Poetry/Spoken Work
Writers With Drinks
The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWriters With Drinks combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and ‘other’.
Tales from the Steppes
Silk Road House 1944 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDiana Shmiana and Dana Sherry will bring you and your children on an imaginary journey to the Central Asia of folk tales, where friendship can transform mere gold into a true treasure, rascally boys can trick their elders, and pumpkins can have extraordinary adventures.
Alice In Antarctica with Australian Harpist Alice Giles
JCCSF 3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this multimedia performance, harpist Alice Giles commemorates the First Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, using acoustic and electric harp, spoken and sung voice, recorded spoken voice, and visual and audio material.
The Cosmic Mass: A Cosmic Dance Experience
Scottish Rite Center 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA, United StatesThe Cosmic Mass is a participatory, intercultural ritual that builds community through dance, music, immersive visual art, spoken word, grieving, meditation, and celebration!
Magnetizing Metaphor Into Matter: an Evening with Caroline Casey and Climbing PoeTree
Impact HUB Oakland 2323 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United StatesThese 3 dynamic women will mix their magic through spiraling poetic invocations and insightful astro-politico interpretations of our times.
The Fluid Body: New Poems by Claire Drucker
Many Rivers Books and Tea 130 S. Main Street, Sebastopol, CA, United StatesWith these poems, Claire gives readers a glimpse into the personal, sometimes playful, always poignant experience of being a dancer, mother, twin, lesbian, lover of nature, and how all these places are felt through the changing mysteries of the body.
Lamps on Lilypads – A Dance for Peace in Celebration of Divali
Subterranean Arthouse 2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPlease join me on the evening of October 24 at the Subterranean Arthouse in Berkeley as I say my prayers with my body, voice, and heart through dance, music, story, poetry, and song. Happy Divali. May Peace Prevail in All the Worlds.
Camp Fire at John Muir’s House
John Muir National Historic Site 4202 Alhambra Avenue, Martinez, CA, United StatesListen to songs and stories around a campfire this summer during our ranger-led programs.
The Mountain Could not Remember Your Name
Gravel and Gold 3266 21st Street, San FranciscoJoin us to celebrate the release of The Mountain Could not Remember Your Name, a book of wilderness poetry and trail paintings by Obi Kaufmann.
Barry and Maya Spector’s Day of the Dead Ritual
Hillside Church 1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito, CA, United StatesWe will take a full day to help each other remember our ancestors and our personal and collective losses. This will be a day of mourning and remembrance, but also of great beauty and celebration. There will be poetry, storytelling, drumming, altar-building and chanting from African, Celtic, Mexican and other traditions."