Painting the Streets: Artist Panel with Book Contributors!

2066 University Ave,Berkeley CA 94704

16 July, 2022

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WITH 5PM BOOK SIGNING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT EASTWIND BOOKS OF BERKELEY - NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED[IN-PERSON EVENT WITH YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM] Access the YouTube livestream using this link: https://youtu.be/b_J03P0peD8About the EventThis summer marks the two-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder. Offering a reflection of this historical moment and inspiration for a future grounded in Black liberation is a new art book called Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion. This beautiful volume — a collaborative effort between Nomadic Press x EastSide Arts Alliance — serves as a vital manifesto of these times and features a visual catalog of nearly 100 Oakland murals created in solidarity with Black liberation struggle. Woven into the book are essays, poems, and other reflections by activists and cultural workers. Painting the Streets offers a perspective of where we are now, what is to be reckoned with still and how art is a part of the process to move forward, heal, bring joy, and more. A panel discussion and presentation with book contributors Tongo Eisen-Martin, James Cagney, and Tureeda Mikell, hosted by Dazié Grego-Sykes will be present at Eastwind Books, and is part of a larger book tour around the Bay Area intended to facilitate critical dialogue, remembrance, and healing. * Purchase the book here or visit our website at www.AsiaBookCenter.com! * About the BookPainting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion features a selection of Oakland murals that emerged in tandem with the inter/national protests against the police brutality/murder of Black people and systemic-institutional racism in the US. The book also includes an introduction, interview, poetry, and essays by writers in solidarity with the Black liberation struggle. *$1 from every book sale goes into the Nomadic Press Black Writers Fund and all net proceeds from the sales of this book will go into the Nomadic Press Painting the Streets Fund, which will disburse monies to visual arts programs in Oakland’s flatlands schools (fund overseen by 5 project members). About the PanelistsJames Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory, winner of the 2019 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. His second book, Martian: The Saint of Loneliness won the 2021 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. It is due to be released by Nomadic Press in 2022. For more information, please visit jamescagneypoet.com Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His book Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His latest book Blood On The Fog was released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series. In 2020, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth Poet Laureate. Tureeda Mikell is a story medicine woman, award-winning poet, mental health advocate, lyricist, Qigong therapist, and U. C. BAWP Fellow. As a survivor of child abuse, her passion for youth’s voices to be heard caused her to publish over seventy at-risk student anthologies from five Bay Area counties via California Poets in the Schools. She has Zoomed or traveled nationally and internationally across five continents, from China, Europe, UK, to Africa. Tureeda was featured in Octavia Butler’s 70th birthday, The Black Panther’s 55th Anniversary, Afrofuturism, and the de Young Museum’s “Soul of a Nation.” Her full-length book, Synchronicity, The Oracle of Sun Medicine (Nomadic Press, 2020) was nominated for a California Book Award. She is coauthor and curator with Elena Serrano of EastSide Arts Alliance of the Patrice Lumumba Anthology, released in January 2021 by Nomadic Press. Dazié Grego-Sykes is a poet, artist and activist whose performance style was developed at The Experimental Performance Institute at New College, San Francisco, where he received his BA in Queer Performance and Activism. He’s developed, produced, and toured several multidisciplinary solo plays including 3, Where Is Adam and Am I A Man. Nigga-Roo was originally commissioned by the Queer Cultural Center and has been performed at The Marsh, The Flight Deck, and The San Francisco Fringe Festival where it received the Best of Fringe Award in 2017. In Fall of 2018, Dazié earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from The California Institute of Integral Studies. CATCH A FIRST LOOK AT THE INTERIOR OF THE BOOK AND HEAR FROM A FEW OF ITS CONTRIBUTORS !