BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:287ae972-77cd-485a-a996-ece4fe0c3b2e@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T122043Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T210000 SUMMARY:Ivy Anderson & Devon Angus Alice:The 10th Anniversary DESCRIPTION:City Lights and Heyday Books celebrate the 10th anniversary e dition of Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute (With a New Prefa ce) Edited by Ivy Anderson & Devon Angus Published by Heyday Books In 19 13 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized\, ghostwritten memo ir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. “ A Voice from t he Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upbringing and her str uggle to find aboveboard work\, and it candidly related the harrowing ev ents she endured after entering “the life.” Never had prostitute narrati ves been as frank in their discussion of topics such as abortion\, polic e corruption\, and the unwritten laws of the brothel. The response to Al ice’s story was unprecedented: Four thousand letters poured into the Bul letin\, many of which were written by other prostitutes ready to share t heir own stories\; and it inspired what may have been the first sex work er rights protest in modern history. With Alice\, filmmakers and writers Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus present the memoirs of Alice Smith and a s election of letters her story elicited. In an introduction contextualizi ng Alice’s story\, they reveal themes that extend from Alice’s experienc e in the early twentieth century to issues facing sex workers today. Thi s edition features a new preface detailing the discoveries made about th is history since the book’s original publication in 2016. Ivy Anderson i s a San Francisco–based writer who focuses on issues of ecology and radi cal history. Her reportage on water management issues was published in W ater Efficiency Magazine and and her poetry in Poecology. She holds a B. A. in environmental studies with a minor in geography\, runs a community garden\, and is on the board of a bookstore collective in San Francisco . Devon Angus is an artist\, activist\, and historian based in San Franc isco. He composed and performed a conceptual folk operetta based on San Francisco history\, The Ghosts of Barbary\, throughout the Bay Area\, Sw itzerland\, and Italy. He organized and published a series of oral histo ries of immigrants in the Catskills region\, and was the recipient of an arts grant through the New York State Council on the Arts for his show Songs and Stories of Old New York. This event made possible by support f rom the City Lights Foundation\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ ivy-anderson-devon-angusalicethe-10th-anniversary-tickets-1999265721592? aff=oddtdtcreator\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/287ae972-77cd-485 a-a996-ece4fe0c3b2e LOCATION:Canneti's Bookshop\, Moraga Way\, Orinda\, CA 94563 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/287ae972-77cd-485a-a996-ece4fe0c3b2 e STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR