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Wikipedia defines the Lunar New Year as the beginning of a calendar year whose months are moon cycles, based on the lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar. The Lunar New Year as a celebration is observed by numerous cultures. It is featured in the Chinese calendar of the East Asian cultural sphere the Hindu-Buddhist calendars of South and Southeast Asia, the Islamic calendar and the Jewish calendar in the Middle East, and is also celebrated by the indigenous Nisga’a people of Canada. History.com further comments that the Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others. The New Year celebration is usually celebrated for multiple days—not just one day as in the Gregorian calendar’s New Year. In 2023, Lunar New Year begins on January 22. China’s Lunar New Year is known as the Spring Festival or Chūnjié in Mandarin, while Koreans call it Seollal and Vietnamese refer to it as Tết. Tied to the lunar calendar, the holiday began as a time for feasting and to honor household and heavenly deities, as well as ancestors. The New Year typically begins with the first new moon that occurs between the end of January and spans the first 15 days of the first month of the lunar calendar—until the full moon arrives. This class will be taught by poet Jim Moreno on January 22, the start of the Lunar New Year of 2023. Beginning and seasoned poets will experience a multicultural poetic dance that resonates to the tune of both Wikipedia and History.com definitions. The goal, of course, is to create abundant room for Lunar New Year poets to expand cultural horizons and consciousness. Participants in the class are welcomed to the Container of respect and safety that are the foundation of Moreno’s classes. Chinese poet Lou You, Southern Song Dynasty (1127 – 1279) wrote, In early morning, a north wind brings snow; It’s a blessing from Heaven arriving in time. I haven’t yet raised my half cup of Tusu wine to toast the New Year; Busy writing peach wood charms by lamplight. Contemporary Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Bá Trạc wrote, New Year’s Eve / Seven thousand people beating tin walls in lieu of firecrackers / Sounds of joy mixed with sorrow / Has the nightmare passed yet / When will spring come? What comes after Tết / where will we go… Twelve-year-old Korean poet Amy Shin writes, Before breakfast, every member of the family must respectively worship the ancestors. We set a ritual table that has the ancestral tablet and ritual food on top, Offerings of fresh and colourful herbs, fish, and fruit. To worship the ancestors, we bow, give offerings, and say prayers. We ask the Gods that we may live long and be healthy throughout the year. Moreno has stated that our nation is not a melting pot; it’s a mosaic of multiple cultures. In other words, that makes the opposite of racism, the polarity of truth, that one culture can heal the sickness in another culture, e.g. the Ukranians as models for our country being in unity and moving away from polarity. Perhaps Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and poet’s poem, "Call Me By My True Name," expresses the essence of the Lunar New Year when he writes, Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow—even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. These and other poets will serve as a harbinger for how the Lunar New Year may introduce you to a happy and creative 2023. Sign up and pay the fee. Jim will then e-mail the class syllabus to you after Writers Ink forwards your e-mail address to him the day before the class on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. You will receive your class syllabus with a bibliography. You will also receive the Zoom ID link to this class when you receive your syllabus. Join Mr. Moreno for this class which resonates with belonging, dignity and respect for all cultures and colors of skin. You will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the start of class. Be sure to check your Spam/Junk folders just in case! If you sign up less than 24 hours before the start of the class, please email Kristen at programs@sandiegowriters.org for your link.

This is an in-store event with Annalee Newitz & S.B. Divya, in discussion with Greg van Eekhout. The event will consist of a 30 minute discussion with the authors, followed by an audience Q&A, and lastly the book signing. Purchasing a copy of The Terraformers and/or Meru through Mysterious Galaxy will get you a numbered ticket for the signing line after the event. Those who have not purchased a book through us are still welcome to get their books signed, but will have to wait until after the numbered line has finished. Purchasing your books through Mysterious Galaxy allows us to continue to host author events, so we thank you in advance for your support! About the Authors Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015, and then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo and Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book "Scatter", "Adapt", and "Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction" was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, "Autonomous", won a Lambda award. S.B. Divya (she/any) is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of "Meru" and "Machinehood". Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she a former editor of Escape Pod, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. Find her on Twitter as @divyastweets or at www.sbdivya.com. Greg Van Eekhout is the author of several novels for young readers, including Weird Kid (“A heartfelt, pitch-perfect middle grade novel”—Publishers Weekly, starred review); COG; and Voyage of the Dogs. He lives in San Diego, California, with his astronomy/physics professor wife and two dogs. He’s worked as an educational software developer, ice-cream scooper, part-time college instructor, and telemarketer. Being a writer is the only job he’s ever actually liked. You can find more about Greg at his website: www.writingandsnacks.com. About "The Terraformers" Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come. About "Meru" For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it's an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe. For Vaha, Jayanthi's alloy pilot, it's a daunting yet irresistible adventure to find success as an individual. As the journey challenges their resolve in unexpected ways, the two form a bond that only deepens with their time alone on Meru. But how can Jayanthi succeed at freeing humanity from its past when she and Vaha have been set up to fail? Against all odds, hope is human, too.

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This is a ticketed, in-store event that will also be broadcasted live through Crowdcast for those unable to attend in person. This event will consist of a 30 minute discussion with the authors followed by the book signing. If you're joining us virtually, Mysterious Galaxy's virtual events are hosted on Crowdcast. Visit here to register for the event. Accessibility: Real-time captioning for all Crowdcast events is available via Google Chrome. About the Authors Sofia Lapuente is an author, screenwriter, and avid world traveler who immigrated from Spain to the United States to realize her dream of storytelling. Since then, she has received a master’s degree in fine arts at UCLA, worked as a producer and casting director on an Emmy nominated show, and received coauthor credits in GLEANINGS, the fourth installment of the bestselling Arc of a Scythe series, with her partner, Jarrod Shusterman. Together, the couple writes and produces film and television under their production company Dos Lobos Entertainment. Jarrod Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of novel "Dry", which he is adapting for a major Hollywood film studio with Neal Shusterman. He is also the coauthor of the accoladed novel "Roxy". His books have all received critical acclaim and multiple starred reviews. Sofí Lapuente and Jarrod are partners in every sense of the word, with love and multiculturalism as an ethos—living between Madrid, Spain, and Los Angeles, California. If they are not working, it means they’re eating. For behind-the-scenes author content and stupidly funny videos, follow them on Instagram and TikTok @SofiandJarrod. Gina Chen tells stories about fantastic worlds featuring heroines, antiheroines, and the kind of cleverness that brings trouble in its wake. A self-taught artist with a degree in computer science, she generates creative nonsense in all forms of media and always has a project stewing. "Violet Made of Thorns" is her debut fantasy novel. For more info, visit actualgina.com and follow @actualgina on Twitter and Instagram. Adalyn Grace is a New York Times bestselling author of "All The Stars and Teeth", which was named “2020’s biggest YA fantasy” by Entertainment Weekly. Prior to becoming an author, Adalyn spent four years working in live theatre, acted as the managing editor of a nonprofit newspaper, and studied storytelling as an intern on Nickelodeon Animation’s popular series "The Legend f Korra". Local to San Diego, Adalyn spends her non-writing days by watching too much anime, and by playing video games with her dorky dog. About "Retro" After a cyberbullying incident at her school goes viral, Luna Iglesias finds herself at the heart of a brewing controversy. When the social media company Limbo—who are also implicated in the scandal—sweeps in with an offer that sounds like an opportunity to turn over a new leaf, she’s happy to jump on the new trend. It’s called the Retro Challenge, where contestants live without modern technology, wear vintage clothes, party as if the future wasn’t already written, and fall in love as if they were living in a movie. And the winners get a scholarship to the college of their dreams. At first, the challenge is fun. But then things get dangerous. Kids start disappearing, including Luna’s friends. There are voices in the woods. Bloodred markings on the trees. And Luna increasingly begins to wonder if all these strange happenings are connected with the Retro Challenge. Secrets. Lies. Betrayal. The weight of her family on her shoulders. There’s so much on the line for Luna – not to mention she’s falling for the last guy she expected. Unless she can figure out the truth behind who is really sabotaging the challenge, the next person to disappear may be Luna herself.

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Celebrating Barrio Logan! Join us on Saturday, February 4 2023 12:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. in Barrio Logan San Diego Grab your crawl tasting pass at Attitude Brewery. Come and experience the culture of Barrio Logan on a food, sips and beer crawl with an amazing fun mixer after party event at La Davina Restaurant and Bar. Get sample dishes and libations from participating venues while you see the culture which is Barrio Logan. You will have the opportunity to discover, savor, and indulge in these incredible establishments in just one day! Grab a friend, bring the family. Grab your tickets now! Will sell out fast!

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