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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Laurie R. King\, Riviera Gold
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with beloved bestselling author Laurie R. King\, who will will celebrate the publication of her newest Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery\, Riviera Gold. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\nIt’s summertime on the Riviera\, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. As American expatriates begin to drift down from Paris\, their villas fill with the music and merriment of their generation’s most creative minds. From those ocean-view terraces\, they also gaze along the coastline at the lights of a more traditional pleasure ground: Monte Carlo\, where fortunes are won\, lost\, stolen\, and sometimes hidden away. When Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes happen across the Côte d’Azur\, they find their partnership similarly pulled\, between youthful pleasures and old sins\, hot sun and cool jazz\, new affections and enduring loyalties. \nRussell falls into easy friendship with an enthralling American couple\, Sara and Gerald Murphy\, whose golden life on the Riviera has begun to attract famous writers and artists—and some of the scoundrels linked with Monte Carlo’s underworld. The Murphy set will go on to inspire everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Pablo Picasso\, but in this summer of 1925\, their importance for Russell lies in one of their circle’s recent additions: none other than the Holmeses’ former housekeeper\, Mrs. Hudson\, who hasn’t been seen since she fled England under a cloud of false murder accusations. \nWhen a beautiful young man is found dead in Mrs. Hudson’s front room\, she becomes the prime suspect in yet another murder. Russell is certain that Mrs. Hudson is innocent; Holmes is not quite so sure. But the old woman’s colorful past has been a source of tension between them before this\, and now\, the dangerous players who control Monte Carlo’s gilded casinos may stop at nothing to keep the pair away from the dark corners that Mrs. Hudson’s youthful history could bring to light. \nThe Riviera in 1925 is a playground for the rich built on corruption and greed. It is a place where treasure can be false\, where love can destroy\, and where life\, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes will discover\, can be cheap—even when it is made of solid gold. \nLaurie R. King is the award-winning\, bestselling author of sixteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, the Stuyvesant & Grey novels Touchstone and The Bones of Paris\, and acclaimed standalone novels Folly and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-laurie-r-king-riviera-gold/
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SUMMARY:Oakland Voices Tonight: Cat Brooks on Race\, Policing\, and COVID
DESCRIPTION:Join Oakland Voices for a conversation about COVID-19\, policing\, and inequality in Oakland. This weeks’ guest is Cat Brooks\, executive director of Justice Teams Network and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Rasheed Shabazz of Oakland Voices hosts. \nCat Brooks is KPFA co-host of UpFront and a long-time performer\, organizer\, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant\, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network. Cat was also a mayoral candidate in Oakland’s 2018 election\, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf. \nRegister: http://bit.ly/ovweb-0609
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-voices-tonight-cat-brooks-on-race-policing-and-covid/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:International Thrills: #1 Scandinavian Bestseller Lars Kepler in conversation with Jesse Kellerman
DESCRIPTION:The blockbuster Swedish suspense phenomenon Lars Kepler\, famed for the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series\, is actually two people: husband-and-wife duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Their first book\, 2009’s mega-bestselling The Hypnotist\, stirred up intrigue beyond its own riveting pages\, as the media frantically sleuthed to uncover Lars Kepler’s real identity: a secret finally revealed at a press conference that became Sweden’s biggest story of that summer. Both halves of this dynamic duo were already acclaimed authors before they joined forces\, but as a crime-fiction team\, they’ve sold millions of copies in 40 languages. Come for a rare\, fascinating look behind the curtain of this powerhouse literary couple’s creative process\, as they share the ins and outs of creating ghoulishly razor-sharp fiction as a team\, the origins of their most iconic characters and storylines\, and the artistic freedom that comes from collaboration.  Moderated by Jesse Kellerman\, no stranger to collaboration himself\, having co-written New York Times bestselling crime novels—praised as “brilliant\, page-turning fiction” by Stephen King—with his father\, Jonathan Kellerman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/international-thrills-1-scandinavian-bestseller-lars-kepler-in-conversation-with-jesse-kellerman/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Carter Sickels - The Prettiest Star
DESCRIPTION:Small-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it\, but it’s where Brian is from\, where his family is\, and where he’s chosen to return to die. \nAt eighteen\, Brian\, like so many other promising young gay men\, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years\, AIDS would claim his lover\, his friends\, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death\, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place\, and family\, he was once so desperate to escape. \nSet in 1986\, a year after Rock Hudson’s death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America\, The Prettiest Star is an urgent story about the politics and fragility of the body\, about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding\, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other\, and sometimes touch. \nCarter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award\, and has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, VCCA\, and the MacDowell Colony. His essays and fiction have appeared in various publications\, including Guernica\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and BuzzFeed\, and he is the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage\, Relationships & Identity. Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University\, where he teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Lexington\, Kentucky.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carter-sickels-the-prettiest-star/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Worley
DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party for \nNeon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power \nby Jennifer Worley \nfrom Harper Collins \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n————- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n————- \nBooks for this event may be purchased at this link: \n>Purchase NEON GIRLS here< \n————– \nA riveting true story of a young woman’s days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. \nWhen graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money\, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco\, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors\, in platform heels\, and not much else. So began Jenny’s career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego “Polly” alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill strip club—it was a peepshow populated by free-thinking women who talked feminist theory and swapped radical zines like lipstick. \nAs management’s discriminatory practices and the rise of hidden cameras stir up tension among the dancers\, Jenny rallies them to demand change. Together\, they organize the first strippers’ union in the world and risk it all to take over the club and run it as a co-operative. Refusing to be treated as sex objects or disposable labor\, they become instead the rulers of their kingdom. Jenny’s elation over the Lusty Lady’s revolution is tempered by her evolving understanding of the toll dancing has taken on her. When she finally hangs up her heels for good to finish her Ph.D.\, neither Jenny nor San Francisco are the same—but she and the cadre of wild\, beautiful\, brave women who run the Lusty Lady come out on top despite it all. \nA first-hand account as only an insider could tell it\, Neon Girls paints a vivid picture of a bygone San Francisco and a fiercely feminist world within the sex industry\, asking sharp questions about what keeps women from fighting for their rights\, who benefits from capitalizing on desire\, and how we can change entrenched systems of power. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-worley/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Charis Book Store of Decatur\, GA hosts a virtual event celebrating Julian Bond w/Michael Long and Pamela Horowitz!
DESCRIPTION:Register ahead of time at here! Charis Bookstore hosts a virtual event with Michael Long\, editor of Race Man\, and Pamela Horowitz\, who worked in partnership with her late husband\, Julian Bond\, on multiple public\, private\, and academic projects\, including an annual civil rights tour of the South and projects involving the NAACP and the SPLC. Michael Long joins us from his home in Lower Allen Township in Pennsylvania\, while Pamela Horowitz joins us from her home in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charis-book-store-of-decatur-ga-hosts-a-virtual-event-celebrating-julian-bond-w-michael-long-and-pamela-horowitz/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch
DESCRIPTION:With Melanie Abrams and Andrew Altschul. \nVia Facebook Live: facebook.com/booksmith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-the-booksmith-lockdown-lit-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 9\, 7pm on Zoom\nDoren Robbins and Sharon Olson \nopen mic follows \nonline on Zoom\nFree\, register on Eventbrite! \npresented with Works/San José \nTypically featured at Works/San José art and performance center\, performance begins via Zoom at 7:00pm sharp! \nFirst 15 people to register for a free ticket get on the open mic list. Curators will email all registrants the meeting ID and password. \nEach open mic participant has 5 minutes. \nSharon Olson is a Stanford graduate\, with an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She worked as a librarian from 1978 to 2007 at the Palo Alto City Library\, and was a long-standing member of the Palo Alto poetry group Waverley Writers. Her publications include a chapbook Clouds Brushed in Later\, which won the Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook Award (presented by the Poetry Center San José in 1987)\, and two full-length books of poetry\, The Long Night of Flying (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2006) and Will There Be Music? (Cherry Grove Collections\, 2019). Her poems have appeared in many journals including Off the Coast\, String Poet\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The Curator\, Adanna\, Heron Tree\, New Verse News and Cider Press Review. She has published (with co-author Chris Schopfer) numerous articles about the Sandford family of New Jersey in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Since 2008 she and her husband have lived on the East Coast\, currently in Lawrenceville\, New Jersey\, where she is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Collective and performs with Cool Women Poets. She is also affiliated with the Scriven Arts Colony in Gilmanton\, New Hampshire\, and the Guilford Poets Guild in Guilford\, Connecticut\, which interviewed her recently in April\, 2020. See more information at her blog: https://slopoet.blogspot.com. \nDoren Robbins is a poet\, mixed media artist\, literary critic and composer of poetic prose monologues. His work has appeared in many publications\, including The American Poetry Review\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Third Rail: international literature and arts\, Angry Old Man\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Café Irreal\, Cimarron Review\, Empty Mirror\, Exquisite Corpse\, Kayak\, 5 AM\, Hotel Amerika\, The Indiana Review\, New Letters\, Nimrod\, Otoliths\, Sulfur\, and The Iowa Review. Past collections of his poetry\, Driving Face Down and My Piece of the Puzzle were awarded the Blue Lynx Poetry Award 2001 and the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award\, respectively. His book Twin Extra: A Poem In Three Parts (Wild Ocean Press 2015) was nominated for the National Jewish Book Council Award in Poetry. In 2020 Spuyten Duyvil Press published his monograph\, Apocalypse Contemporary\, on Sharon Doubiago’s book Naked to the Earth; and highmoonoon books published Not Fade Away: Poetic Prose Monologues\, Three Sequences. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Foothill College. \n“These are remarkable\, fiery poems. Poems that would urge any poet on\, language that tears open reality. I think this is Doren Robbins’s finest book\, and I’ve admired his work for a good while. The imagination\, its energy and precision\, is immense. There’s a delicate observation of even the rawest materials\, a tenderness for humanity in all its cruelty\, stupidity\, and often invisible dignity and grace\, that feels to me like his peculiar\, original contribution to–well\, to the puzzle of what we have become: people\, Americans\, men and women today\, above all those who are “absent\,” unregistered\, undocumented in both senses.” -Adrienne Rich
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-doren-robbins-and-sharon-olson/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Minna Salami / Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host Minna Salami for her new book of essays\, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note the early start time of 12pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nSensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves\, our history\, and our world. \nWhat does it mean to be oppressed?\nWhat does it mean to be liberated?\nWhy do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous?\nWhat is the cost of compromising one’s true self?\nWhat narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage?\nWhat kind of narrative can heal and empower? \nAs she considers these questions\, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women’s lives\, including power\, beauty\, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects\, such as Afrofuturism\, radical Black feminism\, and gender politics\, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller’s narrative playfulness and a social critic’s intellectual rigor\, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies\, feminist theory\, popular culture — including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill\, Beyoncé\, Audre Lorde\, Toni Morrison\, and others — science\, philosophy\, African myths and origin stories\, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation. \nSensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom\, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways — models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today. \nIn this riveting meditation\, Salami asks women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male centric biases\, and build a house themselves — a home that can nurture us all. \n\nMinna Salami is Nigerian\, Finnish\, and Swedish author\, blogger\, and social critic\, and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog\, MsAfropolitan\, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centered perspective. Listed by Elle Magazine as “one of twelve women changing the world” alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama\, Minna has presented talks on feminism\, liberation\, decolonization\, sexuality\, African Studies\, and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament\, the Oxford Union\, Yale University\, TEDx\, The Singularity University at NASA\, and UN Women. She is a contributor to The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, and the Royal Society of the Arts\, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. She lives in London. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nTo have Sensuous Knowledge sent to your door\, order here or below. \nRSVP appreciated by not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-minna-salami-sensuous-knowledge-a-black-feminist-approach-for-everyone-2/
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-61-music-by-tba-2/
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Wayétu Moore and The Dragons\, the Giant\, the Women
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora \nWhen Wayétu Moore turns five years old\, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia\, Liberia\, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother\, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her\, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot\, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally\, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone\, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey\, this time to the United States. \nSpanning this harrowing journey in Moore’s early childhood\, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant\, and her eventual return to Liberia\, The Dragons\, the Giant\, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. Moore has a novelist’s eye for suspense and emotional depth\, and this unforgettable memoir is full of imaginative\, lyrical flights and lush prose. In capturing both the hazy magic and stark realities of what is becoming an increasingly pervasive experience\, Moore shines a light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world\, and calls us all to acknowledge the tenacious power of love and family. Wayétu will be in converation with author and professor Faith Adiele. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nWayétu Moore\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nFaith Adiele\nFaith Adiele’s work includes The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems; Meeting Faith\, a memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun; My Journey Home\, a PBS documentary about finding family in Nigeria; and Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-wayetu-moore-and-the-dragons-the-giant-the-women/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200607T180000
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CREATED:20200523T170118Z
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SUMMARY:Kathy Evans - Trespassers Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Kathy Evans’s full-length debut\, Trespassers Welcome\, is an extravaganza of imaginative leaps\, bounds\, and deep dives\, a worldwide web of seemingly unlikely but delightfully believable connections—from the everyday to the unexpected. Her work is profoundly playful and playfully profound–no mean feat in these parlous times. \nKathy Evans\, a Marin County resident\, just recently released her latest poetry collection\, Trespassers Welcome\, from Bluelight Press. She is the author of three other books of poetry\, including Hunger and Sorrow\, which won the Small Press Poetry prize\, and was Artist-in-Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts.  She has brought poetry into classrooms all over the Bay Area and is currently poet-in-residence at The Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francsico and Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathy-evans-trespassers-welcome/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T140059
CREATED:20200602T204700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T204700Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Catamaran Summer 2020 Issue Launch
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event celebrating the Summer 2020 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader\, hosted by poet\, fiction writer\, and essayist Jory Post.  \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-catamaran-summer-2020-issue-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T140059
CREATED:20200521T171840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T164049Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:presents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\n\n\npresents a special \nonline performance \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2020\n5pm PST / 8pm EST \n\n\nRegister for our Zoom gathering\nfeaturing\n\n\nBonnie Tsui\n(Why We Swim; American Chinatown; Writing Action)\n\n“An enthusiastic and thoughtful work mixing history\, journalism\, and elements of memoir… We’ll never be the fish\, Tsui reminds us. ‘But we get glimpses of what it’s like to be the fish. We get flashes of forgetting the water.’ How glorious.” — The New York Times Book Review\n\n \nA Boston Globe bestseller and Best Book of the Season: Amazon\, Buzzfeed\, Bustle\, The San Francisco Chronicle\n\nBonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine. She has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Bonnie has also performed numerous times at Pop-Up Magazine and other live storytelling events. She helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen\, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard. She is also her first children’s book\, Sarah & the Big Wave\, about big-wave women surfers; it will be published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in spring 2021.\n\nMeng Jin\n(Little Gods)\n“Meng Jin’s beautiful debut novel is ambitious in the best ways: meticulously observed\, daringly imagined\, rich in character and history. Ranging across continents\, cultures and generations\, Jin poses profound questions: how might we know ourselves\, or the people we love? And what truths\, if any\, travel with us?” — Claire Messud\n \n“If the mark of a good novel is its ability to delicately rewire the reader’s brain\, then Meng Jin has given us a very good novel….Little Gods is a page-turner—but all the while it winks\, reminding us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it.” — The Paris Review\, Staff Pick\n\n\nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.\nAlia Volz\n(Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco)\n“I devoured this book! Sex\, drugs\, rock-n-roll\, a savvy business woman\, a social and medicinal revolution: What’s not to love? This is a story Alia Volz was born to tell.” —Rebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\n\nAlia Volz is the author of the new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, spring 2020). She’s a homegrown San Franciscan. Her work has been published in The Best American Essays 2017\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Threepenny Review\, Salon\, and many other places. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgement\, Criminal\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Alia has received fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation and has twice been awarded the Oakley Hall Memorial Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She was runner-up of The MOTH’s GrandSLAM Championship in 2014.\n\n\nTomas Moniz\n(Big Familia; Rad Dad; Collaboration/Colaboración)\n\n“A quiet\, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age. . . . With his first novel\, poet Moniz tells a story that is simultaneously timeless and quite timely. . . . Characters deal with and talk about racism and homophobia\, gentrification and police brutality. These are some of the challenges they endure as they navigate universally human experiences like connection\, community\, birth\, and death. . . . Diverse characters and a deeply likable protagonist make this a standout debut.” — Starred Review\, Kirkus Reviews\n\n\n\nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook\, All Friends Are Necessary\, with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books (which received a STARRED Kirkus review)\, in November 2019. Big Familia was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award\, a Finalist for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a Finalist for the Foreword Review Indies Award.\n\nwith music from\n  \nArt Elliot\n(Hello; Goodbye; Earth Abides)\nArt Elliot sings of apocalyptic futures\, lost loves\, ice ages and Depression-era folk art\, among other topics. Born the second son of a carpenter and a singer during the height of The Catastrophe™\, Elliot took to his iron horse and rode west at the age of 22. Art has collaborated with a few of the well-known troubadours of Sector 6 including Larry Gallagher\, The Dirty Snacks Ensemble\, Jack O’ the Clock\, and Eli Wise. He currently dwells deep underground in a bunker near what was once known as Oakland\, California.\n____________________ \nFree Admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T180000
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SUMMARY:Marianne Ingheim - Out of Love
DESCRIPTION:We all tell ourselves stories about who we are. Many of these stories are self-critical and disempowering. Through the practice of self-compassion\, we can rewrite these stories and become more authentic and powerful versions of ourselves—transforming not only our own lives but also the lives of those around us. \nIn short and personal pieces\, Marianne Ingheim tells the story of how the practice of self-compassion has changed her life in ways big and small\, helping her unlearn harsh self-criticism\, survive multiple tragedies\, and live more authentically. In the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and her husband’s suicide\, she discovers the power of self-compassionate storytelling and finds belonging within herself—and in doing so\, she learns how to manage anxiety and stress\, how to be authentic in relationships\, and how to let go of comparison and be truly creative. \nThrough stories and journaling prompts\, Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion aims to inspire readers to unlearn the self-critical patterns holding them hostage—and begin to live a happier\, more courageous life. \nMarianne Ingheim is a Danish-Norwegian American writer\, teacher\, and PhD student at California Institute of Integral Studies. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information\, please visit www.marianneingheim.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marianne-ingheim-out-of-love/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T143500
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SUMMARY:Rosalyn Learns How to Misbehave: A Zoom Puppet Story
DESCRIPTION:Ramon Abad and the Bindlestiff Studio Puppet Crew present a KID-FRIENDLY live stream puppet performance with about 9 artists/storytellers via Zoom. Celebrate this fun-filled afternoon with the whole family and kids 5-11 years old in our own home! \nThis event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube and other social media platforms. By registering at the link above\, you agree to the possibility of appearing on this recording by virtue of attending or participating in the event. \nPresented by the API Cultural Center- San Francisco as part of the United States of Asian America Festival 2020: FINDING KINSHIP. #USAAF2020 #FINDINGKINSHIP \nWith funding and support from San Francisco Arts Commission\, SF Grants for the Arts\, California Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosalyn-learns-how-to-misbehave-a-zoom-puppet-story/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T210000
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CREATED:20200529T194824Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Eric Cervini and Johnny Sibilly
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Crowdcast on Friday June 5th at 7PM PDT for a conversation between author Eric Cervini and Pose actor Johnny Sibilly on The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of America. Co-sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco. \nWant your book signed? \n1. Order a copy of The Deviant’s War from Green Apple \n2. Submit your receipt here \n3. Receive a limited edition custom bookplate\, signed by Eric\, to place in your book! \nAbout The Deviant’s War \nFrom a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian\, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. \nIn 1957\, Frank Kameny\, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii\, received a summons to report immediately to Washington\, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual\, and after a series of humiliating interviews\, Kameny\, like countless gay men and women before him\, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others\, though\, Kameny fought back. \nBased on firsthand accounts\, recently declassified FBI records\, and forty thousand personal documents\, The Deviant’s Warunfolds over the course of the 1960s\, as the Mattachine Society of Washington\, the group Kameny founded\, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement\, the New Left\, lesbian activism\, and trans resistance. Above all\, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking\, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-eric-cervini-and-johnny-sibilly/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T180000
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CREATED:20200531T231217Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #12
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-12-tickets-107293473668; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nSign Up Here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #12\nTime: Jun 5\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81930707090 \nMeeting ID: 819 3070 7090\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,81930707090# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,81930707090# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 819 3070 7090\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxmPPLiHu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-12/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T190000
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CREATED:20200516T223825Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! #12 with Julia Chiapella\, Julie Murphy\, Cynthia White
DESCRIPTION:Phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella\, Julie Murphy\, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an ongoing reading series to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spritits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Contact Jory Post with any questions at jory@cruzio.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoom-forward-12-with-julia-chiapella-julie-murphy-cynthia-white/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T150000
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CREATED:20200529T192358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200529T192358Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with Eileen Donahoe / Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book\, co-authored with Zara Houshmand\, Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life. He’ll be in conversation with Eileen Donahoe. This event will be held on June 5th\, Saka Dawa\, a day celebrating Buddha’s birth\, enlightenment\, and parinirvana (passing from this life). It is said that Saka Dawa is an especially auspicious day for spiritual practice. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets are on sale here and below. \n \nPurchase of the book will also grant you access to a brief one-on-one with Tenzin following the event\, during which he’ll be happy to virtually sign your book. Due to time constraints\, this offer is valid for the first 100 book sales. \nYou may purchase the book here or below — be sure to include a note in the special field that you’d like to attend the event. \nDon’t hesitate to reach out with any questions: events@booksmith.com. \n\n“A necessary and captivating narrative of spiritual courage and truth seeking far beyond the veil of our contemporary delusions.” – Sting \nBorn in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family\, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was only six years old when he began having visions of a mysterious mountain peak\, and of men with shaved heads wearing robes the color of sunset. “It was as vivid as if I were watching a scene from life\,” he writes. And so at the age of ten\, he ran away from boarding school to find this place—taking a train to the end of the line and then riding a bus to wherever it went. \nStrangely enough\, he ended up at a Buddhist monastery that was the place in his dreams. His frantic parents and relatives set out to find him and\, after two weeks\, located him and brought him home. But he continued to have visions and feel a strong pull to a spiritual life in a tradition that he had never heard of as a child. Today\, he is a revered monk and teacher as well as President and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where he works to build bridges among communities and religions.\n \nRunning Toward Mystery is the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi’s profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker. At its heart is a story of striving for enlightenment\, the vital importance of mentors in that search\, and of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way\, among them the Dalai Lama\, Archbishop Desmond Tutu\, and Mother Teresa. “Teachers come and go on their own schedule\,” Priyadarshi writes. “I clearly wasn’t in charge of the timetable and it wasn’t my place to specify how a teacher should teach.” And arrive they did\, at the right time\, in the right way\, to impart the lessons that shaped a life of seeking\, devotion\, and deep human connection across all barriers.\n \nRunning Toward Mystery is the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation\, and a riveting narrative of just how exciting that journey can be. \n\nEVENT SCHEDULE: All time are Pacific Time \nBe sure to join us early for a live musical prelude \n\n12:55 PM: Musical Prelude by members of Del Sol Quartet\n1:05 PM: Welcome by Brewster Kahle\, Founder\, Internet Archive\n1:10-2:10 PM: Conversation with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi and Eileen Donahoe\, an expert in human rights\, cyber security and foreign policy\n2:10-2:30 PM: Q & A\n2:30-2:45 PM: Break\n2:45-3:45 PM: 1 on 1 with the author for a Virtual Book Signing (limited to first 100 book buyers thru this Booksmith link.)\n\n\nThe Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker\, philosopher\, educator and a polymath monk. He is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \n  \nEileen Donahoe is Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPI) at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. She served as the first US Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the Obama Administration. After leaving government\, she was Director of Global Affairs at Human Rights Watch where she represented the organization worldwide on human rights foreign policy\, with special emphasis on digital rights\, cybersecurity and internet governance. Among her many degrees\, Donahoe received a Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union Cooperative Program with UC Berkeley. \nViolist Charlton Lee and cellist Kathryn Bates are members of the Del Sol String Quartet. The internationally-acclaimed quartet is a leading force in the Bay Area music scene\, championing music by living artists that explores aspects of social change\, technology\, and artistic innovation. Del Sol has premiered hundreds of works\, released 9 albums\, and produces vibrant productions and educational experiences. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-the-venerable-tenzin-priyadarshi-in-conversation-with-eileen-donahoe-running-toward-mystery-the-adventure-of-an-unconventional-life/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman\, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B
DESCRIPTION:Fundraising Goal: $2000 \nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Bill McKibben\, Sy Montgomery\, Jennifer Ackerman and Mary Ellen Hannibal. \nBill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ \nSy Montgomery’s 28 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig\, her memoir of life with her pig\, Christopher Hogwood\, is an international bestseller. \nJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for three decades. She is the author of eight books\, including The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk\, Work\, Play\, Parent\, and Think\, just published by Penguin Press\, and the New York Times bestseller\, The Genius of Birds. \nMary Ellen Hannibal is a long-time journalist focused on natural history and literature. Her most recent book\, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction\, was named one of 2016’s best non-fiction books by the San Francisco Chronicle. \nThis event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders\, organizer of Writers With Drinks. \nAll proceeds benefit Books on B in Hayward. Shop online now! \n\nJune 5 at 12 PM\nRegister at Eventbrite\n\n\nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben-sy-montgomery-jennifer-ackerman-mary-ellen-hannibal-for-books-on-b/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200604T210000
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CREATED:20200530T173746Z
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SUMMARY:Eves At The Virtual Beat
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nJune’s Eves At The Virtual Beat will feature \nAmalia Alvarez\nLyndsey Ellis\nLeticia Hernandez\nNaomi Quiñonez\nAlia Volz\nOphelia Williams\nhosted by Janice Blaze Rocke\ncurated by Nicole Henares \nTopic: Eves At The Beat On Zoom\nTime: Jun 4\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83865957296?pwd=L3Vhc0szQkdZTTJRblh4M2MrVFRPUT09 \nMeeting ID: 838 6595 7296\nPassword: 077226\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,83865957296#\,\,1#\,077226# US (San Jose)\n+12532158782\,\,83865957296#\,\,1#\,077226# US (Tacoma) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 838 6595 7296\nPassword: 077226\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kebI0idpfg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Alex George Discussing THE PARIS HOURS | GGP Online Zoom Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, June 4\, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Alex George\, discussing his new historical fiction novel\, THE PARIS HOURS. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87893211762. \n  \n(Order your copy of THE PARIS HOURS in hard cover at bit.ly/GGPParisHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at bit.ly/GGPParisLibro.) \nMay 2020 Indie Next List\n\n“Alex George has woven a beautiful tapestry of a historical novel in The Paris Hours through four colorful\, intertwining threads. Each of the characters will touch your heart with their stories of love\, loss\, the ravages of war\, and their search for answers and a path to pick up the broken pieces of their lives. Lush with descriptions of 1927’s Paris and the appearance of many famous cultural figures of the era\, The Paris Hours will transport readers to a time and place they will be reluctant to leave until the last unexpected moment.”\n— Betsy Von Kerens\, The Bookworm of Omaha\, Omaha\, NE \nDescription\n\n“Like All the Light We Cannot See\, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline\, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World \nOne day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time. \nParis between the wars teems with artists\, writers\, and musicians\, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens\, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost. \nCamille was the maid of Marcel Proust\, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks\, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren\, an Armenian refugee\, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio\, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories\, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax\, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for. \nTold over the course of a single day in 1927\, Alex George’s The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories\, told together\, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit. \nAbout the Author\n\nA native of England\, Alex George read law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris. He has lived in the Midwest of the United States for the last sixteen years. He is the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival\, and is the owner of Skylark Bookshop\, an independent bookstore in downtown Columbia\, Missouri. \nAlex is the author of The Paris Hours\, A Good American\, and Setting Free the Kites.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-alex-george-discussing-the-paris-hours-ggp-online-zoom-chat/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The Racket Weekly : A Necessary Distraction
DESCRIPTION:The Racket Weekly : A NECESSARY DISTRACTION\, JUNE 4th\, 7PM \nZOOM LINK TO COME \nYou know what’s good right now? Distraction. We know it looks different for all of us\, but regardless if it’s a drink or two at the end of the day\, a deep dive into an epic\, a six film movie marathon\, a wet cloth over your eyes\, a dog\, a cat\, a mouse\, a bird\, a documentary on tigers – whatever it might be it is more necessary than ever. Our quintet of readers will be discussing their distractions\, what’s keeping the bad thoughts at bay\, or inviting them into stay. \n6/4 PST\, 7PM\, ZOOOOOOOOOOM. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nJames Cagney\nEmily Pinkerton\nWesley Cohen\nChris Danzig
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-weekly-a-necessary-distraction/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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CREATED:20200521T173603Z
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SUMMARY:Quarantine Storytime // Miah Jeffra
DESCRIPTION:During the Shelter in Place\, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets\, writers\, and translators\, and the local presses who publish them. \nOur final event features Miah Jeffra\, author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic: Essays (Sibling Rivalry Press) and The First Church of What’s Happening (Nomadic Press). Miah’s reading will be streamed on Facebook Live and Instagram Live on Thursday\, June 4 at 7PM. \nPraise for The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic: \n“Miah Jeffra is that rare writer who’s as committed to the individual sentence as much as he is to developing a bold\, animated vision. These short pieces are nothing less than an ongoing art of survival\, and they’re irresistible in their force\, innovation\, and vulnerability.” — Paul Lisicky \nPraise for The First Church of What’s Happening: \n“Miah Jeffra does not use his imagination to protect himself or to protect us. Instead\, he gives us stories of reckless tenderness and anger and sorrow and lust—that overflow with images of wonder and desire. How wonderful!” –Robert Glück \nMiah Jeffra is a writer\, artist\, curator and educator\, currently living in San Francisco. A military brat\, Jeffra moved throughout their childhood\, but most identifies the South as home. \nThey spent their high school years in Baltimore\, and then moved to Atlanta\, where they studied English\, Music and Theatre at Oglethorpe University. \nMiah later studied in the MFA Writing Program in Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts and the MA program in English at San Francisco State University. Jeffra teaches Writing\, Drama\, Media and Cultural Studies at Santa Clara University and The San Francisco Art Institute\, and is Founding Editor and Production Designer for queer literary collaborative\, Foglifter Press. \nJeffra finds interest in community-centered arts and discourse and chooses to maintain a multi-disciplinary studio practice for its collaborative possibilities. The subjects of their work range from psycho-geography\, urban studies and class to gender structures and whiteness as oppressive construct. Influences include Augusto Boal\, Anna Deavere Smith\, Richard Rodriguez\, Peter Brook\, Angela Davis\, Richard Schechner\, James Baldwin\, Judith Butler\, Michael Cunningham\, Toni Morrison\, Adrian Piper\, Colum McCann\, Olafur Eliasson\, Guy Debord and the Situationists\, Whoopi Goldberg\, Joe Goode\, West African dance forms\, and other artists/writers who emphasize process in their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quarantine-storytime-miah-jeffra/
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 4\, 2020\n6:30 PM 9:00 PM\nGLOBALLY (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.\nan online community event\nfor enlivening connection\nfeaturing words & music from\nThe Feelings Parade\nThe Singer and The Songwriter\nChelsea Coleman\nNick Jaina\nJordan Edelheit\nNed Buskirk\n& more\, more\, more…. \nYou’re Going to Die offers a mortally conscious & enliveningly entertaining experience\, proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their mortal magic…\nHonestly. We just wanna have a fun night together.\nWe might cry\, but mainly we’re gonna laugh & sing a lot. \nVirtual Doors at 6:30pm\nShow at 7pm\nEnds at 9pm\nREGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/3gbDTmr \nTICKETING:\nLike so many other artists & nonprofits with an event focus\, much of our work for the foreseeable future is cancelled. For this special online event we suggest that people pay between $10-50\, but don’t hesitate to go above or below based on what feels possible. And PLEASE\, if you are suddenly in financial danger\, DO NOT pay us. We’re just happy you’re alive & able to join. If you’re still earning income (or are just generally resourced)\, we very much welcome your generosity.\nVenmo: @YG-2D\nPaypal: chelsea@yg2d.com \nMortally Yours\,\nthe You’re Going to Die Team\nwww.yg2d.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-you-are-not-alone/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Meredith Talusan in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan / Fairest: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She’ll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in 7 Dogs)! Please join us. \n“A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival.” – Ocean Vuong \n“Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs.” – The New York Times Book Review \nWe’ll be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nFairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism\, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village\, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship\, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother\, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States\, Talusan came to be perceived as white. An academic scholarship to Harvard provided access to elite circles of privilege but required Talusan to navigate through the complex spheres of race\, class\, sexuality\, and her place within the gay community. She emerged as an artist and an activist questioning the boundaries of gender. Talusan realized she did not want to be confined to a prescribed role as a man\, and transitioned to become a woman\, despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved. Throughout her journey\, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability and love that will remind readers of works such as Call Me By Your Name and Giovanni’s Room. Her evocative reflections will shift our own perceptions of love\, identity\, gender\, and the fairness of life. \n\nMeredith Talusan is an award-winning author and journalist who has written for The Guardian\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Nation\, WIRED\, SELF\, and Condé Nast Traveler\, among many other publications\, and has contributed to several essay collections. She has received awards from GLAAD\, The Society of Professional Journalists\, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is also the founding executive editor of them.\, Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ digital platform\, where she is currently contributing editor. Photo by Albrica Tierra. Photo by Albrica Tierra. \nProfessor Jennifer Finney Boylan\, author of fifteen books\, is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her column “Men & Women” appears on the op/ed page of the New York Times on alternate Wednesdays. She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America\, the nonprofit advocating for authors\, readers\, and freedom of expression.  From 2011 to 2018 she served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD; she was co-chair of GLAAD’s board of directors from 2013-17. She also is a member of the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College\, and the Sirenland Writers’ Conference in Positano\, Italy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-meredith-talusan-in-conversation-with-jennifer-finney-boylan-fairest-a-memoir/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster\, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column\, and cofounder of The Toast comes this hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture—from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure. In Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s most personal work to date\, he offers vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition\, family dynamics\, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters\, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables\, Columbo\, Nora Ephron\, Apollo\, and the cast of Mean Girls\, Something That May Shock and Discredit You will make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. FREE\, $5 suggested donation \nStreamed live at Crowdcast and Facebook Live!\nBooks are available from your favorite indie bookstores\, or order from bookshop.org!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDaniel Mallory Ortberg\nDaniel Mallory Ortberg is the “Dear Prudence” advice columnist at Slate\, the cofounder of The Toast\, and the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and The Merry Spinster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-daniel-mallory-ortberg-and-something-that-may-shock-and-discredit-you/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:We Are the Voices & City Lights Live Present: Alli Warren + Cedar Sigo
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Alli Warren’s new poetry book \nLittle Hill \npublished by City Lights \nEvent co-presented by We Are the Voices \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. \n——- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n——– \n(Purchase Little Hill here) \nThe third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren\, Little Hill comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion\, examining our present\, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energetic and contemplative\, intimate and direct\, as Warren focuses her attention on capitalism\, gender\, love\, inequality\, and resistance. Despite the dystopian now\, Warren finds promise in the smallest human instances of tenderness\, ecological connection\, and political solidarity. Little Hill is about learning to live and love in the 21st century while not shying away from all there is to struggle against. \nPraise for Little Hill: \n“Little Hill is gift more than condemnation\, though as the latter it’s unsparing. Still\, it’s a gift.”––Alice Notley \n“Alli Warren keeps company with those rare poets whose every new book is their best.”––CAConrad \n“Little Hill embodies a poetics of radical uncertainty\, one that attends to its horrific condition of possibility and is produced through the unmooring catastrophes that define our present moment: the destruction of the earth\, mass imprisonment\, late-capitalism—the litany does not end there. . . . Yet yearning\, even as it is raised tentatively\, is not crushed. In and against it all\, a question is raised—the question of what it means to love in times of terror.”—Jackie Wang\, author of Carceral Capitalism \nAlli Warren published her Poetry Center Book Award-winning debut\, Here Come the Warm Jets\, with City Lights in 2013. She is also the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat Books\, 2017)\, as well as numerous chapbooks. She has edited the literary magazine Dreamboat\, co-curated the (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand\, co-edited the Poetic Labor Project\, and contributed to SFMOMA’s Open Space. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, and BOMB. She has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005. \nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews\, Journals\, and Ephemera\, on Joanne Kyger (Wave Books\, 2017)\, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry\, including Royals (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Language Arts (Wave Books\, 2014)\, Stranger in Town (City Lights\, 2010)\, Expensive Magic (House Press\, 2008)\, and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and University Press Books. \nAbout We Are the Voices: Through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, this project connects Mills College students with local and national poets\, performers\, writers\, and scholars to collaborate around transformative art and critical scholarship. \nLed by Mills Professor Sheila Lloyd\, We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For: Poetry\, Performance\, and Public Humanities is a five-year\, multi-pronged project that brings visiting artists and scholars to campus\, broadening the conversation for Mills students and building connections with our local community.city
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-are-the-voices-city-lights-live-present-alli-warren-cedar-sigo/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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