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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T213000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Revolution Books 40th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Sahar Delijani\, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez\, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books 40th Anniversary. \n6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments\n7pm Program & champagne toast \nThis is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise\, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity. \nYou feel this when you first walk through the door and find the literature\, poetry\, history\, science\, art\, and the revolutionary theory for a radically different world. You experience programs and engagements with us and with each other that percolate with emancipatory possibility. \nRevolution Books is alive with the scientific understanding that a different and better world is possible. RB is the political\, intellectual\, and cultural center of a movement for an actual revolution and that is why it is a unique\, incredible bookstore—a resource for the world. The heart of the store is the framework for unleashing the revolutionary potential of humanity: the breakthrough in scientifically knowing and radically changing the world through revolution\, the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. Avakian emerged from the 60s in Berkeley\, and is a leader who never gave up asking the hard questions of the road forward to human emancipation and developing the path to that future. \nThe store still concentrates and captures what was best in Berkeley in the 60s—the wildness and fury and intellectual\, cultural and scientific daring and rebellion of the times. At RB we seek to foster a culture of revolt against a revolting culture while nurturing art that imagines in the present what a future world and people could be. And at RB people experience and can take up the science of revolution in the extensive body of work of Bob Avakian that shatters demoralized defeatist preconceptions that the misery and spirit crushing world today is all that could be. \nThere is a reason the fascists who come to Berkeley have focused on Revolution Books and attacked it again and again. It has to do with how they hate the Enlightenment—hate critical thinking\, search for the truth; and how they see that revolutionary communism is fundamentally opposed to everything they are about. \nThere is all this and much more to celebrate about Revolution Books—both parts of its name. Join with the staff of Revolution Books and its broader community to make this anniversary\, and the future of this unique place all it needs to be. Keep Revolution Books the vibrant\, daring intellectual center for an actual revolution it must be now more than ever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revolution-books-40th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Revolution Books\, 2444 Durant Ave.\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monday-a-journal-of-poetry-prose-and-art/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Disobedient Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:February is the month of love and loneliness\, Pisces and Leap Year. But we’re doing our own thing. In honor of all that is wrong in the world\, we’re celebrating DISOBEDIENCE. Tell us about being naughty\, or just plain bad\, about subverting expectations\, talking back\, bucking the system\, civil or marital or animal disobedience\, about saying no. Or yes. Or don’t do any of that. I’m not the boss of you. I’m not even your real mom. \nFebruary featured writers: Yume Kim & Georgina Marie \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is also a Kundiman fellow and has previously attended the Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat during the summer of 2012 at Fordham University. Her recent chapbook\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Additionally some of her works can also be found in the following journals: gesture\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, West Wind Review\, Transfer\, Sugared Water\, Writing Without Walls\, and The East Bay Review. \nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lake County\, Northern California. She was one of three finalists for the 2018-2020 Lake County Poet Laureate term and is in the running for the 2020-2022 term. She is involved in her literary community as a writer\, supporter of writers\, and organizer and participant of poetry events. She has participated in readings in Lake\, Mendocino\, Napa\, Alameda\, and San Francisco counties. In 2019\, she served as editor for RESTORE\, a collection of written word and visual arts for the Middletown Art Center\, was guest editor for author Nicole Gulotta’s online writers support group\, and had an ekphrastic poem in collaboration with Los Angeles artist Richard Chow featured at the Griffin Museum of Phptography in Boston\, Massachusetts. She currently hosts the Harbin Writers Collective at Harbin Hot Springs and aims to continue encouraging and promoting the literary movement in Lake County. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook\, Finding the Roots of Water\, in 2018 and recently completed her second chapbook\, Tree Speak\, in 2019. In 2020 she is working on her full-length manuscript to submit to publishers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-disobedient-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell\, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, will be in conversation with Art Table’s Jan Wurm. \n“How to Do Nothing is genuinely instructive\, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival. You can knock the hustle — and you should.”—Akiva Gottlieb\, LOS ANGELES TIMES \n“Approachable and incisive. . . . The book is clearly the work of a socially conscious artist and writer who considers careful attention to the rich variety of the world an antidote to the addictive products and platforms that technology provides. . . . [Odell] sails with capable ease between the Scylla and Charybdis of subjectivity and arid theory with the relatable humanity of her vision.”—Nicholas Cannariato\, THE WASHINGTON POST \n“The sentiment behind How to Do Nothing is one of defiance.”—Casey Schwartz\, THE NEW YORK TIMES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cafe Society Presents":MAILTO:cafesociety.richmond@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T203000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell on her book How to Do Nothing\, Resisting the Attnetion Economy. Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oakland whose work mines second-hand imagery to bring into focus culture and economies for a clearer understanding of social structures. The author of How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy\, her work has been featured in The Economist\, Wired\, Die Zeit\, and Le Soir. Jenny Odell teaches digital art and physical design at Stanford. \n“An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us.”—Annie Vainshtein\, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \n“An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency\, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it.”—Jennifer Szalai\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell-on-how-to-do-nothing/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T220000
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SUMMARY:Book Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Press presents…\nBook Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok\nSat Feb 29\, 7pm\nEastSide Cultural Center\n2277 International Blvd. Oakland\n& Bandung Books\n2289 International Blvd. Oakland\nFREE COMMUNITY EVENT • accessible venue \nJoin us for a special evening\, as we celebrate Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection\, A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON. Featuring a traditional blessing dance by Morodok Khmer Performing Arts & readings by poets Safia Elhillo\, Charif Shanahan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, sam sax \, Hieu Minh Nguyen\, and Charleen McClure. After the show\, there will be a book signing next door at Bandung Books. \nABOUT THE BOOK: In this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \nLearn more here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/ \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020) and YEAR ZERO\, winner of a 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, selected by Marilyn Chin. In 2018\, her work was recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, CA. She is originally from Lancaster\, PA. [Photo Credit: Andria Lo] \nVisit her website here: www.monicasok.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-party-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/
LOCATION:Eastside Cultural Center\, 2277 International Blvd\, Oakland\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T190000
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SUMMARY:Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini\, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020\, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini’s\, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living. \nSicilian born\, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author\, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled “La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini’s Vision (NYC\, 2008)”\, originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB. \nMore than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960)\, Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini’s filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta\, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. \nWith an interdisciplinary approach\, Zanetti explores Fellini’s enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema’s creation. \nRecognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time\, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory\, dreams\, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political\, Fellini’s films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City\, Paisan\, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria\, La Strada\, La Dolce Vita\, 8 1/2\, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year\, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d’Or\, four Academy Awards\, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy\, numerous Academy Award nominations\, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam\, David Lynch\, Juan Antonio Bardem\, Wojciech Has\, Emir Kusterica\, and many others. \nMore Fellini celebrations: \nCinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com \nBerkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fellini-turns-100-la-natura-morta-de-la-dolce-vita-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T210000
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Reyes: Running to Stand Still
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new book\, Running to Stand Still. Also featuring readings from Jennifer Lewis\, Truong Tran\, and Kar Johnson. \nPraise for Running to Stand Still \n“Rich in literary and pop culture references\, the voice of Running to Stand Still is both specific and wide-ranging. Quotations from artists as disparate as Frank Bidart and The Killers splice and introduce poems. In one section\, Reyes repurposes screenshots of text messages; in another\, partial strikethroughs enable multiple readings. Through this juxtaposing of different forms and language\, Reyes weaves a deeply intimate portrait out of impossibly expansive themes: modern life\, Black womanhood\, family history\, and technology.”— Poets & Writers \n“These poems\, with through lines of gender\, race\, adventure\, desire\, build into a deeply moving provocation of loss and discovery. The brilliance of these poems is their achievement of discomfit as they simultaneously travel distance and move inward. . . . The title of this collection is a promise: how poetry can at once run and stand still\, and why that matters.”— Valerie Wallace\, author of House of McQueen \n“Pinballing between family lore\, social media\, and pop culture discourse\, Reyes deconstructs the casual discourses of contempt her narrators are invited to embrace outside and within blood lines\, however much ‘birthright belonging / is the maim.’ And yet\, betrayed by the human desire to belong (‘To be kept is to / be kept\, and what you wanted’)\, they—she—never quite reach escape velocity: Running to Stand Still is thus the poignant record of an orbit\, both victory and impasse.”— Tyrone Williams\, author of As iZ \nAbout Running to Stand Still \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.\nThese poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nAbout the Authors \nKimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, NY1 News\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal\, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn\, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press\, 2018)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills\, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTruong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing. He is the author numerous volumes of poetry including the upcoming book 100 Words (Omnidawn) co-authored with Damon Potter. He is a self taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society\, California Institute of Integral Studies\, SOMArts Gallery\, Telegraph Hill Gallery\, The San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair\, Avenue 12 Gallery and The Peninsula Museum of Art. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College. \nKar Johnson is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and bookseller in San Francisco. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Northridge Review\, Foglifter\, and the anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Kar has performed their work for series Red Light Lit\, The Racket\, RADAR\, and many others. They received their MFA from San Francisco State University. \nJennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills Press\, Midnight Breakfast\, sPARKLE & bLINK and X-Ray Lit Mag. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and she teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-reyes-running-to-stand-still/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DirtyMinds/OpenHearts Open Mic/Spoken word
DESCRIPTION:Dirty Minds/Open Hearts Poetry Society will present an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD event on Monday\, March 2 at 7pm at The Laundry at 3359 26th Street in San Francisco\, CA. \nCross street is Mission street in the Mission District of San Francisco. \nAll musicians\, singers\, Orators\, poets\, Hip Hop\, even magicians\, jugglers\, are welcome to attend. \nFirst timers to Experienced Open Mic are welcome \nSign up is day of event. \nFirst come\, first served. \n22 spots available. \nChoose any number\, one to 22. \n5 minute sessions \n8 minute sessions assigned by the Host. \n15 Feature Performer assigned by the Host. \nStart at 7pm \nNo fee. \nPlease support The Laundry with purchase of beer\, wine\, soda. \nHost: Mose Betta \nContact: \n415 483 6905 \nEmail: dirtyminds0penhearts@gmail.com \nContact me at other Open Mic events such as Bird /Beckett\, Sacred Grounds\, Cafe Bazzaar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirtyminds-openhearts-open-mic-spoken-word/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T213000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning @ Old Devil Moon
DESCRIPTION:March 2 @ Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St. @ Cortland\, 7pm\n\n\n\nGustavo Barahona-López\nJyoti Arvey\nNicole Henares\nJennifer Lewis\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nEmilie Osborn\nKeith Mark Gaboury\nMatt Leibel\nZephir O’Meara \nClyde Always\nJon Bennett\nKimi Sugioka\nDanielle Truppi\nTammy Zo Pollard\nPeter Bullen\nEmily Bornhop\nSerena Chan\nKelly Gray\nMackenzie Studebaker \n\n\n\nCurated by Sean Taylor & Jason Whitacre \nAdmission is a suggested $15 donation\, with all proceeds directly benefiting Bay Area artists. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. sPARKLE & bLINK featuring cover art by Claire Rabkin for the first 100 people! \n\nfrom Tools for the Exchange of Force by Claire Rabkin\n\n\nThe Children’s Book Project will be at our show! The Children’s Book Project is a non-profit that takes books without children and gives them to children without books. With 138\,600 free books given to children in the San Francisco Bay Area last year\, the Children’s Book Project anticipates giving away its 3 millionth book this spring. Bring a new or gently-used children’s book to support equity in literacy\, learning\, and life!\n\n\nTickets / RVSP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-old-devil-moon/
LOCATION:Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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