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The Essential Feminist Reader
Estelle B. Freedman
- Sunday, November 4
- 3:00 PM
Moving beyond standard texts by English and American thinkers, prizewinning historian Freedman’s selections span more than five centuries and feature primary source material from around the globe, including short works of fiction and drama, political manifestos, and the work of less well-known writers. Refreshments courtesey of Stanford Pride Alumni Association.
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Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal
Susan Wells, Eric Quezada, and Vivian Chang
- Monday, November 5
- 7:00 PM
To address the alarming incidence of leadership burnout among social justice organizers, Susan and Albert Wells retooled their Montana ranch to create the Windcall Residency Program. Now Susan Wells provides a practical and moving guide to the causes of burnout and its reversal. Veteran organizers and former Windcall Residents from PODER, Dolores Street Community Services, and Asian Pacific Environmental Network join Wells. Net proceeds of the book to benefit the Windcall Institute.
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Mastering the Dream
Kelly Lydick
- Tuesday, November 6
- 7:30 PM
With a daring foray into literary experiment, emerging artist Lydick explores a young woman’s coming to terms with her own consciousness. Her publisher, Second Story Books, features authors who traverse, transgress, and recombine literary genres in new forms.
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The Eileen and Dodie Hour
Eileen Myles and Dodie Bellamy
- Thursday, November 8
- 7:30 PM
Two great female post-geniuses of literary otherness join forces. Myles’ latest book is Sorry, Tree “in which she describes 'some nature' as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west.” Bellamy's latest book is Academonia, “an epic narrative of survival against institutional deadening and the proscriptiveness that shoots the young writer like poison darts from all sides.”
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Stand-Up Tragedian
Chaim Bertman
- Friday, November 9
- 7:30 PM
Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series
As a young man tries to write a novel, he visits six cities where he develops relationships with women who resemble the city in which they live. Kara Knafelc and Ecstatic Monkey Member Maw Shein Win join Bertman.
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Street Art as Resistance: Free Two-Day Workshop
- Saturday, November 10
- Sunday, November 11
- 1:00 - 5:00 PM
What can you do when gentrifiers squeeze you out of your neighborhood seemingly with the full support of City Hall? Reclaim public space! Bring your friends, your mom, your little brother, and your grandma and join local artists from around San Francisco and Oakland for this hands-on workshop on low cost and low skill methods for making street art. Artists will instruct in simple and cheap technique, while providing information on and images of the rich history of art as resistance from around the world and back to the Mission. On Saturday, facilitators will go over the history as well as inexpensive methods for screenprinting. Sunday’s workshop will focus on the history and production of stenciling. These workshops are intended for long-time Mission residents and other folks fighting displacement. Workshops will be led in Spanish as well as English.
Most materials provided. Please bring utility or exacto knives. Donation for materials of $5 requested - but no one turned away. Call us at 415-282-9246 to pre-register!
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Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Freedom School Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer
Elizabeth Betita Martinez
- Tuesday November 13
- 7:30 PM
Including over forty pages of poetry by students in the Freedom Schools of 1964 and an additional dozen biographies, this new edition adds the lively voices of local participants, mostly teenagers, to those of the volunteers from the North. Former 1964 Summer Project Volunteers Ellen Lake and Hardy Frye will join Martinez.
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Burned House
Cutting Ball Theater
- Thursday, November 15
- 7:00 PM
When a man returns to his hometown after years abroad, he finds his childhood home burned to the ground. As he sifts through the ashes, he finds clues to not only the origins of the fire but to the mysteries of his life as well. Cutting Ball is an experimental company renowned for its unique, creative productions and re-visioned classics.
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Flying Close to the Sun
Cathy Wilkerson
- Sunday, November 18
- 3:00 PM
A survivor of the notorious townhouse explosion tells her story for the first time. With an honesty and candor that challenges and contradicts other histories of this period, Wilkerson describes coming into consciousness as a political activist and a feminist, joining first the Civil Rights Movement, then Students for a Democratic Society, and finally the Weather Underground. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz joins her.
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Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español
- Tuesday, November 27
- 7:00 PM
Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for eight years. Books are available for 10% off at the store. The discussions are lively and fully in Spanish.
November's selection is La Puta de Babilonia by Colombian author Fernando Vallejo. Vallejo is the author of various novels including La Virgen de los sicarios (made into a film) and Mi hermano el alcalde.
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Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
Alix Olson
- Wednesday, November 28
- 7:30 PM
Internationally renowned queer folk poet performs for one-night-only! Olson will be joined by fellow contributors from Word Warriors, an anthology of the most prominent spoken word female poets in the U.S. today.
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CRAFTICON 2.0
Artisans extraordinaire!
- Saturday, December 1
- 12:00 - 7:00 PM
Return for a lovely crafternoon at Modern Times while local craftaholics hawk their wares all day long. Updated version includes: skill-shares on the hour EVERY HOUR plus music by Phil & Mike of Top Critters!
How to Get A Table/Teach A Skill-share: Email crafticon2007@yahoo.com or call the store. Registration ends November 20th. Tables $10 – $100.
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