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SUMMARY:El Cerrito Out Loud: Poetry Event
DESCRIPTION:Join City Poet Laureate Dani Gabriel for “El Cerrito Out Loud” at Off the Grid. Hear featured poets and participate in an open mic and writing activities. All ages encouraged to participate. No experience necessary. Food available for purchase at food trucks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/el-cerrito-out-loud-poetry-event/
LOCATION:San Pablo & Fairmount Avenues\, 6159 Fairmount Avenue\, El Cerrito\, 94530
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181204T213000
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SUMMARY:1st Tuesday's Spoken Word & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:1st Tuesday’s Spoken Word TV showcase is a community event that creates a positive space for expression through the arts. \nWe highlight local talent and bring awareness to local business\, including Radio Africa and Kitchen Cuisine and the new Cafe Envy. \nThis event is an upscale\, black carpet affair where artists receive lots of press coverage\, exposure and a great experience to share their art. We highlight spoken word artists\, poets\, storytellers\, singers\, artists and more. \nJoin us every 1st Tuesday from 7:30-9:30pm. This is a free event & Cafe Envy’ has extended their Happy Hour menu just for this special evening. \nWe’re doing this to build community & on our own so come out and support. \n#BigMouthProductions #1stTuesdaysRemixTV #BayviewHuntersPoint
URL:https://litseen.com/event/1st-tuesdays-spoken-word-open-mic/
LOCATION:Cafe Envy\, 1701 Yosemite Ave\, San Francisco\, 94124
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thomas Lynch reads Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway’s tradition. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, December 4\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst published in 1956\, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection from Capote about his rural Alabama boyhood is a perfect gift for fans young and old\, a “gem of a holiday story.” (School Library Journal\, starred review). \nSeven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin\, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship and the memories the two friends share of beloved holiday rituals. \nReader Thomas Lynch is an actor and longtime resident of the Elmwood. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-lynch-reads-truman-capotes-a-christmas-memory/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181204T213000
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SUMMARY:The Wall of Birds
DESCRIPTION:Jane Kim and Thayer Walker discuss their new book\, The Wall of Birds:One Planet\, 243 Families\, 375 Million Years. \n\nAbout The Wall of Birds \n\nA celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds\, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s magnificent 2\,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim. \n  \nPart homage\, part artistic and sociological journey\, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds’ remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick\, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted in exacting detail\, The Wall of Birds lets readers explore these amazing creatures family by family and continent by continent. Throughout\, beautifully crafted narratives and intimate artistic reflections tell of the evolutionary forces that created birds’ dazzling variety of forms and colors\, and reveal powerful lessons about birds that are surprisingly relevant to contemporary human challenges. \n  \nFrom the tiny five-inch Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird to the monstrous thirty-foot Yutyrannus\, The Wall of Birds is a visual feast\, essential for bird enthusiasts\, naturalists\, and art lovers alike.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wall-of-birds/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181204T213000
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SUMMARY:Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg
DESCRIPTION:On December 4\, The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes Parkland activist\, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and author David Hogg\, to San Francisco to share his personal story and vision for change in our country. \n“Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg” will include a lecture and Q&A at Minnesota Street Project followed by a reception and book signing with Hogg at the Museum of Craft and Design. Both arts venues are located within walking distance of each other in the historic Dogpatch district in San Francisco. David Hogg’s new book\, “#NeverAgain” will be on sale during the event at both locations and in advance of the lecture at MCD’s Store. \nConcurrently\, Al Farrow: Divine Ammunition\, a new exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed artist Al Farrow will be on view at the Museum of Craft and Design. Farrow is known for his works that employ used munitions-bullets\, guns\, grenades\, bombs-to make powerful sculptures of reliquaries and holy sites. Through his chosen media\, Farrow reclaims tools of destruction to evoke peaceful social commentary. \nTimes and Locations\n7:00-8:00 PM | Lecture and Q&A\nAt Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota St.\, San Francisco \n8:30-9:30 PM | Reception & Book Signing\nAt Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third St\, San Francisco \nTicket Details\nLecture and Q&A only | $30 public\, $25 MCD Members and students*\nLecture\, Q&A\, Reception and Book Signing with Author | $60 public\, $55 MCD Members and students*\n*Members and students will be required to present current membership cards or student ID upon entry. \nLecture\, Q&A\, Reception and Book Signing with Author – $60 (Lecture and Q&A only – $30). \nPresented by Museum of Craft and Design.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/designing-change-a-conversation-with-david-hogg/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norma Cole with Steve Dickison: An Omnidawn Party
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of two new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press \nFate News \nby Norma Cole \nand \n\n\n\nInside Song  \nby Steve Dickison \nabout Fate News: \nAll timing all the time! Fate News is poetry in the crosshairs of action (kairos) and clock time (chronos). With a topical setlist in four sections\, “Local\,” “On-Going\,” “Stay Songs\,” and “Harmolodics\,” Fate News relentlessly pierces the surface of lyric gesture. Its osmotic exchanges and searching encounters vibrate with the clarity of fiercely delicate shouts and murmurs\, undertones and overtones. The vision of “Mount Fiasco” is on fire. \nNorma Cole is a poet\, translator\, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities\, Where Shadows Will\, and Win These Poster and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. To Be At Music: Essays & Talks appeared in 2010. Her visual work has been shown at 2nd floor projects in San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. Born in Toronto\, Canada\, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. \n\n\n\nabout Inside Song : \nThese poems sense music as a generative force\, always gone other ways than culture and commerce need and declare it to travel. Half the book (Zora Neale Hurston) obliquely teases out the practice of “fieldwork” as the study of “getting into the crowd\,” and half follows from Charlie Haden’s deployment of “liberation music” as communitarian voice in the face of acts of State targeted at peoples and persons. \nSteve Dickison teaches at San Francisco State University\, where he directs The Poetry Center. His work has appeared in SFMOMA’s Open Space\, BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Poetry\, and Bomb\, which awarded him the 2014 Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. \nOmnidawn Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization\, seeks to support and expand the community of writers and readers through the work we choose to publish\, which questions\, in both form and content\, the prevailing limits of convention. Omnidawn began in 2001 with the intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push\, with compassionate insight\, the limits of risk. At the core of Omnidawn’s mission is the belief that lively\, culturally pertinent\, emotionally and intellectually engaging literature can be of great value\, and they participate in the dissemination of such work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norma-cole-with-steve-dickison-an-omnidawn-party/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181203T193000
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SUMMARY:City Arts & Lectures NADINE BURKE HARRIS
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Indre Viskontas\nMonday\, December 3\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nAs a pediatrician working in the Bay View-Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco\, Nadine Burke Harrisnoticed that the children who came to her clinic with health problems—including ADHD\, asthma\, and eczema—had histories of severe adversity. Her research has shown that exposure to violence and stress affects the developing brains and bodies of children\, resulting in increased instances of substance dependence\, impulse control\, engagement in high-risk behavior\, and heart disease or cancer. In response to her findings\, Harris founded the Center for Youth Wellness which provides care coordination\, mental health services\, nutrition\, holistic interventions\, and medication when necessary. She is the author of The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity. \nIndre Viskontas is a cognitive neuroscientist at University of California\, San Francisco and on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has published groundbreaking work on the neural basis of memory and creativity and is co-host of the podcast Inquiring Minds. Her forthcoming book\, How Music Can Make You Better\, comes out Spring 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-arts-lectures-nadine-burke-harris/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181203T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-20/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181202T210000
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SUMMARY:GERD STERN @ 90
DESCRIPTION:SUN. DEC. 2ND\, 7PM \nGerd Stern joins the circle of Beat nonagenarians this year\, and we’re hosting a gathering to celebrate! Gerd has worn many hats over the last 90 years\, from Beat poet to psychedelic media artist\, and most recently\, was vindicated as the poet who did not lose the Joan Anderson Letter over the side of his houseboat 60 years ago. \nJoin us for an evening of readings\, conversation\, and celebration of Gerd at 90! \nMore details to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerd-stern-90/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181202T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181202T193000
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SUMMARY:Flight of Poets: Pairings for the Senses
DESCRIPTION:The best of California art\, poetry\, food\, and wine all come together at our 3rd annual Pairings event. \nMeet Sonoma winemakers\, chefs\, and artists along with our featured “Flight of Poets”: Julia Bouwsma\, Joseph Rios\, Sam Sax and Melissa Stein. Sommelier Chris Sawyer co-hosts with curators Hollie Hardy and Tess Taylor. \nSunday\, December 2\, 2018\nDoors at 5:30pm\nSonoma Valley Museum of Art\n551 Broadway\, Downtown Sonoma \nTickets include wine flight & snacks\n$25 SVMA members\, $35 general public \nThis event usually sells out. Advance tickets recommended:\nhttp://www.svma.org/calendar/events/pairings-senses-art-poetry-food-wine \nFeatured Poet Bios: \nJulia Bouwsma is the author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press\, 2018)\, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the Poets Out Loud Prize\, and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017)\, which recently received the 2018 Maine Literary Award. She lives and works on an off-the-grid farm in the mountains of western Maine where she serves as Book Review Editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine. \nJoseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn)\, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award. In 2016\, his debut poetry collection was chosen by Claudia Rankine as a finalist for Omnidawn’s first book prize. Recent poems published or forthcoming in The Nation\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Huizache\, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Fresno City College and the University of California\, Berkeley. He lives in Los Angeles. \nSam Sax is a queer\, jewish\, writer & educator. The author of Madness (Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, + other journals. He’s a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow from the Poetry Foundation and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently sam’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press. \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\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell Colony\, among others. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flight-of-poets-pairings-for-the-senses/
LOCATION:Sonoma Valley Museum of Art\, 551 Broadway\, Sonoma\, 95476\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair - Fighting for the Air We Breathe
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair will be held in San Francisco from 10-6 on Sunday\, December 2nd\, 2018 at the Mission Campus of City College at 1125 Valencia Street at 22nd. The fair draws upon the legacy of legendary historian and activist Howard Zinn by gathering together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe HZBF has become an invaluable annual event for left political culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year will feature over 40 author readings and panel discussions on a wide range of issues relating to economic and social justice and will include  SARAH JAFFE\, ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ\, TONGO EISEN MARTIN\, PAUL ORTIZ\, CAT BROOKS\, LETICIA DEL TORO\, MEAGAN DAY\, RICHARD WALKER\, GEORGE LAKEY and many more. \nThe centerpiece of the fair is a bookroom featuring over 60 exhibitors including independent publishers\, radical journals\, and progressive organizations of all stripes. \nThe fair’s theme this year\, Fighting for the Air We Breathe\, considers the effects of human-caused environmental devastation which have become impossible to ignore. The land we live on\, the water we drink\, and the air we breathe are under threat by relentless fossil fuel extraction and the toxic byproducts of profit driven mass production. The suffocation of our natural world is paralleled in society at large.  Persistent poverty\, racism and sexism are exacerbated by countless mass shootings\, police violence\, escalating wars\, and the violence of an emboldened far right. While conventional politics often expect market forces or new technologies to solve the world’s problems\, we know the real solutions will come from the collective action of everyday people\, through the very struggles chronicled by the late historian Howard Zinn author of A People’s History of the United States. \nBuilding on Zinn’s legacy\, the mission of the HZBF is to showcase authors and organizations which chronicle the often overlooked experiences of oppressed people and their struggle for justice. Since its founding\, the HZBF has been held annually as a free\, volunteer-run\, one-day event in the Mission District of San Francisco\, drawing around 2000 attendees each year. \nThe HZBF is a unique event that cultivates a welcoming environment where discussion can flow freely; where differences can be articulated\, heard\, and debated; and where people can connect with each other and talk about creating a better world. \nPlease join us on Sunday\, Dec. 2 from 10-6 for the Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair! We request a $5 donation\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nFor our program of speakers and exhibitors and for more info visit our website at:\nhttps://howardzinnbookfair.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fifth-annual-howard-zinn-book-fair-fighting-for-the-air-we-breathe/
LOCATION:CCSF mission campus\, 1125 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair FIGHTING FOR THE AIR WE BREATHE
DESCRIPTION:CCSF Mission Campus\, 1125 Valencia Street \nThe Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history\, past\, present and future. This year features more than 40 readings and more than 60 tables of exhibitors. We gather together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. The Howard Zinn Book Fair is a non-sectarian left event that welcomes a wide variety of political left traditions. \nThis year’s theme is Fighting for the Air We Breathe and will be the focus of a number of our readings. The effects of human-caused environmental devastation have become impossible to ignore. The land we live on\, the water we drink\, and the air we breathe are under threat by relentless fossil fuel extraction and the toxic byproducts of profit driven mass production. The suffocation of our natural world is paralleled in society at large.  Persistent poverty\, racism and sexism are exacerbated by countless mass shootings\, police violence\, escalating wars\, and the violence of an emboldened far right. While conventional politics often expect market forces or new technologies to solve the world’s problems\, we know the real solutions will come from the collective action of everyday people\, through the very struggles chronicled by historian Howard Zinn under the banner of “a People’s History.” \nA donation of $5 is requested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please join us for one of the highlights of the year for the Bay Area’s political progressives. Take a look at the Howard Zinn Book Fair website for more details.\n\nAnd please tell all your friends! \nClick here for pdf flier to print & share! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2018-howard-zinn-book-fair-fighting-for-the-air-we-breathe/
LOCATION:CCSF mission campus\, 1125 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit at lille æske
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 1\, 2018\n8pm | Doors at 7:30pm\nTickets: $10-$20 Sliding Scale \nRed Light Lit is a mashup of live music and poetry set to a live score by David Williams. The evening celebrates its debut poetry anthology\, Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-at-lille-aeske-2/
LOCATION:lille æske\, 13160 Central Avenue\, Boulder Creek\, CA\, 95006\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181201T190000
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SUMMARY:How We Get Free: A Conversation on Black Feminism\, Politics\, and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:On December 1\, the night before the fifth annual Howard Zinn Book Fair\, three leading activist-scholars will come together in conversation about Black Feminism past and present. The speakers\, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\, Cat Brooks and Zoé Samudzi\, each coming from a unique radical tradition\, will combine their own research and experience with the history of past movements to explore questions around race\, gender\, class\, and ultimately\, liberation. What is the role of elections? Of #BlackLivesMatter? Of Trump? How should we be organizing today for our collective liberation? This event will also feature poetry readings by Idrissa Simmonds. \n\nIn the last several years\, Black feminism has reemerged as the analytical framework for the activists response to the oppression of trans women of color\, the fight for reproductive rights\, and of course\, the movement against police abuse and violence. The most visible organizations and activists connected to the Black Lives Matter movement speak openly about how Black feminism shapes their politics and strategies today. —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\nHow We Get Free: A Conversation on Black Feminism\, Politics\, and Liberation takes place Saturday December 1st\, 7pm\nat the First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland\, CA 94612. A sliding scale donation of $5-10 is requested and the event is sponsored by the Howard Zinn Book Fair and the International Socialist Organization and all proceeds will go to the book fair. And please attend the Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday\, Dec. 2 frm 10-6 at City College of SF at 1125 Valencia St.\, SF. \nFor more information see profiles below and check our website: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://howardzinnbookfair.com/\n\nFeaturing……\n \n\n\n\n\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\, an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s book\, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective explores the history of the Combahee River Collective\, a trailblazing 1960s-70s group of radical black feminists through interviews with the groups founders. Her research examines race\, housing\, and public policy. \nCat Brooks was a candidate for Oakland mayor in 2018. She is a leading activist in the Black Lives Matter Movement and co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project whose mission is to rapidly respond to and ultimately eradicate state violence in communities of color. Brooks is also a KPFA radio host\, playwright and actor. \nZoé Samudzi is a writer\, photographer\, and third year doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her doctoral research explores the Namibian genocide\, German colonialism\, and eugenics. She is a co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Our Liberation. Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies and photography\, and critical approaches to science in service of a blended multidisciplinary means of articulating Blackness(es). \nIdrissa Simmonds is a poet\, essayist\, fiction writer\, and workshop facilitator. Winner of the 2013 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize\, Idrissa has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Award and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in poetry. Her work has most recently appeared in Black Renaissance Noire\, James Franco Review\, Fourteen Hills Press\, and Room Magazine. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Poets House\, and VONA/Voices. She is co-editor of BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. She curates Brunch & Word\, a bi-coastal literary salon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-we-get-free-a-conversation-on-black-feminism-politics-and-liberation/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2018: COVENANT
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2018: Covenant! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2018-covenant/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Winter Reading \nSaturday\, Dec 1\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n— \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, and the novel\, A River of Stars\, which O\, The Oprah Magazine calls “a marvel” and The Economist says is “delightful.” For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and in 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. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nBeth Winegarner‘s new book\, Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa\, examines bands and fans in the restless region and how they manage to keep their communities alive in times of struggle. Her previous book\, The Columbine Effect\, reveals how Slayer\, Satanism and Grand Theft Auto can be a healthy part of growing up. Winegarner is a veteran Bay Area journalist who has contributed to San Francisco Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, SF Weekly and the San Francisco Examiner\, as well as national publications including the New Yorker\, The Guardian\, Mother Jones and Wired. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.  \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the new poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize\, and published by the University of Utah Press. She’s also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover\, and her work has appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in San Francisco. More about her work can be found here. \nSara Mumolo is the author of Mortar (Omnidawn\, 2013) and the Associate Director for theMFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She created and curated theStudio One Reading Series in Oakland\, CA from 2007-2012\, and Cannibal Books published her chapbook\, March\, in 2011. Poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms\, Action Yes\, Lana Turner\, The Offending Adam\, PEN Poetry Series\, Volta\, and Volt\,among others. She has received residencies to Vermont Studio Center\, Caldera Center for the Arts\, and has served as a curatorial resident at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland\, CA. Her next book Day Counter is forthcoming in 2019 from Omnidawn. \nChristine O’Brien grew up in New York and Beverly Hills and teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her work has appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile. Her memoir Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing\, which Booklist calls “compelling” and a “page turner\,” and Lit Hub lists as one of ten memoirs to look for in the fall of 2018\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press on November 13\, 2018. \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-3/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima\, reading from their works
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, supported by a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, continues with the second event in our premier program. Prolific essayist\, fiction writer\, and editor Janice Lee\, visiting from Portland\, Oregon\, will be joined by poet\, editor\, and publisher Brenda Iijima\, visiting from Brooklyn\, New York\, each reading from their own works. This event also marks The Poetry Center’s first-time collaboration with local landmark Alley Cat Books\, currently one of the very best bookstores and cultural centers — featuring its remarkable\, community-currated gallery and among the best-selected shelves of books — in the Bay Area. This event is free and open to the public. Please note our afternoon start-time! \nJanice Lee is a Korean-American writer\, artist\, and editor. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013)\, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2015)\, and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take\, slowness\, interspecies communication\, the apocalypse\, and asks the question\, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy\, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms\, Contributing Editor at Fanzine\, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland\, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University. \nBrenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry\, research movement\, animal studies\, ecological sociology and submerged histories. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. Her most recent book\, Remembering Animals was published by Nightboat Books in 2016. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, located in Brooklyn\, NY. Currently she is working on the collected works of Charley Shively that include his luminous and radical Fag Rag essays\, poems\, ephemera\, photos and letters. She is also researching the phenomena of extinction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJanice Lee\nreading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima\nThursday NOV 29\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n  \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\n415-824-1761\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Alley Cat Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-janice-lee-and-brenda-iijima-reading-from-their-works/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n\n November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\nRelated
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:People's Culture Cafe - Poetry\, Puppets and Politics at the Howard Zinn Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:This year\, on Sunday\, Dec. 2 from 10am – 6pm\, at the Mission Campus of CCSF (1125 Valencia Street\, SF)\, the Howard Zinn Book Fair welcomes a dynamic assortment of poets\, musicians\, and puppeteers to the People’s Culture Café. We believe\, as James Connolly said that ” Until the movement is marked by the joyous\, defiant\, singing of revolutionary songs\, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement\, it is the dogma of a few\, and not the faith of the multitude.” \nIn addition to the many author readings\, panel discussions and small press exhibitors\, the People’s Culture Cafe\, hosted by Tongo Eisen Martin and Josiah Luis Alderete\, will feature dozens of Bay Area poets as well as musicians and puppeteers\, for the entire day of the fair. You can sit and enjoy a tasty meal or a cup of coffee while you listen as the event takes place in the Mission Campus Cafe off the courtyard\, next to Room 154. \nJust some of the day’s performers will be: powerful bilingual spoken word and popular theater from La Colectiva\, who use their stories to organize for the rights of Domestic Workers; Radical Puppetry with Joel Schecter; local musician John Radogno sings the songs of protest and satire; SanTana’s Fairy Tales is an oral history\, storytelling project that represent the history and stories of Mexican/Mexican-American residents of Santa Ana; The Revolutionary Poets Brigade is a group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to bringing positive change in the world through the power of poetry\, including: Jack Hirschman\, Genny Lim\, Sarah Menefee\, John Curl and more; Tongo Eisen Martin curates the best of Bay Area poets of the political imagination with: Aqueila Lewis\, Thea Matthews\, Tureeda Mikell\, Sarah O’Nela\, Nia Pearl\, Kiani Shaw\, Monics Sok\, Jeremy Vasquez\, and Zein El-Amine. \nA $5 donation is requested fr the book fair but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For a schedule of People’s Culture Cafe readers and more information on the Howard Zinn Book Fair check out: https://howardzinnbookfair.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peoples-culture-cafe-poetry-puppets-and-politics-at-the-howard-zinn-book-fair/
LOCATION:City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus\, 1125 valencia Street\, San Francisco\,\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181130T213000
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SUMMARY:SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND
DESCRIPTION:SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND\nIn Conversation with Marisa Lagos\nFriday\, November 30\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nKirsten Gillibrand has served as United States Senator from New York since 2009 where a few of her major accomplishments include leading the effort to repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell\,” writing the STOCK Act which made it illegal for members of Congress to financially benefit from insider information\, and providing permanent health care and compensation to the 9/11 first responders and community survivors. She is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee\, an advocate for gun control\, and a major voice in the fight to reform the justice system for sexual assault survivors in the military and on college campuses. A proponent of transparency in government\, Gillibrand was the first member of Congress to post her official daily meetings and personal financial disclosures online. Her new book\, Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote\, features illustrations by Maira Kalman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/senator-kirsten-gillibrand/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voices from the Resistance: A Conversation with Angela Davis
DESCRIPTION:Voices from the Resistance:\nAngela Davis in Conversation with Olga Talamante\nModerated by Chelis Lopez \nA fundraiser for MAESTRAPEACE Book\nand the Chicana Latina Foundation \nFriday\, November 30 at 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm \nPlease join the Chicana Latina Foundation for this special event featuring a conversation between activist\, author and educator Angela Davis and community leader Olga Talamante. Moderated by KPOO’s Chelis Lopez\, the event will also feature a musical set by the Oakland based repertory group Young Gifted and Black! \nDirectly following the conversation\, join CLF along with Angela Davis\, Olga Talamante\, Chelis Lopez and the Maestrapeace muralists Juana Alicia and Susan Cervantes for a ticketed reception in Brava’s Cabaret. \nAll proceeds from Voices of the Resistance go to support the scholarship and leadership programs of the Chicana Latina Foundation\, as well as the Maestrapeace muralists upcoming book\, MAESTRAPEACE: Murals of The San Francisco Women’s Building\, which opens with an essay by Angela Davis. \n$25 – $80. \nPresented by Brava Theater Center.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voices-from-the-resistance-a-conversation-with-angela-davis/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amira Makansi / Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Amira Makansi for the launch of her first book\, Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read. More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nA bubbly\, boozy French 75 with The Great Gatsby. Trappist beer with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Old vine California Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. And don’t you dare open Bram Stoker’s Dracula on a Sunday morning without a Bloody Mary near at hand. Want to know what to pour when your book club meets to discuss the latest literary sensation? Then you need a copy of Literary Libations! \nPresented as a list and organized by genre\, Literary Libations offers pairing recommendations for nearly two hundred works of fiction across many genres. With background information on both the book and the beverage as well as an explanation of why the pairing works this is a fantastic gift for anyone who loves to read or drink. \nReaders will: \n\nLearn more about the world’s most iconic books.\nIncrease their knowledge of wine\, beer\, and spirits.\nIncrease their appreciation for famous authors.\nLearn to craft beautiful modern and classic cocktails.\nAnd gain a fun and unique way to revolutionize their book club.\n\n  \n\n  \nAmira K. Makansi is the author of Literary Libations: What to Drink With What You Read\, an informal guide to pairing great drinks with famous books. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a degree in history\, Amira quickly abandoned her quest to become a lawyer in favor of all things beverage-related. She spent her first few years out of college climbing around in stacks of wine barrels and hoeing weeds out of vineyards in France. She has served cocktails at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chicago and cleaned hundred-year-old foudres at an Alsatian winery whose first vintage predates the French revolution. She got into writing accidentally\, when her mother had a crazy dream and wanted to turn it into a book. That book became The Sowing\, the first book in the young adult dystopian Seeds series\, which has been optioned for a Hollywood production. Now a full-time writer\, Amira is delighted to spend her days writing\, reading\, drinking\, cooking and exploring the great outdoors of her adopted state of Oregon. \n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amira-makansi-literary-libations-what-to-drink-with-what-you-read/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Stone
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Stone discusses her new novel\, Hungry Ghost Theater. \n\nPraise for Hungry Ghost Theater \n\n“Sarah Stone traces out the quirky\, fateful dramas of one family\, while having the visionary originality to take the longest possible view of human action. I found this an unforgettable book\, astute\, vivid\, and stubbornly ambitious in its scope.” —Joan Silber \n\n“With her laser intelligence and gorgeous prose style\, Sarah Stone has written a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. Set around the world–and in the next one–this book is both marvelously inventive and deeply humane. I loved it.”--Ann Packer. \n\nAbout Hungry Ghost Theater \n\nAn inventive\, funny\, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger\, duty and desire\, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company\, while their sister Eva\, a neuroscientist\, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert’s influence\, Robert\, as lost without her as she is without him\, takes on dark material and drives away members of their company. Meanwhile\, the whole family contends with the ongoing troubles of Eva’s youngest daughter\, Arielle\, as she struggles with addiction. Finally\, after a family catastrophe\, Julia and Robert reunite to create a new piece in a possibly haunted theater institute. When Arielle shows up after her latest relapse\, they all have to find a new way of living in–and with–a world out of balance. \n  \nThe adventures of the eccentric\, memorable Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul\, from theater spaces to psychiatric hospitals\, from Zanzibar to the Santa Cruz Mountains\, and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. This imaginative\, provocative novel is a contemporary Inferno for fans of Margaret Atwood\, Ruth Ozeki\, and Lydia Millet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-stone/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski
DESCRIPTION:Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski \n\n\n\nin conversation with Cynthia Haven \ncelebrating the release of three new books \nfrom New York Review Books: \nInhuman Land: A Wartime Journey through the USSR \nby Józef Czapski\, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones\, with an introduction by Timothy Snyder \nAlmost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski \nby Eric Karpeles \nand \nLost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp \nby Józef Czapski\, introduction and translated from French by Eric Karpeles \nJózef Czapski (1896–1993) was a writer and artist\, as well as an officer in the Polish army. In 1918\, he enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts\, but shortly thereafter he suspended his studies in order to travel to Russia at the request of military authorities to search for officers in his division who had disappeared in action. At the end of the Russian Civil War\, he went back to his studies\, this time at Kraków’s Academy of Fine Arts\, and soon relocated to Paris with some fellow students\, thus founding the Komitet Paryski (Paris Committee)\, later known as the Kapist movement. Czapski was drafted into the army at the beginning of World War II\, soon after landing in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Once free\, he was assigned to investigate another disappearance of officers\, who he would discover were victims of the Katyn Massacre\, the subject of Inhuman Land. Czapski spent the rest of his years painting and writing. \nEric Karpeles is a painter\, writer\, and translator. His comprehensive guide\, Paintings in Proust\, considers the intersection of literary and visual aesthetics in the work of the great French novelist. He has written about the paintings of the poet Elizabeth Bishop and about the end of life as seen through the works of Emily Dickinson\, Gustav Mahler\, and Mark Rothko. The painter of The Sanctuary and of the Mary and Laurance Rockefeller Chapel\, he is the also the translator of Józef Czapski’s Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Lorenza Foschini’s Proust’s Overcoat. He lives in Northern California. \nCynthia Haven is a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement\, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and World Literature Today. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde\, La Repubblica\, Die Welt\, Zvezda\, Colta\, Zeszyty Literackie\, The Kenyon Review\, Quarterly Conversation\, The Georgia Review\, and Civilization. She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna\, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford’s Division of Literatures\, Languages\, and Cultures and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven was published in London\, 2005. Her Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations was published in 2006; Joseph Brodsky: Conversations in 2003; An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press / Swallow Press. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-karpeles-on-jozef-czapski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian \ncelebrating the release of \nFascination: Memoirs \nfrom Semiotexte \n\nA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. \nFascination brings together an early memoir\, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work\, Bachelors Get Lonely\, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian\, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author’s early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up\, boozy\, drug-ridden world of Long Island’s North Shore in the 1970s. Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. “Move along the velvet rope\,” Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows\, “run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: ‘You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'” \nKevin Killian\, a founder and former director of Small Press Traffic\, is a San Francisco-based poet\, novelist\, playwright\, and art writer. His recent books include the poetry collections Tony Greene Era and Tweaky Village. He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. With Dodie Bellamy\, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing\, 1977–1997. City Lights published his short story collection Impossible Princess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181127T193000
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SUMMARY:JONATHAN FRANZEN
DESCRIPTION:JONATHAN FRANZEN\nTuesday\, November 27\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nSince his debut novel\, The Twenty-Seventh City\, Jonathan Franzen has been writing brilliantly about the unraveling American Dream in its many permutations. In his novels The Corrections\, Freedom\, and Purity\, Franzen tackles difficult and complex characters in a style marked by his Midwest upbringing and his unique brand of social criticism. Franzen’s nonfiction includes Farther Away\, The Kraus Project\, and his newest essay collection\, The End of the End of the Earth\, in which he returns with renewed vigor to the themes—both human and literary—that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle\, recounting his young adulthood in New York\, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis\, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that readers have come to expect from Franzen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-franzen/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Yang
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Yang \n\n\n\nreading from new poetry and a new book: \nHey Marfa: poems \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSituated in the outreaches of southwest Texas\, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists\, immigrants looking for work\, and ranchers\, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert\, township\, sky\, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? \nYang has fashioned a fascinating\, multifaceted work—an anti-travel guide\, an anti-western\, a book of last words—that is a lyrical\, anthropological investigation into history\, culture\, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa’s landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang’s texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey\, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light. \n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of Hey\, Marfa; Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium\, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies. Yang lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\nGraywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. We champion outstanding writers at all stages of their careers to ensure that diverse voices can be heard in a crowded marketplace. Graywolf believes books that nourish the individual spirit and enrich the broader culture must be supported by attentive editing\, superior design\, and creative promotion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-yang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers & Poets Literary Salon+Reading: Bay Area Generations #63
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations presents a literary salon and reading featuring live curated works of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers\, with musical guest. \nFeaturing:\nKitty Costello + Kim Shuck\nWilliam Taylor Jr. + K.R. Morrison\nPaul Corman-Roberts + J de Salvo\nRuth Crossman + G Macias Gusman \nWine bar | Easy Access | on Public Transportation\nFrom BART: http://bit.ly/BAGBinderyMap \nDoors: 6:30 p.m. Show: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation $10\, includes with chapbook\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet tickets: http://bit.ly/BAG63tx \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 400 hundred notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nWebsite: www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-poets-literary-salonreading-bay-area-generations-63/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bill Berkson Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Bill Berkson Tribute \n\n\n\nwith appearances by \nConstance Lewallen \nChou Chou \nGordon Knos \nJonathan Lewallen \nSiobhan Mora-Lopez \nAmanda Eicher \nMac McGinnes \ncelebrating the release of \nSince When: A Memoir In Pieces \nBy Bill Berkson \npublished by Coffee House Press \nFrank O’Hara\, Marilyn Monroe\, John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg—champagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson’s memoirs. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, art critic\, bon vivant\, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived\, a collage of bold-face names\, parties\, exhibitions\, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote’s Black and White] ball\, which I attended as my mother’s escort\, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle\, witty\, and eternally generous\, this is Bill Berkson\, and a particular moment in American history\, at its best. \nBill Berkson was a poet\, critic\, teacher\, and curator. He collaborated with many artists and writers\, including Alex Katz\, Philip Guston\, and Frank O’Hara\, and his criticism appeared in ARTnews\, Art in America\, and elsewhere. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute\, he was born in New York in 1939. He died in June 2016. \nCritical praise for Since When: \n“Imagine an ideal friend\, someone of good character\, honorable\, congenial\, smart\, well-read\, judicious\, articulate\, self-aware\, open-minded\, and socially graceful\, a gifted writer at the center of New York’s and the Bay Area’s artistic communities for sixty years. That ideal friend is Bill Berkson\, and in this marvelous book he tells the true and fascinating story of his life and times.” —Ron Padgett \n“Since When captures the throbbing zeitgeist of a NYC/California experimental poetry/art rhizome and brims with dazzling encounters and glamorous portraiture of some of the best\, most talented minds\, including the author’s own parents and their coterie. Enthralling conversation\, quotation\, and astute commentary: Judy Garland! Ezra Pound! Greta Garbo! Frank O’Hara! Joan Mitchell! Amiri Baraka! Poet and art critic Bill Berkson spanned high and low: uptown/downtown zones of radical art mind. The Bohemian\, dandyish\, psychedelic\, and the troubling hegemonic follies of a USA growing old because it ‘entered the twentieth century first’ (G. Stein) all romp in here. Bill had a shining boyish inquisitiveness\, phenomenal memory\, and a panoramic intelligence. Read this and eat your heart out for the belletristic\, wild\, and intimate days of the New York School. Entertaining—you feel you are in a very glamorous movie—but never shallow\, this is serious history\, required reading.” —Anne Waldman \n“It’s tough to write a blurb about one of the most effortlessly cool and genuinely wise people you’ve ever met\, especially when they already said it best with their high school yearbook quote: ‘Plato or comic books\, I’m versatile.’ That was Bill\, all the way. As his student\, the main theme was\, ‘Be kind\, be clear\, and a little humor goes a long way\,’ a message that impacted our class deeply and continues to do so to this very day. This memoir is a celebration of his life and friends as told by Bill Himself\, in that gentle and knowing voice\, tales of getting karate chopped at by Norman Mailer\, drinking with Joan Mitchell\, long nights with Frank O’Hara\, Elaine de Kooning\, and Amiri Baraka\, to name a few. Essential reading for any and all!” —Devendra Banhart \n“Bill was a still point in a turning world. He made grace and kindness\, careful intelligence and everyday happiness\, seem properties of a social commons—where you found yourself\, when around him\, and missed\, when not. This beautiful book immortalizes that spell.” —Peter Schjeldahl \nAbout the San Francisco Art Institute: \nSince 1871\, SFAI has attracted individuals who push beyond boundaries to discover uncharted artistic terrain. With an ever-expanding roster of esteemed faculty and alumni\, robust exhibitions and public programs\, and a mission dedicated to the intrinsic value of art\, SFAI is poised to expand upon the West Coast legacy of radical innovation that grounds SFAI’s philosophy for another century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-berkson-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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