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SUMMARY:Book Release: 10 Books\, 1 Night\, 10 New Nomadic Press Authors
DESCRIPTION:Help us bring in 2020 right. 10 books\, 10 new Nomadic Press authors\, 1 night. Join us as we celebrate (and release) new books by: \nHugh Behm-Steinberg (Animal Children)\nJordan Boyd (Shadow Burn)\nAndrew Demcak (Cryptopedia)\nZach Goldberg (XV)\nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett (Twice Shy)\nDazié Grego-Sykes (Black Faggotry)\nYume Kim (Reserve the Right)\nAlan Pelaez Lopez (To Love and Mourn in the Age of Displacement)\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee (A Heart Full of Hallways)\nTahtahme Xero (Apricity) \nThere will be live music\, welcome-to-the-Nomadic-fam readings by Mk Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nazelah Jamison\, and more\, gnosh\, drinks (alcoholic and non)\, and a book signing to follow readings by each of the new authors. \nIt’s going to be a night washed with levity and deep dives\, connection and weaving together. Bring family\, friends\, bring yourself. \nDonations will be collected to help offset costs\, and as always no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-10-books-1-night-10-new-nomadic-press-authors/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest Zine Reading
DESCRIPTION:This is a night of zine readings from Bay Area Queer Zine Fest peeps on the eve of the fest. Come hear us vocalize pieces from our works. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-queer-zine-fest-zine-reading/
LOCATION:410 13th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "What Are You Working on?"
DESCRIPTION:One question an author is always asked at events or in chance encounters is what are you working on\, and one thing an author always needs is beta readers\, people to tell them what they think about what they’re working on. Odd Mondays for January 13 presents three novelists who’ll read from novels in progress: Michael Alenyikov\, Nishant Batsha\, and Rebecca Winterer. The audience is invited to be beta listeners and\, after listening\, give them constructive feedback on their work. 6:30pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission\, free refreshments. Previous books by the authors will be available for sales and signing. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMICHAEL ALENYIKOV’s novel IVAN & MISHA won the Northern California Book Award for Fiction and was a Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He was the recipient of the 2013 Gina Berriault Award and a MacDowell Artists Colony Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review\, Foglifter\, Catamaran Literary Reader\, Descant\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, The Forge\, James White Review\, the Gay & Lesbian Review and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A New York City native and longtime San Francisco resident\, he has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has in addition worked as a bookstore clerk\, a Boston cabbie\, and an interactive media writer. http://www.michaelalenyikov.com \nNISHANT BATSHA is a writer of fiction and histories. His writing has previously appeared in Narrative\, TriQuarterly\, and The Believer\, among others\, and has been supported by the organizations such as the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Prelinger Library. He is currently revising his debut novel. https://www.nishantbatsha.com \nREBECCA WINTERER is the author of THE SINGING SHIP\, awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. She’s received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo; and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in San Francisco\, California with her husband. https://rebeccawinterer.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-what-are-you-working-on/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic and the new black\, both winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; semiautomatic was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize.  Her publications include as well the critical study Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry and poems and essays appearing recently and forthcoming in The Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, Obsidian\, The Black Scholar\, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion\, The New Emily Dickinson Studies\, New Literary History\, and the PoetryNow podcast series.  Among her honors are the Stephen Henderson Award\, the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is Professor of English at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Edgehill Mansion in Dominican University\, 50 Acacia Ave.\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh with Isabel Duffy
DESCRIPTION:Ottessa Moshfegh’s characters are wracked with depression\, neurosis\, and utter ennui\, but the care with which she tends to them imbues her books with a humor and verve that tempers the dark subject matter. Her protagonists include a drunk sailor\, an obsessive secretary in a prison\, and a modelesque Upper-East-Side orphan addicted to sleeping medication\, all of whose inner lives are depicted with exacting prose\, fashioning worlds that teem with rigid schedules\, confounding antagonists\, and psychological twists. Moshfegh is the author of the novels My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Eileen\, the novella McGlue\, and the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and she is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. \n“Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible.” — Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker) \nIsabel Duffy spent over ten years working in publishing and has interviewed many authors for City Arts & Lectures\, including Anthony Bourdain\, Michael Chabon\, Zadie Smith\, and John Waters. She has contributed to The Believer magazine and is trained as a psychotherapist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-with-isabel-duffy/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zyzzyva celebrates their Bay Area Issue
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Oscar Villalon with Meg Hurtado Bloom\, Rita Bullwinkel\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Chia-Chia Lin\, Kevin Simmonds\, and Paul Wilner \nZYZZYVA’s latest volume—the Bay Area Issue—features new writing and poetry from the East Bay to San Francisco\, from the North Bay to the Peninsula. Join them for a lively reading featuring six of the contributors to Issue No. 117: Meg Hurtado Bloom\, Rita Bullwinkel\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Chia-Chia Lin\, Kevin Simmonds\, and Paul Wilner. Emceed by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. \nMeg Hurtado Bloom received her MFA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s College of California. Her writing has appeared in Calamity\, Lumen\, Split Lip\, Yellow Chair Review\, The Volta\, the Columbia Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award\, and is currently being translated into Italian and Greek. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras’s first novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday)\, is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. \nChia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing (FSG)\, a finalist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review\, NewYorker.com\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. \nKevin Simmonds’s books include the poetry collection Bend to It (Salmon Poetry) and Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry). His work has been published in American Scholar\, FIELD\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. \nPaul Wilner is a poet\, critic\, freelance journalist\, and member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and a frequent contributor to ZYZZYVA. \nZYZZYVA was founded in 1985 in San Francisco with the goal of publishing a superb literary journal featuring West Coast poets\, writers\, and artists from a wide range of backgrounds. Since then\, the journal has evolved into a nationally distributed\, widely acclaimed publication also showcasing contributors from across the country and even from around the world. 2020 marks ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-celebrates-their-bay-area-issue/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Steve Inskeep with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:Michelle and Barack Obama. Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. John and Jackie Kennedy. \nEvery era has its power couples— teams of two wielding boundless social\, political\, and cultural influence. In Imperfect Union\, NPR’s Steve Inskeep (Morning Edition\, Up First\, All Things Considered) has unearthed the life stories of one of America’s earliest power couples: John and Jessie Frémont. Theirs is the tale of an unexpected coupling that changed the shape of the nation: the refined daughter of a US senator wedding a penniless young man born out of wedlock. Through determination— and Jessie’s fierce promotion— John shot up the ladder. He became a celebrated wilderness explorer\, bestselling writer\, gallant army officer\, and latter-day conquistador\, who in 1846 began the United States’ takeover of California from Mexico. Jessie packaged and marketed it all. \nInskeep tells the story of a couple whose joint ambitions and talents intertwined with those of the nascent United States itself. Americans linked the Frémonts with not one but three great social movements of the time—westward settlement\, women’s rights\, and opposition to slavery. It’s a surprisingly modern story of ambition and fame; they lived in a time of globalization\, technological disruption\, and divisive politics that foreshadowed our own. The Frémonts’ adventures amount to nothing less than a tour of the early American soul. \nKepler’s Literary Foundation invites you to join us for this nationally admired journalist in an illuminating conversation with the Bay Area’s own award-winning radio personality\, Angie Coiro.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-inskeep-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:David Talbot reads from his near-death\, new life memoir\, Between Heaven and Hell
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed writer\, bestselling author\, and founder of Salon magazine\, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers\, The Devil’s Chessboard\, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for the first time\, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke\, a year that turned his life upside down\, and ultimately\, saved him.\n\nIn short chapters that had their genesis on Facebook\, Talbot recounts a year of recovery\, upheaval\, and transformation following the stroke that almost killed him. He also reflects on the pace of the stress-filled career that brought him to this precipice\, in his mid-60s\, while he was still trying to navigate his way through considerable Hollywood challenges in attempting to bring his books to the screen. As the hard-charging CEO and editor-in-chief of Salon\, he championed progressive investigative journalism at a time when the industry was heading toward a financial abyss. “I believed then that Salon was worth dying for. We were caught up in history’s hurricane\,” he writes. “My stroke did not just change my life\,” he writes. “It saved my life.”\n\nBy necessity\, he slowed down\, he lost a lot of weight\, and he pared his existence down to the essentials and became focused on what really matters. He made his peace with death and learned to “live each moment like it’s your last.” These are the sort of sentiments upon which countless self-help books are constructed\, but Talbot demonstrates the conviction of someone who has been there and back and now knows what is really at stake.\nIn his signature voice and with powerful storytelling\, Talbot examines the physical\, emotional\, and psychological impact his stroke has had on his identity. Along the way Talbot offers readers insider stories on the wild early days of Internet journalism\, insights into the new tech culture\, the down and dirty of Hollywood\, and much more. This is an illuminating\, often humorous\, portrait of how a health crisis can truly shift one’s perspective on life and purpose. \n\n\n\n\n\n“A deeply affecting examination of mortality\, ambition\, and the priorities of a man who dodged death to live better days.”\n—Dave Eggers\, bestselling author of The Circle\, Zeitoun\, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius“What makes this book so special is the complete absence of resentment and self-pity. This is a story beyond catharsis—it’s a rebirth\, a celebration\, a hallucinatory and joyous examination of the aftermath of illness with love and gratitude infused on every page.”\n—Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire and The Great Pretender
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-reads-from-his-near-death-new-life-memoir/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: January
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-january/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:T.J. Mitchell & Judy Melinek: First Cut
DESCRIPTION:Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell discuss their new novel\, First Cut. \nPraise for First Cut \n“Scalpel sharp. First Cut allows a peek into the autopsy room through the eyes of a pro.”—Kathy Reichs \n“Who better to deliver a genuinely compelling mystery than real-life medical examiners? Fans of CSI and Forensic Files will devour this well plotted story.”—Karin Slaughter \n“All the charm\, gruesome detail and surprising empathy that made Working Stiff such a delight brought back in a novel. An impressive opener to a series that deserves to run and run.”—Alex Marwood\, author of The Wicked Girls and The Killer Next Door \nAbout First Cut \nA hard-nosed medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming. \nSan Francisco’s newest medical examiner\, Dr. Jessie Teska\, has made a chilling discovery. A suspected overdose case contains hints of something more sinister: a drug lord’s attempt at a murderous cover-up. But as Jessie digs deeper\, she faces unexpected pushback from her superiors–and pressure to stay in her lane\, close the case and move on. \nFor Jessie\, San Francisco was supposed to be a fresh start\, a chance to escape her troublesome past in Los Angeles. Instead she finds herself overworked and underpaid\, working in a dingy morgue and living under the fog in a cramped converted cable car. Now\, despite warnings from her colleagues and threats from her boss\, she is determined to find the truth. \nAs more bodies land on her autopsy table\, Jessie uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to a plot involving opioid traffickers and San Francisco’s shifting terrain of tech start-ups. Autopsy means “see for yourself\,” and Jessie Teska won’t stop until she has seen it all–even if it means the next corpse on the slab could be her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/t-j-mitchell-judy-melinek-first-cut/
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:Mapping the Bay: with Kim Shuck and friends
DESCRIPTION:poetry and discussion exploring the pathways language takes through land\, water\, and air. \nPoetry is all around us. Hidden in the trauma and joys of a life lived in full witness of the events of the last few centuries on a penisula haunted by languages lost but reclaimed\, hidden\, yet in plain sight. \nLocal poets read from new and old works. What does it mean to stand as witness to lost histories? How does one heal great traumas and offer new pathways to loving each other in nature?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mapping-the-bay-with-kim-shuck-and-friends/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miranda Popkey: Topics of Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong. \nPraise for Topics of Conversation \n“An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality\, a brilliantly structured character study\, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling cliches and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.”-–Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“A pleasingly unsentimental novel about attraction and repulsion and the fluid line between the two.  Popkey writes about these emotional eddies with such thrilling detachment you’ll wonder why you ever worried about love at all.”–Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“Penetrating\, brutal\, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.”–Ben Marcus\, author of Notes from the Fog \nAbout Topics of Conversation \nMiranda Popkey’s first novel is about desire\, disgust\, motherhood\, loneliness\, art\, pain\, feminism\, anger\, envy\, guilt–written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women–the stories they tell each other\, and the stories they tell themselves\, about shame and love\, infidelity and self-sabotage–and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy\, wry\, shot through with rage and despair\, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-popkey-topics-of-conversation/
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:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World
DESCRIPTION:What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book\, The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age\, brings this abstract question to life. Through a series of anecdotes and case studies that draw from her background in public policy\, climate change strategy\, and journalism\, Venkataraman explores pragmatic tactics that can help us think more clearly about our long-term future. \nBina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe\, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House\, was the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\, and taught in the Program on Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT. \n— \nBina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe\, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House\, was the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\, and taught in the Program on Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT. Her book\, The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age was published in September 02019. \n\nBina Venkataraman’s Homepage\nMore about Bina Venkataraman\n\n— \nLong Now’s two lecture series\, the Seminars and Conversations at The Interval\, keep you connected to a whole world of long-term thinking. \nYou can follow the ideas by subscribing to the podcasts\, sharing the highlights and connecting with Long Now on Social Media. \nLong Now Members support the series and can reserve free tickets to the Seminars and tune into Long Now Live where we broadcast a live video stream of these talks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bina-venkataraman-long-term-thinking-in-a-distracted-world/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Long Now Foundation":MAILTO:services@longnow.org
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SUMMARY:Claire Rudy Foster / Shine of the Ever
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I’ve Never Done This Before) for their new book\, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! \nShine of the Ever is a literary mix tape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. By turns tender and punk-tough\, fierce and loving\, this collection of short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love\, screwing up and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. \n\n“The characters in Foster’s fiction are all achingly lonely and the victims of human error\, yes—but they’re also miracles of endurance whose devastations\, large and small\, illuminate the better parts of ourselves.” – Benjamin Percy\, author of The Dead Lands \n“Shine of the Ever is a compassionate ode to a Pixies-infused era. With its mix of fear and fearlessness\, it deftly portrays love on the fringes.” – Foreword Reviews \n\nClaire Rudy Foster is a queer\, trans writer from Portland\, Oregon. Their work on sex\, identity\, relationships\, and recovery appears in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. Foster is the author of I’ve Never Done This Before (978-0998072708\, Sept. 2016). Their essays and fiction have been recognized for excellence\, including four nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Foster holds an MFA in creative writing and teaches writing workshops in Portland. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Shine of the Ever\, email events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-rudy-foster-shine-of-the-ever/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miranda Popkey\, Topics of Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Santa Cruz native Miranda Popkey for a reading and signing of her searing new novel\, Topics of Conversation. \nFor readers of Rachel Cusk\, Lydia Davis\, and Jenny Offill—a compact tour de force about sex\, violence\, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction. \nTopics of Conversation follows an unnamed female narrator from her first summer post-college to her years as a single mother in California’s Central Valley\, always hungry for experience and hell bent on upending her life. The narrative unfolds in a series of conversations between women—the stories they tell one another; the stories they tell themselves—circling questions of desire\, disgust\, anger\, envy\, guilt\, and despair. Topics of Conversation is a searing look at what it means to come of age\, to grow up\, and to love as a woman in this world. “There’s always someone\, or so I’d been led to believe: on business or in the dog house or out on the proverbial prowl\,” pronounces Miranda’s narrator. “That was the danger of being a woman.” At the center of her striking debut is this: what kinds of bad behavior are we still willing to permit?   \n“An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality\, a brilliantly structured character study\, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling clichés and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.” —Karen Russell \n“Penetrating\, brutal\, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction” —Ben Marcus \nMIRANDA POPKEY was born in Santa Cruz\, California in 1987. She graduated with a BA in Humanities from Yale in 2009 and with an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. She has written for\, among other outlets\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog\, the Paris Review Daily\, The Hairpin\, The Awl\, GQ\, and New York magazine’s The Cut. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 15th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-popkey-topics-of-conversation-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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CREATED:20191227T172520Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel\, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. \nAbout Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe \nA challenging and innovative exploration of narrative\, emotion\, and the possibilities of language\, part dream vision\, part prose poem\, part series of dialogues about love\, nature\, politics\, the nature of good and evil\, and the meaning of human life. \nAbout the Author \nChristopher Bernard is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the founder\, a principal and co-editor (with Ho Lin) of the literary and arts webzine Caveat Lector and contributes regularly to the monthly online magazine Synchronized Chaos. His books include the novels A Spy in the Ruins and Voyage to a Phantom City; two books of stories\, In the American Night and Dangerous Stories for Boys; The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs; Chien Lunatique (poems); and numerous plays\, including most recently The Beast and Mr. James. His work has appeared in several anthologies and many periodicals\, including cultural and arts journalism in the New York Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere\, and poetry and fiction in literary reviews in the U.S. and U.K. He has also written plays that have been produced and radio broadcast\, in part or complete\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry films have been screened in San Francisco and his poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Puschcart Prize and Best of the Web. His diaries and journals are being compiled under the title “Voyage Around My Life.” His autobiographical essay appeared in Contemporary Authors\, Volume 180 (Gale Group). In 2019\, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a photographer and composer; an excerpt from his opera “Nachtstück: An Opera on the Death of Anton Webern\,” has been radio broadcast (KPFA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T215858Z
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SUMMARY:Confessions of a Psychedelic Journalist
DESCRIPTION:For more than four decades\, Don Lattin has written about the social\, spiritual\, and political aspects of the psychedelic drug movement as a newspaper reporter\, freelance journalist\, and the author of four books of narrative non-fiction. \nIn the 1970s\, as a young reporter working in the East Bay\, Don broke one of the first investigative stories about the US Army’s past efforts to use LSD as a hostile interrogation tool. He also covered the first local campaign to legalize marijuana in the United States—a political movement that continues today in ongoing efforts to decriminalize the use of magic mushrooms\, peyote\, and ayahuasca in cities and states across the nation. \nIn the 1980s and 1990s\, as a staff writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle\, Don wrote extensively about various cults\, sects\, and new religious movements including a generation of spiritual seekers inspired by psychedelic drug experiences in the 1960s and 1970s. \nJoin KQED Science senior editor Kat Snow for a conversation with Don as they look back on the long\, strange trip of his career as an award-winning reporter and best-selling author. \nThis is conversation does not promote\, facilitate\, or require the use of entheogens. This event and the views expressed by the presenter(s) are not a reflection of the views of California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)\, its Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research\, or the individuals employed by CIIS.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/confessions-of-a-psychedelic-journalist/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000
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SUMMARY:The War That Used Up Words? Literature in Paris 1910-1940
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, works like Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris have captivated our imaginations with their images of lively cafés that were a refuge from cold and poverty\, of smoky clubs full of gin and jazz\, and above all\, of a city surging with creative energy. And rightly so—the decade after World War I was a time of radical experimentation in novels\, poetry\, painting\, dance and more.\nBut it is only part of the story. Writers on both sides of the Atlantic were tapping into forces that had long made Paris a beacon of innovation. In this talk we’ll explore the wider panoply of prewar and postwar writers and discuss how the war intensi ed the already-present quest for new modes of expression. Immerse yourself in this unforgettable period and leave with a deeper understanding of literature in Paris\, 1910–1940. \nJoin Melanie Blake of Classical Pursuits\nfor an evening of stories\, history and discussion. \nThursday\, January 16 at 7:00 PM \nAlliance Française San Francisco\n1345 Bush Street | San Francisco\, CA \nAlliance members $10\, non-members $15
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-war-that-used-up-words-literature-in-paris-1910-1940/
LOCATION:Alliance Française de San Francisco\, 1345 Bush St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000
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CREATED:20191230T225318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T225318Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit & The Los Angeles Press
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit and The Los Angeles Press doubleheader with a live musical score by AJ Bahnken🎈The performers explore love relationships\, sexuality\, and gender. Featured readers include Miah Jeffra\, Thea Matthews\, Bernadette McComish\, Mackenzie Studebaker\, and Linda Ravenswood. With a SURPRISE MUSICAL GUEST🔥 \nTickets $10. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please email Jennifer@redlightlit.com for volunteer opportunities✨
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-the-los-angeles-press/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T220000
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SUMMARY:The Nocturnists: Transitions
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of medical storytelling on the theme of “Transitions\,” featuring stories by David Elkin\, Tobin Greensweig\, Catherine Humikowski\, Shaili Jain\, Christina Lee\, Ashley McMullen\, and Natasha Spottiswoode.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nocturnists-transitions/
LOCATION:Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA San Francisco\, CA\, 700 Howard St\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Nocturnists":MAILTO:emily@thenocturnists.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T210000
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CREATED:20191124T211858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T211858Z
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SUMMARY:This is Now: Kelly McGonigal
DESCRIPTION:What if the key to feeling vividly alive and energetic in your body is closer than you think? No matter what your past experience with exercise has been— from finding it a chore to falling in love with a favorite activity— it is possible to find happiness and meaning through movement. \nAcclaimed Stanford research psychologist Kelly McGonigal\, who once offered readers a transformative new approach to stress\, now looks beyond the gym and around the world to find the secrets of joy in movement. To Tanzania\, where one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world live; to a Julliard dance class for Parkinson’s sufferers; to London\, where volunteers combine fitness with community service. \nHer new book The Joy of Movement draws on neuroscience\, evolutionary biology\, psychology\, and anthropology to illustrate the link between well-being and movement. Join Dr. McGonigal for an evening with our journalist in residence Angie Coiro— a revolutionary look at physicality and joy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-kelly-mcgonigal/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T203000
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SUMMARY:Wile & Wing Poetry Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading hosted by author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka.\n\nAuthor and songwriter Kimi Sugioka is a mesmerizing—and folkloric—figure in the Bay Area literary community. She is described as maternal\, witchy\, and passionate by Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism. For decades\, Sugioka has been involved in the Bay Area’s literary community\, and was a former curator of the legendary Café Babar poetry series of the 1990s. Now\, Sugioka says\, poetry readings are more significant than ever in a shifting San Francisco: “the [literary] community subsists on artistic freedom—and it is still free. There are multiple poetry readings every night and they don’t cost anything. They cut across class\, race and culture\, and engender the expression of diverse voices that share the paradoxical wit\, wisdom\, terror and joy of our times.” \nOn December 17\, the Tenderloin Museum will have the privilege of hosting the book launch for Wile & Wing\, Sugioka’s latest series of poems which explore themes of Invisible borders\, personal boundaries\, and social justice. In classic “Babarian” fashion\, Sugioka will also be joined by authors Natasha Dennerstein and Susan Dambroff\, where they will each read book excerpts and original poems. \nAbout the poets: \nKimi Sugioka \nBorn in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley\, California\, Kimi Sugioka is a poet\, songwriter\, and educator. She performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades\, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado. \nNatasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat. \nSusan Dambroff \nSusan Dambroff is a poet\, performer\, and teacher drawn to the detailed placement of words and the alchemy of timing and sequence. She has published the chapbook\,“Conversations with Trees.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wile-wing-poetry-book-launch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T203000
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SUMMARY:Gary Snyder and Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Poetry Society of America \nGary Snyder began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the “Beat Generation\,” though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose. Snyder’s work blends physical reality and precise observations of nature with inner insight received primarily through the practice of Zen Buddhism. He has been described as the “poet laureate of Deep Ecology”. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His awards also include the Bollingen Prize\, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award\, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship\, the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Prize\, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, and the Ruth Lilly Award. \n\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth\, forthcoming poetry collection\, Ledger (Knopf\, 2020)\, centers on the crises of climate and biosphere\, and on our interconnection with one another and all beings.  She is the founder of #PoetsForScience\, a project originating with the first March For Science in D.C. in 2017\, and the author of two now-classic books of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as the Poetry Center and California Book Awards. The Washington Post has named her “among the modern masters” and the New York Times called her last book\, The Beauty\, “a deep well of wisdom.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-snyder-and-jane-hirshfield/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T203000
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CREATED:20191219T071724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T071724Z
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SUMMARY:Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal Vo. 35
DESCRIPTION:featuring \nK.R. MORRISON \nMore details and readers to be announced…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-vo-35/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T210000
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SUMMARY:"SoMa Lurk" Book Release
DESCRIPTION:a reading in support of “SoMa Lurk” a collection of poems and photos by José Vadi\, published by Project Kalahati. Readings by Sarah O’Neal\, Tongo Eisen-Martin and José Vadi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soma-lurk-book-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T220000
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CREATED:20191227T032133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T032133Z
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SUMMARY:New Sutras official release party! W/Camille Roy & drought spa
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the official release of Suzanne Stein’s 21st century technicolor epic NEW SUTRAS at The Lede in Old Oakland\, a new bar/restaurant with collaborative relationships in local media production. \nWe’re excited to present Suzanne and her incredible work alongside Bay Area luminaries Camille Roy and DROUGHT SPA (Alex Cruse and Kevin Lo). \nThe space is accessible\, a few blocks from 12th St. Oakland BART station\, with food and drink. There will be books for sale\, and copies of our chapbooks for free. \nMore information/bios of featured readers/performers to come!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-sutras-official-release-party-w-camille-roy-drought-spa/
LOCATION:The Lede\, 906 Washington St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T160000
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CREATED:20191124T200842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T200842Z
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui\, and Their Sons\, Ellison and Hien
DESCRIPTION:Do your children doodle and write stories? \nJoin us in a celebration of artistic family collaboration\, and a tale of chickens and pirates with Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) and Caldecott Prize winner Thi Bui (The Best We Could Do\, A Different Pond) and their sons\, Ellison and Hien. \n\n\n\n\nChicken of the Sea is an adorable picture book in which a band of intrepid chickens leave behind the boredom of farm life\, joining the crew of the pirate ship Pitiless to seek fortune and glory on the high seas. Led by a grizzled captain into the territory of the Dog Knights\, they soon learn what it means to be courageous\, merciful\, and not seasick quite so much of the time. \nA whimsical and unexpected adventure tale\, Chicken of the Sea originated in the five-year-old mind of Ellison Nguyen. With his novelist father Viet Thanh Nguyen\, they committed the story to the page then enlisted the artistic talents of Thi Bui and her thirteen-year-old son\, Hien Bui-Stafford\, to illustrate it. This unique collaboration between two generations of artists and storytellers invites you aboard for adventure\, even if you’re chicken. Maybe especially if you’re chicken. \nEllison Tai Duong Nguyen likes watching videos and drawing comics and playing with Legos. He also likes reading superhero books and playing superhero games. \nViet Thanh Nguyen is a butler\, the Alfred to Ellison’s Batman. When he is not butlering\, Viet teaches\, writes books\, gives lectures around the country\, and dreams that he might one day draw as well as Ellison. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer\, The Refugees\, Nothing Ever Dies\, and Race and Resistance. \nHien Bui-Stafford is now a teenager who enjoys sleeping. When he is awake\, he reads\, draws\, plays games\, and entertains his younger cousins. \nThi Bui plays a cartoonist on the interwebs and spends her days wheeling a suitcase around the world\, talking to people. When she is home\, she takes her son out to ramen and they draw together. She is the author of the Caldecott-winning A Different Pond and the American Book Award-winning The Best We Could Do. \nCo-sponsored by Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-their-sons-ellison-and-hien/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T220000
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CREATED:20191125T225035Z
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Presents The Just and the Blind with Marc Bamuthi Joseph & More
DESCRIPTION:Longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are joined by street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz and electrifying vocalist Lalin St. Juste in The Just and the Blind\, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. \nFramed by visually striking photography and animation projections\, the multimedia work explores racial profiling and the prison-industrial complex in a series of short vignettes that include music\, dance\, and spoken word. \nConceived and written by Marc Bamuthi Joseph\nOriginal musical score by Daniel Bernard Roumain\nDirected by Michael John Garcés \nArtists:\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\, Spoken Word\nDaniel Bernard Roumain\, Violin/Piano/Electronics\nDrew Dollaz\, Choreographer/Dancer\nLalin St. Juste\, Vocalist \nDavid Szlasa\, Projection Designer\nXia Gordon\, Animator\nBrittsense\, Photographer\nLisa Armstrong\, Journalist \nRika Iino\, Producer\nMelissa Higgins\, Producer \nThe Just and the Blind was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and presented as part of the 2019 Create Justice Forum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-presents-the-just-and-the-blind-with-marc-bamuthi-joseph-more/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200118T203000
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die presents: A 10 Year Anniversary Event
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Jan 18\, 20208:30 PM  Sun\, Jan 19\, 20201:00 AM\nThe Indepedent (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents:\na YG2D 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT!!!!\nfeaturing\nWhiskerman\n& more TBA soooooon…. \nDoors at 8:30pm\nShow at 9pm\nEnds after midnight\n@\nThe Independent\n628 Divisadero St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94117\n21 & over\n$18 ADV – $20 DOOR\nTICKETS ONSALE 10/11 @ 10am: http://bit.ly/2LJflnF \nFor its 10 Year Anniversary Celebration\, You’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 musical mortal magic… & in one of our favorite venues in San Francisco! \nWhiskerman is preparing to release their fourth studio album\, Kingdom Illusion–a rock & roll vision quest that ushers the band’s elegiac psychedelia towards a louder\, pushier\, more colorful sound. Their past albums have been described as “ecstatic psychedelia\, sturdily constructed pop-rock\, pick-and-grin folk all together as a single picture.”\n“High-energy roots rock set with notes of soul\, psychedelic and folk.” – KQED\n“Ecstatic psychedelia\, sturdily constructed pop-rock\, pick-and-grin folk. ” – FLOOD Magazine\nCheck out more @ https://www.whiskerman.com/ \n& MORE TBA soooooon!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-a-10-year-anniversary-event/
LOCATION:The Independent\, 628 Divisadero St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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