Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham & Friends Forever at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Join us to meet children’s authors Shannon Haleand and LeUyen Pham, as they present their book, Friends Forever.
Shannon Haleand is the New York Times best-selling author of over thirty children’s and young adult novels, including graphic novel memoirs Real Friends and Best Friends, and multiple award winners The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, and Newbery Honor recipient Princess Academy.
LeUyen Pham is a children’s book illustrator and author. She has illustrated and written more than 80 books. In 2020, she won a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in the book Bear Came Along.
This is a meet and greet event to sign books and visit with fans of all ages. Graphic novel readers will enjoy the third book in the Friendship series, and picture book readers will be thrilled with the cuteness of Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn.
NOTE: See site for details and guidelines for this event.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 11 am
Where: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/friends-forever
Queer Book Club & A Curse of Roses via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Queer Book Club is hosted by Julia Ember, and reads Queer authors, books, and topics across genres, mostly fiction.
This month’s selection is Diana Pinguicha’s A Curse of Roses. In this book, a magical, but taboo, kiss may be Yzabel’s only chance to save the kingdom of Aragon.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/queer-book-club-with-julia-ember or https://www.facebook.com/events/190350699808938
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Bakeris 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 6th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Zoraida Cordova, with Adam Silvera, & The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Zoraida Cordova, in conversation with Adam Silvera, discuss her book, The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Zoraida Córdova is an American author of children’s books and romance, best known for her Brooklyn Brujas series. She also writes romance as Zoey Castile. Zoraida was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and calls New York City home.
This enchanting novel is about what we knowingly and unknowingly inherit from our ancestors, the ties that bind, and reclaiming your power. The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. So after Orquidea Divina dies, four descendants travel to Ecuador to the place where she buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Susan H. Kamei, with Teresa Watanabe, & When Can We Go Back to America? via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear Susan H. Kamei, in conversation with Teresa Watanabe, discuss her book, When Can We Go Back to America?
Susan H. Kamei is the granddaughter of Japanese immigrants. Her maternal grandparents were part of the Japanese classical music community in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, and her paternal grandparents were vegetable farmers in Orange County. She now teaches undergraduate students at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences about the constitutional, historical, and political issues of the Japanese American incarceration and the importance of those issues today.
When Can We GO Back to America? tells the stories of over 130 individuals who lived through the tragic history of Japanese Americans before, during and after their World War II incarceration. Now more than ever, their words will resonate with readers confronting questions about racial identity, immigration, and citizenship, and what it means to be an American.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Venita Blackburn, with Laura Vandenberg, & How to Wrestle a Girl via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Venita Blackburn, in conversation with Laura Vandenberg, will present her book How to Wrestle a Girl.
Venita Blackburn received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. Her home town is Compton, California, and she is an Assistant Professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.
This book is a book of stories, most set in Southern California, and follow a teenage girl in the aftermath of her beloved father’s death and capture her sister and mother’s encounters with men of all ages, as well as the girl’s building attraction to her best friend Esperanza. She becomes wary of clarity rather than hoping for it.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: See Site
Emily Barth Isler & Aftermath via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Emily Barth Isler will present her debut, Aftermath, a compassionate story written with stark honesty, and showcasing various responses to tragedy.
Emily Barth Isler is a Middle Grade Fiction Author, and natural beauty editor. A former child actress, I performed all over the world in theatre, film, and TV. I spent several years in New York writing episodic television for the web with Emmy-award winning PhoebeTV, and a lifetime writing YA short stories and plays.
After her brother’s death from a congenital heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy is not prepared to be the new kid at school—especially with a grade full of survivors of a shooting that happened four years ago. Without the shared past that both unites and divides her classmates, she feels isolated and unable to share her family’s own loss, which profoundly differs from theirs.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/copy-of-september-7-emily-brant-isler
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Lynda V. E, Crawford– Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Lynda V. E. Crawford.
Linda V. E. Crawford is a poet who has lived in the U.S. longer than her childhood home Barbados, though both “homes” sway and punctuate her writing. She’s also worked in journalism, copywriting, website management, and email marketing. Her work has been published in The Galway Review The Halcyone Literary Review, and elsewhere.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 7th
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.
DPL has 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 7th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (Check to verify)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/da_poetry_lounge/ (Check to verify)
Hen House at Home: Poetic Identity with Nicole Stellon O’Donnell & M. Soledad Caballero via Red Hen Press – Online Event
Red Hen Press welcomes poets Nicole Stellon O’Donnell and Benjamin Saltman award-winner M. Soldad Caballero, who will discuss poetry and memory, history and identity, and explore the poet’s way of connecting with their identities as they juggle various “roles” they play in their lives.
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Steam Laundry and You Are No Longer in Trouble. She is also the author of Everything Never Comes Your Way, which muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.”
M. Soldad Caballero is the author of the Benjamin Saltman award winning collection, I Was a Bell, which bears unflinching witness to the emotional trauma inherited from war-ravaged Chile to the exiled plains of Oklahoma.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Red Hen Press – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 4 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/159284972889975/
Middle Grade Author Mae Respicio & How to Win a Slime War via Bel Canto Books – Online IG Kids Event
Join us as we celebrate the book launch of Mae Respicio’s new middle grade book, How to Win a Slime War.
Mae is author of the middle grade novels The House That Lou Built, Any Day With You, and How to Win a Slime War (out September 2021). She is the past recipient of a PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship and has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She worked with the Filipino-American community of Los Angeles to edit the nonfiction book Images of America: Filipinos in Los Angeles (Arcadia Publishing). For many years Mae also worked at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
How to Win a Slime War is about Alex Manalo and his dad who have moved back to Sacramento to help with their extended family’s struggling Filipino market. His dad thinks he should focus more on traditional boy pastimes—like soccer—and less on making slime and selling his inventions at school. Even though he hates sports he gives in, and now must battle on multiple fronts—with his new friends at school, and with his dad at home. Who will ooze out on top?
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 5 pm PT
Address: See Site
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events
Elizabeth Prather & Stress Less, Achieve More with Mindfulness via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear Elizabeth Prather present and discuss her book, Stress Less, Achieve More with Mindfulness.
This book is presented in an hour-long virtual session during which you’ll learn mental strategies, mindful tips, and a mindfulness meditation practice that will help you respond more calmly and effectively to outer stressors while cultivating joy and peace of mind.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/stress-less-achieve-more-mindfulness-elizabeth-prather
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 8th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, with Lena Herzog, & Not a Nation of Immigrants via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, in conversation with Laura Vandenberg, will present her new book Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American historian, writer, and activist. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Ortiz is the author or editor of several books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. She lives in San Francisco.
Not a Nation of Immigrants debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-conversation-lena-herzog
OPEN MIC: Grito de Boyle Heights & Luis J. Rodriguez, hosted by Sammy Quetzalli via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month we offer an OPEN MIC, hosted by Sammy Quetzalli. Sign-ups are at 6:45pm.
Come early at 6pm for a writers workshop guided by Chicano Political Poet, Matt Sedillo.
Luis J. Rodriguez, author and publisher across genres, and Los Angeles Poet Laureate emeritus, will be the featured guest reader. He is the author of many books, from Always Running, to From Our Land to Our Land.
Don’t miss it!
Sign-ups are at 6:45 pm. Start time is at 7 pm.
NOTE: See site for details. Donations are accepted.
Where: Re/Arte centro literio – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6:45 pm – 9:15 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Brant Cooper & Disruptive Proof via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Brant Cooper will present and discuss his book, Disruptive Proof: Empower People. Create Value. Drive Change.
In a world where change is a constant, this book teaches leaders how to empower their organizations and people to create new value and become more resilient, aware and dynamic. It includes powerful case studies of notable corporations to demonstrate the right mindset and practical strategies for progressing through four stages of implementation company-wide.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/copy-of-september-8-brant-cooper
Maggie Nelson & Hari Kunzru & On Freedom via Hammer Museum – Online Zoom Event
Maggie Nelson, in conversation with author Hari Kunzru (Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men) will launch her book tour and present and discuss her book On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, a boundary pushing, provocative work that explores the notion of freedom through four lenses: art, sex, drugs, and the climate.
Maggie Nelson is the author of Argonauts, Bluets, and On Cruelty, among other titles.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Hammer Museum – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/copy-of-september-8-brant-cooper
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 8th
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/2956323591294483/
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 8th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Yuyi Morales & Bright Star via Children’s Book World – Online Kids & Family Event
Join author Yuyi Morales for the virtual school book launch of her book Bright Star.
Yuyi Morales is a Mexican-American children’s book author and illustrator. She is known for her books Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Little Night, and Viva Frida, which received the 2015 Pura Belpre Medal for illustration as well as a 2015 Caldecott Honor.
This is a school event but the public is invited with a purchase of the book from CBW. You may order copies of Bright Star in English and Spanish at the site link. Morales is also the author of Lucero and Dreamers,
NOTE: See site for further event details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online FB event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 10 am PT
Address: Online Event (see site)
The Soul of a Nation Reader: Panel Discussionvia Getty Research Institute – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a discussion of this collection of over 200 rare and out-of-print writings on the variety of Black perspectives from the 1960s-1980s on “Black art” in response to the political and social upheavals of the time, collected here in The Soul of a Nation Reader.
This event will host a panel of speakers, including:
Allie Biswas is a writer and researcher based in London who has published on many artists, including Wolfgang Tillmans, Julie Nehretu, Adam Pendleton, Rashid Johnson, Rina Banerjee, Meleko Mokgosi and Zanele Muholi.
Dr Mark Godfrey is a curator and art historian based in London, who co-curated, with Zoe Whitley, “Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.”
LeRonn P. Brooks is associate curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute.
NOTE: See site for registration & further event details.
Where: Getty Research Institute – Online event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/400851364963911/
YA Author Meredith Ireland & The Jasmine Project via Bel Canto Books – Online IG YA Event
Join us as we celebrate the book launch of Mae Respicio’s debut book,The Jasmine Project, in conversation with Misa Segiura.
Mae Respicio worked with the Filipino-American community of Los Angeles to edit the nonfiction book Images of America: Filipinos in Los Angeles (Arcadia Publishing). For many years Mae also worked at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, developing, implementing, and overseeing top notch literary events, creative and screenwriting courses, and helping to build a thriving literary community. Mae lives with her family in the suburban wild of Northern California.
In this story, the plan was to use Jasmine’s graduation party as an opportunity for her to meet the most eligible teen bachelors in Orlando. There’s no pressure, of course, but the family hopes their meticulously curated choices will show Jasmine how she should be treated.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 5 pm PT
Address: See Site
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events
Queer YA Writers Panel: Zachary Sergi, Chase Baxter& Fola Goke-Pariola via Book Soup – Online YA Event
Join us to hear YA authors Zachary Sergi, Chase Baxter & Fola Goke-Pariola discuss writing diverse and queer characters for YA in TV and Fiction.
Queer writer Zachary Sergi will discuss his new book, Major Detours, about the mysteries of a tarot deck and the legacy left behind, which follows four friends on a sightseeing tour which takes a major detour. Sergi grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and studied Creative Writing at Regis High School and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a television and fiction writer currently living in Los Angeles, where he writes his Interactive Novels and lives with his husband.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, with Yesika Salgado, & For Brown Girls with Tender Hearts and Sharp Edges via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Live Event
Join us to hear Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, in conversation with Yesika Salgado, discuss her book For Brown Girls with Tender Hearts and Sharp Edges: A Love Letter to Women of Color.
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia.
This book from the founder of Latina Rebels arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms. She offers powerful ways to address challenges, from imposter syndrome to colorism, by telling their own stories. Her book guides them to a sense of pride and sisterhood, energizing a movement.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
LA Goal & Spaceland Present: An Evening with the Kids of Widney High via Skylight Bookstore – In-Person YA Event at Regent Theater
The Kids of Widney High is a raucous rock bend comprised of members with developmental disabilities who sing about their fears, frustrations and dreams. Blossoming out of the music school at Joseph P. Widney High School, these students were featured in the hit comedy, The Ringer. Their rockumentary, Act Your Age, has received wide attention, and is currently streaming on Trona Now. Their first book was published last year: The Kids of Widney High Take Over the World.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – In-Person YA Event at Regent Theater
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm (doors); 8 pm start
Address: Regent Theater, 488 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
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 9th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
NoHo Book Club & Your Choice via North Hollywood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our NoHo Book Club to meet and discuss a selected title OR a book of your choice, every other meeting time. We meet on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month.
This meeting will be centered on a discussion of any book of your choice.
RSVP to nohlwd@lapl.org at least two days in advance to receive the link.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: LAPL – Online Adult Event
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 10 am – 11 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
Achy Obejas, with Luis Rodriguez, & Boomerang/ Bumeran: Poetry/ Poesia via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Achy Obejas, in conversation with author Luis Rodriguez,discuss her book, Boomerang/ Bumeran: Poetry/ Poesia.
Author Achy Obejas is a Cuban-American writer-activist, and translator. Her bilingual poetry collection explores themes of identity, sexuality, and belonging. This is a unique and inspiring bilingual collection that also addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Skylight Treehouse & LAPL Present; Yuri Morales & Bright Star/ Lucero – Virtual Kids Event
Join us to hear children’s author Yuyi Morales present her new children’s book, Bright Star/ Lucero.
This event is presented in partnership with Punk Rock Marthas.
Yuyi Morales is a Mexican-American children’s book author and illustrator. She is known for her books Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Little Night, and Viva Frida, which received the 2015 Pura Belpre Medal for illustration as well as a 2015 Caldecott Honor. Morales is the first Latina to be a Caldecott recipient.
From the creator of Dreamers comes a heartbreakingly beautiful story about growth, empowerment, and finding one’s own voice, simultaneously released in Spanish. It uses spare language and sumptuous and complex imagery to tell the story of a fawn making her way through the border landscape, with a gentle voice encouraging her to face her fears when she comes across an obstacle or barrier.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Skylight Books & LAPL – Online event
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See site
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 11th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929568015816/
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 11th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: 672 S. LaFayette Park Pl., Ste. 10, Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/866086787659211/
Rhode Montijo & Gumazing Book Girl via Children’s Book World – Online Kids & Family Event
Join author and creator Rhode Montijo to hear him present his new book in the series, Gumazing Book Girl: Stick Together.
Rhode Montijo is an American children’s book author and illustrator best known as the creator of Pablo’s Inferno, Cloud Boy and co-creator of the Flash cartoon Happy Tree Friends.
In this book Gabby Gomez fights an overgrown hamster and reunites with old friends in a thrilling and immersive new superhero story.
NOTE: See site for further event details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online event
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 10:30 am PT
Address: Online Event (see site)
Book Club & Persuasion via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our monthly Book Club for a lively discussion about a selected title of a classic book
This month’s selection is Persuasion, by Jane Austin, the last novel fully completed by the author, six months before her death.
NOTE: See website for online link and details.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-7
Special Storytime with Gillian Sze & Michelle Lee via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us for a Special Storytime with author Gillian Sze and illustrator Michelle Lee as they present their new children’s book, My Love For You Is Always.
Gillian Sze is a writer and teacher. She recently has started writing for children and has three picture books forthcoming. Originally from Winnipeg, she now resides in Montreal where she teaches creative writing and literature.
Michelle Lee is an illustrator and designer based in Los Ángeles, California. When not working on her own art, she designs for a children’s clothing line called the Bee’s Knees.
What is love? a child asks. As she prepares a traditional Chinese meal for her family, a child’s mother replies: her love for him is rosy as wolfberries, warm like tea, sweeter than the red dates she puts in his soup. It shines through the water like its own brilliant sun. It goes round and round with no beginning and no end, bcause a mother’s love for a child is always there, warm and soft, broad and tender.
This is a tender story that pairs beautifully poetic words with brilliantly stunning art work, and a mother’s love comes alive on the page and wraps readers in its warm embrace.
NOTE: See website for registration and further details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 11 am
Address: See site
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Poetry Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster – via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Poetry Writing Workshop, led by G.T. Foster.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online Zoom Event
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
AAPI Book Club & World of Wonders via Bel Canto Books – Zoom Online
Join Bel Canto’s AAPI Book Club to read and discuss Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s book, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.
The essays in this nonfiction debut sing with joy and longing for delights in the natural world, and are enlivened by Fumi Nalamura’s illustrations.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Dan Santat Workshop: Children’s Books From Pitch to Publish via Gallery Nucleus – Zoom Online
Join a workshop led by Caldecott Award winning children’s author Dan Santat: Children’s Books From Pitch to Publish, presented via Gallery Nucleus.
Dan Santat is an American author and illustrator known for his children’s book The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, which won the 2015 Caldecott Medal for distinguished illustration. He also wrote The Guild of Geniuses and created the Disney Channel animated series The Replacements.
This extensive class is a deep dive into Dan’s creative process, illustration techniques, and an illumination of a bit of the business side of the publishing world. This event is for anyone who wants to create their own children’s book, or simply wants to have a greater understanding of the Children’s book market.
NOTE: See site for costs and details.
Where: Gallery Nucleus – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 1 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3027236457507173
Skylight & Sunday at the Getty Present; James Lapine & Putting It All Together – Online Zoom Event
Join us to hear author James Lapine present his book, Putting It All together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park with George.”
James Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion.
This book is about the making of the musical play that was inspired by and based on the painting of the same title by Georges Serrat, “Sunday in the Park with George.” This event will be co-presented by Center Theatre Group.
NOTE: See website link for registration &details.
Where: Skylight Books & Sunday at the Getty – Online event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 1 pm
Address: See site
Briana Muñoz & Everything Is Returned to the Soil via Soapbox Open Mic & LA Poet Society – Zoom Online
Join the LA Poet Society’s Soapbox Open Mic event to hear featured poet Briana Muñoz read from her new book, Everything Is Returned to the Soil. Muñoz is also the author of Loose Lips (2019) and is an indigenous Danzante/Nahui Mazatl.
Where: Los Angeles Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events or https://www.facebook.com/missbrianamunoz
Tom Haviv, with Guests, & A Flag of No Nation – Online Event
Join us to hear author Tom Haviv, in conversation with Ben Ratskoff, Sophie Levy & Arielle Angel, present his book, A Flag of No Nation.
Haviv is the co-founder of Ayin Press. His debut book of poetry is Flag of No Nation, and his first children’s book is Woven.
This book is a monumental contribution to the histories of Sephardic Jews, traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the 20th century and investigates the history of Israel / Palestine and the mythologies of nationalism. It reminds us how the act of remembrance can help us re-envision the future.
NOTE: See website link for registration &details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See site
Library Girl Presents: The Book of Light – A Tribute to Lucille Clifton via Library Girl at Ruskin Group Theatre – In-Person & Online IG Event
Join us as Susan Hayden presents writers reading from their own work, inspired by Lucille Clifton, including:
Steve Abee is a Los Angeles writer and teacher known for his sense of place and focusing on the day-to-day of Southern California. He writes poetry, short stories and novels, and his work includes Johnny Future (2012) and Great Balls of Flowers (2009).
Jessica Wilson Cardenas is a teacher and co-founder of the Los Angeles Poet Society. She is the author of the collection, Serious Longing.
Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles, whose recent collections include Dementia, My Darling (2016) and Bouncy Bounce (2018). He currently teaches at the Windward School, and since 2017, has been developing poetry workshops for people with Aphasia.
Gerda Govine Ituarte is a poet and editor of the Pasadena Rose Poets Group. She has been widely published and appears in anthologies and has most recently published Reading Tea Leaves After Trump, by Thelma Reyna.
Cassandra Lane is a writer and publisher, and the author of the debut collection, We Are Bridges (2021), a haunting, absorbing, lyrical exploration of the costs and legacies of slavery and racial violence.
Darrel Larson is an actor, director and poet, a board member of the MET Theatre in Hollywood, and the author of The Wild West, among others.
Conney Williams is artistic director of The World Stage, and is a poet, actor and performance artist. He is the author most recently of the distance of observation (2021).
NOTE: See site for ticket information and further details.
Where: Ruskin Group Theatre – In-Person & Online IG Event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 300 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/264962365159175/
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club & Unwind via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The We’re All Gonna Die Book Club is hosted by Peter Clines, and reads dystopian and post-apocalypse authors, books, in an array of forms, mostly fiction.
This month’s selection is Neal Shusterman’s Unwind. In this first book of a trilogy, life is sacred…until age 13, when an undesirable young person’s organs can be harvested.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/were-all-gonna-die-dystopian-book-club-with-peter-clines-9 or https://www.facebook.com/events/976950183070717
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