Nada Djordjevich

So thrilled to have once again been a part of the amazing #Litquake literary festival that culminates in the #LitCrawl, a sprawling joyful celebration of readers and writers throughout the Mission District in San Francisco. I read stories about #Work, in honor of the 45th anniversary of the publication of Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About It by the geat #Studs Terkel.

Thrilled to be parting of the Litquake Lit Crawl in San Francisco. This should be a very fun event. We're one of three activities going on outside and inside the Elbo Room. As part of The Writers and Storytellers Collective, we'll be downstairs with humorous tales of love, like, and angst from the Back to the Future world of the 1980s. Our writers include: Alex De Stefani, Allison Muir, Nada Djordjevich, Rachel Hamilton, Pamela Alma Weymouth, Meika Rouda, and Mayra Padilla. Our stories cover the East Coast, West Coast, and the South. The event is Free! And we're honored to be part of the 14th year of this iconoic event, the Lit Crawl, and also to be one of the last shows at the soon-to-be-closing venue, The Elbo Room on Valencia Street in San Francisco's vibrant Mission District.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. The Writers and Storytellers Collective shares amusing stories of love, longing, and angst in the awesome era. Put on your stone-wash or flip up your collar, and get your hair big and ready for some back to the future moments when Jerry Brown was governor, and greed was declared good; and take the way back machine to a time when a Saturday high school detention group was not forgotten, and Prince gave us Purple Rain.

Saturday the 18th is #cleartheshelters Find your companion.

(via Happy Bike to Work Day. And Bike month. This is pretty cool. You can check out a FREE one-month trial Ford GoBike membership courtesy of BART!)

Excited to perform with 8 others at the Joan Didion Power Hour. Get bi-coastal in this 50th anniversary celebration of Didion's seminal essays on place, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and "Goodbye to All That" with comedic tales by culture-cruising authors from New York and San Francisco. Andy Bragen's plays and translations include This is My Office (The Play Company), Vengeance Can Wait (Performance Space 122), and Don't You F**king Say a Word (59e59). He has an MFA from Brown University and is a member of New Dramatists. For more information: www.andybragen.com Alex DiSclafani hails from Florida and now calls San Francisco home. In her day job, she works in tech, where she helps prevent real-world harm to children. On her long commutes she writes. Her favorite show is Golden Girls. Nada Djordjevich is a writer and the founding editor of On the Page magazine. She taught writing at City College of San Francisco and attended Harvard, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She has received awards and other recognition from Boulevard Magazine, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, BlueCat and American Zoetrope Screenplay Contests. During the Joan Didion Power Hour, she will tell a tale of a bad date, a sad divorce, and the magic of Tom Petty. Crystal Finn is an actress and writer. She grew up in Northern California and now lives in New York City. Her New York acting credits include Villa (PlayCo), Kingdom Come (Roundabout), Pocatello, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons), 16 Words or Less, La Brea, Luther, Five Genocides (Clubbed Thumb), Summer Shorts (59E59), Bird in the Hand (Fulcrum). Regional Acting credits: Two River Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Rep., George Street. TV/Film:16 Words or Less, The Tick (Amazon/sony). She performed her one woman show, Becoming Liv Ullmann, at the NY Fringe Festival and at Cleveland Playhouse New Ground Theater Festival, where it was named one of the top ten performances of the year in Cleveland. Her play The Faire, about a Northern California Renaissance Faire, was produced in New York with Fault Line Theater. Kris Malone Grossman earned a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently at work on a PhD in Women's Spirituality. Her work has been anthologized in Dirt is Good for You and The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change, and she was recently sponsored by 100daysaction, a counter narrative to Trump's first 100 days for The Big Flash Grab https://100daysaction.net/actions/thebiggrab_/ and for Talkin' Down to Trump, https://100daysaction.net/actions/talking-down-to-trump/. She makes her home with her husband and three sons in Mill Valley, CA, where she is at work on a novel. Kate Haug is a San Francisco based artist. Haug's reading is the outcome of a recent San Francisco Arts Commission project on the Summer of Love, which lead to her obsession with Joan Didion's essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." Her piece, "Santa Cruz," investigates California's hedonism, privileged liberalism and aspirational conflicts, riffing on the state's condition 50 years after the publication of Didion's prescient essay. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Capitalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson and Irving Street Projects. Her award-winning films have screened at New Directors/New Films, the London International Film Festival and other international venues. Sean Mills teaches at Bard Early College in Queens and has also taught at Hofstra University and Knox College. He was a Copy Chief at Doubleday and a Senior Production Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has been published in Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology, and in several journals, most recently Hobart and the Emerging Writer's Network. He is at work on a novel and a collection of essays. Allison Muir is a unicorn; a San Franciscan-birthed writer, artist, and interior designer. During her varied career she has designed D.I.Y. projects for ReadyMade Magazine, coordinated postproduction for clients such as Industrial Light and Magic, Dreamworks and Pixar, and produced and written for Al Gore's Current TV. Her recent fiction has appeared in The Murmur House and The Ginger Collect literary magazines. Her recent video installation "Talkin' Down to Trump" was recently featured at the O' Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California. She is currently working on a short story collection with artist Maggie Stirk as well as pursuing a post-graduate course at U.C. Berkeley in Interior Design. Her writing is primarily focused on California subculture. She likes restaurants with themes and gimmicks. https://www.cityguideny.com/event/KGB-Bar-2018-03-29-2018-03-29-0217

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Happy Valentines Day. Here's a reprint from a magazine I used to edit with a great cheesecake recipe with chocolate leaves. Indulge. Enjoy.

This is so cool. Thousands of years of art history in just a few minutes.

I was thrilled to be interviewed by Small Stones - an education oriented website based in the Bay Area. In this interview, I was able to showcase some of my favorite links and resources in education including links to the best reporting and articles about California public education financing, the challenges in expanding higher education opportunities, and how decline in STEM grants impacts opportunities for low and middle income students to engage in high quality STEM learning at an early age.

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