EVENTS CALENDAR -

UPCOMING EVENTS

Orcas Island Writers Festival
Wed. September 3 (check-in) - Sun. September 7, 2008
Environmental Learning Center, Moran State Park, Eastsound, on beautiful Orcas Island, Washington.
Costs vary. See website for full schedule, faculty, pricing.
Barbara Lewis, Festival Director, 360-472-0254

Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at 7:00 PM
Reading and reception to celebrate publication of the anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection
Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
Free admission.

Saturday, May 24, 2008 - My LA stage debut along with wonderful actors and performance artists Suzan Averitt, Claire Cronin, Penny Folger, Estela Garcia, Dave Johnson, Adam Overton, and Joe Seeley. I'll be portraying Fanny the Gombe chimpanzee and a juvenile baboon in a reenactment of the documentary Jane Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, directed by Rachel Mayeri of Primate Cinema. The evening begins at 7:00 PM with presentations by cognitive scientist Deborah Forster and baboon researcher Rebecca Frank, a screening of Mayeri's short film, Baboons as Friends, and our live performance at 8:30 PM.
TELIC, 975 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA (Chung King Road is the pedestrian-only street entered via Hill Street north of College, directly across from the entrance to Chinatownland.)
Free.

Friday, April 18, 2008 at 7:00 PM
A benefit for the Santa Monica Review:
Readings by Diane Lefer, Jim Krusoe, Michelle Latiolais, and Gary Amdahl, introduced by David Ulin, Amy Gerstler, Benjamin Weissman, Ron Carlson, and Greg Bills
with Country-honk music by Slow Wreck
Refreshment and book signings
at the Second Space/SMC Performing Arts Center at Santa Monica Blvd. between 10th and 11th Streets, Santa Monica
Tickets: $20 on-line at events.smc.edu or by phone at 310.434.3000

Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Presentation to Secular Jewish Humanists of Los Angeles
Felicia Mahood Center, 11338 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles
Free admission

Saturday, October 27, 2007, 11:00 AM
Conversation with Natasha Sajé at Great Salt Lake Book Festival, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT, Conference Room C

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Changing Hands Bookstore,6428 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ 85282
Contact: Pinna Joseph, 480-730-4828

Tuesday, October 4, 2007, 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Presentation and Reading, Literary Series at Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, Art Building 214
Free Admission.

Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 10:00 AM
"How Does the Cobbler Make a Revolutionary Shoe?"
Reading and Discussion at the Forum, All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, CA

Art & Activism: July 28, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Reading and discussion with Diane Lefer and Gayle Brandeis sponsored by CodePink at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA

Play Production: June 2007 - Free
Majikan, one-act play by Diane Lefer playing with Lost Oasis by Patrick Gabridge
A Ciona Taylor Production
Summit Rock in Central Park
June 9th &June 10th 2:30pm and 4:30pm * June 17th 2:30pm and 4:30pm * June 23rd 2:30pm and 4:30pm * June 24th 2:30pm and 4:30pm * June 30th 2:30pm and 4:30pm

Sunday, May 27 at 4:00 PM:
Half-hour presentations of new work by three recipients of City of LA individual artists fellowships. That's readings by me and author Luis Rodriguez, and a performance by Hector Aristizábal
Barnsdall Art Park Gallery Theatre, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Admission Free

Monday, June 4th at 7:00 PM
Reading from California Transit at Dutton's Brentwood, 11975 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles 90049
Admission Free

Thursday, May 24 at 7:30 PM:
"A Taste of C.O.L.A." - recipients of City of LA individual artists fellowships (that's me, plus Hector Aristizábal, jazz trombonist and composer Phil Ranelin, author Luis Rodriguez, performance artist Heather Woodbury) present 10-minute samples of new work followed by an artists reception at Barnsdall Art Park Gallery Theatre, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Admission Free

Monday, May 14 at 7:00
Reading from California Transit at Vroman's Books
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
Admission Free

Monday, May 7 at 7:30 PM:
Powell's Books, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR
Reading from California Transit
Admission Free

Friday, May 4 at 7:00 PM:
Orca Books, 509 E. 4th Ave, Olympia, WA 98502
Reading from California Transit
Admission Free

Saturday, May 5, 4:00-6:00 PM:
The Evergreen State College, Seminar Building II, Lecture Room 1105, Olympia, WA

Reading from California Transit and discussion: Artists as Activists
Admission Free

Thursday, April 26 at 5:00 PM at the UCI Bookstore, University of California-Irvine, Student Center at the corner of West Peltason Drive and Pereira Drive, Irvine, CA 92697
Celebrating the Santa Monica Review
Admission Free

Saturday, April 14 at 5:00 PM
Russo's Books, 9000 Ming #1-4, Bakersfield, CA 93311
Reading and signing for California Transit

Thursday, February 22:
McCune Conference Room, 6th floor of HSSB (Humanities and Social Sciences Building), University of California-Santa Barbara
At 5:30 PM: "Nightwind," performance of our play by Hector Aristizábal and Enzo Fina about Hector's arrest and torture by the US-supported military in Colombia, followed by a brief workshop and Q&A.
At 4:00 PM, preceding the performance, there will be a panel and discussion on "Torture and the Arts."
Public welcome to attend all or part of the event.
Admission Free.

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