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SUMMARY:That We May Live: Dorothy Tse and Natascha Bruce in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event \n\n\n\nSurreal stories for a surreal time. Hong Kong surrealist writer Dorothy Tse and translator Natascha Bruce join Calico editor Sarah Coolidge to talk about That We May Live. \nThat We May Live\, the first book in the brand-new Calico Series\, brings you work by some of today’s most exciting writers from China and Hong Kong\, including Dorothy Tse (tr. Natascha Bruce)\, Zhu Hui (tr. Michael Day)\, and Enoch Tam (tr. Jeremy Tiang). Lightly touching on issues of urbanization\, sexuality\, and propaganda\, the collection builds a world both utterly disorienting and disturbing familiar\, prompting the question: Where does reality end and absurdity begin in a world pushed to its very limits? \nThis event is presented by The Center for Literary Arts of San Jose and will be streamed live on Facebook and Instagram. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nDorothy Tse\n\n\nDorothy Tse is an award-winning writer from Hong Kong. She has published three story collections in Chinese and one in English\, Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman). She was cofounder of the Fleurs des lettres literary journal and currently teaches literature and creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nNatascha Bruce\n\n\nNatascha Bruce translates fiction from Chinese. Her work includes short stories by Hong Kong surrealist writer Dorothy Tse\, Lonely Face by Singapore’s Yeng Pway Ngon and\, with Nicky Harman\, A Classical Tragedy by Xu Xiaobin.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEDITOR\nSarah Coolidge\n\n\nSarah Coolidge received her BA in comparative literature from Bard College. She enjoys reading books in Spanish and English\, and she writes essays on photography and international literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/that-we-may-live-dorothy-tse-and-natascha-bruce-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Take Place: SFSU Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:We’re joining together one last time during this (weird) semester for a virtual reading\, open mic and party time\, with funky virtual tunes. Feel free\, for the open mic portion\, to share with us a song\, video\, dance or\, of course\, a reading that has helped you through this time.   \nWHEN: Thursday\, May 21 @ 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.\nWHERE: Zoom meeting! For Zoom ID\, password\, and open mic sign-up\, please email takeplacereadings@gmail.com\nWHAT:  Featured reading and open mic. All literary and experimental genres are welcome! Open mic slots are about 2 minutes each and open to SFSU students (future\, present or past)\, professors (please!) & community members.\nWHO: TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter & London Pinkney \nTreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a queer Black writer born and raised in Modesto\, California. He attended San Francisco State University\, obtaining a B.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in Education and is obtaining a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from SFSU. His work has been featured in Ramblr\, Tayo Magazine’s SOFT issue\, Transfer\, BAD EGG\, Borderless Zine\, and The Ana. Roach-Carter is the recipient of the Leo Litwalk award\, a Browning Society Award\, and was the runner-up for the Ramblr Fiction award. He is the author of the young adult novel The Marked Ones: Uprising. \nLondon Pinkney is a writer\, editor\, and educator. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Ana\, and was the 2019 recipient of the Joe Brainard Fellowship. London Pinkney has been published at Mirage #5 / Period[ical]\, Seen and Heard and Omniverse\, among other places.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/take-place-sfsu-reading-open-mic-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T200000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. All interested readers\, please sign up to perform below. For those interested in being part of the audience\, no need to rsvp. Everyone is welcome. \nSign up to perform on the MoAD website:\nhttps://www.moadsf.org/event/open-mic-night/?instance_id=15674 \nOPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Because we remain closed due to the global pandemic COVID-19\, we will host our Open Mic online via ZOOM. Because we had such an awesome first virtual open mic\, we will bring them to you TWICE per month instead of once. Look for MoAD Open Mic this month on the FIRST & THIRD THURSDAYS during the closure. Because we love MoAD and MoAD loves you! \nDONATIONS OF ANY AMOUNT ARE ALWAYS WELCOME\, SO IF YOU ARE ABLE TO\, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO MOAD ONLINE https://www.moadsf.org/support-us/make-a-donation/ OR DONATING THROUGH GIVE BY CELL BY TEXTING THE WORD (USING ALL CAPS): MOADSF TO THE NUMBER: 56512 ON YOUR CELL PHONE\, THEN FOLLOW THE LINK PROVIDED TO MAKE A DONATION. ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING MOAD AND CONTINUING TO BRING YOU ENGAGING PROGRAMMING. \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98801482370?pwd=MU4yMG9wYmJEdEtrNkxWUVk3ZmFlZz09\nMeeting ID: 988 0148 2370\nPassword: 033493\nThe dial-in number for folks without smartphones who only want to listen\, not video conference: 669 900 9128 \nHosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets from throughout the Bay Area. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nOur featured artist this month: \nNOEL QUIÑONES \nNoel Quiñones is a Puerto Rican writer\, performer\, and community organizer from the Bronx. As a writer\, he’s received fellowships from Poets House\, the Poetry Foundation\, CantoMundo\, Candor Arts\, and SAFTA (Sundress Academy for the Arts). His work has been published in POETRY\, the Latin American Review\, Rattle\, Kweli Journal\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and former director of Project X\, a Bronx-based arts organization\, and a current M.F.A. candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi. Follow him at noelpquinones.com or online @noelpquinones.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T180000
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SUMMARY:Write from the Gut! Virtual Reading + open mic
DESCRIPTION:Join the SF Creative Writing Institute for an online reading by former and current students\, faculty\, and friends to celebrate the end of our Spring 2020 term. The reading will include an open mic. All are welcome. \nPlease sign up in advance by putting your request in the event comments or direct message Hollie Hardy. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89167370086?pwd=aDNkMHFYYk5mWlArNnR5NUhVczVZdz09 \nMeeting ID: 891 6737 0086\nPassword: 609416\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,89167370086#\,\,1#\,609416# US
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T180000
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SUMMARY:Screenside Chat #3: Norma Liliana Valdez and Alan Pelaez Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our third Screenside Chat\, a new limited-run series where Nomadic Press partners with other small publishers to bring you “fireside chat”-esque readings and conversations between 2–3 writers\, all from the comfort of your home. There will be a brief Q&A at the end\, as well\, for audience members to ask our writers questions. \nFor this iteration of Screenside Chat\, we have paired up with the wonderful YesYes Books. Our writers are Norma Liliana Valdez (author of Preparing the Body\, YesYes Books) and Alan Pelaez Lopez (author of to love and mourn in the age of displacement\, Nomadic Press). \nAmie Zimmerman from YesYes Books will emcee\, and J. K. Fowler from Nomadic Press will be working tech and handling the chat. \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-2-tickets-100581457848; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of raising $200. \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Screenside Chat #3: Norma Liliana Valdez and Alan Pelaez Lopez\nTime: May 21\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85956953066 \nMeeting ID: 859 5695 3066\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,85956953066# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,85956953066# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 859 5695 3066\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdfEJbPmJE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/screenside-chat-3-norma-liliana-valdez-and-alan-pelaez-lopez/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T173000
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SUMMARY:Local best-selling author David Talbot in conversation with Rose Aguilar
DESCRIPTION:Grab your favorite beverage and snacks and join THD for a happy hour in a personal conversation between David Talbot\, local well-known writer and historian\, with Rose Aguilar\, our own local journalist and radio broadcast host of Your Call on KALW. \nTickets available via Eventbrite link or by email to social@thd.org. \nEventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telegraph-hill-dwellers-hosts-a-virtual-happy-hour-with-david-talbot-in-conversation-with-rose-tickets-105441000872 \nRaffle:\nTHD has purchased 5 signed copies of David’s newest book:\nBetween Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke \nAll participants in this virtual event will automatically be entered into the raffle to win a copy. Drawing will be held live at the conclusion of this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/local-best-selling-author-david-talbot-in-conversation-with-rose-aguilar/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200521T190000
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SUMMARY:WATV Presents: Ashia Ajani and The Burl Concentrate
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices Presents: Ashia Ajani and The Burl Concentrate (curated by Wolfman Books) \nYes! We are so excited for this reading! Ashia Ajani and The Burl Concentrate (Connie Zheng and Sarah Dawn Albani) will each read a short selection from their recent work with a Q+A to follow. \nAttendees must register with Eventbrite to get the Zoom address. Thanks! \nAbout the Readers \nAshia Ajani (she/they) is a Black storyteller hailing from Denver\, CO\, Queen City of the Plains. Her work explores the layered relationship between the Black diaspora and Western environmental stewardship. They have been published in Sierra Magazine\, Sage Magazine and Foglifter Press\, among others\, and they are a 2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Finalist. She released her first chapbook\, We Bleed Like Mango\, October 2017. \nSarah-Dawn Albani is a writer and artist\, teaching\, gardening\, and being freaky in Northern California for twenty-one years. Her interdisciplinary work looks for radical ways to improvise our way through the ends of capitalism. Dance and storytelling that seeks to open our networks to the power and potential of the vulnerability therein— form the basis of her most recent works. \nConnie Zheng (she/her) is an artist\, writer and filmmaker based out of Oakland\, CA. In addition to The Burl Concentrate book project\, she is working on a film about seeds and a speculative seed catalogue. She is currently a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, a Collection Fellow at Kadist\, and the Art Director of Quiet Lightning\, and will be starting a PhD in Visual Studies at UC Santa Cruz in the fall. \nAbout We Are The Voices \nThrough a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, this project connects Mills College students with local and national poets\, performers\, writers\, and scholars to collaborate around transformative art and critical scholarship. \nLed by Mills Professor Sheila Lloyd\, We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For: Poetry\, Performance\, and Public Humanities is a five-year\, multi-pronged project that brings visiting artists and scholars to campus\, broadening the conversation for Mills students and building connections with our local community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/watv-presents-ashia-ajani-and-the-burl-concentrate/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T193000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition: May Contagion
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges continues its long-running reading series featuring the diverse voices of the East Bay. \nWith a reading by poets Tureeda Mikell and Sarah Kobrinsky\nand by fiction writer Michael Nava! \nLyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #4\nTime: Mat 20\, 2020 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/603664236?pwd=cW9tYldEdU0rb3YvNi9TSFR3alpRQT09 \nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: LDEE\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (Houston)\n+16699009128\,\,603664236#\,\,#\,061152# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 603 664 236\nPassword: 061152\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/keB99ctCO4
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-may-contagion/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T210000
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SUMMARY:Mary Karr & Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nKnown for her bestselling memoirs\, Mary Karr is also a celebrated poet\, essayist\, and songwriter from East Texas. Her latest book of poetry\, Tropic of Squalor\, is in turns hilarious\, horrific\, tragic\, and soothing\, and infused with her characteristically deft brandishment of language. Karr’s other books include The Liar’s Club\, Cherry\, Lit\, and The Art of Memoir. She is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and Poetry magazine. Karr is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. \nKaveh Akbar is a poet\, and the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is the founder of Divedapper\, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. Akbar also writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called “Poetry RX.” Previously\, he ran The Quirk\, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for the Southeast Review. \n  \nPhotograph credit: Marlon James (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-karr-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mary Karr & Kaveh Akbar
DESCRIPTION:Watch the upcoming webcast on our YouTube channel →\nYou can support the cost of this public webcast by making a tax-deductible donation. Thank you for your support! \nKnown for her bestselling memoirs\, Mary Karr is also a celebrated poet\, essayist\, and songwriter from East Texas. Her latest book of poetry\, Tropic of Squalor\, is in turns hilarious\, horrific\, tragic\, and soothing\, and infused with her characteristically deft brandishment of language. Karr’s other books include The Liar’s Club\, Cherry\, Lit\, and The Art of Memoir. She is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, and Poetry magazine. Karr is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. \nKaveh Akbar is a poet\, and the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is the founder of Divedapper\, a home for dialogues with the most vital voices in American poetry. Akbar also writes a weekly column for the Paris Review called “Poetry RX.” Previously\, he ran The Quirk\, a for-charity print literary journal. He has also served as Poetry Editor for BOOTH and Book Reviews Editor for the Southeast Review. \nAttention ticket holders: We hope you might consider donating your ticket to support the ushers\, technical staff and artists who have made this event possible\, as well as City Arts & Lectures’ mission of broad access to culture. We also understand if you would like a refund and will happily accommodate that. To request a refund\, email City Box Office. To receive acknowledgement of a tax-deductible contribution\, no action is required. \nPhotograph credit: Marlon James (right)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-karr-kaveh-akbar-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T210000
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SUMMARY:Exploring Rumi to Make Sense of Ourselves
DESCRIPTION:“Quit being a drop. Make yourself an ocean.” Rumi’s inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic\, mystical\, and devotional. For writer and activist Melody Moezzi\, they became her lifeline. \nWith the help of her father\, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi’s poetry\, she immersed herself in Rumi’s rich body of work\, and discovered a 13th-century prescription for modern life. Melody’s latest book\, The Rumi Prescription\, follows her path of discovery as she translates Rumi’s works for herself\, gaining wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock. \nMelody addresses isolation\, distraction\, depression\, fear\, and many other everyday challenges we face—arguing that Rumi provides a roadmap for living with intention and ease\, embracing love at every turn—despite the divided and chaotic times we live in. By following her journey translating Rumi’s works\, Melody provides us a vivid reminder that we already have the answers we seek\, if we can just slow down to honor them. \nJoin Shoshana Simons\, Professor and Co-Chair of CIIS’ Expressive Arts Therapy Program\, for a conversation about Melody’s life and how the wisdom she found exploring Rumi can help us make sense of our modern lives. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event will be hosted live online. Instructions on how to join the webinar will be included in your event confirmation email. If you need additional assistance finding or joining the event\, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/exploring-rumi-to-make-sense-of-ourselves/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T203000
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is having its first virtual reading series hosted by comedian\, Luna Malbroux. Featured readers include Peter Thomas Bullen\, Lara Coley\, Jenee Darden\, Ingrid C Keir\, Kar Johnson\, Thea Matthews\, Loria Mendoza\, Mackenzie Studebaker\, Kristina Sergeevna Ten and more. The show is curated by Jennifer Lewis and will have some special guests! If you are not in the Bay Area\, this is your chance to join us as we explore love relationships and sexuality in the time of quarantine. \nMake sure to log-on early\, the show will only hold 100-people. \nTHE SHOW IS FREE AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!!! \nHowever\, if you want to support Red Light Lit to ensure we can continue publishing emerging writers\, you can donate via Eventbrite up to 24-hours after the show. \nZOOM INFORMATION: \nMeeting ID: 948 0831 7020 \nPassword: 646053 \nJoin from a PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android device: \nWeb Link: https://tinyurl.com/y87b3hwz \nOne tap mobile \n+12133388477\,\,94808317020#\,\,1#\,646053# US (Los Angeles) \n+16692192599\,\,94808317020#\,\,1#\,646053# US (San Jose) \nDial by your location \n+1 213 338 8477 US (Los Angeles) \n+1 669 219 2599 US (San Jose) \n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) \n000 800 040 1530 India Toll-free \n000 800 050 5050 India Toll-free
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-4/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T190000
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SUMMARY:Alia Volz\, in conversation with Joe Loya\, discusses Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:During the ’70s in San Francisco\, Alia’s mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies\, delivering upwards of 10\,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia’s future father\, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.  Decades before cannabusiness went mainstream\, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin\, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight\, parading through town–and through the scenes and upheavals of the day\, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple–in bright and elaborate outfits\, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia’s stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and\, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce\, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s\, this time using Sticky Fingers’ distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS. \nExhilarating\, laugh-out-loud funny\, and heartbreaking\, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family\, taking us through love\, loss\, and finding home. (Houghton Mifflin) \nThis will be a live stream event on Crowdcast. The event is FREE and you can register here. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-volz-in-conversation-with-joe-loya-discusses-home-baked-my-mom-marijuana-and-the-stoning-of-san-francisco/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T180000
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Ishmael Beah and Little Family
DESCRIPTION:From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sierra Leone child-soldier memoir\, A LONG WAY HOME\, comes this powerful new novel about young people living at the margins of society. LITTLE FAMILY portrays the lives of five youth who have improvised a household in an abandoned airplane\, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Join us to celebrate release of this remarkable debut work of fiction from Ishmael Beah\, whom Vanity Fair has called “arguably the most-read African writer in contemporary literature.” FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live on Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nIshmael Beah\nIshmael Beah\, born in Sierra Leone\, West Africa\, is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier\, and the novel Radiance of Tomorrow. His newest novel\, Little Family\, is a profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-ishmael-beah-and-little-family/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200506T184812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200506T184812Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Stephanie Danler and Anna Wiener
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday May 20th at 5:00pm PDT on Instagram Live for a conversation between Stephanie Danler and Anna Wiener on her new memoir Stray. \nAbout Stray \nFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter\, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction\, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving\, sometimes devastating\, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival. \nAfter selling her first novel–a dream she’d worked long and hard for–Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead\, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she’d left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism\, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three\, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she’s pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn’t totally understand\, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here\, she works toward answers\, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it’s possible to change the course of her history. \nLucid and honest\, heart-breaking and full of hope\, Stray is an examination of what we inherit and what we don’t have to\, of what we have to face in ourselves to move forward\, and what it’s like to let go of one’s parents in order to find a peace–and family–of one’s own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-stephanie-danler-and-anna-wiener/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200518T000957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T000957Z
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SUMMARY:Todd Miller: Empire of Borders
DESCRIPTION:Todd Miller discusses his recent book Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border around the World \nThis author presentation\, discussion and Q and A will stream here https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/ \nThe United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process. \nBuy the book at a special price here https://www.revolutionbooks.org/book/9781784785116 \nRegister today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/todd-miller-empire-of-borders-expansion-of-us-borders-around-the-world-tickets-105612824802 \nJournalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders\, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources\, training\, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield\, enforcing the division between Global South and North. \n*Empire of Borders* traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting\,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors\, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows\, once again\, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations. \nIn Syria\, Guatemala\, Kenya\, Palestine\, Mexico\, the Philippines\, and elsewhere\, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-miller-empire-of-borders/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200517T234901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200517T234901Z
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SUMMARY:Alta Asks Live: Peter Orner
DESCRIPTION:Where do Peter Orner’s characters come from? Will the global pandemic appear somehow in his future work? And what comes next for the award-winning author and Dartmouth College professor? Orner will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday\, May 20 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his short story collection\, Maggie Brown & Others\, and much\, much more. REGISTER: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/alta-asks-live-peter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-asks-live-peter-orner/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200430T232606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T232606Z
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SUMMARY:Jandy Nelson and Nina LaCour for A Great Good Place for Books
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will be a discussion between Nina LaCour and Jandy Nelson. \nAll proceeds benefit A Great Good Place for Books. Shop online now! \n\nMay 20 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jandy-nelson-and-nina-lacour-for-a-great-good-place-for-books/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T220000
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SUMMARY:Oakland Virtual Slam ft. Joyce Lee!
DESCRIPTION:GANG GANG. We might be stuck inside but that doesn’t mean we can’t come together and have a poetry slam! We’ll be hosting the slam on zoom and Bay Poets Unite will be live streaming our virtual slam on facebook\, youtube\, and twitter! We got a $50 prize for 1st place! \n📝Workshop starts at 7:15 PM on Zoom (Meeting ID: 868-4725-4912)\n🎙Virtual Slam starts at 8:15 PM on our facebook page! \nSign Up List for the Virtual Slam. Deadline is Mon 11:59pm (https://forms.gle/nmF9ZtqFWR23XnLY7) \nOur feature is the amazing Joyce Lee:\nJoyce Lee is an International storyteller and performance poet. Her performances of her own creative non-fiction writing constantly receive standing ovations and encores from her fans and personal heroes. \nJoyce Lee is an explorer of emotional and physical life. She travels the world and writes but is not a travel writer\, instead\, each place she wanders\, each country\, is allotted by her to introduce its own spirit. Joyce listens to that spirit and takes notes. Sometimes the note is a memory\, sometimes a story\, but every time a poetic gift to her audience. She currently resides in Bogota\, Colombia with plans to move to elsewhere in 2020 to complete her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-virtual-slam-ft-joyce-lee/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic":MAILTO:oakslambooking@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T210000
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CREATED:20200331T180452Z
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody on Paul Valéry
DESCRIPTION:Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody discusses his translation of The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry. \nAbout The Idea of Perfection \nA fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry\, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. \nHeir to Mallarmé and the symbolists\, godfather to the modernists\, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers\, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot\, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems\, it turns out\, are inseparable from another\, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. \nBehind the published works\, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet\, there hides another story\, a private life of the mind\, that has its record in 28\,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at\, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet\, nor his occasional sketchbook\, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought\,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent\, as rigorous\, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. \nThe Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse\, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse\, The Young Fate\, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody\, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice\, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Author \nPaul Valéry is one of the major figures of twentieth-century French literature. After a promising debut as a young symbolist in Mallarmé’s circle\, Valéry withdrew from public view for almost twenty years\, and was almost forgotten by 1917 when the publication of the long poem La Jeune Parque made him an instant celebrity. He was best known in his day for his small output of highly polished lyric poetry\, and posthumously for the 28\,000 pages of his Notebooks. He died in 1945. \nNathaniel Rudavsky-Brody was born in Columbus\, Ohio. He has translated the work of French and Belgian poets\, including Benjamin Fondane\, for which he was awarded the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. He is the author of two volumes of poetry in French and one in English\, and has worked as a typesetter\, a programmer\, and a private tutor in Greece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathaniel-rudavsky-brody-on-paul-valery/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T210000
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CREATED:20200515T164911Z
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SUMMARY:The Editor by Steven Rowley | A GGP Virtual Book Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Tuesday\, May 19 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen’s favorite books\, THE EDITOR by Steven Rowley. We expect Steven Rowley to join us! \n  \nZoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82390231644 \nWe’ll be playing excerpts of the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. You can get your audiobook here: bit.ly/LibroEditor \nIf you’d prefer paper\, here’s a link to our website where you can order a copy for shipment from our warehouse: bit.ly/GGPEditor \n“What happens when you write that novel and it finally finds a home at a publishing house? If it’s 1992 and your editor is Jackie O\, you are forced to look deeper and answer the questions you been avoiding your whole life — this is a must-read for any aspiring writer!”— Kathleen \nApril 2019 Indie Next List \n“Steven Rowley’s new novel is exactly the balm I needed in today’s climate. Focusing on a young writer who discovers that his editor is none other than Jackie Kennedy Onassis\, the book explores both romantic and familial relationships in a humorous and touching manner. Although the writing is wickedly barbed and the zingers fly at the speed of a 1940s rom-com\, The Editor is so much more. There is real heart in the writing as well as real love between the characters. It’s a true delight and the kind of book people who loved Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine or Less will truly enjoy. Just be prepared with a box of tissues and your favorite cocktail (Jackie would suggest daiquiris).” \n— William Carl\, Wellesley Books\, Wellesley\, MA \nDescription \nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break\, with a little help from the most famous woman in America. \nAfter years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City\, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie–or Mrs. Onassis\, as she’s known in the office–has fallen in love with James’s candidly autobiographical novel\, one that exposes his own dysfunctional family. But when the book’s forthcoming publication threatens to unravel already fragile relationships\, both within his family and with his partner\, James finds that he can’t bring himself to finish the manuscript. \nJackie and James develop an unexpected friendship\, and she pushes him to write an authentic ending\, encouraging him to head home to confront the truth about his relationship with his mother. Then a long-held family secret is revealed\, and he realizes his editor may have had a larger plan that goes beyond the page… \nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny\, poignant\, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever–both as a writer and a son. \nAbout the Author \nSteven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He currently resides in Los Angeles. \nPraise For… \nOne of: \nNPR’s Favorite Books of 2019 \nEsquire’s “Best Books of 2019 (So Far)” \nSouthern Living’s “25 Beach Reads Perfect for Summer” \nPopSugar’s “Buzzy Books to Read This Spring” \nTown & Country’s “Must-Read Books of Spring 2019” \nCosmopolitan’s “13 Best Books Coming Out in April”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-editor-by-steven-rowley-a-ggp-virtual-book-chat-on-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T210000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Ackerman\, The Bird Way at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \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 May 17th. \n\nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds\, a radical investigation into the bird way of being\, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think. \n“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring\, and lately\, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have\, for years\, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives\, how they communicate\, forage\, court\, breed\, survive. They’re also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities\, abilities we once considered uniquely our own–deception\, manipulation\, cheating\, kidnapping\, infanticide\, but also\, ingenious communication between species\, cooperation\, collaboration\, altruism\, culture\, and play. \nSome of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of–well–birdness: A mother bird that kills her own infant sons\, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own. Young birds that devote themselves to feeding their siblings and others so competitive they’ll stab their nestmates to death. Birds that give gifts and birds that steal\, birds that dance or drum\, that paint their creations or paint themselves\, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call–and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. \nDrawing on personal observations\, the latest science\, and her bird-related travel around the world\, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan\, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay\, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect\, in plumage\, form\, song\, flight\, lifestyle\, niche\, and behavior\, birds vary. It’s what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said\, when you have seen one bird\, you have not seen them all. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Genius of Birds\, which has been translated into twenty languages and the forthcoming The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think. Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American\, National Geographic\, The New York Times\, and many other publications\, Ackerman is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction\, a Bunting Fellowship\, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-ackerman-the-bird-way-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
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SUMMARY:Sex\, Art and Power: Writer to Writer with Garth Greenwell and Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Keiko Lane\nProgram will air Tuesday May 19th\, 7:00 PM PST \n\n\nRegister (for free) to watch this program’s debut\n\n\n\nIn our Writer to Writer series\, two writers who are fans of each other’s work come together for a conversation. Garth Greenwell’s most recent book\, Cleanness\, was described in Harpers as “an electrifying portrait of sex’s power to lacerate and liberate\, to make and unmake our deepest selves…The book’s sex scenes unfold like revelations\, effortlessly braiding inner drama with precisely choreographed intimacy.” And Greenwell\, writing in The New Yorker\, has called Lidia Yuknavitch’s sex scenes “remarkable among current American novelists\, not just for their explicitness but for the way she uses them to pursue questions of agency\, selfhood\, and the ethical implications of making art.” Come listen in as two of contemporary literature’s most incendiary writers talk about the relationships between queer bodies and sex\, language and literary citizenship\, and the moral and artistic complexities of desire and power. Moderated by Keiko Lane\, writer\, poet\, and former faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecommended Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarth Greenwell\, Cleanness\nLidia Yuknavitch\, Verge \nOrder your copies from one of our independent bookstore partners
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sex-art-and-power-writer-to-writer-with-garth-greenwell-and-lidia-yuknavitch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T231628Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #60 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-60-music-by-tba-3/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #60 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-60-music-by-tba-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
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SUMMARY:Cara Black with Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Peter Maravelis \nTwo masters of crime fiction discussing the writing of fiction that takes place in World War Two Europe. They explore topics that closely parallel many of the issues of the day as well as discussing the challenge and complexities of placing one’s writing in a dynamic historic period. \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———— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———— \nBooks for this event may be purchased at BOOKSHOP.ORG at the following links : \n>To purchase Three Hours in Paris click here< \n>To purchase The American Agent: A Masie Dobbs Novel click here< \n———— \nCara Black’s most recent book is \nThree Hours in Paris \nPublished by Soho Press \nCara Black\, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel\, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity—and drive—to take on Hitler himself. Cara Black is also the author of the bestselling Aimee Leduc Series. The most recent release being Murder in Bel-Air published by Soho Books. \nVisit: www.carablack.com \n— \nJacqueline Winspear’s essay “Writing about War” will be published in the new anthology \nPrivate Investigations: Mystery Writers On The Secrets\, Riddles and Wonders In Their Lives \npublished by Seal Press \nJacqueline Winspear is the author of the Masie Dobb’s Series\, following the exploits of the renowned psychologist and investigator Masie Dobbs through her exploits in WW2 London. The most recent novel in the series is The American Agent (number 15) published by Harper Collins. Additional books in the series include: To Die But Once; In This Grave Hour; Journey to Munich and many others. \nVisit: www.jacquelinewinspear.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-with-jacqueline-winspear/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200515T173729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T173729Z
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SUMMARY:Alissa Carpenter with Jen Oleniczak Brown - How to Listen and Be Heard (Zoom Livestream)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 19\, 5:00pm • Free Zoom Livestream Event • Presented with Shack 15\nModerated by Jen Oleniczak Brown \nToo often\, people avoid difficult conversations; but these discussions often need to happen to bring people together so we can all succeed. \nThere’s no denying that our workplaces are more diverse than ever. Age\, race\, gender—there are so many different perspectives and experiences being brought to the table. And the best employees and leaders know that harnessing the power of these differences will build stronger teams\, ideas\, and organizations. But how do we do this? If we all think\, feel\, and act so differently\, how do we get anything done? \nThe first step is recognizing that these differences exist. And that they’re here to stay. We need to respect and embrace our varied viewpoints\, and then we can start to communicate across (not against) them. \nHow to Listen and How to Be Heard shows you how to bridge the conversation gap and use your unique voice to start powerful conversations. This book is about learning how to communicate with\, through\, and alongside what makes us different. It’s about open dialogue and practical tools that get everyone on the same page—or at least in the same room. It’s not about quick fixes or the absence of conflict; it’s about working toward authentic communication in the workplace—for managers\, employees\, and colleagues from all fields. It’s about remembering that we’re all here to work together. \nAlissa Carpenter is a multigenerational workplace expert and owner of Everything’s Not Ok and That’s OK\, where she provides training\, consulting\, and speaking services to organizations all over the world. Carpenter has delivered a TEDx talk on authentic workplace communication\, and has been featured in media outlets including Forbes\, ABC\, FOX\, and CNN Money. \nJen Oleniczak Brown is the Founder of The Engaging Educator (EE)\, a women-owned and operated company dedicated to helping people find their unapologetic\, authentic\, and best voice/communication style through improv-based education. Her work has been featured in Fast Company\, Forbes\, Bustle\, and Moneyish. She is also the author of Improv(E): Using Improv to Find Your Voice\, Style\, and Self.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alissa-carpenter-with-jen-oleniczak-brown-how-to-listen-and-be-heard-zoom-livestream/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T171500
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SUMMARY:See Black Women
DESCRIPTION:‘See Black Women’ is presented as part of the Art+Action Coalition’s COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign\, which aims to inspire and galvanize Census participation by all communities. This two-part conversation held in collaboration with Art+Action Coalition Partners YBCA and Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)\, will take place LIVE on Tuesday\, May 19 and Tuesday\, May 26 from 4-5:15pm (PST) on YBCA and MoAD’s Facebook pages. \nTo insist upon being seen and heard is an act of resistance. Telling one’s story\, recording a community’s legacy\, and creating visual representations of one’s ancestry are methods of resisting erasure. During these two conversations\, the participants seek to answer questions including: How do we cite and honor our existence? How do we ensure our labor is acknowledged and our stories are heard for us to receive our fair share—both in civic and artistic arenas? \nThe first talk includes Erica Deeman / @erica_deeman\, Lava Thomas/ @lavathomas \, Angela Hennessy /@thehouseofhennessy and Sage Stargate. \nThe second on 5/26 with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo /@bluekaza\, Tahirah Rasheed\, Asya Abdrahman/ @asyaabdrahman\, & Sam Vernon / @samevernon \nBoth panels are curated and moderated by Ashara Ekundayo @blublakwomyn under her #ArtistAsFirstResponder platform \nFor more information about the See Black Women panel conversation visit: https://ybca.org/event/2020-see-black-women/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-black-women/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200515T220912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200515T220912Z
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SUMMARY:A virtual conversation with Amy Goodman\, Noam Chomsky & Stan Cox!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights & Democracy Now! \nThis event is free & will be broadcast on Crowdcast. Sign up here to attend! \nAmy Goodman in discussion with Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox about the prospects for the Green New Deal\, how the pandemic does–and does not—affect the struggle for climatic and economic justice\, among other relevant topics. \nAmy Goodman is a broadcast journalist\, syndicated columnist\, investigative reporter\, and the host Democracy Now!  She joins us from New York City. Stan Cox is the author of the new book The Green New Deal and Beyond just published by City Lights\, and joins us from Salina\, Kansas. Noam Chomsky\, author of the foreword to The Green New Deal and Beyond\, is a scholar\, academic\, and author of numerous books including Because We Say So with City Lights. He joins us from Tucson\, Arizona. \nWE THANK OUR CO-SPONSORS: Alternative Radio\,The Climate Mobilization\, CODEPINK\, Counterpunch\, The Gund Institute\, Haymarket Books\, The Institute for Social Ecology\, Post-Carbon Institute\, Post Growth Institute\,  Project Censored\, Research and Degrowth\, Truthout 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-virtual-conversation-with-amy-goodman-noam-chomsky-stan-cox/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T184502
CREATED:20200506T192936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200506T192936Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Visit and Discussion with Molly Wizenberg\, author of THE FIXED STARS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg\, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to the publisher\, we have 3 copies of the book available to the first three people who sign up! Books will also be on sale the day of! \nThis is a potluck lunch so stay tuned on what to bring! \nAbout The Fixed Stars \nAt age 36\, while serving on a jury\, Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler\, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it\, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead\, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. \nLike many of us\, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she\, she wondered\, if something at her very core could change so radically? \nTHE FIXED STARS (Abrams Press; May 12\, 2020; U.S. $25.00; Hardcover) by New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award–winning author Molly Wizenberg is a taut\, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire\, identity\, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose\, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce\, coming out to family and friends\, learning to co-parent a young child\, and realizing a new vision of love. \nTHE FIXED STARS is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit\, and learning instead who we really are. \nAbout the Author \nMolly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books\, A Homemade Life and Delancey\, and the James Beard Award–winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, Saveur\, and Bon Appétit\, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit\, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars-tickets-93595559839
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-visit-and-discussion-with-molly-wizenberg-author-of-the-fixed-stars/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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