Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Women’s History Month: Tessa Boase & Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Virtual Event
Author Tessa Boase will present and discuss her book, Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds, in England as she tells the intriguing story about woman’s love affair with plumes. For fifty years Etta Lemon was the driving force behind the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and where she led in 1889, the Audubon Society would follow author and former investigative journalist Boase will bring to life the untold story of women, birds, hats—and votes.
NOTE: Details at event link
Where: The Ebell – Online Event
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/817217392241006
Tween Graphic Novel Book Club & All’s Faire in Middle School via Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Virtual Tween Event
Kids ages 8 to 12 are invited to a monthly book club meeting that explores popular graphic novels and takes place over Zoom. This month’s book selection is All’s Faire in Middle School, by Victoria Jamison. (Available via Overdrive or library catalog)
NOTE: Details available at event link.
Where: LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tweens-read-graphic-novels
Santa Monica Main Library Book Group & Commonwealth via Santa Monica Main Library, SMPL – Virtual Event
Join a community discussion of current and classic books, alternating fiction and nonfiction each month. March’s book selection is Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett.
Email jeff.schwartz@smgov.net for the Zoom link.
NOTE: Details available at event link.
Where: SMPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33653
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Author Talk: Olivia Campbell & Women in White Coats via West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us as we celebrate Women’s History Month with a discussion featuring Olivia Campbell, author of Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine.
This book follows the journey of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake and Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Each went to extraordinary lengths to earn a medical degree. Together, these women founded the first ever women-run hospitals and teaching colleges, providing resources and a path for other women pursuing medicine to follow.
Note: RSVP to request information and program link. Email wvally@lapl.org with “Women in White Coats” in subject line.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 12 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-olivia-campbell-discusses-women-white-coats
Author Talk: Jack Rothman & The Voice of Consciousness: Poems Composed After Ninety via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us to hear author Jack Rothman present and discuss his book The Voice of Consciousness: Poems Composed After Ninety.
In this book memory, family, and life are examined and shared through language that is direct and laced with humor. The author is Professor Emeritus at UCLA and is also the author of over 25 scholarly books.
Note: To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-jack-rothman
Walter Isaacson, with Doris Kearns Goodwin, & The Code Breaker via LiveTalks-LA – Zoom Online
Live Talks-LA presents prize-winning author Walter Isaacson, in conversation with author Doris Kearns Goodwin (Leadership in Turbulent Times),to discuss his latest book, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.
Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker tells the story of how, when she was in sixth grade, Jennifer Doudna was inspired by the book by James Watson, The Double Helix, to pursue a career in science, particularly to study DNA, and to go on to develop an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA known as CRISPR, which opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna would become a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, she won the Nobel Prize in 2020. This story is a thrilling detective tale that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from origins of life to the future of our species.
NOTE: RSVP and purchase tickets at site link.
Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pmPST
Address: Live Talks – Online
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/walterisaacson/ or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/walter-isaacson-in-conversation-with-doris-kearns-goodwin-tickets-137379498779
Dr. Yaba Blay, with Jamilah Lemieux, & One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Dr. Yaba Blay, in conversation with Jamilah Lemieux, to hear them discuss her new book One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race.
Dr. Yaba Blay’s book, One Drop, explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference, and includes the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries. This book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness..
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
William Deverell, with Robin Abcarian, & Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author and historian William Deverell, in conversation with La Times columnist Robin Abcarian, to hear them discuss his book, Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy That Transfixed the Nation.
William Deverell’s book, Kathy Fiscus, recounts the heartbreaking story of a young girl trapped in a well—a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in history. At dusk on a spring evening in 1949, a three-year-old girl fell down an abandoned well shaft in the backyard of her family’s home in Southern California. Throughout more than two full days of a fevered rescue attempt, the fate of Kathy Fiscus remained unknown, as many community resources and rescue workers rushed to the scene to tunnel across to the old well shaft to rescue her. This was the first such event to be broadcast on live TV, and it transfixed the public until it reached its sad conclusion.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/william-deverell
Forsyth Harmon, with Melissa Broder, & Justine via Skylight Books – Online YA Event
Join author Forsyth Harmon, in conversation with author Melissa Broder,to discuss her novel, Justine.
In this debut novel, Harmon offers an illustrated, intimate and unflinching portrait of American girlhood at the edge of adulthood—one in which obsession hastens heartbreak. Set in summer 1999, Long Island, New York, it depicts how charismatic Justine takes young Ali under her wing, and how Ali reshapes herself in her new idol’s image, leading to a series of events that spiral from superficial to seismic.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Ebo Barton: Where Are You From? Workshop via Awful Good Writers– Virtual Zoom Event
Build a Poetic Map of Your Identity in a four-week Writing Workshop led by writer, performer, and social justice activist Ebo Barton.
Participants will watch poetry video clips and write rough drafts inspired by lived experiences, conversation, writing prompts, and in-group discussion. Writers will explore their own histories to find stories of their origins, and widen perspectives and lens to honor the complexities of identities, intersections, and relationships.
NOTE: Details of this free event at iste.
Where: Awful Good Writers – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 16th (Mar 23, Mar 30 & Apr 6)
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/125803336078181
Afro-Futurism Book Club with Tyree Boyd-Pates via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The Afro-Futurism Book Club, hosted by Tyree Boyd-Pates, is a vast, forward-looking movement with solid roots in the past. Though it spans art,, music, theory—everything—we read new fiction, and the discussion will be held via Zoom.
This month’s selection is Octavia E. Bulter’s book, Fledgling: A Novel, which explores the complexities of self-determination through its protagonist’s struggle to regain control of her life through the dependence created by Ina-human symbiosis.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/the-afrofuturism-book-club-with-tyree-boyd-pates-3
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre Is Now Virtual – Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
But some events are offered via livestream, so check the calendar for information on events offered via the wonderly app link.
We have an open mic every Tuesday night except for the third Tuesday, when we have a poetry slam. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer. The event is open to all ages.
Where: Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Coffee Time Book Club & Chang-rae Lee’s My Year Abroad via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
The Coffee Time Book Club tends to read new release fiction, and at each meeting we discuss and vote on our selection for the following month.
At this meeting we will read and discuss Chang-rae Lee’s My Year Abroad. This book is about an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations who is taken under the wing of a wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur and becomes his protégé. It explores the surprising effects of cultural immersion, and is tinged with both humor and darkness.
NOTE: See site for event details, and book purchase.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-8
Granada Hills Book Club & The Alice Network via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Granada Hills Branch Book Club,, and enjoy a discussion of The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn. This enthralling historical novel brings together a female spy in France in World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1946, in a story of courage and redemption.
Please email grnhls@lapl.org to receive the meeting invitation link.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website:https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-discussion
Good Trouble Reading Group & Kindred via Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Good Trouble Reading Group with Dr, Andrea Liss to discuss Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed book, Kindred. This story is about a modern Black woman in 1979 Los Angeles who is repeatedly shunted back in time to the life of slavery on the plantation where her own ancestors lived. This masterpiece transcends racism, sexism, and human rights as well as the complexities of love and ancestry.
Please email eden@lapl.org to receive the meeting invitation link. LAPL has copies of book at library To Go service and also is available as e-book or e-audio book.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website:https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/good-trouble-reading-group-kindred-octavia-butler
Social Justice Book Club & Bad Feminist: Essays via Vermont Square Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
In honor of Women’s History Month, please join the Social Justice Book Club to discuss Bad Feminist”Essays (2014)by Roxanne Gay.
Please email vmtsqr@lapl.org to receive the meeting invitation link and details.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website:https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-book-club-dinnertime-discussion-0
WeHo READS: In Your Face: Randa Jarrar & Myriam Gurba via City of West Hollywood – Online Event
For Women’s History Month, authors Randa Jarrar & Myriam Gurba (Mean),will discuss womxn writing truth and Randa Jarrar’s new memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country, with musical guest Kelly Caballero.
Randa Jarrar’s first prize-winning novel, A Map of Home (2008) was a coming-of-age story. Since then she has published short stories essays, and the collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016). Her new memoir in essays examines joy, queerness, the pushed out and the unheard.
Myrium Gurba is the author of the true-crime memoir Mean, ranked as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time by O Magazine. Publisher’s Weekly describes her as having a voice like no other.
NOTE: Details, registration and Eventbrite link available at website.
Where: WeHo Reads – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/200788281828632
Ralph Blumenthal, with Dan Aykroyd, & The Believer via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Ralph Blumenthal, in conversation with actor Dan Aukroyd,to discuss his book, The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.
This book is the weird and chilling true story of Dr, John Mack, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer who risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened. The author had exclusive access to Mack’s archives, journals, notes, and interviews, and he reveals the life and work of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums, and the hidden dimensions and alternate realities that captivated him until the end of his life.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Montana Book Discussion Group & Counter Culture via Montana Branch Library, SMPL – Online Event
Please join the Montana Branch Library Book Discussion Group to discuss Counter Culture, by Candacy Taylor.
Being a former waitress herself, it’s not surprising that oral historian and photographer Taylor turned her attention to “lifers”—the over-50 career waitresses who often are the heart and soul of a coffee shop or diner. Delightful , thought-provoking, and generously illustrated with the author’s color photos, this book will be appreciated by many.
Please email vmtsqr@lapl.org to receive the meeting invitation link and details.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: SMPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33674
Feminist Book Club with Julia Callahan via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for the Feminist Book Club, led by Julia Callahan of Rare Bird Books,to read and discuss an intersectional variety of feminist lit via Zoom online.
This month’s selection is White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad. This is an explosive book of history and cultural criticism that argues the white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and indigenous women, and women of color.
NOTE: See site for event details. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/feminist-book-club-with-julia-callahan-2
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – Online Event
Join this weekly community workshop founded in 1990, and following a three-part format, by joining in via Zoom every Wednesday night at 7:30 pm.
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a whop and open mic performance featuring L.A.’s freshest, most inspiring voices speaking their truth in poetry and prose.
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery. Check website for Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule due to holidays. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Facilitators are rotated quarterly, and the current facilitator is Beth Ruscio.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading with bridgette bianca via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and host Ben Trigg presents weekly poetry readings at the Ugly Mug and the events are now virtual.
This week’s feature is poet bridgette bianca.
bridgette bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles who has performed widely throughout the area, and was most recently published in CulturalWeekly.com and in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. She is one half of the literary curating team, Making Room for Black Women, with Sanura Williams of My Lit Box, and co-host of the quarterly reading series at the Women’s Center of Creative Work with Nina Rota.
bridgettte bianca’s work as a writer and educator seeks to serve the people and moments most forgot or ignore. Her first book of poetry, be/trouble, was released by Writ Large Press in 2020.
You can join in at the Zoom event via link provided, and sign up to read via Google Sheets at site.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/155012889802827
Get Lit virtual Open Mic via Get Lit – Words Unite – Online Event
The Get Lit open Mic is a low-pressure environment for poets to share their work with Get Lit youth and featured poets. Join us in our virtual playhouse hosted by Raul Herrera—a resource for classrooms during the Classic Slam and residencies.
NOTE: Details, RSVP link and free tickets are available at website.
Where: Get Lit – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/130424952332249
Chris Whitaker, with Amy Einhorn, & We Begin at the End via Creating Conversations – Online Event
Author Chris Whitaker will join his publisher to discuss his new book, We Begin at the End.
This is a magnificent novel, an evocative read that has been lauded as the best of the year. Thirteen-year-old Duchess Day Radley is the protector of her five-year-old brother Robin, and must face the trouble that comes with parents who can’t take care of them and the challenges of those who deserve so much more than life serves them. Sometimes devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it’s an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails, and how love always prevails in the end.
NOTE: See site for details, costs & tickets link.
Where: Creating Conversations – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/448895149595606
Kareem Rosser, with Randy Savvy, & Crossing the Line via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Kareem Rosser, in conversation with Compton Cowboys founder Randy Savvy, to hear them discuss his book, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever..
In this book what starts as an accidental discovery turns into a love for horseback riding that leads the author and his family to discover their passion for polo, ultimately becoming part of the first all-Black national interscholastic polo championship team—all while struggling to keep their family together.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/kareem-rosser
LAPL Author Talk: When Dogs Heal via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Authors Christina Garofalo, Dr. Robert Garofalo & Jesse Frieden will discuss their new book, When Dogs Heal, on the healing power of dogs for people with HIV and other chronic illnesses..
A portion of the proceeds from book sales will go to Wags & Walks Rescue!
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Tim Shriver & Maria Shriver & The Call to Unite via Diesel’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear authors Tim Shriver & Maria Shriver present and discuss The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening, a book of wisdom from some of our most prominent spiritual and religious leaders, poets and thinkers, singers and writers, a book to light our way in dark times.
NOTE: Details, RSVP link are available at website.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Amy Solomon, with special guests, & Notes from the Bathroom Line via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Amy Solomon, with her special guests,to hear them discuss her new book Notes from the Bathroom Line. This is a collection of never-before-seen humor pieces; essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more—from more than 150 of the biggest female comedians today, curated by Amy Solomon, a producer of the hit HBO shows Silicon Valley and Barry.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement via The Autry Museum – Online Event
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, is the latest book byauthor Cathleen D. Cahill, and in it she tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights.
Where: The Autry – online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1139524963165684
True Crime Book Club with James Bartlett via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for the True Crime Book Club, led by James T. Bartlett,to read and discuss an exploration of our dark side through literature via Zoom online.
This month’s selection is What Happened in Craig: Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Murder, by Leland E. Hale. On a foggy afternoon in September 1982, The Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames and eight people, including a pregnant woman and two children, were missing. The investigation and arrest of a crew member became a nationwide sensation, and here the author unravels the events of this tragedy.
NOTE: See site for event details. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/true-crime-book-club-with-james-bartlett
Sabor y Cultura: fos_thursdays Open Mic– Instagram Event
Please enjoy the Sabor y Cultura Open Mic on Instagram Live on Thursdays at 8pm PST.
This is an Instagram online event.
NOTE: Sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3 pm.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
Mae Respicio Author Signing & Any Day With You via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear author Mae Respicio present her newest middle grade novels, Any Day With You and The House That Lou Built. She is also the author of How to Win a Slime War, which will be released in September 2021.
Mae Respico’s writing and photography has been featured in many publications, including the nonfiction book, Images of America: Filipinos in Los Angeles (Arcadia Publishing). For many years she also worked at UCLA Extension, developing top notch literary events, creative and screenwriting courses, and helping to build a thriving literary community. She now lives with her family in Northern California.
NOTE: See site for link and book purchase information.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 8 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mae-respicio-author-signing
Story Time Live with a Museum Educator via Natural History Museum of L.A. County – Facebook Online Kids Event
Please enjoy a family event from the L.A. County Natural History, which hosts a Museum Educator reading event for the little ones, to share a brand new story in a live reading of favorite books, every Friday morning!
This is a Facebook online event.
NOTE: See website link for details & link.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 12 pm – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/273684004120373
Samantha Hart & Melissa Maerz Present: Blind Pony & Alright, Alright, Alright via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join authors Samantha Hart & Melissa Maerz (Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused), to hear them discuss Hart’s new book, Blind Pony.
Blind Pony: As True a Story as I Can Tell reveals a heart-wrenching childhood of abuse, which led to Samantha Hart’s life as a runaway teen and landed her in 1970s L.A. This coming-of-age story chronicles her journey through various abusive relationships, and how she found her North Star.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Grant Farley, with Michael Cart, & Bones of a Saint via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join author Grant Farley, in conversation with Michael Cart, to hear them discuss his book, Bones of a Saint.
Set in Northern California in the late ‘70s, this timeless coming-of-age story examines the nature of evil, the art of storytelling, and the possibility of redemption, When a fifteen-year-old kid is bullied by the local Blackjacks gang to prey upon an old loner in town, he learns to resist, and then to break away from the gang and its past.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/grant-farley
Friends of Palos Verdes Library Present a Literary Weekend – Online Fundraising Event
Friends of the Palos Verdes Library are presenting a Virtual Literary Weekend Fundraiser Event, featuring six award-winning authors and consisting of: a Friday Authors panel. Saturday breakout sessions, and two Sunday presentations by Lifestyle authors as well as authors of the two books, The 30-Day Alzheimer’s Solution and The Leading Lady: Dinah’s Story.
Ticket information includes meal and wine choices.
NOTE: Details, costs, and pre-registration available at site.
Where: PVPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 19th – Sunday the 21st
Time: Various, starting at 7pm –see site
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pvldfriends.org/virtual-literary-weekend/
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Elena Secota – Virtual Event
The Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been curated by Elena Secota, and are now offered virtually.
This month’s event features poet William O’Daly-raised in the San Fernando Valley. He co-founded Copper Canyon Press, and has translated Pablo Neruda. His own books include The Whale in the Web (Copper Canyon), as well as Yarrow and Smoke, Water Ways (a collaboration with JS Graustein), and The Road to Isla Negra. There is also an Open Mic.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Third Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/therappsaloonpoetryreading/ or https://www.facebook.com/therappsaloonpoetryreading/photos/a.10151674936421817/10157735490101817
Graphic Novel Book Club & Good Talk via Bel Canto Bookstore – Virtual Event
The Third Graphic Novel Book Club will have a virtual discussion of the graphic novel Good Talk, by Mira Jacob. See site for access to paperback purchase link or audiobook purchase link.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Graphic Novel Book Club (online)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 10 am
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join the 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 morning, via Zoom. This is a FREE writing technique, performance training and confidence building workshop for poets of all experience levels, ages 13-19.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785747128507/
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 20th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129862607389180/
Notable Fiction Book Group via Santa Monica Library, SMPL – Online Event
Please join the notable Fiction Book Group to discuss Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips.
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. When the police investigation turns up nothing, echoes of the disappearance reverberate across the tightly woven community.
Register to attend this program by emailing link below.
NOTE: Email karen.reitz@smgov.net for participation details.
Where: Santa Monica Library – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33718
LGBTQIA Book Club via Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
All are welcome to join us for a lively discussion of Cleanness, by Garth Greenwell.
NOTE: Email silver@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
Where: Silver Lake Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/lgbtqia-book-club-7
Horace Martin Virtual Book Party – Online FB Event
Please Horace Martin as he reads from his new book, The Amazing Mostly True Adventures of Horace, shares about becoming a writer, and answers questions form viewers.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: FB Online event
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/849671462253254
Get Lit’s Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Event
Get Lit’s FREE 15-week Emerging Writers Fellowship is an online publishing course held for teens on Saturdays from 1-3pm PST.
The course is designated for youth (ages 13-19) who are interested in creating their own poetry chapbooks, as well as learning more about submission and media marketing. No previous experience necessary! Priority to LA youth but all are welcome.
Contact Raul@getlit.org with any questions.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997705979819/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Open Reading via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Reading with features: Ken Scott, Karo Ska & Roland Vasin (AKA Vachine)plus an Open Reading
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Virtual Reading of Tree Spirits by Louise Wannier via Flintridge Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join author Louise Wannier for a virtual reading of her new children’s book for kids ages 4-8, Tree Spirits, illustrated by April Tatiana Jackson.
Tree Spirits is a book about in rhyme about nature, imagination, and observation that invites readers to look closely at the world around them. It also includes an interactive drawing section.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Online event
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.flintridgebooks.com/instore-events/2021/3/21/a-virtual-reading-of-tree-spirits-with-authorphotographer-louise-wannier-illustrated-by-april-tatiana-jackson or https://www.facebook.com/events/973428810096029
Workshop with Shira Erlichman via The Poetry Lab Sunday Series– Online Event
Join us for a Sunday Series writing workshop led by Shira Erlichman, and learn craft while creating new work in exciting collaborative setting, via Zoom online. There is no minimum writing experience necessary to attend, and people of all backgrounds are welcome.
Shira Erlichman is a poet, musician, and visual artist, born in Israel and immigrated to the U.S. when she was six. She has won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and her work has been featured on the PBS NewsHour’s Poetry Series, among others. She is the author of Odes to Lithium and the author/illustrator of Be/Hold: a Friendship Book.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Poetry Lab – Online event
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2021/shira-erlichman
Julia Morgan Legacy Eventvia The Annenberg Beach House – Online Zoom Event
In honor of Woman’s History Month, the Annenberg Community Beach House and Santa Monica Conservancy present a special commemoration of architect Julia Morgan, California’s first licensed woman architect.
Join Morgan scholar Karen McNeill, PhD, to hear her discuss Julia Morgan and the men that built Hearst Castle. At the Beach House, Morgan designed the Guest House and pool, which comprise the site’s historic core. The location now hosts numerous literary and cultural events and author opportunities as part of its many programs.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: The Annenberg Beach House – Online event
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.santamonica.gov/press/2021/03/09/virtual-julia-morgan-legacy-event-march-21
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