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SUMMARY:STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA with author ANDREW LAM and Aimee Phan
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Andrew Lam and Aimee Phan in conversation on Lam’s new book\, Stories from the Edge of the Sea. At times humorous and ecstatic\, other times poetic and elegiac\, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss\, lust and grief\, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam\, a widow processes her husband’s death through frantic Facebook postings\, a writer enters an old lover’s home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast\, open-ended terrain\, then Andrew Lam’s short stories are its mountains\, valleys\, and lakes. Together they seek to chart a barely explored country. \n“Andrew Lam might’ve entitled this book War and Love\, so universal and personal are his stories. I promise you: read Stories from the Edge of the Sea\, and you will receive gifts of wonder and grief\, shock and delight.” \n—Maxine Hong Kingston\, author of The Woman Warrior\, China Men\, Tripmaster Monkey\, and others \nTime: 6:00pm – 7:30pm \nLocation: Mechanics’ Institute
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/stories-from-the-edge-of-the-sea-with-author-andrew-lam-and-aimee-phan/
LOCATION:Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Special Literary Salon with Maxine Hong Kingston and Andrew Lam in Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are pleased to invite you to a literary salon in Berkeley featuring celebrated authors Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior\, Knopf\, 1976) and Andrew Lam (Stories from the Edge of the Sea\, Red Hen Press\, 2025).  \nIn addition to an inspiring conversation among these authors and Red Hen Press publisher\, Kate Gale\, you’ll enjoy delicious food and summer refreshments.  \nWe hope you’ll join us for a celebration of literature and small press publishing! Please RSVP below to save your seat for this special event. We will be in touch by email with the event address soon after. \nDate: Saturday\, June 14\nTime: 2:30p.m.– 4:30p.m.\nLocation: Private Residence\, Berkeley\, CA 94703 (address provided upon RSVP) \nIf you have any questions\, please contact Brooke at brooke.erdmann@redhen.org \n  \nMaxine Hong Kingston\, daughter of Chinese immigrants\, is a literary pioneer\, poet\, memoirist\, and fiction writer.  She is the author of numerous nonfiction books including National Book Critics Circle Award-winner\, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and National Book Award-winner China Men (1980).  She also edited the anthology Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace (2006)\, compiled from the work of participants in the therapeutic poetry workshops she has led for more than 500 veterans of war. Her honors include the National Medal of Arts (presented by former President Barack Obama)\, the National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Humanities Medal (presented by former President Bill Clinton)\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award in Literature\, the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, and the title Living Treasure of Hawaii. She is a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland\, California. \nAndrew Lam fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon in April 1975 when he was 11 years old. He attended UC Berkeley\, studying biochemistry\, but abandoned plans for medical school after graduation. He entered the creative writing program at San Francisco State University instead. While still in school\, he began writing for Pacific News Service and in 1993 won the Outstanding Young Journalist Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has written for many newspapers and magazines since\, including National Geographic Traveler\, Los Angeles Times Magazine\, and The Nation. A regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for over seven years\, Lam is the author of four books and has won the PEN Open Book Award\, the Josephine Miles Literary Award\, and many others. In 2004 a PBS documentary about his life called\, My Journey Home\, in which a film crew followed him back to Vietnam\, was aired nationwide. Lam has lectured at many universities and colleges and taught as a writer-in-residence at San Jose State University from 2015 to 2016. \n“Andrew Lam might’ve entitled this book War and Love\, so universal and personal are his stories. I promise you: read Stories from the Edge of the Sea\, and you will receive gifts of wonder and grief\, shock and delight.” \n—Maxine Hong Kingston \n 
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/berkeley2025/
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SUMMARY:Nan Rae Brush Painting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to a special brush painting workshop on Saturday\, June 21 where you can learn how to paint one of the Four Gentlemen/Four Seasons of Brush painting – the Bamboo under the guidance of renowned Artist Nan Rae. Her style is based on the Literati or Gentlemen Scholars of ancient China\, conveying the Chinese saying “from heart to arm…  to hand to brush… to paper.”  Combining the grace of the Literati style with an impressionist approach to color\, Nan will also be painting the Poppy and the King of All Flowers – the Peony. \nSpace is limited so reserve your seat today! \nSaturday\, June 21\n1:00pm – 4:00pm\nRed Hen Press: 1540 Lincoln Ave\, Pasadena\, CA 91103\nTickets: $65 online\, $80 at the door \nAll brush painting supplies will be provided! \n  \n 
URL:https://redhen.org/event-calendar/draft-nan-rae-brush-painting-workshop/
LOCATION:Red Hen Press\, 1540 Lincoln Ave.\, Pasadena\, CA\, 91103\, United States
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