Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 6/29/20 – 7/05/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Dig Deeper Virtual Storytime via South Pasadena Library Online – Kids Event

Our Children’s Librarians read stories, share finger-plays, songs and flannel-board stories, weekly through July 27^th. Each week’s event will be available for viewing starting at 10:30 am Monday, and will be available to view through Thursday of that week. For more information about the Summer Reading Program, visit the library website.

Where: South Pasadena Library Online (see event site)

Date: Monday the 29^th

Time: 10:30 am – 11 am

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 6/22/20 – 6/28/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

UCLA WP Writers Project Teachers Event – Online

UCLA Writing Project presents: Launching Writer’s Workshop (Grades Pre-K – 6^th), and online event held for five “packed” days, June 22 – June 26.

We’ll immerse ourselves in the nitty-gritty of Writer’s Workshop: helping students generate topics, constructing pointed and powerful mini-lessons, incorporating mentor texts, responding to young writers, and dabbling in publishing and celebration options, too. All will learn the experience being a writer in a workshop classroom. (May be eligible for LAUSD PD hours)

NOTE: RSVP at website link, to see costs and details.

Where: Online event (Register in advance)

Dates: Monday the 22^nd at 9am – Friday the 26^th at 2pm

Time: 9 am – 2 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://facebook.com/event/546825142692698/

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 6/01/20 – 6/07/20

All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Vroman’s Live: Stephen Haff & Kid Quixote at Crowdcast Online

Author Stephen Haff presents his book Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible. The author is the founder of Still Waters in a Storm, which serves Spanish speaking immigrant children in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)

Date: Monday the 1^st

Time: 6 pm

Address: Crowdcast Online

Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-stephen-haff-presents-kid-quixote-group-students-their-teacher-and-one-room

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 5/25/20 – 5/31/20

All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Call for Submissions Deadline of May 28 for Hombre Lobo Online

Announcement by Viva Padilla of Call for Submissions: real stories about spooky experiences for online zine HOMBRE LOBO dryland.org/hombre-lobo.

Send these goths your story about your real spooky experiences to be published in on online zine. Link for submissions is given at FB site below.

Where: Online deadline/event

Date: May submissions period ends this week

Time: Present – May 28 at 1am

Address: Submissions announcement/event (see website link for information)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/233703604712555/

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 5/18/20 – 5/24/20

NOTE: All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Lucy Smith & The Dirt, Reading & Q&A on Facebook Live Online

Join us for a Facebook Live online event with author Lucy Smith for a reading and Q&A of her memoir The Dirt: An illustrated, 100% Uncensored Memoir of a Girl with Mental Illness.

Where: Facebook Live Online

Date: Monday the 18^th

Time: 1 pm – 1:30 pm

Address: Facebook Live

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/678273102965759

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 5/11/20 – 5/17/20

NOTE: All Events Are Online/Vritual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Roots: Family History Project with VSU Bruins

The Roots; Family History Project is for those who want to share their Vietnamese and/or Southeast Asian-American stories or the stories of their parents, family or friends. You must fill out an interest form available online and a journalist will contact you to follow up.

Where: Online-Virtual event

Date: Monday the 11^th & Tuesday the 12^th

Time: 12 am – 12 am

Address: Online/Virtual event (see website link for information)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2522207648097351/

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 5/04/20 – 5/10/20

All Events Are Online/Vritual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

The Stay at Home and Read a Book Ball: Safer at Home Edition

Although the original event date has passed, you may still participate—any time you choose. Select a book and get lost in the pages, and support the library’s fundraising efforts by donating what you would have spent on an evening’s entertainment.. Then share what you’re reading on Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter.

This event will continue weekly through the quarantine period.

Where: Library Foundation of Los Angeles (LFLA) Online Event

Date: Monday the 4^th

Time: 9 am – 9 pm

Address: FACEBOOK

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/515180569168972/

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Brian DunlapMay 4, 2020June 10, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 3/09/20 – 3/15/20

Atelier Manferdini & Portraits and Landscapes at SCI-Arc College & University

Join us for the Los Angeles launch of Portraits and Landscapes. The monograph collects the work created by Atelier Manferdini during the last six years of design activity. The projects are divided into two large families of explorations, Landscapes and Portraits.

NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website link for details.

Where: SCI-Arc College and University

Date: Monday the 9^th

Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: 960 E. 3^rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013

Website: http://www.facebook.com//events/497164191219425

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 2/24/20 – 3/01/20

Father Gregory Boyle at Cal State University Los Angeles

Activist priest Father Greg Boyle will discuss his latest book, Barking at the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship. A book signing will follow the discussion. The Mind Matters Champion Award recipients will be announced during the event.

Where: CSULA, Golden Eagle Ballrooms

Date: Monday the 24^th

Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm

Address: 5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles, CA 91711

Website: http://www.calstatela.edu/event/mind-matters-speaker-series-rev-gregory-j-boyle

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Articles, Los Angeles Literary Events

Luis J. Rodriguez On Changing Lives Through Poetry

By Steve Salvidar
FROM: Los Angeles Times

download.jpeg-7 Author and former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis J. Rodriguez says he’s been visiting California’s prisons for more than 40 years since leaving his own gang youth behind and losing 25 friends to drugs and street violence.