Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Teens Speak Up Against Injustice: The Assignment via American Jewish University Online Event
Join us on Zoom to heat how a chance meeting in a bookstore propelled author Liza Wiemer to write her book, The Assignment, which explores how two teens found the courage to speak up against antisemitism and hatred.
NOTE: See site for details and ticket information.
Where: American Jewish University – Online event
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 4 pm – 4:45 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/398268867839936
Tween Book Club via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL Zoom Online – Kids Event
Join the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library’s Zoom online link for the Tween Book Club for kids ages 9-12, to talk about our favorite books and discuss a book that we’ve all read. The discussion book will be selected at the previous meeting, and is available at Hoopla (see site).
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL Zoom online
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club-2
Virtual Book Club via Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, LAPL Zoom Online
Join us on the Sherman Oaks-Martin Pollard Branch Library’s Zoom online link for the Virtual Book Club for adults, to talk about our selection, Fleischman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. New members are welcome. Email shrmno@lapl.org for Zoom meeting invitation.
Where: Sherman Oaks-Martin Pollard Branch Library, LAPL Zoom online
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/virtual-book-club-0
Vanessa R. Schwartz & Jet Age Aesthetic – Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online Event
Author Vanessa R. Schwartz, in conversation with author Britt Salvesen, will read and discus her new book, Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion..
This book is a stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine. This is a critical history of the present modern age, and a beautifully illustrated book.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Jon Wiener & Brenda Stevenson & Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties & The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins– Chevalier’s Bookstore Online Event
Authors Jon Wiener & Brenda Stevenson will present and discus their books: Set the Nght on Fire: L/A. in the Sixties and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins.
These books document earlier turbulent times in Los Angeles, the political and social upheaval of counter culture movements in the 1060s, including the Watts uprising, and the turning point on the road to the 1992 rebellion, when a Korean clerk shot and killed a teenager she believed to be shoplifting a bottle of juice.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jon-wiener
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 24th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Ray Bradbury Discussion Group & The Veldt via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Ray Bradbury Discussion Group for a discussion of his well-known short story, The Veldt, via Zoom, along with the film portrayal. Please email prncho@lapl.org for participation details..
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/ray-bradbury-discussion-series-veldt
The 1619 Project Learning Circle Series (2nd of 6 sessions) & A Broken Health Care System LAPL – Online Event
Please join the 1619 Project Learning Circle, created for the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery by Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, to detail the history of slavery, its last effects in our culture, and to celebrate those formerly enslaved peoples making American democracy manifest.
Week 2 will focus on the book, A Broken Health Care System, by Janeen Interlandi. See site for books discussed at all six meeting in series.
You may link to the project and a tutorial at website, and must sign in at least 72 hours prior to each weekly event. See site for further details.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/1619-project-learning-circle
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Expressions LA Poetry reading Series has gone virtual via Zoom! Please join us for featured poetry readings and an Open Mic by emailing Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Brit Bennett & The Vanishing Half via L.A. Times Book Club – Online Event
Please join the L.A. Times Book Club to hear author Brit Bennett, in conversation with reporter and writer Carolina Miranda, present her new novel The Vanishing Half.
This bestselling new novel explores race, identity and family secrets in a story of twin sisters wo choose vastly different paths. Bennett is also the author of the novel The Mothers.
Copies of The Vanishing Half with signed bookplate will be available form Chevalier’s Books by ordering at the link at the site.
Where: Los Angeles Times – YouTube or Facebook Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://eventbrite.com/e/virtual-book-club-with-brit-bennett-tickets-114201937068
Vroman’s Live: D.J. Waldie & Becoming Los Angeles – Crowdcast Online Event
Author D.J.Waldie will discuss his new book, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place, in a Crowdcast online event.
Becoming Los Angeles is a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir, Holy Land, and blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Los Angelenos have seen themselves and their city. The author’s particular concern is commonplace Los Angeles, whose rhythms of daily life are set against the gaudy backdrop of historical myth and Hollywood illusion. He maps the contours of the city and explores what the Angeleno identity has come to mean, drawing on a decade of writing about the city’s history and its aspirations. It is ultimately a book about learning how to fall in love with wherever it is you are.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-dj-waldie-discusses-becoming-los-angeles
Chuck Prophet & Stevie Simkin & What Makes the Monkey Dance at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join Chuck Prophet & Stevei Simkin to discuss the book, What Makes the Monkey Dance and how the alt-country genre got started.
This book is essential reading for fans and anyone with an interest in alternative music in a period of seismic change.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
DSTL Arts: New Conchas y Café Zine Bilingual Writing Workshops – Online Events
Please join DSTL Arts and founder Luis Antonio Pichardo online at Google classroom for new Conchas y Café Zine bilingual community writing workshops! Lessons in poetry and writing for all are offered on Google Classroom (Class Code d3nvygy) every Tuesday at 6:30 pm, as DSTL Arts participants begin Volume 6 (year six) of these bilingual zine writing workshops!
NOTE: Use class code: d3nvygy (at Google Classroom)
Where: DSTL Arts online event (Google classroom)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: DSTL Arts online event (Google classroom)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/
Sam Maggs & The Unstoppable Wasp at Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online YA Event
Author Sam Maggs, in conversation with author E.K. Johnston, will read and discuss her new YA novel, The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope.
This book is an all-new original YA novel based on the world of the Unstoppable Wasp Marvel comics series. The story is about Nadia Van Dyke, who is new to being a Super Hero, new to being a real friend and step-daughter, and new to being her own person. She jumps at the opportunity to have a virtual assistant, and to do less, but finds when she teams with those who love her the most, they are totally unstoppable.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Non-Fiction Book Club & The Women’s Hour at Pages Bookstore Online
Join the Pages Non-Fiction Book Club every fourth Tuesday of the month. This month’s selection is The Women’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss.
This book club meeting will be facilitated by Mark Polak.
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-virtual-meeting
Gothic Book Club & Mexican Gothic at The Last Bookstore Online
The Gothic Book Club, led by John Palisano, reads many genres and art forms, from horror to architecture to shoes. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s book Mexican Gothic, in which Noemi braves a rotting English estate in 1950s Mexico, to rescue her imperiled cousin..
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Tuesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Classics Book Club & The Victory Garden via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL Online Event
Join the Granada Hills Branch Library Book Club via Zoom for a discussion of The Death of Artemio Cruz, by Carlos Fuentes.
And in September we will discuss Parrot in the Oven, by Victor Martinez.
For access to the meeting, please email grnhls@lapl.org.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion
Book Club at The Sperba: The Book of V via American Jewish University (AJU) Event
Join the Book Club at The Sperba Online for a discussion of The Book of V, by Anna Solomon.
This bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwines the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day.
Where: American Jewish University – Confirm that this is an Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/210636670241402
Lynell George & A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky via Huntington Library & Museum Online
Join a Huntington Library Zoom online event when author Lynell George, in conversation with William Deverell and Karla Nielson, discusses her forthcoming book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler. The author also discusses her experience in the Huntington archives, which gave her access to the papers of the late local author, Octavia Butler, author of Kindred, The Parable of the Sower, and other classic time travel, dystopian, and prescient literary works.
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Huntington Library & Museum – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049894772096259
Red Hen Press Virtual Reading: East Coast Vibes on a West Coast Beach via Annenberg Community Beach House – Online Event
Join Red Hen Press at the Annenberg Beach House for East Coast Vibes on a West Coast Beach, a virtual reading by six poets, including:
Chelsea Catherine, Melanie Conroy-Goldman, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, Patricia Spears Jones Willie Perdomo.
Stay tuned afterward to listen to a conversation on the influences in the artists; writings. This event is available via Livestream.
NOTE: Details and information available at website.
Where: Annenberg Beach House – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://https://www.santamonica.gov/events/2020/08/26/a-virtual-reading-with-red-hen-press-authors-tba or https://www.santamonica.gov/arts/beach-culture
Middle Grade Book Club & The Unadoptables at Pages Bookstore Online
Join the Pages Middle Grade Book Club every month. This month we will read two selections, and today’s selection is The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke.
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting
The Chicano Moratorium, 50 Years Later at USC Annenberg – Online
Join USC Annenberg School of Journalism, with panelists Laura Castaneda and Felix Gutierrez of USC, Esmeralda Bermudez and Gustavo Arellano of the L.A. Times, with moderator Josh Kun, fir a discussion of the historic events of August 29, 1970, and to explore its legacy in the contemporary moment.
NOTE: Details and further information available at website.
Where: USC Annenberg – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Virtual Ideas Exchange with Erin Brockovich at Los Angeles Times – Online Event
Join Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange to hear author and environmentalist Erin Brockovich, in conversation with L.A. Times staff writer Sammy Roth, discuss her latest book, Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We The People Can Do About It.
NOTE: Details, tickets and further information available at website.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/307520124023611
Makenna Goodman & The Shame at Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online YA Event
Author Makenna Goodman, in conversation with author Kathryn Scanlon, will read and discuss her debut novel, The Shame.
This book asks the question: What if you could change your life? Would you do it? How would you do it? Alma and her family live close to the land, and one night she abruptly leaves it all behind-speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York. In a series of flashbacks she reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment. This is a fable both blistering and surreal.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Vroman’s Live: Gail Tsukiyama & The Color of Air – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Gail Tsukiyama, in conversation with author Mary Roach, will discuss her new novel, The Color of Air, in a Crowdcast online event.
The Color of Air is a new novel by the author who has written several compelling books rooted in her experience of being born to a Chinese mother and Japanese father in San Francisco. In this story, Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawaii,, but his arrival coincides with the awakening of the Mauna Loa volcano, and its dangerous path toward their village stirs both new and long ago passions in their community.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Mystery Book Club via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL Online Event
Join the Studio City Branch Library Book Club via Zoom. This month, choose your own mystery. All are welcome. Please email emily@lapl.org for the meeting link.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/lgbtqia-book-club-7
20th Anniversary of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & Open Mic – Online Event
Join Two Idiots Peddling for a 20th Anniversary celebration as hosts Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg read their own work. As they say in their Facebook event, “We’ve reached the remarkable milestone of 20 years of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry, and we want you to celebrate with us. We may not have the party we would have preferred, but we will have a party nonetheless. And, as always, we will have the finest Open Mic we could ask for.”
Where: Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/944040679397505/
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 26th
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 27th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
Ray Bradbury Discussion Series and Black Leopard via LAPL – Online Event
As part of the Ray Bradbury Discussion Series, we will discuss author Marlon James’ latest book, Black Leopard.
This book was winner of the inaugural Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Award. Please email prncho@lapl.org for an invitation.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online event
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/ray-bradbury-discussion-series-black-leopard
The Poetics of Climate Change via Red Hen Press – Broad Stage Facebook Live Online Event
Nature is all around us, but what is its true influence on the creation of art? Join returning host Sandra Tsing Loh for a conversation on the environment’s necessity for our artistic figures.
The Red Hen Press Poetry Hour presents the Poetics of Climate Change, featuring the readings and a panel discussion by poets and authors:
Alanna Mitchell is a journalist/playwright whose play Sea Sick tells the tale of her 13 oceanic journeys in three years to observe vast chemical changes at the hand of man,
Elizabeth Bradfield is a poet/naturalist whose recent book, Towards Antarctica, offers a unique view of the Last Continent through photos and prose.
Natalie Diaz is an acclaimed poet and author, and a member of the Gila River Indian Tribe.
Luis Rodriguez is an acclaimed author of poetry, prose and non-fiction, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Emeritus, and founder/president of Tia Chucha Press.
Paisley Bekdal, is Poet Laureate of Utah.
Where: Red Hen Press & Broad Stage – Facebook Live – Online event
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2658396574377034
Cover to Cover Book Club and The Nest via LAPL – Online Event
As part of the Cover to Cover Book Club, we will read and discuss author Cynthia D’Arpix Sweeney’s novel, The Nest, about a sibling dispute/rivalry over an expected inheritance.
Please email npholana@lapl.org for an invitation and Zoom log-in information..
Where: Mid Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom Online event
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cover-book-club-0
Myla Goldberg & Feast Your Eyes at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join acclaimed author Myla Goldberg to discuss her new novel, Feast Your Eyes.
This book is framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother, America’s Worst Photographer, or America’s Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking.” After Lillian rejects her parents expectations for her of college and marriage, she moves to New York in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits nude photos of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, the sudden notoriety changes the course of both their lives, especially Lillian’s career as she searches for legitimacy and recognition.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/myla-goldberg-discusses-feast-your-eyes
Vroman’s Live: Susan Hough & The Great Quake Debate– Crowdcast Online Event
Author Susan Hough in conversation with Henry Fountain, will discuss her new book, The Great Quake Debate: The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology.
In the first half of the 20th century, when seismology was in its infancy, renowned geologist Bailey Willis faced off with high profile scientist Robert T. Hill in a debate with life-or-death consequences for those people migrating west, i.e. Is Southern California earthquake country?
These entwined biographies of Willis and Hill offer a lively, accessible account of the ways that politics and financial interests influenced the development of earthquake science, and sheds light on enduring questions surrounding the environment.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Crowdcast online event
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
John Shallman & Return from Siberia – Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Author John Shallman, in conversation with Dan Shallman, will read and discuss his book, Return from Siberia.
This is a story of the lead-up to the Bolshevik Revolution, when one young revolutionary is condemned to exile in Siberia, and then a hundred years later, his ancestors discover his story and learn just how much history has repeated itself. This true story also draws parallels to current day policies and politics, and also contains romance adventure, betrayal, suspense and family hsitory.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/john-shallman
Antiracist Book Club via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Pages Bookstore will host the second meeting of its new Antiracist Book Club, hosted by former bookseller Mackenna Greenberg.
We will read and discuss Ibram X. Kendi’s bestselling book, How to Be an Antiracist. Antiracism is a transformative concept that is meant to reorients and re-energize the conversation about racism, and finds new ways of thinking about ourselves and others.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/antiracist-book-club-virtual-meeting
QueerSCV Book Club TBD – Zoom Online Event
The QueerSCV Book Club is currently discussing with the library what the book selection will be, so check back at the site for details.
Where: QueerSCV – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – am
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/299881778093810
Jonathan Friedman & Jewish Los Angeles via Flintridge Bookstore – Online Event
Author Jonathan Friedman will present and discuss his book, Jewish Los Angeles: Images of America, which explores the settlement and development of the Jewish community within the Los Angeles region. These enterprising pioneers laid the foundations and helped transform L.A. into a major metropolis.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Zoom Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://book.com/events/223935431987315
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 28th
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 the28th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: Live online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/895683244269034/
Vroman’s Live: Jon Wiener, Harry Gamboa Jr. & Devra Weber & Set the Night on Fire – Crowdcast Online Event
Historian Jon Wiener, in conversation with artist Harry Gamboa Jr. and UCR history professor Devra Weber, will discuss the new book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A>in the Sixties.
On the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, co-author Jon Wiener will discuss the Chicano movements of the sixties and their relevance today with: CalArts faculty member and former high school activist in the sixties, Harry Gamboa Jr,. and Devra Weber, who photographed Chicano movement events of that era.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Crowdcast online event
Date: Friday the 28th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join Get Lit Saturday Class, a weekly poetry workshop that is free and open to all teens!
Learn writing techniques, performance training, and confidence-building every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm via Zoom.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/670785633795185/
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 29th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1129862607389180/
Independent Bookstore Day via Diesel Bookstore – Online Events
Join Diesel Bookstore to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day online!
Starting at 10 AM several children’s books and author events will take place, including:
Goldfish Ghost, with Lisa Brown;
Graphic Novel Discussion & Drawing Class, with Gene Luen Yang;
Middle Grade Fun, with Renee Watson;
World Building YA Feminist Fantasy Fiction.
Starting at 1 PM, adult events:
The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante;
You Have Arrived at Your Destination, with Amor Towles;
Starting at 2 PM:
Writing the West, with Reyna Grande, Rishis Reddi & Lauren Francis-Sharma.
Starting at 5 PM:
Ambassador Showcase, with Tayari Jones, Lauren Goff, & Emma Staub.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online events (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Address: Online events (see website)
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/saturday-august-29th-online-events-independent-bookstore-day
Independent Bookstore Day via Flintridge Bookstore – Open Event & Outdoor Author Appearances
This year on Independent Bookstore Day Flintridge Books plans to be open for in-store shopping and will have a few guest authors on the sidewalk in front and back of the store—all while following Covid-19 protocols.
NOTE: See website for authors participating and further details.
Where: SMPL Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Address: In-store & Online event (see website)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/892904254553970
Independent Bookstore Day via Café con Libros – Open In-Store & Online
This bookstore is in the heart of the Pomona arts district and is open in-store and online to serve you on Independent Bookstore Day. See details at website link.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Café con Libros – In-Store & Online
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 11 am – 7 pm
Address: In-store & Online event (see website)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/580033922693904
Independent Bookstore Day & Diana Giovinazzo & The Woman in Red at Bel Canto Bookstore – In-Person Book Signing Event
Bel Canto Bookstore will host local author and debut novelist Diana Giovinazzo for a socially distanced book signing of her new historical fiction novel, The Woman in Red.
Set in London in the 1660s and the early 21st century, this is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. This is an emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel, as Helen embarks on one last project to determine the identity of the elusive “Aleph.”
Where: Bel Canto at Beach’s Retro The Hangout at Long Row
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 11:30 am– 12:30 pm
Address: 2122 E. 4th St, Long Beach, CA (see site for map)
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/272600158/
Independent Bookstore Day via Vroman’s Bookstore & Ed Brubaker – Online
Graphic novelist Ed Brubaker, in conversation with Joe Hill, discusses his latest works: Cruel Summer and Pulp!
Pulp! is a story about 1930s writer Max Winter, who is pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies form his past.
Cruel Summer is set in summer of ’88, and is about an epic heist which turns into the wort=st summer ever. It’s an epic tale of tragedy handed down from generation to generation.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Vroman’s Online event (see website)
Rosalio Munoz & Inside the Chicano Moratorium via La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Zoom & Facebook Online Event
Activist and writer Rosalio Munoz will give an inside look the Chicano Moratorium against the Viet Nam War. On August 29, 197, he and fellow activist Ramses Noriega organized a peaceful march in East Los Angeles which ended in tragedy with the attendees attacked and the death of three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Zoom – Online event
Date: Saturday the 29th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/242342976742630
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Open Mic at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a reading by poets featured and published in SPECTRUM 24: Open the Door.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 29th
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 29th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
Burning Issues Book Club & This Changes Everything at Bel Canto Bookstore – In-Person Book Signing Event
Bel Canto Bookstore will host the Burning Issues Book Club online to discuss the book This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein.
In the August meeting of Burning Issues Book Club, held every fourth Sunday of the month, author Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue, but an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. She builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore- Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 30th
Time: 12 pm– 1 pm
Address: Bel Canto online event
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/272175083/
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 and writer is irene lara sibin.
Where: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Date: Sunday the 30th (July 11th through September 13th)
Time: 2 pm – 2:20 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/413256312967460/
We Got Next: A New Generation of LA Poets via DSTL Arts – Online Event
DSTL Arts presents We Got Next: A New Generation of LA Poets, featuring a virtual reading by emerging published poets:
Jenise Miller, author of The Blvd;
Jose Richard Aviles, author of Semilla (forthcoming);
Karo Ska, author of gathering grandmothers;
Nikolai Garcia, author of Nuclear Shadows of Palm Trees.
NOTE: Tickets available at Eventbrite link and books available for purchase at site link.
Where: DSTL Arts – Google Meet Online event
Date: Sunday the 30th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
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