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SUMMARY:Under the Dome: Paul Celan at 100 Celebration
DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion of the great Romanian-born poet Paul Celan \non the occasion of his 100th birthday \nwith Judith Butler\, Fady Joudah\, and more guests TBD \nhosted by Robert Kaufman \n— \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register (Link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book (Link to be posted soon) \n— \nPaul Celan (1920–1970) is considered one of Europe’s greatest post-World-War II poets\, known for his astonishing experiments in poetic form\, expression\, and address. His poetry\, at times dealing directly with the personal aftermath of the Holocaust\, has been a touchstone for so many since his passing\, and his grappling with what poetry can mean or accomplish in the face of such atrocities has been a major reason why his legacy as one of the most important poets from the later half of the 21st century has endured so strongly. \nJoin us on the date of Celan’s 100th birthday as we celebrate his life and writings with readings and discussion with special guests\, especially highlighting three new books published on this occasion: \nUnder the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive\, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop with an introduction by Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard\n(City Lights Books) \nMemory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry\, a Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan\, translated by Pierre Joris with Commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux) \nMicroliths They Are\, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose by Paul Celan\, translated by Pierre Joris (Contra Mundum Press) \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nRobert Kaufman is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he also teaches in\, and is past co-director of\, the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. Kaufman is the author of Negative Romanticism: Adornian Aesthetics in Keats\, Shelley\, and Modern Poetry (Cornell University Press in 2021)\, and is at work on two related books\, Why Poetry Should Matter—to the Left: Frankfurt Constellations of Democracy and Modernism after Postmodernism? Robert Duncan and the Future-Present of American Poetry. His essays on modern poetry\, aesthetics\, and critical theory have been published in numerous journals and edited volumes. \nJudith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Berkeley. They are the author of Frames of War\, Precarious Life\, The Psychic Life of Power\, Excitable Speech\, Bodies that Matter\, Gender Trouble\, The Force of Nonviolence\, and with Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau\, Contingency\, Hegemony\, Universality. \nFady Joudah has published four collections of poems\, The Earth in the Attic\, Alight\, Textu\, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; and\, most recently\, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award\, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston\, with his wife and kids\, where he practices internal medicine.
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Jamie Ritchie (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Jamie Ritchie\, head of Sotheby’s wine\, is proud to present The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia\, an essential reference for oenophiles—long used as the go-to text for the prestigious Master Sommelier examination—and the most comprehensive guide to the world of wine\, featuring authoritative information on the history\, culture\, geography\, and taste of vintages around the globe. \nJamie became head of Sotheby’s global wine business in May of 2016. He joined Sotheby’s in London in 1990 and was responsible for launching Sotheby’s wine auctions in New York in 1994 and in Hong Kong in 2009. More recently\, Mr. Ritchie was responsible for launching Sotheby’s Wine\, a retail store and online wine business\, becoming the only major global auctioneer offering fine wines at retail. He is also a respected authority in the wine market and has been regularly featured in the Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, Financial Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Forbes\, and Wine Spectator Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-jamie-ritchie-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Deborah Madison (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Madison’s An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables is a warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nDeborah is the author of fourteen cookbooks and countless articles on food\, cooking\, and farming. She is revered for bringing vegetarian cooking to a wide audience\, including non-vegetarians\, via Greens restaurant and her cookbooks. A bestselling author\, her first cookbook was The Greens Cookbook and her recent books include The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy\, which was awarded both a James Beard award and an IACP award. She lives in Northern New Mexico with her husband\, painter Patrick McFarlin. \nJane Hirshfield is one of our most celebrated contemporary poets and the author of nine collections of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty\, long-listed for the National Book Award and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015; Come\, Thief; After\, named a Best Book of 2006 by The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Financial Times\, and a finalist for England’s prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize; Given Sugar\, Given Salt\, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award\, and winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award; The Lives of the Heart; The October Palace; Of Gravity & Angels\, winner of the Poetry Center Book Award; and Alaya.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conversations-with-authors-deborah-madison-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Jingletown Reading ft. Tongo Eisen-Martin\, William Archila\, Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:JT ft Tongo Eisen-Martin\, William Archila\, Barbara Jane Reyes\nNamed after the Fruitvales’s historic neighborhood in Oakland\, Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly event that celebrates writers & artists committed to social justice and determined to make a positive change in our communities. \nThis month Jingletown Reading is Tongo Eisen-Martin\, William Archila\, Barbara Jane Reyes \nOpen Mic is limited to 5 readers\, 4 minutes each. It is on a 1st come 1st serve basis. \nJingletown Reading & Open Mic \nSaturday November 21st \n2-3:30 pm \nHosts: harold terezόn\, Adela Najarro \n\n\n\n\n\nZoom: 992 1716 1772 PSWD: justice
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SUMMARY:Chinese Workers & the Pacific Salmon Canning Industry
DESCRIPTION:Join CHSA in welcoming brothers Jim & Philip Chiao for an exploration into the history of Chinese in the Pacific salmon canning industry. \nIn 1852\, 19-year-old William Hume traveled from Maine to California by way of Panama. Unlike most young men of the time\, he did not come to prospect for gold. Instead\, he made a living by fishing in the Sacramento River\, later founding the first salmon cannery on the west bank of the Sacramento River. In 1870\, Hume and his brothers hired 15 Chinese workers\, beginning four decades of Chinese dominance in the labor market of the salmon canning industry along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. \nSpeakers Jim and Philip Chiao spent three summers working in Alaska canneries during their college years\, personally experiencing the life of cannery workers during the early 1970s. Recently\, they have documented their Alaska experiences in a blog on their website. Jim and Philip will take the audience on a guided historical tour of Chinese American and Chinese workers in the canning industry. They will trace 150 years of Chinese workers in the canning industry\, starting with the founding of the industry\, the expansion and dominance of Chinese workers in the labor market\, and its eventual demise. Along the way\, they will highlight the major events that shaped the industry and affected the Chinese workers. \nThe program will last from 1-2pm. Audience members will be able to ask the speakers questions at 2pm. Advanced questions can be submitted to info@chsa.org. \nClick here to register and learn more. \n\n \nJames Chiao is an Electrical Engineer by profession. He received a BSEE from University of Washington and a MSEE from CWRU. He had spent 30+ years working in various high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley and retired 4 years ago. He has been active in the non-profit organization Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN)\, which he co-founded with others in 1996\, and has served as its (co-)president for 5 years. He is currently a member of FCSN’s board of directors\, and a member of Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP)’s advisory board. He and his wife are residents of Fremont. \nPhilip C. Chiao is an Architect by profession. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University go Washington\, and a Master of Architecture degree from University of Illinois. He had worked in various architectural firms and had at times established his own practices. He retired from his profession in 2016. He is a member of the Design Review Committee for the City of Pasadena\, and a member of the Board for Prado homeowner association. He and his wife are residents of Pasadena. They have a son and daughter and three grandchildren. \n\nConnect with CHSA! Those who sign-up for this program will automatically be registered for the CHSA newsletter for information about future CHSA programs and museum content.
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SUMMARY:Facing You: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19
DESCRIPTION:From acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, and an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. \nPraise for Facing You: \n“For decades\, Uche Nduka’s refulgent poetry has shone out amid the various national and cultural contexts in which he has found himself\, from Nigeria to Germany to Brooklyn. The brief poems of Facing You showcase Nduka at his most iconic. Casual and elemental\, Surreal and Blue\, these poems are like fuses: exactly equal to their tasks. Facing You proves the pliant strength of the lyric\, its ability\, in a handful of blunt and turning lines\, to reverse reality with the ease of an upraised mirror. Nduka’s poetry models the principle of agile\, flamelike survival amid this most leaden of worlds.”––Joyelle McSweeney \n“Uche Nduka’s lyrical abstractions are razor sharp and lighting fast. Each poem turns several corners in the blink of an eye. A Nigerian-American poet by way of Germany and Holland\, Nduka has honed his genius on the whetting stones of a tri-continental cosmopolitanism. His voice is both courtly and sensual\, and his poems as frankly sexual as they are defiantly explosive. Like Rimbaud\, Nduka sings the pride of exile\, the debauchery of imagination\, with wile and wit. We are lucky to have him.”—Kit Robinson \n“It’s not enough to be in love. These poems want to lose themselves in you. In Facing You\, Uche Nduka conjures up the kind of romance that ends up in movies and songs––a love so strong you dissolve into your lover. At the same time\, Nduka’s short and leaping phrases play hard to get. Just when you think you might be closer to making contact\, he pivots\, leaving you to feel like a rug has been pulled out from under you. What do we make of this push-and-pull dynamic from a speaker who says\, ‘I need a hell of a lot / of love to run my life on’? I think it means that Nduka’s poems understand how difficult intimacy is\, how it can feel like chasing a dream\, how it requires constant courage to overcome the fear of being hurt: ‘You must have the guts / to tear absence apart.’ It’s much easier to run away. Facing You lives in the gap between the desire for intimacy and intimacy itself\, the exact place where meaning-making both comes to be and breaks down. It holds us suspended between language and sense\, speech-sounds and communication\, where we can feel the full brunt of our yearning.”—Anaïs Duplan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/facing-you-city-lights-spotlight-series-no-19/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Heather Bourbeau\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Aileen Cassinetto & Chris Stroffolino
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response\, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. \nCurated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response)\, the first event in the series features Heather Bourbeau\, Aileen Cassinetto\, Tongo Eisen-Martin and Chris Stroffolino responding to the mural Justice for Luís D. Góngora Pat by Marina Perez-Wong and Elaine Chu\, working with Justice4Luis. \nThis virtual event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n– ABOUT THE PROJECT – \nWall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley with the SF Poster Syndicate live printing posters. However\, due to the pandemic the poets will instead be filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley. Kotian will be creating videos for each series that will be presented as part of live online events (of which this is the first). All the events are free and open to the public. \nThe poets are creating new poems in response to the murals\, and will be reading those and other selected works at the events. The specific dates for each event will be announced in the month prior to the event. \nWall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. \n– ABOUT THE AUTHORS – \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery\, The Cardiff Review\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She is the Chapman University Flash Fiction winner and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been featured in several anthologies\, including America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience and Respect: Poems About Detroit Music (Michigan State University Press). She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nAileen Cassinetto is the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, California. Widely anthologized\, she is the author of the poetry collections\, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems\, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asahi Shimbun\, The Banyan Review\, Moss Trill\, The Nonconformist Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and Vox Populi\, among others. Aileen is the curator of the social justice-themed reading series “Power to the Poets” and the forthcoming Peninsula virtual book festival featuring new releases from SF Bay Area writers. \nTongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco\, California\, and received an MA from Columbia University. He is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and Heaven Is All Goodbyes(City Lights Publishers\, 2017)\, which received the California Book Award and an American Book Award. A poet\, movement worker\, and educator\, his latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nChris Stroffolino currently lives in Oakland\, California and teaches English at Laney College. He’s published several books of poetry and essays\, and may sometimes be heard—but not seen (in the social distancing era)—playing trumpet in a hidden location at Lake Merritt. \n\n– OTHER PARTICIPATING AUTHORS + EVENTS –  \nJanuary 2021: Karla Brundage\, Jennifer Hasegawa\, Tureeda Mikell and Kim Shuck responding to the work We Want Respect\, Freedom\, Land\, Housing\, Justice\, Peace\, Bread by Emory Douglas/Black Panther Party / remix by CUBA D8\, Mace \nMarch 2021: Celeste Chan\, MK Chavez\, Paul Corman-Roberts and Tim Xonnelly responding to the mural Affordable Housing/Vivienda Asequible by the SF Print Collective working with the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) \nJune 2021: Youssef Alaoui\, Jason Bayani\, Genny Lim\, and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live by Art Forces\, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)\, and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO) \n– ABOUT THE CURATORS –  \nMegan Wilson is a visual artist\, writer\, and activist based in San Francisco. Wilson has been a core organizer of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) since 2001. In 2018 she co-directed and co-organized (with Christopher Statton and Nano Warsono) CAMP’s second international exchange and residency project\, Bangkit /Arise between artists from Yogyakarta\, Indonesia and San Francisco/Bay Area in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The second phase of the project will take place 2021-22. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito\, California (2016 – 2018)\, and her poetry collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in October 2020. \nYou can read more about CAMP and Wall + Response here. \n— \nThis virtual event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
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SUMMARY:TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Ta-Nehisi Coates\, The Water Dancer
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and Marcus Books present: A virtual event with Ta-Nehisi Coates\, in conversation with Adam Serwer\, on Friday\, November 20th\, at 6:00 p.m. Pacific. \nBestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) will discuss his acclaimed novel The Water Dancer (in paperback November 17th) with Adam Serwer\, staff writer at The Atlantic\, at a ticketed virtual event. Their conversation will include the state of our country post-election\, truth telling\, and the idea that stories and mythology can persuade and change attitudes when facts alone cannot. \n“In prose that sings and imagination that soars\, Coates further cements himself as one of this generation’s most important writers\, tackling one of America’s oldest and darkest periods with grace and inventiveness. This is bold\, dazzling\, and not to be missed.” — Publishers Weekly\, starred review \nTICKETING INFO: All tickets include one paperback copy of The Water Dancer\, plus entry to the virtual event. \n\nIn-store Pickup: $22 (plus Eventbrite fees)\nShipped-to-You: $27 (plus Eventbrite fees)\nFree book and event entry available to the first 500 current UCSC students. Student ID required at registration.\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE. \nMORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND OUR EVENT PARTNERS: \nTa-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle\, We Were Eight Years in Power\, and Between the World and Me\, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. \nAdam Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and is the author of the forthcoming essay collection\, The Cruelty Is the Point: Essays on Trump’s America\, which can be pre-ordered soon through Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nMarcus Books: Located in Oakland\, California\, Marcus Books is the oldest independent Black bookstore in the country. Books by and about Black people everywhere. \nThe Humanities Institute: For over 20 years\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz has fostered community at the cutting edge of Humanities research\, education\, and public engagement.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ticketed-virtual-event-ta-nehisi-coates-the-water-dancer/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Simon Han and Meng Jin
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 20 at 6pm PST when Simon Han discusses his debut novel\, Nights When Nothing Happened\, with Meng Jin on Zoom! \nPreorder here and receive a signed bookplate! Be sure to write “signed” in your order comment. While supplies last. \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88142035691\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88142035691#  or +13462487799\,\,88142035691#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592\nWebinar ID: 881 4203 5691\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcCopBcGFW \nPraise for Nights When Nothing Happened \nNamed a Most Anticipated book for Fall by USA Today\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Esquire\, The Millions\, and more. \n“A tender\, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore\, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America \n“Absolutely luminous… Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga. . . Shocks\, awes\, and delights.” —Bryan Washington\, author of Memorial \n“Achingly tender and emotionally devastating. A stunning debut that will stay with me.” —Charles Yu\, author of Interior Chinatown\n \nAbout Nights When Nothing Happened \nA little girl’s sleepwalking odysseys trigger a chain reaction that threatens to undo the fragile stability of her immigrant family. \nFrom the outside\, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas\, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child\, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn’t this what they sacrificed so much for? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night\, putting into motion a string of misunderstandings that not only threaten to set their community against them but force to the surface the secrets that have made them fear one another. How can a man make peace with the terrors of his past? How can a child regain trust in unconditional love? How can a family stop burying its history and forge a way through it\, to a more honest intimacy? \nNights When Nothing Happened is gripping storytelling immersed in the crosscurrents that have reshaped the American landscape\, from a prodigious new literary talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-simon-han-and-meng-jin/
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SUMMARY:ZAZA Sixteen
DESCRIPTION:Weekly Zoom performance series “for the foreseeable future.”\n\n\n\n\nZAZA SIXTEEN is Taylor Johnson and Edmund Berrigan\nFriday\, November 20\, 6 pm PST / 8 pm CT / 9 pm EST\nRegister to get the link here: https://forms.gle/azwenkF2vMq27rp47\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/178621533893399
URL:https://litseen.com/event/60886/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN 3: BURGER / ALMEIDA / JACOBSEN / WATKINS
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-nov.eventbrite.com \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Burger is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland CA. She writes poetry and personal narratives that explore empathy and constructs of self. Her books include Sonny\, a novella about the Trinity atomic bomb test and a family’s dissolution\, and Then Go On\, a collection of short prose about conundrums of relation. Her visual practice includes painting\, mixed media\, and fiber arts. Her work uses geometric and biomorphic forms to trace a synesthesia of thinking. She was awarded the Small Time residency from SPT in 2019\, and residencies at the Banff Centre in Alberta and Pond Farm in Sonoma County. She’s working on a memoir about gender\, class\, religion\, and the behavior of black holes. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2018)\, and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti’s Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues\, 2019). She teaches at the Bard microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and runs 18 Owls Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColter Jacobsen is an artist and avid poetry reader living in Ukiah\, California\, home to one of the largest Haiku festivals in America. He is cohabitating with one human\, two dogs\, three cats\, and ten chickens. He’s worried that there may be more to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Mark Mahaney \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck\, Jarrad Powell\, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006\, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown\, Fred Frith\, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Documenta 14\, the Kronos Quartet\, The Living Earth Ensemble\, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players among others. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartet was awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has subsequently been performed at the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration\, the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin Germany and in Seattle Wa\, as part of the 2nd Annual Town Hall New Music Marathon featuring violist Eyvind Kang. Zachary has performed in numerous festivals across the United States\, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pioneering Drone Metal band Earth during their 2015 European tour. In 2008\, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery’s Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the The American Music Center and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An excerpt of this piece is published on a compilation album entitled ”The Harmonic Series‚” along side Pauline Oliveros\, Ellen Fullman\, Theresa Wong Charles Curtis and Duane Pitre among others. Zachary recently completed Documentado / Undocumentado a multi media interactive book in collaboration with Guillermo Gómez Peña\, Gustavo Vasquez\, Jennifer Gonzalez and Felicia Rice. His sound art work entitled Third Floor::Designed Obsolescence\, “spoke as a metaphor for the breakdown of the dream of technology and the myth of our society’s permanence\,” review by Susan Noyes Platt in the Summer 05 issue of ARTLIES. Zachary releases music on the labels Sige\, Cassauna\, Confront (UK)\, The Tapeworm and Touch (UK). Novembre Magazine (DE)\, ITCH (ZA)\, Walrus Press and the New York Miniature Ensemble have published his writings and scores. Zachary has been an artist in resident at the Espy Foundation\, Djerassi and the Headlands Center for The Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-3-burger-almeida-jacobsen-watkins/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T160000
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SUMMARY:Tania Amochaev: One Hundred Years of Exile
DESCRIPTION:In “One Hundred Years of Exile: In Search of My Father’s Russia” San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through one hundred years of history to find peace with her father.\n\n\n \n\n\nThis event is in English and will be held on Zoom on November 20\, 2020\, at 4.00 pm PST (SF)\, 7 pm EST (NY). There will be a limited number of seats; please contact Globus Books via FB messenger to register. We will also be live streaming the event on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos) and later will share the edited version of the program.\n\n\n \n\n\nDaughter and father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American\, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation left Tania with deep resentment.\n\n\n \n\n\nDecades later\, his unexpected death made Romanov explore her Russian heritage. A meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family sent Tania on a quest in time and space. Cossacks\, revolution\, escapes\, Stalin’s Purges: the Amochaevs’ family story reflects Russian history.\n\n\n \n\n\nTania Romanov is an award-winning travel photographer and the author of three books\, “Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women”\, “Never a Stranger”\, a travel story collection; and “One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia.” (2021). A Solas Award winner\, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian. Born in the former Yugoslavia\, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste\, Italy\, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools\, U.C. Berkeley\, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, eventually serving as CEO of three technology companies. When not on the road\, Tania splits her time between San Francisco and Sonoma County.\n\n\n \n\n\nThis program is produced and hosted by author Zarina Zabrisky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tania-amochaev-one-hundred-years-of-exile/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Panel: How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America\, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series\, with a roundtable conversation about Indigenous narratives\, visibility\, and storytelling. \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n  \nHow We Go Home\, edited by oral historian Sara Sinclair\, shares contemporary first-person Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land\, rights\, and life. In myriad ways\, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss\, injustice\, resilience\, and the struggle to share space with settler nations. In this roundtable conversation\, narrator Ashley Hemmers will be joined by the book’s editor\, Sara Sinclair\, and News from Native California editor\, Terria Smith\, to discuss representation and visibility of Indigenous communities today. \nThis event is cosponsored by Voice of Witness (VOW)\, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. The VOW Book Series depicts human rights issues through the edited oral histories of people—VOW narrators—who are most deeply impacted and at the heart of solutions to address injustice. The series explores issues of race-\, gender-\, and class-based inequity through the lenses of the criminal justice system\, migration\, and displacement. The VOW Education Program connects over 20\,000 educators\, students\, and advocates each year with these stories and issues through oral history-based curricula\, trainings\, and holistic educational support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-how-we-go-home-voices-from-indigenous-north-america/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T120000
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SUMMARY:W. KAMAU BELL: RACE & JOURNALISM
DESCRIPTION:W. KAMAU BELL: RACE & JOURNALISM\nin conversation with Chan’Cellore Makanjuola\nCo-presented with UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism\nFriday\, November 20\, 2020\n12:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 12/06/2020\, 12/08/2020\, 12/09/2020\n\nTICKETS \n\n\nThis year\, journalists were out in the streets\, covering racial reckoning and protest. Inside newsrooms\, which are overwhelmingly white\, media organizations are beginning to confront inequity in their own ranks. When the country’s newsrooms are mostly led by a privileged class of white men\, what does that mean for the kinds of stories that get covered\, missed\, undervalued? In a first time co-presentation with UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism\, cultural critic\, comedian\, and CNN docu-series host W. Kamau Bell joins graduate student Chan’Cellore Makanjuola for a lunchtime conversation about race\, storytelling\, identity and the future of journalism.\n\nSociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell is the host and executive producer of the CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and author of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″\, African American\, Heterosexual\, Cisgender\, Left-Leaning\, Asthmatic\, Black and Proud Blerd\, Mama’s Boy\, Dad\, and Stand-Up Comedian. \n\n\nChan’Cellore Makanjuola is an award-winning filmmaker from Plano\, Texas. She is a second-year graduate student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism\, with her concentration in documentary filmmaking\, and she is the co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) UC Berkeley Chapter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/60925/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T220000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-13/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T210000
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SUMMARY:Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #3: Adult Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, November 19\, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult nonfiction in this third episode of our Great Good Gifts for the Holidays series. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81183755875 \nThis is our third recommendations night of the season. Mark your calendar for these events too: \n\n11/5: Cook books and Gift Books;\n11/12: Kids’ books and graphic novels\n12/3: Adult fiction\n12/10: Recommendations for the Hard-to-Shop-For Person on Your List\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:\n\n\n\nZoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81183755875\n\nOakland\, CA 94611\nUnited States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-good-gifts-for-the-holidays-3-adult-nonfiction/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:An Unnatural History of America A panel discussion on the work of Charles Bowden
DESCRIPTION:Join the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks and a panel of writers for a discussion of the work of the late Charles Bowden\, whose “Unnatural History of America” series has just been published in full by the University of Texas Press. \nMore information on participants soon. For more on Charles Bowden\, read this tribute on Aeon. \n“Like the beasts and criminals he admired\, Bowden was a complicated\, contradictory creature. He loved dogs\, dirt\, wine\, worms\, Cadillacs\, cacti. He held backyard parties to watch summer cereus flowers bloom at midnight\, and owned scores of guns but was reluctant to shoot them lest they scare the birds.” — Wes Enzinna\, Harper’s Magazine \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE. \nAbout Charles Bowden\nCharles Bowden (1945-2014) was the author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues\, Bowden was a contributing editor for GQ\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review\, High Country News\, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award\, Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction\, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice. He wrote The Red Caddy in 1994.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-unnatural-history-of-america-a-panel-discussion-on-the-work-of-charles-bowden/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T203000
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino\, with Zaina Alsous
DESCRIPTION:“A Border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction.” Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino\, with Zaina Alsous\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nThursday\, November 19 – 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm \nRegister to Attend\n—or—\nWatch Live Stream at YouTube \nUnder the heading “A border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction”—a line from a poem in Wendy Trevino’s remarkable book\, Cruel Fiction—Trevino\, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence for Fall 2020\, will be joined\, as part of her week-long residency\, by Palestinian American poet Zaina Alsous\, both poets reading and in conversation with one another and the audience. With emcee\, alex cruse. \nThis remote access event starts promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning provided on request (Media Captioning provided after the event); for reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu. \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation. Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and AMED: the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at the College of Ethnic Studies\, San Francisco State University\, with our thanks to Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. \n\nWendy Trevino’s Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions) tells the truth about life as we know and endure it\, restlessly picking at the hangnails of both history and heartbreak. Trevino posits race as a “cruel fiction\,” nationality as its attendant mythology. Trevino asks: How do we resist these fictions without reproducing their murderous\, hierarchical logics? For Trevino\, “poetry is not enough” as long as we are not enough. Trevino’s insurgent colloquialism is a sleight of hand. Cruel Fiction speaks plainly but never simply. Trevino reflects on the lies with which we arm ourselves to refute the lies used against us. Against the near-orgasmic collective delusions of Obamamania\, Trevino recounts solidarities fostered during the Occupy movement. Exhilarating sonnet sequences titled “Popular Culture & Cruel Work\,” and “Brazilian Is Not a Race” interrogate the inter-sections of pop and protest.\n—Momtaza Mehri\, Somali-British poet\, Young People’s Laureate for London 2018-19\n\nWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128–131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016\, followed by her first full-length book\, Cruel Fiction\, also from Commune Editions\, 2018. Her chapbook #YourHarveyWeinstein was also published by Spoilsport Editions—an online press she started with writer Oki Sogumi—in 2017. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nZaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist\, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora\, and a movement worker in South Florida. Her poetry\, reviews\, and essays have been published in POETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Inquiry\, Adroit\, and elsewhere. She edits for Scalawag Magazine\, a publication dedicated to unsettling dominant narratives of the U.S. South. Her chapbook Lemon Effigies won the Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize and was published by Anhinga Press. Her first full-length collection of poetry\, A Theory of Birds\, won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\, selected by Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah\, and was published by the University of Arkansas Press\, Fall 2019. Born and raised in North Carolina\, she currently lives in Miami\, Florida\, while pursuing an MFA in poetry and teaching undergraduate writing at the University of Miami. More at zainaalsous.com \n\nfrom “Brazilian Is Not A Race\,” Wendy Trevino\n\nA border\, like race\, is a cruel fiction\nMaintained by constant policing\, violence\nAlways threatening a new map. It takes\nTime\, lots of people’s time\, to organize\nThe world this way. & violence. It takes more\nViolence. Violence no one can confuse for\nAnything but violence. So much violence\nChanges relationships\, births a people\nThey can reason with. These people are not\nUs. They underestimate the violence.\nIt’s been awhile. We are who we are\nTo them\, even when we don’t know who we\nAre to each other & culture is a\nRecord of us figuring that out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-wendy-trevino-with-zaina-alsous/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library\nThursday\, November 19\, 7:00pm\nfeaturing Patricia J. Machmiller & Mimi Ahern \nonline on Zoom (login to come)\nor find your local number here \nPatricia J. Machmiller began writing haiku in 1975 with Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi\, founders of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (YTHS). With Jerry Ball\, and now Emiko Miyashita\, she writes a column of haiku commentary\, “Dojin’s Corner\,” for GEPPO\, the YTHS newsletter. She has two books of haiku\, Blush of Winter Moon (Jacaranda Press\, 2001) and Utopia: She Hurries On (Swamp Press\, 2017). Her haiku have twice been honored with the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award. With Fay Aoyagi she translated the haiku of Kiyoko Tokutomi\, Kiyoko’s Sky (Brooks Books\, 2002). She has four books of haiga\, including Mountain Trail: Following the Master (www.lulu.com). The three others\, The Sweet Reverence of Little Birds\, Wild Heart of One Bird Singing\, and Yard Birds: The Impertinence of Ordinary (all at www.lulu.com) were done in collaboration with the artist\, Floy Zittin\, and the calligrapher\, Martha Dahlen. Her latest book\, Zigzag of the Dragonfly: Writing the Haiku Way\, (YTHS\, 2020) encapsulates what she has learned about writing haiku. She is also a brush painter and printmaker; some of her haiga\, can be seen at www.dandelions.us. \nThe creative process has intrigued Mimi Ahern for over 50 years. Midlife\, she  became serious about it\, returning to school to earn an interdisciplinary masters in Creativity at San Jose State University. Throughout her personal and professional life (as a teacher\, designer\, and staff developer) this interest in creativity has continued. For the past decade\, her creative energy has been focused on haiku\, which she was first drawn to in 2006 at PCSJ’s first Poetry Festival organized by Sally Ashton. At noon\, in a Kelly Park Trolley\, she was smitten when listening to members of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (YTHS) read their own haiku. More interested in process than product\, she does manage to finish some haiku\, submit them for publication\, and enjoy seeing them in print. Mimi Ahern has been a member of PCSJ since she first discovered the Thursday night readings at the Willow Glen Bookstore and Jean Emerson\, the moderator\, invited her to a workshop in her home. Now President of YTHS\, she really is consumed with the poetry of haiku. \nUpcoming at Third Thursdays:\nTBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library-6/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 19\, 2020\n6:30 PM  9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020\nan ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space\nfor communal connection & mortal vulnerability\nw/Ned Buskirk\, the You’re Going to Die Team\n& music Hugo de la Lune! \nThursday\, November 19th\nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm\nShow at 7pm\nREGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3jlX4ut \nYou’re Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020\n…an ONLINE open mic & listening space\, an excavation & deepening for ourselves\, with our community & the world\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor what we’ve lost\, love & stand to lose eventually… while still somehow celebrating\, together\, the extraordinary fact of being ALIVE at all. \nSign-ups will be during the Zoom Call & the list will fill up quickly\, so if you want to share\, say so sooner rather than later. \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And YES – We will\, as kindly & gently as possible\, let you know when your time is UP. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, artwork\, photography\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES\, so share whatever you want. And you don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with a live event focus\, much of our in person work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event\, we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but do not hesitate to go above or below based on what feel is possible. And PLEASE\, if you are in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nYOU CAN DONATE VIA… \nVENMO: https://venmo.com/YG-2D – @YG-2D\nor\nPAYPAL: chelsea@yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-all-the-feels-2020-2/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Reza Farazmand / City Monster
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand for his first graphic novel City Monster! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a *signed* copy of City Monster. The book can be picked up from Booksmith in San Francisco or we can ship it to you\, anywhere in the world. We’re currenrly offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay\, otherwise additional shipping fees will apply (we’ll invoice you separately once the book ships). If you have any questions\, don’t hesitate to email events@booksmith.com. \nCity Monster is set in a world of supernatural creatures and follows a young monster who moves to the city. As he struggles to figure out his future\, his new life is interrupted by questions about his mysterious roommate—a ghost who can’t remember the past. Joined by their neighbor\, a vampire named Kim\, they explore the city\, meeting a series of strange and spooky characters and looking for answers about life\, memories\, and where to get a good beer. \nWith Reza’s signature style\, and familiar snark\, this graphic novel is equal parts irreverent and insightful\, the perfect vehicle for conveying the utter absurdity of our bizarre and confusing times. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in Los Angeles. He started putting his comics on the internet in college at PoorlyDrawnLines.com and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a *signed* copy of City Monster. The book can be picked up from Booksmith in San Francisco or we can ship it to you\, anywhere in the world. We’re currenrly offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay\, otherwise additional shipping fees will apply (we’ll invoice you separately once the book ships). If you have any questions\, don’t hesitate to email events@booksmith.com. \nTo order additional signed copies of City Monster\, order here. \n​ \nThis is an all-ages\, virtual event that begins at 6pm PST. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-reza-farazmand-city-monster/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000
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SUMMARY:Author: Rand Quinn\, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
DESCRIPTION:Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. \nSan Francisco’s school board is once again rethinking its student assignment system. Debates over student assignment trace back over a half century and map the long struggle to desegregate the city’s schools. In Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools\, Rand Quinn explains the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. Student assignment — once the remedy for government discrimination through busing and other desegregative mechanisms — soon became a tool intended to create diversity. \nRand Quinn is associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the origins and political consequences of private sector engagement in public education\, the politics of race and ethnicity in urban school reform and the impact of community-based institutions\, organizations and action in education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rand-quinn-class-action-desegregation-and-diversity-in-san-francisco-schools/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR REYNA GRANDE IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
DESCRIPTION:The Distance Between Us \nBY REYNA GRANDE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrande puts a human face on the fraught issue of immigration in her acclaimed memoir. At age nine\, Grande leaves Mexico as an undocumented immigrant to join her father in the United States—El Otro Lado\, or “the other side.” The pursuit of happiness is elusive and filled with tragedy\, but Grande finds her own path\, becoming the first person in her family to go to college. A 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist\, The Distance Between Us has been selected by many citywide reading programs throughout the U.S.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-reyna-grande-in-conversation-with-cbc-host-john-freeman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185100
CREATED:20201104T171850Z
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SUMMARY:Special Event for Kids: Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver with Varian Johnson and Lisa Yee — Alien Superstar (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:mmy Award winner Henry Winker and Lin Oliver are back for the second installment of the New York Times bestselling middle grade series that Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney calls “truly out of this world!” \nAfter escaping his oppressive red dwarf planet and landing a role on a popular Hollywood sitcom\, Buddy Burger seems destined for high-flying success. His legions of fans love his six eyes\, his suction cup feet\, and even his excessive need for avocados. It seems nothing can stop his rise to super-stardom—until the arrival of Citizen Cruel\, a shape-shifting Squadron member sent from Buddy’s home planet to bring him back by any means necessary. Will Buddy conquer this clever and unpredictable enemy? How long can he continue to keep his alien identity secret from his friends and fans? Is there enough guacamole on Earth to sustain him? And chips to go with it? Action-packed and full of laughs\, Alien Superstar: Lights\, Camera\, Danger! is the second book in the exciting New York Times bestselling middle grade series. \nHenry Winkler is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, writer\, director\, and producer who has created some of the most iconic TV roles\, including Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli on Happy Days and Gene Cousineau on Barry. \nLin Oliver is a children’s book writer and a writer and producer for both TV and film. She is currently the executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She and Henry both live in Los Angeles. \nVarian Johnson is the author of nine novels\, including The Parker Inheritance\, which was named a 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book among other accolades. His middle grade caper novel\, The Great Greene Heist\, has been named to over twenty-five state reading and best-of lists. In addition\, Varian has written for the Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts middle-grade fantasy series as well as novels and short stories for YA audiences. \nLisa Yee’s debut novel\, Millicent Min\, Girl Genius\, won the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her other novels for young people include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time\, So Totally Emily Ebers\, Absolutely Maybe\, and a series about a 4th grader\, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) and Bobby the Brave (Sometimes). She also the author of American Girl’s Kanani books\, the DC Super Hero Girls middle grade novel series\, Good Luck\, Ivy\, and the Lea Clark series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/special-event-for-kids-henry-winkler-and-lin-oliver-with-varian-johnson-and-lisa-yee-alien-superstar-virtual-event/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185100
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SUMMARY:Crashing galaxies and conspiracy theories
DESCRIPTION:Crashing galaxies and conspiracy theories\n\nFacebook event \nTickets from Eventbrite (£4 Regular nerds / £3 Concessions) \nNerd Nite Brighton is back! Evidence-based entertainment in the comfort of your own living room. We have two nerdishly passionate speakers\, nerdy news and our fabulous quiz. It’s BYOCAB (bring your own cake and beer). Be there and be square! \nHosted by Dr Mick Taylor\, our speakers this month are: \nDr Jillian Scudder: The Galaxy is crashing. (Don’t worry.) \nBen Bailey: We Are All Conspiracy Theorists Now \nAll proceeds from our online events will go to a different local charity each month. This month we are supporting Impact Initiatives. Established 40 years ago\, Impact Initiatives aims to give individuals and communities the support they need to improve their quality of life and feel a part of a wider community. From social activities or after school care to advocacy or counselling\, employment support or housing they support people of all ages. \nOur speakers this month:\nJillian Scudder \nJillian is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Oberlin College\, in Oberlin\, Ohio. Her research focuses on how and why galaxies form stars\, and the physics of how galaxies collide. She has a popular astronomy book in paperback: Astroquizzical: a beginner’s guide to the cosmos. Twitter @Jillian_Scudder. \nBen Bailey \nIt’s been a great year for conspiracy theories. What used to be a fringe hobby for eccentrics and an amusing sideshow for sceptics is now a driver of world events. Join Ben as he surfaces for air after spending months lost in an ever-expanding warren of insane rabbit holes. What happened? And who can he really trust? Naturally\, he’s had no choice but to deliver his findings in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. \nBen is a journalist and musician who sometimes gives talks on nerdy topics. He is probably on several blacklists and is almost certainly considered a threat to national security\, but he could also just be a government shill. No one really knows\, not even him.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crashing-galaxies-and-conspiracy-theories/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T170000
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez
DESCRIPTION:November 19\, 2020\nJewish Community Center/Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez\nMill Valley poet Jane Hirshfield’s most recent\, ninth poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020). Among her many honors are the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she was elected in 2019 to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Meryl Natchez\, the chair of the Marin Poetry Center\, is a poet\, translator and reviewer. Her fourth book\, Catwalk\, was released in June from Longship Press. The two poets will read from their new books and talk about their experiences as writers during a time of crisis\, the importance of community\, and their shared sense of reverence for the natural world. This event is cosponsored by The Marin Poetry Center. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-present-jane-hirshfield-meryl-natchez/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T200000
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SUMMARY:Little Hill
DESCRIPTION:Alli Warren reads with Jena Osman for the Poetry Project virtual events series. \nMotion Studies and Little Hill\, the new books of Jena Osman and Alli Warren\, both exist at the precarious intersection of surveillance and escape\, power and its holes\, in the sexy and frustrated dailiness of resistance. These books ask how to live while indignant and horrified\, implicated in that which is struggled against\, always accountable to something more than what is known or knowable\, to each other. \n\nAward-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment. \n“[Warren] has begun writing longer poems\, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young\, Anselm Berrigan\, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear the durational projects\, the self-conscious day-scores\, of Bernadette Mayer and of Lewis Warsh farther back in the tradition.”—Brian Blanchfield\, pen.org \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“In Little Hill Alli Warren’s principle method is articulation of exquisite units of speech (thought) that\, maintaining separation\, are capable of connection. The line might be a sentence or a part of one . . . I mean a delicious sense of grammatical distinctness is maintained. The poet\, also a lone unit\, seems to exist less in relation than as that lone one\, condemning this hard world with its villain work and elusive hierarchies. The language is precise\, lush\, unexpected and often thrilling. Articulation would seem to be the true other\, or maybe nature is. The book is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley\, author of For the Ride and Benediction \n“The number of gasps and everything else gets lost in the concentration of Little Hill. Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best. ‘This is an old machine with a pulley / It makes music work\,’ Warren writes\, reworking the ancient technology of poetry to a shine! Dear Poet\, thank you for the wow WOW wowing!”––CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Reading Alli Warren’s Little Hill\, I find it incredible that amidst the relentless circulation of capital and commodities—and despite attempts to make all life yield to the logics of extraction\, work\, accumulation\, and the entrepreneurial self—a remainder is created\, that of poetry. Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. ‘I saw the death of the earth in a child’s toy\,’ she writes. Everywhere the speaker looks there is ‘congealed shit\, sometimes on sale.’ Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/little-hill/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T210000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Madison\, An Onion in My Pocket
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket\, her warm\, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. \nRegister for this Crowdcast event here! \nAn Onion in My Pocket is a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods\, peeling off layer by layer like an onion\, recounting her own personal\, culinary\, and gardening experiences\, and her adventures with family and friends.  It’s a most timely book and a joy to read.” —Lidia Bastianich \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \n  \nThanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco\, Deborah Madison\, though not a vegetarian herself\, has long been revered as this country’s leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables\, helping to transform “vegetarian” from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before she became a household name\, Madison spent almost twenty years as an ordained Buddhist priest\, coming of age in the midst of counterculture San Francisco. In this charmingly intimate and refreshingly frank memoir\, she tells her story—and with it the story of the vegetarian movement—for the very first time. From her childhood in Big Ag Northern California to working in the kitchen of the then-new Chez Panisse\, and from the birth of food TV to the age of green markets everywhere\, An Onion in My Pocket is as much the story of the evolution of American foodways as it is the memoir of the woman at the forefront. It is a deeply personal look at the rise of vegetable-forward cooking\, and a manifesto for how to eat well. \nDEBORAH MADISON\, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz\, is the award-winning author of fourteen cookbooks\, including The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Vegetable Literacy. Her books have received four James Beard Foundation awards and five awards from the IACP; in 2016 she was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. She lives in New Mexico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-madison-an-onion-in-my-pocket-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T185100
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Reading "Lesbians Who Sleuth"
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 18\, Perfectly Queer features mystery novels with Lesbian sleuths. Authors Laury Egan\, Cheryl Head\, and Anne Laughlin\n\nIn November\, Perfectly Queer features mystery novels with Lesbian sleuths. Authors Laury A. Egan\, Cheryl Head\, and Anne Laughlin will read and discuss their work from New Jersey\, North Carolina\, and Chicago respectively on Wednesday\, November 18\, 7pm Pacific. They are staying up late for us\, folks\, so tune in! To get the Zoom link\, rsvp Going or Interested or email perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com. \nBooks will be available from Dog Eared Books Castro in-person at 489 Castro St. in San Francisco or online at https://www.shopdogearedbookscastro.com/ \nhttps://bit.ly/34tQ4ax \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/60734/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T200000
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SUMMARY:Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
DESCRIPTION:William Sites in conversation with John Corbett \nexploring the new book \nSun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City \npublished by University of Chicago Press \nExploring acclaimed Jazz Master Sun Ra’s deep-rooted connection to the City of Chicago and its relation to AfroFuturism. \n—— \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase the book (link to be posted soon) \n———– \nSun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb\, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago\, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side\, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished\, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles\,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism\, revisionist Christianity\, and science fiction to jazz\, blues\, Latin dance music\, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep\, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu\, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. \nWilliam Sites is associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. \nJohn Corbett is the co-owner of the Chicago art gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey\, as well as a founder of the Sun Ra Archives. \nWhat has been said about Sun Ra’s Chicago: \n\n\n“Sun Ra’s Chicago is a masterful account of the musician’s formative years. Sites deftly applies a wider lens to his biography\, analyzing the urban spaces and networks that shaped Sonny Blount’s transformation from an itinerant musician into the otherworldly philosophical leader of the Arkestra. This book is essential reading not only for Sun Ra listeners but for readers interested in the crosscurrents of Black intellectual thought and the utopian possibilities\, past and present\, of America’s cities.” Erik S. Gellman\, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay \n\n\n\n\n“Like its subject\, Sun-Ra’s Chicago is a category buster—social history\, musicology\, urban studies\, hermeneutics\, cultural reclamation—and as such\, a revelation. Sites tells a story of countercultural ferment in 1950s south side Chicago that is detailed and provocative. Sun Ra\, Alton Abraham\, and the members and friends of the Arkestra were truly a ‘creative class’ long before that term\, as we know it\, was coined.” Larry Bennett\, author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sun-ras-chicago-afrofuturism-and-the-city/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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