wednesday, april 17 - thursday, april 25, 2013

Vol. 1, Issue 29

NEWS

Congratulations to Sarah L. Webb (MFAW alum) for winning the Free Angela Blogging Contest! Check out her winning post on Angela Davis and the documentary "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" on SLWrites.com.

Congratulations to Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty) on winning the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her collection The Hero of Queens Boulevard and Other Stories! Follow Michelle on Twitter!

PUBLICATION

Faith McGee (MFAW alum) has her first Allure Beauty Blog to view and vote. You can also check out her blog here.

KQED Pop blog has a notable alumni writing for them: Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on Mandy Moore's Birthday and Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

ON-CAMPUS

WED 17: Words and Places: Etel Adnan, featuring works by  Etel Adnan, Chris Marker, Rabih Mroue, and the Otolith Group with selected articles from Al-Safa newspaper archive, 6-8pm at Wattis (SF)

WED 17: 26th Annual Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition: Opening with work by David Ohlsson, Dit-Cilinn, Margo Wolowiec, and Rachel Granofsky (all MFA Fine Art '13), 5 - 7pm at the Oliver Art Center (OAK)

FRI 19: Word.World with readings by MFA Writing graduates Kate Chianese, Amal Hassan, Chloé Veylit, Susan L. Lin, Sarah Bushman, Erin Ginder-Shaw (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)

FRI 19: THESIS: Final unbound draft due

MON 22: WRITING BOOK: 25 page sample of work due [EXTENSION!!]

MON 22: CCA Spring Fair Registration deadline

OFF-SITE

WED 17: April at Lyrics & Dirges, featuring Blas Falconer, Kazim Ali, Mg Roberts (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor), Jeffrey Kingman, and Scott Duncan, 7:30-9pm at Pegasus Books Downtown (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley)

WED 17: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 5pm at Cal State Fullerton (Fullerton)

THU 18: 2013 Sceptre Prize Nominees Reading with Graham Guest (MFAW '09) and other shortlisters, Glasgow

THU 18: Mixer 2.0: The Second Coming, featuring Nora Toomey (MFAW '14), Sarah Bushman (MFAW '13), Mia Amir, Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, Genie Cartier, RJ ingram, Maisha Z. Johnson, Calvin Johnson Fantone, Jason Schenheit, SB Stokes, and July Westhale, 6:30pm at the Cat Club (1190 Folsom, SF)

SAT 20: Voices Carry with Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and others, 5:30 - 8:30pm at the Center for the Art of Translation (582 Market, SF)

SAT 20: The Other Fabulous Reading Series: featuring Robert Gluck, Brandon Brown and Donald Dunbar, 4pm at The Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)

THU 25: Eleven Eleven Issue 14 Launch Party: featuring readings by Issue 14 contributors SB Stokes, MG Roberts, Olga Zilberbourg, Ben Mirov, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, 8-11pm at LeQuiVive Gallery (1525 Webster Street, downtown Oakland)

COMING UP  

4/26: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Jim Norrena, Jenn Virskus, Samina Chaudhry Hitch, Bill Hughes, Jill Tydor, Kristin Adochio (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)

4/27: CCA Visual & Critical Studies Symposium, 10am - 3pm in Timken (SF)

4/27: CCA Spring Fair, 11 - 3pm, (OAK)

4/27: Screening: Anarkali Blossoms, a Samina Chaudhry Hitch (MFAW '13) film, 7pm at Asterisk Gallery (3156 24th Street, SF)

4/28: Triple Publication Party: readings by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty), Maw Shein Win, Steve Gilmartin, 5-8pm at Actual Cafe (6334 San Pablo Ave, Oakland)

4/28: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at Bookshop Santa Cruz (1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz)

4/29:  Screening: Anarkali Blossoms, a Samina Chaudhry Hitch (MFAW '13) film, 7pm at Timken (SF)

4/30: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7pm at City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, SF)

5/3: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Ariel Cohen, Jordan Rice-Sarantis, Ryan Buresh, Melissa Louise Kuhn, Jayo Miko Macasaquit, Autumn Darbrow, Vernon Keeve III (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)

5/3: Studio Lightning: A Special SF/East Bay Collaboration Between Quiet Lightning & Studio One, featuring a literary mixtape based on the poems of Adeena Karasick and Erica Lewis, curated by Janey Smith (MFAW) and Nicole McFeely, at 7:30pm in the Studio One Auditorium (365 45th Street, Oakland)

5/3: Postmodern American Poetry: A group reading for the new 2nd edition of the Norton Anthology, with editor Paul Hoover and Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), Will Alexander, Bill Berkson, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Clark Coolidge, Andre Joron, Michael McClure, K. Silem Mohammed, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Michael Palmer, Stephen Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Robinson, and Aaron Shurin, 6:30pm at M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum (50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, SF)

5/3 - 9: THESIS FINAL REVIEW MEETINGS

5/4 Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Featuring readings by Indira Allegra, Tantra Bensko, Liz Demi Green, Charles Kruger, Brian Martin, and Kate Menzies, 8pm at Bernal Yoga (908 Cortland Avenue, SF) ($5 suggested donation)

5/7: HearSay Reading Series: Humble Pie Volume 8 Launch Party

5/9: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at GLBT History Museum (4127 18th Street, SF)

5/10: ENGAGE: Oakland School of the Performing Arts student Reading, 2:30pm (SF)

5/10: Last Day of the Spring 2013 semester

5/15: Career Development Bootcamp, open to CCA Undergrad and CCA Grad students from the graduating classes of 2010 through 2013, 9am - 5pm (SF) [REGISTER]

5/16: Reading: Readings at the Bookstore- Tales of The San Francisco Cacophony Society Launch Party, with Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law and more, 7pm at City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, SF)

5/16: MFA EXHIBITION OPENING

5/17: The Fashion Design Program 2013 Annual Fashion Show, 8pm (SF) TICKETS

5/18: CCA Commencement Ceremony

5/18: BANG OUT Volume XXI: "Bridges and Tunnels" at the Make Out Room (SF)

5/18: Film Screening: "The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time", a film by Jeff Von Ward (MFAW '12), 7:30pm at 9th Street Independent Film Center (145 9th, SF)

5/22: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30 at Olympia Timberland Library (313 8th Ave SE, Olympia)

5/24-27: East Bay Poetry Summit: 4 days of readings, talks and bbq at houses and houses and haunts of the east bay featuring Anne Boyer, Anna Vitale, Bhanu Kapil, David Wolach, Dolores Dorantes, Jen Hofer, Douglas Rothschild, Frank Montesonti, Sophie Sills, Matt Longabucco, and Uyen Hua (Oakland)