Los Angeles Literature Events 6/29/20 – 7/05/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

101824415_2938018659584926_7961281379935715328_oDig Deeper Virtual Storytime via South Pasadena Library Online – Kids Event

Our Children’s Librarians read stories, share finger-plays, songs and flannel-board stories, weekly through July 27th. Each week’s event will be available for viewing starting at 10:30 am Monday, and will be available to view through Thursday of that week. For more information about the Summer Reading Program, visit the library website.

Where: South Pasadena Library Online (see event site)

Date: Monday the 29th

Time: 10:30 am – 11 am

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/

Japanese Storytime via Little Tokyo Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event

Join us on Little Tokyo Branch Library’s Instagram for Japanese Storytime for children, to enjoy books and activities, such as singing and learning origami, in Japanese.

Where: Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online

Date: Monday the 29th

Time: 10:30 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/japanese-storytime  

Bilingual Storytime / Hora de cuentos bilingue via Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event

Join us on Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library’s Instagram for Bilingual Storytime for children, to enjoy stories, rhymes, and songs in Spanish and English.  

Where: Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online

Date: Monday the 29th

Time: 3 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/bilingual=storytimela-hora-de-cuentas-binlingue   

Free Online Writing Class for All Ages with Goldie Goldbloom

Join us for a free online writing event with award-winning writer Goldie Goldbloom 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 event (see site for details)

Date: Monday the 29th

Time: 3 pm – 4 pm

Address: ZOOM online

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1223428574716573/

Kimberly Zieselman & Georgiann Davis & XOXY: A Memoir at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event

Join us for a discussion with author Kimberly Zieselman, in conversation with Professor Georgiann Davis, to discuss XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist).

Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fueled her to become an international human rights defender and globally recognized activist. Charting her discovery and her journey to self-acceptance, this book portrays how being intersex impacted Kimberly’s personal and family life, as well as her career. Her story helps break down barriers and misconceptions, and brings to light the trauma and harmful impact medical intervention continues to have on the intersex community. Written form a non-queer perspective,  this is a timely resource for all readers.

NOTE: Details available at website.

Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event

Date: Monday the 29th  

Time: 6 pm

Address: Crowdcast Live

Website: https://booksoup.com/event/kimberly-zieselman-conversation-professor-georgiann-davis-discusses-xoxy-memoir-intersex-woman

Self Portrait Poetry Workshop at Whittier Library – Online Event

In this workshop everyone is a poet, even if you’ve never written a poem before. All you need is a pen and paper, and a little imagination. Here, you will be invited to write a self-portrait poem. What does that mean? We all contain multitudes, and the beauty of poetry is that all your different selves can exist on one page in any way you like.

Where: Whittier Library Foundation Online

Date: Monday the 29th  

Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: Register at Whittier Library site for online information

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/875208002976607/

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 29th  

Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm

Address: Zoom Online

Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/

Storytime via Jefferson Branch Library Online Zoom – Kids Event

Join us for a Kids Storytime event and email us by the Friday before storytime for the Zoom link.

Where: Jefferson Branch Library, LAPL online (see site)

Date: Tuesday the 30th  

Time: 10:30 am – 10:50 am

Address: Zoom Online

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/193671361839094

Dr. Richard Haass & The World: A Brief Introduction via Chevalier’s & Town Hall Online

Join us for an in-depth discussion with Dr. Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, who has studied, worked, and written on U.S. foreign policy and globalization for over four decades. he will discuss the importance of global literacy, and how the global landscape matters enormously to what happens domestically in countries, and how it is not something individuals or countries can opt out of—including in times of crisis.

You can purchase the Richard Haass book, The World: A Brief Introduction, at the link to Chevalier’s Bookstore.

Where: L.A. World Affairs Council & Town Hall Online Event (see site)

Date: Tuesday the 30th  

Time: 11 am – 12 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/292781195194866

Holocaust Survivor Talk: Gerda Seifer via L.A. Museum of the Holocaust Zoom Online

Gerda was twelve years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, and soon they invaded her home in Eastern Poland. The family fled to Lwow, and in 1941 they spent a few months living in a ghetto, before her father arranged for her to hide with Polish families, which saved her from deportation to death camps. After the war, a British rabbi arranged for her and other war orphans to come to London, where she trained as a nurse. She moved to the U.S. in 1951, and raised her family in Long Beach, California.

Where: L.A. Museum of the Holocaust – Zoom Online event

Date: Tuesday the 30th  

Time: 11 am – 12 pm

Address: Zoom Online (register in advance online)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1182887922051245     

The Poetry of Strangers Book Launch & Brian Sonia-Wallace via Book Soup Zoom Online Event

Join us for an author talk and book launch with Brian Sonia-Wallace, to discuss The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewrite (Harper Collins 2020).

It might surprise you who’s a fan of poetry—when it meets them where they are. In 2012, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems. Over 5,000 poems later, this book is a deep dive into many communities and their desperate desire to be listened to and heard. If you have a typewriter, join in this first ever Zoom typewriter parade!

The author set out to write a book about dying American institutions, but found a book about listening—how we hear each other, how we show up for each other, and how community happens despite all odds.

Where: Book Soup – Zoom Online event

Date: Tuesday the 30th          

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: Zoom Online

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/266902167725838

Virtual Ideas Exchange: Emily Bernard & Black Is the Body at LA Times Facebook & YouTube Online

LA Times Ideas Exchange hosts its 2019 Christopher Isherwood Prize author Emily Bernard in conversation with Times reporter Angel Jennings, to discuss her book, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, and Mine.

Signed copies of the book will be available for sale from Eso Won Books. Before the event we invite you to submit questions for the author and RSVP for a reminder email at our Eventbrite page.

Where: L.A. Times’ Facebook and YouTube

Date: Tuesday the 30th       

Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Address: Live on L.A. Times Facebook and YouTube event

Website: http://www.facebook.com/event/254175792560457

Social Justice Virtual Book Club & The Hate You Give via Baldwin Hills Branch Library Instagram Online – Teen Event

Join us on Baldwin Hills Branch Library’s Instagram for the Social Justice Virtual Book Club, when we read and discuss The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas.

Have you read the book? Have you seen the movie?  Let’s talk about it online at 5:30 pm.

Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL Online

Date: Tuesday the 30th

Time: 5:30 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-virtual-book-club   

Business as Usual: Protracted Tribulation, A Discussion via Beyond Baroque – Online

Join Beyond Baroque’s  Poet-in-Residence Will Alexander to welcome writer/professors Janice Lee and Dorothy Wang to a discussion that explores the tension between the pull of the past and the power that is gathering from the future

Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist and pianist, and has written almost 40 titles in these various genres.

Janice Lee is a Korean-American writer, editor, publisher, and shamanic healer, and is the author of seven books of fiction, creative fiction, and poetry. She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at Fanzine, and Co-Founder of the Accomplices LLC. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.

Dorothy Wang, Professor of American Studies Program at Williams College, is the author of Thinking Its Presence: From, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (2013), which generated the first few national conferences on race and creative writing in 2014, 2015, and 2017. She also co-founded the Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPAUK) collective in the UK.

NOTE: Free tickets available at Eventbrite link at site.

Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event

Date: Tuesday the 30th

Time: 6 pm – 8 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.facebook.comevents/495405417909150/    

Katherine St. John & Abby Jimenez & The Lion’s Den at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event

Join us for a discussion with author Katherine St. John, in conversation with Abby Jimenez, to discuss The Lion’s Den.

When Belle accepts an invitation from a girlfriend to a glamorous getaway on a yacht, her dream vacation devolves into a nightmare as she and other girls onboard are treated more like prisoners than guests by their controlling host. She comes to see her friend as a vicious and ruthless gold digger, and knows she’ll need to keep her wits about her—and her big secret hidden—if she wants to make it off the yacht alive.

NOTE: Details available at website.

Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event

Date: Tuesday the 30th  

Time: 6 pm

Address: Crowdcast Live

Website: https://booksoup.com/event/katherine-st-john-conversation-abby-jimenez-discusses-lion’s-den  

Donovan Hohn & Tom Bissell Discuss Their Nonfiction at Vroman’s Bookstore Online

In The Inner Coast: Essays, author Donovan Hohn writes in the tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, and has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. This collection is by turns, meditative and comic, he offers a stylish exploration of what Guy Davenport called “the geography of the imagination.”

Award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process, and takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to Ernest Hemingway to David Foster Wallace, to the films of Werner Herzog or Tommy Wiseau. The essays in Magic Hours provoke as much thought as they do laughter. His questioning of whether art can be both bad and genius, or why some books survive and others vanish, make for unforgettable reading.

NOTE: Register at website for Online link and further details.

Where: Crowdcast Online event (see details at website link)

Date: Tuesday the 30th   

Time: 6 pm

Address: Crowdcast Online (see website)

Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-donovan-hohn-and-tom-bissell-discusses-their-new-titles-inner-caost-essays-and    

Tom Rastrelli, with Janet Fitch, & Confessions of a Gay Priest at Skylight Bookstore Online

In Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary, author Tom Rastrelli writes of being a survivor of the clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing church scandals. This book divulges the clandestine inner workings of the seminary, and lays bare the “formation” system that perpetuates the cycle of abuse and cover-up that continues today. Ultimately, the “formation” intended to make him compliant, helped to liberate him. Author Janet Fitch (White Oleander) calls him “a unique blend of courage and talent.”

NOTE: Register at website for Online link and further details.

Where: Crowdcast Online event (see details at website link)

Date: Tuesday the 30th   

Time: 6:30 pm

Address: Crowdcast Online (see website)

Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-tom-rastrelli-conversation-janet-fitch          

Steven Rowley & The Editor via Chevalier’s Books Virtual Online Event

Join the author of Lily and the Octopus, Steven Rowley, to hear him discuss online his book, The Editor.

After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house, none other than Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She has fallen in love with James’s candidly autobiographical novel, one that exposes his own dysfunctional family.

Where: Online event (see site for link)

Date: Tuesday the 30th

Time: 7 pm – 9 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/594438148144625  

NAWBO – Orange County’s Books + Coffee & Becoming Wise – Online Event

Join National Association of Women Business Owners – Orange County to read and discuss Becoming Wise, by Krista Tippett, the Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist. As NPR program and podcast host of On Being, her interviews have been given us insights into those who kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage, from scientists to theologians, and others. The book is a master class in living, curating a narrative journey over time, from mind to mind.

Where: Online Event (see site for link)

Date: Wednesday the 1st             

Time: 8:30 am – 10 am

Address: Online Event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/884154878732717

Virtual Performance: Science Tellers via Thousand Oaks Library – Online Kids Event

Science Tellers provides children and their families with fun, experiential science education through the art of interactive storytelling. This program will be available through the Thousand Oaks Library’s Facebook page website on the day of the event.

Where: Online Event (see site for link)

Date: Wednesday the 1st             

Time: 11 am – 11:30 am

Address: Online Event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/566438520898443  

Chatsworth Library Book Club – Online Event

This month the Chatsworth Library Book Club will read and discuss Blue Latitudes: Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before, by Tony Horwitz. This is a fun account of Cook’s three voyages of discovery. The book also looks at these places now.

Where: Online Event (see site for link)

Date: Wednesday the 1st             

Time: 1:30 pm

Address: Online Event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/644570129690703     

Virtual Pride Reading Event at the Beach via Annenberg & Red Hen Press Online

Join us when Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and Red Hen Press present Beach=Culture: PRIDE at the Beach, a virtual event featuring LGBTQ authors and readers:

Judy Grahn is an American poet whose work focuses on her feminist and lesbian experience. She is the author of numerous books, including: A Simple Revolution, The Judy Grahn Reader, and The Common Woman Poems. She is also founder of the My Good  Judy Foundation which supports queer culture studies, artists and academics.

Amber Flame is a poet, performer, and musician, and is the author of Ordinary Cruelty, her debut poetry collection. She wrote the one-person play Hands Above the Covers, and co-curated the art installation Black Imagination, both in Seattle. Her second collection, titled apocrifa, is forthcoming form Red Hen Press

Francisco Aragon is a Latino poet, editor and writer who explores how language and genre both connect and diverge, and locate the personal experience within a wider cultural and historical conversation.   His debut book was Puerta del Sol (2005) reflects his living abroad in Spain and the memories of his native California. His multi-genre book Glow of Our Sweat (2010) includes poems, translations, and an essay. His work has appeared in many anthologies. He directs Letras Latinas at Notre Dame, and edits for Momotombo Press, which he founded.

Ryka Aoki is a Japanese American author known for her poetry collection, Seasonal Velocities and her novel He Mele a Hilo. She is a former national judo champion, founder of the International Transgender Martial Arts Alliance, She is executive director of Dissonance Press, and the After School programs at Beyond Baroque, and a professor at Santa Monica College.

Moderator Jason Schneiderman asks the panel to discuss: What is PRIDE without celebrations of queer communities able to be seen and heard? What does PRIDE look like now considering the national conversation about racial justice?

Where: Facebook or YouTube online event (see site for link)

Date: Wednesday the 1st             

Time: 4 pm – 5 pm

Address: Facebook or YouTube online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/575843309957970      

Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event

Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love on Zoom! Hosted by Wyatt Underwood, you may receive an invitation if you contact wwood@lapl.org.

Where: Online Event (see site for link)

Date: Wednesday the 1st             

Time: 6 pm

Address: Online Event

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic

Blake Hazard & Aimee Mann & The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event

Join us for a discussion with author Blake Hazard, in conversation with Aimee Mann, to discuss The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel.

First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers. Now it is reimagined in stunning graphic form, in vivid and evocative illustrations by artist Aya Morton.  Writer Fred Fordham adapted the iconic text. Blake Hazard, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great g randdaughter, contributes a personal introduction.

NOTE: Details available at website.

Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event

Date: Wednesday the 1st   

Time: 6 pm

Address: Crowdcast Live

Website: https://booksoup.com/event/blake-hazard-conversation-aimee-mann-discusses-great-gatsby-graphic-novel

Rosalie Knecht & Amy Stewart at Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event

Join us for a discussion with author Rosalie Knecht, in conversation with author Amy Stewart (Kopp Sisters series), to discuss the second book in her Vera Kelly series, Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery.

When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous enemies across the Cold War landscape.

NOTE: Details available at website.

Where: Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event

Date: Wednesday the 1st   

Time: 6:30 pm

Address: Crowdcast Live

Website: https://skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-rosalie-knecht-conversation-amy-stewart

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 1st

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 1st     

Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1474760152726673/   

Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Liz Gonzalez via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online

Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome summer facilitator Liz Gonzalez, author of the collection Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (2018). An instructive video is offered at the site for sharing documents via Zoom.

NOTE: See site for further details.

Where: Online event (Eventbrite)

Date: Wednesday the 1st    

Time: 8 pm – 10 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html       

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: Thursday the 2nd  

Time: 11 am – 12 pm

Address: Zoom Online

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/   

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 are available at site.

Where: Zoom Online

Date: Thursday the 2nd     

Time: 1 pm – 2 pm

Address: Zoom Online

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/881416712341302/

Author Scoop Event via Studio City Branch Library Online

Join us online every Tuesday and Thursday for Author Scoop! Today our bite-sized author interview will be with Romina Garber, author of Lobizona.

This is a free event. Details are available at site.

Where: Studio City Branch Library LAPL – Online

Date: Thursday the 2nd     

Time: 3 pm

Address:  Online event

Website: .https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/studio-city-author-scoop

Primo Gallanosa & Hey, Who Made This Mess at Vroman’s Live – Online Kids Event

Debut children’s picture book author Primo Gallanosa, in conversation with author Marie Lu, presents his book, Hey, Who Made This Mess?

Someone is making a big mess at the zoo in this hilarious and delightful picture book. All the animals are in a tizzy. Someone slept in Elephant’s haystack, drank form Lion’s bowl, went potty in Ostrich’s sandbox (yuck!), and scratched Giraffe’s favorite tree. Whoever it was has left a trail of footprints behind!

NOTE: Register at website for Online link and further details.

Where: Crowdcast Online event (see details at website link)

Date: Thursday the 2nd   

Time: 5 pm

Address: Crowdcast Online (see website)

Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-primo-gallanosa-marie-lu-presents-hey-who-made-mess

Rock ‘n’ Roll Pajama Storytime via Huntington Beach Public Library Online – Kids Event

Put on your PJs, snuggle up with a blanket and your favorite stuffed animal, and join us on Facebook Live for Rock ‘n’ Roll storytime with Mr. Brian. We’ll be reading favorite silly stories, singing songs, and getting ready for dreamland every Thursday during the closure.

NOTE: Check with library for online platform and details.

Where: HBPL Facebook Live Online

Date: Thursday the 2nd            

Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2417958271829432/    

Virtual Spotlight Cafe – Instagram Online Event

Join MOAH:CEDAR for Virtual Spotlight Café every Friday, where all performance art is welcome. Poetry, karaoke, ventriloquism, we want to know what you have to share.

NOTE: See website link for details.

Where: Instagram online event

Date: Friday the 3rd           

Time: 3 pm – 6 pm

Address: Instagram online event

Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/895683244269034/       

Writing Ekphrasis Workshop with John Brantingham – Zoom Online Event

In a free five-week class, John Brantingham will discuss public forms of art in the Inland Empire, and teach you how to engage with them as a writer and a poet. These free classes will meet on the next five Fridays from 5-6pm. All are welcome.

In Writing Ekphrasis about Public Art in the Inland Empire, we will supercharge an ongoing cultural conversation and extend the narrative to reflect our new understanding of the world, presenting our vision and voices.

Each session will focus on different aspects of art at the California Imagism Gallery, including: exploring the poetic form and public art, murals and flash fiction, sculpture and fiction vignettes, political statement and poetry, touring the city and the lyric flash essay.

NOTE: See website link for details.

Where: California Imagism Gallery – Online event

Date: Friday the 3rd

Time: 5 pm – 6 pm

Address: Zoom Online event

Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/304594597365046

Virtual SOLA Contemporary Open Mic – Online Event

Join our Open Mic series which has moved to the web! Every Friday night of the month we invite all who would share their art through words, song, poetry, stand-up, rap and more.

NOTE: See website link for details.

Where: Instagram online event

Date: Friday the 3rd

Time: 6 pm – 8 pm

Address: Instagram online event

Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/527314294791719/      

La Bodega Open Mic Night – Check to confirm if In-Person or Online Event

Calling on all poets, singers, and musicians, to join the Bodega Open Mic every first Friday of the month!

NOTE: See website link for details.

Where: LaRayla’s Bodega

Date: Friday the 3rd             

Time: 8 pm – 12 pm

Address: 2713 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057

Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/508466409862015/

Black Book Chat: Citizen by Claudia Rankine – Online Event

Our first book, Citizen, by Claudia Rankine, was called “an especially vital book for this moment,” in 2014. It is no less vital now. Join us in conversation.

This monthly Black Book Chat, hosted by the CSUF Faculty creates community and conversations around books written by Black folks. Most selections will be taken from the Schomberg Center Black Liberation Reading List.

Zoom log-in information will be posted one hour prior to the event.

NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.

Where: Zoom Online event (see details at website link)

Date: Saturday the 4th   

Time: 10 am – 11:30 am

Address: Zoom Online (see website)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1463485800501433/       

Saturday Afternoon Poetry Writing Workshop with Don Kingfisher Campbell – Online

Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell.  

(Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Special Edition: Summertime by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmial.com by 11:59pm, July 11th)

All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.

Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)

Date: Saturday the 4th

Time: 3 pm – 5 pm

Address: Zoom online

Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com   

Sunday Power Hour Workshop on Zoom Meeting

Join Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble for our last one hour writing workshop, followed by social time. See website for details.

Where: Zoom online event (RSVP)

Date: Sunday the 5th

Time: 9 am – 10 am

Address: Zoom online (free via Eventbrite).

Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/187297896035

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