Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Vroman’s Live: Local Author Day with David W. Reed & Lin Nelson Benedek via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear local authors David W. Reed & Lin Nelson Benedek discuss their new books: Uphill and into the Wind and Singing Lessons, respectively.
David W. Reed’s Uphill and into the Wind is set in 1973, when our nation was torn apart by the Vietnam War, and the massacre of unarmed students at Kent State. Disenchanted with his future, he author set out with two new friends to cross the United States with just their bicycles and cameras to truly see America. They get more than they bargained for, with menacing animals, extreme weather, and astonishing encounters. Through it all they are changed forever, in ways they did not expect, by their long journey into the unknown.
Lin Nelson Benedek’s Singing Lessons is a poetic collection that is both grand and intimate. Michelle Bitting calls it a “…sumptuous repast for ear and imagination as Benedek pulls us in close to her contemplated world of things and sings us through.”
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Quantum Book Club via The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us for an in-person meeting of other fun and bookish people at Quantum Book Club, which selects Sci-Fi /Fantasy titles and Graphic Novels to read and discuss on the last Monday of the month.
NOTE: See details at the website.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045 (in Westchester)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/a.104096281005518/550782506336891/
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 event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Stuart Gibbs & Spy School at Sea via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Join us to meet bestselling children’s author Stuart Gibbs as he signs his newest book in the Spy School series, Spy School at Sea.
Thanks to the evidence Ben uncovered in his investigation of the Croatoan, the CIA has tracked his nemisis, Murray Hill, to Central America, where he is boarding the world’s biggest cruise ship, The Emperor of the Seas, going on its maiden voyage around the world.
This socially distant event will take place at Children’s Book World and allow book buyers to safely meet and greet the author, and arrange later pick up or delivery of their book post-event.
NOTE: See site for details for this event.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Where: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/store-event-stuart-gibbs-book-launch-spy-school-sea
Colleen Paeff & Nancy Carpenter & The Great Stink via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to meet children’s author Colleen Paeff and illustrator Nancy Carpenter, as they present their book, The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem.
This book is the true story about the determined engineer who fixed London’s pollution problem, presented in a funny, accessible nonfiction picture book, and featuring engaging art form the illustrator of Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine.
NOTE: See site for details for this event.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Where: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/great-stink
Life Stories Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us to share something that happened to you. You can read a piece that you wrote or speak off-the-cuff, or just listen. The stories can be funny, sad, or simply slice-of-life. This is your opportunity to express yourself.
Please contact wwood@lapl.org for instructions on how to participate.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this event.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online via Zoom
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 6 pm
Where: LAPL – Onlline event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic-4
Francine Rodriguez & A Woman’s Story via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Francine Rodriguez, present anddiscuss her book, A Woman’s Story.
This book tells the stories of Latina women’s lives. It depicts conflict in gender bias, experiences of exploitation, violence, and powerlessness, sometimes resulting in pain and despair in their turbulent world. But these stories also tell of these women’s celebration of life itself that empowers them and gives them the will to go on. These are stories of real women living hard lives, but all are desperate in some way.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/francine-rodriguez-discusses-woman%E2%80%99s-story
Meredith Westgate, with Lydia Kiesling, & The Shimmering State via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Meredith Westgate, in conversation with Lydia Kiesling, will present her book The Shimmering State.
This book is luminous literary debut which follows two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Set in a city that seems to have no memory of its own, this is a graceful meditation on the power of story, and how memory can elude us, trap us, or even set us free.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: See Site
Nonfiction Book Club & The Body via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join our Nonfiction Book Club at the Pages Bookstore Courtyard, for an in-person event with facilitator Mark Polak, to discuss this month’s selection, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, by author Bill Bryson.
This new edition is full of facts and irresistible Brysonesque anecdotes, and it will lead you to a deeper understanding of the miracles that make up life in general, and you in particular.
NOTE: See site for details, signed books sales, and to register for this event.
Where: Pages Bookstore Courtyard – In-Person Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 7 pm
Where: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/nonfiction-book-club
Gothic Book Club & The Sanatorium via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The Gothic Book Club is led by John Palisano. and it covers many genres and art forms, and the books have a lasting allure.
This month’s selection is Sarah Pearse’s novel, The Sanatorium, an eerie, atmospheric story set at a hotel in a remote location in the Swiss alps during a snowstorm. There’s a missing person, and then a dead body shows up. This modern mystery incorporates horrific historic murders with present day ones.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/gothic-book-club-with-john-palisano-4 or https://www.facebook.com/events/428997398225941
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Jimmy Santiago Baca– Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Jimmy Santiago Baca.
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet from New Mexico, and a memoirist and screenwriter of Chicano descent. His memoir, A Place to Stand, is also a documentary by the same title. He is the author most recently of When I Walk Through That Door, I Am.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre Is Now Virtual – IG Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
Tonight is Women & Femmes Night Open Mic, hosted by acclaimed poet and spoken word artist Yesika Salgado.
They have an open mic every Tuesday night. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer.
Where: Online IG event
Date: Tuesday the 31st
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.instagram.com/da_poetry_lounge/
Yoon Choi, with Steph Cha, & Skinship via Skylight & Book Passage – Online Event
Yoon Choi, in conversation with Steph Cha, will present her book Skinship.
This book is a breathtaking debut of an important new voice— centered on a constellation of Korean American families. Through an indelible array of lives the author explores where first and second generations will either clash, or find common ground, where meaning falls in the cracks of languages, and where relationships bend, and displacement turns to heartbreak.
Yoon Choi was born in Korea and moved to the U.S. at the age of three. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins and is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, and The Best American Short Stories 2018. She lives with her husband and four children in Anaheim, California.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: See Site
Writing Workshop with Matt Sedillo via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for a writing workshop, hosted by Chicano Political Poet, Matt Sedillo.
Matt Sedillo is an El Sereno native and author of the poetry collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte centro literio – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Open Mic with Briana Muñoz via MOBAR in El Sereno – In-Person Event
Join us at MOBAR Coffee & Co. in El Sereno for an Open Mic featuring Briana Muñoz.
Briana Muñoz is the author of Everything Is Returned to the Soil (2021) and Loose Lips (2019).
Where: MOBAR Coffee Co.
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 4884 Huntington Dr. S., Los Angeles, CA 90032
Website: N/A
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – In-Person 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.
We return to the building after a 15-month, Covid-19 imposed exile, where the faithful met weekly via Zoom online. We are currently working on the process to continue to include our online community each session. WELCOME HOME!
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a workshop 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.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html or https://www.facebook.com/events/2956323617961147/
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 Luivette Resto.
Luivettte Resto is a mother, teacher, and poet, and the author of two collections: Unfinished Portrait and Ascension, both published by Tia Chucha Press. Her third book is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic & Poetry Reading & Alexis Rhone Fancher via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Hybrid Event (Rescheduled)
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and host Ben Trigg presents weekly poetry readings at the Ugly Mug and the events are now Virtual & In-Person.
This week’s event features poet Alexis Rhone Fancher. She tears the plain brown wrapper of erotica. EROTIC features poems and flash never seen before in any collection, as well as gems from her first two erotic offerings, How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems (2014) and Enter Here (2017),
NOTE: See site for further details. $4 cover fee, cash only. Masks are required.
Where: Online Zoom event & In-Person event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/two-idiots-peddling-poetry or https://www.facebook.com/events/426848662099870/
Book Talk: Mindy Weisel & After: The Obligation of Beauty via American Jewish University – Online Event
Join us for the book launch of author Mindy Wiesel’s book, After: The Obligation of Beauty.
This event is a memoir that traces the author’s search for beauty in a life that began in the aftermath of World War II, at Bergen-Belsen Displaced Person’s Camp, to parents who survived Auschwitz. Join us to hear her and Professor Michael Berenbaum in discussion, to learn more about the generational trauma into which she was born and her unshakable will to live with beauty.
NOTE: See site for further event details.
Where: AJU – Online event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/357346222420909
Adele Griffin & All Pets Allowed via Children’s Book World – Online Kids & Family Event
Join acclaimed author Adele Griffin for the launch of her newest Blackberry Farm Story! This book talk with the author is open to all who purchase her book All Pets Allowed from CBW. Register for this event and order personalized copies of the book on our website.
NOTE: See site for further event details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online FB event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/216860853783454
Stuart Gibbs & Spy School at Sea via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join acclaimed children’s author Stuart Gibbs for the launch of his newest Spy School Story, Spy School at Sea.
NOTE: See site for further event details and restrictions.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/spy-school-sea
Natasha Lester & General Mari K. Eder via Creating Conversations – Online Zoom Event
Join a Creating Conversations event to hear Natasha Lester, author of The Riviera House, and retired US Army Major General Mari K, Eder, author of The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, discuss their books and take a look at contributions made by the Greatest Generation of women, through both a fiction and a nonfiction lens.
The Riviera House is a lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis form stealing priceless art during World War II.
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes us inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes form the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled and made things happen during World War II— in and out of uniform.
Attendance is free, but participants must register in advance via website link.
NOTE: See site for further event details and restrictions.
Where: Creating Conversations – Online event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/263977515252875
Foreverversary: a night of readings via Stories Books & Cafe – Online Event
Join us for Foreverversary: a night of readings, featuring:
Jon Lindsey is one of the voices of California’s broken world. Body High is his debut novel.
Ally Rowbottom is the author of Jell-O-Girls, a feminist retelling of her family’s involvement in the Jell-O brand. She is the wife of Jon Lindsey.
Cyrus Simonoff is the author of A Year Without a Name (2019) and finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. He lives in L.A. where he is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and report son grassroots antiprison organizing and trans politics and aesthetics.
Jeanetta Rich is a mother and poet based in Los Angeles, whose work focuses on the emotional lives of voiceless women, those who have been silenced through poverty or lack of education. Her debut collection, Black Venus Flytrap, is forthcoming form Deluge Books.
Emily Segal is the co-founder of Deluge literary press, and co-founder of Nemesis Global, a think tank for cultural research. She is author of Mercury Retrograde.
Brooks Sterritt is the author of The History of America in My Lifetime (2021). His writing has appeared in Vice, Subtropics, The Nation, The Believer, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
NOTE: See site for details and RSVP.
Where: Stories Books & Cafe
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.storiesla.com/?q=h.calevents
Future Now: Reading & Open Mic Series #5 via Dryland LA – Hybrid Event (Zoom & IRL)
Join us for this month’s meeting of the Future Now Reading & Open Mic Series, held every first Thursday of the month, and hosted by assistant editor Nikolai Garcia, and the Dryland team.
This month’s featured readers are TBA.
This will be a hybrid open mic event as it’s happening both in-person at Re/Arte Literario located in Boyle Heights, as well as virtually via Zoom.
Please sign-up for the Open Mic at the site link on the google form.
NOTE: See site for details and guidelines.
Where: Dryland LA at RE/Arte – In-Person event & Online event (Zoom ID: 878 8950 0444)
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://www.facebook.com/ReArteLA (Check to verify)
Live On Crowdcast: David Hoon Kim discusses Paris Is A Party, Paris Is A Ghost with Anjali Sachdeva
David Hoon Kim will read from and discuss his book Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost. He writes in both English and French. Kim took his first creative writing workshops in France, at the CROUS and at the Sorbonne, before attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Stegner Program, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
This novel takes place in a strangely distorted Paris, where a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved. The author’s debut is a transgressive, darkly comic novel of becoming lost and found in translation. It plunges us more deeply beneath the surface of things, to the displacement, exile, grief, and desire that hide in plain sight.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Thursday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: See Site
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 2nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Book Club & Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren, via L.A. Public Library – Online Adult Event
Join our Adult Book Club to meet and discuss the memoir, Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren.
The author’s work has been lauded by Barack Obama as a “…beautifully written memoir about the life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the profundity of trees. Terrific.”
Please email mpanzer@lapl.org for participation details.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: LAPL – Online Adult Event
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-10
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Cynthia Alessandra Briano – Virtual Event
The First Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been offered virtually recently. Check posts for updates and details. In February, In February, Cynthia Alessandra Briano celebrated 5 years as host. Features are generally announced on a flyer during the week before the event.
NOTE: See website link for details. (TBA)
Where: First Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 3rd
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/rappsaloon
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 4th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929598015813/
Get Lit’s Hybrid Drop- In Poetry Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Hybrid Teen Event
Get-Lit’s Drop-In Poetry Class provides writing prompts, performance techniques, and an exciting community to build your skills. Come once or come weekly.
This class is FREE and open to teenagers ages 13-19.
Where: Get Lit Hybrid event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: 672 S. LaFayette Park Pl., Ste. 10, Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/866086790992544/
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join writers and aspiring writers for a Zoom group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction and memoirs. Share your work and receive constructive criticism.
Email Shannon@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
NOTE: See website for online link and details.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-1
Children’s Bilingual Storytime for Kids via Re/Arte – In-Person Event – Kids Event
Join us for a new weekly event, Chlldren’s Bilingual Storytime, offered on Saturday mornings, in English & Spanish.
NOTE: See website for registration and further details.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 10 am – 11:30 am
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos/
Writer’s Workshop with Viva Padilla via Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Join us for an introduction to submitting your writing to journals and magazines. Incudes career advice, and writing feedback. Bring your work and a notebook.
NOTE: See website for registration, donation, and further details.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell – via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop, led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Online Edition: Fall Down by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, September 18th).
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online Zoom Event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Labor Day Special: Kevin Dublin & Arhtur Kayzakian at My Place Cafe – In-Person Event
Join us to meet and hear poets and authors Kevin Dublin & Arthur Kayzakian read and discuss their work.
Kevin Dublin is the author of the chapbook, How to Fall in Love in San Diego and is editor of Etched Press. He enjoys developing web apps for writers and he leads workshops as part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project and all over the bay area.
Arthur Kayzakian is a poet, educator, teacher, and literary organizer, who lives in California but was born in Tehran, Iran. He is a contributing editor at Poetry International, and his chapbook, My Burning City, was a finalist for the Locked Horn Press Chapbook Prize and Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize.
NOTE: See site for ticket information and details.
Where: My Place Cafe – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049092308959538
Ferne Saltzman & Faces of My Soul at The Book Jewel 1-Year Aniversary Celebration via The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Celebrate the 1-Year Anniversary of The Book Jewel by joining us to meet and hear author Ferne Saltzman read and discuss her poetry collection, Faces of my Soul.
Proceeds from this event will be donated to Rotarians Fighting Human Trafficking, a non-profit dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of young women victims of sex trafficking.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045 (in Westchester)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore or https://www.thebookjewel.com/events
Brazilian Writers Book Presentation & Esplendido at Silvio’s Brazilian Restaurant – In-Person Event
Join us to hear a Brazilian writers book presentation featuring:
Cirla Cole wrote a poem in her home city Rio de Janerio, regarding how important it was for children to have green space. When she moved to California she taught in private schools and preschools. She has published the children’s stories “Sally the Snail” and “The Surrogate Chicken.” Cole has published the book All We Wanted Was A Child.
Beatris Hoffman is the author of My Life in America.
Luana Laubeski is the author of Wandering Poems, Poetic Wanderings, her third book. It’s a collection of poems accumulated in 20 years of living in different countries and languages.
This event will have music played by Denys Cristian.
Brazilian food and drinks by Silvio’s bar.
Where: Silvio’s Brazilian Restaurant – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 20 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/353474056504841/
Rosa Martha Zarate Macias & Our Grandfathers Were Braceros and We Too… at Cafe con Libros Press – In-Person Event
Join us to meet and hear author Rosa Martha Zarate Macias read and discuss her book, Our Grandfathers Were Braceros and We Too…. This book is ahistorical and living testimonial to the laborers who left homes in Mexico during World War II to do their part in the war effort and with the hope of a better life.
Rosa Martha Zarate Macias has been a resident of California since 1966. She is a retired teacher, singer-songwriter, people’s educator, and founder of Librer a del Pueblo, A.C. Since 1966 she has collaborated in developing community projects in Mexico and the United States, and for the past 20 years has participated in the social movement of Braceros.
Books will be available for a $25 donation, with proceeds going to surviving braceros.
Where: Cafe con Libros Press – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 280 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/259234632703530
Trailblazer Open Mic with Sunday Jump at Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) – In-Person & Online Event
Join us for the 9th season of Sunday Jump! Our theme is “Un/Rest to Restoration,” and it’s a reflection, a response, a conversation as we navigate the events of the past year, and heal holistically. See site for schedule and details.
Our hosts are Eddy M. Gana Jr. and Abigail Pidazo, and our features are:
Aiyana Sha’niel is a poet from Los Angeles California. She was on her school’s poetry team, HamLit where she competed in Get Lit Organization. Aiyana was last year’s Poetry Out Loud Los Angeles representative and was the runner-up in the state competition.
Justine Ramos is a first-generation Pilipinx immigrant who holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and global health from UCLA and a Doctoral degree in occupational therapy at Tufts University. Justine has performed, competed, and judged in the Slam Poetry/Spoken Word world throughout high school and college. She is the author of Halo-Halo: A Poetic Mix of Culture, History, Identity, Revelation, and Revolution (2021).
Kennedy Bagnol is a dancer and instructor who has been dancing ever since the age of 5. Originally trained in jazz, tap, and ballet, he discovered his love of hip-hop/urban dance at the age of 10 and has been training in that ever since.
Limited capacity of 25 audience members allowed inside. You must register at website link, at http://bit.ly/sjmic9521. Also, we will stream the event live on twitch.tv/thesundayjump and youtube.com/thesundayjump.
Where: Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) Pabelonia Room – In-Person & Online Event
Date: Sunday the 5th
Time: 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 153 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
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