Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
The Gathering Summer Book Club Event via Zoom Online
Welcome to The Gathering Summer Book club, an opportunity to read, reflect, and discuss some of the most significant Asian (American) Literatures. Please join us today as we discuss our next book, Unaccustomed Earth, by award-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Where: Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3100251813364003
Queer SLAM – Digital Edition #4! via Zoom Online Event
While Akbar is closed, Queer Slam goes digital. Queer Slam is an open mic, storytelling and poetry night, hosted by Siverlake icon Tony Soto. For our fourth digital show of 2020, we will feature pieces by headliners Ever Mainard and Arlo Weierhauser.
NOTE: See site for Zoom link and sign-up instructions, as the nine spots are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Where: Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/212452276781702
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
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 27th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Bilingual Book Club for Teens via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Teen Event
LAPL presents the Bilingual Book Club for teens in 5th – 10th grade, and we will read and discuss The Epic Failure of Arturo Zamora, by Pablo Cartaya. If you would like to attend, email children@lapl.org.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library Book Club, LAPL – Online (Register at site link)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/bilingual-book-club-july
Expressions LA Poetry Reading & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings and Open Mic for adults goes virtual via Zoom!
Join us for featured poetry readings and open mic poetry readers. Email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library Book Club, LAPL – Online (see site link)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Book to Action Book Club via Venice-Abbot Kinney Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Book to Action Program series and become a more critical consumer of news and other information. This is one in a series of discussion, and free copies of books are available to participants while supplies last. Please messenger us at site link.
Today we will discuss the book, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by Calitlin O’Connor & James Weatherall.
Where: Venice-Abbot Kinney Branch Library Book Club, LAPL – Zoom Online (see site link)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
PEN Emerging Voices 2020 Readings via Hammer Museum – Online Event
During this live, online program, writers Damien Belliveau, Megan Dorame, Shannon Gatewood, M. Kigawa, and Claire Lin read together for the last time as the culmination of their 2020 PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship. Mentors Chris L. Terry, Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, Rachel M. Harper, Antonia Crane, and Charles Yu provide personal introductions.
This event celebrates a literary mentorship based in Los Angeles that has been providing underrepresented, marginalized writers with the tools they need to launch a professional literary career since 1996.
Where: Hammer Museum – Online (Register at site link)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2020/pen-emerging-voices-2020
Chris Franz & Remain in Love at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join drummer Chris Franz, in conversation with Jeff Garlin, to discuss his book, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, and Tina, about the beginnings of the band Talking Heads—and where the music that defined an era was written. At the heart of the book is Frantz’s love for Tina Weymouth, their connection as lovers, musicians, and bandmates. This is a frank and open memoir with abundant pictures and details.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Skylight Books Presents: Amy Bender & The Butterfly Lampshade – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Amy Bender, in conversation with author Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Ms. Hemple Chronicles) will read and discuss her new book, The Butterfly Lampshade.
Amy Bender’s first novel in ten years, The Butterfly Lampshade, is the poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world. This is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Luis J. Rodriguez Features in Rex Weiner’s conversation series, “I Read your Book and …” – Online Event
Join Beyond Baroque-hosted free events online to hear iconic author Luis J. Rodrigez, in conversation with Rex Weiner in his author discussion series “I Read Your Book and…”. They will discuss his work and his latest book, From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys & Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer..
In her newest book, the author combines memoir, history and anecdotes for a unique perspective on one of the most popular activities in the world—and on human behavior itself.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online live-stream event on Zoom
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site and Eventbrite link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/692041544708817
LA Times Book Club: Bonnie Tsui & Why We Swim – Online Event
Join us the L.A. Times Book Club in a virtual, free but ticketed meeting, to hear author Bonnie Tsui, in conversation with Times reporter James Rainey, discuss her book, Why We Swim.
In her newest book, the author combines memoir, history and anecdotes for a unique perspective on one of the most popular activities in the world—and on human behavior itself.
Where: L.A. Times – Online live-stream event on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site and Eventbrite link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/303037551044219
Byron Lane & A Star Is Bored via Chevalier’s Books Virtual Online Event
A Star is Bored: a Novel is a story inspired in part by playwright Byron Lane’s experience as an assistant to Carrie Fisher.
Charlie Benson’s three year odyssey with icon Kathy Kannon, star of stage and screen an People Magazine’s worst dressed list, is filled with unusual adventures. But as Kathy becomes more than a boss, and as their friendship grows, Charlie must make a choice about whether he is ready to step into his own leading role.
Where: Chevalier’s Books Online event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/byron-lane
Non-Fiction Book Club & The Splendid and the Vile via Pages Bookstore Online
Join us online live for a Pages’ online event to discuss author Erik Larson’s latest book, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.
The author of Devil in the White City has researched and written a compelling chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz of World War II, and presents an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis.
This event is facilitated by Mark Polak.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event. Details are available at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club
Gothic Book Club & Once Upon a River – The Last Bookstore Online Event
The Gothic Book Club, led by John Palisano, will read and discuss Once Upon a River, by Diane Setterfield, the mystery of a rescued girl, how she is alive after being dead, and who she really is.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online event
Website: https://thelastbookstore/#events
Tanka Poetry via Torrance Public Library – Online Event
Join us on Facebook Live for an afternoon of Japanese Tanka poetry and performance with award winning artist Genie Nakano.
Where: Torrance Public Library, – Facebook Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/432347013823673/
Sherlock Holmes Kids Club via Panorama City Branch Library – Online Event
Check out the On the Case with Holmes and Watson comic book series on Hoopla and join us via Zoom to talk about Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Blue Gem and Sherlock Holmes and the Redheaded League. The game is afoot!
Please email bgallego@lapl.org for access to the program.
Where: Panorama City Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sherlock-holmes-kids-club
Life’s A Beach! Publishing in a Pandemic via Annenberg & Red Hen Press – Online Event
This virtual reading and conversation is moderated by Kristen Millares Young. Featured writers will discuss the challenges triumphs, and unexpected realities of publishing during a pandemic.
Kristen Millares Young is the author of the novel Subduction. She is a prize-winning investigative journalist, book critic, and essayist, and serves as Prose Writer in Residence at Hugo House in Seattle.
Reema Rajbanshi is a creative and critical writer who explores the nonlinear lines of girlhood, violence, and migration. She currently teaches at Haverford College, and her first book is Sugar, Smoke, Song.
Deborah A. Lott’s memoirs, essays, and reportage have been widely published. Her family’s legacy of hypochondria was featured on NPR’s This American Life. Her first book, In Session: The Bond between Women and their Therapists, offered a look at psychotherapy from the perspective of clients. She teaches at Antioch University and serves as faculty advisor to Two Hawks Quarterly.
Elizabeth Earley is the publisher of Jaded Ibis, a feminist press. Her first novel, A Map of Everything, was inspired by her own experience growing up with a sister with a traumatic brain injury. Her writing is informed by her interest in family dynamics, healing, disability rights, and the nature of consciousness,
Anna Dorn is a former criminal defense attorney, and has written about legal issues for Justia and Medium. She has also written about culture for LARB, The Hairpin, and Vice Magazine. Her debut novel, Vagablonde, was published by Unnamed Press in 2020, and her debut memoir, Bad Lawyer, will be published by Hachette Books in Spring 2021.
NOTE: This event will use several platforms and will be recorded and viewable afterward.
Where: Livestream Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/997446680705608
David Hill & The Vapors at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author David Hill, in conversation with Clark Duke, to discuss his book, The Vapors.
Back in the days before Vegas was big, Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, horse racing, illegal casinos, bars and brothels, and many criminals and gangsters Tis book is the story of three individudals, spanning the 1930s through the 1960s, and the lavish casino whose rise and fall would bring together, before blowing them apart. Its an arresting glimpse into a bygone era of American vice..
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/david-hill-conversation-clark-duke-discusses-vapors
Vromans Live: Nandi Taylor & Given – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Nandi Taylor will discuss her debut sci-fi novel, Given, in a Crowdcast online event.
Bound by fate. Divided by duty.
Yenni has never been this far from home. With only her wits, her strength, and her sacred runelore, the fierce Yirba warrior princess is alone in the Empire of Cresh. It’s a land filled with strange magics, and stranger people—all of whom mistrust anyone who is different. But she will prove herself, and she will not fail.
No one warned her about the dragons. Especially, not about him. There is something powerful and compelling about the dragon known as Weysh, who might be her best hope at finding the answers she seeks.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-nandi-taylor-discusses-given
Melissa Valentine & Ingrid Rojas Contreras & In the Names of All the Flowers – Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online Event
Author Melissa Valentine, in conversation with author Ingrid Rojas Contreras, will read and discuss her debut memoir, In The Names of All the Flowers.
In The Names of All the Flowers, author Melissa Valentine writes of growing up 1990s Oakland, where she and her brother were two of three children of a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother. A bullying incident and a violent attack leave her brother looking for power and a sense of self in all the wrong places, and falls into drug dealing. When he is murdered before age twenty, the family is torn apart. This debut memoir rings with both strength and rage, and connects his death to a collective grief for all black people who die too young.j
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Addre⁹ss: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
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 29th
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 30th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
Crime Novelist Glen Erik Hamilton via HBPL Zoom Online Event
The Friends of the Huntington Beach Library (FOTL) presents a free online author event with Glen Erik Hamilton, who will discuss his book A Dangerous Breed, the fifth novel in his Van Shaw thriller series, as well as answer questions about his writing life.
Where: Huntington Beach Public Library – Zoom online
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1205264843149794
Social Justice Virtual Book Club via Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Teen Event
Join us for our Social Justice Virtual Book Club for teens, when we discuss our second book in the series online. We will discuss Dear Martin, by Nic Stone. Email zzehdar@lapl.org to participate.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-book-club
Author Chris Fenton & Feeding the Dragon via Pages Bookstore Online
Join us online live for a Pages’ online event to heat author Chris Fenton discuss his book, Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business.
This is a deeply revealing memoir of the big wins and hard lessons learned by an executive caught in the middle of the trillion-dollar soft power struggle pitting China against Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event. Details are available at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/author-chris-fenton-jluy-30th-6pm
SGV Book Club & East of East via Active San Gabriel Valley – Zoom Online Event
The next #ReadSGV Book Club will discuss East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, edited by Romeo Guzman, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryab Reft.
East of East is an edited collection of 31 essays that trace the experiences of a California community over three centuries. Join us at our Zoom meeting when we will speak with some of the authors! You may purchase the book for 50% off until July 7th, so check site for details.
Where: #ReadSGV Book Club– Zoom Online (see site link)
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/287769968941064
Karen Karbo Discusses Yeah. No. Not Happening at Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Karen Karbo, in conversation with Jen Pastiloff, to discuss her book, Yeah. No. Not Happening.
Why are we so obsessed with being our so-called best selves? The author is taking a stand against cultural and societal pressures and marketing and media influences, that push us to spend time, energy and money to “fix” ourselves, while only increasing our dissatisfaction and self-loathing. This is a smart and entertaining read.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/karen-karbo-conversation-jen-pastiloff-discusses-yeah-no-not-happening
Juli Delgado-Lopera, with Michelle Tea, & Fiebre Tropical – Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Juli Delgado-Lopera, in conversation with Michelle Tea, will read and discuss their debut novel, Fiebre Tropical.
Uprooted from Bogata to an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francesca is miserable until she meets magnetic Carmen, head of the youth group and daughter of the pastor at her mother’s new evangelical church. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates, the girls grow closer as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Electrical Currents Through Language: A Poetry Workshop Series & Margaret Rhee – Beyond Baroque Zoom Event
Join Beyond Baroque Workshops online at Zoom for: Electrical Currents Through Language: A Poetry Workshop Series, led by Margaret Rhee.
In this exploratory workshop, we’ll ask and write through a series of questions at the intersection of poetry and technology. While the two seem disparate, we’ll explore how technology is intimate, poetic and humanized, and how the poetic is technologized and transformed in everyday life.
Each two-hour workshop in the series will begin with a reading and discussion of text, followed by a writing prompt for generating writing and sharing, then a workshopping of poems. By the end of each session, poets should have a rough draft of a poem, and a completed poem based on weekly prompts.
Margaret Rhee is the author of Love, Robot (2017), and her new media art project The Kimchi Poetry Machine. She is assistant professor in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo.
NOTE: See website link for costs and details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 30th (3rd meeting) through August 6th
Time: 6:30 pam – 8:30 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
Community Panel on Racism: Past & Present via Glendale Public Library Online
Join us for a City of Glendale Community Conversation, Panel on Racism: Past & Present, and submit questions for our panelists at our link online.
Steven Nelson, moderator, is Dean for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and professor of African American art history at UCLA. He is the author of two forthcoming books: On the Underground Railroad and Structural Adjustment: Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness.
Safiya Umoja Noble is Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, and is the author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., is an expert on Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District and the Tulsa Race Massacre. He has taught at numerous universities, and his book Black Wall Street 100, is available for preorder in late July 2020.
Gary Keyes is a retired educator, having taught at GCC, PCC, and Crescenta Valley High School for over 40 years. he is co-author of two books: Wicked Crescenta Valley and Murder & Mayhem in the Crescenta Valley.
NOTE: Check with library for online platform and details.
Where: Glendale Library Webex Event – Live Online
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/48862/18
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 30th
Time: 7 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2417958271829432/
Poets Lounge via CSU Long Beach ASI – Online Event
CSULB’s Poets Lounge is back, and we’re ready to hear the spoken word art you create.
NOTE: Check with site for online platform and details.
Where: Zoom Live Online
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/838091286596681/
Book Club for Middle Grade Readers via Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL –Online Kids Event
Our Book Club for Middle Grade Readers will meet and discuss The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kate Barnhill (2017 Newberry Medal Winner). Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest, to keep her form terrorizing the town. But the witch, Xan, is kind and she rescues children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing them with starlight on the journey. This is an epic coming-of-age fairy tale.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Donald Bruce Kauffman-Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Friday the 31st
Time: 10:30 am- 11:30 am
Address: Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2552486281679833
Storytime Live with a Gallery Interpreter via NHMLA Online Event
Gather with the family, and join a Natural History Museum of Los Angeles interpreter for a reading of one of their favorite books, at our Facebook page.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County – Online event
Date: Friday the 31st
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/303231527710280
Virtual Spotlight Café by MOAH Cedar – Online Event
All performance art is welcome at the Virtual Spotlight Café Online event every Friday. Claim a spot at our site.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Instagram Live online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 31st
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: Live online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/895683244269034/
Writing Ekphrasis Workshop with John Brantingham – Zoom Online Event
This is the last meeting 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 31st (5th of 5 meetings)
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Zoom Online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/304594597365046
A Virtual Grown-Up Show & Tell: Author Event via El Segundo Library- Online Event
This Author Event will ask the question: Of all that you own, what object means the most to you and why? Authors will present a slideshow, selected readings form their books, and local community members will share their own treasured objects. In our current collective world experience, objects provide comfort, memories, and safety, and are more important than ever.
Please email refdesk@elsegundo.org or call 310-524-2728 to register for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: El Segundo Public Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 31st
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Live online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1250382285301174/
Cindy Lin & Treasures of the Twelve at Vroman’s Live – YA Online Event
Join us for a discussion with author Cindy Lin, in conversation with Laura Ling, to discuss her book, Treasures of the Twelve, the sequel to The Twelve.
When Usagi first met the Heirs of the Twelve, her one goal was to save her sister. But now they must find the ancient Treasures of The Twelve to truly free those they love from the Dragonlord. But will they find them in time to save Uma?
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Zoom Online Event (register in advance)
Date: Friday the 31st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Live event
Black Book Chat & Bad Feminist via CSUF Zoom – Online Event
Hosted by the CSUF African American Studies Department online, this month’s Black Book Chat will be the book Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay, a collection of essays “exploring imperfection: the power we (we people, and especially we women) wield in spite and because of it.” Join in the conversation on Zoom, and get the login information on event page one hour prior to the event.
NOTE: See website for Zoom Online link and further details.
Where: CSUF Zoom – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 1st
Time: 10 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/818834761982320/
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Event
Get words on the page and meet other writers in this online creative writing workshop.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1129862607389180/
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join us for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. Share your work and receive constructive criticism.
NOTE: Email shannah@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
Where: Eagle Rock Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 1st
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-1
Ocean Park Book Group & The Water Dancer via Santa Monica Public Library – Online
Join the Ocean Park Book Group monthly meeting to read and discuss the book, The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, his first novel.
This program is open to all, and registration is available at site.
Where: Ocean Branch Library Online event (see site to register)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Workshop at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for a Poetry Writing Workshop, led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. (See site for Spectrum 24 submission details.)
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 1st
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
“Birthing Out the Writer in You” Writing Workshop – Zoom Online
Join this free 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 1st
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
Chicano Eats Cook Book & Domingo via LibroMobile – Instagram Online Event
Join hosts LibroMobile and David Lopez for a Sunday Happy Hour a mediodia, to hear Esteban Castillo present his newly released cookbook, Chicano Eats. He will teach you how tom ake a signature mojito from the book, so see site for list of ingredients.
NOTE: Check website to purchase book, and for further details.
Where: Instagram Live Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 2nd
Time: 12 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/412473709643124
La Palabra Reading Series Goes Virtual: 10 Poets in 10 Weeks – Zoom Online Event
La Palabra Reading Series & host Angelina Saenz, present 10 Poets in 10 Weeks, from July 11th through September 13th, in which a poetry reading will go live each Sunday at 2pm for 20 minutes.
Today’s featured poet is the amazing and talented Matt Sedillo, who will present his book Mowing Leaves of Grass.
Where: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Date: Sunday the 2nd (July 11th through September 13th)
Time: 2 pm – 2:20 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/413256312967460/
Ingrid Calderon-Collins, with Claire Rudy Foster & Let the Buzzards Eat Me Whole – Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Ingrid Calderon-Collins, in conversation with Claire Rudy Foster, will read and discuss her collection of poems, Let the Buzzards Eat Me Whole.
Ingrid Calderon-Collins is an immigrant from El Salvador, author of six volumes of poetry, and host of the reading series “They’re Just Words.” In her debut memoir, Let the Buzzards Eat Me Whole, she traces her multiple journeys, both personal and through distance and time, and from El Salvador to America and to Southern California.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Sunday the 2nd
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Julie Abe & Eva Evergreen: Semi-Magical Witch via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Author Julie Abe presents her debut book for young children, Eva Evergreen: Semi-Magical Witch, a tale of a young witch-in-training sent on a quest to earn her Novice Witch rank.
Eva is determined to earn the rank of Novice Witch before her thirteenth birthday. If she doesn’t, she’ll lose her magic forever. For most young witches and wizards it’s a simple enough test, but Eva has only a pinch of magic and things keep going wrong. She must conjure up all of the magic, bravery, and cleverness she can muster or her dreams will wash away in biggest storm in history/
NOTE: See site for participation information and instructions.
Where: Zoom Online event
Date: Sunday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event.
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