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Get up. Get writing. Get published. A workshop
D. Scot Miller and giovanni singleton
- Wednesday, November 5
- Wednesday, November 12
- Tuesday, November 18
- 7:00 PM
Discover your talents in a variety of genres from short fiction, fiction, and poetry to journalism and feature-article writing. Explore form, style, voice, and audience in a workshop format facilitated by experienced writers. This three week course will also give practical exposure to preparing your work for publication. Learn how to successfully target different publications, write effective query letters, and develop skills and techniques applicable in any genre. Register early at Modern Times Bookstore! Register for one or all three sessions. Registration is $50 per session.
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Mistaken Identities: Nation/Race/Gender
Robert Jensen
- Thursday, November 6
- 7:30 PM
In a discussion spanning his last three books Jensen examines how nation, race, and gender affect our understanding of ourselves, with a focus on the unjust systems of power and privilege in which they are embedded. In each case he argues against the dominant culture’s ideology and for a politics of liberation. Jense is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity , The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege , and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity.
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The Child
Sarah Schulman
- Sunday, November 9
- 3:00 PM
A Lambda Literary Award finalist, the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by this acclaimed lesbian writer, is now available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.
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Sugar String
Sue Doro
- Monday, November 10
- 7:30 PM
SPOTLIGHT ON SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS
Author Margaret Randall says of Sugar String: “Between the waves of coercive chill cast by this country’s successive McCarthyisms upon American expression, it has been unfashionable to write and unusual to read poetry that speaks from the working class experience. Sue Doro’s unique voice speaks loud and clear: from her thirteen-year experience as a machinist, from her childhood of painfully survived abuse, from her condition as a woman and a feminist, and from a self-awareness that can send a shudder of recognition through her readers.”
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Justice, Art, Media: A New Way to Read the Revolution!
POOR Press Art and Book Release Party for Conscious Consumers
- Tuesday, November 11
- 7:00 PM
Practice conscious consumption by purchasing POOR Press publications and art created by youth, adults, and elder poverty scholars in residence at POOR Magazine for the holidaze! POOR Press is a revolutionary art and access project of POOR Magazine aimed at creating access for silenced voices on issues of poverty , racism, disability, child abuse, welfare deform, the Prison Industrial Complex, houselessness, border fascism, gender oppression and media InJustice. All profits of each sale goes directly to each writer and artist.
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The San Francisco Labor Landmarks Guidebook: A Register of Sites and Walking Tours
Archie Green, Susan Sherwood, Catherine Powell
- Thursday, November 13
- 7:00 PM
The guide takes you on a tour of San Francisco’s labor past and present: working class neighborhoods, labor hangouts, monuments, murals, and buildings that reflect the history of the people who built the ‘City by the Bay.’ Co-sponsored by the Labor Archives and Research Center and the Fund for Labor Culture and History.
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The Queer Open Mic
- Friday, November 14
-Friday, December 12
- 7:00 PM
The Queer Open Mic has been running in San Francisco for four years and has just switched its venue to Modern Times Bookstore. This open mic features poetry, creative writing, music, and more. All kinds of queers are welcome.
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Woollyhoodwinks vs. The Dark Patch
Scott Runcorn
- Saturday, November 15
- 3:00 PM
The Woollyhoodwinks are five cuddly creatures who enjoy life in the richly textured Black North Forest. However, when a piece of the sky falls to earth and begins to grow, the 'Winks must save the day! True to the dolls' original handcrafted designs, the Woollyhoodwinks' amusing and eye-catching antics will appeal to the dreamer in everyone.
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Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: A Memoir of the Sixties with Notes for Next Time
Osha Neumann
- Wednesday, November 19
- 7:30 PM
Abbie Hoffman said the Motherfuckers were "the middle-class nightmare . . . an anti-media media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed." The fast-moving story follows the establishment of the Motherfuckers, who are cited as influences by the Yippies and members of SDS; makes vivid the art, music, and politics of the era; and reveals the colorful, often deeply strange, personalities that gave the movement its momentum. Progressing from a fractured family of intellectuals to rebellion in the streets of New York and on to communes in California, Newmann shows us a view of a life led in rebellion, anger, and eventually a tentative peace.
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PM Press Film Night
- Thursday, November 20
- Thursday, December 18
- 7:00 PM
PM Press is now hosting a monthly film night at Modern Times showcasing their collection of stimulating, radical films to entertain, educate and inspire you. In November, Clif Ross will be on hand for a discussion of his documentary, Venezuela: Revolution From The Inside Out. A voyage into Latin America's most exciting experiment of the new millennium, this documentary explores the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of its participants, from academics to farm workers and those living in the margins of Caracas. In December The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation will be screened. This film tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings.
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Happy Ever After in the Marketplace? From Carrie's Story to the Erotic Romance Business
Pam Rosenthal (aka Molly Weatherfield)
- Friday, November 21
- 6:00 PM
*At the Center for Sex and Culture 1519 Mission St. San Francisco
How has a local smut writer fared in the big-biz world of romance publishing? What are the points of contact and conflict between romance, erotica, erotic romance, romantic erotica, and... the other stuff? Besides the comic SM classic, Carrie's Story, Pam is also the author of four erotic historical romance novels, including the just-released The Edge of Impropriety.
Come at 6 for food and schmoozing. And stay for a reading of work by Pam and Molly both.
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A Thousand Stitches
Rising Voices
- Monday, November 24
- 7:00 PM
Rising Voices is a writing and performance ensemble of formerly incarcerated women. Rising Voices recently collaborated with artist Dee Morizano to create the Thousand Stitches storytelling quilt as a way of bringing greater understanding and healing around the issues faced by incarcerated women. Join us as Rising Voices ensemble members share the completed quilt and accompanying poetry performance.
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Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español
- Tuesday, November 25
- Tuesday, December 9
- 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. In November, the group will discuss El Juego del Ángel by Carlos Ruis Zafón. In December, a short story will be read aloud during a potluck gathering. Books are available for 10% off at the store.
Sobre El Juego del Ángel:
En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.
Con estilo deslumbrante e impecable precisión narrativa, el autor de La Sombra del Viento nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance y tragedia, a través de un laberinto de secretos donde el embrujo de los libros, la pasión y la amistad se conjugan en un relato magistral.
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Crafticon 3.0
- Saturday, December 13
- 12:00p – whenever crafters pack up and go home
Enjoy a lovely Saturday crafternoon at Modern Times! Local craftaholics will be hawking their wares all day long. Who could ask for anything more? I know, a fundraiser for dear Modern Times! Table registration fee for crafters is on a sliding scale basis, and funds will go directly to keeping our neighborhood bookstore in operation.
Registration is on a first come, first serve basis and tables are limited. Register early for a table by coming into the store or emailing crafticon2007@yahoo.com. Registration is sliding scale $10-$100 per table.
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Gay Shame Weekly Meetings
- Saturdays
- 5:30 PM
Gay Shame seeks nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. Come to a general meeting: all are welcome.
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