September Events
Sunday, September 2, 7:30 pm
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown
Cindy Crabb will read selections from 18 years of her zine, Doris. In Doris, Crabb has explored subjects like consent, death, self-image, creativity, shyness, queer identity, addiction, punk and anarchism.
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck, Bkly. 94704
(510) 649-1320
Gabor Mate:Beyond the Hungry Ghost in Politics: How Self-Awareness Within Supports Progress WithoutWednesday, September 5, 7:30 pm
Location: First Congregational Church
Tickets: $15 advance; $18 door
KPFA hosts an evening with Gabor Mate, MD, author of four books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. "Gabor Mate's connections--between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political--are bold, wise and deeply moral."---Naomi Wolf. Tickets available at Pegasus Books.
First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way,
Bkly, 94707
Thursday, September 13, 7:30 pm
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown
From the front-office staff in Bowling Green planning kooky promotions, to a trainer grocery shopping for a team on forty dollars a day, to a new wife coming to terms with her husband's transitory lifestyle, to a father struggling to make it back to the Majors and a Cuban defector blowing everyone away with a 100 mph-plus fastball, Katya Cengel tells the story of people who live to make baseball happen, in all its nitty-gritty glory.
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Bkly, 94704
(510) 649-1320
Wednesday, September 19, 7:30 pm
Location: Pegasus Books on Solano
First Person Singular presents a new series featuring prominent Bay Area writers reading the work of other writers. ON BOOK debuts with Elizabeth Rossner, author of The Speed of Light and Blue Nude, reading from works of Grace Paley.
Pegasus Books on Solano, 1855 Solano, Bkly. CA 94707
(510) 525-6888
Wednesday, September 19, 7:30 pm
Location: Pegasus Books Downtown
Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series that features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community that lives in the Bay Area. This month's readers are Gina Goldblatt, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Christian Gullette, Julian Shendelman and Michael Montlack.
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Bkly, 94704
(510) 649-1320
Saturday, September 29, Noon-4:30
Location: Berkeley's Civic Center Park
WATERSHED ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL is a collaboration of Robert Hass, Poetry Flash, Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, and Ecocity Builders. Join us to celebrate readings by renowned poets, writers, and activists with jazz music, K-12 student poets, environmental updates and We are Nature Open Mic. Find Pegasus Books at the festival, selling a wonderful selection of poetry books.
Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King Junior Way, Bkly, CA 94703
