BAWiP & PPN In-Person Meet-up! Temescal Brewing
2024-06-13 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Temescal Brewing
Join Bay Area Women in Publishing (BAWiP) and Publishing Professionals Network (PPN) and celebrate the start of summer with your publishing colleagues!
Temescal Brewing, 4115 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609

Co-hosted by BAWiP and PPN
Outside seating
One block from MacArthur BART station

Turn off Zoom, get outside, and enjoy a beer or soda with some of your local publishing peeps. It’s the perfect opportunity to make connections, enjoy the longer days, and find out more about what PPN and BAWiP are up to.
See you there!

Stories are Weapons
2024-06-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Mechanics’ Institute
In Stories Are Weapons, Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats—the essential tool kit for psychological warfare—have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. America’s secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands of culture warriors, transforming democratic debates into toxic wars over American identity. Crucially, Newitz delivers a powerful counternarrative, speaking with the researchers and activists who are outlining a pathway to achieving psychological disarmament and cultural peace. Incisive and essential, Stories are Weapons reveals how our minds have been turned into blood-soaked battlegrounds—and how we can put down our weapons to build something better.

SongWriter Live with Susan Orlean and Diana Gameros
2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 | The Commons at KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, 94110, United States
Litquake and KQED Live present a night with SongWriter, a podcast that turns stories into songs (featured guests have included Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Roxane Gay, and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady).
In this special live recording event, bestselling author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief, The Library Book) will share a story from her recent collection On Animals, and local songwriter Diana Gameros will play a brand new song written in response. SongWriter’s creator Ben Arthur will host, and engage the artists in a conversation with UC Berkeley researcher Laura Simone Lewis on animal intelligence.

Taller Inical: De Formas, Trazos y Letras
2024-06-15 10:00 - 2024-07-20 13:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
with Fer Cozzi
¡Hacer fuentes es divertido! Este taller le presenta las múltiples posibilidades creativas que implica el diseño tipográfico.
Este curso en línea de 5 semanas (cinco sábados: 15 de junio, 22 de junio, 29 de junio, 13 de julio, y 20 de julio) busca ser un espacio de aproximación lúdica al entendimiento de las formas de las letras. Trabajaremos la construcción del sistema abrazando el azar y sus posibilidades, dejando de lado el pensamiento especulativo por un entendimiento sistemático y exploratorio en la morfología detrás de un alfabeto.
El curso se centrará en la generación de un set de caracteres entendiendo la morfología de las letras desde la experimentación e introduciendo los fundamentos conceptuales básicos del diseño de tipografía.
Se trabajará en el desarrollo de tareas específicas durante toda la semana y compartirán los avances antes de cada clase para su revisión. Durante la clase, se practicarán estrategias, dibujos y aspectos fundamentales para hacer letras. Los participantes obtendrán comentarios sobre sus proyectos a la vez que aprenderán varias lecciones sobre tipografía y, por qué no, para la vida.
Este curso es adecuado para quienes recién comienzan a pensar en tipografía y para quienes, con algo de experiencia en dibujar letras, busquen un espacio de intercambio con la esperanza de desarrollar sus habilidades y procesos. Se recomienda –pero no se requiere– cierta experiencia con el dibujo de curvas de Bézier (en Adobe Illustrator, por ejemplo) y/o con letras en general.

Nature as Muse
2024-06-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Join us for Nature as Muse, a panel discussion presented by The American Bookbinders Museum with panalists Elizabeth Curren, Sara Press (Deeply Game Publications), and Rebecca Chamlee (Pie in the Sky Press). We’ll discuss nature’s influence in practice and as model on Saturday, June 15th at 11:00 am PST. Whether its using organic materials, or fashioning patterns to mimic nature, we’ll explore the intersection of nature as material and muse.
Gain valuable insights and practical tips as these talented craftswomen share their journey from early sketches to the final binding, showcasing how they incorporate elements of the natural world into their work. The panel will share how they integrate natural materials into their bindings, and how they use design elements based on models from the natural world. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore nature’s influence on bookbinding.

Bloomsday Noon Online!
2024-06-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Our annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses goes online with an encore of our 2020 Bloomsday film featuring a montage of readings, performance, song and celebration. We have guest artists from the Bay Area, New York and Ireland to bring selections from Joyce’s epic novel to life with interpretations traditional, contemporary and experimental! Click to watch below.

Editing with Disability/Illness/Neurodivergence
2024-06-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
This afternoon chat centers people who work as editors and are living with disability, chronic illness, and/or neurodivergence. It is open to everyone. The idea was partly inspired by an active peer group currently hosted by the Society of Authors (https://www.societyofauthors.org/Groups/Authors-Disabilities-Illnesses-Network).
Group agreements that will be open for discussion at the start of the chat:
* Disclosure (of illness/disability/etc.) is welcome. Disclosure is not required.
* There are no requirements. We participate (or not) in the ways that work for us.
* We take care of ourselves. Stretch, eat, drink, take a break, etc.
* We can’t be articulate all the time. We give each other the benefit of the doubt and ask questions.
* We keep confidentiality: Learning goes, stories stay.
The online chat this Thursday will have an open agenda, loosely focused on work-life: How do we define, handle, and sustain our work as editors. What kinds of projects are a good fit? How do we obtain enough but not too much work (if that is even possible in editing!)? What have we learned and what can we learn from each other?
This event is free to attend and open to all editors.

WILD Voices: Capra J’neva
2024-06-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Join us on Monday, June 17th from 6-7 pm PT for WILD Voices “AI-Able” featuring Autodesk’s Capra J’neva. J’neva will help attendees break inside the black box of AI, exploring how to craft great experiences with AI. Learn which problems are suitable for AI solutions, how to gather and prepare data transparently, and design strategies for different AI types. Gain the vocabulary to collaborate effectively with data scientists and translate their requirements into natural user experiences. Don’t miss this opportunity to sharpen your AI design skills—register now for an hour of insightful learning.
See you there!

Spine Design with John Berry
2024-06-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Maybe you can’t judge a book by its cover, but in a bookstore we judge most of them first by their spines. With most new books—not the ones lying out on tables or prominently displayed with their covers out, but the ones lining the shelves—the spine is all we see. The beautiful, dramatic cover, upon which great effort and sometimes even expense may have been lavished, never gets seen if a browsing book buyer doesn’t reach out and pull the book off the shelf.
You must register to attend and to be sent a link of the recording.

Dust to Digital: Digitizing Historical Print Media from Pakistan and Iran
2024-06-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
with Saad Khan
Explore historical print media from Iran and Pakistan.
Join us on an interesting trip through the world of old print media from Iran and Pakistan. This lecture will explore Farsi and Urdu magazines, movie posters, typography, and the importance of preserving neglected cultural materials in the face of rapidly changing technologies.
Letterform Lectures are a public aspect of the Type West postgraduate program. The series is co-presented by the San Francisco Public Library, where events are free and open to all.

Developmental Editing Happy Hour
2024-06-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
Are you a developmental editor, or interested in developmental editing? Join us for an informal chat about this fun and fascinating variety of editing.
This event is free to attend and open to all editors.

BABA Monthly Meeting
2024-06-19 19:00 - 21:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
TBD who leads the meeting. We’re meeting virtually on Zoom. BABA meets the third Wednesday evening of each month via Zoom. Members share books, work in progress and information about book events and resources.

Can Science Inform Graphic Design?
2024-06-20 15:00 - 18:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Tom White asks, “How does someone go from Rocket Science to Graphic Design?” While many aspects of graphic design necessitate creativity and an artistic approach, he bases his work and execution around a more scientific mindset. But he’s not talking about AI!
According to White, a great professor once said, “Graphic designers are problem solvers,” and he finds more and more each day how accurate his lesson was. No matter what the problem may be, a graphic designer should be able to produce a relevant, logical, interesting, and intellectual solution. Anything less, according to White, would make said professor “barf, and go blind.”
Graphic Design is not a thing, rather it’s a process, an idea, a message that hones the fundamentals of graphic design such as:

The Gestalt Theory (the sum of the whole is greater than its parts).

Verbal + Visual = Message.

The three factors that define a relevant and logical solution: 1) the nature of the problem, 2) the audience, and 3) the functional parameters).

Good design comes from extensive research and great attention to detail, and it always contains a solid intellectual concept. Bad design, on the other hand, as White’s professor so eloquently put it, “should be nuked with the whales.”
The professor’s last words of encouragement were blunt: “Now go out there, create world-class graphic design, and knock the world on its ass.”
And so, world-class graphic designer as he is, that is Tom White’s challenge and goal. With each new problem he solves, he must find a way to catch the world off guard. He must find a way to disrupt its balance, and then with one mighty blow, send it plummeting onto its rear end.
About the Presenter
Alan Gilbertson is a freelance designer and creative director living in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, the “Sun Coast” of the United States. A self-confessed nerd, he loves messing with software to see if it will break, so he has been a beta tester of various products for more than three decades, including all of the Adobe design suite.
Alan is an Adobe Community Expert, a regular contributor to CreativePro Magazine and the Adobe Community Forums, and can occasionally be found wandering the exhibition halls at design conferences looking for coffee and donuts.

Quiet Lightning presents the 14th Better Ancestors
2024-06-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Mechanics’ Institute
Quiet Lightning presents the 14th Better Ancestors, featuring readings and performance by Anastasia Lê, Sandy Vasquez, Zêdan Xelef, Paola Ramirez, and Tadeh Kennedy, hosted by London Pinkney.
This will be a set of intimate performances followed by a brief community Q&A.
Doors open at 6:00 pm and the readings will start at 6:30 pm. Come early to peruse our books and maybe grab a refreshment or two from the cafe. All are welcome to stay after the event for a brief tour of the library. Masks are recommended but will be optional.

How They Did It: Biographical Fiction
2024-06-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Page Street, 297 Page Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
Novelist Louisa Treger once called biographical fiction “the lie through with truth can emerge.” In the third of our “How They Did It” series, we’ll hear from four talented novelists who have blended fact with their fiction, with dazzling results. Novelist Jasmin Darznik, who has written biographical fiction about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and photographer Dorothea Lange, will moderate a wide-ranging conversation with novelists Karen Joy Fowler (author of the Booker longlisted Booth), Dawn Tripp (author of national bestseller Georgia and her latest novel, Jackie), and Gail Tsukiyama (author of Bright Star, about the Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong)

Focus on Book Arts Conference
2024-06-26 08:00 - 2024-06-30 17:00 | Western Oregon University, 345 Monmouth Ave. N., Monmouth, OR, 97361, United States
The 15th Focus on Book Arts conference offers five full days of workshops that appeal to beginning as well as advanced book artists. You can come for just one workshop or for the entire conference; a range of class lengths let you tailor an experience just for you.

ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition
2024-06-27 08:00 - 2024-07-02 17:00 | San Deigo Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, 92101, United States
Join us for top-quality education and best practices; featured thought leaders; and special programming for library professionals looking to further develop their libraries, communities, and careers!

2024 Small Plate Publication Party
2024-06-28 18:00 - 20:00 | San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Join SFCB in celebrating the hard work and creativity of 2024’s Small Plates artists Thad Higa, Kate Laster, and Amber Wolf!
Annually, SFCB invites three Bay Area artists to produce a limited edition artist book for the Small Plates imprint program. Since the program’s inception in 2008, local artists have produced 51 different editions, all of which represent hard work, immense creativity, and unique vision in the realm of artists’ books. As part of the Small Plates program, SFCB provides studio access, technical support, and a stipend to each artist to facilitate the making of their book edition.

Independence Day Celebration
2024-06-29 10:00 - 16:00 | The International Printing Museum
Step into history and celebrate the birth of America with your whole family at the Printing Museum!
In the Heritage Theater at 11am and 1pm, a trio of Founding Fellows — Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson & Betsy Ross — will share fascinating stories about their role in the creation of our great nation. Franklin will also entertain audiences with his Glass Armonica, the musical instrument he invented.
Throughout the day, guests can print their own copy of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents. There’ll also be interactive tours, printing demos, and hands-on activities to delight audiences young and old!

June 29th How to Follow Up with a Literary Agent
2024-06-29 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Are you looking for a literary agent? Have you sent out your query only to receive a polite rejection letter wishing you well on your publishing journey?
Here’s the reason: Literary agents are overwhelmed. Some receive 1500+ queries a month. But there’s an even bigger reason as to why you are not getting the traction you want.
Join literary agent, Lindsey Smith, for a Lunch and Learn for the Women’s National Book Association – San Francisco Chapter, on Saturday, June 29th at 12pm PDT.
Lindsey will share her expertise and explain the secrets behind her successes in championing the work of her clients. She will demystify the reality behind the art of obtaining a literary agent in our current publishing landscape.
If achieving literary representation for your manuscript is your goal, let Lindsey guide you with her insights and advice to receive a “yes” from the agent of your dreams! Lindsey will share what agents respond to positively, what topics are currently popular in the market, the quickest way to get agents to stop in their tracks, the one thing to absolutely not do if you are serious about getting a literary agent and much more.
We hope to see you there!

Binding Community: Bringing Together Diverse Peoples with the Art of Bookbinding
2024-07-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Have you ever wanted to create a community book-binding experience? Want to bring attention to local events through bookbinding? Don’t know where to start?
Please join community organizer and artist, Cynthia Marsh, in a virtual webinar with the American Bookbinders Museum on how to do just that. From exploring preliminary ideas through execution, Marsh will guide you through the process of using printing and bookbinding to build community.
Cynthia Marsh is a record keeper who begins conversations by juxtaposing collected remnants of the visual noise that crosses her path. Marsh was a founding member of the Women’s Graphic Center at the (historic) Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. From 1978-1990 she operated a freelance print and illustration studio in Los Angeles that produced Grammy-nominated album covers. She taught courses in printmaking and design at a multitude of universities and founded the Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection–a living museum of 19th-century wood type that encourages community members to print and post their stories.

BABA Sunday Session
2024-07-07 12:00 - 16:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Join us to learn from a bay area book artist.

Editors of Color Coffee Hour
2024-07-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
Are you an Editor of Color? Would you like to meet up with your fellow Editors of Color in a welcoming, intimate, online setting?
Jesi Vega, recent president of the Northwest Editors Guild and a Puerto Rican Jew from the Bronx, hosts a monthly Zoom coffee hour for editors who identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (BIPOC, bitches!).
During this virtual coffee hour—open to both Guild members and non-members—we will share experiences, explore the possibilities of a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable editing profession, get to know each other better and, likely, laugh a lot.
Please spread the word to any Editors of Color you know. This is a rare opportunity to build community for our underrepresented group and we want to spread the word.

Al Martinez in the Korean War: A Future Columnist Hones His Craft
2024-07-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
For more than twenty years, the Los Angeles Times columnist Al Martinez (1929-2015) delighted, and enriched the lives of, thousands of readers across southern California. An Oakland native, he attended San Francisco State College. Later, he was a reporter for the Richmond Independent and the Oakland Tribune before being lured to Los Angeles to write for the Times. By the time he retired in 2009, he had earned an extensive array of awards and honors, including three shared Pulitzers and the National Headliner Award for the best column in the U.S.
Before becoming a professional journalist, Martinez served in the Korean War at the age of 21 with the U.S. Marines, from 1951-1952, first on the battle front and then as a war correspondent. He dispatched letters almost daily to his young bride Joanne.
Now a volume of Al Martinez’ Korean War letters, I Promise You I’ll Be Home, has been published by McFarland and Co. Written from the unique perspective of an obviously gifted professional writer at the beginning of his career, his letters home capture his experiences eloquently and with depth of understanding as they express the dangers, hardships, fear, friendships, and even humor of life at the front. His vivid, often humorous pen-and-ink drawings portray scenes from the front lines.
The letters are all housed in the archive of his papers at The Huntington Library. They form not only an important record for the history of the largely ignored Korean War, but also a crackling good narrative of one Marine’s time at the battle front and as a combat correspondent. Even as a young writer, he was among the very best in storytelling and in the elegance of his prose.
A virtual presentation by Sara S. Hodson, author and retired curator of literary collections for The Huntington Library

SF/Bay Area Panel Discussion: When Someone Edits Your Words
2024-07-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
We’ve heard tips from expert editors, and we’ve heard feedback from writers who have been edited. But what if you are both? With unique viewpoints from each side of the relationship, hear from a panel of writer-editor professionals as they share their experiences wearing both hats.
There will be many learning opportunities for writers and editors alike to better understand editorial thinking and processes, then apply these lessons in our own writing or editing practices.
Register now for this panel and learn about the benefits and challenges of writing with editorial experience in a writer-editor relationship.

The Past Inside the Future: Commercial Classics at Five
2024-07-09 18:00 - 19:30 | San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium
Around the turn of the 19th century, a revolution left the world of typography utterly different from what it had been. The explosion of new type styles during this period—including the modern face, the fat face, the slab serif, and the sans serif—reflected new technologies and ways of thinking that set the stage for modern graphic design, and continue to shape our visual language more than two hundred years later.
Commercial Classics began as an adjunct foundry for historical releases at Commercial Type, and has become an evolving project to research and reinterpret the typefaces of the Industrial Era for designers in another revolutionary era: our own.
During this journey into the past and back again, we will explore a story of ideas and reactions in type design; the evolution of letterforms within technological and societal currents; learning how to translate the language of history; the joy of archives and the challenges of very large projects; and why the ideal place for a 19th-century English typeface might just be in California.
Letterform Lectures are a public aspect of the Type West postgraduate program. The series is co-presented by the San Francisco Public Library, where events are free and open to all.

Member Nerd Out: Concrete Poetry and Asemic Writing
2024-07-10 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom, CA, United States
In this Member Nerd Out, we’ll guide you through our favorite examples of concrete poetry and asemic writing in the Letterform Archive collection. This presentation will be followed by an opportunity to show some objects from your own home with fellow letterform Nerds across the globe.

Far North Editors Meeting
2024-07-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA, United States
The Far North Editors meet every second Wednesday from 11:15am to 12:45pm. Traditionally they meet in Mount Vernon, WA, but currently their meetings are entirely online.

Judson: Innovation in Stained Glass
2024-07-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Pasadena Heritage, 160 N Oakland Ave, Pasadena, 91101, United States
Five generations of Judsons have worked with artists, architects, and designers to create Old World-style stained glass whose quality and craftsmanship has often been compared to the work of Louis Tiffany. Famed for its Craftsman glass, Judson arts-and-crafts era windows have been celebrated by experts in the field for decades. Judson’s work with Frank Lloyd Wright on Hollyhock House in the 1920s was recently re-saluted when the house was named to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Established in Pasadena during the heyday of the Arroyo Culture, headquarters of Judson Studios are still housed in the original Craftsman-era home and studio of patriarch William Lees Judson.
Much of Judson’s finest early work was installed in religious buildings. Along with the studio’s numerous institutional and residential projects, JUDSON: Innovation in Stained Glass illustrates fine work in churches dating back to the early twentieth century. Modern work is also featured, including the extraordinary Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs, completed in 1962, a mid-century wonder whose soaring panels of color introduced an architecturally mesmerizing approach to stained glass that had never been executed before.
Once Judson Studios developed methods for blending subtle variations of color in glass for the Church of the Resurrection window, the possibilities of glass as an artist’s medium were apparent. Now, in addition to its work in traditional leaded stained glass, Judson Studios is working with fine artists creating effects in fused glass that were previously unachievable. Most recently, fine artist Sarah Cain worked with Judson Studios to create a work in glass 10 feet high by 150 feet long; it was installed at the San Francisco International Airport in July 2019.
An in-person presentation by David Judson, author and president of Judson Studios

SongWriter Live with W. Kamau Bell and Las Cafeteras
2024-07-10 19:00 - 21:00 | The Commons at KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, 94110, United States
This edition of SongWriter features live storytelling by Emmy- and Peabody-winning television host and producer, comedian and bestselling author W. Kamau Bell, which will be transformed into original music by the Chicano band Las Cafeteras. Together with SongWriter host Ben Arthur and social psychologist Shira Gabriel, they craft an evening about identity, home and collective effervescence through a thrilling exchange of story, ideas and music.
