Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Free Online Writing Class for All Ages with Writer Eric Kaplan
Join us for a free online writing event with writer Eric Kalan (Futurama, Big Bang Theory, etc.) for a “Learn to Write” class online. When this six-week class ends you will know how to tell a story and write a short script. It’s free to download and free to join.
Where: Online
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: ZOOM
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1223428574716573/
Pages: A Bookstore Middle Grade Book Club Virtual Meeting & Coo, by Kaela Noel
Join Pam Page, facilitator for the Middle Grade Book Club Virtual Meeting, to discuss the book, Coo, by Kaela Noel.
In this exceptional debut novel, one young girl’s determination to save the flock she calls family creates an everlasting impact on her community and in her heart. This is an unforgettable animal story about friendship, family, home, and belonging, which asks some pretty big questions and emphasizes the importance of being true to yourself.
Where: Online event (see site for link)
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: .https://www.pagesabookstore.com/book/9780062955975
LiveTalks: Michael Lewis, in Conversation with Larry Wilmore – Online Event
Author Michael Lewis, in conversation with TV personality and writer Larry Willmore, will discuss Lewis’ latest book, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy. Watch the videos of prior LiveTalks appearances by Michael Lewis at links provided at website.
This book asks: What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? The author takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders, and explores how willful ignorance plays a role in multiple looming disasters,
NOTE: RSVP at website link, to see costs and details.
Where: Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/michael-lewis-with-larry-wilmore/
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Jessica Dolby focuses on generating creativity and writing fiction, including narrative technique, language, characterization, plot, POV, and the realization of an idea. Bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction for critique and discussion.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Kids Storytime at Jefferson Branch Library Online – Kids Event
Join us for Storytime! Email the library at the link provided at site by the Friday before the event for the Zoom link.
Where: Jefferson Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 10:30 am –10:50 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1661673677315200/
Tuesday Afternoon Book Club at Silver Lake Branch Library – Online Event
Join us for a discussion of four novels by Marguerite Duras at our online Tuesday Afternoon Book Club. Check out a digital copy with your library card, and email site at link given for link to meeting.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1685831311556207/
LATimes / Virtual Ideas Exchange with Masha Gessen & Surviving Autocracy– Online Event
Join us for a discussion between award-winning journalist and author Masha Green, in conversation with L.A. Times foreign editor Jeffrey Fleishman.
Masha Green will present and discuss his latest book, Surviving Autocracy, which draws upon the author’s experiences in Russia and focuses on President Donald Trump and his impact.
Signed copies of the book will be available for sale from bookselling partner Skylight Books.
NOTE: Details and schedule available at website. (Submit your questions at Eventbrite)
Where: LA Times Main Facebook Page Online Live and You Tube
Date: Tuesday the 16
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: Facebook Live
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129578807406379
Zara Lisbon Reading and Q&A at Writers Blok Online
Join us for a Reading and Q&A with author Zara Lisbon, who is promoting her book, Fake Plastic World, which is the sequel to Fake Plastic Girl.
She will talk about writing fast-paced books and about her work as a ghostwriter. This is a free event, but registration is required.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Writers Blok Online Live
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom Online event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/731892350978871
LiveTalks: Robbie Conal & Shepard Fairey, with Jim Daichendt – Online Event
Artist and author Robbie Conal will discuss his latest book, Robbie Conal: Streetwise, 35 Years of Politically Charges Guerilla Art, and he will be speaking in conversation with artist Shepard Fairey and author and educator James Daichendt. You may submit questions for the discussion upon registration, and copies of this amazing art book are available for sale.
Artist Shepard Fairey is a street artist, graphic designer, activist and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He is known for his Barack Obama “Hope” poster, more than 100 large scale public murals, and his work is now in several museums.
James Daichendt is Dean and Professor of Art History at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Robbie Conal: Streetwise. He is also an art critic and journalist for KCET’s Artbound
NOTE: RSVP at website link, to see details.
Where: Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/robbie-conal-shepard-fairey/
Max Brooks & Devolution at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online
Join Max Brooks when he presents his new book, Devolution, on Preparedness and Survival.
The author brings a tale too harrowing, and earth shattering, in its implications to life—the journals of Mount Rainier resident Kate Holland. Recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, reproducing her words alongside his own investigations, the author explores the boundaries between truth and fiction by simultaneously telling the story of the Greenloop (Bigfoot) massacre from the ash and chaos of Mt. Rainier‘s eruption.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/preparedness-and-survival-max-brooks-author-devolution
Diesel Bookstore Live: Ishmael Beah & Little Family at Crowdcast Online Event
Author Ishmael Beah presents his novel, Little Family, a story of young people affected by war and its aftermath..
Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s tumultuous past. They are soon torn between their ability and need to keep the world at bay and their little family intact, and individual desires to resume an uninterrupted coming-of-age and ability to follow personal destinies.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/257691265498942
Vroman’s Live: Bethany C. Morrow & A Song Below Water at Crowdcast Online YA Event
Author Bethany C. Morrow presents her novel, A Song Below Water, a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today’s racism.
In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers. Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own family struggles, pitted against literal demons from her past. Together, these best friends must navigate through the perils of high school’s junior year. But the murder of a siren changes all that.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/bethany-c-morrow-discusses-song-below-water
Monica Sok & A Nail the Evening Hangs On, with Vickie Veritz, at Skylight Bookstore
Poet and author Monica Sok reads from her new collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On, with poet and author VickieVertiz.
NOTE: Registration at Eventbrite, and details available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
HR Round Table and Rook Club
PIRHA, a nonprofit organization, hosts a book club reading of The Power of the Other by Dr. Henry Cloud, and facilitated by Lee Stolzfus, Ph.D.
Where: PIHRA Pasadena – online
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 7 pm –8:30 pm
Address: Online event: Please register at http://www.pihra.org
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/796287307567574
Family Fun Zoom Meeting – Kids Event
Family Fun Zone is a virtual event full of kid-friendly activities and offering storytime, crafts, and more for children ages 0-5.
NOTE: Registration is FREE ticket for this event.
Where: Westside Infant Family Network (WIN)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
UCLA Webinar with Ben Rhodes & The World As It Is– Online Event
Ben Rhodes is the author of the 2018 New York Times Bestseller, The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. He is also a contributor for numerous media outlets, the co-chair of National Security Action, and an advisor to former President Barack Obama.
NOTE: Registration is FREE ticket for this event.
Where: UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3259241527634613
Paul Levine & Cheaters Game – AJU Online Event
AJU welcomes acclaimed author of 22 novels, Paul Levine, who will present and discuss his latest book, Cheaters Game: The College Admissions Scandal.
Cheaters Game digs deep into the college admissions scandal. The author will be in conversation with AJU President Dr. Jeffrey Herbst about everyday morality, what parents will do for their children, shame, the role of athletics in society, and how fiction can explain scandal.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so see site for details.
Where: American Jewish University Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: AJU Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1494995154040733
Lesbian, gay, trans, queer plus Book Club at Silver Lake Library Online Event
Join our book club to discuss Shine of the Ever, by Claire Rudy Foster. Download the book with your library card on Hoopla. Email silver@lapl.org for link to the meeting.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platforms and details.
Where: Silver Lake Library, LAPL Online
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/190813235437584
Red Hen Press Spring Book Tour Online: In Honor of Zachary Doss
Red Hen Press welcomes a panel in honor of the late Zachary Doss and his incredible short story collection, BOY OH BOY, winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, a humorous exploration of loneliness and longing, as well as a confrontation of society’s expectations about love.
Brandi Wells reads in honor of the late Zachary Doss, who was a writer and editor who held an MFA from University of Alabama and was pursuing a PhD in creative writing at USC at the time of his death.
Tasha Coryell is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota. She is currently working on two novels, a short story collection and a book of prose poems.
Aimee Bender, graduate advisor for USC’s PhD in Creative Writing and the author of five books including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010).
Kellie Wells, Associate Professor of English at Alabama. She was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Compression Scars, a collection of short fiction.
NOTE: Check with site to register and for online platform details.
Where: Red Hen Press Facebook Online or YouTube or linkedin.com
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 4pm – 5 pm
Address: Red Hen Press Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/663475867530533
Matt Shirley Q&A & Chartmaker at Writers Blok Online
Writer Matt Shirley posts a humorous chart daily @mattsurelee on Instagram, where he’s built a following of 350K people.
We’ll talk to him about the ways he’s leveraged his sense of humor and his love of graphics into a writing career unlike any other.
NOTE: Check with site re online platforms and details.
Where: Writers Blok Online event (Registration is FREE, but required at link)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2584776518430958
Vroman’s Live: Jocelyn Ramirez & La Vida Verde at Crowdcast Online
Author, chef, and college professor Jocelyn Ramirez presents La Vida Verde: Plant-Based Mexican Cooking with Authentic Flavor.
Follow along with the author as she transforms traditional dishes into wonderfully flavored plant-based meals. She is founder of Across Our Kitchen Tables, which is focused on uplifting women of color in the food industry. She sits on the Culinary Advisory Board for Food Forward and the Leadership Board for the Los Angeles Food Policy Council.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Bethany C. Morrow & A Song Below Water, with Mark Oshiro, at Skylight Bookstore Online YA Event
Author Bethany C. Morrow reads from her new YA novel, A Song Below Water, in conversation with author Mark Oshiro (Anger Is a Gift).
This novel is a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today’s racism and sexism.
NOTE: Registration and details available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-zoom-bethany-c-morrow-conversation-mark-oshiro
Meet Author Cara Black & Three Hours In Paris via Zoom Online
Alliance Francaise de Pasadena presents celebrated mystery author Cara Black to discuss her new book, Three Hours in Paris. This is a live Zoom online event.
NOTE: Check with site for details. Register by the 16th to receive link.
Where: Zoom Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/719201525501948/
Pajama Storytime Event Online
Welcome to Miss Christina’s Pajama Storytime! We’ll read bedtime books, sing bedtime rhymes, and have fun stretching. This event is held on Facebook Live.
Where: Online event (See site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/581076052510382/
Paws & Pages Before Bedtime Event Online
Join us for a special live streaming Paws & Pages story session before bedtime!
Sponsored by: Wallis Annenberg PetSpace.
Where: Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1474760152726673/
Feminist Book Club with Julia Callahan & Hood Feminism at Last Bookstore Online
Join Feminist Book Club host Julia Callahan to read and discuss, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Women Forgot, by Mikki Kendall.
Hood Feminism is about the myopia of white feminism when it ignores the experiences of women of color.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event and details are available at website.
Where: The Last Bookstore via Zoom Online
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/events/feminist-book-club-with-julia-callahan-2/
Geek Girls Forever Book Club & Neil Gaiman’s Stardust – Online Event
Geek Girls Forever presents an Online Book Club, which will be run separate from their graphic novel book club. For the month of June we will be reading Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.
Young Tristan Thorn will do anything to win the heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch for her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so he must enter unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall of their village, where lies Faerie—where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.
Where: Online event (posted online a couple of days before the event)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/891951577976431
Doug Weller & Six Word Wonder Launch – Online Event
Join us online for the Doug Weller launch of Six Word Wonder, a collection of over 500 stories, poems, jokes and memoirs each told in exactly six words.
Where: Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/881416712341302/
DEBUNKED with Brooke Binkowski – Online Event
Join us online for the FB Live series, DEBUNKED!, with Brooke Binkowski. Each week DAME Magazine’s disinformation columnist will deconstruct the tangled web of disinformation that encases mainstream media, and point to how it influences everything else—from politics to social media.
Where: Dame Magazine – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/542543673082544/
Online Kids Storytime with Actor Kevin Sussman
Join us on Zoom online live every Thursday for a Kids Storytime with actor Kevin Sussman (Big Bang Theory, Ugly Betty).
This is a free event. Details available at site.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/881416712341302/
Amrou Al-Kadhi & Life As a Unicorn Book Discussion – Book Soup In-Person Event
Author Amrou Al-Kadhi, in conversation with Mona Elthawy, discusses Life As a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between.
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heartbreaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themselves.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Book Soup Online
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/amrou-al-kadhi-conversation-mona-elthawy
West L.A. Regional Library Book Club – Online
Join us for a Book Club discussion of the book, The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott. Since there is limited capacity for this event, please confirm your attendance and email information with Carrie Davies at cdavies@lapl.org.
Where: West L.A. Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom Online
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/684665742373883
The Arrival: A Junteenth Reading, with Expositional Park Regional Library & Bookswell Online
Join us for a literary reading event to provide Fundraising for Black Lives Matter: The Arrival: A Junteenth Reading, features:: bridgette Bianca, F. Douglas Brown, Camari Carter-Hawkins, Natashia Deon, and Ashaki M. Jackson.
NOTE: Free online event, but donations may made at Eventbrite link at site.
Where: Expositional Park Regional Library, LAPL – Online (Zoom, FB, YouTube)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (Zoom, FacebookLive, or YouTube)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/25074407619718
Abbi Waxman & I Was told It Would Get Easier at Vroman’s Live Online
Author Abbi Waxman will present her new novel, I Was Told It Would Get Easier.
For Emily, it’s a preview of freedom, exploring the possibility of her new and more exciting future. Not that she’s sure she wants to go to college, but maybe other kids on the outr will like her more than the ones at school. For Jessica, it’s a chance to bond with the daughter she seems to have lost. Together with a dozen strangers—and two familiar enemies—Jessica and Emily travel the East Coast, finding surprises and secrets along the way.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platform and details.
Where: Vroman’s Live, Crowdcast Online
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
Yuri Herrera, with John Gibler, & A Silent Fury at Skylight Books Zoom Online
Author Yuri Herrera, in conversation with author John Gibler (Torn from the World), will discuss his new nonfiction book, A Silent Fury, and this discussion also will be recorded and released on the Skylight Books Podcast.
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, The Compania de Santa Gertrudis—the largest employer in the region—and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting,, Refining and Mining Company—may have committed murder. When fire broke out, the mine was sealed, and the company then asserted no more than ten men were left inside, and they were most probably dead. Later, when the mine was re-opened, the death toll was actually 87, and there were seven survivors.
A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has reconstructed this tragedy, set in his home town. His work is an act of restitution, and brings out the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence.
NOTE: Check with site/bookstore re online platform and details.
Where: Zoom Online (get link at site)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online (get link at site)
Website: https://www.skylightbook.com/event/live-zoom-yuri-herrera-conversation-john-gibler
Queer Nikkei Stories: Intergenerational Conversations, with JANM – Online
What was it like to be gay and Japanese American decades ago? What is it like now”
Okaeeri, JANM, and Visual Communications invite you to listen and participate in conversations with several generations of LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans as they talk about their experiences at the intersection of these identities. There will be a Q&A, a short film, and conversations will include actor and activist George Takei, and Aya Tasaki, a bicultural advocate and organizer among others.
Where: Online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1149824738727187/
Author Talk: Conor Knighton & Leave Only Footprints at Studio City Branch Library Online
Join us for an author talk with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, when we discuss his book, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park. This book is an account of the author’s year spent visiting America’s national parks, and features fascinating tidbits about our parks’ past, and reflections on their fragile future.
NOTE: Check site for details. View the interview online in advance, and ask your questions in the comments section in advance.
Where: Facebook or YouTube Online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Facebook or YouTube Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1521666694697536
Drag Queen Storytime & David Lopez & Electra Young at LibroMobile – Instagram Online
In honor of Pride month, LibroMobile celebrates the LGBTQ+ community by promoting queer voices through virtual programming. Electra Young is a veteran storytime drag queen who honors BIPOC and queer voices, and she will be hosted by writer and local librarian David Lopez.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check site for details.
Where: Instagram Online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Instagram Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/715309849282808
True Crime Book Club & The Kidnap Years at The Last Bookstore Online
Join us for the True Crime Book Club with host John Palisano, when we will read and discuss The Kidnap Years, by David Stout. This book revisits the nearly forgotten age of rampant ransom-kidnappings—some grisly, some absurd.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check site for details.
Where: Zoom Online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/ or http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Story Time Live with a Natural History Museum Gallery Interpreter – Kids Online Event
Gather around with the kids and join a #NHMLA Gallery Interpreter for a live reading!
Tune in live on Facebook: http://facebook.com/nhmla/live
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Natural History Museum – Online
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Natural History Museum – Facebook Online
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events//1625015574319899
Storyknife Live Stream Open House on Storyknife’s Facebook Page
Storyknife Writers Retreat will be hosting a live stream open house of Storyknife! Get a tour and talk with some of the folks who’ve worked so hard at this online event streaming form Alaska.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Storyknife Facebook Online
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Storyknife Facebook Online
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events//386853632218728/
Pride Mic with Brian Sonia-Wallace – Online Event
Join us as we celebrate Pride month remotely by hosting Open Mics every Friday in the month of June, 6pm – 8pm, for queer poets, storytellers, and artists. This Friday is the 4-year anniversary of the shooting at Pulse nightclub, and we’ll be joined by Michael S. Bell, a chaplain who helped in the aftermath, sharing is experience.
We’ll also be joined by features: Marcus James, Darien Battel, Erica Fladeland, Tyrus Winter, Gina Duran, Victor Elan Vasquez, Adrian Rodriguez, and more. After the mic, some of our Pride Poets will write custom poems for guests and participants, including: Natalie Nicole Dressel, Jen Chang, Amy HS, Victor Yates, Reg Clarkina, Brendan Alpiner, and Michael Baroto, writing one-on-one.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events//195931074949873/
Unity: Bridging the Gap Open Mic by Project Africa – In-Person Event
This is a curated Open Mic night bridging the gap between generations, cultures, genres, and modes of creative expression, featuring vegan cuisine.
NOTE: See website link for details and Eventbrite link.
Where: Hot and Cool Café
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 4331 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2405438232916643/
June Virtual Book Club & Emma, by Jane Austin at Placentia Library – Online
Join us to explore the classic book Emma, by Jane Austin, with librarians Megan and Michelle.
Whether you have read the book or seen the movei, our discussion will be a fun way to start your Saturday!
Where: Placentia Library – Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Address: Placentia Library – Online (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/831254097400258
Virtual Social Justice Book Club & Luis J. Rodriguez at Tia Chucha’s Bookstore Online
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore presents acclaimed founder, Poet Laureate Emeritus, and author Luis J. Rodriguez, to lead a Social Justice Book Club discussion of his latest book, From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, & Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer.
NOTE: Check website for Online link and further details.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Bookstore Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Tia Chucha’s Bookstore Online (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/835933710265744
Fireside Chat with Meghan Daum (Nonfiction) by Writers Blok Online
Writers Blok Online presents a Fireside Chat with nonfiction author Meghan Daum, who was an author and essayist for The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. She’s the author of five books, including: My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, The Problem with Everything.
Meghan will ask and answer questions about essay and nonfiction writing, in a talk conducted AMA style.
NOTE: Check with site re online platform and details.
Where: Online (Register ahead of time at site)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Writers Blok Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/271289440907775
Larchmont Authors Extravaganza by John August & Chevalier’s Books – Online – Kids Event
Chevalier’s Bookstore & author and screenwriter John August (Arlo Finch trilogy) will host a literary event with your favorite Larchmont authors, including:
Stuart Gibbs (Spy School. FunJungle)
Rex Ogle (Free Lunch, Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy)
Leslie Margolis (Ghosted, We Are Party People)
Sarah Mlynowski (Whatever After, Just a Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe)
Derek Haas (The Way I Die, Chicago PD)
Aline Brosh McKenna (Jane, Devil Wears Prada film)
Julie Buxbaum, (Tell Me Three Things, Hope and Other Punchlines)
Thomas Lennon (Ronan Boyle)
Kayla Cagan (Piper Perish & Art Boys)
Julia Claiborne Johnson (Be Frank With Me)
This is a perfect opportunity for kids to chat with and ask questions of their favorite writers, and get their recommended summer reading lists, perfect for both kids and adults.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/3460357997523023
Writing From Character: Writing Workshop with Gretchen Somerfeld – Online
The Writing From Character Workshop is offered on two dates and is led by Gretchen Somerfeld. Learn how to: create roles actors yearn to play; construct emotional life in your writing; and jump start your writing career.
NOTE: See website for costs and further details.
Where: Online event
Date: Saturday the 20th or Sunday the 21st
Time: 2 pm- 6 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/675058886614464
Cuentos con Crafts at Café con Libros Press – Online
Join us every Saturday for a live reading of a favorite book.
We miss you!
Where: Café con Libros Press – Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 2 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Café con Libros Press – Online (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/547334466220159/
Dear ONE: A Virtual Performance Featuring George Takei – Online
Join us for Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, a virtual performance of excerpts from the play benefiting ONE Archives Foundation, written and directed by Josh Irving Gershick.
This production illuminates the lives of ordinary Queer Americans as recounted through letters written between 1953 and 1965, to L.A.’s ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the U.S. This play is adapted from material from the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
Where: ONE – Online event (see details & ticket information at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 3 pm – 4:15 pm
Address: ONE National – Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1224707734588403
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Open Reading with Pasadena Public Library
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for an Open Reading and to hear our features: Juan Cardenas, Kelly Grace Thomas Vodjani & Sheree La Puma-Watson.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Coucou Los Angeles Book Club & The Little Prince at Zoom Online
Join us for the second edition of the Coucou Book Club, hosted by teacher Cynthia, and introducing one of France’s most famous tales; The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint–Exupery. This masterpiece creates deep philosophical reflections for both kids and adults. You will be given the keys to unlock the deep meaning and lessons of this story, as well as an opportunity to debate and discuss it in French, over the course of four Saturday sessions.
NOTE: Check site re online platform and details.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Saturday the 20th – Saturday the 27th (3rd of four sessions)
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/539356996946243/
“Birthing Out the Writer in You” Writing Workshop – Zoom Online
Join this class to know what is needed to write your book, and start writing it.
Event hosted by Lady T Gourmet Popcorn.
NOTE: Check website for further details.
Where: Check website to register and get zoom link online
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
Voices From Afar Online Event, by Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles
Join PILA on World Refugee Day for Voices From Afar, an online evening of storytelling, music, and poetry. Special guests include three refugees from around the world, poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and singer/songwriter Julian Saporiti.
NOTE: Check site re online platform and details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/252802449309732/
Café con Libros Book Club – Café con Libros Online Event
Join us as we discuss some of the top selling books at Café con Libros Press.
Where: Café con Libros Press – Online (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Café con Libros Press – Online (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/570362030485887/
The After School Writing Workshop with Ryka Aoki
Join the After School Writing Workshop, a monthly work space and test platform for writers who are self-identified queers and people of color. Our goal is to develop your writing projects that subvert or repurpose how literature is made and read. Event is facilitated by Ryka Aoki and Assistant Facilitator Catherine Chen.
Where: Zoom online event with Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom online event.
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/754778831573762/
Sunday Jump Morning Exercise Workshop via Zoom Online
Morning Exercise is a ceremony to awaken / return to our authentic bodies and expressions. We explore new ways of moving and existing together in service of our own freedom and empowerment.
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 21st
Address: Zoom Online event (see site)
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/305120013822284/
UnCabaret Zoom Edition #7 – Online Event
Beth Lapides hosts the UnCabaret Zoom Edition #7 with performers: Margaret Cho, Aleg Mapa, Julia Sweeney, Byron Bowers, Judy Gold, Alex Edelman, Jamie Bridgers, and Mitch Kaplan, musical director.
This event presents comedy, stories, music, commune and catharsis, and is about the difficult conversations which have stories and comedy braided through them.
NOTE: This free event is ticketed, so check website link for details.
Where: Zoom Online
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
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