This event is a 1-hour writing workshop that includes a copy of Tanea Lunsford Lynx’s “I Used to Live Here” chapbook for you to take home. This workshop centers queer Black belonging and honoring our relationship to place, home, memory, and each other. There will be opportunity to share work and build community around these themes. Tea will be provided by Letthemflourish for you to enjoy throughout the workshop.

To complete registration, send $15 via venmo to @tanea-elle with "Chapbook Workshop" in the description. Your chapbook will be provided at the beginning of the workshop. 

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lunsford lynx discusses the early African American presence in San Francisco with Albert Broussard, centering on a 1978 oral history interview between Broussard and Arelious Alberga, an African American gentleman born in San Francisco in 1884.  

lunsford lynx, one of the four inaugural artists-in-residence at SFPL through the San Francisco Arts Commission's Artist-in-Residence program, spent ten weeks immersing herself in the Main Library. She became fascinated by the San Francisco History Center’s collection of oral histories. Her journey led her to stumble upon a remarkable series, the Afro-Americans in San Francisco Prior to World War II: Oral History Project and a 1978 conversation featuring an interview between Broussard and Alberga. As lynx delved into the transcripts and listened to Alberga's captivating stories, a vivid picture of African American people in San Francisco during the 1880s and early 1900s emerged.   

This program is a companion to the exhibit, we were here, an interactive creative investigation, which delves into the African American presence in San Francisco during the late 1800s and early 1900s, with a particular focus on the 1906 earthquake. It is on view on the 3rd Floor of the Main Library and in the African American Center, Dec. 14, 2023 to March 1, 2024. 

Artist and writer tanea lunsford lynx presents new work created out of her time in residence at the San Francisco Public Library as part of the SFAC's Artist in Residence Program

we were here is a creative investigation of the Black American presence in San Francisco in the late 1800s and early 1900s, particularly at the occurrence of the 1906 Earthquake. This exhibition grounds into an archival experience and recollection of a larger-than-life story told by Aurelious Alberga (1884-1988) about his experience and survival of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake and fires. 

Black Love is returning in-person for the first time since early early 2020!!!! Come see us vaxxed, masked, and in the flesh at Strut in the Castro on Tuesday night!

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-love-tickets-392829452467

Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction, and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and "other."

Isaac Fellman (Dead Collections)
Nefertiti Asanti (fist of wind)
Daphne Gottlieb (Saint 1001)
tanea lunsford lynx (Still Here VI: Existence as Resistance)
Kar Johnson (Foglifter)
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST HOST Baruch Porras Hernandez (I Miss You, Delicate)

Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Trans Life Line.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.

Reading & Roundtable: Creative writers from CCSF Women's & Gender Studies department on how writing can lead us towards the free days ahead. This event is free and virtual via zoom.

About this event

Three CCSF Women’s and Gender Studies faculty members read their work and discuss how creative writing can lead us towards the free days ahead. Moderated by Maggie Harrison.

Xochiquetzal Candelaria’s book, Empire was published by University of Arizona Press. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Tin House, New England Review, Seneca Review, and other magazines.

tanea lunsford lynx is a fourth-generation Black San Franciscan on both sides. tanea is a writer, educator, and cultural worker at work on her second book, a work of creative nonfiction.

Leslie Simon taught at CCSF for many years. Her publications range from poetry to oral history to essays on literature, film, and politics, and include the novel The Divine Comic (Spuyten Duyvil).

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Join us for another Black Love! Part of QTPOC at Strut November 12th, at 7:00 PM (pdt) Free!

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Black Love brings you music, poetry, comedy, and art by Black Queer performers, free! Info on perfomers coming soon!

Black Love was created in collaboration with Strut by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, and Beatrice L. Thomas back in 2016 and Strut has been doing the performance series ever since! This season we are super happy that Black Love is curated once more by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! To learn more about Tanea visit her website! tanealunsfordlynx.com

Strut is still open, but Walk-in clients are not being seen at this time. Please call the clinic at 415-581-1600 for instructions, or go to sfaf.org for more information. Questions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at baruch@sfaf.org

Strut Limited Clinical Services: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm

Black Love brings you music, poetry, comedy, and art by Black Queer performers, free!

Reserve your free tickets here!

Facebook Event here!

Black Love was created in collaboration with Strut by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, and Beatrice L. Thomas back in 2016 and Strut has been doing the performance series ever since! This season we are super happy that Black Love is curated once more by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! To learn more about Tanea visit her website! tanealunsfordlynx.com

Strut is still open, but Walk-in clients are not being seen at this time. Please call the clinic at 415-581-1600 for instructions, or go to sfaf.org for more information. Questions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at baruch@sfaf.org

Strut Limited Clinical Services: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm

Join us for this very special Black Love! Part of QTPOC at Strut July 11th, at 6:00 PM (pdt) Free!

Reserve your free tickets here!

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Author, writer, educator Tanea Lunsford Lynx leads a conversation about Black Imagination, creativity, queerness, and the future of Black Literature.

Black Love was created in collaboration with Strut by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, and Beatrice L. Thomas back in 2016 and Strut has been doing the performance series ever since! This season we are super happy that Black Love is curated once more by Tanea Lunsford Lynx! To learn more about Tanea visit her website! https://www.tanealunsfordlynx.com/

Strut is still open, but Walk-in clients are not being seen at this time. Please call the clinic at 415-581-1600 for instructions, or go to sfaf.org for more information. Questions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at baruch@sfaf.org

Strut Limited Clinical Services: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm

Register here!

Still Here invites you to an intimate virtual evening with tanea lunsford lynx. Join us for a special "415 Day" as we take a deeper look into tanea’s creative life and work conversation with Still Here’s Artistic Director, Natalia Vigil. The evening will include literature, multimedia, and an interactive live chat with audience members.

Tickets: bit.ly/tanea415

**Note: This is a virtual event and will be closed captioned.**

Black Love is a space to celebrate and honor Queer Black art and Queer Black artists across disciplines. This is the third online event I’ve created in the Black Love series featuring some AMAZING artists. Before the show I’ll lead a generative workshop 6:30-7:30pm, followed by performances from the featured artists (7:30pm). Come through and soak up some of this Black Love!

Link to register for the literary workshop.

Link to register for the Black Love show.

Radar Productions Presents: A Black Literary Night featuring... 6 black performing artists.

Black Love is a space to celebrate and honor Queer Black art and Queer Black artists across disciplines. This is the second online event I’ve created in the Black Love series featuring some AMAZING artists. Before the show I’ll lead a generative workshop 5:30-6:30pm, followed by performances from the featured artists (7-8:15p). Come through and soak up some of this Black Love!

I curated this month’s Black Love in collaboration with Strut! I’ll be leading a generative writing workshop called Black Muses from 5:30-6:30. Stick around afterward for the show, featuring multidisciplinary artists, comedians, poets, and musicians!

Black Muses will feature visual art/ephemera to inspire generative writing prompts.

https://sfaf.zoom.us/j/93119068861?pwd=dURqTFZOaGNWaHNSc3JiZVlDVTlCUT09

Meeting ID: 931 1906 8861

Password: blacklove

Join us for the first Black Love of 2020! Join us for a chill night of poetry from Queer Black Artists part of QTPOC at Strut!
And a free poetry workshop lead by Tanea Lunsford Lynx!

This show is free. Free drinks and non alcoholic beverages will be provided!

POETRY WORKSHOP from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
BLACK LOVE POETRY SHOW from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM!

Poetry show Hosted by SevanKelee Boult!
With Literary Performances from
Lauren Wheeler!
Lisa Evans!
and Tanea Lunsford Lynx!

During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born, Eves at the Beat. That was back in March. Eves at the Beat is now a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there’s a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This gives many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular, rather than hierarchal. The series was created by Cassandra Rockwood Rice Ganem and is overseen by Rice Ganem and Nicole Henares.