Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/02/20 – 11/08/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

NaNoWriMo Workshop Series via Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event 

Join us for a Virtual NaNoWriMo Workshop series, with session #1, “Getting Started,” and start brainstorming your new novel!

This annual event is a creative writing project in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during the month of November, to jump start their project. Join our virtual workshops to collaborate with others, for feedback and fun.

To register for this event, email Stephanie Erbe @ simivalleylibrary.org.

NOTE: Other libraries also offer November novel writing events, so check listings.

Where:  Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event (see site for further details)    

Date: Monday the 2nd                                                                         

Time: 4 pm – 5 pm                                                                    

Address:  Simi Valley Public Library – Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1128883287514193  

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 8/24/20 – 8/30/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

116742783_2715181558712186_4661525944619345215_nTeens Speak Up Against Injustice: The Assignment via American Jewish University Online Event

Join us on Zoom to heat how a chance meeting in a bookstore propelled author Liza Wiemer to write her book, The Assignment, which explores how two teens found the courage to speak up against antisemitism and hatred.

NOTE: See site for details and ticket information.

Where: American Jewish University – Online event

Date: Monday the 24th

Time: 4 pm – 4:45 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/398268867839936

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

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

Lucy+SmithLucy 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 18th

Time: 1 pm – 1:30 pm

Address: Facebook Live

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

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

FB_IMG_1588623618732All 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 4th

Time: 9 am – 9 pm

Address: FACEBOOK

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

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Saturday Afternoon Poetry

received_232931488076941As the weeks of the “stay at home” order pass by, more and more virtual literary events are cropping up from L.A. writers, open mics and literary organizations. The following event is a reading hosted by Saturday Afternoon Poetry, as part of their 2020 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival, tomorrow. Saturday. Read a poem or two by a poet that has helped you get through this pandemic so far. Or your poet friend or by that poet that inspired you to write. It’s a Zoom reading. Most of all Enjoy interacting with other like minded humans.

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Virtual Arts

By Brian Dunlap

20200318_192101We have seen over the last week, artists and musicians posting videos of them singing, performing or reading from their work or livestreaming their performances and readings. It’s a chance to keep people connected to each other during a time of isolation and sickness. It’s also a chance at self care, something to enjoy and take one’s mind off the worries and stress of the Coronavirus and all its effects.

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

82769291_2423069571278714_8827620525997031424_nAtelier 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 9th

Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm

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

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

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Los Angeles Literature Events 3/02/20 – 3/08/20

downloadChristine Carter & The New Adolescence at Polytechnic School, Pasadena

Adults in the Poly community and in the greater L.A. area are invited to hear highly acclaimed speaker, sociologist, and author Christine Carter, Ph.D., who will discuss her book, The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction.

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

Where:  Polytechnic School

Date: Monday the 2nd

Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Address: 1030 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106

Website: http://www.facebook.com//events/519993178641291

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