Thank You!

You will hear from us shortly with more details about your purchase. Until then, check out our social media, our past event videos, subscribe to our newsletter, and all that good stuff! We ♥ having you here.

Upcoming Events Video Archive Podcast Archive

baybookfest

Get your tickets! 🎟️ Naomi Klein and Brooke W

Get your tickets! 🎟️ Naomi Klein and Brooke Warner will be joining #baybookfest to discuss the topic Navigating the Mirror World: Misinformation, Conspiracies, and Why It’s Time to Wake Up.

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naomi-klein-navigating-the-mirror-world-tickets-876349554107

Join award-winning author, professor, filmmaker, and activist Naomi Klein in conversation about her latest book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. Doppelganger offers a unique and dynamic perspective on the absurdity and complexity of our current political moment. Klein uses her own experience of being mistaken for “Other Naomi” (Naomi Wolf, the feminist intellectual turned anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist) as a springboard to explore what she calls the “mirror world,” where conspiracy theories, online paranoia, mimicking, and more are creating a far-right parallel universe that’s been all too tempting for Democrats to dismiss or ignore.

With her signature intellectual rigor, Klein refuses to look the other way, and with genuine curiosity and desire to understand what fuels her doppelganger and other conspiracists, she flings herself into the underworld to shine light on its appeal and its real-world consequences.

Klein is an associate professor in the department of geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and an honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. She is a columnist for The Guardian, and her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. Klein will be in conversation with Brooke Warner, the Festival’s Board Chair and Publisher of She Writes Press. This is an exciting opportunity to hear one of our most influential social critics unpack and muse on the current political moment and the doubles that haunt us.

We're bringing Hollywood to Berkeley! ✨ Viet Tha

We're bringing Hollywood to Berkeley! ✨ Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black), and Alka Joshi (The Henna Artist) will be joining #baybookfest to discuss their journeys from page to screen as they adapted their books into compelling films and series.

INFO AND TICKETS: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/page-to-screen/

Event description:
Turning a beloved book into a compelling film or series is a journey filled with creative collaboration, financial considerations, script development, casting decisions, and years of meticulous preparation. For the authors at the center of these adaptation journeys, it also involves roadblocks, setbacks, near misses, and plot twists, with lessons about letting go of control and outcome.

This all-star panel brings us three celebrated authors whose books have been or are being adapted for a viewing audience. Piper Kerman’s internationally renowned memoir, Orange Is the New Black, about her time in a women’s prison, became one of Netflix’s most watched and longest-running series. Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer, the story of a Vietnamese communist double agent who infiltrates the South Vietnamese army and later moves to the United States, is now one of the most anticipated series to hit HBO this year. Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestseller, The Henna Artist, centering a young woman who escapes an abusive marriage to build a new life for herself in the vibrant city of Jaipur in the 1950s, is in development with Netflix.

This exciting panel offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at what adaptation is really like—the surprises, delights, and disappointments of having one’s work reimagined; the power of screen adaptations to reach much broader audiences; and insights into the differences between storytelling on the page and storytelling on the screen. Don't miss this rare opportunity as these three beloved authors discuss the intricate dance between words and images, imagination and interpretation, in a discussion that promises to be as enlightening as it is inspiring.

Joan Baez and Greg Sarris had such a chummy, inspi

Joan Baez and Greg Sarris had such a chummy, inspiring conversation at last year's festival. This year, the duo is back to discus their new works on the theme of Identity and Remembering: Vulnerability in Creating Across Genres.

Tickets are required for this event. Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joan-baez-chairman-sarris-legendary-artists-on-identity-and-remembering-tickets-876330687677 to reserve your spot!

Event description:
Ground-breaking Mexican-American musician, artist, and activist Joan Baez joins accomplished writer, professor, and tribal leader Chairman Greg Sarris in a conversation about writing, creating, and legacy. Sarris is co-executive producer of Joan Baez: I Am A Noise, a deeply personal, profound, and haunting documentary that follows Baez on her 2018 Fare Thee Well goodbye tour and explores memory and abuse through home videos, journal entries, photographs, and therapy tapes. In a continued pursuit of an “honest legacy,” Baez’s debut poetry collection, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, is an intimate and inspiring meditation on her most life-changing moments as an artist. Through never-before-seen poems, Baez reminisces on family, childhood, nature, art, as well as her contemporaries such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix. Greg Sarris is an author, producer, and playwright, and he is serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. His most recent play, Citizen, debuted at San Francisco’s Word for Word theater, and his new book, The Forgetters, remembers shared histories and caring for the world. Come listen to these two legendary artists as they discuss creating across genres and forms, the power of vulnerability and detail, and writing into memory, family, finding connection and hope, and moving on.

This year's #baybookfest is FREE, but we do offer a small handful of headliner events that require tickets due to high demand and limited space. Visit baybookfest.org/june to learn more.

Did you know that you can request sign language se

Did you know that you can request sign language services for any of our festival events? To request ASL services for a specific program, simply email interpreters@baybookfest.org and we'll take care of the rest!

Check out our full festival schedule: https://www.baybookfest.org/

Load More... Follow on Instagram