Events for September: Bay Area & Los Angeles!!

Hope you can join me, in the Bay or in LA!

9/20 Impact Hub, Oakland

9/23 Nomadic Press, Oakland

9/25 Spotlight Girls, Berkeley

9/29 Chevallier’s Books, LA

Details

The Sweetwater Sessions, Vol. 6

Uptown Thief, Radical Romance & Subversive Self-Love w/ Aya de Leon

Tuesday, September 20, 2016
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Omi Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland
2323 Broadway Oakland, California

Admission
$5 (No One Turned Away)

About The Sweetwater Sessions
This multi-sensory, multi-media series of creative arts practice engagements gives voice to the dramatic collaborative process between Artist, Spirit, tradition and community in the design of freedom narratives for contemporary culture. With an aim to intersect and possibly disrupt social constructs, “The Sweetwater Sessions” allow for a deeper exploration of femininity and liquidity in the creation of a lush identity celebrating Black people and Blackness. Curated and hosted by Ashara Ekundayo.

http://oakland.impacthub.net/event/the-sweetwater-sessions-vol-6-uptown-thief-radical-romance-subversive-self-love-w-aya-de-leon/

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Nomadic Press

READINGS WITH AYA DE LEON AND KWAN BOOTH (MUSIC BY TBD)

• Friday, September 23, 2016
• 7:00pm  9:00pm
• Nomadic Press
  2926 Foothill BoulevardOakland, CA, 94601United States 
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Join us for a very special evening of readings with Aya de Leon and Kwan Booth. Music by TBD.

Donations will be called for throughout the night, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

http://www.nomadicpress.org/oaklandevents/deleonbooth

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Telling: A Celebration of Girlhood

I’ll be joining bold and brave tellers from our community who take on the important work of girls empowerment by sharing their real-life stories live on stage for you and your family

 $0 – $15

TICKETS

 

DATE AND TIME

Sun, September 25, 2016

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

 

LOCATION

Ashby Stage

1901 Ashby Avenue

Berkeley, CA

 

DESCRIPTION

You have a daughter. You are someone’s daughter.  You love someone’s daughter.  

You feel proud, confident, lost, angry, optimistic, terrified, and inspired by the world our girls are growing up in today. You want her to be safe.  You want her to be happy.  You want her to believe in herself.  You want her to make a difference. Because of this, you have found yourself here, amongst friends.  You have made the choice to join us as we assert the amazing boldness of girlhood.  

http://www.spotlightgirls.com

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Faith: A Litfolks Reading Event

by Litfolks LA

LOS ANGELES

Free

 

DATE AND TIME

Thu, September 29, 2016

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location

 

LOCATION

Chevalier’s Books

126 N Larchmont Blvd

LOS ANGELES, California

 

DESCRIPTION

A fun evening with reading and talking about being a writer and a moment when you almost lost faith in writing. Afterparty at Vernetti .

With readings and talking by:

• Aya de Leon
• Bryan Allen Fierro
• Minal Hajratwala
• Dana Johnson
• Karen Palmer
• Jeremy Rosenberg
• Margaret Wappler

Hosted by:

Litfolks LA (Anna March, Antonia Crane, Laura Warrall, Ashley Perez, Seth Fischer, Nina Rota)

https://chevaliersbooks.com/2016/08/26/litfolks-la-reading-event-seven-writers-on-glorious-things-loss-of-faith-in-writing-reading-proceeds-talk/