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  • June 2020

  • Fri 5

    Bill McKibben, Sy Montgomery, Jennifer Ackerman, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B

    June 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    VIRTUAL: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with Eileen Donahoe / Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life

    June 5, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book, co-authored with Zara Houshmand, Running Toward Mystery:...

  • Fri 5

    Zoom Forward! #12 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White

    June 5, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward...

  • Fri 5

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #12

    June 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Showing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate....

    Free
  • Fri 5

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Eric Cervini and Johnny Sibilly

    June 5, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Crowdcast on Friday June 5th at 7PM PDT for a conversation between author Eric Cervini and Pose actor Johnny Sibilly on The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of...

  • Sat 6
    Rosalyn Learns How to Misbehave- A Zoom Puppet Story

    Rosalyn Learns How to Misbehave: A Zoom Puppet Story

    June 6, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 2:35 pm PDT

    Ramon Abad and the Bindlestiff Studio Puppet Crew present a KID-FRIENDLY live stream puppet performance with about 9 artists/storytellers via Zoom. Celebrate this fun-filled afternoon...

    Free
  • Sat 6

    Marianne Ingheim – Out of Love

    June 6, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    We all tell ourselves stories about who we are. Many of these stories are self-critical and disempowering. Through the practice of self-compassion, we can rewrite...

  • Sat 6
    Babylon Salon 2020

    Babylon Salon

    June 6, 2020 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    presents a special  online performance  Saturday, June 6, 2020 5pm PST / 8pm EST  Register for our Zoom gathering presents a special  online performance  Saturday,...

    Free
  • Sat 6

    Zoom Forward! Catamaran Summer 2020 Issue Launch

    June 6, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event celebrating the Summer 2020 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post.  This...

  • Sun 7

    Kathy Evans – Trespassers Welcome

    June 7, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Kathy Evans's full-length debut, Trespassers Welcome, is an extravaganza of imaginative leaps, bounds, and deep dives, a worldwide web of seemingly unlikely but delightfully believable connections—from...

  • Mon 8

    Litquake on Lockdown: Wayétu Moore and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women

    June 8, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    Co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at...

    Free
  • Mon 8

    Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)

    June 8, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

    Free
  • Mon 8

    VIRTUAL: Minna Salami / Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

    June 8, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host Minna Salami for her new book of essays, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which...

  • Mon 8

    Well-RED: Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson

    June 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Tuesday, June 9, 7pm on Zoom Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson open mic follows online on Zoom Free, register on Eventbrite! presented with Works/San José...

    Free
  • Tue 9

    ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch

    June 9, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    With Melanie Abrams and Andrew Altschul. Via Facebook Live: facebook.com/booksmith

    Free
  • Tue 9

    Charis Book Store of Decatur, GA hosts a virtual event celebrating Julian Bond w/Michael Long and Pamela Horowitz!

    June 9, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Register ahead of time at here! Charis Bookstore hosts a virtual event with Michael Long, editor of Race Man, and Pamela Horowitz, who worked in partnership with...

  • Tue 9

    Jennifer Worley

    June 9, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Book Release Party for Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power by Jennifer Worley from Harper Collins This is a virtual event that...

  • Tue 9

    Carter Sickels – The Prettiest Star

    June 9, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return...

  • Tue 9

    International Thrills: #1 Scandinavian Bestseller Lars Kepler in conversation with Jesse Kellerman

    June 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    The blockbuster Swedish suspense phenomenon Lars Kepler, famed for the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series, is actually two people: husband-and-wife duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril...

    Free
  • Tue 9
    Oakland Voices Tonight: Cat Brooks on Race, Policing, and COVID

    Oakland Voices Tonight: Cat Brooks on Race, Policing, and COVID

    June 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join Oakland Voices for a conversation about COVID-19, policing, and inequality in Oakland. This weeks’ guest is Cat Brooks, executive director of Justice Teams Network...

    Free
  • Tue 9

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Laurie R. King, Riviera Gold

    June 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with beloved bestselling author Laurie R. King, who will will celebrate...

  • Tue 9
    Rachel Kushner

    Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits

    June 9, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba, a...

    $29
  • Wed 10

    John Scalzi And Sarah Gailey For Dark Carnival

    June 10, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...

    Free
  • Wed 10
    Pelosi

    Molly Ball in conversation with Carla Marinucci / Pelosi

    June 10, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Molly Ball, National Political Correspondent at Time Magazine and Author of "Pelosi" In Conversation with Carla Marinucci, Senior Writer of Politico's California Playbook Part of...

    Free
  • Wed 10

    Virtual Event: Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino

    June 10, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Zoom on June 10th at 5:00pm PDT for Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino discussing their new novels A Burning and Parakeet. Zoom Login Please click the link below to...

  • Wed 10
    Author Talk: Alvin Orloff, Beth Lisick and K.M.Soehnlein

    Author Talk: Alvin Orloff, Beth Lisick and K.M.Soehnlein

    June 10, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Our Summer On the Same Page author Alvin Orloff will be in conversation with Beth Lisick and K.M. Soehnlein. Alvin Orloff, Bay Area native and...

    Free
  • Wed 10

    ALEXANDRA PETRI presents NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY: ESSAYS

    June 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT
    Berkeley Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley

    In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics...

    $13 – $49
  • Wed 10

    Nerd Nite is part of ReedPop’s Sea Week on June 10, 2020

    June 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    We’re holding a virtual water-themed Nerd Nite on Wednesday June 10, 2020 at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT as part of ReedPop’s Sea Week. ReedPop,...

    Free
  • Wed 10

    Laurie R. King – Riviera Gold

    June 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    t’s summertime on the Riviera, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. As American expatriates begin to drift down from Paris, their...

  • Wed 10
    Black Artists Showcase ft. Meccamorphosis

    Black Artists Showcase ft. Meccamorphosis

    June 10, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm PDT

    THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...

    Free
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