Kara Platoni's Blog - Posts Tagged "readings"
Bay Area December appearances!
December 9: The big night! Please join me at Book Passage at the San Francisco Ferry building for my very first official reading, as the hardcover edition of We Have the Technology arrives hot off the press.
Address: 1 Sausalito, San Francisco Ferry Building #42, San Francisco.
Time: 6 pm
December 10: J-Book Party at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Free to the public, with special opening musical guest The Phony Platonis and a Q&A hosted by Eric Simons (Author of The Secret Life of Sports Fans).
Address: North Gate Hall Library, UC Berkeley.
Time: Reception at 6:30, event starts at 7 pm.
Map, directions and more here.
Address: 1 Sausalito, San Francisco Ferry Building #42, San Francisco.
Time: 6 pm
December 10: J-Book Party at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Free to the public, with special opening musical guest The Phony Platonis and a Q&A hosted by Eric Simons (Author of The Secret Life of Sports Fans).
Address: North Gate Hall Library, UC Berkeley.
Time: Reception at 6:30, event starts at 7 pm.
Map, directions and more here.
March readings and events
Howdy, friends! Do you like weird news about perception hacking? Would you like to hang out in a room full of smart, curious people? Have you got a free Thursday night? Well, EXCELLENT, because I have some upcoming readings and book events for We Have the Technology that I'm very excited to share ... and for some inexplicable reason they mostly seem to be on Thursdays.
Except this one:
On Tuesday March 1, I'll be at the Long Now's Interval cafe and salon in San Francisco, speaking about transforming perception. We'll have a very special treat for the audience. Show starts at 7:30 PM. More information and advance tickets for sale here.
And then the next couple Thursdays go like this:
Thursday March 3, I'll be in conversation with Epic Magazine's Kelly Vicars at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. Event starts at 7:30 PM, and tickets are free. You can RSVP here.
Thursday March 10, I'll be doing a reading and signing at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco at 6 pm. This is a double bill with Abby Smith Rumsey, titled "Potential or Peril? How Technology is Changing Human Perception and Memory." More info and tickets are here.
Thursday March 17, I'll be doing a reading at Books Inc. in Alameda. The reading starts at 7 and admission is free. More info here!
Please come on out if you'd like to hear some stories, ask some questions, or meet your fellow Bay Area sensory perception hacking nerds!
Except this one:
On Tuesday March 1, I'll be at the Long Now's Interval cafe and salon in San Francisco, speaking about transforming perception. We'll have a very special treat for the audience. Show starts at 7:30 PM. More information and advance tickets for sale here.
And then the next couple Thursdays go like this:
Thursday March 3, I'll be in conversation with Epic Magazine's Kelly Vicars at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. Event starts at 7:30 PM, and tickets are free. You can RSVP here.
Thursday March 10, I'll be doing a reading and signing at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco at 6 pm. This is a double bill with Abby Smith Rumsey, titled "Potential or Peril? How Technology is Changing Human Perception and Memory." More info and tickets are here.
Thursday March 17, I'll be doing a reading at Books Inc. in Alameda. The reading starts at 7 and admission is free. More info here!
Please come on out if you'd like to hear some stories, ask some questions, or meet your fellow Bay Area sensory perception hacking nerds!
April readings and a couple of podcasts!
Hi everyone, I'm super excited/terrified that on April 25, I'll be speaking at the notoriously raucous Nerd Nite East Bay!
Food (grilled cheese!), drinks and pre-show start at 7 pm; talks begin at 8 pm. We'll be at Club 21, located at 2111 Franklin Street in Oakland, CA.
My talk is called "Perception Hacking for Cyborgs (This Means You)." Also on deck for the night: Stuart Gripman will talk about famous but phony fish and Lori Lambertson will talk about climate change.
Advance tickets are $8; tickets are $10 at the door.
If you'd like to support the Walnut Creek Library Foundation, I'll be one of many Bay Area writers helping host their Author's Gala reception and dinner on April 16. Among the other authors are my pal and fellow brain science nerd Eric Simons ("The Secret Lives of Sports Fans"), former Salon editor David Talbot, and former Golden State Warrior Adonal Foyle.
More information on prices, directions and the silent auction is here.
Finally, a couple of new podcasts!
I had a great time with host Molly Bentley on the Big Picture Science podcast. (Pun-tastic title: Eve of Disruption)
And I loved chatting with Mike, Matt and Alpha the Computer on Robot Overlordz, the podcast with the best name ever.
Are there any science podcasts you love? Let me know -- I'll reach out to them and see if they'd be interested in a chat about perception hacking!
Food (grilled cheese!), drinks and pre-show start at 7 pm; talks begin at 8 pm. We'll be at Club 21, located at 2111 Franklin Street in Oakland, CA.
My talk is called "Perception Hacking for Cyborgs (This Means You)." Also on deck for the night: Stuart Gripman will talk about famous but phony fish and Lori Lambertson will talk about climate change.
Advance tickets are $8; tickets are $10 at the door.
If you'd like to support the Walnut Creek Library Foundation, I'll be one of many Bay Area writers helping host their Author's Gala reception and dinner on April 16. Among the other authors are my pal and fellow brain science nerd Eric Simons ("The Secret Lives of Sports Fans"), former Salon editor David Talbot, and former Golden State Warrior Adonal Foyle.
More information on prices, directions and the silent auction is here.
Finally, a couple of new podcasts!
I had a great time with host Molly Bentley on the Big Picture Science podcast. (Pun-tastic title: Eve of Disruption)
And I loved chatting with Mike, Matt and Alpha the Computer on Robot Overlordz, the podcast with the best name ever.
Are there any science podcasts you love? Let me know -- I'll reach out to them and see if they'd be interested in a chat about perception hacking!
June readings and events
Hi everyone,
I'm very excited for two events coming up -- if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver, Colorado, I hope you'll join me!
On June 4, I'll be participating in the enormous, wonderful Bay Area Book Festival. I'll be joining author Abby Smith Rumsey ("When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future") for a conversation on the future of consciousness, memory and sensory perception. The discussion will be moderated by Berkeleyside founder, journalist Lance Knobel, and will be a preview for "Uncharted, the Berkeley Festival of Ideas." Our talk goes from 3:15 to 4:30 pm and we're in the Berkeley City College auditorium. More information and advance tickets here.
And on June 8, I'll be giving a talk at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which some of you might know as the setting for my Chapter #1. The museum is one of the world's leaders in the quest to find a sixth basic taste -- something beyond salty, sweet, sour, bitter and savory (umami.) Through a vast citizen science project, they're testing whether people can also taste ... fat. I'll speak about what happened when they put me through their experiment, as well as some of my other adventures with biohackers, engineers, surgeons and others exploring the cutting edge of sensory perception.
The talk is at 7:00 pm at the museum's Ricketson Auditorium and is $10 for the public or $8 for museum members. More info and tickets are here.
Please come on by if you can, and help me spread the word!
Next stops in my summer book tour: Los Angeles and San Diego in July!
I'm very excited for two events coming up -- if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area or Denver, Colorado, I hope you'll join me!
On June 4, I'll be participating in the enormous, wonderful Bay Area Book Festival. I'll be joining author Abby Smith Rumsey ("When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future") for a conversation on the future of consciousness, memory and sensory perception. The discussion will be moderated by Berkeleyside founder, journalist Lance Knobel, and will be a preview for "Uncharted, the Berkeley Festival of Ideas." Our talk goes from 3:15 to 4:30 pm and we're in the Berkeley City College auditorium. More information and advance tickets here.
And on June 8, I'll be giving a talk at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which some of you might know as the setting for my Chapter #1. The museum is one of the world's leaders in the quest to find a sixth basic taste -- something beyond salty, sweet, sour, bitter and savory (umami.) Through a vast citizen science project, they're testing whether people can also taste ... fat. I'll speak about what happened when they put me through their experiment, as well as some of my other adventures with biohackers, engineers, surgeons and others exploring the cutting edge of sensory perception.
The talk is at 7:00 pm at the museum's Ricketson Auditorium and is $10 for the public or $8 for museum members. More info and tickets are here.
Please come on by if you can, and help me spread the word!
Next stops in my summer book tour: Los Angeles and San Diego in July!
