BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191227T030937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T030937Z UID:54572-1582657200-1582662600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-of-Good-Boys.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191227T173726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T173726Z UID:54700-1582657200-1582662600@litseen.com SUMMARY:John Sayles: Yellow Earth DESCRIPTION:John Sayles works as a fiction writer\, screenwriter\, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed 18 feature films\, with another\, I Passed This Way\, currently in progress. His films Matewan and Lone Star\, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun\, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses. Yellow Earth is his fifth novel. \nAbout Yellow Earth: \nRich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth\, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose. \nIn Yellow Earth\, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota\, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer\, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. “An activist in his way\, a product of the Casino Era\,” Kildeer\, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby\, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. \nWhat follows\, with characteristic lyrical dexterity\, insight\, and wit\, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters\, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling. \nSet shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement\, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times. URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sayles-yellow-earth/ LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-Yellow-Earth.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T203153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T203153Z UID:55190-1582657200-1582662600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Apogee Press at Lone Glen DESCRIPTION:Please join us at 7 pm on Tuesday\, February 25th for a night of poetry revelry at The Bindery in San Francisco. The Lone Glen series will celebrate the beginning of its ninth year with Apogee Press\, featuring poets Elizabeth Robinson\, Barbara Tomash\, Laura Walker\, and Edward Smallfield\, who is also launching his latest book\, to whom it may concern. Whereas Smallfield explores the “lyric meditation\, [where] eros and erasure alternately fuse and efface until erasure becomes manifestation . . .”\, Walker assures us that narrative is “a music to live by”\, Tomash reminds us that “every word was once a poem”\, and Robinson allows us to “revel in the slippery meanings of common words as they pour through the security perimeters.” We look forward to witnessing each of these poets pour through their works and invite you to share their words with us. \nAbout the series: \nLone Glen\, now in its ninth year\, is a quarterly art-centric reading and performance series dedicated to creating a down-to-earth\, inclusive space among writers and artists of all genres. Suggested donation for this reading is $5-$10 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nAbout the Venue: \nThe Bindery\, an outcrop of The Booksmith\, is a magical bookstore/event space with a beer\, wine and cocktail bar\, located at 1727 Haight Street. The Bindery is wheelchair accessible. \nAbout the poets: \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing).  Her nonfiction essays have appeared recently in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time.  Robinson has received grants from the Fund for Poetry\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and the Maison Dora Maar.  With Jennifer Phelps\, she co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press in 2019. \nEDWARD SMALLFIELD is the author of to whom it may concern\, equinox\, The Pleasures of C\, and americana. He is also the author of several collaborative projects\, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson)\, locate (with Miriam Pirone)\, and lirio and anonymous (both with Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in Barcelona INK\, Denver Quarterly\, e-poema.eu\, Five Fingers Review\, New American Writing\, Páginas Rojas\, Parthenon West Review\, 26\, and many other magazines and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi\, Paou\, Paros\, and Sofia\, and lives in Barcelona with his wife\, the poet Valerie Coulton. \nBARBARA TOMASH is the author of four books of poetry: PRE- (Black Radish Books 2018)\, Arboreal (Apogee 2014)\, The Secret of White (Spuyten Duyvil 2009)\, and Flying in Water\, winner of the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award. An earlier version of PRE- was a finalist for the Colorado Prize and the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize. Before her creative interests turned her toward writing she worked extensively as a multimedia artist. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Web Conjunctions\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, OmniVerse\, and numerous other journals. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nLAURA WALKER is the author of story (Apogee Press\, 2016)\, Follow–Haswed (Apogee Press\, 2012)\, bird book (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press\, 2008)\, and swarm lure (Battery Press\, 2004). She grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley\, CA\, where she teaches creative writing. More information is available at laura-walker.com. URL:https://litseen.com/event/apogee-press-at-lone-glen/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Apogee-Press-at-Lone-Glen.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Lone Glen":MAILTO:anoncheval at gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200207T223148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T223148Z UID:55659-1582657200-1582664400@litseen.com SUMMARY:JoAnne Silver Jones\, Headstrong at Bookshop Santa Cruz DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes JoAnne Silver Jones for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Headstrong. After a sudden assault by a stranger left Jones with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, fractured hands\, and PTSD\, she learned—with the help of a community that gave her the foundations of hope—to live with TBI in a society bursting with violence. \nShe didn’t see the hammer. For a fraction of a second JoAnne Jones saw a young black face\, framed by a black hoodie\, and then she descended into a place where she felt and saw nothing. Jones survived this sudden assault by a stranger\, but it left her with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)\, fractured hands\, and PTSD. Headstrong tells the story of how she learned to live with the daily challenges of TBI. It brings the reader into a life traumatized by violence and set in the context of a society full of violence and vocal\, visible white supremacists. Woven throughout Jones’s account are the stories of how medical professionals\, friends\, family\, and strangers became a foundation strong enough to hold her during the worst of times\, and to give her the buoyancy to find a path toward hope. \n“Eloquently told\, Jones invites us into her harrowing journey from violence and brain injury to hope. With unflinching honesty\, she shows how her determination to heal\, led her to excavate the emotional legacy of her family and develop the emotional muscle to move beyond being a victim. If ever we needed a story of resilience against tough odds\, now is the time.” —Hilary Jacobs Hendel\, author of the award-winning book\, It’s Not Always Depression \n \nJoAnne Jones is Professor Emeritus at Springfield College in Massachusetts\, where she worked for twenty-five years. While at Springfield College\, Dr. Jones served as Associate Dean of the School of Human Services and Acting Dean of the School of Social Work. Before Springfield College\, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Calgary\, School of Social Welfare. Her teaching and research focused primarily on social justice issues. In addition to teaching\, she has consulted with public and private organizations in relation to diversity\, inclusiveness\, and excellence. She is a cofounder of the firm Diversityworks Consulting. \n URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanne-silver-jones-headstrong-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/headstrong-jones-750-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191124T170158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T170158Z UID:53746-1582659000-1582664400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Emily Nemens: The Cactus League DESCRIPTION:Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League. \nPraise for The Cactus League \n“Emily Nemens’s magnificent debut is a masterwork of great empathy and detail\, uncovering the realms of incredible pain and beauty enmeshed within every level of America’s pastime. If you love baseball\, you won’t put it down\, and if you don’t love baseball\, you might by the end.” —J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota and Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n“A debut? You’ve got to be kidding.The Cactus League reads like the work of a seasoned novelist. The way the story’s tension ramps\, the richly drawn characters\, the indelible imagery—you’ll never see a ball park the same—not to mention Emily Nemens’s knowledge of America’s pastime is downright encyclopedic. And while all those things are true\, absolutely true\, the heart of this amazing novel is Emily’s understanding of the crucibles faced by those both in the limelight and out of it. Goodyear and the rest of the gang are a cast for the ages. Hip hip hooray for this achievement.” —Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \n“The Cactus League is not just another baseball novel. I can’t think of another book that so carefully examines the complex ecosystem of professional sport. With both compassion and objectivity\, Emily Nemens deftly depicts the rich lives and stories that swirl beneath the ‘meaningless’ innings of spring training.” —Chris Bachelder\, author of The Throwback Special \nAbout The Cactus League \nAn explosive\, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball from Emily Nemens\, the editor of The Paris Review \nJason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions\, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome\, famous\, and talented\, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches\, writers\, wives\, girlfriends\, petty criminals\, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why—as they hide secrets of their own. \nHumming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch\, Emily Nemens’ The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster\, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor\, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland\, a resourceful spring-training paramour\, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison\, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters\, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It’s a journey that\, like the Arizona desert\, brims with both possibility and destruction. \nAnchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings\, Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving\, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field. URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-nemens-the-cactus-league/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Nemens.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T202801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T202801Z UID:55183-1582659000-1582664400@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Evolving Universe with Brian Greene in conversation with Gina Pell DESCRIPTION:Brian Greene is widely recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory.  Greene is co-founder and director of Columbia’s Institute for Strings\, Cosmology\, and Astroparticle Physics\, and his many books include The Elegant Universe\, The Fabric of the Cosmos\, and The Hidden Reality. His newest\, Until the End of Time: Mind\, Matter\, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe\, explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos\, and how our minds\, in coming to understand their own impermanence\, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative\, myth\, religion\, creative expression\, science\, the quest for truth\, and our longing for the eternal. \nGina Pell is the Content Chief of The What\, a lifestyle and culture publication with a global readership and engaged online community. She is an award-winning Creative Director and tech entrepreneur who was an early pioneer in the digital media space. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-evolving-universe-with-brian-greene-in-conversation-with-gina-pell/ LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Brian-Greene.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T220000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T203642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T203642Z UID:55194-1582659000-1582668000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Lit Flicks: Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight" DESCRIPTION:Lit Flicks is a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse\, presenting the best films adapted from written works\, and introduced by special guests. Lit Flicks bookstore\, operated by Borderlands Books\, will be open at all screenings. \nSpecial guest speaker: Eddie Muller (Noir City\, TCM’s Noir Alley). \nTalk at 7:30 pm\, screening at 7:50 pm. \n$16 \nGeorge Clooney. Handsome\, classy\, and undeniably the most suave man in Hollywood. His grin alone can melt every woman’s heart in a hundred mile radius\, and his cockiness is the envy of dudes the world over. He’s one smooth operator\, and no film exemplifies that better than OUT OF SIGHT. \nAs Jack Foley\, Clooney plays a bank robber who escapes from prison and winds up stuck in the trunk of his getaway car with U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez\, in arguably her best role). After she’s released\, Sisco remains in hot\, and I mean HOT\, pursuit of Foley (and who can blame her?) \nWe all want to hunt down George Clooney for the crime of devastating us with his charm\, but Jennifer Lopez might be the only one sexy enough to catch him. Also starring the excellent male specimens of Don Cheadle\, Ving Rhames\, and Dennis Farina\, this film\, based on the novel by the legendary Elmore Leonard\, is guaranteed to give you plenty of opportunities to swoon\, fist pump\, and worship at the altar of Clooney. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nEddie Muller\nEDDIE MULLER is a second generation San Franciscan\, product of a lousy public school education\, a couple of crazy years in art school\, and too much time in newspaper offices and sporting arenas. No college\, but he’s compensated by always hanging around smarter people\, an effortless… Read More → URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-flicks-steven-soderberghs-out-of-sight/ LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Lit-Flicks-Steven-Soderberghs-22Out-of-Sight22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T194500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T213000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T210602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T210602Z UID:55238-1582659900-1582666200@litseen.com SUMMARY:The MFA in Writing Program presents Cristina García in conversation with Omar. F. Miranda DESCRIPTION:Cristina García is the author of seven novels\, including: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, King of Cuba\, and\, most recently\, Here in Berlin; two Latinx anthologies: Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature; and a collection of poetry\, The Lesser Tragedy of Death. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. Currently\, she is playwright-in-residence at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. \nOmar F. Miranda is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. He teaches courses in British Romantic-era literature\, and his research focuses on exile and the birth of global celebrity culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a second-generation Cuban exile from Miami\, he grew up in a community that\, while attempting to recreate it abroad\, invariably longed for its true homeland across the Florida Straits. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-mfa-in-writing-program-presents-cristina-garcia-in-conversation-with-omar-f-miranda/ LOCATION:McLaren Complex – MC252\, USF\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cristina-Garcia.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200205T072827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T072827Z UID:55475-1582740000-1582743600@litseen.com SUMMARY:the system must be tried DESCRIPTION:SF writer Kevin Simmonds reads from the system must be tried\, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-system-must-be-tried/ LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/D228B545-EA1C-4BB6-83C4-774AD7F25053.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200207T213351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T213351Z UID:55647-1582741800-1582747200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Around the World DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Conference of Women in Beijing\, but what kind of progress has really been made? One billion girls and women still lack the skills\, education\, and rights needed to participate in the labor market. Eighty percent of human trafficking victims are girls. Early marriage is still prevalent in many African countries and women’s economic participation rates are now on the decline globally. \nOne woman who has spent her life working to improve the lives of women and advocate for a just and fair world is Karen Sherman. Sherman has spent her life advocating for women in war-torn and transitional countries such as Iraq\, Afghanistan\, Bosnia\, Congo\, Nigeria\, Rwanda\, South Sudan\, Kosovo\, and the former Soviet Union. Sherman now serves as President of the Akilah Institute\, Rwanda’s only women’s college\, and was a senior executive at Women for Women International\, an organization that helps women survivors of war to rebuild their lives. \nIn her new memoir “Brick by Brick” Sherman tells\, not only her own story of moving her family to Kigali\, Rwanda in 2012\, but also those of women who survived the Rwandan genocide\, and how it forever changed her life. She’ll join us to discuss the book\, how economic empowerment brings choice for women\, what role governments and the private sector can play in supporting women\, and how women globally can be more connected to one another. URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-hope-and-opportunity-for-women-around-the-world/ LOCATION:World Affaris Auditorium\, 312 Sutter Street\, Suite 200\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ORGANIZER;CN="Abigail Welhouse":MAILTO:abigail@scottmanningpr.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200221T004500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T004500Z UID:55979-1582741800-1582749000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Author visit and discussion with Anna Wiener\, author of UNCANNY VALLEY DESCRIPTION:oin us for a visit and discussion with local author Anna Wiener\, author of UNCANNY VALLEY. Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online\, where she writes about Silicon Valley\, startup culture\, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York\, The New Republic\, and n+1\, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. Anna will be in discussion with Ruby member Natalie So. \nThanks to the publisher\, we have 10 copies available to the first 10 Rubies who sign up for this event! You will be notified if you are one of the ten. We hope to have a discussion about the book itself\, so please purchase a copy from one of our local bookstores or borrow from a local library! \nAbout UNCANNY VALLEY \nA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. An Amazon Best Book of January. One of Vogue’s 22 Books to Read This Winter\, The Washington Post’s 10 Books to Read in January\, ELLE’s 12 Best Books to Read in 2020\, The New York Times’s 12 Books to Read in January\, Esquire’s 15 Best Winter Books\, Paste’s 10 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2020\, and Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020. \n“A definitive document of a world in transition: I won’t be alone in returning to Uncanny Valley for clarity and consolation for many years to come.” —Jia Tolentino\, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion \nThe prescient\, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age \nIn her mid-twenties\, at the height of tech industry idealism\, Anna Wiener—stuck\, broke\, and looking for meaning in her work\, like any good millennial–left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco\, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance\, dubious success\, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination\, glory\, and\, of course\, progress. \nAnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift\, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies\, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty\, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head\, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. \nPart coming-age-story\, part portrait of an already-bygone era\, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying\, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition\, unregulated surveillance\, wild fortune\, and accelerating political power. With wit\, candor\, and heart\, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability\, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration\, ambivalence\, and disillusionment. \nUnsparing and incisive\, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale\, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand. URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-visit-and-discussion-with-anna-wiener-author-of-uncanny-valley/ LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110 CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-71.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191227T064154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T064154Z UID:54584-1582743600-1582749000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Dean A. Strang in conversation with Lara Bazelon DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Dean A. Strang for his new book\, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial\, the Rise of the Justice Department\, and the Fall of the IWW. He’ll be in conversation with Lara Bazelon (Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction). \nBefore World War I\, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local\, ad hoc\, and quasi-military. Sheriffs\, mayors\, or governors would elevate strikebreakers to deputies or call out the state militia\, usually at the bidding of employers. \nAt the time one of the nation’s largest unions was the Industrial Workers of the World\, also known as the Wobblies. The IWW had members in critical industries across the country. In April 1917\, when the United States entered the war\, the government feared the threat of a labor strike from such a large number of workers could endanger or even halt war production. Officials in the relatively young Department of Justice determined that a more coordinated strategy would be necessary. \nTo prevent stoppages\, the DOJ embarked on a sweeping new effort—replacing gunmen with lawyers. The department systematically targeted the IWW\, resulting in the largest mass trial in U.S. history. The first of four indictments named 166 defendants in September 1917. The Chicago trial started with 112 men accused\, sitting on bleachers\, with one small defense team and a judge and prosecutors who did not know their names or faces. \nIn the first legal history of this landmark federal trial\, Dean A. Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats and played a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As the trial unfolded\, it became an exercise of raw force\, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure. \n\nDean Strang is familiar to millions through Netflix’s Making A Murderer. He is a criminal defense lawyer in Wisconsin and a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Strang is the author of two books of legal history\, his newest\, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial\, the Rise of the Justice Department\, and the Fall of the IWW\, and his earlier\, Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists\, Clarence Darrow\, and Justice in a Time of Terror. \nLara Bazelon is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she directs the criminal and racial justice clinics. Previously Lara was a trial attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and the director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction and a contributing writer for Slate and Politico Magazine. Her essays and op-eds have also been published in the New York Times\, the Atlantic Magazine\, the Washington Post\, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives with her two children in San Francisco and is currently working on a book about motherhood and ambition. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Keep the Wretches in Order\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. URL:https://litseen.com/event/dean-a-strang-in-conversation-with-lara-bazelon/ LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-of-Keep-the-Wretches-in-Order.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191227T170304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T170304Z UID:54644-1582743600-1582750800@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Golden Arches in Black America DESCRIPTION:Marcia Chatelain\nIn Conversation with Allyson Hobbs \nHear the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. \nOften blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans\, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In her new book\, Franchise\, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies\, black capitalists and civil rights leaders\, who – in the troubled years after King’s assassination – believed they had found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. \nMarcia Chatelain\, Ph.D. is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is a leading public voice on the history of race\, education and food culture. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration\, Chatelain lives in Washington\, DC. \nAllyson Hobbs\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of United States History and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the award-winning author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-golden-arches-in-black-america/ LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-of-Franchise.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191120T050407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T050407Z UID:53874-1582745400-1582750800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 26\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSoda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold has written essays for The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, Outside\, Vice News\, The New York Times\, and more. His fiction has been published by Playboy\, The Kenyon Review\, Ecotone and other magazines. His work has been noted in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Short Stories. He has recieved fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowmnet for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, and the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. His first book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon\, is a work of narrative nonfiction published by Picador in June 2018. \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-chris-feliciano-arnold/ LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chris_3.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200203T223717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T223717Z UID:55437-1582790400-1582822800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents a book launch for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel DESCRIPTION:A book launch celebration for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel\, by San Francisco poet Lawrence Fixel\, who passed in 2003 at the age of 86. This long awaited new collection has been edited with an introduction by poet Gerald Fleming. Also appearing and presenting on the work of Lawrence Fixel at this evening will be poets Jack Marshall\, Edward Mycue\, Jo-Anne Rosen\, and poet-painter Patti Trimble\, painter Stephanie Sanchez\, photographer Mark Citret\, psychotherapist Robert Cantor\, and teacher Wendy Berkelman. Michael Heller says. “Lawrence Fixel was one of our most beautiful and original writers.…In a world of dogmas\, false certainties and oppressive realities\, he was an angel of Evanescence itself\, fluid\, ungraspable\, seeking as he wrote ‘to find in that which passes\, that which does not pass.’” Gerald Fleming is a poet and editor; he’s published four books of poems\, most recently One\, edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review\, and is currently editing the limited–edition vitreous magazine One (More) Glass. URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-a-book-launch-for-the-collected-poetry-and-prose-of-lawrence-fixel/ LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-20.png ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200207T213711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T213903Z UID:55651-1582826400-1582830000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Karen Sherman - Brick By Brick DESCRIPTION:Karen Sherman\, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda\, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012 after a 25-year career working on women’s issues in developing countries and embattled parts of the world. More than a memoir of that year\, the book is a tribute to the women she met\, and how their stories profoundly impacted her own life. “In many ways\, our time in Rwanda surprised me.” says Sherman\, “It deepened my sense of perspective for what it takes to be a woman almost anywhere in the world today\, even when that womanhood is threatened or diminished by one’s family\, culture or society. There is much that women in the developed and developing worlds can learn from each other\, especially in this era of mass shootings and #MeToo.” Sherman and her three sons arrived in Rwanda after a tumultuous year in which her bid to become CEO of Women for Women International\, an organization that helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives\, had failed. She had worked there for close to a decade. \n“Like so many people in our modern\, success-driven society\, the job defined me\,” she writes. “But this work was much more than a job. Helping women who had survived war move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency resonated powerfully with me\, given my background and experiences. It felt right\, like what I was supposed to be doing. This failure felt personal. It was devastating.” So\, she took a one-year posting to Rwanda\, hoping it would distance her from the crises in her career and marriage and put her back in touch with the work on the ground. Throughout her career\, she had heard hundreds of personal stories from women who had endured war. The common thread was that all had managed to survive. “Now that we were living in Rwanda\,” she writes\, “I thought maybe\, if I could sit and talk with some of these women\, learn more about their perspectives and choices\, it might help to bring me back to myself.” For the rest of 2012 and into 2013\, Sherman oversaw the completion of a new Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza and the transitions of leadership in three of the four African countries where Women for Women worked. Each of the five hundred thousand bricks used to construct the Center were hand made by Rwandan women. “The architects of the Center would often talk about the process of building as ‘brick by brick.’ But I always thought of it as woman by woman\,” Sherman writes in the book’s prologue. “These women\, and so many of the survivors I worked with\, each in their own way\, had been able to build or rebuild their lives one step\, one small change\, in some cases\, one brick at a time\,” she realizes. “They’d held onto their dreams\, forged their own paths\, taken risks\, and led change in their families\, communities\, and countries. They had fully embraced their choices. In that moment I vowed to fully embrace mine.” \nKaren Sherman brings more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur\, strategist\, and executive level manager to her role as President of the Akilah Institute. Throughout her career\, Sherman has combined her expertise\, passion\, and transformative leadership skills to affect lasting change for women in conflict-affected countries and those in transition. She has global and sectoral experience in: Women and girls’ education around the world\, Women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship\, Women in conflict-affected countries. Across her different roles\, Sherman has worked with stakeholders at all levels\, from community groups to corporate leaders and heads of state\, to take programs from concept to scale. Most importantly\, her work has resulted in measurable impacts on women’s income\, health\, decision-making\, and social networks. Sherman serves as a thought leader and spokesperson on global women’s issues through the media\, public appearances\, and diverse social media platforms. She has been featured in multiple publications and was Executive Producer of The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope\, published by National Geographic. URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-sherman-brick-by-brick/ LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200207T223455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T223455Z UID:55662-1582830000-1582830000@litseen.com SUMMARY:FREE OFFSITE EVENT: Amitav Ghosh\, "Unmuting the Brutes" DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series\, featuring Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization.'” Amitav Ghosh will speak at the UC Santa Cruz Music Recital Hall Thursday\, February 27th at 7:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public with registration. Please register here. Books by Amitav Ghosh will be available for sale at this event\, provided by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nThe idea of the ‘human’ dates back to the founding of modernity\, now hurtling towards collapse. As this process intensifies it may bring about a fundamental reconsideration of modern ideas regarding which entities possess such attributes as agency\, speech\, and reason. If so what kinds of narratives and knowledge traditions can we turn to for guidance about what might lie ahead? \nAmitav Ghosh is an award-winning writer\, who was born in Calcutta and grew up in India\, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction\, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)\, a collection of essays\, and ten novels. In 2018 he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor\, the Jnanpith Award. His most recent publication is Gun Island\, a novel. \nBeyond the End of the World comprises a year-long research and exhibition project and public lecture series\, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies\, bringing leading international thinkers and cultural practitioners to UC Santa Cruz to discuss what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism\, and how we can cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture. For more information visit BEYOND.UCSC.EDU \nPresented in partnership with the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture. The Maitra lecture series\, established in 2001\, seeks to enrich the intellectual life of UC Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz community. \nDirections and Parking:\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. The cost for parking is $5. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-4 URL:https://litseen.com/event/free-offsite-event-amitav-ghosh-unmuting-the-brutes/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sawyer-Beyond-Ghosh-1.15-1600x900-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200216T040822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T040822Z UID:55899-1582830000-1582830000@litseen.com SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by Lauren Ito. \nReaders for this event: \n\nRAINA J. LEÓN\nGREER NAKADEGAWA-LEE\nAMANDA MUNIZ FERNANDEZ\nSKYE CABRERA\nE.K. KEITH\n\n\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 previous months. 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-3/ LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-57.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200216T012700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T012700Z UID:55882-1582830000-1582833600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Lit Starts: Signing+Writing Workshop with Author Constance Hale DESCRIPTION:Please Join Us on Thursday\, February 27 at 7 PM for a Practicing the Craft: \nWrite Character\, Dialogue and Action with Constance Hale \nThe Writers Grotto has launched a light-hearted\, smart series on the writing craft\, called Lit Starts. Each of the books deepens your mastery of the writing craft through fun exercises and lively prompts that will change the way you approach the page. The popular writing coach Constance Hale\, a veteran member of the Writers Grotto and author of the Lit Starts series\, will lead interactive exercises and throw out writing prompts to encourage you to put pen to paper. Readers and writers are equally welcome. \nRead more about the Lit Starts books\, and order copies\, at: https://www.ggpbooks.com/event/litstarts. URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-starts-signingwriting-workshop-with-author-constance-hale/ LOCATION:A Great Good Place for Books\, 6120 La Salle Ave.\, Oakland\, California\, 94611 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lit-Starts.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20191227T030812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T030812Z UID:54569-1582830000-1582835400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \n\n\n\n\nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind \nEdited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman \npublished by Semiotext(e) Books\, distributed by The MIT Press \nExamining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy\, whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. \nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind is the first major publication to address Bellamy’s prolific career as a genre-bending writer. Megan Milks made several trips to San Francisco in order to spend time with Bellamy and craft a provocative and fascinating profile of the writer. Originally delivered as a lecture at the Wattis Institute\, Andrew Durbin’s text takes the form of a personal essay\, expertly weaving anecdotes of his own encounters with Bellamy’s writing with insights into broader themes in her work. Academic Kaye Mitchell takes a close look at the role of shame and its relationship to femininity in particular texts by Bellamy. And Bellamy and her late husband Kevin Killian offer deeply personal\, emotionally wrenching ruminations on topics from the mundane (drawing) to the profound (mortality). These texts\, alongside archival photos and a complete bibliography\, make this book an important compendium on Bellamy. \nDodie Bellamy has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area’s avant-garde literary scene\, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. In her words\, she champions “the vulnerable\, the fractured\, the disenfranchised\, the fucked-up.” \nAnthony Huberman is the Director and Chief Curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Founding Director of the Artist’s Institute in New York.city li URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-and-anthony-huberman-in-conversation/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/front-cover-of-Dodie-Bellamy-Is-On-Our-Mind.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T201609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T201609Z UID:55168-1582830000-1582835400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Jamel Brinkley DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts is excited to welcome author of A Lucky Man and finalist for the National Book Award\, Jamel Brinkley in conversation with SJSU’s new fiction professor\, Keenan Norris on Thursday\, February 27\, 2020 in MLK Library Room 225/229 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public. \nA debut that Entertainment Weekly saw “creating waves within the literary sphere\,” A Lucky Man explores the charged\, complex ties between men whose mistakes threaten their relationships with friends\, lovers\, and family members. The stories in this glittering collection reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them\, especially in a world shaped by race\, gender\, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. \nJamel Brinkley was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn\, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in California. \nKeenan Norris’s novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award for first books set in California. He is the editor of the critical volume Street Lit. His chapbook By the Lemon Tree was published in 2018 and his novella Luster will be published later this year. His short fiction appears in several literary journals\, as well as the anthologies Oakland Noir and Inlandia: A Journey Through the Literature of Southern California’s Inland Empire. He also serves as guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center with a focus on improving the Center’s archive of California scholarship. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California. URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamel-brinkley/ LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Jamel-Brinkley.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T014112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T014112Z UID:55125-1582830000-1582837200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer\, reading and in conversation DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading and conversation with two poet/performers who each have worked and written extensively in relation to contemporary art practices. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nSuzanne Stein’s poetry publications and performance documents include New Sutras\, The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Passenger Ship. With the poet Steve Benson\, she is the author of DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011 and 2012. Suzanne was the founding editor\, and for eight years editor-in-chief\, of Open Space\, SFMOMA’s art and language platform and publication. After thirty years’ living and working in the Bay Area\, she resides now in San Diego\, California. \nAnne Lesley Selcer is author of Sun Cycle\, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize and Blank Sign Book\, a collection of essays on art. Her other publications include from a Book of Poems on Beauty\, winner of the Gazing Grain prize\, Banlieusard\, a commissioned book-length text for Artspeak\, and Untitled (a treatise on form) with 2nd Floor Projects. Anne Lesley’s work can be found in Jacket2\, Fence\, Hyperallergic\, Art Practical\, The Chicago Review\, Open Space\, and Gauss PDF\, as well as in art exhibition catalogs. Occasionally working in video\, performance\, or sound\, she is currently engaged in a series of collaborations with artists based on Sun Cycle. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSuzanne Stein at Open Space \nSuzanne Stein and Steve Benson\, DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, at Gauss PDF \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “What Imaginary Thing Is a Museum?” (on Ana Mendieta)\, at Art Practical \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “A Playboy Bunny Navigates the Politics of Dystopia” (on Monet Clark)\, at Hyperallergic URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-stein-and-anne-lesley-selcer-reading-and-in-conversation/ LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Selcer-Stein-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200131T201033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T201033Z UID:55333-1582830000-1582837200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Beau Beausoleil: A Glyphic House at Alley Cat Books DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Beau Beausoleil’s latest publication\, A Glyphic House. \nThis Day On The Calendar \nOn this day\nwe are trying to gather\nthe lives and moments\nthat need illuminating \nWe need to remember\nthe women who\nput their work down\non the factory floor \nand walked out\nto strike \nWe need to remember\nthe children\nwho were shot\nin their classrooms \nalong with\ntheir teachers \nThese two contradictory things\nare part of remembering\non this calendar day \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems\nof blood and salt \nTo help us  remember\nthe ones\nwho were spit on \nThe one who were\ndragged from\ntheir cars \nand beaten \nSmall  poems of blood\nand salt on this day \nto help us remember\nthose who were carried to\nthe rope \nAnd those\nwho gathered there\nand stood by\nwatching \nas close as\nmy arm to\nyours \nor even\na hundred cities\naway \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems of blood\nand salt \nshaped\nwith our hands \nPoems that when taken\ninto our lives\nmake us unable\nto swallow and forget \nall the lies that have carried\nus here URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-a-glyphic-house-at-alley-cat-books/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200203T225913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T230116Z UID:55462-1582831800-1582831800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Elizabeth Tallent: Scratched DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism\, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich\, dramatic\, and constantly surprising personal life. \n\n\n\n\n “One of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”–Sigrid Nunez \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Scratched by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 27\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nScratched is an intimate account of the uses a child\, and the adult she becomes\, will find for perfectionism and the role it will play in every part of her life. Elizabeth Tallent’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington\, D.C.\, when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter\, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her own mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment\, Tallent moves back and forth in time\, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. \nTallent traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family\,” to her adulthood\, when perfectionism came to affect everything. In the decade between 27 and 37\, she published five literary books with Knopf and her short stories appeared in The New Yorker. But this extraordinary start to her career is followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote\, or rather published\, nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. \nTallent’s early publications secure her a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. As she toggles between Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives\, raises her son Gabriel\, and pursues an important psychoanalysis\, she grapples with the perfectionism that has always been home to her. Eventually\, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place\, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. \nHer final triumph is the writing of this memoir\, filled with wit\, humor\, and heart\, and unlike any other you will read. Scratched is a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence. \nElizabeth Tallent\, author of a novel and four story collections including Mendocino Fire\, has appeared in The Threepenny Review\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Tin House\, and ZYZZYVA as well as in the Best American Short Stories\, Best American Essays\, O. Henry Prize\, and Pushcart Prize award anthologies. She teaches in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and lives with her wife\, an antiques dealer\, on the Mendocino Coast. URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-tallent-scratched/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-29.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T213000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200212T191512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T191512Z UID:55745-1582831800-1582839000@litseen.com SUMMARY:E. J. Dionne: Code Red: How Progressives & Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country DESCRIPTION:Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM \nHosted by Kris Welch \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006  or Marcus Books\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs.Dalloway’s Books $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \nNew York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne sounds the alarm in Code Red\, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America’s future for the 2020 presidential election. \nBut if progressives and moderates are unable-and unwilling-to overcome their differences\, they could not only enable Trump to prevail again but also squander an occasion for launching a new era of reform. \nDionne calls for a shared commitment to decency and a politics focused on freedom\, fairness\, and the future\, encouraging progressives and moderates to explore common ground and expand the unity that brought about Democrat victories in the 2018 elections. He offers a unifying model for furthering progress with a Politics of Remedy\, Dignity\, and More: one that solves problems\, resolve disputes\, and moves forward; that posits a positive future for Americans with more covered by health insurance\, more with decent wages\, more with good schools\, more security from gun violence\, more action to roll back climate change. Because at this point in our national story\, change can’t wait. \n  \n“A thrilling book\, from one of America’s most universally respected minds.” — Rachel Maddow \n  \nE.J. DIONNE\, JR.\, is a columnist for The Washington Post\, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution\, visiting professor at Harvard University\, and professor at Georgetown University. He is a co-author of the recent New York Times bestseller One Nation After Trump and author of Why the Right Went Wrong. \nKRIS WELCH is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a devoted grandmother. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486314  510-967-4495 URL:https://litseen.com/event/e-j-dionne-code-red-how-progressives-moderates-can-unite-to-save-our-country/ LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Code-Red.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T223000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200126T020219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T020219Z UID:55152-1582831800-1582842600@litseen.com SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Feb27_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are. URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-the-healthcare-edition/ LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/YG2D.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173315 CREATED:20200229T005733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200229T005733Z UID:56219-1582876800-1582909200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Slam Jam! DESCRIPTION:Slam Jam! \nA series presenting original music and poetry featuring a rotating lineup of Bay Area Spoken Word Artists and Musicians. \nHeld on the Cabaret Stage at The Marsh Arts Center 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA. \n——————- \nBook Release Party for TUREEDA MIKELL!\nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\nNomadic Press \nThe wordsmiths with us tonight: \nNOISE ALLSTAR BAND \nGENIUS WESLEY – drums\nDANNY BROWN – saxophone\nMICHAEL TINY LINDSEY – bass\nMANNY BERRY – keys \nON THE MIC \nTONGO EISEN-MARTIN\nKWAN BOOTH\nTUREEDA MIKELL\nJAMES CAGNEY\nABDUL KENYATTA\nMELISSA JONES——————- \nThere is a full bar on-site with great drink specials so this event is 21 & up. \nJoin us at the Marsh Arts Center: a breeding ground for new performance! URL:https://litseen.com/event/slam-jam/ LOCATION:The Marsh Berkeley\, 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Slam-Jam.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173316 CREATED:20200216T011247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T033620Z UID:55856-1582914600-1582923600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Undocumented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading DESCRIPTION:(Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets \nFormer poet-in-residence\, Alan Pelaez Lopez\, will celebrate their debut book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Kemi Bello and Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe\, both key figures in the immigrant rights movement and the immigrant poetry community will read alongside Alan. Afterward\, the poets will share words about what it means to create art and prioritize care for one another in the midst of border violence. \nIntergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien is an experimental poetry collection that pushes the boundaries of the undocumented immigrant experience via the poet’s refusal to belong to United Statian society and the refusal of a structured poetics. In fact\, the chaotic geographies of the manuscript (collages + photographs + emails) formulate theories of fugitivity that position the transAtlantic slave trade and North American Indigenous dispossession as root causes of the poet’s “illegal entry” as a five-year-old to the U.S. In this refusal of national belonging and form\, the book asks for a critical kinship that the law can never account for\, and thus\, Alan Pelaez Lopez negotiates legal status for new imaginaries of care. \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation\, and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. They are the author of the art and poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System\, 2020)\, and the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press\, 2020). Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and “Best of the Net\,” and appears (or is forthcoming) in Best New Poets\, Best American Experimental Writing\, POETRY\, The Georgia Review\, and others. They have received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable\, the Museum of the African Diaspora\, VONA/Voices\, and UC Berkeley. They live in Oakland\, CA. www.alanpelaez.com/ \nKemi Bello is a stubborn sometimes-writer and poet living in Oakland\, California. She believes in the power of narrative to reclaim and connect\, and her writings around the messiness of migration have been published in outlets like The Nation and Autostraddle. Kemi’s poetry performances have taken her to stages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Galeria de la Raza\, Litquake SF\, and the University of Illinois\, Chicago. www.kemibello.com \nDanyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe is a formerly undocumented\, Afro-Dominican writer\, podcaster\, and activist raised in The Bronx\, New York. Her work centers themes of immigration\, race\, and gender. She has been featured on NPR\, Bronx Museum of Arts\, People En Español\, and her work has traveled as far as Aruba’s “Poetry is an Island Festival.” Danyeli has also been the recipient of several social justice fellowships including Immigrant Justice Corps\, Vera Fellowship\, and NYIC Dream Fellowship\, where she researched policy\, provided legal services\, and organized for immigrant rights. In 2019\, she co-founded loose accents\, a Latinx immigrant podcast highlighting stories of immigration from the East to the West Coast. She currently resides in South Los Angeles where she provides legal services to low-income immigrant communities. www.danyelirodriguezdelorbe.com \nThis program will include a wine reception URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-black-poetics-book-launch-reading/ LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Undocumented-Black-Poetics-Book-Launch-Reading.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173316 CREATED:20200126T205939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T205939Z UID:55224-1582916400-1582921800@litseen.com SUMMARY:After Hours: Super Tuesday with Mark DiCamillo DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nLongtime pollster Mark DiCamillo will discuss the California primary election\nand provide an overview of other elections taking place across the\ncountry on Super Tuesday. Currently Director of the UC Berkeley IGS\nPoll\, DiCamillo last spoke here before the 2016 Presidential election. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens February 10th. URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-super-tuesday-with-mark-dicamillo/ LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Mill-Valley-Library-by-Natasha-Lowell.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T213000 DTSTAMP:20260409T173316 CREATED:20200212T193607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T193607Z UID:55746-1582918200-1582925400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Democracy at Work present: \nRICHARD D. WOLFF\nUnderstanding Socialism\nWith Sabrina Jacobs \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \n“Richard Wolff’s book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is\, was\, and should be.” – Cornel West \nA blend of history\, analysis\, and theory\, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives\, confronts failures and the challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history\, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. The crises of global capitalism (inequality\, instability\, unsustainability\, and incipient fascism) deepen daily. Consider Trump’s and Boris Johnson’s desperate extreme-right efforts to be re-elected\, and consider that total global debts (of corporations\, governments\, and households) tripled between 1999 and 2019. Brazil’s Bolsonaro blames Leonardo di Caprio for burning the Amazon. Vast crowds in Chile\, Lebanon\, and France are in the streets demanding basic economic change. These and many other symptoms expose a declining system in mounting troubles. \n“In the same accessible style that has made his programs and lectures such a hit\, he explains his subject in a way that’s not only smart\, but makes the rest of us feel smart. It’s actionable intelligence for every person.” – Laura Flanders \n“Lucid\, brilliant and uncompromising in his dissection of the capitalist system\, he also provides a sane and just socialist alternative to capitalist exploitation\, one we must all fight to achieve.” – Chris Hedges \nSabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude Awakening\, aired on KPFA Radio Monday afternoons. She covers local breaking news as well as global events\, informing listeners about the latest social injustices. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486333  510-967-4495 URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-wolff-understanding-socialism/ LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Richard-Wolff.gif END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR