped to figure it out. And the world is closing in. \n“Knucklehead is like being shot out of an Ethernet cable lined with exotic travel and baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.” —Peterson Conway \nAbout the author: The character of Ralph Gibsen\, the protagonist of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley\, isn’t based on the author G. Craig Vachon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/craig-vachon-the-knucklehead-of-silicon-valley/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to have our Legal Advocacy Fundraiser\, Sisters in Crime. Featured this year will be four local authors: \nThe moderator Heather Haven has a varied background: ad copy\, comedy acts and play writing. Her novels include the SV based Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries\, Manhattan based Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries and documentary fiction “Murder Under the Big Top” based upon her mother’s experience. In September she released “Christmas Trifle\,” Book One of the Snow Lake Romantic Suspense Novels. \nCara Black writes the NY Times bestselling Aimee Leduc Investigations set in Paris.”Murder in Bel Air\,” the 19th and latest in the series\, puts her Parisian private investigator in a dangerous web of international spy craft\, postcolonial Franco-American politics and neighborhood secrets in Paris’s 12th arrondissement. \nLinda Howe-Steiger has been the Director of Technology Transfer at UC Berkeley’s Inst. of Transportation Studies\, a long time teacher\, researcher and writer on serious environmental and urban planning topics. Her mystery novels\, set in N. CA begins with “Fog\,” a cold case tale set in the fictional town of Quarry Canyon off Mt. Tam\, which introduces amateur sleuth Morgan Kendal and her PI partner and ex-cop Carson Jalesco. The second in this series\, “Terroir” recounts what happens when they are invited to a traditional family winery where the decision by the aging family patriarch has set in motion increasingly life threatening circumstances. \nAlec Peche has written 13 books\, 10 in the Jill Quint\, MD Forensic Pathologist series. Jill is a part-time pathologist\, PI and vintner who solves mysteries with a team of girlfriends with different professional skills. The stories are set across N. America and Europe. “Opus Murder” released Jan. is the story of a pianist murdered during a recital in Toronto. She has written 3 books in the Damian Green series about a modern day MacGyver computer genius teaming with a retired SJPD detective. \n  \n$15 donation. \nhttp://svcupt-ca.aauw.net/ lindarfreed@gmail.com 650-941-3218
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sisters-in-crime-2/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church\, 728 Fremont Avenue\, Sunnyvale\, 94087
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="AAUW Sunnyvale-Cupertino":MAILTO:tomlinfreed@hotmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T223000
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SUMMARY:So This Sucks: A Night of Heartbreak & Disappointment
DESCRIPTION:Heartbroken? Join us. Single? Join us. Not single? Well let’s be real\, you live in the Bay Area\, so chances are you will be VERY soon. It’s better to be safe than sorry. \nFrom the creators of About Last Night – San Francisco’s favorite one night stand storytelling series comes our annual Valentine’s day show: SO THIS SUCKS. Come hear true tales of heartbreak and disappointment from the choppy waters of our favorite subject: Love. You might laugh\, you might cry\, you might do a little bit of both. But as the old saying goes\, broken hearts are way stronger together and laughter truly is the best medicine! \nThe Black Box Theater At The Palace Of Fine Arts – 3601 Lyon Street \nDoors open at 7:00 pm\, show begins at 7:30 pm.\nStick around after for the post show Heartbreak cocktail hour from 9:30 – 10:30pm \n*21+ \nPRESALE: $10 & $15\nLAST MINUTE / AT DOOR: $20
URL:https://litseen.com/event/so-this-sucks-a-night-of-heartbreak-disappointment/
LOCATION:The Black Box Theater at The Palace of Fine Arts\, 3601 Lyon St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123-1019\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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