2026 EVENTS
Save the date! Oct 10-Nov15: Line of Succession, 30-Year
Retrospective of Shizue Seigel's artwork. Opening Oct 10,
3-9pm Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery
Sat, July 11: Shizue Seigel's 80th Birthday Celebration,
Lake Merced Boathouse. Open mic: Nezelah Jameson,
Adela Najarro, Joyce Nakamura & Francis Wong, Lorraine
Bonner, Dan Brady, Wendy Wolters, Shirley Flores-Munoz,
Antoinette Vella Payne, Avotcja, Cesar Love, Alice Rogoff,
Esperanza Cabrales, Greg Pond, Tehmina Khan, and
Tureeda Mikell.
Sun, June 7: Courting A Man Who Doesn't Talk reading, open mic and workshop, Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA
Sun, May 31: Bay Area Book Festival, Creating Futures, Making Room Together, panel discussion with André Le Monte Wilson, Kelechi Ubozoh, Kimi Sugioka, and Shizue Seigel, Brower Center, Berkeley
Sat, May 23: Paradise Found...and Lost, audiovisual talk
on Japanese American immigration, incarceration and resettlement
with Margaret Cooper, San Luis Obispo County Library
Sun May 17: Civil Liberties United, reading open mic and
workshop with Aideed Medina, Adela Najarro, Joseph Jason
Santiago LaCour, Kimi Sugioka and Shizue Seigel, Santa
Maria County Library
Sat, May 16: Civil Liberties United, reading open mic and
workshop with Aideed Medina, Adela Najarro, Joseph Jason
Santiago LaCour, Kimi Sugioka and Shizue Seigel, San Luis
Obispo County Library
Fri, May 1, Journal X/Xinachtli Journal #6, reading, Cabrillo College Watsonville Center.
Fri, Mar 20: Berkeley Poetry Festival in
partnership with Write Now! SF Bay - Life into
Action; Action into Words poetry reading
with Tureeda Mikell, André Le Monte Wilson,
Christl Rikka Perkins and Shizue Seigel.
Sat, Mar 21: Mexicana by Diosa Xochiqueztalcoatl,
Nomadic Bookstore. Oakland book launch with
Rosanna Alvarez, Shizue Seigel, Victoria Bañales,
and Vianney Gavilanes
Sun, Mar 22: LOCAL COLOR Book Party,
San Francisco Main Library with Avoctja, Diosa
Xochiqueztalcoatl, Jason Bayani,
Jennifer Hasegawa, hector son
of hectorm Joseph Jason Santiago
LaCour,Tara Dorabj, Shizue
Seigel, Antoinette Payne, and
Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo
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Sun Feb 17: Tender Hearts Club
book launch, Telegraph Hill Books, San Francisco, featuring anthology
editor Ingrid Keir and 14 contributors
Sun, Feb 22: Shizue Seigel featured at Mic Drop! Open Mic, 418 Project,
155 S. River St. Santa Cruz, with DJ Jessie Marie and emcee Gregory Speed. https://www.youtube.com/live/EZi14lkCer8?si=62tHOKMWWAMCwawM (1:47:04 - 2:11:14)
Tues, Feb 17: INTER|ACT Open Mic, Satori Arts, Santa Cruz featuring Shizue Seigel reading from Courting A Man Who Doesn't Talk
Sat, Feb 14: "Build Community and Career,
Books at the Source Literary Summit,
Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Panelists
Margo Perin, Grace Lo Prasad, Shizue Seigel,
Linda L. Reid and Katherine Harer.
Wed, Jan 28: Sacred Grounds Open Mic.
Shizue Seigel featured at the last virtual open
mic hosted by Dan Brady before he retired.
Sat, Jan 10: Moondrop Productions - Bloom.Wilt.Bloom reading featuring Allie Jones, Justin Demeter, Amber Allen-Peirson, and Jelal Huyler, with Nazelah Jamison, Sarah Biel, Richard Loranger, Shizue Seigel and many others.
