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Sunday, May 6th – 2 pm
Along Alien Roads
an event with author Andrew Chen

Tsun Yuan Chen (Andrew Chen) presents his autobiographical novel, Along Alien Roads: The I-Jing of a Life. Chin, a Chinese American surgeon, begins his tale with his ancestors and spans more than a century of recent Chinese history, traversing a path from Asia to America, between straight and gay, love and inevitable continual change, while sustaining the core of an Eastern spirit.

“A finely woven tapestry of memories that takes the shape of a man who contains multitudes. Born to a family from Canton and Shanghai, a father in the Nationalist government, a mother who rode bareback in Siberia, her father a Chinese diplomat under the Czar and after the revolution. Exile in Taiwan, schooled in Japan . . . educated as an engineer at MIT, then as a physician, he shapeshifts from engineer to doctor, married man with children to gay man in Northern California to gay man in love with a woman. He is at once deeply Chinese and completely American; straight, gay, and bisexual he’s lived each category without being defined by a category. Comfortable in his own skin, yet uneasy in the ways he is different and forever in exile. Chen’s memoir is a wonder. Exquisitely written. Rich in detail. Deeply moving.”
— Michael Alenyikov (author of the award-winning novel Ivan and Misha)

 

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The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project

Our events are put on under the umbrella of the nonprofit Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project (the "BBCLP"). That's how we fund our ambitious schedule of 300 or so concerts and literary events every year.

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The Independent Musicians Alliance

Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.

https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/

Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site

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