2024 EVENTS
2024 EVENTS
On-going (For notifications of free monthly workshops, follow Write Now! SF Bay on Eventbrite)
• BIPOC HATCHERY, 2nd Tuesday of every month 6-8pm on Zoom
• WRITE NOW! SF BAY THIRD SATURDAY, 3rd sat of every month 10am-noon on Zoom
• Dec 9: Porter Gulch Review #40, Issue 40 launch, @ Cabrillo College, Aptos
• Nov 12: "Burden of Imagination: Outside the MFA System," Art Department talk by Shizue Seigel @Alan Hancock Community College, Santa Maria
• Oct 25: Lit Crawl SF "LIFELINES – BIPOCS Staying Sane in A Crazy World" @Gestalt. Featuring James Cagney, Christl Rikka Perkins, and Shizue Seigel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np7hUgNO1G0
• Oct 10: Writers of Santa Cruz County @ Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Featuring Adela Najarro, Madeline Aliah, Shirley Flores Muñoz, Bob Gómez. Ekua Omosupe, Elbina Batala Rafizadeh, Victoria Bañales, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, Meilin Obinata, Chloe Gentile-Montgomery, Shizue Seigel, Shirley Ancheta, Sara Santistevan, Geneffa Jahan, Farnaz Fatemi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpRX59pwa6M
• Sept 28: LIFELINES creative writing workshop on mental health @Medicine for Nightmares, featuring Shizue Seigel and Tureeda Mikell
• Sept 8: LOCAL COLOR Book Party & Reading @ SF Main Library Latino Room, featuring BIPOC authors with recent books: Avotcja, James Cagney, Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Susan Kiyo Ito, Tureeda Mikell, Grace Loh Prasad, Shizue Seigel, Kim Shuck, Kimi Sugioka, Maw Shein Win, and artwork slideshow by Susana Aragon, Adrian Arias, Lorraine Bonner, Juan R. Fuentes, Shizue Seigel, Karen Seneferu, and Kim Shuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SNdAYvMgx0
July 27: I Am a Woman; I Am a Backbone: Creators, Curators & Comrades, presented by Moondrop Productions, Beast Crawl @ First Edition, Oakland. Featuring Maw Shein Win, Katrina Croswell, Vielka Solano, Lauren L. Wheeler, Shizue Seigel & Joyce Lee.
• July 21: "Strawberry Picker" film & discussion with Juan Fuentes @ Mildred Owen Concert Hall, Sanchez Arts Center, Pacifica
• July 12-Aug 11 Food For Thought art exhibition @Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica. Featuring Susana Aragon, Lorraine Bonner, Juan Fuentes, Pancho Pescador, Shizue Seigel, Karen Seneferu, and Kim Shuck.
• July 16, Writers of Color of Santa Cruz County, INTER|ACT spoken word @Satori Arts, Santa Cruz. Featuring. Madeline Aliah, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, Sara Santisteven, Geneffa Jahan, Shizue Seigel, Shirley Flores-Munoz
• July 9, HIVE Collective podcast interview, KSQD.org (KSquid). Featuring Shizue Seigel interviewed by Geneffa Jahan. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the-hive8/episodes/S6E22-Shizue-Seigel-Talks-with-Geneffa-Jahan-e2m82i0
• June 1: LIFELINES: Writing as Healing, PEERS Wellness Jam @Oakland Asian Cultural Center, with Shizue Seigel.
• April 14: Food for Thought Reading & Creative Writing Workshop, @ History Center of San Luis Obispo County. Featuring Beverley Parayno, Jason Santiago LaCour, Tony Robles & Shizue Seigel
• April 13: ”Strawberry Picker" film & discussion, History Center of San Luis Obispo County with Juan Fuentes and Inspira Studios
• April 10-3 Food for Thought: Hidden California Narratives art/poetry exhibit, San Luis Obispo County Library. Featuring artwork and writing by Susana Aragon, Lorraine Bonner, Juan Fuentes, Pancho Pescador, Shizue Seigel, ad Kim Shuck
• April 6,“Mifune: Last Samurai,” film screening and discussion @San Luis Obispo Buddhist Church
• Mar 15: LIFELINES: Writing as Healing writing workshop with Shizue Seigel, PEERS, Oakland
• Mar 19: Food for Thought writing workshop, Mission @ Medicine for Nightmares. Featuring Tureeda Mikell and Shizue Seigel
• Mar 2: Food for Thought writing workshop, Chinatown @Clarion Performing Arts. Featuring Janice Hom, Shizue Seigel and Maw Shein Win
• Jan 25: Food for Thought writing workshop, Japantown @JCCCNC. Featuring Grace Morizawa, Kimi Sugioka and Shizue Seigel
• Jan 17: Colossus:Body reading @Medicine for Nightmares Shizue Seigel featured reader