World Literature Book Club at West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a spirited and engaging discussion of the world’s best short stories! All selections are from The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (HarperCollins, 2008), eds. Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha. This month’s selections are:
July 1: The Paperhanger by William Gay
July 8: City Visit by Adam Haslett
July 15: To Those of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights by Amy Hempel
July 22: Emergency by Denis Johnson
July 29: Double Exposure by Greg Johnson
We meet every Monday morning (excluding holidays).
RSVP:
For the Zoom link, please send an email request to wvally@lapl.org with “World Literature” in the subject line.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday, the 1st
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/world-literature-book-club-38
Baby Time at Santa Monica Main Library, SMPL – In-Person Kids & Family Event
Introduce your child to storytime with interactive books, bounces and more. Free tickets available at 10:15 and 11:15 am. For ages 0-17 months.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Santa Monica Main Library, SMPL
Date: Monday, the 1st
Time: 10:30 am & 11:30 am
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://smpl.org/
Darkest Hour Book Club: First Lie Wins at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Participants will discuss ‘First Lie Wins’ by Ashley Elston. Copies are available at the library. For adults.
Where: Lake Los Angeles Library, LACL
Date: Monday, the 1st
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 29901 Ladyface Ct, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10782288
One Book, One County: L.A. Weather at West Covina Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join us for a community reading program of exceptional scope – one book for all of Los Angeles County. This special book club will feature a discussion about L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. For adults.
Published in 2022, L.A. Weather is a New York Times bestseller that follows the Mexican American Alvarado family during a year in Los Angeles “as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.”
María Amparo Escandón is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author (English/Spanish). Her novel, L.A. Weather, is a Reese’s Book Club pick and the winner of the Fiction Award at the International Latino Book Awards, 2022. Her first novel Esperanza’s Box of Saints, (Santitos in Spanish) has been the number one best seller in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List, it has 21 foreign editions and is read in over 86 countries. Her second novel is González & Daughter Trucking Co. (Transportes González e Hija, S.A. in Spanish.) María has been an L.A. resident for forty years.
Where: West Covina Library, LACL
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 1601 W Covina Pkwy, West Covina, CA 91790
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10954929
Creative Writing Workshop with Tony DuShane at Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join us for a free writer’s workshop presented by UCLA instructor Tony DuShane, screenwriter of the film Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, based on his novel of the same name. This workshop is open to adults only.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday, the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/creative-writing-workshop-tony-dushane
R.U.P.O. at Back to the Grind in Riverside – In-Person Event
RUPO Open Mic is back every Monday Night at Back to the Grind in Riverside.
Every Monday at a new time: 7pm to 9pm. Sign-ups are at 6:30pm and in person only, $4 cash admission. See you then!
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Back to the Grind
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 3575 University Ave. Riverside, CA 92501
Website: https://www.facebook.com/backtothegrind
David Junk, with Fred Bronson, & Rockin’ the Kremlin: My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin’s Russia at Book Soup – In-Person Event
David Junk, in conversation with Fred Bronson, will discuss his book, Rockin’ the Kremlin: My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin’s Russia.
Read the true story of Universal Music Russia’s first CEO and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia in an account that Publishers Weekly calls “an exciting and colorful look at a dynamic period in Russia’s cultural history.”
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia opened its borders, and Russian audiences were hungry for Western popular music and the values it espoused. David Junk was one of the first idealistic, young Americans to seize this opportunity.
While Russia’s descent into authoritarianism and two invasions of Ukraine have tarnished this, the industry that David shepherded has birthed a newer generation of Russian musicians who are speaking out against the war and Putin. Filled with unique insights as well as gripping—and sometimes humorous—stories, this book reveals how it all happened.
David Junk was the first CEO of Universal Music in Moscow, and for a decade he promoted international artists in Russia, including stars like Mariah Carey, Elton John, U2, Sting, and Bon Jovi. He also signed many Russian artists to Universal, including t.A.T.u. and Alsou. David was Vice-President Eastern Europe at Universal Music in 2003, opened the first Universal Music office in Kyiv, Ukraine, and developed music reality shows for Ukrainian TV. David was also the North American Entertainment Relations Director of Gibson Brands, Inc., where he started company operations in Russia and opened the first Gibson Guitar showroom in Moscow. He was a founding member of the Russian Music Industry Association and the US Ambassadors Task Force on Intellectual Property Rights.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday, the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/david-junk-fred-bronson
Poetry Writing Circle with Flower Essences: Violet Fresquezat North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
Experience the energetic transformation of working with flowers through poetry.
Join us for journal style writing with prompts and light meditation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 11:30 am – 1 pm
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lxdzczue
L.A. Book Launch: Lauren Kate, with Lacey Waldon at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Lauren Kate, in conversation with Lacey Waldon, will discuss her new romance novel What’s in a Kiss.
This is an enemies to lovers romance about a prim kiss that never was, and one woman’s magical chance to live what might have been.
There will be a book signing to follow.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 3806 Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Emily Nussbaum & Cue the Sun! at Skylight – In-Person Event
Emily Nussbaum will present and discuss her book, Cue the Sun!
Join us for the rollicking saga of reality television—an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum.
In sharp, absorbing prose, the author traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre’s trickster pioneers, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris; Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the visionaries behind The Real World—along with dozens of stars from An American Family, The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade—like the Frankenbite, a deceptive editor’s best friend—and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality’s peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script.
What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds—and why won’t they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.
Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she’s worked since 2011, originally as the magazine’s television critic. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Previously, she was the culture editor for New York, where she created the Approval Matrix. She is the author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, which was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Clive Thompson, and their two children.
Where: Skylight
Date: Monday, the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-emily-nussbaum-presents-cue-sun
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – Online Zoom Event (CANCELLED THIS DATE)
This free Monday Night Community Writing Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and to use 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 from Mills College. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures at California State University Channel Islands, teaching courses on creative writing and contemporary African literatures. Raquel has published poetry in Africology and The Arrow; fiction in Enculturation, The Daily Palette, The Womanist, and Crux; and non-fiction in Little Village; and has done readings with the Ventura County Poetry project. Raquel lives for talking about all things about the craft and social meanings of literature!
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops
Thomas Dolby & Prevailing Wind at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Thomas Dolby will sign his new novel, Prevailing Wind.
It is 1913, and the plutocrats of the New York Yacht Club have amassed more power and wealth than the US Treasury itself.
Davey and Jacob Haskell, brothers from a poor lobster fishing community in Maine, have a single shot at greatness when they try out for the sailing crew of a NYYC millionaire’s luxury racing yacht.
Honor, betrayal, and the cruelty of an egomaniacal skipper put the brothers’ family loyalties to the test as they set out to expose a dark secret covered up for years in the corridors of the New York Yacht Club.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/thomas-dolby
Fiction Book Club: Embassy Wife at Donald Bruce Kauffman – Brantwood Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join us the first Tuesday of each month to discuss a work of fiction. Books selected for discussion can be new or old and come from a wide array of genres, styles, and authors
Participants will discuss July’s selection, Embassy Wife, by author Katie Crouch.
Copies of the book for the upcoming month can be borrowed from the Brentwood Branch Library’s circulation desk.
Where: Donald Bruce Kauffman – Brantwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 1 pm
Address: 11820 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/fiction-book-club
Darkest Hour Book Club: Frist Lie Wins at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Participants will discuss author Ashley Elston’s First Lie Wins, a novel about mistaken and hidden identities.
Copies are available at the library. For adults.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 29901 Ladyface Ct, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10782288
One Book, One County: L.A. Weather at West Covina Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join us for a community reading program of exceptional scope – one book for all of Los Angeles County. This special book club will feature discussion about L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón
The 2024 selection for One Book, One County is L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. Published in 2022, L.A. Weather is a New York Times bestseller that follows the Mexican-American Alvarado family during a year in Los Angeles “as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.”
María Amparo Escandón is a New York Times best-selling bilingual author (English/Spanish). Her novel, L.A. Weather, is a Reese’s Book Club pick and the winner of the Fiction Award at the International Latino Book Awards, 2022. Her first novel Esperanza’s Box of Saints, (Santitos in Spanish) has been the number one best seller in the Los Angeles Times Best Sellers List, it has 21 foreign editions and is read in over 86 countries. Her second novel is González & Daughter Trucking Co. (Transportes González e Hija, S.A. in Spanish.) María has been an L.A. resident for forty years.
Where: West Covina Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 1601 W Covina Pkwy., West Covina, CA 91790
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10954929
Indie Author Night: Courtney Deane, Chris Hill, Evan Baughfman, Dana Hammer at Altadena Main Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Listen to local authors read from their best and newest works. Meet them, get copies of their book after the reading and mingle with other book lovers.
Courtney Deane has been a writer and pursuer of happily-ever-afters since she can remember. As a full-time freelance writer, her days are spent working for print, digital, and broadcast entities, as well as for a variety of PR and marketing clients. She continues her craft by dedicating some space each day to work on her fiction books. After both of her parents died, Deane worked to turn those tragedies into something beautiful—an effort that inspired her debut novel, When Happily Ever After Fails. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and sociology from UC Irvine and a master’s in journalism from USC. Deane lives in San Diego with her husband, daughter, and rescue dog—her very own happily-ever-after. Learn more at http://www.courtneydeane.com/.
Chris Hill is a black American writer, engineer, swordsman, and pretty good ramen cook. Chris has written and published four illustrated books in the Rapture Burgers series. The latest book, a complete reboot of the series, drawn in partnership with a traditionally trained manga illustrator, was recently accepted into the Kyoto International Manga Museum. IG @raptureburgers
Evan Baughfman is a Southern California playwright, author, and educator. He is a playwriting member of PlayGround-L.A. and is a company member with Force of Nature Productions. A number of Evan’s plays are published through Heuer Publishing, YouthPLAYS, Next Stage Press, and Drama Notebook. Evan has also found success writing horror fiction, his work found recently in anthologies by No Bad Books Press, Critical Blast Publishing, and Black Hare Press. Evan’s own books include: The Emaciated Man, Vanishing of the 7th Grade, Bad for Your Teeth, and Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairy Tale. More info at amazon.com/author/evanbaughfman.
Dana Hammer is a playwright, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist. Her screenplay, “Red Wings,” has been optioned by EMA Films. She is the author of several novels, including The Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting, My Best Friend Athena, and Fanny Fitzpatrick and the Brother Problem, published by Cinnabar Moth. She is also the author of Cosmas and Damian, a historical comedy play published by Next Stage Press. Many of her short stories have been published in a variety of anthologies, magazines, and journals. Her plays have received several staged readings and full productions. She was a Writer in Residence at Hypatia in the Woods, in summer of 2022. She has received over seventy awards and honors for her writing, few of which generated income, all of which were deeply appreciated. She has recently started writing poetry and has sold one poem! Learn more at https://www.danahammer.com.
Where: Altadena Main Library
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.altadenalibrary.org/programs/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D174613426
Creative Writing: The Art of Storytelling Learning Circle at Arroyo Seco Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join us to tell your story.
Explore aspects of creative writing and develop your storytelling skills in our learning circle. We will collectively explore material from the storytelling portion of Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box course, tackling a new facet each week.
You may attend this learning circle in person or via Zoom.
Where: Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6145 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/creative-writing-art-storytelling-learning-circle
An Evening with Monika Kim:The Eyes Are the Best Part at Bel Canto Books, KUBO LB – In-Person Event
Bel Canto Books is delighted to host an evening with Monika Kim, author of The Eyes Are The Best Part.
Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean American perspective.
Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying…yet enticing.
In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivating blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.
For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Bel Canto, KUBO LB
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 3976 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-monika-kim-tickets-906277519457
Feminist Book Club: The Lost Journals of Sacajawea at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Feminist Book Club participants will discussThe Lost Journals of Sacajawea, by author Debra Magpie Earling.
In this story Sacajewea learns how to survive at the edge of a strange new world teeming with fur trappers and traders. When Lewis and Clark’s expedition party arrives, She knows she must cross a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white man who owns her, and a company of men who wish to conquer and commodify the world she loves. Written in lyrical, dreamlike prose, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea is an astonishing work of art and a powerful tale of perseverance—the Indigenous woman’s story that hasn’t been told.
Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. An earlier version of the latter, written in verse, was produced as an artist book during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. She has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is retired from the University of Montana, where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/book
Rachel Stolzman Gullo, with Leland Cheuk, & Confuse the Wind at Deisel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Rachel Stolzman Gullo, in conversation with Leland Cheuk, will present and discussConfuse the Wind.
As a skyscraper engineer, Jonathan Brooks, has always believed that a skyscraper is either made correctly or incorrectly, and all problems have solutions. He has yet to learn that people are made differently. When his son Theo fell ill with encephalitis at fourteen months old, he and his wife Carly were devastated to learn that Theo’s setbacks would be long-lasting, possibly permanent. Theo is now seven years old and not yet walking or fully verbal, and Jonathan and Carly are living apart. The broken family’s world is upturned by the arrival of Aimee, a complicated young Irish woman who begins working as Theo’s nanny in ways Jonathan does not trust. But as Aimee brings about new advancements for Theo their bond grows, until Aimee’s own personal crisis rocks the family and shows them all a new way forward. Confuse the Wind is a book about our human interdependence and how we desperately need one another to survive and hopefully thrive.
Rachel Stolzman Gullo is the author of two novels, The Sign for Drowning and Practice Dying. Confuse the Wind is her third novel. She earned her MFA in creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In addition to writing, she works in the harm reduction field. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.
Leland Cheuk is an award-winning author of three books of fiction, most recently the novel No Good Very Bad Asian. Cheuk’s work has been covered in Buzzfeed, The Paris Review, VICE, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere, and has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, among other outlets. He is the founder of the indie press 7.13 Books.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore (in the Courtyard)
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Rachel-Stolzman-Gullo-Leland-Cheuk-July-2-Author-signing
Creativity Book Club: Big Magic at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Meet up with like-minded individuals to discuss a book related to creativity.
Our July pick for discussion is Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/39531
Women and Books Discussion: Your Driver Is Waiting at West Hollywood Library, LACL – In-Person & Virtual Hybrid Event
Participants will discuss Your Driver Is Waiting by author Priya Guns.
This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the meeting via email.
Zoom Link: https://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us
Summary provided by the publisher:
Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take. The city is roiling in protests—everybody’s in solidarity with somebody—but while she keeps hearing that they’re fighting for change on behalf of people like her, she literally can’t afford to pay attention.
Where: West Hollywood Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 625 San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event
Release Party: Nicola Twilly, with Geoff Manaugh, & Frostbite at North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Nicola Twilly, in conversation with Geoff Manaugh,present her book Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.
This book is an engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse
In Frostbite, New Yorker contributor and cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod Nicola Twilley takes readers on a tour of the cold chain from farm to fridge. In the developed world, we’ve reaped the benefits of refrigeration for more than a century, but the costs are catching up with us. We’ve eroded our connection to our food and redefined what “fresh” means. More important, refrigeration is one of the leading contributors to climate change.
Nicola Twilley is the coauthor of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, named one of the best books of 2021 by Time, NPR, The Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is cohost of Gastropod, the award-winning and popular podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history, produced as part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. She is also a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
Geoff Manaugh is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, author of the New York Times-bestselling book A Burglar’s Guide to the City, and co-author, with Nicola Twilley, of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, an NPR, Guardian, Time Magazine, and Financial Times 2021 book of the year. His writing regularly appears in venues such as The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, and many others. In 2023, his short story “Ernest” was adapted into the film We Have A Ghost, the #1 Netflix movie in the world for three consecutive weeks. Since 2004, he has also written BLDGBLOG, a website about architecture, technology, and design.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lx9pvv9m
Other Worlds Book Club: Piranesi at pages: a bookstore – In-Person Event
Other Worlds Book Club participants will discuss the July selection, Piranesi, by author Susanna Clark.
This new pages book club explores the nooks and crannies of speculative fiction: fantasy, science fiction, alternative history, horror, and their intersections.
Piranesi is a New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
Susanna Clarke’s debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was first published in more than 34 countries and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. Piranesi was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, the RSL Encore Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in Derbyshire.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/other-worlds-book-club-0
L.A. Book Launch: Krista Ritchie, with Becca Ritchieat The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Krista Ritchie, in conversation with Becca Ritchie, will discuss her new romance novel Dishonestly Yours.
There will be a book signing to follow.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3806 Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Ananda Lima, with Laura Warrell, & Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil at Skylight – In-Person Event
Award-winning author Ananda Lima, in conversation with Laura Worrell,will present and discuss her book, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.
The author lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences–of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.
Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books) and the poetry collection Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press) as well as publications including The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at Poets & Writers and has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan publishers. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lived for several years in Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago.
Laura Warrell is the author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Huffington Post, and other publications. Laura graduated from the Creative Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and she has attended residencies at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Writer’s Workshop. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University.
Where: Skylight
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N, Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-books-ananda-lima-presents-craft-w-laura-warrell
K.X. Song & The Night Ends with Fire at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
K.X. Song will present and discuss The Night Ends with Fire.
The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry. But when Meilin discovers her husband-to-be is another violent, ill-tempered man, she realizes that nothing will change for her unless she takes matters into her own hands.
The very next day, she disguises herself as a boy and enlists in her father’s place.
In the army, Meilin’s relentless hard work brings her recognition, friendship—and a growing closeness with Sky, a prince turned training partner. But has she simply exchanged one prison for another? As her kingdom barrels toward destruction, Meilin begins to have visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/KX-Song-discusses-The-Night-Ends-with-Fire
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic: Rick Lupert & Guest Reader: NO READING THIS DATE – Online Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic with host Rick Lupert presents guest reader(S) and an open mic.
There will be no reading on this date. Event returns July 9th.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show – In-Person Event
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show is offered every week at the Unurban Coffee House. Hosted by DeForest Wright, all are invited to attend.
Guest poet of the month: Jennifer Kelly, author of Coming to Love My Darkest Places.
NOTE: Details at event link. Check to Verify.
Where: Unurban Coffee House
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups
Tuesday Night Café Open Mic at Tuesday Night Project at Little Tokyo – In-Person Event
Join us for Tuesday Night Café Open Mic and featured readers and performers, and another evening of art, community, friends and vibes.
Featuring; Bryan Macoy, Chiwan Choi, Makarya, Ashley Wang and Bella Giammalvo (of the 309 Collective). Emily Okamato, Ficititious Professor & Open Lottery.
Sign-ups start at 6:30 pm.
NOTE: See sign-ups, details, and guidelines at website link.
$10 donation. Do NOT line up prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to the theater.
Masks are encouraged.
Where: Tuesday Night Café
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 120 Judge John Aliso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.tuesdaynightproject.org/tnc-schedule or https://www.facebook.com/photo
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic Night at Greenway Court – In-Person Event
The nation’s largest weekly Open Mic event is 25 years strong. They hold open mic nights. At an open mic, all are welcome to share their poetry or sit in their audience.
The 3rd Tuesday of the month will be SLAM NIGHT.
NOTE: See sign-ups, details, and guidelines at website link.
$10 donation. Do NOT line up prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to the theater.
Masks are encouraged. All ages are welcome.
Where: Greenway Court Theatre
Date: Tuesday, the 2nd
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLUBSRPCFb/ or https://www.dapoetrylounge.com/events
Lit Angels Writing Studio Class: Morning Pages 12 Questions with Francesca Lia Block at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Come write for one hour with acclaimed author and writing professor Francesca Lia Block! Prompts from FLB’s “12 Questions Method” will be given! Free!
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Francesca Lia Block, M.F.A., is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry, and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly.
Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock, The Fairy Tale Review and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, Francesca is a beloved and devoted teacher. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014 and in 2018-19 became a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Redlands where she was a finalist for Professor of the Year award. Currently she teaches fiction at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, Otis Extension, Pocket MFA, and privately in Los Angeles where she was born and raised. She is co-editor of Lit Angels journal and runs the Lit Angels Writing Studio at Village Well
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 8 am – 9 am
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/39975
Book Party Book Club: Meredith, Alone at San Dimas Senior Center – In-Person Event
Participants will meet to discuss the novel Meridith, Alone by author Claire Alexander. Copies are available for check out at the circulation desk. For Adults.
Meredith, who, after spending three years inside her house, figures out how to rejoin the world one step at a time. She has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. There’s her online support group, her jigsaw puzzles and favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson poems. Also keeping her company are treacherous memories of an unstable childhood and a traumatic event that had sent her reeling. But something’s about to change.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: San Dimas Senior Center
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Address: 201 E. Bonita Ave., San Dimas, CA
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/9429935
Afternoon Book Club: The Postcard at Westlake Village Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Participants will meet to discuss the novel The Postcard by author Anne Berest. For adults.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Westlake Village Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: 31220 W Oak Crest Dr, Westlake Village, CA 91361
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/11115990
Chatsworth Book Club: Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule at Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Participants will meet to discuss the novel Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule by author Jennifer Chiaverinni.
Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady, grapples with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake—until she forged a proud identity of her own. Meet new friends and enjoy great conversation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: 21052 Devonshire St., Chatsworth, CA 91311
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/chatsworth-book-club-11
Mystery Book Club: The Hunter at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Participants will meet to discuss the novel The Hunter by author Tana French. For adults.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 29901 Ladyface Ct., Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10916394
Poets Café: Celebrating Poetry via KPFK 90.7 FM – Live On-Air Event
Poets Café celebrates Poetry. This program is a weekly half-hour literary arts discussion and reading program featuring guest authors and their works.
NOTE: Poetry From Around the World is a segment of this series offered monthly on the 2nd Monday of the month on KPFK Los Angeles 90.7 FM.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: KPFK 90.7 FM
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: On-air Event (live)
Website: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/poets-cafe/
Health Matters Book Club at Pacoima Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us on Zoom and share a health book or article you are reading. We discuss a wide range of health topics, including: healthy eating and cook books, mental health, aging, exercise, and preventative health. This book club meets the first Wednesday of every month.
RSVP:
Email pcoima@lapl.org to receive the Zoom link for the event.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Pacoima Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/health-matters-book-club-2
One Book, One County Book Club: L.A. Weather at East Los Angeles Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Participants will meet to discuss the novel L.A. Weather by author María Amparo Escandón.
This is a community reading program bringing together 18 library districts in Los Angeles County! From June 1 to July 27, all participating libraries will be reading and discussing L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. This community reading program fosters collaboration, education, and conversation across our county and emphasizes the power of connected libraries to create connected communities.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: East Los Angeles Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 4837 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90022
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/11105787
Be the Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop – Online Event
Be the Change, a Social Justice Writing Workshop, is held every 1st Wednesday of the month and led by poet and author James Coats.
Workshop is free: name your own price..
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Online Zoom Event Zoom ID: 826 5843 0669 Password: justice
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event Zoom ID: 826 5843 0669 Password: justice
Website: N/A
Reading in Bed with Jessica: L.A. Poet Society via 101.5 FM – Live On-Air Event
Reading in Bed with Jessica hosts poets and writers in conversation and is aired weekly on 101.5 FM.
Jessica Wilson Cardenas is the founder of the Los Angeles Poet Society.
Guests TBA
This program is offered weekly on radioollin Los Angeles 101.5 FM.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: 101.5 FM
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: On-air Event (live at 101.5 FM)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events
Mystery Book Club: The Hunter at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – Online Event
Participants will discuss the novel The Hunter by author Tana French. For adults.
To receive an invite to this virtual meeting, contact Nina Hull at 818-889-2278 or nhull@library.lacounty.gov
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 29901 Ladyface Court, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10916395
RECESS Open Mic is at SIPA HQ, Palms Up Academy – In-Person Event
RECESS Open Mic is at SIPA HQ on Wednesdays. (Check to Verify)
This dynamic open mic is the most accessible public program in our curriculum and manifests our mission statement in a physical (and digital) space.
Join us at the intersection of Historic Filipinotown & The World: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, guidelines, and details.
Where: SIPA HQ
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm (Doors at 6:30; Open Mic at 8 pm)
Address: 3200 W. Temple St., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.palmsupacademy.com
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop at The World Stage – In-Person Event – CHECK TO VERIFY
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Our tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. For general information and booking, contact V. Kali, the Anansi Writers Workshop Coordinator, at vkaliflowers@gmail.com.
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Formal workshop;
- 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm — TBA;
- 9:05 pm – 10:00 pm — Open mic.
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery.
NOTE: See site for further details and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmail.com or call (323) 293-2451.
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.instagram.com/anansiwritersworkshop/
Zefyr Lisowski & Girl Work at Poetic Research Bureau – In-Person Event
Join us to celebrate Zefyr Lisowski’s debut poetry collection, Girl Work, out from Noemi Books, with readings from Johanna Hedva, Muriel Leung, Sloane Holzer and Zefyr Lisowski.
Girl Work, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual trauma, and the assertion of a gender- nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written in injunctions to the self, to past assailants, and to friends, this work challenges canonical representations of pain as punitive, redemptive, or separable from the environmental conditions it springs from. In it a self is restored from the detritus of memory—flashes of sexual violence, pop cultural touchstones like the movie The Ring, the music of Ke$ha, the sudden death of a father, the paintings of Henry Darger, and more. Winner of the 2022 Book Award from Noemi Press.
Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the novel Your Love Is Not Good, which Kirkus called a “hellraising, resplendent must read,” and the novel On Hell, which was named one of Dennis Cooper’s favorites of 2018. They are also the author of Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, which collects a decade of work in poetry, plays, performances, and essays. Their artwork has been shown internationally, and their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and The Moon. Their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, frieze, The White Review, Topical Cream, Spike, and is anthologized in Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art. Their essay “Sick Woman Theory,” published in 2016, has been translated into 11 languages. Their essay collection How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom will be published in September 2024 by Hillman Grad Books.
Sloane Holzer is a writer and artist. Interested in the intersections of narrative, desire, and technology, her work considers how these forces shape our lives. She incorporates transness, as well as somatic practices like sadomasochism and ritualized movement, as lenses through which to ideate and archive experiences. Her creative output includes critical essays, narrative fiction, and performance-centric video work. Her writing has previously been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Leste Magazine, and Them. Her artwork has been featured in Baest Journal. She lives on colonized, unceded Huichin Ohlone land, also called Oakland, California. She is currently an MFA Creative Writing and MA Visual & Critical Studies dual degree candidate at the California College of the Arts. You can find her on Instagram and Tiktok at @s7oane or irl near a large body of water.
Muriel Leung is the author of the forthcoming How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) in addition to Imagine Us, the Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) with Kristine Thompson. She received her PhD in creative writing and literature from USC and serves on the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. She is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices Workshop, and Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, among others. She lives in Southern California.
Zefyr Lisowski is a poet and essayist from the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina. She’s the author of two poetry collections, Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and Girl Work (Noemi Press, 2024). A 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Nonfiction and 2023 Queer|Art Fellow, Zefyr has received further support from Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, the Center for the Humanities, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her essay collection about horror movies, exes, and love is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in Fall 2025. She lives online at zeflisowski.com and has seen grave robbers twice.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (Doors at 7 pm)
Address: 2220 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: https://www.poeticresearch.com/events
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event – Check to Verify
Beyond Baroque’s longest-running free poetry workshop is offered on Zoom and welcomes new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. This workshop will be hosted via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting.
The workshop facilitator this quarter is Rooja Mohassessy, an Iranian-born poet and educator. She is a MacDowell Fellow and an MFA graduate of Pacific University, Oregon. Her ekphrastic debut collection, When Your Sky Runs Into Mine (Feb 2023) was the winner of the 22nd Annual Elir Poetry Award. Rooja has been featured on NPR, The Hive Poetry Collective, and other poetry podcasts and radio stations. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Nimrod, Poet Lore, RHINO Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, CALYX Journal, Ninth Letter, Cream City Review, The Adroit Journal, New Letters, The Rumpus, The Journal, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Her work is also anthologized in California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology, and Colossus: Body, a compilation of writings by Californians writing on the themes of bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. Rooja is an editorial assistant at the journal Prairie Schooner.
Please spend some time before the workshop learning how to share documents via Zoom. It will keep the session moving if you’re able to make your poem viewable quickly and easily. There’s an instructive video that might help.
The workshop can sometimes reach high levels of attendance, which means not everyone will get a chance to read every session.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry with Ben Trigg and Featured Guest Dania Ayah Alkhouli at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Host Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights features Dania Ayah Alkhouli.
Dania Ayah Alkhouli (a.k.a. Lady Narrator) is a Syrian Pushcart Prize nominated writer, poet, editor, and author of three poetry & prose collections—the latest, Contortionist Tongue from Moon Tide Press. Her work centers on survivorship, feminism, domestic violence & sexual assault, death & grief, religion & culture, and her homeland, Syria. Alkhouli has been performing her poetry for 16 years, with her very first performance at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry in 2008. She holds a B.A. in Sociology, an M.A. in Public Policy and Administration, and recently completed her M.B.A. When she’s not writing, she manages a private investments portfolio, while also serving as the Creative Director and Co-founder of @acountrycalledsyria, a nonprofit traveling museum exhibiting Syria’s history and culture through digital and physical arts.
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$4 cover fee, cash only
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday, the 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events or https://www.facebook.com/events/856076289900203/?ref=newsfeed
Spectacular Storytime at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Spectacular Storytime is our most popular story time and is ready to delight and dazzle! This is also the prime time to see Pippi Longstocking, our bookstore cat in action.
Open to all ages. Free to attend.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/spectacular-story-time-83
Korean Storytime at Pio Pico – Koreatown Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
Join our fabulous storytime volunteer, Misook, for Korean Storytime on the first Friday of every month. You and your little ones will share songs, stories and play. Please note that the storytime is in Korean, but all are welcome.
Where: Pio Pico – Koreatown Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 10 am
Address: 694 S. Oxford Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90005
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/korean-storytime-3
First Fridays Book Club: L.A, Weather at Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join us for a lively book discussion. Each month, we select a different title to read and discuss.
One Book, One County is reading L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón. Join us for a book handout on June 7 at 1 p.m. The first five people will get a free copy. Remaining books will be available for check out at Memorial Branch.
On July 5, join us for a discussion of L.A. Weather by author María Amparo Escandón.
Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants a little rain. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and he’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage.
Their three daughters―Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers―are left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way.
Where: Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 4625 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/one-book-one-country
Anime and Manga Club: at El Monte Library, LACL – In-Person Teens Event
Otakus unite! Join us as we stream and discuss popular anime and manga. For Teens, ages 13 – 17.
Where: El Monte Library, LACL
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 3224 Tyler Ave., El Monte, CA 91731
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10240731
Self-Care Book Club: Life in Five Senses at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event (Note change in date)
Participants will discuss the book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, by author Gretchen Rubin.
For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world invigorated by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
In this journey of self-experimentation, Rubin explores the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a path to a happier, more mindful life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature, and her own efforts to practice what she learns, she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world.
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm; The Four Tendencies; Better Than Before; and The Happiness Project. Her books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She hosts the top-ranking, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she explores practical solutions for living a happier life.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/self-care-book-club-life-five-senses
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music Event at Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center – In-Person Event
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music is offered every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month and hosted by Loranzo Frank.
Featured guest TBA.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 8 pm – 12 am
Address: 4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.depoet.info/swaam
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series & Open Mic with host Cynthia Alessandra Briano at Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
First Fridays at Rapp Saloon: Open Mic & Featured Readers, is offered every 1st Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
This is a HYBRID event, live in-person while offering a Zoom option for our performers and guests.
Our featured guest poets and artists this month TBA
We invite you to join us in amplifying and celebrating Black voices by bringing a poem or prose excerpt by a Black author to read alongside your own work. All themes/formats welcome. All languages welcome.
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are at 8:15 pm. Zoom ID posted 3 hours prior to event.
Featured guest TBA.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Rapp Saloon at HISUA – In-Person & Online Event
Date: Friday, the 5th
Time: 8;30 pm – 12 am
Address: 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.facebook.com/RappSaloonReading or https://www.instagram.com/rappsaloon/?hl=en
Western Edge Writers at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join us for a group that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir.
Please emaileaglrk@lapl.org for the writing prompt.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 10 am
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-0
Saturday Book Discussion: The Undertow at Palms – Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person MG Event
Join us for wide-ranging conversations. Copies are available at reference and as ebooks. This is our second year reading off of the “100 Notable Books!”
Participants will discuss The Undertow. Scenes From a Slow Civil War by author Jeff Sharlet
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Palms – Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 11 am
Address: 2920 Overland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/saturday-book-discussion
Poetry Workshop at Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join this inclusive, in-person poetry workshop where poets of all levels can come together, share their work, and foster a vibrant poetry community. Participants are invited to bring a poem, no longer than one page, to read and receive valuable feedback from fellow poets. Engage in thoughtful discussions and provide your own insights on the work of others. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or just starting out, this workshop offers a supportive environment to refine your craft, connect with like-minded individuals, and celebrate the power of words.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-workshop-1
Japanese Storytime at Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
Join us for our fun lively Japanese Storytime. Listen to exciting and entertaining stories and sing some songs, too!
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 11 am
Address: 203 S. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/japanese-storytime-6
Middle School Book Club: Final Word at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – In-Person Kids Event
Join us to discuss Final Word by Janet Sumner Johnson. For ages 11 – 14.
Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they’ve never known. With tensions at an all-time high, a fortune at stake, and long-simmering family secrets about to boil to the surface, anything could happen.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 11 am
Address: 29901 Ladyface Court, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10811495
Book Club: Before We Were Trans at Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join our discussion of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, by author Kit Heyam.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 11 am
Address: 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club
Kids Graphic Novel Book Club: A First Time for Everything at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Kids & MG Event
Participants will discuss the book A Frist Time for Everything, by author Dan Santat.
*Winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature*
A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat’s awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life.
Dan’s always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn’t stop him from being bullied and feeling like he’s invisible, which is why Dan has low expectations when his parents send him on a class trip to Europe.
At first, he’s right. He’s stuck with the same girls from his middle school who love to make fun of him, and he doesn’t know why his teacher insisted he come on this trip. But as he travels through France, Germany, Switzerland, and England, a series of first experiences begin to change him—first Fanta, first fondue, first time stealing a bike from German punk rockers… and first love.
Dan Santat is the Caldecott Medal–winning and New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend and the road trip/time travel adventure Are We There Yet? His artwork is also featured in numerous picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade novels, including Dav Pilkey’s Ricky Ricotta series. Dan lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and many, many pets.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/kids-graphic-novel-book-club-first-time-everything
GLP Practice at Get Lit – Words Ignite – In-Person Teen Event
This event is for current Get Lit Players.
213.388.8639
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Get Lit
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 672 S. Lafayette St., #10, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: https://www.getlit.org/events/
Creative Writing Group at Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Calling all writers of fiction, screenplays, poetry, etc. Get feedback on your writing in a fun, supportive environment. Meetings include a writing prompt/exercise, snacks, and a rollicking good time! Whether you are just starting out or well on your way to glory, join us and banish (at least temporarily) those Lonely Writer Blues!
Upcoming Meetings: 7/20/24 (Meeting Room B)
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/writers-group-0
Expressions L.A. Poetry Reading Series and Open Mic at Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join us in-person or via Zoom for Expressions L.A. Poetry Reading Series, featuring poetry readings and open poetry mic.
RSVP:
Please email studio@lapl.org for participation details.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 12511 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA 91604
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-poetry-reading-series-and-open-mic-2
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Poetry Writing Workshop with Carl Stillwell & Mark Stillwell – Online Zoom Event
Poetry Writing Workshop will be led Carl Stillwell and Mark Stillwell.
(Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines including the subject of or at least mentioning zodiac or energy for Four Feathers Press online edition: Zodiac Energy by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, July 19th)
Don Kingfisher Campbell hosts and curates these events.
Where: Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (See site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Priming for Poetry at Culver City Julian Dixon Library, LACL – In-Person Event
In this generative poetry workshop, local poet Cesca Brenner will offer guidance and inspiration designed to push the inner critic out of the way so you can find your creative self.
This workshop aims to help you build confidence and skills by opening your eyes to observation, drawing on sensory details to enhance and express experiences, and exploring word choice to create musicality and surprising imagery.
Attendance is limited and advance registration is required.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Culver City Julian Dixon Library, LACL
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: 4975 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/11031510
Monthly Open Mic at LibroMobile, Santa Ana – In-Person Event
Join us for our open mic series hosted by Local Poet Kunthon “Katon” Meas, he’ll be featuring local writers & hold the mic for all of you!
We hope to keep up with our tradition of prioritizing BIPOC voices as well as honoring a safe space for all.
We’re a community in various stages of our writing & performing experience. We aspire to cultivate a space of empowerment, not a critical feedback or workshop circle.
Featured Guest: Jonathan Humanoid
RSVP
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LibroMobile
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1150 S. Bristol St., A3, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/libromobiles-monthly-open-mic-2024-07-06-18-00
Griot Café Reading & Open Mic at Shades of Africa – In-Person Event
Join us for Griot Café Open Mic event at Shades of Afrika, Long Beach event, offered every first Saturday of the month.
Hosted by Subject Matter, the featured guest this month is poet October Blu, author of #InMySpaceOfHonesty And Other Hashtags.
October Blu is the author of the poetry collection #InMySpaceOfHonesty And Other Hashtags (World Stage Press, 2018).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Shades of Afrika
Date: Saturday, the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1005 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: https://allevents.in/long%20beach/griot-ca3%A9/200026678060250
Melrose Trading Post Event by Greenway Arts Alliance at Melrose Trading Post at Fairfax H.S. – In-Person Event
Melrose Trading Post is a reading and spoken word event held every Sunday, rain or shine, at Fairfax High School, and tickets are available online as well as at the ticket booth on Sunday at the event.
NOTE: Check every Sunday for story time and reading events
Where: Melrose Trading Post, Greenway Main Stage at Fairfax HS
Date: Sunday, the 7th (Every Sunday)
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 7850 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
Website: https://melrosetradingpost.org/tickets/
Micro Zine Fest at Chevalier’s Books – In-Person Event
Micro Zine Fest will be held at Chevalier’s all day, from 10 am to 6 pm.
NOTE: Check store for details,
Where: Chevalier’s
Date: Sunday, the 7th
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Address: 133 Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/calendar
Mystery Book Club at West Los Angeles Regional Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
We meet on the first Sunday of each month to discuss a mystery, thriller, or suspense book picked by the group. For current titles, please contact the West LA Library at westla@lapl.org or 310-575-8323.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: West Los Angeles Regional Library
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 11360 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-32
Outdoor Lit Book Club: Undrowned at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Participants will discuss the book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, by author Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Sunday, the 7th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Book Launch: Teddi Lynn Chichester & Wildlife Crossings of Hope at Once Upon a Time – In-Person Kids Event
Author Teddi Lynn Chichester will be sharing inspiring stories to help kids connect with nature and her new book Wildlife Crossings of Hope. After presenting, she will be available to sign books. Best for ages 9+.
Meet the people who are stitching the planet’s habitats back together.
Let’s explore together how scientists, engineers, and lots of everyday people are working to make sure that the wildlife so essential to Earth’s health and beauty continues to freely move through the landscapes, waterways, and skylines of this richly inhabited planet.
Masks are recommended for our events. If you can’t make it to the event, you can order signed books in advance below.
NOTE: See site for tickets, link, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/wildlife-crossings-hope
Book Launch: Elise Bryant, with Lauren Billings, & Its’s Elementary at Bel Canto Books – In-Person Event
Bel Canto Books is delighted to celebrate Elise Bryant’s new book, It’s Elementary, with Lauren Billings (of Christina Lauren) at KUBO LB.
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids’ schools, from NAACP Image Award nominee Elise Bryant.
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school’s brand-new DEI committee.
Brilliantly written, It’s Elementary is a quick-witted, escapist romp that perfectly captures just how far parents will go to give their kids the very best, all wrapped in a mystery that will leave you guessing to the very end.
Elise Bryant was born and raised in Southern California, and for many years she had the joy of working as a special education teacher. Now she spends her days writing and eating dessert. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Long Beach.
Lauren Billings is one-half of the combined pen name Christina Lauren (with Christina Hobbs), the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the The Unhoneymooners, Love and Other Words, The Soulmate Equation and The True Love Experiment. Their latest novel, The Paradise Problem, was released in May.
NOTE: See site for tickets, link, and details.
Where: Bel Canto KUBO LB
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 3976 Atlantic Avenue Long Beach, CA 90807
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elise-bryant-book-launch-for-its-elementary-tickets-906269595757
Sunday Jump Open Mic at Pilipino Workers Center – In-Person Event
Sunday Jump is a community arts organization at Pilipino Workers Center in LA’s Historic Filipinotown. Open Mics are 1st Sundays, 5-7 pm. May – Nov.
In our 12th year, Sunday Jump Sunday Jump was founded as an open mic series in 2012 by poets and community organizers Eddy M. Gana, Stephanie Sajor, and Janice Sapigao. Eventually, the team added more programming to include monthly workshops, publications, and special events.
Open mic-ers have 4 minutes MAX. Guaranteed 9 performers will be chosen through lottery, with the rest on on-call. No repeat performers on the same day. Order is randomized. For on-call, priority is given to first timers and open mic-ers have 3 minutes MAX or only one piece, whichever comes first.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Pilipino Workers Center
Date: Sunday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 153 Glendale Blvd., 1st Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-jump-open-mic-series-tickets-879271965117 or https://www.sundayjump.com/
The Los Angeles Press Presents: Natasha Dennison & Apps Poetica at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
The Los Angeles Press launches Apps Poetica, the newest book from poet Natasha Dennerstein. It’s gorgeous and funny and moody and glittery and silver and brilliant. Join us for a reading and discussion with the author!
Natasha Dennerstein is a trans artist/poet from Australia. Currently residing in San Francisco, she is a respected performer, editor, critic, and activist. Her work is sensuous, beautiful, gritty, and explores sexuality and relationships in a startling and revelatory way. She has previously published with Black Lawrence Press and Noetic Press.
NOTE: See site for RSVP link, tickets, and details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Sunday, the 7th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/40008
Queer Romance Book Club: Consort of Fire at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
July’s Queer Romance Book Club is led by bookseller Binta, and participants will discuss romance novel Consort of Fire by author Kit Rocha.
This novel is set in a lush fantasy world brimming with ancient magic, secrets, and erotic connections. An ancient dragon god has protected the sheltered lands for three thousand years. Its only demand is that every one hundred years the mortal ruler must send their heir to serve as his consort…for as long as they can survive.
Everyone is welcome!
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 3806 Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
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