2026 EVENTS
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Oct 10-Nov 15: Burden of Imagination: The Artist's Responsibility to the Real World
A 40- Year Retrospective of Paintings, Prints & Mixed Media by Shizue Seigel
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 -24th Street, San Francisco
Sat, Oct 10, 3pm Gallery Talk with artist
Sat, Oct 17, 3pm: Conversation with Christl Rikka Perkins
Sun, Nov 15, 3pm: Creativity, Identity & Activism, reading featuring Antoinette Payne, Dena Rod, Esperanza Cabrales, Jennifer Hasegawa., K. R.Morrison, Kelechi Ubozoh, Kimi Sugioka, Sabina Ibarra-Khan, Sandra Bass, Tehmina Khan, Tureeda Mikell
Sun Sept 20, 2pm: Kelseyville Poetry Lounge, featuring Shizue Seigel,
Fore Family Vineyards Tasting Room,
Sat, Sept 19, 3pm : LOBA Reading series, featuuring Shizue Seigel,
Mendocino County Library, Ukiah Branch
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 and Write Now! SF Bay -
Life intoAction; 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 hector, 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 anthologyeditor 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=62tHOKMWWAMC
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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. PanelistsMargo 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.
