Ceasefire & Fundraising for World Central Kitchen

Come hang out with your favorite writers as we write letters demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and raise money for World Central Kitchen. Featuring: Enrico Rotelli! Esmé Weijun Wang! Ingrid Rojas Contreras! Jamil Jan Kochai! Jenny Odell! Maggie Tokuda-Hall! Marcelo Hernandez Castillo! R.O. Kwon! Sam Sax!

$5/person

5-7 pm, 1/29, Monday

Reem’s, 2901 Mission St. San Francisco

Postcards generously supplied by our friends at City Lights Bookstore

Reem’s is kindly opening its doors off-hours for this letter-writing and donation drive. They’ll have a variety of pastries, food, and beverage options (including beer, wine, coffee and tea) available for purchase. All that you pay for your ticket will go to World Central Kitchen, who is partnering with a local organization in Gaza to provide aid to Palestinians and anyone else in need.

If you can’t come or live elsewhere but want to participate, any donations are very welcome. All goes to World Central Kitchen.

Following an extreme escalation of violence in early October, World Central Kitchen is partnering with a local organization in Gaza to provide aid to Palestinians, and anyone else in need. Their teams are on the ground in Gaza to support displaced families and in neighboring countries, should people fleeing need assistance.

Featuring—

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo teaches creative writing at St. Mary’s College and is the author of Children of the Land: a Memoir (Harper Collins), Cenzontle (BOA editions), and Dulce (Northwestern University Press).

Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of the story collection The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories and the novel 99 Nights in Logar.

R.O. Kwon is the author of the bestselling The Incendiaries and the forthcoming Exhibit.

Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist and the author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds and author of the novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree.

Enrico Rotelli is an Italian writer and journalist who lives between San Francisco and Milan. He has translated The Great Gatsby and his last book is Nanda e io.

Sam Sax is a queer jewish writer and educator, author of PIG & Yr Dead, and a lecturer at Stanford.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall is an award-winning children's and young adult book author.

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise, as well as the founder of The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy at esmewang.com.