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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent)\, Thea Matthews\, Ant Fraser Fujinaga\, and Albert Alexander\, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday February 7th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sublimation/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES:Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAn evening of reading and discussion with contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Gabby Rivera \ncelebrating the release of \nA PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers \nedited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams \nPublished by One World \nA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin\, Charles Yu\, Jamie Ford\, G. Willow Wilson\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugh Howey\, and more. \nIn the words of N.K. Jemisin: “Imagination is where revolutions begin.” Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance\, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom\, love\, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths\, release us from the chokehold of our history\, and give us new futures to believe in. \nThey also asked that the stories be badass. \nThe result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light\, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the oppressed\, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee\, they fight. \nFeaturing stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta• Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-statesspeculative-fiction-from-25-extraordinary-writers/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pam Houston\, Deep Creek
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir\, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\, which tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch\, dared herself to dig in and care for it\, to work hard enough to pay for it\, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’ \nAt 31 years old\, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection\, Cowboys Are My Weakness\, Pam Houston had “no job\, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct\, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede\, Colorado. It was more than she could afford\, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet\, twenty-five years later\, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. \nIn its chapters\, Houston spends her days walking along the fences on her property\, watching leaves on the aspens ignite into an eruption of fall colors\, and caring for the animals on her ranch: the horses\, sheep\, chickens\, Irish wolfhounds\, and a pair of miniature donkeys with outsized attitudes. Houston’s audacity and generosity are on full display as she cares for an elk calf abandoned by its herd and sleeps outside to comfort her old hound. Deep Creek raises concern about the many ways we endanger the natural world’s delicate balance\, and nature’s enigmatic powers to survive and to save. It’s also a chronicle of recovery. \nEncompassing Houston’s childhood\, her adventures\, and her details of everyday life at the ranch\, Deep Creek is\, above all\, a testament. In holding on to her ranch\, Houston carved a life to support her spirit and her talents\, and discovered that she could be the cowboy of her own story. “I know\,” she explains\, “that when I claimed these 120 acres they also claimed me. We are each other’s mutual saviors.” \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 accessibility requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.comby February 5th. \nPam Houston is the author of the novels Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound\, the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat\, and A Little More About Me\, a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes such as The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Awards\, The 2013 Pushcart Prize\, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award\, the WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction\, the Evil Companions Literary Award\, and multiple teaching awards. She cofounded the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers\, is a professor of English at UC–Davis\, and teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ low-residency MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-houston-deep-creek/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tell Your Story\, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write\, draw\, cut\, paste\, staple and copy their way to self-expression. \nWould you like to have your work in the library? You’ll have the option to donate a copy to our new circulating collection of Zines. Some people will also be able to have their work exhibited at the Oakland Library table at this year’s SF Zinefest! \nAll supplies provided. \nRSVP optional but appreciated. Tell your story\, speak your truth. Let’s make some zines together! \nFounded in 2001\, San Francisco Zine Fest seeks to advance the do-it-yourself ethos by fostering community throughout the Bay Area. In our annual festival and its accompanying panels and workshops\, we celebrate and support independent writers\, artists and creators\, allowing them to share their work with an ever-growing audience in exhibitions and public events.   \nZines are self-published booklets which are easy to make and inexpensive to reproduce. There are no rules about form\, function or purpose. Due to their accessibility and alternative nature\, zines have been a medium of choice for folks who are otherwise underrepresented or marginalized.  \nAdditional Workshops: \nFor teens: January 8th\, 4:30PM Lakeview branch library \nFor families: March 12th\, 6:30PM Rockridge branch library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tell-your-story-speak-your-truth-make-a-zine/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:New Life Issue 4 Launch Party & Postcard Making Party
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based bookstore and downtown community arts hub\, Wolfman Books is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of their art and culture magazine\, New Life Quarterly and the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” on February 7\, 2019\, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive! \nPRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ISSUE 4 FOR HALF-OFF NOW AND PICK IT UP AT THE RELEASE! https://squ.re/2CiKl7Y \nOr get it full price at BAMPFA! \nNew Life Quarterly is a literary\, arts and culture magazine focused on the intersections of art and community—especially the exuberant\, overlooked\, and experimental margins—in the Bay Area and beyond. This issue is a special project dedicated to artist correspondence. Through emails\, WhatsApp messages\, Google Docs comments\, voice memos\, and actual letters\, artists (including BAMPFA’s very own Art Lab Archive) engage in conversation across mediums and across the globe. \nTo highlight the print collaboration between BAMPFA’s Art Lab and New Life Quarterly\, Wolfman Books invites museum-goers to take part in the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” in the Art Lab. The organizers’ intention is to gather the community to make 1\,200 one-of-a-kind postcards to be included with every copy of “Issue 4: Correspondence.” Attendees will be invited to create one\, or two\, or a dozen postcards\, with ready-made postcard templates and materials provided. By joining in the “Postcard Drive\,” participants will not only experience the intimate and generative spirit of artistic connection that animates New Life Quarterly\, but actively help create and amplify it. All are encouraged to join this conversation\, bring their community and create with the help of New Life editors\, contributors\, and Art Lab staff! \nBesides the “New Life Postcard Drive\,” the release party will feature onsite correspondence readings and performances featuring contributors and related artists. Attendees can grab copies of the magazine in the BAMPFA Bookstore and become a New Life contributor! \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE! And BAMPFA admission is also free every first Thursday! \nNew Life Quarterly “Issue 4: Correspondence” features new writing and art from: \nBarbara Browning • Avery Trufelman • MI Leggett • Jasmine Gibson • Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Emerson Whitney • Brandon Shimoda • Dot Devota • Dongyi Wu • Kwame Boafo • Mitsuko Brooks • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Ra Malika Imhotep • Nicole Lavelle • Mary Welcome • Dorothy Santos • Jeannine Ventura • Thanh Hằng Phạm • Andrea Abi-Karam • Davey Davis • Claire Boyle • j.j. Mull • Sophia Dahlin • Julio Linares • Leora Fridman • Yosefa Raz • Vreni Michelini Castillo • Ana Karen • Hannah Kingsley-Ma • Claire Buss • Kate Robinson Beckwith • Amanda Davis • Chelsea A. Flowers • Philip Košćak • Jamie Townsend • Oki Sogumi • Margaret McCarthy • Till Krause • BAMPFA Art Lab \nThis project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. “Issue 4: Correspondence” is supported in part by BAMPFA\, The Exploratorium\, Mills College\, AWP 2019\, Jenny Lemons\, Mirro Editions\, The Key Print & Bindery\, Alley Cat Books\, PLAY Press\, and Fish Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-life-issue-4-launch-party-postcard-making-party/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveUC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals\, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley\, teaches poetry\, and works with small press books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T193000
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SUMMARY:Robert B. Reich: The Common Good
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nRobert B. Reich\nThe Common Good \nHosted by Kathryn Horsley \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nFor decades one of the most farseeing\, outspoken public intellectuals in the United States has been Robert B. Reich. Now he provides us with The Common Good\, his sixteenth book\, a passionate\, clear-eyed manifesto urging the recentering of our national economics and politics on the profound idea of the common good. Responding to the prevailing uproar of divisiveness\, cynicism and blind self-interest\, Reich makes a powerful case for expanding America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality\, he demonstrates that a common good not only exists\, but in fact is the very essence of any functional society or notion. Societies\, he asserts\, undergo varying virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine It – one of which this country has been experiencing for the past five decades. This can and must be reversed. \nFirst we must weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how as a country we should relate to honor\, shame\, patriotism\, truth and the meaning of leadership.\nThis is a heartfelt statement from a major political thinker devoted to saving America’s soul. \nRobert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books\, including The Work of Nations\, Saving Capitalism and Locked In the Cabinet. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently chair of the national governing board of Common Cause. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-b-reich-the-common-good/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her new essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for The Collected Schizophrenias \n\n“This mesmerizing collection of essays has achieved the rarest of rarities—a meaningful and expansive language for a subject that has been long bound by both deep revulsion and intense fascination.”—Jenny Zhang \n\n“A brilliant guide to the complexities of thinking about illness\, and mental illness\, in particular. It will bring hope to others searching to understand their own diagnoses.”—Meghan O’Rourke \n\n“A masterful braiding of the achingly personal and the incisively researched. . . . This book is a vital\, illuminating window onto the world we all already live in\, but find all too easy to ignore.”—Alexandra Kleeman \n\n“You won’t find any pity-baiting\, sensationalism\, or false positivity here; Wang is so candidly aware that I’d trust her over my own diary.”—Tony Tulathimutte \n\n“Esmé Weijun Wang offers us an all-access pass to her beautiful\, unquiet mind. . . Rarely has a book about living with mental illness felt so immediate\, raw\, and powerful.”—Dani Shapiro \n\nAbout The Collected Schizophrenias \n\nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \n  \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-book-launch/
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:Left Margin LIT Reading at Novel Brewing in Oakland
DESCRIPTION:We’re partnering with Novel Brewing Company\, the most literary brewery in the East Bay\, to celebrate the sublime tandem of books and beer! \nLeft Margin instructors and friends Shanthi Sekaran\, Porter Shreve\, Faith Adiele\, David Roderick\, and Melanie Abrams will read from their work. We’ll also have a table there so you can learn more about our programs\, events\, classes\, and work space for writers. \nWe’ve already sampled Novel’s winter lineup of beers\, including BOOK THIEF IPA\, DUST JACKET IPA\, and THE POET\, which is super-sour (of course). Delicious doesn’t even begin to describe what happens on your palate when you order a whole flight. \nThere’s also a BOOK SWAP! You can bring in as many books as you like\, and the ones that don’t find a new home will go into Novel’s book stash earmarked for their Little Lending Library. The swap begins at 7:00 pm and the rules are: (1) add your book(s) to the cart with an index card that has your name\, and a bit of why the book is a great read. (2) What’s the best part? If someone takes your book home to read\, you get $1 off your next pint! \nCome one\, come all. It’s going to be an epic event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-reading-at-novel-brewing-in-oakland/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Komal Kapoor / Unfollowing You
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Komal Kapoor\, to celebrate her first poetry collection Unfollowing You. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Unfollowing You\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \n  \nAn anthem for the modern woman\, Unfollowing You serves as a true companion for those who seek a voice that explores the complexities and absurdity of contemporary romance. Komal Kapoor uses her personal experience and astute social awareness as mechanisms to empower self-acceptance and promote cultural transparency. \nAfter prolific growth on social media\, Komal Kapoor is utilizing her perceptive understanding of romance in the digital age to present her first collection of poems. Unfollowing You tells a chronological tale of a modern love through a series of poems\, prose\, texts\, screen grabs\, and unsent letters. Exploring digital phenomena like swipe culture and technological realities\, Kapoors words affirm experiences and sentiment echoed across many media platforms. \nUnfollowing You is separated into two parts: Following You details how the two protagonists fall in love and Unfollowing You shares their heartbreak.  The realism of this collection will encourage readers to normalize growth and indulge in their feelings\, even finding strength in them. \n  \n\n  \nKomal Kapoor is a writer\, business consultant\, and motivational coach who explores the messy business of feelings via social media. She has amassed over 200\,000 Instagram followers in less than a year through her writing and hopes to help even more people find strength in vulnerability. \n  \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Unfollowing You\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Unfollowing You to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– RSVP is not necessary\, but appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/komal-kapoor-unfollowing-you/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-cedar-sigo-with-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Featherboard Reading Series presents Sara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:5:45pm doors; 6:15pm reading\nFeatherboard Reading Series presents\nSara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski\nat Aggregate Space Gallery\n801 West Grand Avenue (enter on West Street)\nOakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/featherboard-reading-series-presents-sara-larsen-danny-thanh-nguyen-ju-lian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:The Color of Law
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 6\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA forgotten history of how our government segregated America. \nRichard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California\, where is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-color-of-law-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T133000
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SUMMARY:The Color of Law
DESCRIPTION:The Color of Law\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 6\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA forgotten history of how our government segregated America. \nRichard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California\, where is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-color-of-law/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190130T000722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000722Z
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SUMMARY:a YesYes Books Tour reading featuring Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams
DESCRIPTION:7:30pm\na YesYes Books Tour reading\nfeaturing Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams\nat Studio One Arts Center\n365 45th Street\nOakland\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-yesyes-books-tour-reading-featuring-aricka-foreman-jay-deshpande-taryn-schwilling-phillip-b-williams/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190130T000533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000533Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark & Vincent Katz
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\nTom Clark & Vincent Katz\nat The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-tom-clark-vincent-katz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190101T053236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190101T053236Z
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SUMMARY:A William S Burroughs Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:with Steven Taylor\, Peter Hale\, Peter Carlaftes\, and V Vale \ncelebrating the release of \nDon’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg \nEdited by Stephen Taylor \nPublished by Three Rooms Press \nIn DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS\, the fathers of the Beat movement converse about deeply intimate and personal history while gathered at Burroughs’ house in Lawrence\, Kansas. The conversation includes discussion of: \n\nDavid Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Burroughs’ classic novel Naked Lunch\nShamanism\, including a detailed description of the shamanic exorcism of the demon Burroughs believes forced him to kill his common-law wife in 1951\nLiterary associates\, influences\, techniques\, and insights\nPunk rock’s contributions to counterculture lore\n\nWith the current political landscape mirroring many aspects of the early Beat period\, DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS is particularly timely. Interest in both authors’ work is on the rise. Many consider these legendary icons’ perspectives to particularly prophetic. \nDON’T HIDE THE MADNESS features a newly-commissioned illustration of Burroughs and Ginsberg by celebrated artist R. Crumb on the cover\, as well as 17 rare photos by Ginsberg\, many taken during the session. \nWilliam S. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas\, including Naked Lunch\, Junky\, and Queer\, as well as six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. In 1991\, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch for the screen in a film starring Peter Weller\, Judy Davis\, Roy Scheider\, and Ian Holm. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians\, and made many appearances as himself in films. \nAmerican poet\, philosopher\, and photographer Allen Ginsberg is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism\, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture\, such as his views on drugs\, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation\, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Among his many published poetry collections\, he is best known for Howl and Other Poems\, Kaddish and Other Poems\, and Collected Poems\, 1947-1997. \nSteven Taylor is a poet\, musician\, songwriter\, and ethnomusicologist. He has published two books of poems and a musical ethnography\, False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground . He has composed music for the theater\, film\, radio drama\, and installations and made more than a dozen records with various artists His articles\, reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in various anthologies and zines. From 1976-1996 he collaborated on music and poetry works with Allen Ginsberg\, and has been a member of the seminal underground rock band The Fugs since 1984. He has also toured and recorded with Anne Waldman\, Kenward Elmslie\, and the New York hardcore band False Prophets. From 1990-2008 he was on the faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is senior editor at Reality Sandwich. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-william-s-burroughs-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190103T084343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T084343Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Treadwell\, Charles Alexander\, and Karen Randall
DESCRIPTION:Elzabeth Treadwell’s Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys is just out from Dusie. Her other books include LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books\, 2004)\, Wardolly (Chax\, 2008)\, and Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie\, 2012). A selection from her earlier collections of poetry is included in Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). Materials from her current projects sometimes appear at instagram.com/vivian_rialto and Penny exists in another iteration at pennymarvel.tumblr.com. \nCharles Alexander is an artist\, poet\, bookmaker\, and the founder/director of Chax Press. He is the author of six full-length books of poetry and thirteen chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, and author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. Alexander’s most recent book of poetry is AT the Edge OF the Sea (Singing Horse Press 2018). Two Pushing Waters is his most recent chapbook\, from Little Red Leaves. He gave lectures and readings for US Poets in Mexico in 2016. In 2019 he will be a featured participant at the American Poetry Conference at The 7th International Conference of Chinese/American Poetry and Poetics in Wuhan\, China. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, the University of Arizona\, the University of Houston-Victoria\, and elsewhere. Currently at work on Collected Essays and a new book of poetry\, he lives in Tucson\, Arizona\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \n  \nKaren Pava Randall is the proprietrix of Propolis Press and resides in Northampton\, Massachusetts. She is in San Francisco to participate in the Codex Book Fair <http://www.codexfoundation.org> where she is showcasing two interactive book sculptures: The Leyden Jar Project <http://propolispress.com/theleydenjarproject/home> with poems by Cole Swensen and The Apothecary of Amulets with poems by Laynie Browne.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-treadwell-charles-alexander-and-karen-randall/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T200000
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales this month will benefit the library of Thurgood Marshall High School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20181231T233211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T233211Z
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SUMMARY:REBECCA TRAISTER In Conversation with Lara Bazelon
DESCRIPTION:REBECCA TRAISTER\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nMonday\, February 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRebecca Traister is the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. In 2018\, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversations. But long before Pantsuit Nation\, the Women’s March\, and the #MeToo movement\, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic\, but politically problematic. Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel — from suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House to office workers vacating their building after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist\, she has written about women in politics\, media\, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation\, The New York Observer\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Vogue\, Glamour\, and Marie Claire. Her other books include All The Single Ladies and Big Girls Don’t Cry. \nLara Bazelon is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics. Previously\, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-traister-in-conversation-with-lara-bazelon/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190130T232607Z
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SUMMARY:Tess Brown-Lavoie\, Leena Joshi\, Victoria Ruiz and others!
DESCRIPTION:Come out for a night of poetry! \nTess Brown-Lavoie writes and farms in Providence\, RI. Lite Year\, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series\, is her first book. Tess cofounded Sidewalk Ends Farm in 2011\, and is President of the National Young Farmers Coalition. \nLeena Joshi’s writing and art practice explore the relationship between the changing self and its environment through negotiations of genre and medium\, with a focus on feminist\, anti-colonial\, and immigrant ideation. Her written work has appeared in The Felt\, Monday\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. She is an MFA candidate in Art Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley. www.leenajoshi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-brown-lavoie-leena-joshi-victoria-ruiz-and-others/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190130T000258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000258Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nPaul Hoover & Joseph Lease read\nat Alley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-hoover-joseph-lease/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20170324T014132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061838Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-22/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190129T221324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T221324Z
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SUMMARY:Immigration Reform + Being Undocumented in America with Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:What is the state of the immigration reform movement in America? DACA\, the Border Wall\, Family Separation\, Asylum Limitation. How did we get here? What is the path forward? How can we organize until the nightmare is over? \nJoining us at Manny’s is Jose Antonio Vargas. \nJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, Bay Area Native\, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. \nJose is also undocumented. \nJose will also be discussing and signing his new book\, the New York Times bestseller: Dear America:\nNotes of an Undocumented Citizen \nJose is the founder of Define American\, the nation’s leading non-profit media and culture organization that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling. His memoir\, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen\, was published by HarperCollins in fall 2018. \nIn 2011\, the New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay he wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant. A year later\, he appeared on the cover of TIME magazine worldwide with fellow undocumented immigrants as part of a follow-up cover story he wrote. He then produced and directed Documented\, a documentary feature film on his undocumented experience. It aired on CNN\, streamed on Netflix\, and received a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary. Also in 2015\, MTV aired White People\, an Emmy-nominated television special he produced and directed on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America. \nAmong accolades he has received are: The Salem Award from the Salem Award Foundation\, which draws upon the lessons of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692; the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA; and honorary degrees from Colby College and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Passionate about the role of arts in society and promoting equity in education\, he serves on the advisory board of TheDream.US\, a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant students. \nA product of the San Francisco Bay Area\, he is a proud graduate of San Francisco State University (’04)\, where he was named Alumnus of the Year in 2012\, and Mountain View High School (’00). \nAn elementary school named after Vargas will open in his hometown of Mountain View\, California in 2019
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigration-reform-being-undocumented-in-america-with-jose-antonio-vargas/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T183000
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CREATED:20190130T000120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000120Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Vincent Katz & Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm at The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-vincent-katz-jane-gregory/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190203T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T171504
CREATED:20190131T113455Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling 'NOTORIOUS'
DESCRIPTION:Description\n\n\n\nSunday\, February 3rd\, 2019 \nBang-O & Cocktails at 6:30 PM\, Stories & Songs at 7 PM \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Special 75th Birthday Celebration & Story-filled Event includes: \n❤ Guest of Honor/Birthday Person/Ethical Slut co-author Dossie Easton \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Wanna speak at this event? Contact Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Bawdy songs by Rachel Lark \n❤ Play a Custom version of Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #Sin&Tonic #Rimjob \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThose Appearing includes (so far): \n❤ Dossie Easton\, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene\, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut\, The Bottoming and Topping Books\, and Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence. \nDossie is a psychotherapist working with individuals\, couples and more in her private practice in San Francisco\, with a particular interest in how S/M journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex. \nAn active sex radical since 1961\, Dossie was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Society of Janus in San Francisco in 1974\, and active with SFSI from 1973 to 1985. Currently she makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco\, travels to teach at conferences all over the world\, and wanders through the mountains around her home declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures. You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com. \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, storytelling coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is also the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling\, that’s now headed into year 12 (“The original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about the art of storytelling and its ability reduce social anxiety and connect strangers. A former dating site community manager\, this story-loving southerner founded Bawdy Storytelling (Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage). Monthly in San Francisco and Seattle and touring nationally\, Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred – at Bawdy\, folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”)\, and is also the host and curator of Bona Fide storytelling and BawdySlam story slam. Her true stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own award-winning Bawdy Storytelling podcast (Best Sex Podcast from Marie Claire\, Uproxx and Esquire Magazine\, plus Bustle voted Bawdy a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship”). You can follow Dixie’s antics at @Bawdy\, at facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & she’s always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. She’s made waves for her biting political satire\, fearless authenticity\, and hilarious\, raunchy wit. She’s been called the “musical muse for the sex-positive revolution” and “in the league of Sondheim and Tim Minchin.” In 2014 she released her debut EP\, “I Wouldn’t Worry\,” followed by her first full-length album\, “Lark After Dark\,” and her Christmas album\, “Hung For The Holidays.” In 2015 she successfully funded a music video and new album through a Kickstarter campaign and released her music video\, “Warm\, Bloody\, and Tender” in August of 2015. The video was featured in several film festivals including Sacramento Horror Film Festival and Cinekink. Her album\, Vagenius\, was released in October of 2015. In December\, 2016\, Lark recorded a studio album at Tiny Telephone Studios with her band\, The Damaged Goods. In March 2017 she released “They’ve Done Studies” followed by a multi-media dramatic live production at DNA Lounge called “Studies Have Shown.” She toured the production throughout the U.S. in the summer of 2017 and will be releasing a concert film of the show in 2018. Find out more at RachelLark.com \n• No refunds or exchanges. \n• Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & 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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-notorious/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, Kim Shuck reading new poetry with E.K. Keith
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \ncelebrating their recent books of poetry \nClouds Running In – by Kim Shuck – from Taurean Horn Press \n“‘You will know the poets by the dirt under our nails\,’ writes Kim Shuck in CLOUDS RUNNING IN\, a spirited\, witty\, moving book of poetry that sings the mystical connections in everyday life. Shuck’s vivid imagery balances dark moods and self-deprecating humor. Drawing on her Cherokee and Polish roots\, Shuck offers us the bittersweet music of lyrically expressed memory and the generational trauma of the Native American holocaust\, lived in nerve and bone.”— Linda Rodriguez \nOrdinary Villains – by EK Keith – from Nomadic Press \nThe world is full of good people who do bad things—drunk drivers\, dumpster divers\, absent lovers\, astronauts\, waitstaff\, aunts and uncles\, and people who have cell phones. Is that you? If you’ve ever secretly enjoyed the effects of climate change or thrown away your recycling—even though you worry about the future—you might find a funhouse mirror in Ordinary Villains. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. She has been writing  since before she could write and arting longer than that. Raised in and by San Francisco\, Shuck takes each sidewalk square personally. She is the poet of two full length collections of poems\, soon to be three\, maybe four. She is also author of  one narrative in prose vignettes. In June of 2017 Kim was named the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco. \nE. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home\, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at coffee shops\, bars\, and radio stations. Her work appears online and in magazines on all three coasts and places beyond\, and ORDINARY VILLAINS is her first book of poetry. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome\, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. Her work as a public school librarian creates opportunities for her to make the world a better place every day. \nPraise for Ordinary Villains: \n“Against a dystopic nationalism come early\, E. K. Keith’s poetry is a tyrant’s headquarters on fire. She seems to know all of the hidden tunnels of language. With incredible musical beauty to her poems\, she reveals the mind behind a blues chord’s anger\, and the omniscience of those who know its progression. A muralist in canyons of love and family\, an elder playing with matches in the company lobby; Keith’s poetry has unfathomable grace. She is your big sister’s insight and true rebel guidance. Keith knows the circuit breakers in the jungle and will lead you out.” \n– Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven is All Goodbyes \n“Keith has that rare and precious combination of a loving heart\, a scalpel sharp grasp of politics and a trickster’s sense of humor. E. K. is a first draft pick for the list of people you’d want with you come the zombie apocalypse. Read the book and find out why.” \n– Kim Shuck\, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco \n“Ordinary Villains is the stunning debut collection by E. K. Keith. Welcome to E. K.’s America: you might recognize it. It is an America that is poisoning itself; an America that is forcing young girls to hate their bodies; an America at war with itself and others; an America that believes in a dream that has become a nightmare for most. Many of these poems are rough in their language but sound vaguely familiar. Why? Because they have the ring of truth about them\, a sound that is recognizable anywhere and by anyone. In the world of I\, a married man curses at his date at the bar\, another man kills himself with heroin and tortures his family\, a girl tortures herself to be attractive and everyone follows the American dream—drunk—burning fossil fuel up and down the highways. These are musical but plain-speaking poems that concern themselves with ordinary lives as they are being lived in the 21st century and are peopled with ordinary\, flawed sinners: people like you and me. These pieces are chanted like spells and they weave their magic on the reader: once you read them you will never forget them.” \n– Natasha Dennerstein\, author of Seahorse and About a Girl
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-of-san-francisco-kim-shuck-reading-new-poetry-with-e-k-keith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Thomson / Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson\, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. Please join us! \nFilm can make us want things we can not have. But\, while sometimes rapturous\, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture\, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism\, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history\, and memoir\, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography\, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight\, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name\, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread\, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art\, entertainment\, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live. \n  \n\n  \nDavid Thomson is the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, Moments That Made the Movies\, and the pioneering novel Suspects\, which was peopled with characters from film. Author photo by Lucy Gray. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \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 Sleeping with Strangers\, and/or any of David’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-thomson-sleeping-with-strangers-how-the-movies-shaped-desire/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What If: The Fiction of the Future
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nFantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future\, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films and TV shows such as Children of Men\, Blade Runner 2049\, Black Mirror\, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring\, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism\, or can it alter our destiny? Discussing these questions and more will be Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night)\, and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\, in conversation with Nilgun Bayraktar\, a writer and professor at California College of the Arts. \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nNilgun Bayraktar\nNilgun Bayraktar is an assistant professor of film in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Film & Media Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her work focuses on migrant… Read More →\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nCharlie Jane Anders\nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the extraordinarily popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her SF and fantasy debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the 2017 Nebula Awards for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Elison\nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel\, The Book of Etta\, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\, and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nSaturday February 2\, 2019 8:00pm – 9:00pm\nSan Francisco Public Library\, main branch\, 1st Floor Deaf Services Center 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-if-the-fiction-of-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas.
DESCRIPTION:City Lights presents “The Poetic City” at the Night of Ideas.\nSaturday\, February 2nd\, 8:00-9:00pm\, San Francisco\, CA: SF Library\, Main Branch\nhttps://www.nightofideassf.com/\n  \nWhat is the “Poetic City” of San Francisco? The City at our feet\, the City behind us\, the one in our heads\, the one breathing down our necks? Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? \nPoems\, songs\, anti-poems\, and more from an inspired crew of local artists and writers including: Julien Poirier\, Ash Tré Philips\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Robert Andrew Perez\, Ava Koohbor\, Lisa Gray-Garcia\, Josiah Luís Alderete\, Thea Matthews\, Jack Hirschman\, and Flavia Mora. \nJoin us on February 2nd\, 2019 when the San Francisco Public Library\, SFMOMA\, and the French Consulate in SF unite to present a seven-hour marathon of debate\, performance\, readings\, screenings\, and music featuring big thinkers from SF and beyond as we envision the “city of the future.”  This event is free and open to all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-presents-the-poetic-city-at-the-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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