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SUMMARY:Writing to Resist: Technology\, Physicality\, Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-to-resist-technology-physicality-spirituality-tickets-407666771287 \nThe Grand Finale to Our Monthly Speaker Series: The Art\, Craft & Business of Writing. \nCalifornia’s oldest writing club is wrapping up our Speaker Series season with a panel of authors bringing urgent perspectives about technology\, physicality\, and spirituality to the topic of making change through the power of your pen. You can bring your questions about writing\, resistance\, and shaping the future for these renowned authors and activists. \nAbout the Panelists \nIn the Technology Corner: Novelist and Digital Rights Activist Cory Doctorow\nCory Doctorow is a New York Times bestselling science fiction author and journalist. For more than 23 years\, he has been an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that campaigns for digital human rights. \nIn the Physicality Corner: Feminist Queer Sexologist Carol Queen\nSexologist Carol Queen has been a force of sex-positive feminism and a global thought leader in our cultural understanding of human sexuality. A two-time Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco LGBTQ Pride Parade\, she’s authored numerous life-changing books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture\, Pomosexuals\, Exhibitionism for the Shy\, and The Leather Daddy and the Femme. \nIn the Spirituality Corner: Poet Laurate David Holper\nPoet and writer\, teacher and visionary David Holper is the author of three poetry collections—Language Lessons: A Linguistic Hejira\, The Bridge\, and 64 Questions. David’s won numerous accolades and awards for his poetry\, and served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Eureka as it entered and endured the pandemic.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/writing-to-resist-technology-physicality-spirituality/
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240930T193000
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SUMMARY:The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated
DESCRIPTION:At the time of Herman Melville’s death\, in 1891\, his novels had fallen into obscurity. Moby-Dick\, his masterwork published in 1851\, was out of print and unread. But in the 1920s\, critical reassessments led to a “Melville revival.” \nThis lecture surveys some of the famous and less well-known illustrated editions\, artists’ books\, and other visual interpretations\, examining their role in establishing the unassailable reputation of Moby-Dick as the great American novel. \nAn in-person presentation by Declan Kiely\, author\, lecturer\, and Executive Director of the Grolier Club \n** The Windle-Loker Lecture Series on the History of the Illustrated Book ** \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by the American Trust for the British Library **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-white-whale-moby-dick-illustrated/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20240203T052417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T052418Z
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SUMMARY:Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California
DESCRIPTION:An essential piece in California Studies\, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features\, big themes\, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series\, along with several other books and thousands of published articles and essays\, often puzzled historians and other scholars. Historians in the contemporary school of critical historiography often found Starr’s narrative approach—seeking to tell the internal drama of the California story—to be less attuned to the most important work happening in the field. Such a perspective fails to acknowledge key developments in historical subfields like Black and African American Studies\, Chicana/o/x Studies\, Asian Studies\, Native Studies\, and others that draw from the narrative in their critical work and how this relates to Starr’s contribution. Along with being a major figure in California institutional life\, with literary output spanning genres\, it is through the lens of his lived experience as a devout Catholic that this critical sociological perspective sheds new light on his project. With contributions from sociology\, history\, and theology\, akin to investigations appearing in Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California’s Culture (Routledge)\, Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent in interdisciplinary theological reflection on place and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr’s articulation of the California Dream. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Jason S. Sexton\, author and professor of sociology at University of California\, Los Angeles \n  \n 
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/redemptive-dreams-engaging-kevin-starrs-california/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T193000
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CREATED:20240203T052136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T052137Z
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SUMMARY:Clubhouse Turn: The Twilight of Hollywood Park Race Track
DESCRIPTION:On December 22\, 2013\, Hollywood Park Racetrack closed its doors permanently.\n\nComprising 500 photographs culled from more than 25\,000 taken on location\, Clubhouse Turn (2013-2016) is the final documentation of the historic landmark before its demolition. It is a portrait of not only the architecture and grounds of Hollywood Park\, but of those individuals whose livelihood and identities were dependent upon it: a portrait of a quickly vanishing Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\nConstructed on a swampy landmass in Inglewood\, Hollywood Park Racetrack was envisioned by entertainment moguls. Inglewood welcomed the executives\, who had been excluded from other venues due to prejudice. The first turn on a racetrack immediately after the finish line\, known as the clubhouse turn\, is considered to be the best vantage point to see the finish of the race and is therefore where the privileged sit. Built with the values of a bygone era and the mythologies of the track\, Hollywood Park was a place where the privileged and disenfranchised co-mingled; it epitomized the social complexity of a place of fantasy and dreams\, winning and losing. Clubhouse Turn strives to produce a pictorial record of the inevitable amalgamation of imagined and actual realities\, environment and circumstance. By grouping the images into framed constructions\, the work functions like memory—consolidating\, diffusing\, and reorganizing what has now disappeared. \n\n\n\nAn in-person presentation by Michele Asselin\, editorial photographer and author
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/clubhouse-turn-the-twilight-of-hollywood-park-race-track/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240311T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20240203T051905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T051906Z
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SUMMARY:Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim\, The Great West\, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
DESCRIPTION:When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915\, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations\, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco\, California\, and the United States at the world’s fair. The PPIE encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. \nEmpress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this\, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs\, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women\, Asians and Asian Americans\, and working-class labor unions\, among others\, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre–World War I America and the West. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Abigail M. Markwyn\, author and professor of history at Carroll University
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/empress-san-francisco-the-pacific-rim-the-great-west-and-california-at-the-panama-pacific-international-exposition/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20240203T051630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240203T051631Z
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SUMMARY:Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking
DESCRIPTION:Active between 1957 and 1972\, The Situationist International (S.I.) was a revolutionary alliance of artists\, intellectuals\, architects and political theorists that is hailed as the “last avant-garde” of the 20th century. One of the organization’s core concepts is that of détournement\, which can be understood as the subversion of established cultural commodities as a means of propaganda. This exhibition presents numerous examples of this innovative practice\, from artist books to comic strips\, and from leaflets to maps. In doing so\, it also attempts to retrace the history of a movement that maintained an ambiguous relationship with their own material productions. \nExhibition opening and remarks by Mehdi El Hajoui\, private collector.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/bibliophiles-beware-the-situationist-international-and-the-art-politics-of-cultural-hijacking/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T024554Z
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SUMMARY:The Life\, Motto\, and Library of William Walker (1570-1642)\, Vicar of Chiswick
DESCRIPTION:Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid inscription: “Will and Walke aright. Will: Walker\,” usually appearing on the title-page of a printed book\, or on the first or last leaf of a manuscript. \nThis talk will attempt to identify the author of the inscription and the owner of the books and manuscripts in new detail; to reconstruct William Walker’s small but unquestionably significant personal library; and to trace the history of the “best” manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Old Arcadia.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of English\, University of California\, Berkeley \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for the British Library and The Bibliographical Society of America **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-life-motto-and-library-of-william-walker-1570-1642-vicar-of-chiswick/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240129T193000
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CREATED:20240106T024332Z
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SUMMARY:Print Your Own Broadside Affair
DESCRIPTION:Letterpress print your own broadside on the Book Club’s Colombian hand press with Li Jiang\, Lemoncheese Press. \nA limited number of broadsides will be printed. Registration required.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/print-your-own-broadside-affair-2/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T193000
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SUMMARY:The Newly Discovered Notebook of Isaac Newton
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge University Library recently purchased a previously unknown notebook kept by Isaac Newton’s chamber-fellow\, John Wickins\, in the years around 1680. It is possible to identify the contents of the notebook as being previously unknown compositions and correspondence of Isaac Newton\, which shed light on many aspects of his work and his engagement with the University in which he was employed. \nAs part of the preparation of an edition of the notebook\, the evidence that it provides for Newton’s reading habits has been extensively investigated and this talk will describe that evidence and the conclusions that can be drawn from it and from other sources to trace changes in Newton’s habits of study at a critical juncture in the development of his thought. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Scott Mandelbrote\, Fellow\, Director of Studies in History\, and Perne and Ward Librarian\, at Peterhouse\, University of Cambridge\, UK. He is also the editorial director of the Newton Project. \n** Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for the British Library and The Bibliographical Society of America **
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-newly-discovered-notebook-of-isaac-newton/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter Street Ste 500\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T193000
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SUMMARY:The Orange and the Dream of California
DESCRIPTION:The Orange and the Dream of California takes a lively\, literary\, and extraordinarily visual look at the symbiotic and highly symbolic relationship between the Golden State and its “golden apple.” Untold thousands of adventurers and health-seekers came West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century\, lured by postcards of orange blossoms juxtaposed to snow-capped mountains. Orange juice became the way to start every day after Sunkist spread the word that drinking a California orange was not only as sweet and delicious as eating one\, but held the promise to a healthy life. The orange became a symbol of everything California promised\, and California became the center of the Orange Empire. \nIn 176 full-color pages and more than 250 images\, author David Boulé shares the absorbing story of the orange and its impact on the culture—historic\, financial\, artistic\, and even romantic—of California. And\, he tells the tale of citriculture\, the complex\, captivating\, and controversial world of growing the orange. \nAn in-person presentation by David Boulé\, author and historian
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-orange-and-the-dream-of-california/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231030T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231030T183000
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CREATED:20230831T211922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211923Z
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SUMMARY:The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding
DESCRIPTION:The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era bookcloth. Lead scientist Dr. Rosie Grayburn will situate the use of English bookcloth colored with highly poisonous emerald green pigment and other toxic pigments within a broader historical context; recommend safe handling and storage practices for emerald green bookbindings; and report on the Poison Book Project’s most recent findings. \nA virtual presentation by Dr. Rosie Grayburn\, Head of the Scientific Research and Analysis lab at Winterthur Museum\, Garden and Library and founding co-chair of the Bibliotoxicology Working Group
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-poison-book-project-arsenic-other-heavy-metals-in-19th-c-bookbinding/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20230831T211722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211723Z
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SUMMARY:The Deserts of California\, a California Field Atlas
DESCRIPTION:With climate breakdown heating up and desertification looming over the horizon\, Obi Kaufmann leads curious adventurers on a voyage into the sage-and-ocher landscapes of the American West’s world-famous desert regions this fall in his revelatory and sumptuously illustrated new volume The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas. As philosophical as it is geophysical\, this journey blends science and art in Kaufmann’s signature style to throw into relief ecological insights greater than either might yield alone. Through expressionistic mapmaking\, wildlife renderings\, and geographic conservation guides\, Kaufmann explores the marvels of and threats to these resilient yet sensitive ecosystems. \n“The Deserts of California presumes that hope\, like healing\, relies on time\,” writes Kaufmann. “If there is time\, there is hope. Although every desert habitat type is threatened\, very little of it is yet extinct. Despite the complexity of the threat\, everywhere there is precedent for resurgence.” \nOf a piece with his best-selling books The Forests of California (2020) and The Coasts of California (2022)\, The Deserts of California (October 2023) rounds out Kaufmann’s expansive California Lands Trilogy. Individually and collectively\, these volumes set out to transform entrenched colonialist attitudes toward the American West\, and transform our concept of nature from a resource for extraction to a shared and cherished inheritance. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Obi Kaufmann\, author\, illustrator\, and naturalist
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-deserts-of-california-a-california-field-atlas/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211526Z
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SUMMARY:We Are the Land: A History of Native California
DESCRIPTION:Before there was such a thing as “California\,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny\, the Gold Rush\, and settler colonial society drew maps\, displaced Indigenous People\, and reshaped the land\, but they did not make California. Rather\, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind\, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians\, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans\, Spanish missions\, Mexican secularization\, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood\, genocide\, efforts to reclaim land\, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history\, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings\, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by William J. Bauer Jr.\, enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes\, author\, and Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas \n 
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/we-are-the-land-a-history-of-native-california/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231016T193000
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SUMMARY:PICTURE • BOOK • TALK
DESCRIPTION:As a photographer in the fifty-seventh year of his serious effort\, David Wing will describe how his camera found its subjects\, what his working mind is like today\, and how his accumulated work has “aged” in his intellect and in his heart. \nAccompanied by a large number of slides\, Wing will talk in detail about how his pictures come to light\, and how his many recent books came to be. \nWing’s talk will try to show how his editing seems to work – he notes retrospective relationships among his photographs\, and as these become more apparent\, they seem to find independent coherence. As this happens\, sequences\, exhibitions\, and the monographs take shape. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by David Wing\, photographer and teacher
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/picture-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T211052Z
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SUMMARY:Neon: A Light History
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible that (once again) everything we know is wrong? Well\, in regards to the history of neon\, this may well be the case. Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein have penned a brief\, but concise history of the neon sign beginning at the beginning\, and covering scandals\, murder\, fascists\, and forgotten inventors. A full-color\, lavishly illustrated electrical bodice ripper\, aficionados of neon will find this an indispensable “bible” to the history of their favorite collision of art and commerce. \nRevealing neon signs as active agents in sweeping cultural\, economic\, and political changes nationwide\, DeLyser and Greenstein introduce readers to a compelling cast of characters\, many of whom\, they show\, continue to keep neon vibrant today. Taking readers inside the signs themselves\, the authors show how each sign\, whether historic or contemporary\, is made by skilled hands—today just as they were over one hundred years ago. \nDrawing from over a decade of in-depth archival and ethnographic research as well as more than four decades of experience in the sign industry\, DeLyser and Greenstein use Los Angeles—not New York or Las Vegas—as focal point\, showing how neon signs have catalyzed urban change\, and how they continue to hold appeal for our changing communities—developing with the automobile and car-and-consumer culture in the twentieth century\, expanding from cities to towns\, and along highways to remote roadside outposts. From the earliest luminous tubing in the 1890s to the artistic creations of today\, from community-funded restorations of historic signs to ordinary-seeming business signs that have become community icons\, DeLyser and Greenstein show how\, just as neon signs lit our past\, they can now light our shared future. \nAn in-person presentation by Dydia DeLyser\, author and Associate Professor of Geography at California State University\, Fullerton\, and Paul Greenstein\, author and neon light professional
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/neon-a-light-history/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231002T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T210903Z
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SUMMARY:We are All in it Together: Power of the Press
DESCRIPTION:The saying goes\, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one” but what if the community’s words could be printed and freely shared…Thea Sizemore of Kavamore Press is doing just that. \nJoin us for an uplifting talk with Thea Sizemore about a social print project that is geared toward elevating the voices of the community. The project began early in the pandemic\, providing an immediate and meaningful social justice service for the general public though protest poster production and distribution. A neighbor gifted a defunct newspaper box which was then up-cycled for the project and “Fresh Prints” Box was born. What happened after that is the beauty of human nature…. connection at a distance\, community growth through the power of the press. \nUsing traditional equipment from the 1900s\, hand set type and ink on paper\, Sizemore has been able to build a new kinda “social media” that is tethered to the rich history of the printing press. Sizemore will show examples of posters\, discuss working methods and most importantly share how interactions with strangers brought light to a dark pandemic period and started a long term art practice. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Thea Sizemore\, letterpress printer\, artist\, and instructor
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/we-are-all-in-it-together-power-of-the-press/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230918T193000
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SUMMARY:From Books to Bytes: Building the Next Generation of Bancroft Library Collections
DESCRIPTION:Historian\, writer\, and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft sold his expansive collection of research materials on the history of Western North America to the University of California in 1905\, thus establishing the eponymous library as a center of historical research and scholarship on Western Americana. This presentation explores over a hundred years of collecting at The Bancroft Library\, from the library’s Valencia Street origins in San Francisco to its present moment on the University of California\, Berkeley campus. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Kate Donovan\, Director of The Bancroft Library & Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at University of California\, Berkeley \n* Co-presented and co-hosted by the Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/from-books-to-bytes-building-the-next-generation-of-bancroft-library-collections/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230913T193000
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CREATED:20230831T210430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T210431Z
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SUMMARY:A Country Called California
DESCRIPTION:Collecting more than 200 stunning photographs in one volume\, A Country Called California: Photographs 1850s to 1960s traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century on\, through to its emergence as the fifth-largest economy in the world—all as seen through the eyes of photographers whose names are synonymous with fine art photography: Carleton E. Watkins\, Dorothea Lange\, Eadward Muybridge\, Will Connell\, Edward Weston\, Max Yavno\, A.C. Vroman\, Mabel Watson\, Anne Brigman\, and many more. \nA Country Called California captures the light that has captivated every photographer’s eye\, in a land so distinct and diverse it could be its own country. \nAn in-person presentation by Stephen White\, author\, collector\, curator\, and historian of photography \n 
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/a-country-called-california/
LOCATION:the blinn house\, 160 N Oakland Ave\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T193000
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CREATED:20230831T210138Z
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SUMMARY:Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design\, Food\, and Hospitality Icon
DESCRIPTION:Diane Power Zimmerman will share highlights from her book Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design\, Food\, and Hospitality Icon. As the oldest granddaughter of the founders of a famous northern California roadside destination\, Nut Tree\, Power Zimmerman is uniquely poised to tell the story of a twentieth century icon. \nThe real story begins in 1921\, when newlyweds\, Helen and Bunny (Edward) Power took over a lease on a 150-acre California ranch and disaster struck. A late frost and early heat wave wiped out most of the fruit crop\, and what was left\, could no longer be shipped to the cities in the East. In desperation the couple set up a roadside stand to sell fruit and recapture some profits. They soon realized that American’s love affair with the automobile had just begun. \nHelen and Bunny Power were in the right place and time to start a small farm-based restaurant that grew into a multi-million-dollar entertainment complex thanks to the advent of the automobile. While the history begins with the California Gold Rush\, the main story focuses on the entrepreneurial successes of her family. \nAfter the business closed\, Power Zimmerman began to collect the stories tinged with nostalgia and the vivid memories proffered by fans. Power Zimmerman draws from family records\, letters\, newspaper clippings\, photos\, and the extensive archives of the Vacaville Museum to create a visually stunning book full of tales and photos chronicling the twentieth century. Power Zimmerman reflects on the writing experience and tells how a simple history took on a life of its own. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Diane Power Zimmerman\, author and a fifth-generation member of the founding family of the Nut Tree
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/nut-tree-from-a-california-ranch-to-a-design-food-and-hospitality-icon/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20230201T170922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T170923Z
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SUMMARY:Print Your Own Broadside Affair
DESCRIPTION:Letterpress print your own broadside on the Book Club’s Columbian hand press with Li Jiang\, Lemoncheese Press. A limited number of broadsides will be printed.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/print-your-own-broadside-affair/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20221206T202244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T202245Z
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SUMMARY:The Surprising Legacy of Alice Parsons Millard: Antiquarian Bookseller & Champion of Beauty and Taste
DESCRIPTION:Book trade historian Charles Nelson Johnson provides a fresh look at lesser-known Southern California antiquarian bookseller Alice Parsons Millard (1873-1938)—a role she inherited as much as chose—and her activities as she courageously maneuvered her way through the decidedly male dominated trade in 1920s-1930s Europe and the United States; her personal challenges\, creative business innovations and impact on numerous high profile clients\, and her surprising California legacy. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Charles Nelson Johnson\, author\, historical consultant\, and retired research librarian. \n\nSee the link for details about in-person\, virtual\, and 3 separate dates for this event.
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/the-surprising-legacy-of-alice-parsons-millard-antiquarian-bookseller-champion-of-beauty-and-taste/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
CATEGORIES:Book Club CA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220131T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220131T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T213951
CREATED:20220119T063414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T063414Z
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SUMMARY:BCC | San Francisco Through Time
DESCRIPTION:Hosted/Organized by: Book Club of California \nWith over 400 officially designated local\, state\, and national landmarks\, San Francisco is steeped in history. The city’s neighborhoods feature unique buildings and special places\, some that are well known to residents and tourists but also structures and locations that have been obscured by time. Beginning at Captain Richardson’s tent near Grant Avenue and winding our way through neighborhoods throughout San Francisco\, author Catherine Accardi shares the rich history of San Francisco in contrasting images\, uncovering and revealing San Francisco in new ways. With over 100 photographs\, her book\, San Francisco Through Time\, takes readers on a quest to discover the places. and the stories behind them\, that make San Francisco special. Join us on a journey through time courtesy of historical photographs juxtaposed alongside present day images. \nA live presentation by Catherine Accardi\, author \nClick here to REGISTER for the ZOOM WEBINAR \nhttps://www.bccbooks.org/programs/
URL:https://pubpronetwork.org/event/bcc-san-francisco-through-time/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Virtual
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club CA
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