Performance: Civil Liberties Now

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-08:00

Main Library - San Francisco Public Library | San Francisco

The General Collections & Humanities Center
Publisher/HostThe General Collections & Humanities Center
Performance: Civil Liberties Now
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Do you feel that democracy is eroding? Come be inspired by creators and activists who haven’t given up! Editor Shizue Seigel hosts.
About this Event

Do you feel that democracy is eroding? Come be inspired by creators and activists who haven’t given up! Editor Shizue Seigel hosts.  NOTE: This program takes place in the Latino Room on the Lower Level.

 

Readers include: 

Tara Dorabji, documentary filmmaker and author of Call Her Freedom 

Chloe Gentile-Montgomery, ethnic studies educator and author of Rustlings of the Spirit  

Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County Poet Laureate and Board President of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference  

Susan Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere  

Tehmina Khan, teacher of Poetry for the People at City College of San Francisco 

Jason Santiago LaCour, Santa Cruz slam poet 

Tureeda Mikell, author of The Body: Oracle of Memory and Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine 

Shizue Seigel, director of Write Now! SF Bay and author of Courting a Man Who Doesn’t Talk  

Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate and curator of the Last Supper Party reading series 

Kelechi Ubozoh, mental health advocate and co-editor of We’ve Been Too Patient  

Beulah Vega, poet and producer of the Santa Rosa theater series Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks  

Brenda Yeager, Lake County Poet Laureate  Shizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer, visual artist and director of Write Now! SF Bay, an organization that has served writers and artists of color since 2015 through free creative writing workshops, events and anthologies. Seigel’s nine books include In Good Conscience, Civil Liberties United and her recent Courting a Man Who Doesn’t Talk.  Connect: 

Write Now! SF Bay - Website | Write Now! SF Bay - Instagram | Shizue Seigel - Website | Shizue Seigel - Facebook 

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Main Library - San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, United States

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