PAST ENGAGEMENTS
BOOK TOUR FOR TOUCHING THE ART, 2023-2024
BOOK TOUR KICKOFF FOR TOUCHING THE ART IN SEATTLE!!!
Seattle Art Museum
Brotman Forum
Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 3 pm
1300 1st Ave.
Seattle, Washington 98101
(206) 654-3137
MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
ASL interpretation provided
*This is a special advance launch, where books will be on sale exclusively at the event, several weeks before the official publication date!!!
Reserve your free tickets here!
BOOK LAUNCH for TOUCHING THE ART in New York!!
in conversation with Catherine Lacey
McNally Jackson Seaport
Monday, November 6 at 7 pm
4 Fulton St.
New York, NY 10038
(646) 964-9232
MASKS REQUIRED
RSVP required… Reserve your tickets here!
BALTIMORE
The Ivy Bookshop
Monday, November 13, 2023 at 6 pm
in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco
5928 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
(410) 377-2966
This event will take place on the covered outdoor patio in back
Register here!
WASHINGTON, DC
Politics & Prose
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 7 pm
in conversation with Jennifer Natalya Fink
5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
(202) 364-1919
MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
PHILADELPHIA
Giovanni’s Room
Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 6 pm
345 S. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(213) 923-2960
MASKS REQUIRED
SAN FRANCISCO—VIRTUAL EVENT
San Francisco Public Library
Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 2 pm Pacific
in conversation with Myriam Gurba
Register here for this free virtual event!
THE JEWISH MUSEUM
Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:00)
in conversation with Chloë Bass
Scheuer Auditorium
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York, NY 10128
(212) 423-3200
Reserve your tickets here!
MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY CENTRAL BRANCH
Writers Live!
Poe Reading Room, 2nd floor
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 7 pm
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 396‑5430
Register here for this free in-person event!
Free parking vouchers for attendees who park at Franklin Street Garage
MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
Also livestreaming on YouTube and Facebook
Books on sale from Greedy Reads
NEW YORK
Bluestockings Cooperative
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 5 pm
in conversation with Anastacia-Renee
116 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002
(917) 409-0440
Register here for this free event!
MASKS REQUIRED
NEW YORK
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 7 pm
in conversation with McKenzie Wark
LGBT Community Center
208 W 13 St, Room 210
New York, NY 10011
(646) 457-0859
MASKS REQUIRED
Also livestreamed here!
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 2 pm
Howard Thurman Center, Room 104
808 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
MASKS REQUIRED
PROVIDENCE, RI
Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Riffraff Bookstore
60 Valley Street
Unit 107A
(in the courtyard)
Providence, RI 02909
(401) 421-4371
MASKS REQUIRED
BOSTON
Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 5 pm
Papercuts Bookshop
60 South Street
Boston, MA 02130
(617) 522-3404
MASKS REQUIRED
PORTLAND, OR
Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7 pm
in conversation with Leni Zumas
Powell’s City of Books
1005 W. Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209
503-228-4651
MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Central Library
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 7 pm
in conversation with Jordy Rosenberg
1000 Fourth Ave.
Level 4, Room 1
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 386-4636
MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
SELECTED 2023 EVENTS
AWP Writers Conference Panel: Queer Writing Between Certain Death and a Possible Future
Friday, March 10, 2023, 10:35 a.m.–11:50 a.m.
Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Rooms 435-436
Seattle, Washington
Readings and conversation based on the acclaimed anthology Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. The book centers the experience of queer writers who came of age in the midst of the AIDS epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and who internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer. Panelists will include EJ Colen, Sassafras Lowrey, Patrick Milian, and Eddie Walker. Hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
From the Convergence Zone and Gamut Literary Series at
University of Washington Bothell
VIRTUAL EVENT
Sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics
Tuesday, Mar. 28, 2023, 6 – 8 p.m.
Please join us on Zoom for a presentation by Spring Quarter MFA Visiting Writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, who will be joined by alum Travis Sharp (MFA ’15) and first-year student Farron Knechtel (MFA ’24). Students will spend 5 weeks with Sycamore this quarter, starting with tonight’s kick-off event.
Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva
Johanna Hedva in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Thursday, June 1, 2023, 7 p.m.
Third Place Books Ravenna
6504 20th Ave NE
Seattle WA 98115
(206) 525-2347
Mattilda will join Johanna Hedva at the Seattle launch for Hedva’s new novel, Your Love Is Not Good
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela
Alejandro Varela in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Thursday, June 8, 2023, 7 p.m.
Third Place Books Ravenna
6504 20th Ave NE
Seattle WA 98115
(206) 525-2347
Mattilda will join Alejandro Varela at the Seattle launch for Varela’s new book, The People Who Report More Stress
SELECTED 2022 EVENTS
16th Annual New York City Anarchist Book Fair
VIRTUAL EVENT
Sunday, September 11, 2022
A day of discussion, creation, and learning, 10:30 a.m.-8:40 p.m Eastern Time.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will read for the closing ceremony at
8:15 pm Eastern Time
Mattilda’s first in-person reading of the pandemic!!
LET THE GRIEF BLOOM: a queer anarchist invitation to communal possibility
Saturday, September 17, 6 pm- 9 pm
Pipsqueak
173 16th Ave ***OUTDOORS***
Seattle, WA 98122
Free because you are
Featuring…
THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL LESS LONELY
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s first in-person reading of the pandemic (outdoors @ 7:30pm)
REST ALTAR
An art installation by Grey Ellis and Katie Twiss (indoors - limited capacity)
COMMUNAL GRIEF ALTAR
Please bring photos, candles, flowers, or other items to participate (outdoors)
Masks required inside and outside, detailed access information here!!
Chloë Bass and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Conversation
Saturday, October 1, 3 pm-4 pm
Outdoors in Volunteer Park, Free for all
Sponsored by the Henry Art Gallery
Join Soft Services artist Chloë Bass and author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for a conversation about the body and colonialism, intimacy and loss, cruising and alienation, communal possibility, and intimate transgression. Bass and Sycamore share a mutual interest in the pervasive potential of strange, everyday intimacies, and a mutual enraged concern about society's failure to allow for such intimacies (or, worse, its commitment to police) as an important element of receiving proper interpersonal care. The conversation will focus on the embodied experiences produced through interaction with Soft Services' stone sculptures in Volunteer Park, and examine how acts of noticing open the door for new engagements with social and environmental landscapes. The dialogue will be punctuated by readings from Sycamore's genre-bending book The Freezer Door, portions of which are set in Volunteer Park.
Hugs and Cuddles by João Gilberto Noll: a discussion with Edgar Garbelotto, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and Andrea Lawlor
VIRTUAL EVENT
Thursday, November 3, 4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern
Cosponsored by Third Place Books in Seattle and Community Bookstore in Brooklyn
A discussion of João Gilberto Noll's Hugs and Cuddles, translated by Edgar Garbelotto. The book's translator will be joined in conversation by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (The Freezer Door) and Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl) in a unique discussion panel on the celebrated Brazilian author's life and latest work.
SELECTED 2021 EVENTS
BOOK TOUR FOR BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis!!
**All events are virtual**
BOOK LAUNCH for Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis!!
Seattle Public Library
cosponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company
VIRTUAL EVENT
Thursday, September 30, 2021
7 pm Pacific Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: EJ Colen, Laura LeMoon, Patrick Milian, and Eddie Walker
McNally Jackson Books, New York
VIRTUAL EVENT on the official pub date!
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
7 pm Eastern Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Tony Correia, Hugh Ryan, and Sassafras Lowrey
Harvard Book Store
VIRTUAL EVENT
Thursday, October 14, 2021
7 pm Eastern Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Ryan Conrad, Berend McKenzie, and Miranda Recht
San Francisco Public Library
VIRTUAL EVENT
cosponsored by Booksmith
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
7 pm Pacific Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Robert Birch, Keiko Lane, Aaron Nielsen, and Andrew R. Spieldenner
Women and Children First, Chicago
VIRTUAL EVENT
Friday, October 22, 2021
7 pm Central Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Nels P. Highberg, Sassafras Lowrey, and Berend McKenzie
Ottawa International Writers Festival
VIRTUAL EVENT, Canadian book launch!!
cosponsored by Qu’ART and Ottawa Public Library
Monday, November 1, 2021
7:30 pm Eastern Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Ryan Conrad, Kate Doyle Griffiths, Alexander McClelland, and Eddie Walker
RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET HERE!!
Charis Books, Atlanta
VIRTUAL EVENT
Thursday, November 4, 2021
7:30 pm Eastern Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Edric Figueroa, Patrick Milian, and Stephen H. Moore
RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET HERE!!
Miami Book Fair
VIRTUAL EVENT with Steven Reigns, author of A Quilt for David
in conversation with William Johnson
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Noon Eastern Time
Listen live at miamibookfair.com!!
Santa Fe Community College
VIRTUAL EVENT for World AIDS Day
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
6 pm Mountain Time
With readings from contributors to the anthology: Liam O’Brien, Dan Cullinane, Andrew R. Spieldenner, Berend McKenzie, and Emily Stern
RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET HERE!!
Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, Montréal
Queer Dreaming: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore & Randa Jarrar
VIRTUAL EVENT
Acclaimed queer authors Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The Freezer Door, and Randa Jarrar, author of Love Is an Ex-Country, delve into each other’s work in a one-on-one conversation.
Thursday, April 27, 8 pm EST, and then streaming after…
Watch here!
LET THE RECORD SHOW at the San Francisco Public Library
Sarah Schulman in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
VIRTUAL EVENT
Thursday, June 17, 2021
7 pm Pacific Time
I’ll be in conversation with Sarah Schulman about her new book, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
HOW TO END A PLAGUE at Books Are Magic
Emily Bass in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
VIRTUAL EVENT
Friday, July 9, 2021
7 pm Eastern Time
I’ll be in conversation with Emily Bass about her new book, To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa
SELECTED 2020 EVENTS
BOOK LAUNCH for The Freezer Door!!!
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with Elissa Washuta
Hugo House in Seattle
Cosponsored with Elliott Bay Book Company
Thursday, November 19, 2020, 7 pm PST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
McNally Jackson Books, New York
VIRTUAL EVENT on the official pub date!!
in conversation with Alexander Chee
Tuesday, November 24, 2020, 7 pm EST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
BOMB Magazine: A Room with a View
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with Jordy Rosenberg
Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 6:00 pm EST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
VIRTUAL EVENT
Joint event with Felicia Luna Lemus
Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 6:30 pm PST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco
VIRTUAL EVENT
Joint event with Derek McCormack
Thursday, December 3, 2020, 6 pm PST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Women & Children First, Chicago
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with T Fleischmann
Friday, December 4, 2020, 7 pm CST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
San Francisco Public Library
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with CAConrad
Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 7 pm PST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
The Poetry Project
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with Maggie Nelson
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 8 pm EST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Naked Heart Festival, Toronto
VIRTUAL EVENT
Wednesday, December 23, 8:30 pm EST
”What Is? An Evening of Memoir and Nonfiction”
with Hana Shafi, Keet Geniza, Kimiko Tobimatsu, Nia Levy King, Patricia Wilson, Rae Spoon, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Watch through Glad Day TV
BookPeople, Austin
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with Alyssa Harad
Thursday, January 7, 2021, 7 pm CDT
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane
VIRTUAL EVENT
Joint event with Kristen Millares Young
Special guest Elissa Ball
Saturday, January 9, 2021, 7 pm PST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Harvard Book Store
VIRTUAL EVENT
in conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge
Monday, January 11, 2021, 7 pm EST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Third Place Books, Seattle
VIRTUAL EVENT
Joint event with Madeline ffitch
Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 7 pm PST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
Katherine Angel in conversation with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Book Launch for Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel
McNally Jackson Books, New York
VIRTUAL EVENT
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 7 pm EST
Reserve your FREE TICKET HERE!
SELECTED 2019 EVENTS
Madeline ffitch and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in conversation
Third Place Books Ravenna
Friday, October 25, 7 p.m.
Madeline launches her new novel, Stay and Fight, Mattilda reads from Sketchtasy, and we chat!6504 20th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98112
(206) 525-2347
BOOK TOUR FOR SKETCHTASY, 2018-2019
BALTIMORE, MD
September 29, 2018, 5pm
Baltimore Book Festival
Red Emma’s Radical Book Pavilion
Baltimore Inner Harbor
Facebook Invite
NEW YORK, NY
Wednesday, October, 10, 2018, 7pm
Book launch!!!
Joint event with Sarah Schulman
McNally Jackson Soho
52 Prince Street
New York, New York 10012
(212) 274-1160
Facebook Invite
BOSTON, MA
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Boston Book Festival
“Reading Like a Writer: Character”
With Lise Haines and Jaap Robben, moderated by Michelle Hoover
Saturday, October 13, 2018, 3:15 pm
Boston Public Library, McKim Lower Level B
230 Dartmouth Street
Boston, MA 02116
PROVIDENCE, RI
Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 6pm
Joint event with Jordy Rosenberg
Riffraff Books
60 Valley Street, Unit 107A (courtyard)
Providence, RI 02909
(401) 421-4371
Facebook Invite
BOSTON, MA
Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 7pm
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 661-1515
Facebook Invite
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 7pm
Joint event with Sarah Schulman
William Way LGBT Center
1315 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 732-2220
Cosponsored by Giovanni’s Room
Facebook Invite
WASHINGTON, DC
Sunday, October 28, 2018, 5pm
Joint event with Sarah Schulman
Politics & Prose Union Market
1270 5th Street NE
(202) 544-4452
Facebook Invite
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 7 pm
Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice
New North 306
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20057
(202) 687-6294
BALTIMORE, MD
Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 6:30 pm
An Evening with Porochista Khakpour and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
415 Park Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201
Cosponsored by the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Ivy Bookshop
Facebook Invite
NEW YORK, NY
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2018, 7pm
Bluestockings
172 Allen St.
New York, NY 10002
Facebook Invite
BOSTON, MA
Monday, November 19, 2018, 7 pm
Papercuts J.P.
5 Green St
Boston, MA, 02130
(617) 522-3404
Facebook Invite
BROOKLYN, NY
Thursday, November 15, 2018, 7 pm
Pratt Institute
Student Union
200 Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205
LOS ANGELES, CA
Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 7:30 pm
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 660-1175
Facebook Invite
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 7 pm
City Lights Booksellers
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, California, 94133
(415) 362-8193
Facebook Invite
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6 pm
Joint event with Rebecca Brown
San Francisco Public Library
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, 3rd Floor
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4277
Cosponsored by The Booksmith
Facebook Invite
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Sunday, January 27, 2019, 6 pm
Joint event with Diana Cage
Alley Cat Books
3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-1761
Facebook Invite
OAKLAND, CA
Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 7 pm
East Bay Booksellers
5433 College Ave
Oakland, CA. 94618
(510) 653-9965
Facebook Invite
PORTLAND, OR
Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, 7:30 pm
in conversation with Sara Jaffe
Powell’s City of Books
1005 W. Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209
Facebook Invite
OLYMPIA, WA
Thursday, February 14, 7:30 pm
Olympia Timberland Library
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 352-0595
Facebook Invite
SEATTLE, WA
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 7 pm
Homecoming Reading!!!
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 624-6600
Facebook Invite
SELECTED 2017 EVENTS
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, January 4 at 7 p.m.
Sarah Galvin in conversation with David Schmader
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, February 1 at 7 p.m.
Chad Goller-Sojourner in conversation with John Treat
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, March 1 at 7 p.m.
Sarah Dowling in conversation with Imani Sims
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, April 5 at 7 p.m.
Jennifer Natalya Fink in conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, May 3 at 7 p.m.
Corinne Manning in conversation with Matthew Schnirman
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, June 7 at 7 p.m.
Conner Habib in conversation with Chavisa Woods
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
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SELECTED 2016 EVENTS
Up Close Personal: Gay City Volume 6
Book Release
Friday, April 24 at 7 p.m.
Gay City Health Project
517 E Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98122
Readings by Tara Hardy, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and Rick R. Reed
followed by reception with light refreshments
Facebook invite
Lost Boi in Seattle
Sassafras Lowrey book release with Evan J. Peterson and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Friday, May 8 at 7 p.m.
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave
Seattle, Washington 98122
Hugo House Pride Event
Wednesday, June 24 at 7 p.m.
Hugo House
1634 11th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
With Anastacia Tolbert, Sarah Galvin, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and more TBA
Contagious Exchanges: Queer Writers in Conversation
Wednesday, December 7 at 7 p.m.
Randa Jarrar in conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Curated and hosted by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Hugo House
1021 Columbia St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 322-7030
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SELECTED 2015 EVENTS
"A Poet, a Playwright, a Novelist and a Drag Queen"
APRIL Festival
Friday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98102
$7 in advance, $10 at the door
The popular annual competitive storytelling event returns for the fourth APRIL Festival. Featuring Robert Lashley (poet), Elizabeth Heffron (playwright), Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (novelist) and Princess Charming (drag queen.) This year’s theme is: "Locusts and other plagues."
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SELECTED 2014 EVENTS
Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading
Friday, May 9, 7 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 624-6600
Readings by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Nicola Griffith, Chavisa
Woods, Evan Peterson, Roma Raye, Amber Dawn, Jason Friedman, L.C. Chase and more tba
Facebook invite
Write with Pride at Gay City
Wednesday, June 25, 7 pm
Calamus Auditorium at Gay City
517 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98122
Featuring Roma Raye, Sarah Toce, Gunner Scott, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and others TBA
gaycity.org
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BOOK TOUR for
THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO!!!!! (2013)
SEATTLE, WA
Elliott Bay Book Company
Friday, March 29, 7 p.m.
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle WA 98122
(206) 624-6600
PORTLAND, OR
Powell's City of Books
Monday, April 1, 7:30 p.m.
1005 W. Burnside
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 228-4651
EUGENE, OR
University of Oregon
Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m.
Ben Linder Room, EMU
Eugene, Oregon
Loyola Marymount University
Thursday, April 11, 4:30 p.m.
Los Angeles, California 90045
LOS ANGELES, CA
Skylight Books
Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
1818 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 660-1175
Cal State Fullerton
Wednesday, April 17, 5 p.m.
Fullerton, California
SANTA CRUZ, CA
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Sunday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
1520 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 423-0900
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
City Lights Bookstore
Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m.
261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
(415) 362-8193
BERKELEY, CA
Pegasus Books Downtown
Thursday, May 2, 7:30 pm
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510)649-1320
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
GLBT History Museum
Thursday, May 9, 7:00 pm
4127 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 621-1107
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Writers with Drinks
Saturday, May 11, 7:30 pm (doors open at 7)
The Make-Out Room 3225 22nd. St.
San Francisco, CA
With Veronica Belmont (Sword and Laser), Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (The End of San Francisco), Janis Cooke Newman (Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln), Thaisa Frank (Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel), and Seth Harwood (Jack Wakes Up, Young Junius), hosted by Charlie Jane Anders
$5 to $10, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
OLYMPIA, WA
Olympia Timberland Library
Wednesday, May 22, 7:30 pm
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 352-0595
SEATTLE, WA
Antioch University Seattle
Thursday, June 6, 2:30 pm
2326 6th Ave, Room 123
Seattle, Washington 98121
SEATTLE, WA
"Meet the Author"
Thursday June 6, 6 pm
Amber Dawn & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will read from their new memoirs!
Calamus Auditorium at Gay City
517 E. Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 860-6969
Event is co-sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company
VANCOUVER, BC
Little Sisters
Thursday, July 4, 7pm
1238 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 669-1753
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Thursday, October 3
Madison, Wisconsin
Facebook invite
CHICAGO, IL
Women & Children First
Monday, October 7, 7:30 pm
5233 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299
Facebook invite
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Friday, October 11
National Coming Out Day Keynote
Carbondale, Illinois
WASHINGTON, DC
Busboys and Poets, 5th & K
Tuesday, October 22, 6:30 pm
Cullen Room @ Busboys and Poets, 5th & K
1025 5th St. NW
Washington DC 20001
Facebook invite
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, October 29
Kimmel Center for University Life, Room 912
60 Washington Square South
New York, New York
NEW YORK, NY
Bluestockings Bookstore
Wednesday, October 30, 7 pm
172 Allen St
New York, NY 10002
(212) 777-6028
Facebook invite
BROOKLYN, NY
Brooklyn Community Pride Center
Monday, November 4, 7 pm
4 Metrotech (corner of Willoughby and Gold Sts., entrance on Willoughby St.)
Brooklyn NY 11201
(347) 889-7719
Facebook invite
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Giovanni’s Room
Monday, November 11, 5:30 pm
345 South 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-2960
Facebook invite
BALTIMORE, MD
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse
Friday, November 15, 7 pm
30 W. North Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
Facebook invite
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, November 19, 4:30 pm
Russell house, 350 High Street
Middletown, CT
Facebook invite
AMHERST, MA
Food for Thought Books
Thursday, November 21, 7 pm
106 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 253-5432
Facebook invite
BOSTON, MA
Harvard Book Store
Wednesday, December 11, 7 pm
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 661-1515
Facebook invite
CHICAGO, IL
Chicago's Orphan's Christmas (Turducken Salon)
December 27th, 7 pm
With Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Zak Mucha,
Charles Blackstone, Jessa Crispin, and Austin Grossman
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Selected 2013 Events
Speakeasy Roundtable: The Art of Politics + the Politics of Queer
Thursday, September 20, 7:30 pm
Velocity Founders Theater
Velocity Dance Center
1621 12th Avenue, Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98122
Pay What You Can
Mattilda will host a community conversation highlighting the broader themes of Turbulence, Keith Hennessy’s new dance performace
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The BOOK TOUR for Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots!!!
Prepublication launch party
(books will be available at this event
before anywhere else!)
Sunday, January 15, 2 pm
op cit books
930C Baca Street
(next door to Counter Culture Cafe)
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 428-0321
Stories Books and Cafe, Echo Park
Sunday, January 22, 6:30 pm
1716 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026-3225
(213) 413-3733
University of Southern California
Monday, January 23, 5 pm
VC K 100
Los Angeles, CA
Claremont Colleges
Scripps College, Balch Auditorium
Thursday, January 26
7 pm doors, 7:30 pm talk
Reception and book signing to follow in the Hampton Room above Scripps
Dining Hall
Claremont, CA
Friday, January 27 publishing conversation
Pomona College, Queer Resource Center, 3 pm
Snacks provided
Pomona, CA
University of San Francisco
Wednesday, February 8, 5 pm
University Center (UC) 4th Floor Lounge
San Francisco, CA
THE BIG BOOK LAUNCH
Valentine's Day 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 6 pm
(come early for heart-shaped refreshments)
San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA
A delicious discussion with contributors Jaime Cortez, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Debanuj DasGupta, Booh Edouardo, Eric Stanley, Harris
Kornstein, Gina de Vries, Horehound Stillpoint, Matthew D. Blanchard, and your lovely host Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
City Lights Bookstore
Wednesday, February 15, 7 pm
261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
(415) 362-8193
with contributors Debanuj DasGupta, Harris Kornstein, Booh Edouardo and Gina de Vries
GLBT History Museum
A Panel on the Past, Present and Future of Public Sex
Celebrating the release of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Thursday, February 16, 7 pm
4127 18th St.
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 621-1107
with contributors Jaime Cortez, Debanuj DasGupta, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, and Horehound Stillpoint – hosted and facilitated by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
$5-10 requested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Books available for sale courtesy of Books Inc.
Pegasus Books Downtown
Monday, February 20, 7:30 pm
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704-1552
(510) 649-1320
with Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Horehound Stillpoint, Matthew D. Blanchard,
and Jaime Cortez
Sonoma State University
Stevenson 1002
Thursday, February 23, Noon
Rohnert Park, CA
RADAR Book Club
Featuring Mx Justin Vivian Bond & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in conversation
Hosted by Michelle Tea
Saturday, February 25
Doors 2:30, Show at 3
Viracocha
998 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
$10, limited seating. Advance tickets will be available
Books available for sale courtesy of Modern Times
University of Oregon
Thursday, March 1
Eugene, OR
Powell's on Hawthorne
Monday, March 5, 7:30pm
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 228-4651
with Ezra RedEagle Whitman and Willow Aerin Fagan
Olympia Timberland Library
Wednesday, March 7, 7:30 pm
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
(360) 352-0595
Evergreen State College
Thursday, March 8
Olympia, WA
Little Sisters
Wednesday, March 14, 7pm
1238 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 669-1753
Elliott Bay Book Company
Tuesday, March 20, 7 pm
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle WA 98122
(206) 624-6600
with Booh Edouardo
University of Washington
Monday, March 26, 6 pm
Allen Auditorium, North Allen Library
Seattle, WA
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Selected 2011 Events
LOSTMISSING, Mattilda’s public art project about the friend who will always be there, no matter what, and what happens when you lose that relationship, is featured as an installation in the Meow Wolf art show in Santa Fe:
Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium
209 W. Palace Ave., second floor
Santa Fe, New Mexico
December 10, 2010-January 11, 2011
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LOSTMISSING, Mattilda’s public art project about the friend who will always be there, no matter what, and what happens when you lose that relationship, is featured in wide-ranging, multi-genre New York City art show!:
The End of Failure
Curated by Katrina Lamb
Louis V E.S.P
140 Jackson St, #4D,
Brooklyn NY
Opening Reception: April 29, 7:30-10 pm (show runs April 29 – May 13)
(Graham L stop, or Metropolitan G stop)
Featuring the work of:
Ross Moreno, Michelle O’ Brien, Christian Oitinnen and Kellie McCool, Shalo P, Anna Pratt, Jeff Ray, Chris Sollars, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Ryan Wilsie, Anne Yalon, and Micahel Zheng
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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in Denver!
(That’s right – a surprise reading for So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, indeed…)
Saturday, July 23, 7 pm
27 Social Centre
2727 W. 27th Ave. (enter through side entrance)
Denver, Colorado
A benefit for the Denver Zine Library and Sent(a)mental Studios
$5-$10, no one turned away for lack of funds
books will be available for sale (and signing!)
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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in Albuquerque
Albuquerque Zine Fest
Sunday, October 2, 5 pm
Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery
147 Harvard SE
Albuquerque, NM
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Selected 2011 Screenings of All That Sheltering Emptiness
International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 26-February 11, 2011
Exact schedule TBA January 20
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Radical Queer Semaine
March 10-20
Montréal, Québec
Canada
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
March 17-27:
Melbourne, Australia
Boston Underground Film Festival
CineMental Gets BUFF Shorts program
March 27, Noon
March 29, 3:30 pm
Kendall Square Cinema
Boston, MA
London BFI Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Monday, April 4, 8:30 pm, NFT3
Wednesday, April 6, 8:40 pm, NFT2
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank
London SE1 8XT
United Kingdom
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
May 5-10, 2011
Oberhausen, Germany
WIDE OPEN WIDE: Queer City Cinema Canadian Tour
May 26-June 25
EDMONTON
MAY 26 & 27 // 8PM
METRO CINEMA
9828 101 A AvenueSASKATOON
JUNE 3 & 4 // 8PM
PAVED ARTS/AKA GALLERY - EVENT SPACE
424 20th St. W.WINNIPEG
JUNE 10 & 11 // 8PM
VIDEO POOL - THIRD FLOOR STUDIO
300 - 100 Arthur St.ST. JOHNS
JUNE 17 & 18 // 8PM
EASTERN EDGE GALLERY
72 Harbour Drive (between Clift's-Baird's Cove Road and Prescott Street)HALIFAX
JUNE 25 // 7:30PM & 9:30PM
CARBON ARC @ The Khyber
1588 Barrington St, 3rd FloorVICTORIA
JULY 8 & 9 // 8PM
OPEN SPACE
510 Fort St., 2nd Floor
Videoex Festival
May 21-29, 2011
Zürich, Switzerland
Off_Pride
May 27-29
Dynamo
date and time TBA
Zürich, Switzerland
Sex Worker Film Festival
2 pm, May 28, 2011
Roxie Cinema
San Francisco, CA 94110
Sex Worker Cabaret
June 12, 2011
Time and location TBA
New York, New York
Gender Reel
Opening Night Program
Friday, September 9, 7 pm
CBS Auditorium
320 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
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Selected 2010 Screenings of All That Sheltering Emptiness
PARTS&LABOR
Opening Reception & Performances
(including a screening of All That Sheltering Emptiness!)
Saturday, February 6, 7pm
The Annex Theater & Gallery
419 E. Oliver St. (2W)
Baltimore, MD
LET'S DO IT! - a night of sex worker made media and conversation
Sat. March 20, 8pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122
Migrating Forms, Group Program 8
Saturday, May 22, 9:45 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-5181
www.migratingfilms.org
Newfest
Reelness Shorts Program
Sunday, June 6, 3 pm
SVA Cinema
333 W. 23rd Street
New York, New York
www.newfest.org
Queer City Cinema
Xtremendous Screening Seven
Saturday June 19, 9:00 pm
Neutral Ground Gallery
1856 Scarth St.
(w/snacks & cash bar)
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Frameline International LGBT Film Festival
The Experimentals Shorts Program
Saturday June 26, 2010 9:30 pm
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3327
www.frameline.org
Entzaubert -- Queer D.I.Y. Film Fest Berlin
Friday July 2, 8 pm
(opening for the screening of Books of James)
Location TBA
http://entzaubert.blogsport.de
Berlin, Germany
Entzaubert at Pervers/cité
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Touski Café
Montreal, Quebec
Perverscite.org
Queerrilla Film Festival
Durham, NC
Friday, August 20 to Sunday, August 22
HOMOSCOPE: Third Annual International Queer Film & Arts Festival
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Doors at 8pm, films at 8:30
United States Art Authority
2906 Fruth St (29th & Guadulupe)
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 480-9562
Antimatter Film Festival
Saturday, October 9, 9pm
“Noise Unto the World” program
Open Space
510 Fort St
Victoria, BC V8W 1E6
Canada
ATA Film & Video Festival
“Human Nature” Screening
Thursday, October 21, 8pm, $7 - $10
Artist Television Access
992 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival
“Gay Shorts” program
Saturday, November 13, 2:30 pm
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Toby
4000 Michigan Rd.
Indianapolis, IN
• • • • •
Selected 2010 Appearances
LET'S DO IT! - a night of sex worker made media and conversation
Curated by the bird cage collective
Including a screening of All That Sheltering Emptiness, the film I made with Gina Carducci, and a live, in-person appearance by none other than Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and a delicious panel discussion after the screening
Sat. March 20, 8pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122
From the Sangli district in the rural south of India to the life of a New York City callboy (that’s me!), sex workers reach out through film and video to share their myriad of experiences. As misrepresentations of those who trade erotic labor proliferate in the mainstream media, sex workers and sex worker activists help to reduce stigmatization by becoming their own authors, reporters, and organizers. The evening’s films will examine the unique challenges and joys of being a sex worker. Following the screening will be a panel discussion with past and present sex workers whose experience varies from peep show work, fetish & fantasy to erotic massage and more. Miss Indigo Blue (Academy of Burlesque), Annie Oakley (Sex Workers' Art Show), Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly) and other special guests will be in attendance. Please join us to discuss individual experiences with advocacy, work and empowerment. There will be a reception with beverages, a DJ, food and copies of $pread magazines for donation, all to raise funds for a local resource guide by & for sex workers.
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The San Francisco premiere of my first film!
(made in collaboration with Gina Carducci)
The film is called “All That Sheltering Emptiness”
Frameline International LGBT Film Festival
The Experimentals Shorts Program
Saturday June 26, 2010 9:30 pm
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3327
(Gina & I will both be in attendance!)
Tickets
All That Sheltering Emptiness is a meditation on elevators, hotel lobbies, hundred dollar bills, the bathroom, a cab, chandeliers, cocktails, the receptionist, arousal, and other routines in the life of a New York City callboy. Gorgeously hand-processed in full 16mm glory, this film is a collaboration between Gina Carducci and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. All That Sheltering Emptiness explodes the typical narratives of desire, escape and intimacy to evoke something more honest. (16mm, color, optical sound, 7 min.)
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Persistent Voices: Poets reading and performing works by poets lost to AIDS
curated by Kirk Read
Thursday August 19, 2010
Magnet, 4122 18th St. near Castro in San Francisco
8pm
This event was inspired by the anthology "Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS," edited by Philip Clark and David Groff. The book collects a wealth of poetry and captures the era in which it was written. In these poems there is urgency, lyricism, rage, humor and gossip. Co-editor Philip Clark will be joining us and books will be available that night. There will be readings of the poems as well as some brand new pieces of writing inspired by the writers in the anthology.
Featured readers include: Judy Grahn, Kevin Killian on Steve Abbott, Jaime Cortez, Kirk Read, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Thandiwe Thomas, Philip Huang on Paul Monette, Philip Clark
Mattilda is leaving San Francisco — come to the goodbye reading!!!
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The End of San Francisco:
A Special Preview Reading
Tuesday, September 28 — refreshments at 6:30 pm, reading at 7 pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. @ 20th
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 282-9246
After nearly two decades of political, literary and artistic interventions in San Francisco, writer and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation) will be leaving the Bay Area this fall. Join us for a special preview of Mattilda’s memoir-in progress, The End of San Francisco, described by Sycamore as a book “about the people and spaces and feelings in moments of losses that have made and unmade me — my political, cultural, social, ethical, sexual and emotional formations, and their undoing.” The centerpiece of the book is about moving to San Francisco in the early-’90s, and coming of age as a queer rabble-rouser on both coasts. Much of that section, and the next, which starts as the dot-com crash gives way to new perils and possibilities, takes place in the Mission just blocks from Modern Times — what a perfect place for a special preview reading! Includes refreshments before, and discussion afterwards — feel free to bring something delicious…
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Selected 2009 Bay Area Appearances
Radar Reading Series
Wednesday, January 7, 6 p.m.
San Francisco Main Library
Latino/Hispanic Reading Room
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Featuring Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Ryan Kamstra, Rhani Remedes and Marya Taylor & hosted by Michelle Tea
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO
Books Inc. in the Castro
(with Thea Hillman)
Thursday, January 22nd, 7:30 p.m.
2275 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 864-6777
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BERKELEY
Moe's Books
(with Thea Hillman)
Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley CA 94704
(510) 849-2087
The final reading for So Many Ways to Sleep Badly!!!
Guillermo Gomez-Peña + Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- a match made in heaven/hell
Thursday, February 26, 7 pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street (at 20th)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-282-9246
Come celebrate City Lights as Modern Times' Independent Publisher of the Month with City Lights authors, editors, staff, and refreshments…
Make/shift in San Francisco
Thursday, August 6, 2009, 7 p.m.
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE
Hosted by make/shift coeditors/copublishers Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski, with readings by columnist and reviews editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and contributors Hilary Goldberg, Lailan Huen, and Stephanie Yang.
Litquake Koret Reading Series
“May You Live in Interesting Times”
Saturday, October 10, 4 pm sharp
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
with Wagner James Au, Edward Humes, Geoffrey Nunberg, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Jane Vandenburgh, and Jess Walter
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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly Tour, Fall 2008
***THE BIG BOOK LAUNCH***
Wednesday, October 8, 7:30pm
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
(415) 362-8193
A Litquake event!
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in PORTLAND
(with Thea Hillman)
Monday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Powell's on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, Oregon
(503) 228-4651
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in SEATTLE
(with Thea Hillman)
Wednesday, October 15
Elliott Bay Book Co.
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 624-6600
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in OLYMPIA
(with Thea Hillman)
Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m.
Evergreen State College Library, Underground
2700 NW Evergreen Parkway
Olympia, WA 98505
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BELLINGHAM, WA
Monday, October 20,
Village Books
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 671-2626
Bookslut Reading Series
with Todd Hasak-Lowy and more TBA
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.
Hopleaf, Second Floor
5148 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in CHICAGO
Wednesday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.
Women and Children First
5233 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in TORONTO
(with Hal Niedzviecki, Stacey May Fowles, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk and Sandra Alland)
Monday, November 3, 7:00 p.m.
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library
86 Nassau Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1M5
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in MONTREAL
Thursday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
McGill University
Biology Building
1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue
Room S 1/4
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in AMHERST
Tuesday, Nov 11, 7:00 p.m.
Food for Thought
106 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 253-5432
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BOSTON
Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.
Harvard Coop
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02238
(617) 499-2000
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in NEW YORK
Tuesday, November 18, 7 p.m.
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 777-6028
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in PHILADELPHIA
Thursday, November 20, 5:30 p.m.
Giovanni’s Room
1145 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-2960
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BALTIMORE
Monday, December 1, 7:00 p.m.
Red Emma’s
800 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 230-0450
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in WASHINGTON, DC
(with Jennifer Natalya Fink)
Tuesday, December 2, 7:00 p.m.
Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 965-5200
QT Reading Series at Dixon Place
Tuesday, December 9, 7:00pm
(with Douglas A. Martin and Magdalena Zurawski)
161 Chrystie Street (just above Delancey)
New York, NY 10012
(212) 219-0736
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BROOKLYN
Wednesday, December 10, 7:30 pm
WORD
126 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 383-0096
• • • • •
Selected 2008 Bay Area Appearances
PERVERTS PUT OUT
Saturday, January 5, 2008, 7:30 pm
CounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street, San Francisco
$10-15
With Charlie Anders, Gina de Vries, Trebor Healey, Carol Queen, Simon Sheppard, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and more TBA.
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Tea Time at Modern Times
Tuesday, April 15 @ 7pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia @ 20th Street
San Francisco, CA
415-282-9246
Join me, your host, for a discussion of Close to the Knives, by David Wojnarowicz, the first book I read where I finally saw a reflection of the radical queer outsider rage I felt combined with maybe a little bit of hope in a world of loss.
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STRIKE: Igniting the Fuse of Possibility
Thursday, May 1 -- Doors open 7 pm; performance begins 7:30 pm
1st Unitarian Church
Geary (near Franklin)
San Francisco, CA
Admission: $12.00 @ door
(no one turned down for lack of funds)
30 poets, performers, and fiction writers deliver 3-5 minute works exploring survival and resistance in an age of disaster capitalism
Featuring:
Kim Addonizio, Charlie Anders, Diane di Prima, Camille Dungy, Ananda Esteva, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Daphne Gottlieb, Jack Hirschman, Kevin Killian, Joseph Lease, Jon Longhi, Adam Mansbach, Annalee Newitz, Michael McClure, Peter Plate, Barbara Reyes, Bucky Sinister, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Amber Tamblyn, James Tracey, Youth Speaks, and more TBA
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***BOOK LAUNCH***
THAT’S REVOLTING!: Radical queer activism -- past, present, and future.
Thursday, June 5, 6pm
San Francisco Main Library
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room (downstairs)
100 Larkin Street
(415) 557-4566
Co-sponsored by the National Queer Arts Festival.
Join Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore to celebrate the
arrival of the expanded second edition of That's
Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, with a dangerous and illuminating
discussion featuring Carol Queen, Bo Brown, Ralowe T. Ampu, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Eric Stanley and Gina de Vries.
Has the nightmare of gay marriage sandblasted the
dreams of ‘70s gay liberation revolutionaries? Has the feverish potential of queer sexual splendor been
annihilated by the consumerist frenzy of assimilationist gay culture? Is there hope for radical
queer troublemaking in the hyper-gentrified
monoculture of current-day San Francisco? Bring your questions, ideas, plots and dreams.
• • • • •
Selected 2007 Bay Area Appearances
WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?
Curated by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.
Jon Sims Center for the Arts
1519 Mission Street near 11th St, San Francisco
$8-15, no one turned away for lack of funds
www.queerculturalcenter.org
Devastating performance, spoken word and troublemaking featuring Kirk Read, Seth Eisen, Nico Dacumos, Wickie Stamps, Thandiwe Thomas. This sequel to last year's packed event will feature brand-new work and a delicious discussion to follow the show, so get your questions ready!
This event is part of the National Queer Arts Festival, and is sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center and the San Francisco Foundation.
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PERVERTS PUT OUT!
Saturday, July 28, 7:30 pm
The Dore Alley Fair edition of this notorious reading series!
With the fantastic Charlie Anders, Carol Queen, Lori Selke, Simon Sheppard, Kirk Read, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Gina DeVries and Thea Hillman.
CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., $10-$15, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture.
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LitQuake LitCrawl
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Time and Location TBA
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Make/shift Magazine Release Party
Friday, October 19, 2007
Mama Buzz
2318 Telegraph, Oakland, CA
Hosted by the editorial and publishing collective, with readings by Irina Contreras, Myriam Gurba, Kaya Oakes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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K’VETCH 11-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Sunday, November 4, 9pm
Sadie's Flying Elephant, on the corner of Potrero and Mariposa, San Francisco
ALL-FEATURE EXTRAVAGANZA with Charlie Anders, Christopher Boyd, Cindy Emch, Logan Knight, Ace Morgan, Alvin Orloff, Heather Renee Russ, horehound stillpoint, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Max Wolf Valerio, Shawna Virago and Lauren Wheeler.
Cohosted by Kirk Read and special guest Samara
Halperin (Tara Jepsen is touring)
FREE
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INSTANT CITY ISSUE #5 LAUNCH PARTY (“CRIME”)
Thursday, November 8th
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Readings began at 8 p.m. SHARP!
Adobe Bookshop
3166 16th Street, between Valencia and Guerrero, San Francisco
Readings by Stephen Elliott, Sarah Fran Wisby,
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Richard J. Martin Jr.
Followed by live music by CONES (Formerly Fierce Antler)
(415)-864-3936
FREE
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Nobody Passes Tour, Spring 2007
NOBODY PASSES IN LA
Friday, February 9 @ 7:30 p.m.
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 660-1175
with Dean Spade, Jessica Hoffmann, Ruth Blandon, Irina Contreras, Stephanie Abraham, Benjamin Shepard, Jen Cross and Jennifer Blowdryer
NOBODY PASSES IN EUGENE
Friday, February 16 @ 4:30 p.m.
University of Oregon, MultiCultural Center
Suite 33 in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Eugene, OR97403
with Jen Cross
NOBODY PASSES IN PORTLAND
Monday, February 19 @ 7:30 p.m.
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214
NOBODY PASSES IN SEATTLE
Wednesday, February 21 @ 7 p.m.
Bailey/Coy Books
414 Broadway E.
Seattle, Washington 98102
(206) 323-8842
with Jennifer Blowdryer
NOBODY PASSES IN BELLINGHAM
Friday, February 23 @ 7:30 p.m.
Village Books
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 671-2626
with Jennifer Blowdryer
MACALESTER COLLEGE
Saturday, March 3, time and location TBA
St. Paul, Minnesota
NOBODY PASSES IN MINNEAPOLIS
Monday, March 5 @ 7 p.m.
Amazon Bookstore Cooperative
4755 Chicago Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
(612) 821-9630
NOBODY PASSES IN CHICAGO
Thursday, March 8 @ 7:30 p.m.
Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
773-769-9299
NOBODY PASSES IN MILWAUKEE
Friday, March 9 @ 7:30 p.m.
Broad Vocabulary
2241 S. Kinnickinnic Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
(414) 744-8384
NOBODY PASSES IN ANN ARBOR
Sunday, March 11 @ 4 p.m.
Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 South State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 662-7407
NOBODY PASSES IN TORONTO
Tuesday, March 13 @ 8 p.m.
This Ain't the Rosedale Library
483 Church St
Toronto, Ontario
(416) 929-9912
with Stacey May Fowles, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha and Zoe Whittall
NOBODY PASSES IN BOSTON
Monday, March 19 @ 7 p.m.
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 267-6272
NOBODY PASSES IN NYC
Wednesday, March 21 @ 7 p.m.
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
New York, NY 10002
with Helen Boyd, Rocko Bulldagger, Naeem Mohaiemen, Liz Rosenfeld, Jennifer Blowdryer and more TBA
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
DELAYED until further notice
in conversation with T. Cooper and Felicia Luna Lemus
WAGNER COLLEGE
Monday, March 26 @ 7 p.m., location TBA
Staten Island, New York
NOBODY PASSES IN HUDSON, NY
Friday, March 30
Time and Space Limited
details TBA
NOBODY PASSES IN PHILADELPHIA
Monday, April 2 @ 5:30 p.m.
Giovanni 's Room
345 South 12th Street
Corner of 12th & Pine Sts in Center City
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-2960
with Rocko Bulldagger
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, April 3 @ 4:30 p.m.
location TBA
Fairfax, VA
NOBODY PASSES IN BALTIMORE
Wednesday, April 4 @ 7 p.m.
Red Emma's Bookstore
800 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
NOBODY PASSES IN DC
Thursday, April 5 @ 6:30 p.m.
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 387-7638
YALE UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, April 11 @ 7 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
in conversation with T Cooper and Felicia Luna Lemus
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Thursday, April 12 @ 8 p.m.
Location TBA
Middletown, CT
NOBODY PASSES IN BROOKLYN
Sunday, April 15 @ 5 p.m.
Vox Pop
1022 Cortelyou Road
(Cortelyou Road on the Q train)
Brooklyn, NY 11218
(718) 940-2084
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Friday, April 20 @ 7:30 p.m.
Swift 500
Cincinnati, OH
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Monday, April 23
location and time TBA
Chicago, IL
• • • • •
Selected 2006 Bay Area Appearances
Lambda Literary Awards Reading for Bay Area Finalists with Charlie Anders, Katherine Forrest, Joshua Gamson, Randy Haynes, Tirza True Latimer, Katia Noyes, Ursula Steck, Horehound Stillpoint, Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Amber Flora Thomas, April 6, 2006
San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco (415) 557-4277
WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?, Curated by Mattilda
Jon Sims Center for the Arts, 1519 Mission Street @ 11th Street
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That’s Revolting Tour, 2004
(with a few Dangerous Families readings)
San Francisco Main Library (Book Launch, That's Revolting);
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004, 6 p.m.
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
with Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Ralowe T. Ampu, Mattie Udora Richardson, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Blake Nemec, Reginald Lamar, Eli seMbessakwini and Eric Stanley
City Lights Bookstore; Thursday, September 23rd 2004, 7 p.m.
261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway, San Francisco, CA; (415)362-8193
with Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Reginald Lamar and Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Mills College; Friday, September 24 6:00 pm
Lucy Stern 101, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA
with Eli seMbessakwini, Mattie Udora Richardson and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Erb Memorial Union, Downstairs, Suite 34; University of Oregon, Tuesday, September 28
6:00 pm
Eugene, OR
Powell's City of Books; Wednesday, September 29th, 7:30 p.m.
1005 W Burnside, Portland, Oregon - (503)228-0540 ext 482
Bailey/Coy Bookstorem, Thursday, September 30th, 7 p.m.
414 Broadway East, Seattle, WA - (206)323-8842
Little Sisters; October 2, 2004
1238 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC - (604)669-1753
Orca Books, Monday, October 4 7:00 pm
509 E 4th Ave, Olympia, WA - (360)352-0123
Barbara's Books, Friday, Oct 8 7:30 pm
1218 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL - (312)413-2665
Rainbow Book Co-op; Saturday, Oct 9
426 West Gilman Street, Madison, WI 53703 - (608)257-6050
Talking Leaves Bookstore; Friday October 15 7:00 pm
3158 Main St, Buffalo, NY
Food for Thought; Monday, Oct 18 7:00 pm
106 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA - (413)253-5432
w/ Gina DeVries
Brown University, Sarah Doyle Women's Center; Tuesday, Oct 19 7:00 pm
Providence, RI
w/ Richard E. Bump
The Lucy Parsons Center; Wednesday, Oct 20 7:00 p.m.
549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA - (617)267-6272
w/ Richard E. Bump
Casco Bay Books; Thursday, Oct 21 8:00 pm
151 Middle St,, Portland, ME
NYU; Saturday October 23 5:00 pm
New York, NY
Housing Works Used Book Cafe; Sunday, Oct 24 7 pm
(That's Revolting! BOOK LAUNCH) 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY - (212)966-0466, Ext. 1104
with Benjamin Shepard, Rocko Bulldagger, Jesse Heiwa, Stephanie Schroeder, Stephen Kent Jusick, Justin Rosado and more
Bluestocking Bookstore; Wednesday, Oct 27, 7:00pm
(Dangerous Families BOOK LAUNCH) New York, NY
with Betsy Andrews and more
Labyrinth Books; Friday, Oct 29 7:00 pm
536 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025 - (212)865-1588
with Jennifer Flynn, Jesse Heiwa, Stephanie Schroeder, Blake Nemec and more
Giovanni's Room; Sunday, October 31, 5:30pm
Philadelphia, PA
(Spoooooky Dangerous Families Reading)
with Kelli Dunham and more
Robin's Books; Monday, November 1
108 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA - (215)735-9600
with Priyank Jindal, Rocko Bulldagger and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Georgetown University; Wednesday, Nov 3
Washington, D.C.
The Brian McKenzie Center; Wednesday, November 3, 7:00pm
1426 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
with Blake Nemec
Chop Suey; Thurs, Nov 4 7:30 pm
1317 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA - (804)497-4705
with Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Internationalist Books; Friday, Nov 5, 7:00 pm
405 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC - (919)942-1740
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Short Mountain Radical Faerie Sanctuary; Sunday, Nov 7, 8:00pm
247 Sanctuary Ln, Liberty, TN
with Blake Nemec and Eli seMbessakwini
Outwrite Books; Mon, November 8 8:00 pm
991 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, GA - (404)607-0082
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Nowe Miasto; Wednesday, November 10 7:00 pm
223 Jane (near Banks and Broad), New Orleans, LA - (504)821-6721
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Book People; Friday, November 12 7:00pm
603 N.Lamar, Austin, TX - (512)472-4288
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Monday, Nov 15 7:00 pm; 3400 E. Speedway #114, Tucson, AZ - (520)319-7887
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)
Obelisk Books; Wednesday, Nov 17, 7:00 pm
1029 University Avenue, San Diego, CA - (619)297-4171
with Blake Nemec (OliveLucy) and Eli seMbessakwini
UCLA; Thurs, Nov 18
Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books - Friday, November 19 7:30 pm
1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA - (323)660-1175
with Eli seMbessakwini, Blake Nemec (OliveLucy) and Clint Catalyst
Modern Times Bookstore; Sunday, November 21
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 - (415)282-9246
with Rhani Remedes, Mattie Udora Richardson, Eli seMbessakwini, and more
That's Revolting! Berkeley Reading and Free Vegan Dinner; April 17, 2005
3124 Shattuck @ Woolsey, Berkeley, CA - (510)540-0751
with Tommi Avicolli-Mecca and others
Double Trouble at Modern Times! Special Advance Preview of my new novel,
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, SF Book Launch for D. Travers Scott, author of,
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
Modern Times Bookstore - (415)282-9866
888 Valencia St at 20th Street
• • • • •
West Coast Tour with Kirk Read, 2003
Wed Aug 13, 7:30 pm - 23rd Avenue Books
1015 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR 503/224.5097
Thurs Aug 14, 7:00 pm - Bailey-Coy Bookstore
414 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 206/323.8842
Fri Aug 15, 7:30 pm - Village Bookstore
1210 Eleventh St, Bellingham, WA 360/671.2626
Sat Aug 16, 7:00 pm - Orca Books, w/local hero Spider
509 E 4th Ave, Olympia, WA 360/352.1456
Sun Aug 17, 8:30 pm - Performing at "Nasty" with Michael V. Smith and Tralala Farsi Sentiamo - The Penthouse
1019 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC mvs@telus.net for info
Mon Aug 18, 7:00 pm - Grass Roots Bookstore
227 Southwest 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 541/754.7668
Thurs Sept 11, 7:30 pm - Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 415/282.9246
Fri Sept 19 - A Different Light in West Hollywood
8853 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 310/854.6601
Sat Sept 20, 7:30 pm - Skylight Books in Los Feliz
1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 323/660.1175
Sun Sept 21, 5:00 pm - Obelisk Bookstore
1029 University Ave, San Diego, CA 619/297.4171
• • • • •
Pulling Taffy Tour, 2003
March 11, 7:00 pm - City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94133 415/362.8193
March 21, 7:30 pm - A Different Light Bookstore
489 Castro Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415/431.0891
March 29, 8:00 pm - Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 800/490.7023
March 30, 6:30 pm - A Woman's Prerogative Bookstore
175 West Nine Mile Road Ferndale, MI 48220 248/545.5703
April 1 - Antioch College
Yellow Springs, OH
April 2 - Outward Bound
625 N. East St. Indianapolis, IN 46202 317/951.9100
April 4 - A-zone
Chicago, IL
April 5, 7:00 pm - Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee
2710 North Murray Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211 414/963.9089
April 6 - Quimby's
1854 W. North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622 773/342.0910
April 9, 7:30 pm - Barbara's Book Store
1350 N. Wells Street Chicago, IL 60610 312/642.5044
April 12, 7 pm - Sailor's Bar
465 Church Street Toronto, Canada
April 21 - NYC Book Launch with special guests
Housing Works Used Book Cafe
126 Crosby Street NYC, NY 10012 212/334.3324
April 22, 6:30 pm - Yale University
New Haven, CT
April 24, 5:30 pm - Giovanni's Room
345 S. 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215/923.2960
April 28, 8 pm - Brown University
Providence, RI
April 29, 7 pm - NYU Gallatin, Kimmel Center Lounge
60 Washington Square South New York, NY
May 1, 7 pm - Lambda Rising Bookstore
Connecticut Avenue Washington, DC
May 6 - Twentysomething at the Center
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 212/339.5968
May 22 - Books Inc
2275 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415/864.6777
June 1 - The Parlor
Los Angeles, CA
June 5, 7:30 - Books, Inc.
2275 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415/864.6777