Solar Eclipse Viewing Parties at Various LAPL Libraries–Family Event
Join us to watch the 2017 Solar eclipse with a number of Solar Systems Ambassadors at your local Los Angeles public libraries. Free solar viewing glasses provided. Children, teens and families are welcome.
Check LAPL website for all locations.
Where: Various LAPL Branch and Regional Library Locations; for example, Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 10 am
Address: 7771 Foothill Blvd., Tujunga, CA 91042
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/solar-eclipse-2017-0
Author Stephen Maitland-Lewis at Westwood Library
Join us for the Author’s Club event when we present a Q&A with award-winning talk show host Pam Atherton interviewing author Stephen Maitland-Lewis, the author of Boticelli’s Bastard.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/authors-club-stephen-maitland-lewis
Adam Walker Phillips at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Adam Walker Phillips discuss and sign the first in a series of Chuck Restic mysteries, The Silent Second: A Chuck Restic Mystery, which introduces readers to a sharp, witty, regular-guy detective who’s rapidly winning fans. In this book Chuck unravels a web of rooked real estate deals and three murders, staving off a fourth: his own. (Paperback).
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/book/9781945551048
90X90LA: Drunken Masters at Wolf & Crane Bar
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Join us to hear three writers perform short excerpts from a work-in-progress in front of a panel of three published writers in the field who provide on-the-spot feedback. The only catch is that the master writers have been plied with drink or PG indulgence of their choosing. A laid-back, entertaining reading!
This week’s theme is Sci-Fi & Fantasy.
Curated by Jeff Rogers and Chiwan Choi
Features: TBA.
Where: Wolf & Crane Bar
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 8 pm
Address: 366 E.2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/drunken-masters-sci-fi-fantasy-m-821/
Storytime at Hastings Ranch at Vroman’s Bookstore–Children’s Event
Join us every Tuesday at 10 am for Storytime at Hastings Ranch for a special reading time with young children.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore, Hastings Ranch
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 10 am
Address: 3729 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91107
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/storytime-hastings-ranch-73
Literacy Book Club at Echo Park Branch Library, LAPL
Join us for our Adult Literacy Book Club. Adult literacy students, their tutors, as well as their friends, are invited to read and discuss popular adult books in an informal setting.
Where: Echo Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 1410 West Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/literacy-book-club
90X90LA: Wet Hot Arab-American Summer at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Join us as we host PEN Center USA, for a reading by Arab-American writers, presented in partnership with The Radius of Arab-American Writers (RAWI).
Hosted by Randa Jarrar, award-winning author of Him, Me Muhammad Ali (2016), and featuring:
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist and essayist, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2015 for her novel The Moor’s Account.
Stephanie Abraham is a writer, blogger, media critic and social-political activist and essayist.
Conner Habib is the author of The Sex Book: Myths, Positions, Taboos and Possibilities. He is an academic turned porn star.
Jennifer Jajeh is an actress and writer, toured Europe with her solo show I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You, and is a producer of documentary and narrative film and video projects.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/wet-hot-arab-american-summer-tue-722-8pm/
Redondo Beach Poets at Coffee Cartel
Join us to hear featured poet Andrew Carroll and stay for our Open Mic. Come early to sign up for Open Mic.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
Poets & Writers Roundtable at Art Share LA
Please join us for the next Poets & Writers’ Los Angeles Literary Roundtable Meeting. This informal meeting is a great opportunity to connect with fellow presenters, presses, teachers and writers, to share ideas, news and resources, and learn more about P&W Readings & Workshops program.
Please RSVP at link on website.
Where: Art Share LA Theater
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Melissa Jane Osborne at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Melissa Jane Osborne, with actress Christine Woods, present and sign The Wendy Project. When 16-year-old Wendy Davis crashes her car into a lake with her two younger brothers in the back seat, she awakens in the hospital to learn her youngest brother Michael is dead. Once a rational teenager, Wendy insists her brother is alive and in the custody of a mysterious flying boy. But is The Wendy Project merely her safe space, or a portal between worlds?
Please RSVP at link on website.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Inside the Lantern Open Mic at Half Off Books
Join us for our Inside the Lantern Open Mic, featuring Robin Axworthy, a fourth generation California native who began writing in childhood and many years later got her MFA from CSUF. She makes poetry to make sense of the conflict, as Nancy Lynee Woo stated, between “logic and intuition…tradition and radical change, …and serious and silly.”
Hosted by Elmast Kozloyan
Where: Half Off Books
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 6708 Greenleaf Ave., Whittier, CA 90601
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/449785148734966/?active_tab=about
Danzy Senna at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Danzy Senna read and sign her new novel, New People. This is the story of Maria and Khalil, who are starting a very modern life together in Brooklyn, and have just landed a starring role in a new documentary about “new people” like them, who are blurring the boundaries as a brave new era dawns. But Maria can’t stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows. As her fantasy escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel her new life and her very persona. Heartbreaking and darkly comic, this is a page-turner that challenges every assumption about how we define each other, and ourselves.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/danzy-senna-reads-her-new-novel-new-people
Anansi Writers Workshop at the World Stage
Join us every Wednesday for our workshop, feature, and open mic opportunity. Today we host feature Shonda Buchanan, Literary Editor of Harriet Tubman Press, Education Specialist for the U.S. Department of State, and former Chair of the Department of English & Foreign Languages at Hampton University, where she is now an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & English. Her poems and essays have been featured in numerous anthologies, and her memoir, Black Indian, is forthcoming.
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm (feature scheduled for 8:30 pm)
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.theworldstage.org/events.html
90x90LA: Whiskey Writing Wednesday at a Little Tokyo Bar
Join us for an evening of prompt led writing at a Little Tokyo Bar, curated by traci kato-kiriyama & TNP friends.
More info TBA.
Where: Little Tokyo Bar TBD
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 8:30 pm
Address: Little Tokyo Bar TBD
Website: http://90x90la.com/lt-whiskey-writing-wednesday-w-823-830pm/
90x90LA: PUBLISH! at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Join us for a morning of writing prompts led by local writers and publishing on the spot. PUBLISH is an ongoing underground publishing project, which kicked off in the Bowery Subway Station in New York and has traveled all over, publishing hundreds of writers from around the world.
Where: Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC)
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 244 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/publish-th-824-930am/
Great Books Discussion Group at Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library
Join us for our Great Books Discussion Group. This week we will discuss Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2920 Overland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/great-books-discussion-group-3
Paula Poundstone at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Paula Poundstone discuss and sign her book, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness, a wildly and wisely observed book, that takes on that unalienable right—the pursuit of happiness. This is a story of jumping into experiences with both feet, and her brilliance is served up in abundance here.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Ernest Hardy & Tisa Bryant at the Hammer Museum
Join us for our Conversations program to hear a discussion of Trouble in Mind…But I Won’t Be Blue Always, featuring Ernest Hardy and Tisa Bryant. Writers Hardy and Bryant sift through film, television, music, social media, and news to explore black presentations of depression and distress, remedies and healing, and the resilience of joy in black life and culture.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/08/trouble-in-mind-but-i-wont-be-blue-always/
Skylight Staff Showcase at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear what your favorite, gentle-souled booksellers do when they’re not recommending books for you to read. Musicians, writers and photographers, all on our staff, will entertain you, so come and get weird with us!
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-staff-showcase-0
Anna Broome Room at Art Share LA
Join us to hear Anna Broome perform and present some talented artists, a sort of variety show with poets, artists and musicians from the Los Angeles area. Join us in the Arts District.
Where: Art Share LA
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://artsharela.org/event/the-anna-broome-room-art-share-l-a-5/
The Last Book Review at the Last Bookstore
Join us for The Last Book Review with host Ever Mainard, who invites authors, comedians, musicians and more to tell funny, true stories and one witty book review. This is an eclectic event series which inspires humorous discourse and creativity.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Open Mic at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Please join us for our Open Mic: Night of Music & Spoken Word, where we offer a welcoming, creative sanctuary to share thoughts, feelings and talents through various styles of creative expression. Everyone is welcome!
Hosted by Jeffrey Martin
Where: Tia Chucha’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.tiachucha.org/programming
Gorgeous Stories at Beyond Baroque
Please join us to hear Terrie Silverman perform her famous workshop, Gorgeous Stories.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
SMPL at the Annenberg Beach House
We’re packing up the books and heading back to the shore for more fun at the beach, with our seaside pop-up library! Join us at the Annenberg Community Beach House for a day of family friendly activities, check out our beach reads, enjoy games, or kick back and relax and read in the shade of our Seaside Lounge.
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 10 am – 3 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24066
Cynthia Guardado at Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Join us for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by Cynthia Guardado, author of Endeavor.
Curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Matt Goldman at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Matt Goldman, Emmy award-winning Seinfeld writer, discuss and sign his debut private eye murder mystery, Gone to Dust. Set in Minnesota, this is an irreverent, insightful story of detective Nils Shapiro, who uncovers a brutal crime, the ultimate cover-up, with no useable evidence. Is this a strange case of domestic violence or something with far reaching, sinister implications?
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/matt-goldman-discusses-and-signs-gone-dust
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear the greatest basketball player of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reading and signing his new memoir, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court. This is the story of the profound influence Coach Wooden had on Kareem, then Lew Alcinder, as a player and a person, and a celebration of the unique philosophical outlook of Wooden and a moving tribute to both of the all-conquering power of friendship.
Since retiring from playing basketball, Abdul-Jabbar has authored six books, three for children, and has been a columnist for Time magazine on a variety of subjects. His essays and columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Esquire.com, among other publications. In 2016 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://chevaliersbooks.com/kareem-abdul-jabbar
Brandy Colbert, with Stephanie Kuehn, at Skylight Books
Brandy Colbert reads from her YA novel, Little & Lion, and discusses it with Stephanie Kuehn, who reads her novel When I Am Through with You. The first novel is about the relationship between Lizette, a girl returning home from boarding school, and Emil, her stepbrother, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The second novel is a thriller, a gripping story of survival and the razor’s edge difference between perfect cruelty and perfect love.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Poetry Circus at Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round
Join us for the Fourth Annual Poetry Circus, in celebration of the 97th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. We will host 25 poets and performers as well as literary organizations and literary outreach programs. This free event for all ages, with FREE PARKING too was inspired by the release of the collection, In the Circus of You, by Nicelle Davis, published by Rose Metal Press. It’s part workshop, community outreach, performance, ride, dance and creation, and blurs the line between performer and audience so all can participate.
Where: Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 4730 Crystal Springs Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.nicelledavis.net/the-poetry-circus/
Queer Voices Reading at the dA Center for the Arts
Join us as the San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival hosts a Queer Voices Reading, featuring the co-editors of the East Jasmine Review, Andrew Turner and Cherisse Nadal. Whether you are part of the LGBTQ community or not, you are welcome to join our reading and Open Mic!
Where: dA Center for the Arts
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 252 S. Main St., Ste. D, Pomona, CA 91766
90X90LA: Soul Together at Avenue 50
This event is a salon for artists of color. A day to celebrate the myriad ways we express ourselves through the arts.
Curated by Air 11 Gallery.
Where: Avenue 50 Studios
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
Website: http://90x90la.com/soul-togethersa-826-7pm/
Booty Book Baby: Diaper Drive & Book Party at Skylight
A community diaper drive and book party benefiting Miry’s List families will take place all day, and guests will be announced closer to the date of the event. Please drop off unused disposable diapers, to be distributed to families in need in September. Diapers may also be purchased via the Pump Station’s website.
Michelle Franke of PEN Center USA is coordinating this event. Please check website for further details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 10 am – 10 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Nebraska Girl Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us in The Poet’s Garden for our monthly Nebraska Girl Open Mic event, hosted by Wyatt Underwood.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Greeting From Los Angeles at Book Soup
Pease join us as Peter Moruzzi presents and signs Greetings from Los Angeles, a fascinating tour of the city through a fun and colorful collection of old photos, picture postcards, brochures, ads and other vintage ephemera, accompanied by the author’s candid and insightful commentary.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/peter-moruzzi-presents-and-signs-greetings-los-angeles
La Palabra Reading Series at Avenue 50 Studios
Join us for our August circle and Open Mic and to welcome our features:
Sarah Rafael Garcia is a writer, community educator and traveler. Since publishing Las Ninas in 2008 she founded Barrio Writers and LibroMobile, a literary project to fund diversity through literature. She is also a Macando Fellow and her work has appeared in numerous journals.
Marilynn Montano is a writer, poet, Chicana, community organizer, barista, and proud daughter of migrant parents from Puebla, Mexico. She has been based in Santa Ana since the age of fifteen. She was featured on the PBS News hour, and is currently Orange County Program Director for Barrio Writers and attends Santa Ana College.
Jesus Cortes is a poet from West Anaheim, and draws his inspiration from his mother, the city of Anaheim and his undocumented immigrant experience. He hopes his words will bring about positive change, no matter how small.
Hosted by Karineh Mahdessian
Where: Avenue 50 Studios
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Fourth Sundays Poetry at the Claremont Library
Join us for the Fourth Sundays Poetry Reading, featuring:
Angela Penaredondo is a Pilipinx poet, artist and educator based in Riverside and Los Angeles. She is the author of the collection All Things Lose Thousands of Times and the chapbook Maroon.
Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana and received his MFA from Butler University where he was managing editor of Booth, a Journal. He is currently pursuing his PhD at USC, and has been poetry editor for Gold Line Press and a managing editor for Ricochet Editions. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, was released by Red Hen Press in spring of 2017.
Where: Claremont Library
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 208 Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Yiddish Poetry at the Workman’s Circle
Join us for the 65th Anniversary of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Executions, when 13 Jewish writers and anti-fascist activists were murdered at the hands of the Stalin regime in 1952. The event will feature readings of the works of the victims, in both English translations and in their original Yiddish.
Where: Workman’s Circle
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 1525 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Poetry in Tujunga at Bolton Hall Museum
Pease join us as Pamela Shea and Lois P. Jones feature at Bolton Hall Museum. Shea is the newest Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga and Jones will present her award-winning book, Night Ladder.
Where: Bolton Hall
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 10110 Commerce Ave., Tujunga, CA 91042
Website: http://villagepoets.blogspot.com/
Kate Partridge and Guests at Book Launch at the Pop-Hop
Pease join us as Kate Partridge launches her debut poetry collection, Ends of the Earth, and is also the author of the hybrid chapbooks Guide to Urban Reindeer and Intended American Dictionary. She is pursuing her PhD at USC.
Also featured:
Emily Vizzo is a writer, educator and editor whose essay “A Personal History of Dirt” was honored as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2013, and she was included within Best New Poets 2015. Her chapbook Giantess is forthcoming.
Muriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer, and her poetry, fiction and nonfiction has been widely published. She is pursuing her PhD at USC.
Where: The Pop-Hop
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 5002 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90042
90X90LA: Event TBA
This event is a under preparation.
Details TBA.
Where: TBA
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: TBA
Address: TBA
Website: http://90x90la.com/tba-su-827/
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