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SUMMARY:D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America. \nPraise for We Speak for Ourselves \n“D. Watkins is uniquely equipped to communicate our political and social challenges of urban America\, not only through the lens of academia but through empirical knowledge as well. He is the voice of the future seamlessly blending the wisdom of the streets and intellectual prowess in a way I have never experienced before.” —Jada Pinkett Smith \n“Reading We Speak for Ourselves\, I can’t help but admire D Watkins. He is not another elite voice for the voiceless. He is\, this book is\, an amplifier of low income Black voices who have their own voices and have no problem using them. He dares us to listen.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  \n“In a time of blunt-bladed posturing and hyperbolized impact\, We Speak For Ourselves\, is a sharp gash into the psyche of America. Written as a relentless slice of his own life\, Watkins avoids pretense as he puts language to his jagged experiences\, not to encourage voyeurism\, but to instead push people to grapple and wrestle with the real lives so many talking heads attempt to muzzle\, then fictionalize. Watkins has come to remind us\, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves. Everyone.”  – Jason Reynolds\, New York Times bestselling author & National Book Award finalist\, Long Way Down \n“We Speak for Ourselves is full of insight into the America that serves as grist for the American dream. Its pages are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love\, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine.Over and over again\, I found myself saying ‘yes\, yes\, he’s right’ and ultimately finished feeling inspired to do better\, to be more. D Watkins proves\, once again\, why he isn’t just a writer of the people but a people’s literary champ for the here\, now\, and tomorrow.” –Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \nAbout We Speak for Ourselves \nFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn\, with searing conviction and full compassion\, D. Watkins\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw\, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening\, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen\, feel\, and create a course toward change that starts right where we are. \nWatkins introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods—“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race. \nUnapologetic and sharp-witted\, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools\, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption\, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats\, journey from trap house to university lecture\, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen. \nWatkins shares the lessons he has learned while navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of prominent black thinkers and public figures—serving hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-watkins/
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:Foucault in California
DESCRIPTION:Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade \ncelebrating the release of \nFoucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death \nby Simeon Wade\, Foreword by Heather Dundas \npublished by Heyday Books \n\n\n\n\nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.'” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. \nSimeon Wade was born July 22\, 1940\, in Alabama. After earning his Ph.D. in the intellectual history of Western civilization from Harvard in 1969\, Wade moved to California and became an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School. His early teaching years culminated in his hosting a Death Valley trip for Michel Foucault in 1975\, an experience Foucault described as “one of the most important in my life.” Wade later taught at several universities in Southern California and worked as a psychiatric nurse. He died in Oxnard\, California\, on October 3\, 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foucault-in-california/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer - -The World Could Be Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Norman Fishcher to discuss his new new book The World Could Be Otherwise\, on Tuesday\, April 30th at 7pm. \nAn imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times\, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or “perfections”–qualities that lead to kindness\, wisdom\, and an awakened life. \nIn frightening times\, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination\, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden\, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching\, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas\, or “six perfections”—generosity\, ethical conduct\, patience\, joyful effort\, meditation\, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships\, ethics\, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings\, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His numerous books include What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong\, and Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-the-world-could-be-otherwise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH BILL MCKIBBEN & MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI In Conversation with May Boeve
DESCRIPTION:COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH BILL MCKIBBEN & MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI\nIn Conversation with May Boeve\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nBill McKibben is an author\, environmentalist\, activist\, and the co-founder of 350.org\, the first planet-wide\, grassroots climate change movement. His first book\,The End of Nature\, is considered the first book about climate change written for a general readership. McKibben has been awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, The Gandhi Prize\, a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and has a species of woodland gnat (Megophthalmidia mckibbeni) named in his honor. A former staff writer for The New Yorker\, McKibben regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, National Geographic\, and Rolling Stone\, and teaches at Middlebury College. His forthcoming debut novel\, Radio Free Vermont\, follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. \nMustafa Santiago Ali is the senior vice president of Climate\, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization for the Hip Hop Caucus\, a national non-profit organization that brings together members of the Hip Hop community to enact political change. Before joining the Hip Hop Caucus\, Ali worked for twenty-four years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\, most recently as a Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization. His work focuses on cases of social and environmental justice\, and brings a holistic approach to the revitalization of vulnerable communities. A renowned speaker\, policy maker\, community liaison\, trainer\, and facilitator\, Mustafa Santiago Ali has worked with over 500 domestic and international communities to improve people’s lives by addressing environmental\, health\, and economic justice issues. \nMay Boeve is the Executive Director of 350.org\, an international climate change campaign. She has been active in the climate movement since her days at Middlebury College. In 2006\, she co-founded and led the Step It Up 2007 campaign\, which brought together communities from 1\,400 places for a National Day of Climate Action. Four years later\, Boeve\, a self-proclaimed activist\, was handcuffed and arrested in front of the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. Through it all she has maintained her commitment to fighting for what’s right and in 2015\, Time Magazine recognized her\, as a “Next Generation Leader.” Boeve is a t
URL:https://litseen.com/event/combating-climate-change-with-bill-mckibben-mustafa-santiago-ali-in-conversation-with-may-boeve/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch + Learn: Self-Publishing 101 by Author L.B. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Thought about writing a book yourself but don’t know where to start?\nTired of people always telling you\, “You should write a book”?\nThink you’ve got something good to publish? \nWhen I tell people I’m a self-published author\, the most common response I get is “I want to write a book.” \nBut there’s so much more… \nThis Lunch + Learn is dedicated to sharing more about my journey to self-publishing including what I’ve learned\, pubilshing resources and marketing \nLunch provided. Spaces limited. RSVP on Eventbrite required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-learn-self-publishing-101-by-author-l-b-lewis/
LOCATION:Industrious\, 345 California St\, San Francisco\, 94104
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley 2050
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley 2050\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, May 1\, 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\nClimate change is a pressing and urgent global issue and a challenge that needs planet and human focused solutions. Join UC Berkeley’s Director of Sustainability and UC Berkeley’s Executive Director\, Center for Environmental Public Policy\, for a lively discussion highlighting policy and implementation action happening in the state\, bay area cities\, and the UC system to reduce carbon emissions. \nThe state has signed into law numerous policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emission from buildings\, industrial processes\, vehicles\, agricultural and solid waste management\, electric power and fossil fuel production and freight transport.  Those policies are continuously evolving to reflect change in technology\, markets and public opinion In similar suit\, UC Berkeley and the UC system have pledged to be carbon neutral from building and fleet energy use by 2025 and from transportation and other sources by 2050. The presenters will cover what is underway in green building\, energy efficiency\, clean electricity\, resource management\, and behavior-based programs\, and how these can help meet these ambitious but achievable goals. \nKira Stoll was the 2016 recipient of The Sustainability Champion Award at this year’s California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. Kira was celebrated for recognizing the critical role staff play in transforming campus operations as well as providing leadership for UC system-wide initiatives. At the campus level\, Kira spearheaded a solar energy procurement project to bring 1MW of photovoltaic energy to campus\, through a collaborative RFQ with 19 other public agencies.  She has also worked diligently to improve alternative transportation options on campus as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions from operations. In her system-wide role as co-chair of the Climate Change Working Group and representative to the UC Global Climate Leadership Council\, Kira has advocated for staff engagement and climate action planning that has driven progress towards UC’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2025. \nDavid Wooley is a Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Public Policy. He has over 30 years’ experience with electric power regulation\, climate policy and Clean Air Act implementation.  David is also Of Counsel at the Oakland firm of Keyes & Fox LLP\, a law practice focused on distributed energy resources and is a consultant to the Energy Foundation.  Previously\, David served as an Assistant Attorney General in NY\, taught energy and environmental law at Pace University Law School and was a founder of and Executive Director of the Pace Energy Project.  Later he directed the American Wind Energy Association’s Northeast Policy Project\, served as Counsel to the Clean Air Task Force and as Vice President for Domestic Policy Initiatives at the Energy Foundation in San Francisco.  David is co-author of West Group’s Clean Air Act Handbook (2017).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-2050/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nPoets and audience will gather upstairs at More Moe’s one hour before the reading. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:READING Jenn McCreary and Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:READING\nJenn McCreary and Norma Cole\nMay 1\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-jenn-mccreary-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day: One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Andrena Zawinski\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Lenore Weiss\, Dennis Bernstein. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-one-big-union/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:DAVID BROOKS In Conversation with Ryan Bauer
DESCRIPTION:DAVID BROOKS\nIn Conversation with Ryan Bauer\nWednesday\, May 1\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nDavid Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and appears regularly on PBS NewsHour\, NPR’s All Things Considered\, and Meet the Press. He is the author of The Road to Character; The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love\, Character\, and Achievement; Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There; and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. In The Second Mountain\, Brooks explores our human relations within our societies — to our families\, careers\, faith\, and community — and how these commitments help us to lead more meaningful lives. \n\nRabbi Ryan Bauer joined Congregation Emanu-El in 2005 where he has helped create and oversee the community engagement department. He supervises the Preschool and B’nai-Mitzvah program and is nationally recognized for his work with Syrian refugees. Before attending rabbinical school\, he studied psychology with an emphasis in Political Economies of Industrialized Societies at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brooks-in-conversation-with-ryan-bauer/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:Seven Stories and City Lights present \nBarry Gifford \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights Trilogy: Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels\, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side\, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career\, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir\, part-picaresque\, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Library Association\, the Writers Guild of America\, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon: SAN FRANCISCO: BRAINSTORMING FOR JUNE
DESCRIPTION:MAY 2 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nFree! \n\n\n\n\n \nOnce again we come together to pool brains ! Bring your mathematical quandaries\, sweet solutions\, high octane spirits and tales of sleuthing genius for Odd Salon PROOF\, curated by Isolde Honore. \nBrainstorming sessions are free open to all! Come out and grab a drink\, meet the Oddlings\, and share your ideas around the table. \nThursday\, May 2nd at 7pm.\nWe’ll be in the back room at Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, drinking and thinking. Just a couple of doors down from the 24th and Mission BART stop. \nNo formal RSVP needed  – just come out and join us! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-brainstorming-for-june/
LOCATION:Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara\n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada”\nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nFor the concluding event as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center for Spring 2019\, Juliana Delgado Lopera will be reading and in conversation with novelist Joseph Cassara\, author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, an acclaimed debut novel that “follows the lives of the major players in New York’s 1980s drag ball scene\, made famous by Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film Paris Is Burning.” (full review at The Guardian) Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. \n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada” (*) is the title for Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Mazza Residency with The Poetry Center. Prior to this evening with Joseph Cassara\, she’ll by joined by special guest Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\, for an “afternoon of literary drag\,” Saturday April 27 at The Bindery\, annex of The Booksmith and just across Haight Street\, and will be visiting multiple classes at SF State\, in Women and Gender Studies\, Sexuality Studies\, and Creative Writing\, throughout the week of April 22. \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker\, and performance artist based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo!\, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. She’s the recipient of the 2016 Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Magto name a few. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. Much more at julianadlopera.com \n• Make sure to check out Juliana Delgado Lopera’s recent Ted Talk\, “The Poetry of Everyday Speech\,” which took place early this year at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. \nJoseph Cassara is the author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, which won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018\, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, and was chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers selection. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently lives in Fresno\, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University\, Fresno. More at josephcassara.com \n(*”but my tongue is salty”) \nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nJuliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\nan afternoon of literary drag\nSaturday APRIL 27\n3:00 pm @ The Bindery (door + bar at 2:00 pm)\n1727 Haight Street (at Cole)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-juliana-delgado-lopera-with-joseph-cassara-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miriam Toews and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Toews discusses her new novel\, Women Talking with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Women Talking \n“This amazing\, sad\, shocking\, but touching novel\, based on a real-life event\, could be right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.” –Margaret Atwood\, on Twitter \n“An astonishment\, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I’ve read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment\, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come.” —Lauren Groff\, author of FATES AND FURIES and FLORIDA \n“I am in awe of this novel. In Toews’s brilliant design\, eight women in a Mennonite hayloft manage to lay bare the rancid global root system of patriarchy. Their story is terrifying\, joyful\, gruesome\, and magnetic. What a reckoning–and what a gift.” Leni Zumas\, author of RED CLOCKS \n“A flawless\, ferocious work of art. I have yet to read a more scathing indictment of patriarchal violence\, or a more illuminating quest to comprehend the most vital contours of the human experience: what is agency\, what is meaning\, what is justice\, what is love. This is the kind of novel that changes you. Get ready.” —Laura van den Berg\, author of THE THIRD HOTEL \n\nAbout Women Talking \nOne evening\, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years\, each of these women\, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony\, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community\, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. \nWhile the men of the colony are off in the city\, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home\, these women–all illiterate\, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in–have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they’ve ever known or should they dare to escape? \nBased on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium\, Toews’s masterful novel uses wry\, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miriam-toews-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190502T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T090214
CREATED:20190429T212201Z
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SUMMARY:Tony Perrottet: Cuba Libre! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nTONY PERROTTET\nCUBA LIBRE! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History \nAdvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nMost people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959. It was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures\, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Their movement successfully overthrew the island nation’s US-backed dictator\, Fulgencio Batista\, and has remained to this day an intense socialist provocation to the massive imperial capitalist country only ninety miles north of Cuba. \nTony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries-many of them kids just out of college\, literature majors and art students\, including a number of extraordinary young women-who defeated 40\,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details. He describes how Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sanchez kept the male guerrillas disciplined\, and he portrays a few of the North American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels. He gained access to private letters\, diaries\, videos\, and other documents no other historian has seen. Perrottet has used these as well as countless interviews to describe the years of guerrilla fighting throughout the Sierra Maestra mountains\, the final victory march into Havana\, the gradual building of a socialist state\, and\nthe accompanying Cold War tensions. \n“Perrottet takes us far beyond the basic facts of the Cuban Revolution to the juicy details that remind us that history is deeply human.” – Chris Ryan\, NY Times bestselling author \nTony Perrottet\, author of five previous books\, is a regular guest on the History Channel. \nSteve Wasserman is Executive Director of Heyday Books. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-perrottet-cuba-libre-che-fidel-and-the-improbable-revolution/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190502T213000
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SUMMARY:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM\nDuring Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nTHURS. MAY 2ND\, 7:30PM\nFeaturing: \nSHELLEY WONG\nTHEA MATTHEWS\nJENNY QI\nROSA DE ANDA\nJENNIFER HASEGAWA\nAISHWARYA VARDHANA\nCurated by Cassandra Rockwood-Rice\nMC’d by Nicole Noel \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T130000
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch: Jocelyn Saidenberg
DESCRIPTION:Hear Bay Area poet Jocelyn Saidenberg present work in dialogue with the exhibition “Show Me as I Want to Be Seen.” Many of the poets speaking in this bi-weekly series are rooted in the New Narrative tradition\, an experimental writing movement and theory that evolved in San Francisco. \n“Show Me as I Want to Be Seen” presents the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist\, Surrealist\, and activist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892-1972) in dialogue with ten contemporary artists to examine the complex and empowered representation of fluid identity. \nJocelyn Saidenberg is a Bay Area writer and performer\, whose books include “Mortal City\,” “Cusp\,” “Negativity\,” “Shipwreck\,” and “Dead Letter.” Her most recent book is “kith & kin” (The Elephants\, 2018). She is one of the editors of KRUPSKAYA Books and she teaches at University of California\, Berkeley and San Quentin State Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-jocelyn-saidenberg/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190503T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T210000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop: a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, lead by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill. Get your copy and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III (more TBD) and live music by Azuah Melara at 7pm. Emceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. FREE! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release/
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:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop (a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, led by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill). \nGrab your copy of the anthology and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III\, James Cagney\, Darius Simpson\, Leila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, the authors published in the anthology (Samuel Getachew\, Nicos Hubbard-Riley\, Julian Khalil Allen\, Elijah I. Hynson\, Damion Evans\, and Charles Hall)\, and live music by Azuah Melara starting at 7 PM. \nBoots Riley will speak at the beginning of the event about the importance of Black Joy. \nEmceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. DJ XCAIROCITOSX will weave together sounds and Two Mamacita’s pop-up kitchen will be on site. Tiny book making on the theme of “Joy” will be happening throughout the evening. On-site photography by Robbie Sweeny and Rohan DaCosta. Oh\, and did we also mention it is Oakland First Fridays?! \nThis event is FREE and open to all! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release-2/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T213000
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SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy\, D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her new collection\, The Octopus Museum. Also featuring readings by D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago. \nAbout The Octopus Museum \nThis collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction\, racism\, sexism\, and divisive politics. \nInformed by Brenda Shaughnessy’s craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother\, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages\, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents\, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable\, specific\, and multiple: school shootings\, nuclear attack\, loss of health care\, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future\, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind\, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking\, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves\, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization. \nAbout The Poets\nBrenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa\, Japan\, and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of four books of poetry\, including So Much Synth\, Human Dark with Sugar–winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award–and Our Andromeda\, which was a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University\, Newark. She lives in New Jersey.\nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He lives in San Francisco\, California. \nRoberto F. Santiago is a poet\, translator\, musician\, and performer. He earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence and MFA from Rutgers University. His first collection of poetry\, Angel Park (2015)\, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry and long-listed for an Able Muse Poetry Prize. Santiago is the recipient of an Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Lambda Foundation and Sarah Lawrence; in 2016\, he was named a Community of Writers fellow. He currently lives in Oakland and works in San Francisco as an educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-shaughnessy-d-a-powell-and-roberto-santiago/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T213000
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SUMMARY:Bronze Age Greece: Mycenaeans & the Origins of Western Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Discover the magnificence of the Mycenaeans. Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars to present talks uncovering the Mycenaean story\, from ancient tales to the latest archaeological finds\, in an effort to deepen our understanding of the roots of Western Civilization. When the Bronze Age ended\, oral tales of the Mycenaeans remained and were composed half a millennium later by Homer in the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Most assumed these Homeric tales and the society they described largely were fiction\, until a few 19th-century archaeologists took those tales seriously and have come to proved the existence of these brilliant predecessors of the ancient Greeks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bronze-age-greece-mycenaeans-the-origins-of-western-civilization/
LOCATION:Marine’s Memorial Theater\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T213000
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series featuring Terry Taplin\, William "Endlesswill" Davis\, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 3rd\, featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, and Caroline O’Connor Thomas!\nPlease join us on Friday\, May 3rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, \nand Caroline O’Connor Thomas! \n***** \nauthor bios & photos below. \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nTerry Taplin is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at Saint Mary’s College. Terry serves as Poetry Editor for MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, Co-Editor of Baest\, and is the Social Media Manager at speCt! books. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \nWilliam “Endlesswill” Davis\, 2016-2018 poet laureate of Hillsborough\, NC\, and author of Broken Perception and Falling Apples\, is a spoken word artist who is dedicated to continuing the tradition of poetry in living form. Ambitious in his craft and performance\, Endlesswill offers audiences unforgettable performances that evoke thoughtfulness\, introspection\, and connection as a community. William is a publisher\, graphic design artist\, basketball coach\, and radio host\, and manages to juggle all of that under the umbrella of being a father and a husband.  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer who lives in Oakland\, California.  Her poetry has appeared in 580 Split\, Tin House\, Sixth Finch and others. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag\, 2018) and a graduate of the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California. https://carolineoconnorthomas.com \nPosted by Casey at 9:09 PM No comments: 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-featuring-terry-taplin-william-endlesswill-davis-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T160000
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SUMMARY:Bronze Age Greece: Mycenaeans & the Origins of Western Civilization
DESCRIPTION:May 3\, 7:30-9:30pm\, and May 4\, 10am-4pm \nHumanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars to present talks uncovering the Mycenaean story\, from ancient tales to the latest archaeological finds\, in an effort to deepen our understanding of the roots of Western Civilization. \nWhen the Bronze Age collapsed\, all signs of state-level society disappeared from Greece\, and Mycenaeans disappeared from history. Yet\, their oral tales remained\, composed half a millennium later by Homer into the Iliad and the Odyssey. Most scholars came to assume the Homeric tales and even the society they described largely were fiction. Then a few 19th-century amateur archaeologists took those tales seriously and brought these brilliant predecessors of the ancient Greeks back from obscurity. \nThe program opens with an illustrated talk exploring the great tales of the Iliad and Odyssey\, along with other Mycenaean-derived myths that provided a look into this ancient society long before 19-century archaeologist would prove its existence. The Friday program includes a special lecture-performance-demonstration of Mycenaean literature\, music\, and performance culture. \nOn Saturday\, presentations delve further into Bronze Age Myth discussing how the Mycenaean legends and stories have become accepted as reality\, as science rises to claim authority away from literature through the archaeological findings. Finds from new excavations\, including the discovery of the grave of the so-called “Griffin Warrior\,” shed light on early Mycenaean culture and suggest that the myths and legends of the Homeric poems were already in circulation at the dawn of the Mycenaean civilization. \nThe program explores what life was like at a Mycenaean palatial center\, highlighting the everyday experiences of a bustling world with monumental architecture\, large-scale craft production\, and religious ritual\, and provides a growing picture of a trans-Mycenaean society in the north Aegean. \n$25-$80. \nPresented by Humanities West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bronze-age-greece-mycenaeans-the-origins-of-western-civilization-2/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, 609 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities West":MAILTO:info@humanitieswest.org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T190000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:May 4-5\, 2019\, 10am – 7pm both days \nGet ready to come face-to-face with 250+ amazing authors at the 5th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival\, the most dynamic ever! \nThe Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. \nMeet national book award winners\, NY Times top 10 authors\, international writers\, YA and children’s book legends\, and a diverse cross-section of the of what the literary world has to offer. \nKeynote speakers include Anand Giridharadas (“Winners Take All”) in conversation with Robert Reich\, moderated by Kat Taylor. In addition to a wide breadth of programming\, explore tracks diving into immigration\, modern slavery\, motherhood\, the environment\, and prison reform. \nThe free outdoor fair features booksellers and independent authors\, reading lounges\, fine local eats\, free books\, and entertainment for all ages. \n#baybookfest #baybookfest2019 @baybookfest \nFree to $15. \nPresented by Bay Area Book Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-book-festival-2/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park\, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T170000
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CREATED:20190430T020207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T020207Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2019:\n \nMay 4\, June 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-6/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190504T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T090214
CREATED:20190429T212133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T212133Z
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SUMMARY:Music to my Eyes - Stories\, Music and Art From a Chicago Cabbie
DESCRIPTION:Author and artist Dmitry Samarov talks about and shows slides of art from his new book Music to My Eyes. Samarov has written for The Chicago Tribune\, The Chicago Reader\, and more; in Music to My Eyes he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage\, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he’s seen\, crossed paths with\, offered sofa space to\, and taken out to breakfast over the course of the past few decades. From well-known names like Nick Cave and Mission of Burma to lesser-known greats like Bill MacKay and Condo Fucks\, Samarov draws haunting portraits of artistry at the fringes of (and off the edges of) the mainstream\, while also offering poignant and memorable essays not only about their work\, but about musicianship and art\, creativity and commerce—the perils of selling out\, and the dangers of never doing so\, and above all else\, the thrill of creating something new. A love song and a lifer’s lament\, Music to My Eyes is an exquisite tribute to the trials and triumphs of independent music.  \nDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow\, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in first grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. \nHe has exhibited his work in all manner of bars\, coffeeshops\, libraries\, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up). He paints and writes in Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of Where To: A Hack Memoir.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-to-my-eyes-stories-music-and-art-from-a-chicago-cabbie/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190504T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T090214
CREATED:20190327T234710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190327T234710Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press showcase
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press showcases four writers and a musician\, every first Saturday of the month\, at their new space at the Oakland Peace Center\, red wine and coffee\, Nomadic Press\, 111 Fairmount Avenue\, Oakland\, $10-$15\, no one turned away for lack of funds\, 7:00 (www.facebook.com/pg/NomadicPress/events)\n\nEVENT PAGE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-showcase/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T090214
CREATED:20190329T031932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T031932Z
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov: A Talk\, a Slide-show
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry Samarov: A Talk\, a Slide-show\nIntroduced by Ben Terrall\, publisher of the cult ‘zine\nNamaste Motherfu**er\n\n \nAuthor and artist Dmitry Samarov talks about and shows slides of art from his new book Music to My Eyes. Samarov has written for The Chicago Tribune\, The Chicago Reader\, and more; in Music to My Eyes he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage\, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he’s seen\, crossed paths with\, offered sofa space to\, and taken out to breakfast over the course of the past few decades. From well-known names like Nick Cave and Mission of Burma to lesser-known greats like Bill MacKay and Condo Fucks\, Samarov draws haunting portraits of artistry at the fringes of (and off the edges of) the mainstream\, while also offering poignant and memorable essays not only about their work\, but about musicianship and art\, creativity and commerce—the perils of selling out\, and the dangers of never doing so\, and above all else\, the thrill of creating something new. A love song and a lifer’s lament\, Music to My Eyes is an exquisite tribute to the trials and triumphs of independent music. \nDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow\, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in first grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. \nHe has exhibited his work in all manner of bars\, coffeeshops\, libraries\, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up). He paints and writes in Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of Where To: A Hack Memoir.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-a-talk-a-slide-show/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Dmitri-Samarov.jpg
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