EVENTS
Book Launch for Mama's Child at Mrs. Dalloway's Books, Berkeley
Photo by Rob Schiefer
Upcoming
LOVING BEFORE LOVING
2021 Events
First In-Person Bookstore Reading!
Four-Eyed Frog Books
Gualala, CA
Sunday, August 22, 2-3 pm PST
Reading and Book Signing
Please join us to celebrate the return of an in-person store event
Past
LOVING BEFORE LOVING
Events
(many with YouTube videos)
Imagining Justice, Heart and Soul Center of Light, Oakland, CA
Wednesday, May 19, 6:30 pm PST
http://heartsoulcenter.org/imaginingjustice
With Valerie Joi Fiddmont, co-host of Imagining Justice
This event is a collaboration with Book Passage, offering signed and personalized books:
https://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780299331009
Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, May 20, 7:30 pm EST
https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/joan-steinau-lester-ellery-washington
With Ellery Washington, Professor of Writing, Pratt Institute and author of the novel Buffalo (forthcoming)
YouTube video of the conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDHuy0-F44
Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C.
Monday, May 24, 6 pm EST
With Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and
NY Times Best-selling author, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
YouTube video of the conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-MHPPHYaM
East End Books, Provincetown, Mass.
Wednesday, May 26, 6 pm EST
With Jewelle Gomez, award-winning author of The Gilda Stories, and Maxine Wolfe, co-founder of Act Up National Women's Committee
Register for FREE:
MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora), San Francisco, CA
Friday, June 11, 12 pm PST
A special event in honor of Loving Day, June 12
With Sarah Ladipo Manyika, award-winning author of Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
YouTube video of the conversation:
Alta Mesa Center for the Arts, Orinda, CA
Sunday, July 11, 4 pm PST
With Irma Herrera, playwright, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name?
YouTube Video of the conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP8MlxmyPQE
Buy signed copies of Loving:
https://www.orindabooks.com/book/9780299331009
To schedule an event please email
Dr. Lester through the contact tab above.