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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Advice: A Night of Stories with Porchlight
DESCRIPTION:We could all stand to hear some wisdom and guidance right about now. The Bay Area’s long-running Porch Light Storytelling Series returns with “advice”-themed tales from Steve Almond\, Dickson Lam\, Sands Hall\, Writer\, Sisonke Msimang\, Maggie Rowe\, and Betty Charbonnet Reid Soskin\, the nation’s oldest park ranger. Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 7 pm\, show at 8 pm. $20 adv / $25 door
URL:https://litseen.com/event/advice-a-night-of-stories-with-porchlight/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck + open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shuck-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-19/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-7/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal for Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal for Litquake
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-for-litquake/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Author Event! C. Arellano / E. de la Cruz / D. Foxx / L. Herrera y Lorenzo
DESCRIPTION:Please  join authors Cathy Arellano\, Estela de la Cruz\, Dino Foxx\, and Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano\, a multi-generational group representing voices of various genders and sexualities. Some of our friendships go back decades\, some of us met in community in more than one location\, and some of us will be meeting for the first time. But we all know the highs and lows of hooking up\, breaking up\, and falling apart. \nBooks featured: \nI Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me by Cathy Arellano \nFor the Hell of It by Estela de la Cruz \nWhen the Glitter Fades by Dino Foxx \nAmorcito Maricón by Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-event-c-arellano-e-de-la-cruz-d-foxx-l-herrera-y-lorenzo/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Jair\, the Literary Masturbator
DESCRIPTION:Jair “TLM” reads his poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. Jair “The Literary Masturbator” is a poet\, spoken word artist\, arts curator\, and activist. His books are Collage: An Assemblage of Divergent Poetry Juxtaposed and Touch: Poems & Other Writings of Love\, Erotica\, & Sensuality. His work has been included in anthologies and magazines\, from Mighty Real to Black Gay Genius. Jair performs on radio and television and coordinates spoken word events. Jair is a Libra\, and he loves the Lakers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-jair-the-literary-masturbator/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant Presents: Jair
DESCRIPTION:Jair “TLM” reads his poems\, followed by an interview and discussion with Glenn Ingersoll\, the host of the Clearly Meant series. \nJair “The Literary Masturbator” is a poet\, spoken word artist\, arts curator\, and activist. His books are Collage: An Assemblage of Divergent Poetry Juxtaposed and Touch: Poems & Other Writings of Love\, Erotica\, & Sensuality. His work has been included in anthologies and magazines\, from Mighty Real to Black Gay Genius. Jair performs on radio and television and coordinates spoken word events. Jair is a Libra\, and he loves the Lakers. \nA free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-jair/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181013T160000
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books five-year anniversary October ride
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our October anniversary ride! \n  \nCombining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which twelve San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. This anniversary ride marks the thirty-year anniversary of the naming of the original twelve streets. \nThe resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat! For fans of specific authors\, we invite you to bring an excerpt to read along our route\, or anecdote to share. Check out the full map for route info and authors represented: https://burritojustice.com/bikes-to-books-map/ \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. This is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. \nEvent is free. Maps and our expanded poster version will be available for purchase!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-five-year-anniversary-october-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Psychic Bandwidth - San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:  \nPSYCHIC BANDWIDTH San Francisco \n  \nPOETRY MUSIC DANCE \n  \nhttp://events-cillavee.blogspot.com/2018/08/psychic-bandwidth-san-francisco.html \n  \nWHO \nCilla Vee Life Arts – with Cilla Vee\, Gino Robair\, Cheryl Leonard\, Ivy Johnson\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Eric Kupers and the CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (plus others TBA) \n  \nWHAT \nPsychic Bandwidth – chance operations of cross-disciplinary performance modes \n  \nWHEN \nThursday October 11th – 8pm -10pm \n  \nWHERE \nLuggage Store Gallery – 1007 Market St. San Francisco\, CA 94103 \n  \nHOW MUCH \nSliding scale $6 – $15 \n  \nOutsound Presents at LSG Creative Music Series \n  \nCilla Vee Life Arts presents: \nPSYCHIC BANDWIDTH \n  \nDefinition: \nData transfer capacity of the mind. \n  \nPerformance: \nPsychic Bandwidth – chance operations of cross-disciplinary performance modes. \nImprovized collaborations of Sound with Movement\, Spoken Word and other Performance Arts test the Psychic Bandwidth of artists and audience alike. \nDuos\, Trios\, Quartets and All. \nPicked randomly on the spot. \nUnpredictable. \nEach artist could do anything at any moment. \nDo we have the Psychic Bandwidth to absorb it all? \nTo see everything. To hear everything. \nTo catch and process each interaction. \nCasting our psychic net wide and reeling it all in to our consciousness. \n  \nAsheville NC’s Cilla Vee Life Arts commissions some of the Bay Area’s finest improvisers to throw down in this mix! \n  \nCilla Vee Life Arts \nCILLA VEE LIFE ARTS is an inter-disciplinary arts organization founded in 2002 in the South Bronx by Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) – now based in Asheville NC.\nIt serves as an umbrella for multiple projects that focus on collaboration and facilitation. With a mission of blurring boundaries and crossing categories\, CVLA draws from a diverse pool of artists with a wide range of artistic backgrounds.\nPerformances can include anything from dance\, movement\, music\, sound\, text\, film and video\, visual and performance art to installation and beyond. \n“When it’s summer in the city\, people do weird things. Performers especially. ….“Beguiling”\nJohn Rockwell – New York Times \n  \nCilla Vee Life Arts – http://www.cillavee.com/ \n  \nThis Fall Cilla Vee is touring cross-country and the west coast in order to connect and collaborate with area artists in each location. \n  \nARTIST INFORMATION \nCilla Vee – http://cebhomepage.blogspot.com \nGino Robair – http://www.ginorobair.com/ \nCheryl E Leonard – http://www.allwaysnorth.com/ \nIvy Johnson – https://ivyjohnsonblog.wordpress.com/ \nTongo Eisen-Martin – http://www.blackfirepress.com/ \nEric Kupers – http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/ \nInclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble – https://www.facebook.com/CSUEBIIE/ \n  \n  \nCilla Vee  \n  \nClaire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance\, music\, text\, media\, visual and installation art. \nClaire has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow\, the New York \nBotanical Gardens\, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout the USA\, Canada\, Europe\, Japan and Pakistan. \nClaire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations. She also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute with Plymouth University\, UK. \nOn moving to the USA in 1992\, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina\, as well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee. \nOnce based in New York in 2002\, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and\, with the support of arts advocates such as Chashama\, Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art\, began to develop and present her signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects. \n  \nShe is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance art. \nClaire now uses Asheville NC as her home-base. \n  \nGino Robair \nGino Robair has created music for dance\, theater\, radio\, television\, silent film\, and gamelan orchestra\, and his works have been performed throughout North America\, Europe\, and Japan. He was composer in residence with the California Shakespeare Festival for five seasons and served as music director for the CBS animated series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. His commercial work includes themes for the MTV and Comedy Central cable networks. \nRobair is also one of the “25 innovative percussionists” included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld\, 2001). He has recorded with Tom Waits\, Anthony Braxton\, Terry Riley\, Lou Harrison\, John Butcher\, Derek Bailey\, Peter Kowald\, Otomo Yoshihide\, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet\, and Eugene Chadbourne\, among many others. In addition\, Robair has performed with John Zorn\, Nina Hagen\, Fred Frith\, Eddie Prevost\, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282\, Myra Melford\, Wadada Leo Smith\, and the Club Foot Orchestra. \nRobair is a founding member of the Splatter Trio and the heavy-metal band\, Pink Mountain. In addition\, he runs Rastascan Records\, a label devoted to creative music. \nAs a writer about music technology\, Robair has contributed to Mix\, Remix\, Guitar Player\, and Electronic Musician (EM) magazine\, where he was an editor for 10 years. He is the author of two books\, including The Ultimate Personal Recording Studio (Thompson; 2006). \n  \nCheryl Leonard \n Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer\, performer\, and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds\, structures\, and objects from the natural world. Her projects cultivate stones\, wood\, water\, ice\, sand\, shells\, feathers\, and bones as musical instruments\, and often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. She uses microphones to explore the subtle intricacies of sounds and develops compositions that highlight these unique voices. Intrigued by cross-disciplinary collaboration\, Leonard has produced installations and multimedia works with visual artists and scientists; composed for film\, video\, dance\, and theater; and designed sounds for museums. Her music has been performed worldwide and is available on multiple record labels. Her awards include residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen\, Djerassi\, the Arctic Circle\, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus\, and Villa Montalvo\, and grants from the National Science Foundations’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program\, American Composers Forum\, American Music Center\, and ASCAP. \n  \nIvy Johnson \nIvy Johnson is a poet and performance artist in Oakland\, CA. \nHer book\, As They Fall\, is a collection of 110 notecards for aleatoric ritual and was published by Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2013. \nShe is co-founder of The Third Thing\, an ecstatic feminist performance art duo. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs published their self-titled chapbook\, The Third Thing\, in 2016. Her book Born Again just came out with The Operating System. \n  \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled\, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. \n  \nEric Kupers \nEric Kupers has co-directed\, choreographed\, and performed with Dandelion Dancetheater since its inception. Eric is a Professor of Dance at Cal State University East Bay. He is the director of Bandelion (his core research collaboration within Dandelion Dancetheater founded in 2006\,) as well as the CSUEB Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (founded in 2006\,) which brings together students\, alumni\, community members and professional performers with and without disabilities and from diverse cultures to create original performance works. Eric has been a resident artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center\, CELLspace\, Jon Sims Center for the Arts\, and ODC Theater. \n  \nIIE  \nThe CSU East Bay Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble (IIE) is directed by Professor Eric Kupers and is part of the CSU East Bay Theatre and Dance Department.\nMade up of students\, alumni\, faculty\, staff\, community members and professional artists with and without disabilities\, the IIE creates original\, inclusive performance works and performs throughout the Bay Area and on tour every year. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/psychic-bandwidth-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Luggage Store\, 1007 Market Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cary McClelland & Richard Walker: The Dark Shadow of Tech on Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents \n“The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area”\nAn amazingly timely discussion by experts:\nCary McClelland\, author of “Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley\n+\nRichard A. Walker. author of “Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and The Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area \nHosted by Sasha Lilley \nwheelchair access advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit\, more info: www.kpfa.org/events \nCary McClelland is a writer\, filmmaker\, lawyer\, and rights advocate. His book is an eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. Famously home to artists and activists\, the birthplace of the Beats\, the Black Panthers\, and the LGBTQ movement-in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes. Cracks in the city’s facade-rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions-have started to appear. Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change\, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters\, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. We hear from people who have passed through Apple\, Google\, eBay\, Intel\, and the other big tech companies of our time. We meet those who are experiencing changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury\, an Oakland rapper\, a pawnbroker in the Mission\, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge\, and many fascinating others. \nRichard A. Walker is professor emeritus of geography at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has written on a diverse range of topics in economic\, urban\, and environmental geography. \nSasha Lilley is the host of KPFA’s critically acclaimed program of radical ideas\, Against the Grain.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-mcclelland-richard-walker-the-dark-shadow-of-tech-on-bay-area/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Katya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 11\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nKatya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. \n“Exiled” traces the story of violence through three generations of Cambodian-Americans by profiling a handful of families. It begins with the grandparents\, the elderly who will soon be too old to tell their stories of survival. The violence they endured is recognized as the most brutal\, a genocide that killed an estimated 20 percent of the Cambodian population. In Cambodia\, the criminals have never fully been brought to justice and the victims remain largely silent. The silence is the same in the United States\, where survivors have tried to leave their memories of random killing behind. But trauma like that cannot be escaped so easily\, and it followed them\, seeping back into their families through their children. The guidance\, support and care they were often too traumatized to give their children left those same children vulnerable to gang recruitment. The second generation came of age amidst the violence of the past and the present. \nThe U.S. deported the criminals who did not hold citizenship\, sending them back to a homeland their parents had given up everything to escape. They had neither the practical nor emotional skills to cope and their home country offered little help. In Cambodia they succumb to addiction and mental illness in large numbers. Then there is the third generation\, the children\, the ones still in America growing up without fathers and mothers\, subjected to the violence of loss and longing. This is a story about how regimes as brutal as the Khmer Rouge and as benign as the United States have kept alive a legacy of violence and loss. There are no easy answers here\, just the words of survivors and their descendants.\nKatya Cengel is a freelance writer based in San Luis Obispo\, California\, and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University\, San Luis Obispo. She was a features and news writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal from 2003 to 2011 and has reported from North and Central America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, Marie Claire\, and Newsweek. She is the author of Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska\, 2012).  \nPraise \n“A powerful and timely book on the generational impact of a particularly brutal chapter of the twentieth century—the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Exiled moves seamlessly from the killing fields of Cambodia to American immigrant communities\, adding texture and perspective to the current debate on refugees\, political asylum\, cultural assimilation\, and the deportation of Americanized immigrant criminals. Cengel humanizes this debate\, bringing a deeper understanding of these hot-button issues. I strongly recommend this book.”—Melvin Claxton\, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist \n“Exiled comes at the right moment in our national debate about immigration and deportation. Katya Cengel’s painfully detailed story about the maltreatment of the children of refugees we once welcomed should open our minds and hearts to the tyranny of ill-conceived laws and small-minded bureaucrats.”—Elizabeth Becker\, author of When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution \n“An excellent and compelling account of Cambodian refugees’ plight in the United States. . . . Once you read Exiled\, you can’t help but be empathetic and look at deportation through a new lens.”—Jennifer Lau\, author of Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge \n“A multigenerational saga of violence and resurrection that plays out among several Cambodian-American families. . . . Katya Cengel movingly documents how trauma plays out across multiple generations\, showing how the unresolved conflicts of the elders lead to catastrophic addiction and mental illness among the young. Cengel captures the full scale of this tragedy and writes with such compassion that anybody who picks up this book cannot fail to be moved.”—Helen Thorpe\, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge\, Friendship\, and Hope in an American Classroom \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 11\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katya-cengel-discusses-exiled-from-the-killing-fields-of-cambodia-to-california-and-back/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents a Special Celebration: WTAW Press Book Launch with Very Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on October 11\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration when our WTAW Press authors Sarah Stone and Angela Mitchell will read from their brand new books\, as part of a spectacular line up of authors\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Lisa Locascio\, Louise Marburg\, Natalie Singer\, and Terese Svoboda. \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. The celebration will include cake\, delectable treats\, and adult beverages. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday\, July 2018). Her essays and short stories have appeared in Nylon\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. Born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia\, she currently teaches writing to immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing artists into public schools. She is the book columnist for KQED. \nLisa Locascio‘s work has appeared in n+1\, Tin House\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. She is co-publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of 7x7LA\, as well as of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California (Outpost 19\, 2017). Her first novel\, Open Me\, was published in August 2018 by Grove Atlantic. \nLouise Marburg is the author of the award-winning The Truth About Me: Stories (WTAW Press\, 2017). Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares\, Narrative Magazine\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, and many other fine journals. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and lives in New York City with her husband\, the artist Charles Marburg. \nAngela Mitchell’s stories have appeared in Colorado Review\, New South\, Carve\, Midwestern Gothic\, storySouth\, Natural Bridge\, and other journals. Her story\, “Animal Lovers\,” was awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and was given special mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXV and noted as a distinguished story in the inaugural issue of New Stories from the Midwest. She holds degrees from the University of New Orleans\, University of Arkansas\, and University of Missouri-St. Louis\, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing\, and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar. She is an eighth generation native of southern Missouri\, where she maintains a small farm on her family’s land\, and resides in St. Louis with her husband and sons.  Unnatural Habitats is her first book\, published by WTAW Press (October 10\, 2018). \nNatalie Singer is the author of the memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation (Hawthorne Books\, March 2018). Her writing has been published in The Rumpus\, Proximity; Hypertext; Literary Mama; The Washington Post; Alligator Juniper; Brain\, Child; Largehearted Boy; The Nervous Breakdown; Full Grown People; and the 2015 anthology Love and Profanity (Switch Press\, 2015). She has been the recipient of several awards\, including the Pacific Northwest Writers Association nonfiction prize and the Alligator Juniper nonfiction prize.  California Calling was first runner-up for the Red Hen Press nonfiction prize and a finalist for the Autumn House Press nonfiction prize. She has taught writing inside Washington State’s psychiatric facility for youth and Seattle’s juvenile detention center\, and has worked as a journalist at newspapers around the West. She holds an MFA in creative writing and poetics from the University of Washington. Originally from Montreal\, she lives in Seattle. \nSarah Stone’s latest book is Hungry Ghost Theater: A Novel\, forthcoming from WTAW Press October 10\, 2018. Her novel The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday\, 2002) has been taught in courses on literature\, ethics\, and the rhetoric of human rights. The novel was a BookSense 76 selection\, has been translated into German and Dutch\, and was included in Geoff Wisner’s A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa (Jacana Media\, 2008). She’s the co-author\, with her spouse and writing partner Ron Nyren\, of the textbook Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers (Pearson\, 2004). Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares; StoryQuarterly; The Believer; The Millions; The Writer’s Chronicle; Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear\, Risk\, and Hope (Rutgers University Press\, 2009); and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft (Trinity University Press\, 2011)\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. \nTerese Svoboda\, a Guggenheim fellow\, is the author of 18 books\, including seven books of poetry. Among her recent works are Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet (Schaffner Press\, Inc.\, 2016) and Professor Harriman’s Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear Publishing\, 2016). Her collection of stories\, Great American Desert will be published in 2019. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction\, the Iowa Prize for poetry\, an NEH grant for translation\, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize\, a Jerome Foundation prize for video\, the O. Henry Award for the short story\, a Bobst prize for the novel\, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship\, and has been awarded Headlands\, James Merrill\, Hawthornden\, Yaddo\, McDowell\, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.’s Disney Hall in 2005. Her collection of stories\, Great American Desert will be published in 2019. Her visit to the Bay Area by is made possible in part by Headlands Center for the Arts. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-a-special-celebration-wtaw-press-book-launch-with-very-special-guests/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Walter Mosley
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nJohn Woman \npublished by Atlantic Monthly Press \nWalter Mosely requires no introduction. His award-winning\, critically-adored body of work has sold millions of copies the world over. Though he is perhaps best known for his mysteries featuring the character Easy Rawlins\, over the course of his long and prolific career\, he has also written a handful of penetrating literary novels that wrestle with questions political and philosophical. His latest book is such a novel: the result of nearly 20 years of incubation\, it is a dazzling and convention-defying novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman. \nJOHN WOMAN recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman\, an unconventional history professor—while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. \nAt twelve years old\, Cornelius\, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman\, secretly takes over his father’s job at a silent film theater in New York’s East Village. Five years later\, as Herman lives out his last days\, he shares his wisdom with his son\, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears\, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself—as Professor John Woman\, a man who will spread Herman’s teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman\, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. \nEngaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history\, JOHN WOMAN  is a compulsively readable\, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories\, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world. It is essential reading in an age defined by fake news and alternative facts. \nWalter Mosley is the author of more than fifty critically-acclaimed books\, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and includes literary fiction\, science fiction\, political monographs\, and a young adult novel. In 2013\, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame\, and he is the winner of numerous awards\, including an O. Henry Award\, the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award\, a Grammy\, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City. \nPraise for Walter Mosley \n“A writer whose work transcends category and qualifies as serious literature.”—Time\n“Mosley is one of the most humane\, insightful\, powerful prose stylists working today in any genre. He’s also one of the most radical…. Immerse yourself in the work of one of our national treasures.”\n—The Austin Chronicle \n“When reviewing a book by Walter Mosley\, it’s hard not to simply quote all the great lines. There are so many of them. You want to share the pleasures of Mosley’s jazz-inflected dialogue and the moody\, descriptive passages reminiscent of Raymond Chandler at his best.”\n—Washington Post\, on Down the River Unto the Sea \n“A daring\, beautifully wrought story that incorporates elements of allegory\, meditative reflection and the lilt of lyric tragedy. ”—Los Angeles Times\, on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey \n“With Mosley\, there’s always the surprise factor—a cutting image or a bracing line of dialogue.”\n—New York Times Book Review\, on And Sometimes I Wonder About You \n“Mosley’s invigorating\, staccato prose and understanding of racial\, moral\nand social subtleties are in full force.”—Seattle Times\, on Known to Evil \n“[Mosley has] revitalized two genres\, the hard-boiled novel and the American behaviorist novel.”\n—Roberto Bolaño \n“Mosley is the Gogol of the African-American working class—the chronicler par excellence of the tragic and the absurd.”—Vibe \n“[Mosley] has a special talent for touching upon these sticky questions of evil and responsibility without getting stuck in them.”—New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walter-mosley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Fellow poets and friends Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley\, respectively from San Francisco and Reno\, Nevada\, will read from their work then join in conversation with each other and in response to questions from the audience. Note: this event is re-scheduled from an earlier date (the SFSU campus was unexpectedly closed due to a massive campus-wide power outtage last Fall 2017). Free and open to the public. \nWriter and artist Steven Seidenberg is the author of Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press\, 2017)\, a collection of photographs with an accompanying cycle of aphorism\, Itch (Raw Art Press\, 2014)\, Null Set (Spooky Actions Books\, 2015)\, and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism\, most recently Duration Knows No Law (ypolita press\, 2016). His prose work Situ is forthcoming from Black Sun Lit in Spring 2018\, and another photo collection\, Kanazawa Void\, is due out in Fall 2018 from Daylight Books. He has had solo shows of his work in various galleries in the US and abroad\, with upcoming exhibitions in Rome and at the University of Rochester. He is co-editor of the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch. (Instance Press)\, and curates the False Starts reading series at The Lab in San Francisco. \nJared Stanley is a writer and artist. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry\, including EARS\, The Weeds\, and Book Made of Forest\, as well as many chapbooks\, pamphlets\, artist editions\, and ephemera\, including A Continual Hint\, Green Hearts and Fire to You\, How the Desert Did Me in\, and Special Newlands Extraction Rubbing. Other writing has recently appeared in Triple Canopy\, Literary Hub\, The Offing\, and Poem-a-Day. Stanley has received fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. He was born in Arizona\, raised in the East Bay\, and lives in Reno\, Nevada. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIDEO: Steven Seidenberg and Alan Felsenthal\, Readings in Contemporary Poetry\, DIA Art Foundation\nVIDEO: Jared Stanley and C. D. Wright\, reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steven-seidenberg-and-jared-stanley-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:When : Thu\, October 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescription : Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-27/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Irish Arts & Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Arts & Writers Festival brings together Irish writers and audiences in the historic and intimate town of Los Gatos\, CA (located an hour south of San Francisco) for an arts and culture festival held in several venues over three days. Additional events in 2018 are scheduled for Berkeley\, Oakland and San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irish-arts-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Los Gatos CA\, Los Gatos\, California\, CA\, 95030
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Litquake 2018
DESCRIPTION:Full schedule is here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-2018/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Heather Havrilesky
DESCRIPTION:Heather Havrilesky discusses her new essay collection\, What If This Were Enough? \nPraise for What If This Were Enough? \n“Heather Havrilesky is a singular talent and an indomitable force. When it comes to the tension between thinking and feeling\, of being out in the world and being alone with yourself\, there is no one sharper\, wiser\, funnier\, most honest\, or more insightful. In What If This Were Enough\, readers will find a splendid mix of Havrilesky’s familiar and intimate ‘Ask Polly’ voice and the authority and erudition of a seasoned cultural critic. I couldn’t get enough.”—Meghan Daum\, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects Of Disucssion \n“There’s an effortlessness to Heather Havrilesky’s writing that is incredibly rare. Her funniest sentences are still empathetic. Her darkest confessions are still pretty funny. It doesn’t seem to matter what she’s writing about\, or what point she’s trying to make. She’s just good at it.”—Chuck Klosterman\, author of But What If We’re Wrong? and Killing Yourself to Live \n“Heather is that dear friend you run into at a bad party at which you’re stuck and you say ‘Oh thank God you’re here’ and spend the rest of the night making dark and hilarious jokes about the party\, other attendees\, and the human condition. Thank God she’s here.”—Jake Tapper\,author of The Hellfire Club and The Outpost \nAbout What If This Were Enough? \nBy the acclaimed critic\, memoirist\, and advice columnist\, an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday \nHeather Havrilesky’s writing has been called “whip-smart and profanely funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “required reading for all humans” (Celeste Ng). In her work for New York\, The Baffler\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Atlantic\, as well as in “Ask Polly\,” her advice column for The Cut\, she dispenses a singular\, cutting wisdom–an ability to inspire\, provoke\, and put a name to our most insidious cultural delusions. \nWhat If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters–many of them original to the book\, others expanded from their initial publication–Havrilesky takes on those cultural forces that shape us. We’ve convinced ourselves\, she says\, that salvation can be delivered only in the form of new products\, new technologies\, new lifestyles. From the allure of materialism to our misunderstandings of romance and success\, Havrilesky deconstructs some of the most poisonous and misleading messages we ingest today\, all the while suggesting new ways to navigate our increasingly bewildering world. \nThrough her incisive and witty inquiries\, Havrilesky urges us to reject the pursuit of a shiny\, shallow future that will never come. These timely\, provocative\, and often hilarious essays suggest an embrace of the flawed\, a connection with what already is\, who we already are\, what we already have. She asks us to consider: What if this were enough? Our salvation\, Havrilesky says\, can be found right here\, right now\, in this imperfect moment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/47620/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kramer Bussel (Best Women’s Erotica\, Sex and Cupcakes)\nCassandra Dallett (Collapse)\nChristine No (The Rumpus\, Story Magazine) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-16/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:How To Read A Poem
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, October 10\, 2018 –  \n1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSaint Mary’s College Museum of Art\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nUsing a short selection from Matthew Zapruder’s book Why Poetry\, two distinguished Saint Mary’s poets share strategies for unpacking poems in Seminar. Participants will practice these strategies by exploring selected poems in conversation with their peers. \nWith Brenda Hillman & Matthew Zapruder
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-to-read-a-poem/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. \nIn China\, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast\, countless so-called “migrant workers” or “peasant workers” from interior provinces eke out a living in innumerable factories. Through thirty-five years of struggle\, they have gradually established a foothold as part of China’s new industrial working class. \nThe book\, Striking to Survive is written by a young worker activist in Guangzhou. It is a uniquely fine-grained account of a pivotal strike that took place in 2013. Led by an unusually adept worker\, Wu Guijun\, the book is an interlocking set of oral history narratives that bring one into the lived experience of the workers. Wu Guijun was arrested and served more than a year in prison\, and was the focus of this New York Times produced video\, which gives some sense of him\, and the environment in which he works. \n— \nFan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical\, Factory Stories\, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China\, documenting their lives\, work\, and struggles.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fan-shigang-discusses-striking-to-survive-workers-resistance-to-factory-relocations-in-china/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Small Fry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Lisa Brennan-Jobs for Small Fry\, her smart\, frank\, and captivating coming-of-age memoir. \n  \nNote: Seating is limited for what will surely be a big night. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please pre-order a copy of Small Fry below\, and put your request in the ‘comments’ field. Thanks!  \n  \nBorn on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young\, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older\, her father took an interest in her\, ushering her into a new world of mansions\, vacations\, and private schools. His attention was thrilling\, but he could also be cold\, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school\, Lisa decided to move in with her father\, hoping he’d become the parent she’d always wanted him to be. \n  \nSmall Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy\, wise\, and funny\, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents’ fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family\, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties\, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice. \n  \n\n  \nLisa Brennan-Jobs lives in Brooklyn\, NY. Small Fry is her first book. Her articles and essays have appeared in Vogue\, O Magazine\, Southwest Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Harvard Advocate\, and the Los Angeles Times. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-lisa-brennan-jobs-small-fry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Carreyrou presents BAD BLOOD: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
DESCRIPTION:The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos\, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup\, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end\, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. \nIn 2014\, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper\, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion\, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. \nA riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron\, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. \n— \nJohn Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. For his extensive coverage of Theranos\, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting\, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting\, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children. \nPlease note: \nDuration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning and additional details coming soon. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-carreyrou-presents-bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-in-a-silicon-valley-startup/
LOCATION:The Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T210000
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SUMMARY:Voices of Witness @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:with Mateo Hoke\, Taylor Pendergrass\, and Mohammed “Mike” Ali \ncelebrating the release of \nSix By Ten: Stories From Solitary Confinement \nEdited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass\, \npublished by Haymarket Books \n\nThis compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confinement is the first book in a new Voice of Witness series with Haymarket Books. \nAn estimated 80\,000 Americans are held in solitary confinement in prisons across the country. Solitary confinement\, often in cells no bigger than six-by-ten-feet\, means twenty-four hours per day with little or no meaningful human contact. \nSix By Ten explores the mental\, physical\, and spiritual impacts of America’s widespread embrace of solitary confinement\, as told through the first-person narratives of individuals subjected to solitary confinement\, family members on the outside\, and corrections officers. \nEach chapter presents a different individual’s story and shows how Americans from all over the country and all walks of life find themselves held in solitary for years or even decades at a time. In addition to evocative first-hand accounts\, the book also includes essays and analysis on how solitary became such a prominent feature of the US prison system today. \nMateo Hoke is writer\, journalist\, and co-editor of Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation. \nTaylor Pendergrass is a lawyer and activist focused on criminal justice reform. He currently works for the American Civil Liberties Union. \nMohammed “Mike” Ali grew up in the Bay Area after his family immigrated to the United States from Fiji. Growing up romanticizing gang life\, he escalated through youth detention\, jails\, and prisons before landing in solitary in a private immigration detention facility in Arizona. \nVoice of Witness is nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. We explore urgent and underrepresented human rights issues and force space for marginalized voices to be heard and seen through our two core programs: (1) Our oral history book series\, which illuminates firsthand accounts of injustice\, and (2) Our education program\, which brings these stories and ethics-driven oral history methodology to classrooms and communities across the U.S. \nCritical Praise for Six By Ten: \n“Some of the people in Six by Ten were convicted of crimes\, but this book convicts the United States of an incomparably greater crime: blighting the lives and searing the souls of untold hundreds of thousands of men\, women\, and teenagers by a practice that more enlightened countries consider inhuman. You will not find a more riveting indictment anywhere of our reckless use of solitary confinement\, nor one told through such a variety of moving\, poignant voices.” \n—Adam Hochschild\, author\, King Leopold’s Ghost \n“The voices heard in this powerful collection are haunting. As these men and women make inescapably clear\, the practice of removing human beings from everything that makes them sane and stable—keeping them for days\, months\, and years in utter isolation without light\, touch\, sound\, space\, and hope—is unimaginably cruel. Six by Ten is a deeply moving and profoundly unsettling wake up call for all citizens. The use of solitary confinement is deeply immoral and we must insist that it be banned in all of our nation’s prisons. Immediately.” \n—Heather Ann Thompson\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author\, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voices-of-witness-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writing Hope: Queer Authors in Times of Oppression
DESCRIPTION:The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present hopeful readings from various Queer Authors written during time of oppression
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-hope-queer-authors-in-times-of-oppression/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Jason Bayani
DESCRIPTION:FREE! \nEnjoy line breaks during your lunch break\, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. \nThis year see’s a new host and curator\, Jason Bayani\, artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop (the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American multi-disciplinary arts organization in the country) as well as a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene whose work has been published in Fourteen Hills\, Muzzle Magazine\, Mascara Review\, the National Poetry Slam anthology Rattapallax\, Write Bloody’s classroom anthology Learn Then Burn\, and other publications. \nLearn more here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-jason-bayani-2/
LOCATION:Yerba Buena Gardens\, 750 Howard St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Launch for Cary McClelland / Silicon City
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Cary McClelland andSilicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of The Valley\, an intimate\, eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. More TBA soon — save the date and join us! \n  \nSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists\, and known as the birthplace of the Beats\, the Black Panthers\, and the LGBTQ movement\, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley\, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets\, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes\, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification\, an epidemic of evictions\, rising crime\, atrophied public institutions—have started to show. \n  \nInspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history\, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change\, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters\, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. The crisp and vivid stories of Silicon City’s diverse cast capture San Francisco as never before. \n  \nThe book opens with a longtime tour guide recounting the history of the original Gold Rush and observing how little the people of his city pay attention to its history; it ends on Fisherman’s Wharf\, with the proprietor of an arcade game museum reminding us that even today’s technology will become relics of the past. In between we hear from people who have passed through Apple\, Google\, eBay\, Intel\, and the other big tech companies of our time. And we meet those who are experiencing the changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury\, an Oakland rapper\, a pawnbroker in the Mission\, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge\, and a woman who runs a tattoo parlor in the Castro. \n  \nSilicon City masterfully weaves together a candid conversation across a divided community to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city—and a cautionary tale for the entire country. \n  \n\n  \nCary McClelland is a writer\, filmmaker\, lawyer\, and rights advocate whose work has taken him around the world. He met his wife in San Francisco\, where they settled down and built their first home. They now live in Brooklyn with their son. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-launch-for-cary-mcclelland-silicon-city/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:'Hitler\, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood\, 1929-1939'
DESCRIPTION:“Hitler My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood\, 1929-1939” is about Edgar Feuchtwanger’s unique experience as a young boy\, watching Hitler from inside the windows of his home as the world around him crumbled. \nEdgar Feuchtwanger was born in Munich in 1924 and immigrated to England in 1939. He studied at Cambridge University and taught history at the University of Southampton until he retired in 1989. His major works include “From Weimar to Hitler\, Disraeli\, and Imperial Germany 1850-1918.” In 2003 he received the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany for promoting Anglo German relations. \nThe event will be moderated by Dr. Nathan Szajnberg. Born in Germany and raised in the US\, Dr. Szajnberg attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago. He was the Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University and is the author of several books on development\, as well as a recent novel\, Jerusaland: An Insignificant Death. In April 2018\, Dr. Szajnberg spoke at TEDxPaloAlto and his talk can be viewed here. \nDr. Szajnberg is in private practice in Palo Alto. \n“The title says it all. A young Jewish boy growing up in Munich in the 1930s\, Feuchtwanger writes about living across the street from Hitler\, the future mass murderer he could see through his window.”\n~ New York Times Book Review \n“He can’t wrap his mind around the contradictions\, but neither can many adults. Illuminating how it was possible for so many to be so confused is the book’s great achievement.”\n~ New Yorker \n“The narrative\, presented in a rigorous and pleasant way…harmoniously blends the account of the everyday life of this wealthy\, refined and cultivated Jewish family…and that of political events as they unfolded under their windows.”\n~ Le Figaro
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hitler-my-neighbor-memories-of-a-jewish-childhood-1929-1939/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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