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Nathalie Anderson and Terry TierneyBerkeley #UNBOUND: Alice Waters with Saru Jayaraman
4 OCTOBER 2020 — sunday
The Bay Area Book Festival presents Berkeley #UNBOUND: Food is Fundamental, featuring Alice Waters, legendary founder of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, in a conversation with Saru Jayaraman, food activist and Director of UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center and President of One Fair Wage, an advocate for tipped workers, who are often underpaid and often women of color and immigrants; the discussion covers numerous aspects of our food system, from the environmental repercussions of factory farming to the dangers and negligence of corporate control of food and water, moderated by Davia Nelson, host of The Kitchen Sisters podcast, free, online, 3:30-4:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.baybookfest.org/berkeleyunbound/schedule/#!event-register/2020/10/3/berkeley-unbound-kickoff)
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24 FEBRUARY 2021 — wednesday
- City Lights Books presents a discussion of music critic Daphne A. Brooks' latest book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, an examination of Black women in music and how these figures, despite their popularity, are often overlooked and placed on the outskirts of the music industry, in conversation with Ann Powers, music critic and correspondent for NPR, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3743)
25 FEBRUARY 2021 — thursday
- The Center for Literary Arts of San Jose presents a reading and discussion of Trust Exercise, by novelist Susan Choi, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, in conversation with Noelle Brada-Williams, founder of the journal Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, free, online, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: www.clasanjose.org/susanchoi)
- Mechanics' Institute presents a reading and discussion of In the Company of Men, a novel by Véronique Tadjo, which uses real accounts of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa within the story, in conversation with memoirist Faith Adiele, co-sponsored by Museum of the African Diaspora, free for members, $5-$10 for nonmembers, online, Noon PST (Register to attend: www.milibrary.org/events/company-men-novel-zoom-feb-25-2021)
- City Lights Books presents a reading of new work with novelists Lidia Yuknavich, reading from Verge: Stories, and Lance Olsen, reading from My Red Heaven, free, online, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3755)
26 FEBRUARY 2021 — friday
- Small Press Traffic presents the High Dawn Reading Series, this month featuring readings from Stephon Lawrence, artist and writer, and Muriel Leung, poet and author of Bone Confetti, introduced by poet Angie Sijun Lou, with music performed by Beast Nest, a performing project by Sharmi Basu, free, online, 6:00-7:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: smallpresstraffic.org/upcomingevents/stephon-lawrence-muriel-leung)
27 FEBRUARY 2021 — saturday
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28 FEBRUARY 2021 — sunday
- Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Nathalie Anderson, Stain, and Terry Tierney, The Poet's Garage, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PST (Register to attend: please click here; you will receive an email with a link to join the reading)
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