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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Connection and Community
DESCRIPTION:The American Dream as it has been defined for more than a century is about the well-paying job\, the nuclear family\, and upward mobility. But what both clouds and defines that dream is the distance between us\, our neighbors\, and that we\, our communities\, are defined by the dichotomy of winners and losers. What has been lost in many people’s day to day and in the larger American Dream is the key element that helped many of us to succeed in the first place-community. \nJoin author and activist Mia Birdsong and CIIS Director of Diversity and Inclusion Rachel Bryant for a conversation on reclaiming family\, friendship\, and communities. Sharing insights from her book\, How We Show Up\, Mia shows that what separates us isn’t only the ever-present injustices built around race\, class\, gender\, values\, and beliefs\, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. Mia highlights how we can return to our inherent connectedness to find strength\, safety\, and support in vulnerability and generosity\, in asking for help\, and in being accountable. \nDiscover how showing up-literally and figuratively-points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we want. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/birdsong-mia-april-22-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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SUMMARY:Discussion of THE JACKPOT | Author Michael Mechanic in conversation with Dashka Slater
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 22\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of JACKPOT: HOW THE SUPER-RICH REALLY LIVE—AND HOW THEIR WEALTH HARMS US ALL with local author Michael Mechanic in discussion with Dashka Slater (author of THE 57 BUS and ESCARGOT). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85795898890. \nOrder your copy of JACKPOT at http://bit.ly/ggpJackpot\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/JackpotAB. \nDescription\n\nA senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich\, showing the fascinating\, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. \nHave you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies\, surviving war and peace\, expansions and recessions\, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot\, the big exit\, the life-altering payday\, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019\, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape “essential” day jobs and cramped living spaces\, bury our debts\, buy that sweet spread\, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion—to ponder the social\, psychological\, and societal downsides of great affluence and the fact that so few possess it. \nWhat is it actually like to be blessed with riches in an era of plagues\, political rancor\, and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access\, how problematic the downsides? Does the experience differ depending on whether the money is earned or unearned\, where it comes from\, and whether you are male or female\, white or black? Finally\, how does our collective lust for affluence\, and our stubborn belief in social mobility\, explain how we got to the point where forty percent of Americans have literally no wealth at all? \nThese are all questions that Jackpot sets out to explore. The result of deep reporting and dozens of interviews with fortunate citizens—company founders and executives\, superstar coders\, investors\, inheritors\, lottery winners\, lobbyists\, lawmakers\, academics\, sports agents\, wealth and philanthropy professionals\, concierges\, luxury realtors\, Bentley dealers\, and even a woman who trains billionaires’ nannies in physical combat\, Jackpot is a compassionate\, character-rich\, perversely humorous\, and ultimately troubling journey into the American wealth fantasy and where it has taken us. \nAbout the Author\n\nMichael Mechanic\, the author of JACKPOT\, is a longtime East Bay resident\, Oakland Tech parent\, and senior editor at Mother Jones magazine. He is also the former managing editor of the East Bay Express and a graduate of UC Berkeley\, where he majored in biochemistry and earned a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism. Mechanic has won numerous awards for his writing\, including a “best feature” award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for a piece about illegal cockfighting culture. \nPraise For… \n\n“Economic inequality has never been more gaping in the United States\, which makes it the perfect time to read Jackpot\, Michael Mechanic’s entertaining and eviscerating peek behind the velvet curtains and into the real lives of America’s Super-Rich. Mechanic provides an eyeopening exposé of the myriad ways in which our nation’s political system unfairly enriches those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom. His myth-busting conclusion is that everyone loses\, even the lucky few who have hit the jackpot.” —JANE MAYER\, author of Dark Money \n“Eye-opening…. often a gleeful sendup of the absurd eccentricities of the superrich…. A scathing but fair indictment of how the mindless worship of wealth makes us all poorer.” —Kirkus Reviews \n  \nAbout Dashka Slater\n\nDashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk. An award-winning journalist who writes about criminal justice and other topics for such publications as The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones\, she is also the author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. Learn more at www.dashkaslater.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discussion-of-the-jackpot-author-michael-mechanic-in-conversation-with-dashka-slater/
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SUMMARY:Andri Snaer Magnason and Rebecca Solnit In conversation about On Time and Water
DESCRIPTION:Orion Magazine and Point Reyes Books present a special Earth Day conversation featuring Rebecca Solnit and Icelandic writer Andri Snaer Magnason. The two will discuss Magnason’s new book\, On Time and Water (Open Letter Books). \n“It is difficult to express to someone who has not read [On Time and Water] how wonderful and how horrifying—in a nutshell\, how truly vital—this book is. Magnason has created a masterpiece\, staunchly scientific and highly informative\, yet utterly raw in its humanity.”—Asymptote Journal \nThis pre-recorded conversation will premiere on our Crowdcast channel in celebration of Earth Day 2021. \nThis is a free event\, but we encourage you to pay what you will or purchase the book to support the bookstore and Orion Magazine. All ticket sales will be split between the organizations. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout On Time and Water\nA few years ago\, Andri Snaer Magnason\, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals\, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn’t a specialist\, he said; it wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional\, psychological\, poetic or mythological context\,” he told him\, “then no one will really understand the issue\, and the world will end.” \nBased on interviews and advice from leading glacial\, ocean\, climate\, and geographical scientists\, and interwoven with personal\, historical\, and mythological stories\, Magnason’s response is a rich and compelling work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change–and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future. Moving from reflections on how one writes an obituary for an iceberg to exhortation for a heightened understanding of human time and our obligations to one another\, throughout history and across the globe\, On Time and Water is both deeply personal and globally-minded: a travel story\, a world history\, and a desperate plea to live in harmony with future generations. Already a massive bestseller in Iceland\, and selling in two dozen territories around the world\, this is a book unlike anything that has yet been published on the current climate emergency. \nAbout Andri Snaer Magnason and Rebecca Solnit\nAndri Snær Magnason is one of Iceland’s most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction\, children’s fiction\, and non-fiction. In 2009\, Magnason co-directed the documentary Dreamland\, which was based on his book Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation (forthcoming from Open Letter). In 2010\, Magnason was awarded the Kairos Prize\, presented to outstanding individuals in the field of intercultural understanding. Magnason ran for president of Iceland in 2016 and came third out of nine candidates. \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books\, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, River of Shadows\, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism\, activism and social change\, hope\, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andri-snaer-magnason-and-rebecca-solnit-in-conversation-about-on-time-and-water/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #56
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\n\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\n\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\n\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #73
DESCRIPTION:We’re in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker.\nNomadic Press’ Safe Space Statement and Process: https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess\nPoster by Jevohn Tyler Newsome\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here https://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-monthly-get…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $200.\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Monthly Get Lit\nTime: Feb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the Third Tue\, until Dec 21\, 2021\, 11 occurrence(s)\nFeb 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 18\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 15\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 20\, 2021 07:00 PM\nAug 17\, 2021 07:00 PM\nSep 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nOct 19\, 2021 07:00 PM\nNov 16\, 2021 07:00 PM\nDec 21\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIkcOmhrD8qGNS4vvapk6…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86970924020\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nOne tap mobile\n+13126266799\,\,86970924020# US (Chicago)\n+19292056099\,\,86970924020# US (New York)\nDial by your location\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\nMeeting ID: 869 7092 4020\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kc84C7yxDO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-73/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: My Voice in Ink: Speaking Our Truths
DESCRIPTION:TICKETED VIRTUAL POETRY WORKSHOP:\nMy Voice in Ink: Speaking Our Truths \nLove Amanda Gorman and her inaugural poem? Want to write a new poem yourself and support the organization where Gorman got her start? Well\, sharpen your pencil and grab your notebook! All you need is a life! No previous writing experience necessary. \nJoin poet and nonfiction author Patrice Vecchione for a Zoom poetry writing workshop\, April 24th\, from 10:00 am–12:00 pm. \nClick here for tickets to this special event.  \nThe workshop fee of $40 includes one of Patrice’s recent books\, Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience or My Shouting\, Shattered\, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your Truth as well as a donation to WriteGirl. Learn more about WriteGirl here. \nFor ages 14 on up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-my-voice-in-ink-speaking-our-truths/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Kyle Lukoff on Instagram Live!
DESCRIPTION:reading Explosion at the Poem Factory. \n“Offbeat nonsense humor of the highest order: not to be missed.”–Kirkus\, starred review \nBe sure to watch within 24 hours of broadcast before the video disappears! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 24\, 2021 – 10:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nKilmer Watts makes his living teaching piano lessons\, but when automatic pianos arrive in town\, he realizes he’s out of a job. He spots a “Help Wanted” sign at the poem factory and decides to investigate — he’s always been curious about how poems are made. \nThe foreman explains that machines and assembly lines are used for poetry these days. So Kilmer learns how to operate the “meter meter” and empty the “cliché bins.” He assembles a poem by picking out a rhyme scheme\, sprinkling in some similes and adding alliteration. \nBut one day the machines malfunction\, and there is a dramatic explosion at the poem factory. How will poetry ever survive? \nKyle Lukoff’s funny story\, rich in wordplay\, is complemented by Mark Hoffmann’s lively\, quirky art. The backmatter includes definitions of poetic feet\, types of poems (with illustrated examples) and a glossary of other terms. An author’s note explains the inspiration for the story. \nKyle Lukoff has worked at the intersection of books and people for more than half his life\, first as a bookseller and later as a school librarian\, reviewer\, awards juror and contributor to professional publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kyle-lukoff-on-instagram-live/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Alley Cat Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day: Poetry reading with Kim Shuck and 5 Poets!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday April 24th starting at 5pm.\nWe will be wrapping up our celebration of Independent Bookstore Day with some of our favorite poets!\nZoom:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86715102063\nPassword: Password will be messaged to those who respond as “Going.”\nThe bookstore will also be open for the celebration. Please keep in mind the current capacity is 12 people and a mask is required.\nWe are honored to host:\nKim Shuck\nhttps://kimshuck.com\nPaul Corman-Roberts https://www.nomadicpress.org/paulcormanroberts\nKitty Costello http://www.freedomvoices.org/new/kitty-costello-upon-waking\nLourdes Figueroa\nhttps://www.lourdesfigueroa.net\nMason J.\nhttps://www.nomadicpress.org/store/crossbonesonmylife\nGreg Pond\nhttps://nomadicground.tumblr.com/…/i-fell-by-greg-pond
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alley-cat-celebrates-independent-bookstore-day-poetry-reading-with-kim-shuck-and-5-poets/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:At The Door: Chapter Three
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly reading series\, uplifting only Black & Brown voices. If you didn’t attend last month’s event… you missed out. Here’s your chance to make it up.\nFeatured Readers:\nEmily Hoang\nRebeca Flores\nRandy James\nSumeera J.\nTureeda Mikell\n\nWe look forward to seeing you in community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-chapter-three/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T200000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Roots
DESCRIPTION:Join SNS this month\, for a reading about ROOTS. For our April writing challenge\, you are invited to explore an origin story\, history\, or ancestry (your own\, a relative’s\, a fictional character’s) or write about what anchors or nourishes you or what holds you back (literally or metaphorically) or write about trees\, tulips\, turnips or kites. You get the idea \n*Special thanks to Greg Roensch for suggesting this month’s theme.\n\nAPRIL FEATURES:\nMatthew Clark Davison & Andres Cordoba\n\nOPEN MIC: Share your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum.\n\nSATURDAY\, April 24\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\n\nHOSTED BY: Hollie Hardy\n\nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on April. 17. Requests added in the order received until the list is full.\nTo sign up\, please put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max.\n\nZOOM INFO:\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://cccconfer.zoom.us/…/tJMrdOqspjsrHtDrqxtbnGOR1IS…\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the reading.\n\nAUTHOR BIOS\nMATTHEW CLARK DAVISON’s debut novel\, Doubting Thomas\, will be published in Summer 2021 by Amble Press. He’s full-time faculty in Creative Writing at SFSU and creator and teacher of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD a non-academic school started in 2007 in a friend’s living room. The textbook version of The Lab \, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante\, will be published by Norton in 2022. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews (Epiphany Publishing) and 580-Split; and published in or on Guernica\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Advocate\, Exquisite Pandemic\, Foglifter\, Lumina Magazine\, Per Contra\, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant\, Cultural Equities Grant. Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress\, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.\n\nANDRES CORDOBA is a Massachusetts-born writer. He has received honors such as the Thayer Fellowship For the Arts and the Patricia Kerr Ross Award\, was named a 2019 Breakout 8 Writer in poetry by Epiphany: A Literary Journal\, and was a finalist in Black Warrior Review’s 2020 Poetry Contest. He has just recently militarized his focus; catch him croaking his catharsis in a parking lot with a loaded spliff\, all tobacco heavy-headed with hands muddy from the night shift. More can be found on twitter (@urgoodpalandres) and instagram (@urgoodpal_andres).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-roots/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T120000
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SUMMARY:Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros Virtual Celebration
DESCRIPTION:It’s a celebration of literacy\, books and nature! We invite you and your family to enjoy stories\, songs\, crafts and learn about special places to visit in the City. We are bringing the festival to your home\, we hope you can join us. \nEs una celebracion de la lectura\, libros y la naturaleza. Los invitamos con su familia para que disfruten cuentos\, canciones\, manualidades y aprenden acerca de lugares especiales dentro de la cuidad. Traemos el festival a sus hogares\, esperamos que pueden acompanarnos. \nTune in on Facebook and on YouTube. \nThis program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. \nFor accommodations (such as ASL interpretation or captioning)\, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2021/04/25/dia-de-los-ninosdia-de-los-libros-virtual-celebration sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-de-los-ninos-dia-de-los-libros-virtual-celebration/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
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SUMMARY:CWC WORKSHOP: How To Submit Your Poetry With Keith M. Gaboury
DESCRIPTION:This workshop led by poet Keith M. Gaboury will focus on a step-by-step process of how a poet can submit their poetry to a wide range of literary journals along with presses that accept chapbooks and full-length manuscripts. From such topics as knowing which literary journals to submit to\, formatting a cover letter\, and following submission guidelines\, Keith will break this seemingly daunting process into goals that are readily attainable. All this information will be shared through a Google Doc that will remain active indefinitely. In addition\, the Google Doc will have links to online databases of literary journals / presses and websites that feature active submission calls. At the end of the workshop\, a poet will have a thorough understanding of how they can send their poetry out into the literary world. \nKeith Mark Gaboury earned a M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in such literary publications as Poetry Quarterly and New Millennium Writings along with chapbooks from Duck Lake Books and The Pedestrian Press. He has a forthcoming chapbook from Finishing Line Press. Keith lives in Oakland\, California. Learn more at www.keithmgaboury.com. \n### \nToday\, the California Writers Club (CWC) is the third oldest writing club in the United States. Membership has grown to 1\,800 members in 22 Branches throughout the state. Although named the Berkeley Branch when the Club reorganized into formal Branches and a Central Board in the mid-1970s\, the Branch meets in Oakland monthly September-June. The statewide Central Board holds its biannual meetings in Oakland as well. \nCWC member/volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing speaker programs\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, publishing opportunities\, networking events (online and F2F)\, and more. \n$10 For Members\, $20 For Non-Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwc-workshop-how-to-submit-your-poetry-with-keith-m-gaboury/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210212T041852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T041852Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Robert Alter and Daniel Mason on Nabokov
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, APRIL 26 AT 6PM WHEN ROBERT ALTER IS JOINED BY DANIEL MASON TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK\, NABOKOV AND THE REAL WORLD: BETWEEN APPRECIATION AND DEFENSE\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86708546681\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86708546681#  or +13462487799\,\,86708546681#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdBG9kysFj\n \nPraise for Nabokov and the Real World \n“This essay collection assesses the stakes and real-world relevance of Nabokov’s writing\, from his lectures and short stories to his major novels. It’s a great read if you’re a Nabokov fan\, or if you’ve ever wondered\, ‘Why did this guy write Lolita?'”—Literary Hub \n“Elegant and penetrating. This important and timely book offers very personal readings of Nabokov by one of the most prominent literary scholars and translators today.”—Galya Diment\, author of Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel and A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky \n“In his sustained appreciation of the relation between consciousness and reality\, Alter intricately articulates how lived experience is\, and can be\, realized through the textual object. Nabokov and the Real World reveals how we can experience other worlds vicariously and does so in sumptuous prose from start to finish.”—Michael Rodgers\, author of Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives\nAbout Nabokov and the Real World \nAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games\, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times about reality as a term that always has to be put in scare quotes. Consequently\, many critics and readers have thought of him as a writer uninterested in the world outside literature. Robert Alter shows how Nabokov was passionately concerned with the real world and its complexities\, from love and loss to exile\, freedom\, and the impact of contemporary politics on our lives. \nIn these illuminating and exquisitely written essays\, Alter spans the breadth of Nabokov’s writings\, from his memoir\, lectures\, and short stories to major novels such as Lolita. He demonstrates how the self-reflexivity of Nabokov’s fiction becomes a vehicle for expressing very real concerns. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant stylist who is at once serious and playful\, who cared deeply about human relationships and the burden of loss\, and who was acutely sensitive to the ways political ideologies can distort human values. \nOffering timeless insights into literature’s most fabulous artificer\, Nabokov and the Real World makes an elegant and compelling case for Nabokov’s relevance today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-robert-alter-and-daniel-mason-on-nabokov/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210413T144351Z
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SUMMARY:Doug Bierend and Joanna Steinhardt
DESCRIPTION:In conversation about In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science\, Fungi Fanatics\, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms \nDoug Bierend is joined by Joanna Steinhardt of the Society for Cultural Anthropology for a wide-ranging conversation about In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science\, Fungi Fanatics\, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (Chelsea Green). \n“Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.” — Library Journal \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout In Search of Mycotopia\nFrom ecology to fermentation\, in pop culture and in medicine–mushrooms are everywhere. With an explorer’s eye\, author Doug Bierend guides readers through the weird\, wonderful world of fungi and the amazing mycological movement. \nIn Search of Mycotopia introduces us to an incredible\, essential\, and oft-overlooked kingdom of life–fungi–and all the potential it holds for our future\, through the work and research being done by an unforgettable community of mushroom-mad citizen scientists and microbe devotees. This entertaining and mind-expanding book will captivate readers who are curious about the hidden worlds and networks that make up our planet. \nBierend uncovers a vanguard of mycologists; growers\, independent researchers\, ecologists\, entrepreneurs\, and amateur enthusiasts exploring and advocating for fungi’s capacity to improve and heal. From decontaminating landscapes and waterways to achieving food security\, In Search of Mycotopia demonstrates how humans can work with fungi to better live with nature–and with one another. \nAbout the participants\nDoug Bierend is a freelance journalist writing about science and technology\, food\, and education\, and the various ways they point to a more equitable and sustainable world. His byline appears in Wired\, The Atlantic\, Vice\, Motherboard\, The Counter\, Outside Magazine\, Civil Eats\, and numerous other publications. \nJoanna Steinhardt is an Oakland-based researcher\, writer\, and editor. She holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara. She is currently working on a book about iboga\, a psychoactive root bark from West Africa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doug-bierend-and-joanna-steinhardt/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210303T053334Z
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SUMMARY:Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo in conversation with Carribean Fragoza
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.   \n\ncelebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines\, published by City Lights Books. Sesshu & Arturo will be in conversation with their fellow City Lights author Carribean Fragoza! \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. \n———– \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation \n\n\n\nBooks related to this event: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nELADATL \nA History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines\nSesshu Foster\, Arturo Ernesto Romo\ndue out in April 2021\nAvailable for pre-order. A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel\, as told by its death-defying\, aero-acrobatic heroes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sesshu-foster-arturo-ernesto-romo-in-conversation-with-carribean-fragoza/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210414T145128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210414T145128Z
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SUMMARY:This Is Now: Kawai Strong Washburn
DESCRIPTION:Join Angie Coiro as she interviews the critically acclaimed debut novelist who stunned everyone from former President Obama to Marlon James and Tommy Orange with his extraordinary novel\, Sharks in the Time of Saviors.\nThis groundbreaking book folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into the modern-day struggles of a single working family. A young child\, Naiona\, falls suddenly from a boat on a rare vacation. After the incident\, the 7 year-old boy seems to develop unusual powers that follow him into adulthood and add challenges to already complex relationships between his siblings\, who are flung as far as California and Portland. With a heady\, golden overlay of belief\, myth and magic\, plus a challenging backdrop of financial strife and Hawaiian politics\, this is fundamentally a human story—in which individuals struggle to develop identity and connection against the weight of challenging surroundings\, economic realities\, and the slightly supernatural. \n“Old myths clash with new realities\, love is in a ride or die with grief\, faith rubs hard against magic\, and comic flips with tragic so much they meld into something new. All told with daredevil lyricism to burn. A ferocious debut.”—MARLON JAMES\, author of Black Leopard\, Red Wolf \n“So good it hurts and hurts to where it heals. It is revelatory and unputdownable. Washburn is an extraordinarily brilliant new talent.”—TOMMY ORANGE\, author of There There \n\nGet to know one of the most exciting new novelists working today for a very special This Is Now conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn. \n\n\n\n\nKAWAI STRONG WASHBURN was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘I. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, McSweeney’s\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading\, among other outlets. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. Formerly a Bay Area writer and frequent visitor to Kepler’s\, he now lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis. \n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. ** \nPhoto of Kawai Strong Washburn by Crystal Lieppa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-kawai-strong-washburn/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210424T220605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T220605Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: The Rise and Fall of Angkor
DESCRIPTION:Explore the quintessential “lost city” of Angkor Wat with us during this very special interactive seminar led by Charles Higham\, archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand.\nHow did the mighty civilization of Angkor in Cambodia come to be\, and why did it collapse? This seminar will explore the impact of climate change on the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire. \nThere are two fundamentals to life in Southeast Asia: the arrival of monsoon rains and the importance of securing a predictable rice harvest. New research has shown that a period of weakened monsoon led to an agricultural crisis in the late prehistoric period (about 200AD). Motivated by decreased rice yields\, this ingenious ancient society developed systems of reservoirs and irrigation to counter the lower rainfall. However\, the unintended consequence of these technological advancements was a steep rise in social inequality and the rise to power of the God-Kings of the Kingdom of Angkor. During their peak\, they built the epic complex known as Angkor Wat\, unrivaled in its scale and grandeur. But\, after six centuries of prosperity\, a second climatic change brought catastrophe and the system collapsed. \nCharles Higham is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago\, New Zealand. He is an archaeologist with a particular interest in the origins of Southeast Asian civilizations. His excavations in Thailand and Cambodia have greatly increased our understanding of how the great Kingdom of Angkor began\, how God-Kings were revered\, and with a climatic deterioration\, how it came to an end. \nTuesday\, April 27\, 6pm\nCAMBODIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF ANGKOR WITH CHARLES HIGHAM \nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-context-travel-the-rise-and-fall-of-angkor/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T160458Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Launch for Yung Pueblo / Clarity & Connection
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Yung Pueblo again\, for the launch of his second collection of poetry and short prose\, Clarity & Connection. Some of you might remember when we hosted for Inward\, his first book—it was quite the treat\, and we hope you can join us for another special evening with the author. \nPlease note: \n\nThis is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a copy of the book.\nWe’re happy to say we have *signed copies* while supplies last. Yung Pueblo will be signing bookplates and sending them to us to put in all of your books.\nEvent link will be sent to everyone who registers.\nIf you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us: events@booksmith.com.\nYou can order additional signed copies of Clarity & Connection here (and signed copies of Inward here) – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay.\n\nAbout the book\nFrom the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. \nIn Clarity & Connection\, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare\, poetic style\, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. \nTo be read on its own or as a complement to Inward\, Yung Pueblo’s second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation\, building self-awareness\, and deepening their connection with others. \nAbout the author\nDiego Perez was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a child. He grew up in Boston and attended Wesleyan University. During a silent Vipassana meditation course in 2012\, he saw that real healing and liberation were possible. He became more committed to his meditation practice while living in New York City. The results he witnessed rsthand moved him to describe his experiences in writing. The penname Yung Pueblo means “young people” and is meant to convey that humanity is entering an era of remarkable growth and healing\, when many will expand their self-awareness and release old burdens. Diego’s online presence as Yung Pueblo\, as well as his books\, Inward and Clarity & Connection\, are meant to serve those undertaking their own journey of personal transformation. Today\, Diego resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife\, where they live quietly and meditate daily. \nPlease note: This is a ticketed\, all-ages event. Each ticket includes a signed copy of Clarity & Connection (while supplies last) – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-launch-for-yung-pueblo-clarity-connection/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210331T155828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T155828Z
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SUMMARY:THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, April 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82405221338. \nYou can order a print copy at https://bit.ly/ggpBadMuslimDiscount or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/BadMuslimDiscountAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\nA charming novel of Muslim immigrants to the United States trying to find their way. Romance\, humor\, and tragedy and a Bay Area setting kept me listening in a long binge. The audiobook performance is very well done.— Mike \nFebruary 2021 Indie Next List \n\n“I loved The Bad Muslim Discount so much I read the acknowledgements just so it wouldn’t end — and they were great\, too! This is an insightful and funny novel about faith\, family\, and being a Muslim American today. Masood offers us a sharp perspective\, a seamless style\, and unforgettable characters\, leaving the reader enriched for the experience.”\n— Claire Benedict\, Bear Pond Books\, Montpelier\, VT \nDescription\n\n“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic\, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East lingers in individual lives\, the way gossip travels in a close-knit immigrant community.” The New York Times Book Review \nFollowing two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016\, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive\, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. \nIt is 1995\, and Anvar Faris is a restless\, rebellious\, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi\, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again\, his family decides\, not quite unanimously\, to start life over in California. Ironically\, Anvar’s deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America\, while his fun-loving father can’t find anyone he relates to. For his part\, Anvar fully commits to being a bad Muslim. \nAt the same time\, thousands of miles away\, Safwa\, a young girl living in war-torn Baghdad with her grief-stricken\, conservative father will find a very different and far more dangerous path to America. When Anvar and Safwa’s worlds collide as two remarkable\, strong-willed adults\, their contradictory\, intertwined fates will rock their community\, and families\, to their core. \nThe Bad Muslim Discount is an irreverent\, poignant\, and often hysterically funny debut novel by an amazing new voice. With deep insight\, warmth\, and an irreverent sense of humor\, Syed M. Masood examines universal questions of identity\, faith (or lack thereof)\, and belonging through the lens of Muslim Americans. \nAbout the Author\n\nSYED M. MASOOD grew up in Karachi\, Pakistan. A first-generation immigrant twice over\, he has been a citizen of three different countries and nine different cities. He currently lives in Sacramento\, California\, where he is a practicing attorney. \nPraise For…\n\n“Masood offers sharp observations on religion\, violence\, and politics\, and his clever choice to place the characters’ disparate experiences in parallel challenges Islamophobic stereotypes.” The New Yorker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bad-muslim-discount-by-syed-m-masood-ggp-online-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210427T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Brian Fies\, A Fire Story
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies will share A Fire Story\, his firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017—revised and expanded\, and now in paperback. Fies’s harrowing and uplifting tale of loss\, survival\, and the power of community will no doubt resonate with locals\, having experienced our own fire story last August.  \nRegister for this free virtual event here! \nEarly morning on Monday\, October 9\, 2017\, wildfires burned through Northern California\, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition\, 6\,200 homes and 8\,900 structures were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest\, unflinching depiction of his personal experiences\, including losing his house and every possession he and his wife had that didn’t fit into the back of their car. In the days that followed\, as the fires continued to burn through the area\, Brian hastily pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online–it immediately went viral. He has now expanded his original webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors and others in his community. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed\, families broken\, and a community determined to rebuild. The updated and expanded Fire Story is an affordably priced paperback of 192 pages\, including 32 pages of all-new material\, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding\, wrestling with insurance\, wrangling with contractors\, the management of sometimes volatile emotions\, and the threats of yet another wildfire. \n“A Fire Story is a victim’s testimony as well as a journalistic endeavor.” — Los Angeles Times \n“Sometimes incorporating photographs and often communicating emotion with color\, he affectingly relates the grief\, rage\, and powerlessness of losing one’s home and possessions; each time he remembers another thing he’s lost–home videos he’d been meaning to digitize\, for instance–the pain feels brand-new again. Inviting\, empathy-driven\, and ultimately hopeful in the face of hardship.” — Booklist\, Starred Review \nAUTHOR:\nBrian Fies is a writer and cartoonist of the award-winning graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? Although he lost his home\, he and his wife are rebuilding in Santa Rosa\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-brian-fies-a-fire-story/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210410T210224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210410T210224Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?
DESCRIPTION:Joanne McNeil\, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User explores our dependence on Google as the Internet’s Library. But is it? \nA generation ago\, when people had a question they would ask a librarian to look up the answer. Today\, when users have a question\, they Google it.In her 2020 book Lurking: How a Person Became a User\, author Joanne McNeil examines our reliance on large\, corporate platforms–in particular Google– to ingest and archive everything. While early internet services provided a sense of freedom and identity\, we now trust search engines and social media to preserve our blogs\, books\, videos\, and social media forever. But McNeil writes: \nGoogle could replicate information on its own terms\, and with no further commitment to maintaining data\, any information erased or last could be interpreted as something the world itself was missing. \nIn this thought-provoking event\, Why Trust a Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?\, Joanne McNeil is joined by technologist/ artist\, Darius Kazemi\, as they examine how in the 1990’s and early aughts\, people became users\, and users put their trust in a corporation to do the job of a library. \nWhat happens to library values such as privacy\, preservation and enduring access to knowledge in the era of surveillance capitalism? Is Google the “internet’s library\,” and if not\, where should we turn for collections of knowledge at scale? \nPresented by Library Futures & the Internet Archive\, this discussion invites you to explore whether we’ve traded convenience for the protections that libraries have always offered: privacy\, preservation\, and equitable access to knowledge. And if so\, where do we go from here? \nBuy your copy of Lurking from us! The first 50 people to purchase McNeil’s book will receive an autographed copy & be invited to stay after the event to chat with the author. \nAbout the book: \n“A long-overdue people’s history of the internet. Joanne McNeil retells our last three decades online from the perspective of those who actually made it worthwhile—us.” – Claire L. Evans\, author of Broad Band \nOne of Esquire’s Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020\, and a OneZero Best Tech Book of 2020. Named one of the 100 Notable books of 2020 by the End of the World Review. \nA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. \nAbout our speakers: \nJoanne McNeil was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation’s Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam\, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow\, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. \nDarius Kazemi is an internet artist under the moniker Tiny Subversions. His best known works are the Random Shopper (a program that bought him random stuff from Amazon each month) and Content\, Forever (a tool to generate rambling thinkpieces of arbitrary length). He has a small army of Twitter and Tumblr bots that he builds because they make him laugh. He founded NaNoGenMo\, where participants spend a month writing algorithms to generate 50\,000 word novels\, and Bot Summit\, a yearly gathering of people who make art bots. He cofounded Feel Train\, a creative technology cooperative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK\, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE CALIFORNIA\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82328254294\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,82328254294#  or +12532158782\,\,82328254294#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdSz0Pf0cW \nAbout We Are the Land \n“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews \nRewriting the history of California as Indigenous. \nBefore there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAbout the Authors \nWilliam J. Bauer\, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. \nDamon B. Akins is Associate Professor of History at Guilford College\, in Greensboro\, North Carolina\, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-damon-b-akins-and-william-j-bauer-jr-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210424T190950Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Partners: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Dustin Parsons
DESCRIPTION:This reading series\, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together\, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who work together\, live together\, or a combination of both—to chat\, read favorites from their own and each others’ work\, and tell us what collaboration offers their creative practice. \n\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic\, Lucky Fish\, At The Drive-In Volcano\, and Miracle Fruit\, and the chapbook Lace & Pyrite\, a collaboration of garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her most recent book is the award-winning\, illustrated collection of nature essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, & Other Astonishments. \n\n\n\nDustin Parsons is the author of Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood\, with Diagrams\, and he has previously served as the non-fiction editor of The Mid-American Review. Awards for his writing include an Ohio Arts Grant and a New York Fine Arts grant in creative non-fiction\, the American Literary Review Prize in fiction\, the fiction prize from The Laurel Review and a “notable” in the Best American Essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-partners-aimee-nezhukumatathil-dustin-parsons/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210301T050603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T050603Z
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers \nTo close out National Poetry Month\, Litquake is thrilled to welcome former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to our Seismic Salon\, where he will discuss poetry\, his work\, and career. Herrera also served as California State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014. His many published collections include the recent Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems\, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse\, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate\, Calling The Doves\, Jabberwalking\, and Upside Down Boy\, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. \nBuy Juan Felipe Herrera’s books at City Lights. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210301T020624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T020624Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits\nThursday\, April 29\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nRachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
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CREATED:20210415T051049Z
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SUMMARY:Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America's Forgotten History
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nAVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event\nCentral America’s Forgotten History: Revolution\, Violence\, and the Roots of Migration \nAviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. \nAt the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty\, corruption\, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History\, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects of Central America’s historical inequality and oppression\, a direct result of colonial and neo-colonial development policies and the cultures of violence and forgetting needed to implement them. \nChomsky expertly recounts Central Americans’ valiant struggles for social and economic justice to restore these vivid and gripping events to popular consciousness. She traces the roots of displacement and migration in Central America to the Spanish conquest and brings us to the present day\, where she concludes that the more immediate roots of migration from the three Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador\, Guatemala\, and Honduras) lie in the wars and in the US interventions of the 1980s and the peace accords of the 1990s. \nChomsky also examines how and why histories and memories are suppressed\, and the impact of losing historical memory. \nAviva Chomsky is the author of several books\, including Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!\,”  Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over thirty years. \nMickey Huff is the current Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history-tickets-137895929437
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T154117Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Mira Sethi and Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION:IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY SF\nJOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN MIRA SETHI IS JOINED BY SHRUTI SWAMY TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION\, ARE YOU ENJOYING?\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88167438648\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88167438648#  or +12532158782\,\,88167438648#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdghMJMl4C\n \nPraise for Are You Enjoying?\n“Fresh\, intelligent\, and bold: Mira Sethi’s stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan.”—Mohsin Hamid\, author of Exit West \n“A powerful book with a light touch\, marking the arrival of an assured storyteller…Sethi is operating in a rich tradition of South Asian storytelling\, but also\, with the distinct and vibrant perspective she offers\, making it her own.”—Vogue \n“Biting and incisive stories…especially striking for their portrayal of hidden homosexuality.”—Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Are You Enjoying?\nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home—including the bedroom—these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mira-sethi-and-shruti-swamy/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210301T175334Z
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SUMMARY:Black Freighter Press\, a celebration: with Mahogany L. Browne\, Christopher Malec\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and readings from the final book by the late Q.R. Hand Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Tonya M. Foster \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages: Mahogany L. Browne and Q.R. Hand Jr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-freighter-press-a-celebration-with-mahogany-l-browne-christopher-malec-josiah-luis-alderete-tongo-eisen-martin-and-readings-from-the-final-book-by-the-late-q-r-hand-jr/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T082430
CREATED:20210424T221216Z
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SUMMARY:Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José \nonline on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! \nor join be phone +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 831 7139 8605 Passcode: 674247 \nImani Cezanne is a Black writer\, performer and tamale connoisseur living in Oakland\, CA. In March she became the 2020 Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion for the second time and in July of the same year she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship finalist. As a two time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Imani has forthcoming work in Nimrod\, Fugue\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Crab Creek Review\, and POETRY magazine. While all are welcome to enjoy her work\, Imani writes for Black people\, Black readers and is committed to the liberation of all oppressed people. \nImani is a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s 2020 Writer’s Corp Teaching Artist in Residence Grant\, a $40\,000 award granted every year for three years to create spoken word poetry programming for the youth of San Francisco. Throughout her teaching career\, Imani has taught Creative Writing and Spoken Word in over 40 middle and high schools across the country\, using both a short and long-term residency models. Each lesson is designed to fit the needs of the students\, the length of the residency and meet intended learning outcomes. Imani has also coached poetry slam teams at San Francisco State University\, Mills College\, American University and Georgetown University. She is currently a Teaching Artist with YouthSpeaks\, SFJAZZ\, The Museum of African Diaspora and Performing Arts Workshop. This event will be moderated by Tshaka Campbell. \nTshaka Campbell is a husband and father as well as accomplished artist and performer. His appears in print and national commercials and he conducts lectures and facilitates workshops in creative writing and poetry. He was voted one of the 25 people to know in San Francisco\, holds two Grand Slam titles and was a finalist for the 2020 Santa Clara Poet Laureate honor. Tshaka is an author of “STUFF – I will write more “\, “MUTED WHISPERS” and “TUNNEL VISION as well as collaborated on a number of musical projects in the House\, Jazz and Blues genres. His literary work has appeared in journals and reviews such as 2 Bridges Review\, Tribe Magazine and others. He currently resides in San Jose and continues to ask the world to “Listen Different.” \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imani-cezanne-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tshaka-campbell/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver\, Growing Weed in the Garden
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver will discuss her book Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis. Silver will be in conversation with Darryl Wong\, Farm Site and Research Lands Manager at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS).  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nFrom peonies to pot—Johanna Silver\, former Sunset garden editor\, will share her journey into cannabis. Spoiler—she’s not a stoner. The presentation will include a brief history of the plant\, one of (if not THE) oldest plants under human cultivation\, including how regional climates impacted the plant’s evolution. She’ll paint a picture of the current state of genetics of the plant—unrivaled in anything else in horticulture\, as it’s not yet gone through modern breeding practices. Myths and misinformation when it comes to cultivation\, coming from 100-ish years of prohibition\, will be discussed and corrected. It should be noted that Johanna’s approach is outdoor-only and garden-scale. She grows for a love of the plant\, not with a goal of maximizing yield. The techniques she most adheres to are those that are easiest\, simplest\, and most tried-and-true in the garden. \nJohanna Silver is a James Beard Award-winning author who writes mostly about plants and people. Her two books\, The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden (Timber Press\, 2017) and Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss\, Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation (Abrams\, 2020) are available everywhere books are sold. Johanna is a contributing editor at Better Homes & Gardens\, and her work has been featured in Martha Stewart Living\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and Eating Well. Previously\, Johanna spent ten years at Sunset Magazine\, beginning with a shovel in her hands and culminating as head of the garden department. She lives and gardens in Berkeley\, CA\, where she grows fruits\, veggies\, and entirely too many cut flowers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-johanna-silver-growing-weed-in-the-garden/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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