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Light Up the Library with More Than a Month, SFPL's Black History Month Celebration “History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again.” –Maya Angelou, On the Pulse of Morning Throughout February, the Library champions Black history, culture and heritage with special music, dance, crafts and storytelling events at every branch in the City. This celebration is titled More Than a Month in an effort to emphasize that reflection, open dialogue, interdisciplinary education and shared advocacy takes place in February, and all year around. Join us for our exciting events highlighted in this month's newsletter, and visit sfpl.org/more-than-a-month for the full program.
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For Youth and Family Bring your wild imaginations and creative hands to the Afri-Crafty Tales programs and experience a dynamic combination of oral storytelling and crafting. These feature African American and African “How and Why Tales” that explain “how things came to be” and the “whys of the world” through trickster animals and creatures that will surely get brains buzzing. Families will then have a chance to create their own origin tale using paper crafts to re-create the characters they learned about from the storytelling. Afri-Crafty Tales Entice your children to read more books with cultural and educational value by talking with them about these wonderful Afro-Latinx writers. For parents, grandparents, families and caregivers. Light refreshments served. Afro-Latinx Children's Authors
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For Adults Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts discuss their book Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era. Republished by Heyday Books, the edition features newly discovered photographs and memorabilia, as well as additional interviews with those who lived and played in the Fillmore at its height. Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era – In connection with SF by the Bay, a Black Speculative Fiction Panel features emerging writers of color discussing works of surreal, futurist, speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, horror, dystopian, apocalyptic and weird literature.
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February 1-–April 30 Main Library, 3rd Floor
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Celebrate Bay Area Science Fiction and Fantasy at the MainSF by the Bay, the Main Library’s festival of Bay Area science fiction and fantasy, touches down on Feb. 1 and runs through April 30, featuring more than 30 programs, including film screenings, author talks, live dramas, lectures, panel discussions, a filk music concert, book displays and costume contest. SF by the Bay Exhibit Reception – Feb. 15, 10 a.m., followed by Aelita, Queen of Mars with live piano accompaniment, 1 p.m., Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Room
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Program: Violins of Hope Violinists perform on violins once owned and played by a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, now repaired and repurposed as an instrument of peace, social justice and hope. Join us for a documentary featuring Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein and his efforts to restore violins recovered from the Holocaust.
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Matt Herron’s black and white digital pigment prints document the Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March, which directly resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and was the most significant march of the Civil Rights movement. February 15–May 10, Main Library, Jewett Gallery
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February 8 Golden Gate Valley Branch
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Film: Black Ballerina February 18, Richmond, 2 p.m.; February 26, Golden Gate Valley, 2 p.m.
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February 11 Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Room
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Art Talk with the de Young Museum: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983
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February 22 West Portal Branch
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February 22 Western Addition Branch
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February 22 Main Library, Koret Auditorium
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Corregidora by Gayl JonesA stark, haunting novel that lays bare the dark heart of slavery in its lyrical evocation of black women who have suffered not only the loss of their children, but in some essential way, their own identity. "Corregidora is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women." --James Baldwin
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Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange and Ifa BayezaA lyrical multigenerational novel by playwright and author Shange ( We Troubled the Waters, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf) and her sister Bayeza, an award-winning playwright and set designer. Think of it as Roots with a treble clef—a confident, lively account of love, art and what falls between.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe terrible beauty of life along the nation’s lower margins is summoned in this bold, bright and sharp-eyed road novel. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year
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Thank you to all who have registered for Night of Ideas 2020! Due to enthusiastic response, this event is currently sold out. Thank you for your support!
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