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SUMMARY:After Hours: Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora
DESCRIPTION:The Mycological Society of Marin is proud to announce Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora. \nJoin us for this special After Hours mushroom talk where David Arora will explore some of the many contemporary myths about wild mushrooms spawned and reinforced by the Internet. Arora is an American mycologist\, naturalist\, and author of two popular mushroom field guides\, Mushrooms Demystified and All the Rain Promises and More. \nDoors open for the Marin Mycological Society’s meeting at 6:30pm\, followed by the mushroom talk at 7:00pm. Wine reception for registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Limited seating. Registration opens February 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-mushrooms-demythified-with-david-arora/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions among fiction\, the essay\, and poetry. She was the 2018–19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ On Our Mind program\, a yearlong series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading-group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018.  Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nPrageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\nreading and in conversation\nThursday March 12\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \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\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and ATA: Artists’ Television Access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-dodie-bellamy-and-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Word Open MIC Welcomes Tureeda Mikell & Barbara Saunders
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing powerful women poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-word-open-mic-welcomes-tureeda-mikell-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'ISLAGIATT'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-islagiatt/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Jessi Jezewska Stevens with Rita Bullwinkel: The Exhibition of Persephone Q
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJessi Jezewska Stevens discusses her new novel\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for The Exhibition of Persephone Q \n“A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q’s perspective is skewed and searching at once\, and through her eyes\, we see afresh not only New York’s post-9/11 landscape but also the world of art\, and love\, and the process of becoming.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Finally a book that exposes how dull Occam’s Razor has become after all these years. Adroitly crafted\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a fun\, urbane look at the faulty heuristics of perception and authenticity. Proof positive that in the age of Photoshop and Trumpian Denialism\, the simplest explanation no longer applies.” —Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n“The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a resonant and uncanny novel\, a moving meditation on “how casually one version of reality detaches from the truth; it peels away naturally\, like damp wallpaper in a neglected room.” Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a promising\, persuasive new writer\, and I will be surprised if this doesn’t turn out to be one of the strongest debut novels of 2020.” —Justin Taylor\, Bookforum \nAbout The Exhibition of Persephone Q \nPercy is pregnant. She hasn’t told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband—certainly she means to—but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now\, instead of sleeping\, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood\, all the while fretting over her marriage\, her impending motherhood\, and the sinister ways the city is changing. \nAmid this alienation—from her husband\, home\, and rapidly changing body—a package arrives. In it: an exhibition catalog for a photography show. The photographs consist of a series of digitally manipulated images of a woman lying on a bed in a red room. It takes a moment for even Percy to notice that the woman is herself . . . but no one else sees the resemblance. \nPercy must now come to grips with the fundamental question of identity in the digital age: To what extent do we own our own image\, and to what extent is that image shaped by the eyes of others? \nCapturing perfectly the haunted atmosphere of Manhattan immediately after 9/11—and the simmering insanity of America ever since—Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a darkly witty satire about how easy it is to lose ownership of our own selves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessi-jezewska-stevens-the-exhibition-of-persephone-q/
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:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_March12_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-23/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Prageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the first of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation. She was the 2018-19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s On Our Mind program\, a year-long series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018. Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nDodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma\nreading and in conversation\nFriday March 13\n7:00 pm @ Artists’ Television Access\n992 Valencia Street (at 21st)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \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/in-common-writers-series-prageeta-sharma-and-dodie-bellamy-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:Dr. Shauna Shapiro 'Rewire Your Mind' Lecture and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a special event to hear Dr. Shauna Shapiro speak on this very timely topic: Rewire Your Mind: The Science of Mindfulness & Self-Compassion in Parenting and Beyond. \nDr. Shapiro is a world-renowned author\, professor\, scientist\, and mother. She has published three critically acclaimed books and her TEDx talk on the Power of Mindfulness has been viewed over 1.5 million times. \nDr. Shapiro will appear as our guest in partnership with Congregation Kol Shofur Come join us and learn about revolutionary breakthroughs in neuroscience\, and engage in simple\, yet powerful practices that you can apply in daily life from parenting to the workplace. \nThursday\, March 12\, 7-8:30pm at Kol Shofur located at 215 Blackfield Drive\, Tiburon\, CA 94920. This event is free for all to attend. \nSpecial Offer: Shauna’s new “Good Morning\, I Love You” meditation video is available for free. Email to slshapiro@scu.edu \nShauna Shapiro Ph.D. is a professor at Santa Clara University\, she has published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books\, translated into 16 languages. Shauna has presented her research to the King of Thailand\, the Danish Government\, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit\, and the World Council for Psychotherapy\, as well as to Fortune 100 Companies including Google\, Cisco Systems and LinkedIn. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal\, Mashable\, Wired\, USA Today\, Dr. Oz\, the Huffington Post\, and the American Psychologist. Shauna is a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute\, co-founded by the Dalai Lama. \nTo order Dr. Shapiro’s new book\, please visit https://drshaunashapiro.com/books/#pre-order or buy a copy at the event. \nBook signing will follow the talk. \nFree \nhttp://www.marinjcc.org info@marinjcc.org 415-444-8000
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-shauna-shapiro-rewire-your-mind-lecture-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:Congregation Kol Shofur\, 215 Blackfield Drive\, Tiburon\, 94920
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Calico Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:In March 2020\, Two Lines Press will launch a new book series dedicated to capturing vanguard works of translated literature—curated around a particular theme\, region\, language\, historical moment\, or style—in vibrant\, collectible editions. \nWe’re calling it Calico.  \nThe first Calico book\, That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction\, will be published on March 10th. This book collects seven short stories from mainland China and Hong Kong\, all of them erring on the side of the strange\, the speculative. Government mushroom housing? It’s got it. Uncanny fermented grandma teas? Oh yeah. An aging newscaster engaged in an illicit affair with her boss\, who just so happens to get off to her reading the news? Why\, but of course. \nIn a country where the government provides one narrative while real life is often very different\, That We May Live showcases how the speculative provides cover from which Chinese writers can challenge the government’s story and explore their own—and just how difficult it can be to discern reality from absurdity\, comedy from horror. With works from previously untranslated writers and rising stars of international literature—all translated by some of the best Chinese translators around—in addition to being delightfully absorbing\, can be thoughtfully uncomfortable reading experience when you look for the truths at the stories’ surreal edges.” \nThat We May Live features work from Dorothy Tse (translated by Natasha Bruce)\, Enoch Tam (translated by Jeremy Tiang)\, Zhu Hui (translated by Michael Day)\, Chan Chi Wa (translated by Audrey Heijns)\, Chen Si’an (translated by Canaan Morse) and Yan Ge (translated by Jeremy Tiang). \nWe’re excited. We hope you are too. \nMore information about our Calico celebration coming soon! \n  \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calico-launch-party/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T203000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Juliana Delgado Lopera / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Juliana Delgado Lopera and her debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical. More information to be announced\, but please do yourself a favor and save the date! \nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. She is the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and has received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, she served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Fiebre Tropical\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-juliana-delgado-lopera-fiebre-tropical/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Cathy Park Hong with Vanessa Hua / Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nBooksmith hosts Cathy Park Hong for her new book\, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning\, a ruthlessly honest\, emotionally charged\, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human. She’ll be in conversation with Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities and A River of Stars). Please join us! \n\n“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.” – Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nPoet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir\, cultural criticism\, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism\, this collection is vulnerable\, humorous\, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship\, art and politics\, identity and individuality\, will change the way you think about our world. \nBinding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants\, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame\, suspicion\, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small\, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. \nWith sly humor and a poet’s searching mind\, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language\, to shame and depression\, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art\, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth. \n\nCathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Boston Review\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University–Newark MFA program in poetry.\nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of the national bestseller\, A River of Stars\, and a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities.  For more than two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the diaspora. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow\, she has also 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 The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and among other publications. The daughter of Chinese immigrants\, she teaches at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, and elsewhere. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Minor Feelings\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-park-hong-with-vanessa-hua-minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T210000
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SUMMARY:Happy 7th Birthday Voz Sin Tinta!
DESCRIPTION:Voz Sin Tinta is turning 7! To celebrate our special day\, we want YOU to come out and read or come and share space.\nWe will ONLY HAVE A COMMUNITY OPEN MIC. We would not have made it seven years without the community\, and we want to continue to support you all just like you support us.\nThat’s right! TWO HOURS OF OPEN MIC.\nBring food! Bring drinks! Bring adult drinks! Bring a friend! Bring some art to share! Bring yourself! Just come celebrate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-7th-birthday-voz-sin-tinta/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T213000
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CREATED:20200219T013117Z
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SUMMARY:Gretchen Sorin: Driving While Black: African-American Travel & Road to Civil Rights
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present:\nGRETCHEN SORIN\nDriving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights\nWith Sabrina Jacobs \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \nDriving While Black explains clearly how the automobile fundamentally changed African American Life. This is the dramatic history behind the best picture-winning film. \n“No one who reads Driving While Black can fail to be moved and wonderstruck by how far American society has come in the last century and a half in forwarding the dream of equal mobility for all\, and by how far we still have to go.” -Ric Burns\, documentary filmmaker and writer \nThe ultimate symbol of independence and possibility\, the automobile has always held distinct importance for African Americans\, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by our entrenched racist society\, and to enjoy – in some measure – the freedom of the open road. Gretchen Sorin recovers the forgotten history of black motorists and recounts their creation of a parallel\, unseen world of travel guides\, black-only hotels\, and informal communication networks that kept black drivers safe. At the heart of this story is Victor and Alma Green’s famous Green Book\, which made possible that most basic American right-the family vacation-and encouraged a new method of resisting oppression.  Enlivened by Sorin’s personal history\, Driving While Black  opens a fresh\, entirely new view of the African American experience\, and shows why travel was central to the civil rights’ movement. \nGretchen Sorin is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York. \nSabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude Awakening\, aired on KPFA Radio Monday afternoons. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486337  510-967-4495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gretchen-sorin-driving-while-black-african-american-travel-road-to-civil-rights/
LOCATION:Kehilla Synagogue\, 1300 Grand Ave.\, Piedmont\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T210000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 11\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThis event was postponed due to the planned PG&E power outage but has been rescheduled for Wednesday March 11th at 7:30pm in Hagerty Lounge! \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is currently working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras-2/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T210000
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SUMMARY:Colum McCann & Isabel Allende
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nCo-presented with JCCSF\n\nIrish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers\, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book\, Apeirogon\, tells the story of two fathers – one Palestinian and one Israeli – who learn of each other’s grief and reach across borders to work towards peace. In conversation with Isabel Allende. $30\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nColum McCann\nIrish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers\, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book… Read More →\n\n \nIsabel Allende\nIsabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, including The House of the Spirits\, Of Love and Shadows\, Eva Luna\, Paula\, In the Midst of Winter\, and the forthcoming A Long Petal of the Sea. Her books have been translated into more than… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colum-mccann-isabel-allende/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T203000
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SUMMARY:MariNaomi / Distant Stars
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes MariNaomi back for the final volume of her Life on Earth trilogy\, Distant Stars. Please join us! \nCelebrated cartoonist MariNaomi concludes her tale of growing up\, falling in and out of love\, and possible alien interventions. Shy\, self-deprecating Paula Navarro is coming into her own — and it’s making her new girlfriend\, Johanna\, a little nervous. Paula’s former friend Emily Baker is learning to look inward. Brett Hathaway\, Emily and Paula’s mutual ex-hook-up\, is torn about reconnecting with his estranged dad. And Nigel Jones is smitten with his tutor\, Claudia — whose disappearance and reappearance remains a mystery to everyone around her. As Claudia and her guardians put the final plan in motion\, they’ll reveal the truth that links everyone’s fate. \n\nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of four comic memoirs and creator of the Cartoonists of Color database. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and many cats and dogs. Visit her website at marinaomi.com. Author photo by Jolene Siana. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Distant Stars\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marinaomi-distant-stars/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shana Redmond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nEverything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson \nfrom Duke University Press \nFrom his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights\, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century’s greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson’s continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater\, art\, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life\, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication\, care\, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone. \nShana L. Redmond is Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is coeditor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader\, also published by Duke University Press\, and author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora. \nPraise for Everything Man \n\n\n“Formally challenging and beautifully conceived\, Everything Man is a model for scholarship and thinking as well as a powerful addition to the body of work on Paul Robeson\, freedom movements\, sound studies\, music\, and beyond. It will make a tremendous impact.” — Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake \n“Shana Redmond’s ingenious reframing of Paul Robeson as Afrofuturist media artist is but one quality marking Everything Man as a milestone contribution to Robeson scholarship. Redmond compels readers to reconsider Robeson as a radical modernist—one whose innovative embrace of electronic media technology (film\, sound recording\, telegraph) transforms our understanding of him from remote Black Communist icon to protean\, creative contemporary. In lucid and evocative prose Redmond narrates how Robeson democratized sonic and visual modernity while engaged in anticapitalist justice work. Redmond illuminates the afterlife of Robeson’s voice and presence too—his appearances in postmodern art practices and the many places Robeson’s footpaths took Redmond where she discovered he was still revered by the far-flung descendants of the man’s midcentury comrades and congregants.” — Greg Tate\, author of Flyboy 2li
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shana-redmond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200311T193000
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SUMMARY:Mark Greenside at Alameda Authors Series IV
DESCRIPTION:Details:  \nThe fourth annual Alameda Authors Series\, sponsored by\, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library\, continues with best-selling author and chronicler of life in France\,  Mark Greenside. \nMr. Greenside will speak about (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living\, a memoir that details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home\, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. \n Reservations requested: \nhttps://markgreenside-aauw2020.eventbrite.com \nPraise for  \n(not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living  \n— David Lebovitz\, author of My Paris Kitchen and L’appart\nLearning how to shop\, drive\, and eat in France have their own sets of rules\, and (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living tackles them with a soupçon of humor. From buying a lamp to mastering mollusks (oysters)\, and learning the right—and wrong ways—things are done in France\, Mark Greenside perseveres . . . and succeeds \n— Julie Barlow\, author of The Bonjour Effect\, The Story of Spanish\, The Story of French\, and Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong\nFailure to speak French has never been so funny! Greenside may never master the gender of French nouns\, but he sees straight through the French. A smart\, delicious memoir of life off the beaten track in France. \n— Susan Herrmann Loomis\, author of On Rue Tatin\, and proprietor of the cooking school On Rue Tatin in Normandy and Paris\nMark Greenside recounts hilarious experiences only a foreigner can have in France\, for they’re the ordinary things of French life that go unnoticed by the locals yet the funniest of things for someone from the ‘outside’! \n— William Alexander\, author of Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me\, Seduced Me\, and Nearly Broke My Heart\nSurely the funniest American to land in France since Jerry Lewis\, Greenside ‘masters’ the baffling rules of French life in principle\, while mangling them—to hilarious effect—in practice. A delightful pas de deux of humor and wisdom.” \nAbout the author: \n Mark Greenside holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a civil rights activist\, Vietnam War protestor\, anti-draft counselor\, Vista Volunteer\, union leader\, and college professor. His stories have appeared in The Sun\, The Literary Review\, Cimarron Review\, The Nebraska Review\, Beloit Fiction Journal\, The New Laurel Review\, Crosscurrents\, Five Fingers Review\, and The Long Story\, as well as other journals and magazines\, and he is the author of the short story collection\, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. He presently lives in Alameda\, California\, where he continues to teach and be politically active\, and Brittany\, France\, where he still can’t do anything without asking for help. \nFor more information\, please contact AAUW Alameda at alameda-ca@aauw.net or see our Web site at https://alameda-ca.aauw.net/ Event telephone: 510.463.4966 Kevis Brownson (leave message) \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-greenside-at-alameda-authors-series-iv/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, March 11\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nSoda Activity Center: Orinda Room\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nPoet Cyrus Cassells will draw on his experience as a translator of Catalan and Italian literature to discuss the challenges and craft of turning global poetry into dynamic English versions that convey the essence of the originals\, stressing the importance of translation as a vital means of transmitting world history and culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:Soda Activity Center: Ordina Room\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz: Doren Robbins and Jory Post at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join Poetry Santa Cruz at Bookshop Santa Cruz for a poetry reading featuring local poets and authors. This month’s event will feature local poets Doren Robbins and Jory Post. \nDoren Robbins is a contemporary American poet\, prose poet\, fiction writer\, essayist\, mixed media artist\, and educator. As a cultural activist\, he has organized and developed projects for Amnesty International\, the Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund\, the Romero Relief Fund\, and poetsagainstthewar.org. His latest book is an in-depth critical study titled\, Apocalypse Contemporary: A Sequence-By-Sequence Overview On Sharon Doubiago’s Naked to the Earth (2019). \nJory Post has been an educator and writer for 40 years as well as making handmade books and journals with his wife\, Karen\, as JoKa Press. He participates in a playwriting group\, a fiction writing group\, and a poetry workshop with Santa Cruz County poet laureate\, Danusha Laméris. He is the cofounder and editor of phren-z\, an online literary magazine\, serving Santa Cruz County writers for 8 years. His latest book of poetry is titled The Extra Year\, poems written after a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2018. \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and other locations in Santa Cruz County\, and the Poet/Speak open reading. They also provide free information on other poetry-related events in the area. Poetry Santa Cruz is grateful for the support of its members and donors\, especially a most generous bequest from co-founder and former board member Tillie Washburn Shaw.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz-doren-robbins-and-jory-post-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Katie M. Flynn
DESCRIPTION:Katie M. Flynn discusses her debut novel\, The Companions. \nPraise for The Companions \n“Beautifully atmospheric and emotionally intense\, The Companions is an unnerving and engrossing story. The radiant\, somber voice of this near-future speculative novel ratchets the suspense while also illuminating what makes us human and how we endure beyond death. This is a spellbinding novel that will linger with you.” —Kassandra Montag\, author of After the Flood \n“With deft narration and unforgettable characters\, Katie M. Flynn weaves a tale of high-tech\, dystopian reincarnation. Each detail is beautifully sketched and thrilling to discover\, creating a near-future world of endless fascination. The Companions is a compelling\, gripping\, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction.” —Jennie Melamed\, author of Gather the Daughters \n“This sweeping novel of near-future dystopia has an ensemble cast and covers continents and years of time\, but it never loses its intimacy and immediacy. There’s a deeply moving humanity to each of these characters—even the ones who aren’t quite human. I loved this book so much I didn’t want it to end.” –Dan Chaon\, author of Ill Will \nAbout The Companions \nStation Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. \nIn the wake of a highly contagious virus\, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers\, the living can’t go out\, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms\, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying\, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death\, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation\, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. \nSixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate\, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands\, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away\, searching for the woman who killed her. \nLilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac’s journey through an exquisitely imagined Northern California\, the story is told from eight different points of view—some human\, some companion—that explore the complex shapes love\, revenge\, and loneliness take when the dead linger on.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-m-flynn/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T203000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Harmony and Discord
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner! \n$10/Pay what you can. NOTAFLOF \nThis month’s readers: \nAnna Held\nKar Johnson\nLoria Mendoza\nGiavanna Ortiz de Candia\nC Pam Zhang
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-march/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andy Weinberger presents An Old Man's Game
DESCRIPTION:Longtime bookseller Andy Weinberger reads and signs copies of his debut novel\, An Old Man’s Game.  \nBeginning when a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles\, An Old Man’s Game follows retired private eye Amos Parisman–a sixtyish\, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea–who is hired by the temple’s board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple\, tragic accident\, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear\, and Amos uncovers a world of treachery and hurt that shakes a large L.A. Jewish community to its core. \n \nAndy Weinberger is a longtime bookseller who opened Readers’ Books in Sonoma\, California\, with his wife\, Lilla Weinberger\, in 1991. Born in New York\, he grew up in the Los Angeles area and studied poetry and Chinese history at the University of New Mexico. He lives in Sonoma\, where Readers’ Books continues to thrive. This is his first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-weinberger-presents-an-old-mans-game/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susan Levenstein at Moe's Books
DESCRIPTION:Author Susan Levenstein talks about Dotteressa: An American Doctor in Rome. \nSusan Levenstein has been practicing primary care internal medicine in Italy for four decades\, treating an international clientele that’s featured ambassadors and auto mechanics\, millionaires and maids\, poets and priests. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. \n“While sharing the many difficulties she’s faced as an outsider to the Italian health-care system―with its piles of paperwork\, unwritten rules\, and old boy networks―Levenstein also writes a love letter to Italy . . . The first chapters recount\, with a combination of exasperation and humor\, the years-long obstacle course she encountered in her quest to practice medicine in the country. She proceeds to talk about everything from what a well-dressed Italian physician should wear\, to\, in a particularly wise and witty chapter\, love and sex from both an Italian and an American perspective. A timely epilogue discusses the Affordable Care Act from her unique position as an American expat and an Italian physician\, with Levenstein reflecting on how Italians\, despite widespread dissatisfaction with their own health system\, manage to live more healthily than Americans.”―Publishers Weekly \n“Levenstein’s devotion to the Italian practice of medicine is admirable\, and she delivers a charming story well told.”―Kirkus Reviews \n“A funny and endearing but also deadly serious memoir of the Italian health care system by an astute and caring outsider.”―Booklist \n“Finally an expat memoir which is not about food\, foreign men\, or house renovation\, rich with insights into what makes these irresistible Italians tick . . . As the debate over universal healthcare\, cost-cutting\, and co-paying continues\, Levenstein offers some timely\, illuminating advice packed into a fascinating expat memoir both thought-provoking and fun to read.”―The Italian Insider
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-levenstein-at-moes-books/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T203000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:City Lights celebrates Nomadic Press \nwith Tureeda Mikell\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Ayodele Nzinga\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Genny Lim\, James Cagney\, Dr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett\, music by Azuah \nNomadic Press is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that supports the works of emerging and established writers and artists. Through publications (including translations) and performances\, Nomadic Press aims to build community among artists across disciplines. \nTo learn more visit: www.nomadicpress.org \nEducator\, consultant\, poet\, griot/elocutionist/story medicine woman\, Tureeda Mikell began working the healing arts in 1977 via poetry\, storytelling\, and QiGong energy therapy. Mikell is the founder of Tree of Life Health Literacy Project and works in collaboration with California Poets in the Schools. In 2018\, Mikell was the Eth-Noh-Tec NuWa Delegate from the US to Beijing\, China\, in Gengcun Village of renowned storytellers in collaboration with the University of Beijing on mission to heal cultural boundaries. Mikell has been a featured reader with Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, California\, presented Al Young (named poet laureate of California in 2015) with the lifetime achievement award at the 2018 Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has opened for Saul Williams at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. She is a BAWP Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education\, has worked and read with the late Amiri Baraka via EastSide Arts Alliance\, and is one of the co-founders of the Black Writers Conference in Otisville\, New York.  Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press\, 2020) is her first full-length collection of poetry. \nJosiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first began performing his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar’s Thursday night readings and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe\, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show\, “The Spanglish Power Hour\,” aired on KPFA. He curates  and hosts the monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems\, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos\, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press. \nAyodele Nzinga is a renaissance woman. A writer\, lyricist\, director\, producer\, actress\, dramaturg\, and social architect; her motto is\, “I create\, therefore I am.” Her work appears in Juice Magazine\, VISION Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, Pan African Journal of Poetry\, Environmental Terrorist Anthology\, Say it Loud\, Black Magnolias Literary Journal\, and ChickenBones: A Journal. Her book\, Horse Eaters\, is available from Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection\, SorrowLand Oracle\, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2020. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and educator. His book\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (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. \nGenny Lim is a San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. She has collaborated with such jazz legends as the late Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis\, and Eddie Marshall\, as well as Bay Area musicians Broun Fellinis\, John Santos\, Anthony Brown\, Francis Wong\, and Jon Jang. She has appeared at jazz festivals throughout the US and poetry festivals in Venezuela\, Italy\, and Bosnia. \nLim’s award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been produced throughout the US\, Canada\, and China. She is the author of five poetry collections—Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo—and is the co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, which won the American Book Award. A recipient of a SF Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship\, Lim is currently at work on a book of poetry about Jazz legends from the Behop Era and beyond. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland\, California. He has appeared at venues in throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Cagney is the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner for his first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In the Hour of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press\, 2018). More of James’ writing can be found at TheDirtyRat.blog. \nDr. James P. (Jimmy) Garrett is a long-time scholar activist and writer who was instrumental in the development of the academic field of Black/Ethnic Studies. Along with such major literary artists as Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) and Sonia Sanchez\, he was a major contributor to the establishment  of the Black Arts Movement. Dr. Garrett’s plays\, short fiction\, and social essays have been published in Black Scholar\, Journal of Pan African Studies\, and the seminal BAM collection\, Black Fire. James Garrett is presently at work on a  memoir of his life in political movements in the US\, Africa\, and the Americas from the 1960s to the present. \nAzuah’s music weaves roots in alternative folk and soul with a poet’s sensibility and an unforgettable voice to create an infectious sound all her own. A Bay Area native\, she has played all over the West Coast from the Roxy in Los Angeles to stages in Oakland and San Francisco. Known for her evocative lyrics and haunting melodies\, Azuah captures the listener’s ear from first note to last strum with a sound that can only come from the depths of an old soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Lanyadoo & T. Greenaway: Astrology for Real Relationships
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Jessica Lanyadoo & T. Greenaway to read from their new book\, Astrolody for Real Relationships: Understanding You\, Me and How We all Get Alongon Tuesday\, March 10th at 7pm. \nA modern\, inclusive guide to astrology that will illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family\, your friends\, and yourself. \nWhen it comes to friendship\, family\, and romance\, we all want the same things: to love and be loved\, to communicate\, to fight fair\, and to feel okay in our own skin. Astrology for Real Relationships is a modern\, practical guide to life’s least practical matters–relationships of all kinds and matters of the heart–that will help you understand your blind spots\, blocks\, and fears so you can make choices that leave you happy and fulfilled. Full of real talk about attraction\, dating\, sex\, frenemies\, self-love\, and how to deal with family\, this book will help you build and maintain strong connections–with your crushes\, your spouse\, your boss\, or your mom–and uncover and get what you reallywant in relationships\, not what you think you should want. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \n  \nJessica Lanyadoo has met with thousands of clients of the past two decades. She is an internationally respected astrologer and psychic medium\, with fans and clients across the globe. Listen to her weekly show\, Ghost of a Podcast\, read her horoscopes\, and use the free birth chart generator on her website at lovelanyadoo.com. \nT. Greenaway is a journalist\, poet\, and editor who has been writing and editing for nearly two decades. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the NPR website\, the Guardian\, Food & Wine\, Mother Jones\, Gastronomica\, and Modern Farmer\, and on Grist\, where she was an editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-lanyadoo-t-greenaway-astrology-for-real-relationships/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:features: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo \nopen mic follows \n  \ndoors open 6:30pm\n$3 donation at the door\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nbios to come. \nUpcoming in Well-RED:\nApr. 14: Poetry Month Open Mic\nMay 12: Mimi Ahern & Roger Abe of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society with Mary Lou Taylor\nJune 9: Andrena Zawinski & tba
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-3/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T205440Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl / Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Kate Schatzand Miriam Klein Stahl for their new book\, Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments that Demonstrate the Power of the People. Please join us! \nFrom the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political\, social\, and cultural movements in American history. \n\n“An engaging\, fascinating\, and necessary book that speaks truth to power.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \n\nIn Rad American History A-Z\, each letter of the alphabet tells the story of a significant moment in America’s progressive history–one that isn’t always covered in history classes: A is for Alcatraz\, and the Native occupation of 1969; C is for the Combahee River Raid\, a Civil War action planned in part by Union spy Harriet Tubman; Z is for Zuccotti Park\, and the Occupy movement that briefly took over the world. \nPaired with dynamic paper-cut art by Miriam Klein Stahl\, the entries by Kate Schatz explore several centuries of politics\, culture\, art\, activism\, and liberation\, including radical librarians\, Supreme Court cases\, courageous youth\, punk rocker grrrls\, Southern quilts\, and modern witches. In addition to the twenty-six core stories\, short sidebars expand the discussion\, and dictionary-style lists refer readers to additional key moments. So while F is for Federal Theater Project\, a New Deal-era program that employed thousands of artists\, F is also for Freedom Rides and First Amendment. E is for Earth First!\, but also for Endangered Species Act and Equal Rights Amendment. \nThere are tales of triumph\, resilience\, creation\, and hope. Each engaging\, fact-filled narrative illustrates an eye-opening moment that shows us how we got to now–and what we need to know about our histories to create a just and sustainable future. \n\n“I wish I’d had Rad American History A–Z when I was growing up; it’s a book I hope to read to my children one day. In such chaotic political times\, this is a critical tool for young people to know how change happens\, and to know that they\, too\, can make change happen. This book belongs on all library shelves as a transformative approach to history as we know it.”– Alicia Garza\, cofounder of Black Lives Matter Global Network \n\nKate Schatz is a feminist writer\, activist\, and educator. With illustrator Miriam Klein Stahl\, she is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. Kate is the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she speaks often about politics\, resistance\, feminism\, race\, parenting\, and more. \n  \nMiriam Klein Stahl is an artist\, educator\, and activist. She is the illustrator of the New York Times bestsellers Rad American Women A–Z and Rad Women Worldwide\, as well as My Rad Life: A Journal and Rad Girls Can. In addition to her work in printmaking\, drawing\, sculpture\, and paper-cut and public art\, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School\, where she has taught since 1995. Photo by Casey Orr. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rad American History A-Z\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-schatz-miriam-klein-stahl-rad-american-history-a-z-movements-and-moments-that-demonstrate-the-power-of-the-people/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, was a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, a New York Times editor’s choice\, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher Kerr\, Death Is but a Dream at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Hospice of Santa Cruz County\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, presents Dr. Christopher Kerr who will discuss and sign copies of his new book\, Death Is but a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End—the first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. \nChristopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who\, in the face of death\, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as “more real than real\,” these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships\, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life’s meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. \nDrawing on interviews with over 1\,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data\, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients’ stories point to death as not solely about the end of life\, but as the final chapter of humanity’s transcendence. Kerr’s book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved\, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. \nBeautifully written\, with astonishing real-life characters and stories\, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is but a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine’s and humanity’s greatest mystery. \nChristopher Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo\, New York. Born and raised in Toronto\, Canada\, Chris earned his MD as well as a PhD in Neurobiology. Outside of direct patient care\, Chris’ focus is in the area of patient advocacy. His passion is palliative care and a belief that such care should be throughout the continuum of illness. Under Dr. Kerr’s medical leadership\, Hospice Buffalo now serves 1\,000 patients a day\, half of whom receive services prior to hospice. \nDr. Kerr’s background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside\, specifically patient’s dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored\, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning\, as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated. To date\, the research team at Hospice Buffalo has published multiple studies on this topic and documented over 1\,500 end-of-life events\, many of which are videotaped. This work was the subject of his TEDx Buffalo Talk which has been viewed over 2 million times. It has been the subject of reports on The BBC\, in The New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Scientific American Mind\, Huffington Post\, and Psychology Today. It will also be featured in an upcoming Netflix production and a documentary film to be released in 2020. It has also gathered international attention and Dr. Kerr’s work will also be published in a book (Death Is But A Dream) by Penguin Random House to be released in February\, 2020. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 7th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-kerr-death-is-but-a-dream-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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