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November 2019
Inside the Magnetic Fields:Surrealism @ 100
From November 5 through the 17th of 2019, the Bay Area celebrates the 100th anniversary of Surrealism. City Lights presents a 20-day festival celebrating the root sources of the birth of Surrealism while simultaneously exploring unique expressions of the Surrealist current since its inception. Although André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto signaled the official arrival of Surrealism in 1924, it was 1919 when he and Philippe Soupault collaborated on The Magnetic Fields, which he considered "indisputably the first surrealist (and in no…
Find out more »An Evening with Matthew Baker and Lindsay Wilson
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Find out more »Writers in the Woods – Readings
SNC Tahoe’s Writers in the Woods brings well-known poets and writers from all over the country to the campus for intimate readings and workshops, where audience members can meet and exchange ideas with the guest writers. For more info CLICK HERE Located in Tahoe Center for Environmental Studies building, Room 139-141
Find out more »TWW Workshop
An open workshop for writers of any genre, meets every other Tuesday but check this calendar for exact dates or our Facebook page.
Find out more »Writers in the Woods – Readings
SNC Tahoe’s Writers in the Woods brings well-known poets and writers from all over the country to the campus for intimate readings and workshops, where audience members can meet and exchange ideas with the guest writers. For more info CLICK HERE Located in Tahoe Center for Environmental Studies building, Room 139-141
Find out more »December 2019
Scarlett Sabet
reading from her new collection of poetry Camille Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. Her poetry has been featured in GQ, Tatler, Constellation Magazine, The Violet Book and Dazed and Confused. Her poetry readings have been broadcast on the BBC, London Live, and London's Soho Radio. She wrote, directed and starred in her poetic short film "Burning" which was produced by BAFTA winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her first collection "Rocking Underground" was launched with a…
Find out more »Story Time
There's a special place in our hearts for young readers. Reading together strengthens the bond between children and parents, improves speech and language skills, enhances concentration, and encourages curiosity. We host a regular story time with the amazing Paula Robison, who shares stories, rhymes, songs, and art projects with your little ones on the first Tuesday of every month, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Story time at Sundance is designed for children ages 3 to 6 accompanied by a…
Find out more »Second Stutter Annual Release Party
Hosted by Solomon Rino with readings by George Albon, Laura Moriarty, Joseph Lease, and Norma Cole Second Stutter is a San Francisco based literary journal that publishes annually. It's focus is on contemporary English language poetry and translation. The editions are produced with letterpress printed covers and handmade endpapers. The covers for volume one and two were printed at Jack W. Stauffacher's Greenwood Press at 300 Broadway, and volume three at the San Francisco Center for the Book. The editions…
Find out more »Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington
discussing Charlton D. McIlwain's new book Black Software: The Internet, Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter published by Oxford University Press Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group…
Find out more »John James with Henri Cole
celebrating the release of John James' new collection of poetry The Milk Hours published by Milkweed Editions Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. "We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and…
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