BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//chikkutakku.com//RDFCal 1.0//EN X-WR-CALDESC:GoogleカレンダーやiCalendar形式情報を共有シェ アしましょう。近所のイベントから全国のイベントま で今日のイベント検索やスケジュールを決めるならち っくたっく X-WR-CALNAME:ちっくたっく X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black California Gold Listening Session: Sonic Shifts and Poetic S oundings across the Black Bay Area. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251106T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251106T053000Z UID:324532119037 DESCRIPTION:Poet Wendy M. Thompson reads from her collection\, Black Cali fornia Gold\, and engages in conversation with Dawn-Elissa Fischer.Poet W endy M. Thompson's debut poetry collection\, Black California Gold (Buck nell University Press\, 2025) traces the past and present of California’ s Bay Area\, exploring themes of family\, migration\, girlhood\, and ident ity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment\, advanced gentrification\, and the erasure of Black communities. Traveling down both familiar highway s and obscure side streets\, there is sound and song between the lines in the poetic scenes laid out in this patchwork of a place\, a mix of countie s\, cities\, and suburbs that line the San Francisco Bay. Listening to a c urated soundtrack that ranges across era and genre\, Thompson engages with Dawn-Elissa Fischer\, anthropologist and filmmaker\, reflecting on what g ospel and blues did for the migrant generation\, for whom California becam e an extension of the South\, and who laid the groundwork for the politica l and cultural transitions created and experienced by their descendants wh o would navigate changing Bay Area cities with funk\, soul\, and hip hop a s a sonic response and guide.Using soundscapes as a thematic entrypoint\, Thompson and Fischer discuss place and sound as sensorial markers\, locati ng the Bay Area as a simultaneously globalized and localized region where black sound is root\, mood\, political call and response\, and borrowed la nguage\, and shifting sounds of urbanity\, suburban sprawl\, and nature pe rmeate what it means to call the Bay Area home. This talk will include a r eading by the author. Wendy M. Thompson is an Oakland-based poet and Asso ciate Professor of African American Studies at San José State University. For this reading\, she will be joined in conversation by Dawn-Elissa Fisc her\, filmmaker and Professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State Unive rsity. Free event\; Thompson's book will be available for sale at the rea ding ($19.95\, pb).  To reserve a seat or for more information\, please c all the bookshop at 415-586-3733. LOCATION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR