Children’s Book Week at Once Upon a Time Bookstore–Children’s Event
We are proud to be a 99th Anniversary Children’s Book Week Event Host! America’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore is partnering with Every Child a Reader for a week of events between the dates of April 30 – May 6, from coast to coast in all 50 states, including:
Twice daily storytimes, at 11 am and 2 pm.
Booksignings, special sales and giveaways, every day.
Voting, for the 11th annual Children’s and Teens Choice Book Awards.
Newberry Award winner Katherine Applegate signing of her new book, Endling: The Last, co-sponsored with Glendale Library.
Check website for details and updates.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: http://w.shoponceuponatime.com/event/childrens-book-week-2018
Conchas y Zines Workshop with DSTL Arts at Baldwin Hill Library, LAPL
Please join us for a weekly series for adults, seniors and Spanish speakers, as we create finished works of poetry and writing for “zines.” Coffee and sweet breads will be served.
Where: Meeting Room A, Baldwin Hills Library
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/conchas-y-café
SBFC: Our Kids and Opioids Event at Joslyn Center (with Pages Bookstore)
Please join South Bay Families Connected (SBFC) for our Opioid Awareness project to implement prevention strategies to address: Our Kids and Opioids. Pre-order Mayor Amy Howorth’s recommended read, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones, at the website link (paperback) and we will deliver it to the event for pick-up when you check in.
Please register for this event at website link.
Where: Joslyn Center
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1601 N. Valley Dr., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/sbfc-our-kids-and-opioids
Tribal Café Open Mic at Tribal Café
Please join us on Leap Monday, the fifth Monday of the month for the Tribal Café Open Mic, hosted by James Gautier, with Johnny Morrison, his ‘harp playin, wry techie side kick.
Where: Fillipinotown
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1651 Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/187149231926475/
LiveTalksLA presents: An Evening with Mike Epps at New Roads School
LiveTalksLA presents a series of literary events (and podcasts) to meet and hear cultural and business leaders present and discuss their work. Today, comedian, actor and author Mike Epps discusses his memoir, Unsuccessful Thug: One Comedian’s Journey from Naptown to Tinseltown. The author is a stand-up comedian, actor, film producer writer and rapper. Before starring in Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, or TV’s Uncle Buck, he was forced to hustle from an early age in Naptown, aka Indianapolis. This book is about growing up black in America, facing down racism in Hollywood, and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps to make it in the entertainment world.
NOTE: LiveTalksLA readings are ticketed events. Tickets may be purchased at various prices, with or without a book purchase, and details are available at website link.
Where: Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre, New Roads School
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://livetalksla.org/events/mike-epps/
Francesca Lia Block Publication Party at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Francesca Lia Block, who will present her new book The Thorn Necklace: Healing through Writing and the Creative Process. Joining her in conversation will be author/comedian Sara Benincasa. An exploration of the writing life, the author offers visceral insights and healing exercises to process pain and adversity, guideposts of awareness for writer (how to find amuse, put chaos into order, ignore the inner critic, etc.), and channel our experiences into the written word. She also provides compassionate support to the reader for his or her own write-to-heal process.
Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than 25 books of stories, nonfiction and fiction, including the Weetzie Bat books. She lives in Los Angeles, a city the New York Times says she describes “better than any writer since Raymond Chandler.” She teaches writing at UCLA, Antioch University, and at numerous workshops across the country.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Endling: The Last and Katherine Applegate at Glendale Central Library–Kids Event
Please join us to hear Newberry Award-winning author Katherine Applegate, discuss and sign Endling: The Last, with an audience Q&A. In the book, Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra. After her pack is hunted down and killed, she fears she might be the last, the Endling of her species, so she sets out to find a safe haven and to see if legends of other hidden dairnes are true.
RSVP at event website.
Where: Glendale Central Library (with One Upon a Time Bookstore)
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA 91205
Website: http://w.shoponceuponatime.com/event/katherine-applegate-signing-endling-last
Authors & Soldier, Spy, Heroine at Book Soup
Please join us to hear authors Debra Ann Pawlak and Cheryl Bertlam DuBois discuss and sign their novel: Soldier, Spy, Heroine: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Civil War. In this amazing story about Sarah Emma Edmonds, first eager to serve in the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry and distinguish herself as a true Civil War hero, and later to clear the name of Franklin Thompson, the man whose identity she took on to be able to join and fight. Using various disguises she served in many capacities, but deserted when struck by malaria in 1863. She then fought for a pension and honorable discharge, as well as to clear Thompson’s name.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Brightly Burning with Alexa Donne at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Alexa Donne discuss and sign, Brightly Burning. This is a lush and enthralling reimagining of the classic, Jane Eyre, set among the stars, and will seduce and beguile you. Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job and becomes a governess on a private ship, The Rochester, which seems to be haunted.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/alexa-donne-discusses-and-signs-brightly-burning
When They Call You a Terrorist with Patrisse Khan-Cullors at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Patrisse Kahn-Cullors discuss and sign, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. This book is co-written by Ashe Bandele, and is a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, this story asks us to remember that protest is in the interest of the most vulnerable and comes from love.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, and the $28 price includes the book. See website for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/patrisse-khan-cullors-author-event
True Crime Tuesdays Book Club at the Last Bookstore
Please join us for our True Crime Tuesdays Book Club, led by James T. Bartlett, and discuss our selection: author Tori Telfer’s Lady Killers. This is a bewildering collection of real-life murderesses of the old school variety.
NOTE: This is a ticket event, and the book comes with your ticket which can be purchased at the website.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Melissa Broder, with Mish Way, at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Melissa Broder, in conversation with Mish Way, who will read and discuss her novel The Pisces. She is the author of the lauded essay collection, So Sad Today, and her debut novel is an uproariously funny, gloriously strange, and fiercely original tale of love, obsession, sex… and a merman. This book blends vivid realism with giddy fantasy to create a story that exemplifies what it means to be a contemporary woman.
Mish Barber-Way, a writer and musician, is currently Executive Editor of Penthouse magazine and Music Editor for the Los Angeles quarterly, BriteLite magazine.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/melissa-broder-reads-her-novel-pisces-mish-way
Poetry Open Mic at Redondo Poets
Please join us for a reading by a poet Phoebe McAdams, and participate in our weekly Open Mic.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm
Address: 180 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
LiveTalksLA presents: An Evening with Chris Hughes at New Roads School
LiveTalksLA presents a series of literary events (and podcasts) to meet and hear cultural and business leaders present and discuss their work. Today, co-founder of Facebook, co-founder of the Economic Security Project, and author Chris Hughes discusses his book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn. The author makes the case that one-percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people.
NOTE: LiveTalksLA readings are ticketed events. Tickets may be purchased at various prices, with or without a book purchase, and details are available at website link.
Where: Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre, New Roads School
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://livetalksla.org/events/chris-hughes/
Power Forward and Hena Khan at Once Upon a Time–Kids Event
Please join us to hear author Hena Khan discuss and sign her newest book, Power Forward: Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream. This story is the first in an exciting chapter book series about a scrawny fourth-grader with big dreams of basketball stardom. But when he skips orchestral rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything basketball-related, and tryouts are coming soon.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: http://w.shoponceuponatime.com/event/hena-khan-signing-power-forward
Jennifer Romolini at Book Soup
Please join us to hear author Jennifer Romolini discuss and sign Weird in a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits. This book is an honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want. Part career memoir, part real-world guide, it offers relatable advice on how to achieve your dreams when the odds are against you.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Truth: The Ten Minute Life Plan and Bill Cortright at Manhattan Beach Library
Please join us to hear Bill Cortright, discuss and sign Truth: The Ten Minute Life Plan, which explores the real reasons we procrastinate. The author is an expert in stress management, self-motivation, wellness, and personal development, and has created practical systems that change how we handle the stress response and lead to lasting results and a more productive life.
You are invited to access his podcast at the website link.
RSVP at event website.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/bill-cortright-author-event
The Truth about Animals with Lucy Cooke at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Lucy Cooke discuss and sign, The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife. This is a worldwide journey to observe many of the habitats and find out the secret and sometimes hilarious secrets of habits in the animal kingdom. Charming, sometimes downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who suspects virtue might be unnatural.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Jamel Brinkley at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Jamel Brinkley discuss his debut short story collection, A Lucky Man. In the nine expansive, searching stories presented here, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members, and confront mistakes made in the past. This stunning debut reflects the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jamel-brinkley-reads-his-debut-short-story-collection-lucky-man
LiveTalksLA presents: An Evening with Sally Kohn & Reza Aslan at New Roads School
LiveTalksLA presents a series of literary events (and podcasts) to meet and hear cultural and business leaders present and discuss their work. Today, CNN political commentator and columnist for The Daily Beast, and author Sally Kohn will discuss her book, The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity. The author sets out to discover why we hate and how to stop it, and is in discussion with author and educator Reza Aslan.
NOTE: LiveTalksLA readings are ticketed events. Tickets may be purchased at various prices, with or without a book purchase, and details are available at website link.
Where: Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre, New Roads School
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://livetalksla.org/events/sally-kohn/
Roar and Michael Paul & Storytime Spectacular with Isabel at Once Upon a Time–Kids Event
Please join us to hear author Michael Paul discuss and sign his book, Roar: A Dinosaur Tour. This is a Special Storytime for Children’s Book Week. Plus, every Thursday morning it’s Storytime with Isabel.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 11 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: http://w.shoponceuponatime.com/event/special-storytime-roar-michael-paul
Book Group Hosts Mark Sarvas and Memento Park at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us for Diane Leslie’s Book Group to welcome author Mark Sarvas, who will present his new book Memento Park. Seating is limited and reservations are required for this event. There is a $20 fee and you must purchase your copy of the book from Diesel.
After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos learns of a painting he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during World War II. To recover it he must mend his strained relationship with his father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. This narrative is as much about family history and father-son dynamics as it is about the nature of art itself and the ways we come to understand ourselves through it.
NOTE: See website for details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
California Contemporary and Grant Kirkpatrick at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear Grant Kirkpatrick, discuss and sign California Contemporary, which explores the visionary residences that define sophisticated modern living. The author has designed homes and retreats for many celebrity clients and discusses the design strategies behind their creation. Many photographs and drawings are included.
RSVP at event website.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/grant-kirkpatrick-author-event
Noir with Christopher Moore at Vroman’s Bookstore
Christopher Moore will join us to discuss and sign his book Noir. The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining bestselling author Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters. Think Raymond Chandler meets Damon Runyon with a bit of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes All Stars.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/christopher-moore-discusses-and-signs-noir .
Michael Barsa & The Garden of Blue Roses at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join to welcome author Michael Barsa, in conversation with author Michelle Latiolais, who will read and sign his debut novel, The Garden of Blue Roses. The author is an award-winning grant writer, teacher, environmental lawyer and journalist. This story has “an eerie power exactly like Henry James’ governess and the stressed-out, dreamy extremists of Poe,” says author Ron Carlson.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/michael-barsa
MariNaomi & Graphic Comic Losing the Girl at Skylight Bookstore–YA Event
Join us to hear author MariNaomi, discuss and sign Losing the Girl (Life on Earth #1). This is the first book in the Life on Earth trilogy and looks at life through the eyes of four suburban teenagers. Different chapters focus on different characters, each with a unique visual approach.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/marinaomi-discusses-her-young-adult-comic-losing-girl
Alysha Wise Workshop at The Poetry Lab
Join us to hear visiting author Alysha Wise, published poet, teaching artist, creator and TEDx Speaker, who wrote her first poem at age 11 and has not stopped creating since. She is an advocate of human rights, and her first book of poetry, Carnival, is available under not a cult media.
Where: Work Evolution Laboratories
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 235 E. Broadway, Suite 800, Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1802846429783354/
Jade Phoenix at A Mic & Dim Lights
Please join us to hear Jade Phoenix at this month’s A Mic and Dim Lights. Doors are at 8 pm. $5 at the door (cash only).
Parking available street side.
Where: A Mic and Dim Lights
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 252 Main St., Suite #D, Pomona, CA 91766
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/168543640639303/
Dr. Lucy Jones & The Big Ones at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us as leading seismologist and author Dr. Lucy Jones discusses and signs her book The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them). Natural disasters are inevitable, but human catastrophes are not. With this energized and well-researched book, Dr. Jones offers a look at our past, readying us to face down the Big Ones in our future.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Lauren Marks & Elizabeth Silver at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Lauren Marks & Elizabeth Silver celebrate the paperback release of their books, A Stitch of Time and The Tincture of Time. A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life is an eloquent memoir of a 27 year old actress who suffered a massive brain aneurysm onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and awoke to discover she had aphasia.
Set against the unexplained stroke of the author’s newborn daughter, The Tincture of Time: A Parent’s Memoir of Medical Uncertainty is a stunning, unflinchingly honest memoir and thought-provoking reflection on uncertainty in medicine and in life.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Poetry Reading & Open Mic at Rapp Saloon
The Rapp Saloon Reading Series, hosted by Cynthia Alessandra Briano, invites you to a monthly reading and open mic to hear:
Erin Mizrahi is a writer, poet, and PhD candidate at USC, and teaches writing composition there. Her dissertation, “The Sense of Silence,” explores the role of silence in testimony and in performance. Her work centers on themes of identity, family loss, Judaism, trauma, and memory.
James Cushing has taught literature and creative writing at Cal Poly SLO since 1989, and served as the community Poet Laureate for 2008-2010. He is widely published and a forthcoming volume, Solace, is due in October 2018.
George Hammons is the author of the chapbook Hungry to Bed/ Love Poems by George Hammons. He currently serves as judge for the San Bernardino County, Poet Out Loud competition.
Where: Rapp Saloon
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/163338771016658/
Awesome Women at Beyond Baroque
Michelle Tea is a poet who explores queer culture, feminism, race, class, prostitution, and their conjunctions. Puma Perl brings the descriptive eye of Lou Reed to her apocalyptic rock and roll vision of the world. Iris Berry is a musician, writer, poet, pop culture historian, and one of the originals of the punk rock scene. Nikola Kravitt is a visual artist and poet who views the world in all its strange and radiant beauty.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Cal Arts MFA Readers at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join us to hear students from the Cal Arts MFA in Creative Writing program read their work.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/102412080623652/
Danica McKellar at Children’s Book World–Kids Event
Please join us to welcome actress, math whiz, and bestselling author Danica McKellar for a reading and Q&A, and book signing for her delightful new picture book in her series, Ten Magic Butterflies, for ages 4 & up. She mixes a little math with a lot of magic in a story of ten flower friends, and as each of them turns into a butterfly, we discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower’s dream come true.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 1o:30 am
Address: 10580 1/2 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/author-events/
Dan Santat at Vroman’s Bookstore–Kids Event
Please join us to hear Caldecott-winning illustrator Dan Santat present his new book, Dude! This story is about a hilarious, gnarly summer adventure, and about a platypus and a beaver who are friends and go surfing, where they find a shark, and more.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/andrew-weiner-presents-and-signs-down-river
My Lit Box Book Club at Art Share LA
Please join My Lit Box Book Club as we discuss poet Elizabeth Acevedo’s New York Times bestselling novel, The Poet X. This is a familiar story to many young women, a balancing act of shrinking yourself to deflect unwanted attention, all the while searching for that spark that helps you find your voice so you can be heard.
Admission and parking are free and light refreshments will be served.
Where: Art Share LA
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 12 pm – 3 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/429828627470861/
Book Club & Pot Luck at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Please join us for the Gatsby’s First Saturday Book Club, for our May discussion of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi Durrow. This searing and heartbreaking portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society’s ideas of race and class was the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.
New members are welcome, and invited to bring food/drinks inspired by the book.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/events-2/#/gatsby-book-club/
Veterans Creative Nonfiction Reading at North Hollywood Library, LAPL
Join us for an exciting afternoon of veterans reading he play they wrote collaboratively, Grandfathered: Where War Lingers. Following the staged reading, there will be a discussion of how the veterans’ experiences informed the writing of the play.
FREE, and everyone is welcome!
Where: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
Address: 5211 Tujunga Ave., North Hollywood, CA 91601
Website: http://returningsoldiersspeak.org/veterans-write-play/
Expressions Poetry Reading at Studio City Branch Library
Join us for our Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series. You can sign up for 4-6 minute readings, and there is at least one featured poet every week. See website for details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 12511 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA 91604
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-poetry-reading-series
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Emerging Poets Workshop at Santa Catalina Library
Join us for our Emerging Urban Poets Writing Workshop led by Jesse Bliss. Bring copies of your work-in-progress.
Curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
WIDE OPEN Reading at Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library
Join us for our WIDE OPEN READING. Bring poems, art, performance and music to share on the First Saturday of Every Month!
Where: Sunland-Tujunga Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 7771 Foothill Blvd., Tujunga, CA 91042
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/wide-open-reading-3
Major Jackson & Natalie J. Graham at Beyond Baroque
Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry, including: Holding Company and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award.
Natalie Graham is PhD, poet, and hip hop scholar interested in the intersections of race, gender, class, and geography. She is an associate professor at Cal State Fullerton.
This event is co-sponsored by Jack Jones Literary Arts.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.facebook.com/events/218315775386444/
Big Guns at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel, with Adam Schiff, present and discuss his new book, Big Guns. This is a comic tale about the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics. This book will make you angry, and will make you think as you flip the pages faster and faster to find out what happens next.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/steve-israel-adam-schiff-discusses-and-signs-big-guns
Jacqueline Suskin & Edge of the Continent at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Jacqueline Suskin present her book about California, The Edge of the Continent. Specifically, this first book is about Northern California, the wet part of the state, the green part, where redwoods stand tall and fog is common. From 2009-2013 she lived in Humboldt County, and this book is a personal narrative, a shared compendium of terrain, an atlas of verse that offers each reader a retreat, a pathway to access this sacred landscape.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jacqueline-suskin-reads-her-book-poetry-edge-continent
Sesshu Foster & Will Alexander at Hauser & Wirth Bookstore
Please join us for ARTBOOK at Hauser & Wirth to welcome Sesshu Foster, with Will Alexander, for a discussion and reading of Foster’s much-anticipated new poetry collection, City of the Future (Kaya Press).
Where: Hauser & Wirth Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 917 East 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lalitscene.entropymag.org/
Neverspeak & Mike Sonkson at Shades of Afrika: The Mind, Body & Spirit Store
Please join us to hear neverspeak poets / griot café collaboration, featuring Mike The Poet and special guests, plus an Open Mic.
$5 admission.
See you there!
Where: Shades of Afrika
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1001 E 4th St., Long Beach, California 90802
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/160175468011798/
Paul Hoover & Emily Liebowitz at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join us to hear poets and writers Paul Hoover and Emily Liebowitz read their work. Doors open at 7:30 pm.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/160175468011798/
826LA@Hammer Event for Kids at the Hammer Museum–Kids Event
Please join for a Superpowered Comics Workshop for Kids, ages 8-14. Led by Ashlyn Anstee, a storyboard artist for cartoons, this event is inspired by classic battles between superheroes and villains, and students will create their own twist on a superhero comic, featuring believable characters and Marvel-worthy dialogue.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2018/05/826lahammer-a-superpowered-comics-workshop/
Chuck Palahniuk & Adjustment Day at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join to welcome author Chuck Palahniuk to present and sign his first novel in four years, Adjustment Day. In this ingeniously comic work he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working class men dream of burying the elites, and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. Into this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying wisdom of resistance and revolt.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 12 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
River of Secrets Book Event at Book Soup
Please join us to hear author Roger Johns, present and sign River of Secrets: A Wallace Hartman Mystery (#2). This is a story about what happens when a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, and Baton Rouge Detective Wallace Hartman struggles to find the killer amid conspiracies and corruption.
The author will be joined by fellow authors, Phoef Sutton (From Far Away) and Eileen Byron (A Cajun Christmas Killing).
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90060
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/roger-johns-presents-and-signs-river-secrets-wallace-hartman-mystery
Astronauts & Falling Stars at the Federal Bar
Please join for Word Theatre’s presentation of cosmic-themed stories and poems from actors Cassidy Freeman, Jason George, and Emma Hamilton, and join essayist Stephen Tobolowsky, and writers Meg Howrey, Ben Loory, and Scott Connor, and poets Marie Chambers and Vandanna Khanna.
Where: The Federal Bar
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm (Brunch, noon- 1 pm)
Address: 5303 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
Website: http://wordtheatre.com/event/astronauts-falling-stars/
Ms. Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men at Avenue 50 Studio
Ms. Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men is an anthology including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art, in which women explore male thinking. Presented by Avenue 50 and El Leon Literary Arts, we are featuring: Naomi Kim Eagleson, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Cassandra Lane, and Connie Pan.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/394618871007567/
Book Club Reads Baldwin at California African American Museum (CAAM)
Please join our monthly Book Club for Our May selection, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, along with his essay “Letter from a Region in my Mind.” Join us for a lively discussion moderated by our research librarian, Denise L. McIver.
FREE, but registration required at website link.
Where: California African American Museum
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 600 State Dr., Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/621414241532693/
Dr. Nina Shapiro & Hype at Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Please join us to welcome Dr. Nina Shapiro, to read and sign her book, Hype: A Doctor’s Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice – How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Not. She distinguishes between the falsehoods and the evidence-backed truth in her work at Harvard and UCLA, in this blend of science and personal stories to develop a dramatic new definition of a “healthy life.”
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/sunday-may-6th-300pm-dr-nina-shapiro-discusses-and-signs-hype
Graphic Novel Authors at Skylight Bookstore
Please join to hear Hallie Bateman and Suzy Hopkins to discuss their graphic novel, What to Do When I’m Gone: A Mothers’ Wisdom to Her Daughter. This is an instructional manual for getting through life without a mom, and it is also a poignant look at loss, love, and taking things one moment at a time.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
First Sunday Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us for our popular First Sunday Open Reading, hosted by Steve Goldman. Sign-ups begin at 4:45 pm. Five-minute limit for each reader.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Sunday Jump Emergency Open Mic at Sunday Jump
Mayday! We have an emergency and art is needed today to inspire movement towards self-expression and social change. In honor of International Workers Day, we are highlighting some emerging creatives and activists: poet/author Janice Sapigao; national slam poet, Matt Sedillo; alternative rock band, Ramekega; interactive station, Public Matters’ Love; and more!
See website for details and guidelines.
Where: Sunday Jump
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 153 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/172906030036506/
Keep Marching with Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear author Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner present her book, Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can take Action and Change Our World. This thorough, well-researched guide consists of lists of policy recommendations, strategies to foster an intersectional movement for women’s equality and equity, and is offered with candor and unflinching passion.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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