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SUMMARY:Celebrate Women’s History Month with Pam Reitman and Jean Gordon Kocienda
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Women With Vision for Women’s History Month\nWomen’s stories want to be told. It’s Women’s History Month. Let’s lift the voices of women with vision from cultures across the world and celebrate them through story and poetry with readings from local authors Anna Citrino, Jean Gordon Kocienda, and Pamela Reitman.\nStories hold the world together and help us see ourselves in others’ lives. Come share a meal and listen to a few stories of some amazing women.\nLimited Seating. MUST RSVP BELOW\nTo RSVP (Required) see: https://aqus.com/communitydinnerRSVP/\n \nAbout Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life:\nInspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler’s rise to power in 1938, Charlotte’s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew, her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht, she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.\nWhen Charlotte’s grandmother leaps to her death, her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret, a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather’s insistence that suicide, not art, is her destiny too.\nHaunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration, Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter, to complete her monumental work “Life? Or Theater?” and get it into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.\nAbout Pamela Reitman:\nPamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications in literary journals, news outlets, and magazines. She has a B.A cum laude in English from Columbia and an MPH from the University of California Berkeley. She is retired from a career in public health and community service aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness. Ms. Reitman was a past Director of Makor Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco. She is lay ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition. She lives in Northern California with her husband.\n \nAbout Girl in a Box:\nThe tangled life of the Japanese poet Yosano Akiko\nIn early twentieth century, Japan, women have few rights. Yet one precocious poet—a brooding daughter, locked in her room at night by protective parents—runs away from home to live a life of her choosing . She falls in love with a fellow poet and follows him across Siberia to Paris, where they witness the last days of the Belle Êpoque. She perseveres through poverty, back-to-back pregnancies, infidelity, earthquake, and fire, to become a name every Japanese schoolchild knows today as a pioneering feminist poet and the first person to translate the classical Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. In her single-minded dedication to her art, she inflicts wounds on a daughter that echo from her own childhood. She sets out to make amends, knowing it may be too late. Based on the life of poet Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) and filled with original translations of her poetry, Girl in a Box will ignite the discussion about the female artist’s challenge to create while juggling family, career, and personal freedom. Historical fiction at its best.\nAbout Jean Gordon Kocienda:\nA former intelligence officer and Silicon Valley geopolitical analyst, Jean Gordon Kocienda is now focused on writing and volunteering with refugee families in the Bay Area. Jean holds a B.A. in English Literature (Colgate University) and M.A. in International Affairs (George Washington University). Currently nestled in the redwoods of Marin County with her husband and cats, she has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese. She is President of the California Writers Club Marin Chapter.\n\n
URL:https://sibyllinepress.com/events/celebrate-womens-history-month-with-pam-reitman-and-jean-gordon-kocienda/
CATEGORIES:Author Event,Book Signing,Jean Gordon Kocienda,Pamela Reitman
LOCATION:Aqus Café at Foundry Wharf, 189 H St, Petaluma, California
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