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Shoot An Iraqi
Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

Wafaa Bilal, Kari Lydersen

Sunday, February 17, TBA
Starr Auditorium, Bankside; London, UK

Blown Up: Gaming and War
Gallery 101; Ottawa, Canada

Art Dubai
Madinat Jumeirah; Dubai, United Arad Emirates

Literary/Critical Symposium at Georgetown University
Georgetown University; Washington, D.C.

Thursday, April 4, 5:30pm
University of Arizona; Tuscon, Arizona

Thursday, April 11, 7:15pm
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Maryland

The New School: The Public Private
The New School; New York City, NY

The Ashes Series: solo exhibition
Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island

The Meaning of Freedom
And Other Difficult Dialogues

Angela Y. Davis

Monday, February 18th, 7:00 pm
Montreal, PQ: Frobruary Foundation

Friday, March 1st, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Oakland, CA: Marcus Books

Thursday, April 29th, 11:00 am
Pasadena, CA: Westridge School

Wednesday, February 27th, 11:00 A.M.
San Francisco City College; San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Chinatown
A Guide to Its History and Architecture

Philip P. Choy

Wednesday, February 27th, 11:00 A.M.
San Francisco City College; San Francisco, CA

National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism

Melvin A. Goodman

Wednesday, March 6th, 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m
Hempstead, NY: Hofstra University

Monday, March 18th, 4-6pm
Washington DC: Washington Institute for Foreign Policy

Tuesday, March 19th, 6:30 pm
Baltimore, MD: Enoch Pratt Free Library

Wednesday, March 20th, 6:30 pm
Washington DC: Busboys and Poets

Thursday, April 25th, TBA
Salisbury, MD: Eastern Shore Regional Library

Wednesday, May 22nd 7pm
Rockville, MD: JCC of Greater Washington in Rockville, Maryland

Tuesday, July 30th, 6:30 pm
New York, NY: NY Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch

Sister Spit
Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road

Michelle Tea

Thursday, March 7th, 7:00 pm
San Francisco, CA: California College of the Arts

Sunday, March 31st, 2:00 pm
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Public Library

Tuesday, April 2nd, TBA
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena City College

Wednesday, April 3rd
Riverside, CA: UC Riverside

Thursday, April 4th
Berkeley, CA: La Pena Cultural Center

Friday, April 5th
Walla Walla, Washington: Whitman College

Saturday, April 6th, 8:00 pm
Seattle, WA: Richard Hugo House

Monday, April 7th, 7:00 pm
Portland, OR: Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center

Tuesday, April 9th, 7:00 pm
Fresno, CA: The Voice Shop

Wednesday, April 10th, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles, CA: Otis College of Art and Design

Thursday, April 11th, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles, CA: REDCAT Theater

Friday, April 12th, 7:30 pm
Long Beach, CA: MadHaus Gallery

Hello, I'm Special
How Individuality Became the New Conformity

Hal Niedzviecki

Saturday, March 9th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Austin, TX: South by Southwest (SXSW)

Sunday, March 10, 6-8 pm
Austin, TX: 5604 Manor

A Time of Angels

Homero Aridjis

Thursday, March 14th, 5:00 P.M.
Seton Hall University; South Orange, NJ

Cha-Ching!

Ali Liebegott

Thursday, March 7th, 7:00 pm
San Francisco, CA: California College of the Arts

Monday, March 18th, 7:00 pm
San Francisco, CA: Venue TBD

Ali Liebegott's Book Party at City Lights!
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

celebrating

Cha-Ching! and The Beautifully Worthless

the latest in the City Lights/Sister Spit series!

Sunday, March 31st, 2:00 pm
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Public Library

Tuesday, April 2nd, TBA
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena City College

Wednesday, April 3rd
Riverside, CA: UC Riverside

Thursday, April 4th
Berkeley, CA: La Pena Cultural Center

Friday, April 5th
Walla Walla, Washington: Whitman College

Saturday, April 6th, 8:00 pm
Seattle, WA: Richard Hugo House

Monday, April 7th, 7:00 pm
Portland, OR: Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center

Tuesday, April 9th, 7:00 pm
Fresno, CA: The Voice Shop

Wednesday, April 10th, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles, CA: Otis College of Art and Design

Thursday, April 11th, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles, CA: REDCAT Theater

Friday, April 12th, 7:30 pm
Long Beach, CA: MadHaus Gallery

The End of San Francisco

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Friday, March 29th, 7:00 pm
Seattle, WA: Elliott Bay Bookstore

Monday, April 1st, 7:30 pm
Portland, OR: Powell's City of Books

Thursday, April 4th, 6:00 pm
Eugene, OR: University of Oregon

Thursday, April 11th, 4:30 pm
Los Angeles, CA: Loyola Marymount University

Friday, April 12th, 7:30pm
Los Angeles, CA: Skylight Books

Wednesday, April 17th, 7:00 pm
Fullerton, CA: Cal State Fullerton

Sunday, April 28th, 7:30pm
Santa Cruz, CA: Bookshop Santa Cruz

Tuesday, April 30th, 7:00 pm
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Bookstore

Mattilda returns to San Francisco to tell us how it will all end, and we can't wait! Join us!

Thursday, May 2nd, 7:30pm
Berkeley, CA: Pegasus Bookstore

Wednesday, May 22, 7:30 pm
Olympia, WA: Olympia Timberland Library

Thursday, June 6th, 2:30 pm
Seattle, WA: Antioch College

Citizens of the Empire
The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity

Robert Jensen

Friday, April 12-13, 2013, TBA
Seattle, WA

Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
1345 Philomena Street, Austin, TX

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 7:00 pm
University of Texas, SEA 4.244

Friday, April 26-27, 2013, TBA
Austin, TX

Saturday, May 4, 2013, TBA
Hunt, TX (Mo Ranch)

Saturday, June 1, 2013, 4-5 p.m.
New Orleans, LA

Winged Shoes and a Shield
Collected Stories

Don Bajema

Friday, April 19th 2013, 8pm
New York, NY: Cabinet of Wonders

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 7:00 P.M.
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco

with Bill Berkson and Richard O. Moore

celebrating the work of Frank O'Hara

the re-release of

Poems Retrieved

published by City Lights/Grey Fox

Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 7:00 P.M.
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco

Lisa Jarnot reading from

Joie de Vivre (Selected Poems 1992-2012)

from City Lights Spotlight Series