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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson\nWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. \nBut today\, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly\, with sparkling wit\, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. \nWhile you wait for your morning coffee to brew\, for the bus\, the train\, or a plane to arrive\, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes\, from quarks to quantum mechanics\, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Noe Valley Authors Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black\, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay\, children’s book author Emma Bland Smith\, poets Susan Dambroff and Eveline Kanes\, and memoirist & novelist Ramon Sender. Book exhibits and readings run from 3pm to 5pm\, Saturday\, March 9 at Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th St. Free admission and free refreshments. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noe-valley-authors-festival-2/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week Celebrates International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Word Week celebrates International Women’s Day\, Friday\, May 8 with “Thelma & Louise: Back Behind the Wheel.” Remember this iconic road movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1991 about two friends on a heady weekend trip that turns crazy as they become desperados in a high-speed flight from the law? Remember how they drove off the cliff? Would Thelma and Louise have more options today? Would they need to drive off a cliff into the Grand Canyon or could they turn around and forge a life? How far have women come 25 years on? Indeed\, have things really changed for women? 7pm\, Folio Books San Francisco with San Francisco Chronicle film critic Ruthe Stein\, documentary filmmaker Wendy Slick\, law professor Susan Rutberg\, and moderator Maxine Einhorn. Free admission. \nThis is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events\, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H. \nPanelist biographies:\nRUTHE STEIN\nRuthe Stein is the senior movie writer for the San Francisco Chronicle\, covering the film industry for 20 years\, writing reviews\, celebrity profiles\, and industry trend stories. She also created the Chronicle Film Series bringing celebrities to San Francisco to talk about their work. \nWendy Slick\nhttp://www.wendyslick.com/WendySlick/Films.html\nwabi sabi productions\nWendy Slick is a producer\, director\, writer and editor. Her women’s rights documentary “Passion and Power” had a successful theater run\, following its Lincoln Center premiere. Her work has won trophies and plaques from numerous film festivals. \nSusan Rutberg\nAs a public defender\, Susan developed innovative techniques to humanize trial lawyering. As a professor at Golden Gate Law School\, Susan taught trial advocacy and directed clinics. In 2002\, she founded Golden Gate’s Innocence Project. \nMaxine Einhorn\nMaxine taught film studies\, communications\, and media literacy in London colleges for over 25 years before joining KQED’s Education Department. She has a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Film. She is now senior programmer for the Mostly British Film Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-celebrates-international-womens-day/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Leland de la Durantaye and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Leland de la Durantaye discusses his new novel\, Hannah Versus the Tree with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Hannah Versus the Tree  \n“An heiress to the ancient money of a storied family seeks revenge for personal and global wrongs in this powerful debut novel of […] stark beauty and even starker consequence.” —Kirkus \n“Hannah Versus The Tree is unlike anything I have ever read—thriller\, myth\, dream\, and poem combined. It tells the story of a terrible act of violence and a terrible act of revenge\, but in ways that hardly resemble contemporary fiction. Sometimes I thought I was reading the Chorus’s part from a lost Greek tragedy\, or perhaps an impossibly updated Beowulf. Written in an immaculate\, lyrically charged\, uncannily autonomous prose\, this lovely novel is at once a modern story about money and politics and sexual violence\, and an ancient fable of grievance and justice.” —James Wood \n“Betrayal and vengeance have rarely been so elegantly rendered as in this searing novel. It invokes Roman history and mythology to accompany an aristocratic\, brutalized girl who is sacrificed by the family matriarch in a fatal flaw of judgment. The beautiful prose exposes and illumines the cost of underestimating an extraordinary girl.” —Amy Hempel \n\nAbout Hannah Versus the Tree \nHannah is a fiercely intelligent young woman\, daughter of a powerful family’s black sheep son\, and raised to question who has been\, is\, and will be damaged by business deals meant to protect and maintain the dynasty. A devastating wrong is done to her when she opposes a family scheme and her response is a battle cry of astounding violence and beauty. As haunting as Shelly Jackson or Thomas Bernhard\, as enthralling as Nabokov or Joyce\, Leland de la Durantaye’s debut novel is a radical departure from contemporary storytelling. At once the story of a terrific act of vengeance and of a lifelong love\, Hannah versus the Tree presents a new literary genre\, the mythopoetic thriller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leland-de-la-durantaye-and-lydia-kiesling/
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:Shobha Rao with Ingrid Rojas Contreras / Girls Burn Brighter (paperback launch)
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes San Francisco author Shobha Rao for the paperback launch of her debut novel Girls Burn Brighter\, which was recently named a best book of the year by many outlets\, including NPR and The Washington Post. She’ll be joined by our friend and yours\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree). Please join us! \n  \nPoornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor\, they are ambitious\, and they are girls. After her mother’s death\, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to care for her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household\, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful\, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic\, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond arranged marriage. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away\, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend. \n  \nHer journey takes her into the darkest corners of India’s underworld\, on a harrowing cross-continental journey\, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face ruthless obstacles\, Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within. \n  \n\n  \nShobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection\, An Unrestored Woman\, and the novel\, Girls Burn Brighter. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. She is currently the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School in New York City. \n  \n  \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Girls Burn Brighter\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shobha-rao-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras-girls-burn-brighter-paperback-launch/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WHERE EAGLES DARE
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer hosts commentary and film clips\nThursday\, March 7\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nCo-presented with Telluride Film Festival \nJoin Geoff Dyer for a hilarious scene-by-scene commentary of cult classic World War II film Where Eagles Dare (1968). With its historical inaccuracies\, camp SS officers\, and inexplicable plot twists\, starring a magnificent\, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood\, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies\, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is Geoff Dyer’s tribute to the film he has loved since childhood: a scene-by-scene analysis taking us from its snowy\, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. \nGeoff Dyer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.  He is the author of many books\, including Out of Sheer Rage\, an unorthodox and comedic exploration of the work of writer and poet D. H. Lawrence\, But Beautiful\, a genre-defying book on jazz and jazz musicians\, and Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room\, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker(1979). His books have won numerous prizes and have been translated into twenty-four languages. He  currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer-in-Residence at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/where-eagles-dare/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank\, The Long Honduran Night
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance\, repression\, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. \nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States. \nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \n\nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 5th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-the-long-honduran-night/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Burke
DESCRIPTION:  \ncelebrating her new book \nFoursome:Alfred Stieglitz\, Georgia O’Keeffe\, Paul Strand\, Rebecca Salsbury \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nA captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition–the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene–and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-burke/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Steinbeck Fellows Alumni Night
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\nMarch 7\, 2019\n7PM \nMLK Library\nSteinbeck Center\, Room 590                                                                                                             San José State University \nReading followed by an audience Q&A\, plus a book sale and signing. \nJoin the CLA and the Steinbeck Center to welcome back former Steinbeck Fellows R.O. Kwon\, Kirstin Chen\, and Vanessa Hua as they read from their newest works. \n \nR.O. Kwon‘s first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was released by Riverhead in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Time\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \n  \n  \n  \n \nKirstin Chen’s new novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, has been named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. She is also the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore\, and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steinbeck-fellows-alumni-night/
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Author Nathan Szajnberg
DESCRIPTION:Author Nathan Szajnberg will discuss his work on three father-son relationships as told by classic texts. He examines their dynamics and underpinnings\, as well as their points of failure. His fourth example\, the relationship between Jacob and Joseph\, illustrates architecture for a sustainable future. Szajnberg highlights where this father-son relationship endures while others fail. The talk is backed with research and investigation that culminated in a comprehensive book sure to leave the reader with an expanded world view. \n“Jacob and Joseph\, Judaism’s Architects and Birth of the Ego Ideal” is about a father and son story–Jacob and Joseph–that is radically different and healthier than the three major father-son myths in Western literature: Abraham/Isaac; Laius/Oedipus and God/Christ. \nThe book demonstrates that the Jacob/Joseph relationship provided the familial infrastructure for Judaism. It also discovers the first description of a psychic structure–the Ego Ideal–found in Joseph\, that explains his success and provides the fundamental ingredient for Jewish endurance. We will follow the story with attention to the poetry of the text and the liveliness of the characters’ interactions including Joseph’s breaking into tears six times\, the first overt tears shed by a Biblical forefather (or mother). \nDr. Szajnberg was born in a German DP camp and grew up in upstate New York. He studied at the University of Chicago College and Medical School\, then in residencies in pediatrics\, general psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry. He’s received two NIMH awards (adolescence and infancy) and was the Ticho lecturer in 2012. \nNathan was the Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University and Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis (2005-16) when he began writing this study of father-son relationships. This is his sixth book. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and three sons. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event. \n$18 General Public | $15 Members and J-Pass holders | $5 Students with ID. \nPresented by The Oshman Family JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-author-nathan-szajnberg/
LOCATION:Oshman Family JCC\, Freidenrich Conference Center\, Room F-401\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo\, reading\, art presentation\, and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 7 – 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nRuth Asawa Garden of Remembrance\, and The Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n  \nWhat is it then between us?” Poetry and Democracy   \n\n“I’ve been thinking about…the descendants of incarceration are being fated\, or beings fated\, to return to the ruins\, to reenact/re-embody their ancestors’ arrest\, in order to reimagine and redirect it\, with a specific attention\, a necessarily fugitive and defiant motion\, and yet\, according to the dictates of the underworld\, without end.”\n—from “10 Questions for Brandon Shimoda\,” with Emily Wojcik\, The Massachusettes Review\n“I have been producing my artworks under the concept of ‘reconstruction’ since before I started working with the theme of my great-grandfather. The concept originates from my early experience. When I was a child\, I often broke my bones. This was because my body was very weak. Because of this experience I today think that a body is a fragile object\, and that my identity is uncertain…. I still have a sense that my body impairs its harmony.”\n—from diaspora memoria exhibition catalog; Aisuke Kondo with Dr. Brigitte Hausmann\, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf\, Berlin\n\nThe Poetry Center is delighted to present poet Brandon Shimoda\, with us from Tucson\, Arizona\, together with Japanese artist Aisuke Kondo\, based in Berlin though at present a visiting scholar in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State. Tonight’s special program\, presented in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition\, is one of many programs being organized at venues across the U.S. during March 2019 in relation to a common theme: “What is it then between us?” Poetry and Democracy  borrows a citation from Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\,” 2019 being the bicentennial of Whitman’s birth. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American poets in support of the Poetry Coalition\, this event is free and open to the public. \nWe’ll open this evening’s program at 6:00 pm with an unstructured\, informal and contemplative gathering in the Ruth Asawa Garden of Remembrance\, which is dedicated to the 19 San Francisco State University Japanese American students who were imprisoned in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. The garden is located on the SF State campus\, just west of the César Chavez Student Center\, between Burke Hall and the Creative Arts Building. \nAt 7:00 pm\, we’ll move upstairs to The Poetry Center\, Room 512 in the Humanities Building. Brandon Shimoda will present his poetry\, and Aisuke Kondo will present his art\, then the two of them will join in conversation\, together with the audience. Both our featured artists’ current work is being considered and created in relation to the internment during World War II of Japanese American citizens and Japanese nationals living on the West Coast of the US in federally administered concentration camps—both artists’ grandfathers were among those imprisoned. \nBrandon Shimoda was born in California\, in the San Fernando Valley. His recent books are The Desert (poetry and prose\, The Song Cave)\, Dept. of Posthumous Letters (drawings to accompany text by Dot Devota and Caitie Moore\, Argos Books)\, and The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir\, forthcoming from City Lights). He is currently researching-writing-disintegrating a book on the ongoing afterlife-ruins of Japanese American incarceration. His writings on Japanese-American incarceration have appeared in/on The Asian American Literary Review\, Densho\, Hyperallergic\, The Margins\, The New Inquiry\, and elsewhere\, and he has given talks on the subject at the University of Arizona\, Columbia University\, Fairhaven College\, and the International Center of Photography. Shimoda is also the co-editor\, with Thom Donovan\, of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books\, 2014). He lives in Arizona. \nAisuke Kondo Born and raised in Japan and currently based in Germany\, Aisuke Kondo explores questions of belonging\, identity\, memory\, and history across a variety of media\, from collage and gallery installation to video and performance. In 2008\, he completed a Meisterschüler in Fine Art at Berlin University of Arts. After his university graduation\, he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to research on his great-grandfather who was incarcerated at Topaz concentration camp in Utah during World War Ⅱ. Currently\, he is working in the Bay area on a grant from the Cultural Affairs Agency in Japan in order to conduct fieldwork as a visiting scholar in Asian American Studies at SF State. In his current “Matter and Memory” series (2017-present)\, Kondo retraces his great-grandfather’s life as an immigrant in the US from his arrival in the early 1900s. Kondo has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Turnaround in Sendai\, Japan (2018)\, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf in Berlin (2018)\, MINTMOUE in Los Angeles (2017) and Kyoto Art Center in Kyoto\, Japan (2016). His works are on view\, along with an extensive interview with the artist\, at aisukekondo.com \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brandon-shimoda-with-aisuke-kondo-reading-art-presentation-and-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:Tarfia Faizullah
DESCRIPTION:Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2014)\, winner of a VIDA Award\, a GLCA New Writers’ Award\, a Milton Kessler First Book Award\, Drake University Emerging Writer Award\, and other honors. Her poems are published widely in periodicals and anthologies both in the United States and abroad\, including Poetry Magazine\, Guernica\, Tin House\, and The Nation\, are translated into Persian\, Chinese\, Bengali\, Tamil\, and Spanish\, and have been featured at the Smithsonian\, the Rubin Museum of Art\, and elsewhere. In 2016 she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. In Fall 2018\, she will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Visiting Writer in Residence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tarfia-faizullah/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Lipman\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel\, Good Riddance\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect\, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting\, infinitely witty yet serious\, exceptionally intelligent\, wholly original\, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 6\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this delightful new romantic comedy\, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. \nElinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell\, Jan Steckel\, Andrew O. Dugas\, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-road-again-rich-with-possibilities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black
DESCRIPTION:  \n \ncelebrating the release of \nDead Men’s Trousers \nby Irvine Welsh \npublished by Melville House \n\nThe gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme – a scheme one of them won’t survive. It’s an action-packed\, hilarious and rollicking trip\, as well as a moving elegy to the crew. \n\n\n\nIrvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh\, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith\, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse. At sixteen\, he left school\, took various jobs\, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he spent his free time exploring the London punk scene\, then moved back to Edinburgh to renew his studies. Back home\, and inspired by the nineties rave scene\, he ran into some fascinating characters he immortalised later\, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content\, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame\, precipitated further by the release of the film\, by Danny Boyle\, three years later. Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in the US. \nAlan Black is a writer and served as the former literary manager of San Francisco’s famous bookish venue Edinburgh Castle Pub. His work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle\, Salon.com\, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is cofounder of the Scottish Cultural and Arts Foundation and coeditor of Public House\, an anthology. He has also authored the book Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach (Plume/Penguin) and co-authored the book The Glorious World Cup (with David Henry Sterry – NAL/Penguin) \nPraise for Irvine Welsh & Dead Men’s Trousers … \n“Raunchy\, profane\, violent\, and frequently hilarious… Dead Men’s Trousers delivers a strangely life-affirming dose of dark absurdity\, ensuring that\, if this is the last we see of these characters\, they won’t soon be forgotten.” – *STARRED* Booklist \n“Unfolds like a Keystone Kops version of Ocean’s 11… Welsh’s entire oeuvre crackles with idiomatic energy and brio\, and this rollicking novel is no different.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Welsh’s peculiar talent is finding the comedy in sex\, addiction\, betrayal\, and death\, and he handles the job so deftly that the novel nearly qualifies as comfort reading even in gross-out mode.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS \n“Blisteringly funny…” —New York Times Book Review \n“It is funny\, unflinchingly abrasive\, authentic\, and inventive\, unerringly on-and off-the pulse. It is a true cult\, the kind of novel you press on perfect strangers. It validates a world fiction hasn’t recognized before.” —Time Out \n“Irvine Welsh writes with skill\, wit\, and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.” —Nick Hornby\, Sunday Times \n“Irvine Welsh writes with style\, imagination\, wit\, and force\, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.” —The Times Literary Supplement \n“Irvine Welsh is the real thing-a marvelous admixture of nihilism and heartbreak\, pinpoint realism (especially in dialect and tone) and almost archetypal universality. —David Foster Wallace
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irvine-welsh-in-conversation-with-alan-black/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Najwa Zebian / Sparks of Phoenix
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Najwa Zebian\, to celebrate her new book\, Sparks of Phoenix. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Sparks of Phoenix\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \n  \nIn Sparks of Phoenix — Zebian’s third book of poetry — she takes her readers on a powerful journey of healing. \nAs the phoenix emerges from its ashes\, Zebian emerges ablaze in these pages\, not only as a survivor of abuse\, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understand\, reclaim\, and rise above a history of pain. The book is divided into six chapters\, and six stages of healing: Falling\, Burning to Ashes\, Sparks of Phoenix\, Rising\, Soaring\, and finally\, A New Chapter\, which demonstrates a healthy response to new love as the result of authentic healing. With her characteristic vulnerability\, courage\, and softness\, Zebian seeks to empower those who have been made to feel ashamed\, silenced\, or afraid; she urges them\, through gentle advice and personal revelation\, to raise their voices\, rise up\, and soar. \n  \n\n  \nNajwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author\, speaker\, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age\, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels. The search for a home what Najwa describes as a place where the soul and heart feel at peace was central to her early years. When she arrived in Canada at the age of sixteen\, she felt unstable and adrift in an unfamiliar place. Nevertheless\, she completed her education\, and went on to become a teacher as well as a doctoral candidate in educational leadership. Her first students\, a group of young refugees\, led her back to her original passion: writing. She began to heal her sixteen-year-old self by writing to heal her students. Since self-publishing her first collection of poetry and prose in 2016\, Najwa has become an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Drawing on her own experiences of displacement\, discrimination\, and abuse\, Najwa uses her words to encourage others to build a home within themselves; to live\, love\, and create fearlessly. \n  \n\n  \n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Sparks of Phoenix\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Sparks of Phoenix to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– RSVP is not necessary\, but appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/najwa-zebian-sparks-of-phoenix/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 5\, 2019\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk & Chelsea Coleman \nADDITIONAL MARCH SHOW ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: https://sforce.co/2BDvO7q\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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \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-19/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eva Hagberg Fisher with Tabitha Soren / How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Eva Hagberg Fisher for her first book\, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship. Eva will be in conversation with Tabitha Soren. Please join us! \n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs\, alcohol\, therapists\, boyfriends\, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it\, but always temporarily. Then\, at age thirty\, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey\, and when her illness hit a critical stage\, it forced her to finally admit the long-suppressed truth: she was vulnerable\, she needed help\, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. \nHow to Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person’s life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship\, and the recovery — of many stripes — that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut\, delivered by a caring soul\, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with empathy\, pain\, fear\, and the secret truths inside all of us\, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart — and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy. \n  \n\n  \nEva Hagberg Fisher‘s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, T: The New York Times Style Magazine\, Tin House\, Wallpaper*\, Wired\, Guernica\, and Dwell\, among other places. She lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTabitha Soren left a successful career in television in 1999 to start another one as a photographer. Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Oakland Museum of California; Transformer Station\, Cleveland\, Ohio; Pier 24 Photography\, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art\, Indiana; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, New Orleans. Her work has been featured in Dear Dave\, McSweeney’s\, Vanity Fair\, New York Times Magazine\, Blink\, Slate\, New York\, Sports Illustrated\, California Sunday Magazine\, and ESPN The Magazine. She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery\, Los Angeles \n  \n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of How to Be Loved\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eva-hagberg-fisher-with-tabitha-soren-how-to-be-loved-a-memoir-of-lifesaving-friendship/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki\, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life\, and the lessons we can draw from them\, in his new book\, Wise Guy. \nGuy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple’s original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He’s widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship\, venture capital\, marketing\, and business evangelism\, which he’s shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that\, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii\, a grandson of Japanese immigrants\, who loved football and got a C+ in 9th grade English. \nWise Guy\, his most personal book\, is about his surprising journey. It’s not a traditional memoir but a series of vignettes. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul\, because these stories (like those in the Chicken Soupseries) reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. \nFor instance\, you’ll follow Kawasaki as he . . . \n* Gets his first real job in the jewelry business–which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. \n* Disparages one of Apple’s potential partners in front of that company’s CEO\, at the sneaky instigation of Steve Jobs. \n* Blows up his Apple career with a single sentence\, after Jobs withholds a pre-release copy of the Think Different ad campaign: “That’s okay\, Steve\, I don’t trust you either.” \n* Reevaluates his self-importance after being mistaken for Jackie Chan by four young women. \n* Takes up surfing at 62–which teaches him that you can discover a new passion at any age\, but younger is easier! \nKawasaki covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes\, “I hope my stories help you live a more joyous\, productive\, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this\, then that’s the best story of all.” \n\nGuy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist Canva\, an online graphic-design tool. He’s also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was previously the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His 14 books include The Art of the Start\, Enchantment\, Selling the Dream\, and The Art of Social Media. He has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA\, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He and his wife\, Beth\, have four children. \nThis free event will take place in Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 3rd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki-wise-guy-lessons-from-a-life/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:LOGIC Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC A magazine about technology \nHost: Jim Fingal\, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey\, Alexis C. Madrigal\, Fred Turner\, Ellen Ullman\, and Julia Carrie Wong \nTwo years ago\, Logic launched its first issue at City Lights. They are a print magazine about technology that publishes three times per year\, with a small digital footprint. A great deal of enthusiasm has been generated by LOGIC. They continue to expand their editorial line to generate better conversations about technology and its effects on culture. \nTo celebrate the second anniversary of Logic’s launch\, join us for a conversation at City Lights about the state of technology writing. \nHow are writers telling the story of technology? And how has the way they are telling that story changed in recent years\, as a string of revelations and scandals fosters a darker mood about the role of technology in our lives? \nTo discuss these questions\, we’ll hear from friends of the magazine who write about technology in different genres: \nMegan Rose Dickey is a senior reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity\, inclusion and social justice. She also covers the on-demand economy\, artificial intelligence and transportation. \nAlexis C. Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. \nFred Turner is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand\, the Whole Earth Network\, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism\, and a professor of Communication at Stanford University\, where he studies media\, technology and American cultural history. \nEllen Ullman is a computer programmer\, writer\, and novelist.  Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Wired\, The New Yprkl Times and Salon.  She is the author of a novel\, The Bug\, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine\, based on her years as a rare female computer programmer in the early years of the personal computer era. She lives in San Francisco. \nJulia Carrie Wong is a technology reporter for Guardian US\, based in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-turns-two/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:DOOMED
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes\, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas\, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits\nODD SALON: DOOMED\n  \nFeaturing: \nTamar Baskind ~ Emanuel Ringelblum & the Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto \nLeonard Apeltsin ~ Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes Wrong \nLin Lawhn ~ Caledonia\, Conquered: How a Parcel of Rogues Doomed Scottish Independence \nKyle Weaver ~ Neitzche in a Nutshell: A Legacy of Miserable Counterculture \nNatalie Descalzi ~ The Alleged Arctic Conquests of Admiral Byrd \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan ~ History Distilled: Star Crossed Sodas & Lost Elixirs \nCurated by Christian Cagigal \nTuesday\, March 5th 2019 \n  \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \n*Discounted Early Bird Tickets are available only up to Midnight\, Monday Feb18.* \n  \nJoin our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more: Odd Salon Membership \n \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doomed/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190305T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 5\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nMorgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma\, loneliness\, sexuality\, racism\, and objectification. Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop\, Best American Poetry\, the New York Times\, the Nation\, and more. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and the recipient of a 2017 NEA in Literature Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-4/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190131T235755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T235755Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! \nCurated by Christine No + Chad Koch\, submissions are open through Feb 6. \nThe Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, site of Quiet Lightning 125. Photo by Aubrie Pick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-6/
LOCATION:The Bar at Hotel Kabuki\, 1625 Post St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190131T014558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T014558Z
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. \nMagical Negro is an archive of black everydayness\, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes\, an ethnography of ancestral grief\, and an inventory of figureheads\, idioms\, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive\, joke and declaration\, songs of congregation and self-conception.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190129T232315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T232315Z
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SUMMARY:THE WHOLE-BRAIN CHILD: NEUROSCIENCE OF THE DEVELOPING BRAIN WITH DR. DANIEL SIEGEL
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Steven Winn\nMonday\, March 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Daniel Siegel is a leading expert on psychiatry and psychotherapy\, focusing on the brain’s impact on the well-being of children and adults. A clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine\, and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center\, Dr. Siegel is the author and editor of multiple articles\, essays\, anthologies\, and textbooks on neurobiology\, both for the professional world and the public. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute\, an educational organization that teaches courses in developing mindfulness through examination of interpersonal relationships and biological processes. Dr. Siegel has additionally written five parenting books\, which use facets of neurobiology as the basis for healthful child-rearing. His most recent book\, Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence\, takes a close look at the science that underlies meditation and mindfulness\, and teaches readers how to cultivate an attentive state of being in order to develop a healthier\, happier\, brain and life.\n\n\nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Good Housekeeping\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. He is the author of Come Back\, Como.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-whole-brain-child-neuroscience-of-the-developing-brain-with-dr-daniel-siegel/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190304T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190304T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190131T104040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T104040Z
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SUMMARY:Guy Kawasaki
DESCRIPTION:A veritable icon of Silicon Valley\, Kawasaki is the author of 14 books\, including staples in the entrepreneur’s library like The Art of the Start. After working with some of the biggest tech companies in the world\, including a stint at Apple in the 1980s\, this guru of guerilla marketing went on to become the poster of reinvention\, solo-prenuership\, and a champion of self-branding. Today\, he’s a chief evangelist for Canva\, an online graphic-design tool\, a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz\, and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. \nIn his most revealing book yet\, Guy shares personal stories from his childhood in Hawaii\, his education at Stanford and UCLA\, the ups and downs of working for Steve Jobs\, and taking up surfing at 60 — proving that you are never too old to learn something new. \nWise Guy is an utterly original and profoundly intimate look at the power of self-reflection. Always the clear-eyed mentor\, Guy invites us all to find the deeper truth in the smallest moments of our life. Join one of Silicon Valley’s biggest stars as he returns to Kepler’s to share the pivotal lessons he’s learned in his 30+ years in the valley — you might just learn a thing or two about surfing along the way!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guy-kawasaki/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20170324T014133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061839Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-23/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190228T002316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T002316Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, March 3rd for an intimate evening of poetry at the next installment of Bazaar Writers Salon. \nReadings by Esther Lin\, Austin Smith\, Melissa Stein\, and Amos White\nHosted by Peter Kline \nEsther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for 21 years. She is the author of The Ghost Wife\, winner of the 2018 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship\, and was awarded the Crab Orchard Review’s 2018 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel\, Crazyhorse\, Indiana Review\, Pleiades\, Ploughshares\, Triquarterly\, and elsewhere. Currently she is a Wallace Stegner Fellow and organizes for the Undocupoets\, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community. \nAustin Smith is the author of two poetry collections\, Almanac and Flyover Country\, both published through the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His poems have appeared in numerous journals\, including The New Yorker\, Poetry Magazine\, Ploughshares\, New England Review and Threepenny Review. He has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant in prose. He currently teaches courses in poetry\, fiction\, environmental literature and documentary journalism at Stanford University\, and lives in Pescadero\, California. \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA\, Pushcart Prize\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nAmos White is an awarded American haiku poet and author\, producer and civil rights activist. He is recognized for his vivid literary imagery and breathless poetic interpretations. Amos is published in several national and international reviews and anthologies. He is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, Executive Producer and Host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show\, and President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series\, and board member with the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM). www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-12/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190131T112411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T112411Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics\, East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, wheelchair accessible\, 3:00 (510/653-9965\, ebbooksellers.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-a-reading-by-keith-emmons-moondrifter-reverie-and-lisa-rosenberg-a-different-physics/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084832
CREATED:20190131T103930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T103930Z
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Peter H. Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:From the creator of the New York Times bestsellers The Word Collector and I Am Human comes an empowering story about finding your voice and using it to make the world a better place. In Say Something! beloved artist and author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us\, each and every day\, have the chance to say something: with our actions\, our words\, and our voices. \n The world needs your voice.\nIf you have a brilliant idea… say something!\nIf you see an injustice… say something! \nPerfect for kid activists everywhere\, Reynolds reminds readers of the undeniable importance and power of their voices. There are so many ways to tell the world who you are\, what you are thinking\, and how you’ll make it better. The time is now: Say Something! \nPeter H. Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of many books for children\, including The Dot\, Ish\, Happy Dreamer\, The Word Collector\, and I Am Human. His books have been translated into over twenty-five languages around the globe and are celebrated worldwide. In 1996\, he founded FableVision with his brother\, Paul\, as a social change agency to help create “stories that matter\, stories that move.” \nSay Something! is a perfect way to start a conversation about how kids can make a difference in their world. Join us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-peter-h-reynolds/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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