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Kimberly's Engagements

Upcoming Events

March 2, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST

It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.
March 9, 2021
Zoom
Lake Washington Institute of Technology: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old
It'll be my pleasure to help students celebrate Women's History Month with stories from Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old, along with some discussion about hierarchy based on appearance and identity and how wrong that is - even in 2021. Still! (Can you believe we've not fixed that yet? I guess I'll just keep at it. Will you join me?)

March 12, 2021
Zoom
Ku'ikahi Mediation Center: Practice Makes Permanent, 10am-2pm PST
We'll have 4 hours to practice this time: Now that you've learned about the importance of being a thoughtful and active bystander when conflict occurs, and now that you've learned about how unconscious bias influences us against our better judgement—it's time to practice! Knowledge without skills can be frustrating and if any of Kimberly Dark's trainings have left you wanting more practice time, now's your chance. In this session we'll use small group scenarios and large group discussions. You'll learn to outsmart some of your own unconscious bias, and work with fear when faced with conflict. We'll identify scenarios that emerge again and again in discussions and interactions and practice micro-interventions in small groups. You'll also learn to assess resources for engaging structural interventions. You may even come away with new peers you can connect with about your efforts as a bystander as time goes on. Register for this training here.

March 14, 2021
Zoom
Elderqueer: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old Discussion, 2pm PST
Elderqueer is discussing my book, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old on this day and if you're queer and over 40, you're invited! The group will meet for an hour, and I'll join in for the last half hour. Should be fun!

March 15, 2021
Zoom
Cal State San Marcos: You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty, 6pm PST
So glad to be bring this to Cal San Marcos. It's been a few years... and this event is FREE! Registration is over at CSUSM Arts and Lectures.

March 24, 2021
Zoom
Mansfield University of Pennyslvania: You Don't Owe Anyone Pretty
In this moving and hilarious show, Kimberly Dark invites her audience to live in the experience of the body, not the appearance of the body. ​

March 31, 2021
Zoom
Ka'u Schools: Restorative Justice Training
I'm pleased to be working with the Ka'u schools offering training for teachers and staff as they move closer to a restorative justice approach campus wide.

April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021
Zoom
Corporeal Writing: Memoir Workshop, 3-5pm PST
This workshop had a long waitlist when we did it in October, so we're doing it again in April!
​Yes, these are two hour meetings via Zoom, a week apart for a month. We're going to make things, y'all. We're going to focus on process and understanding how we frame what has happened to us in our lives, how we can use writing as a method of inquiry in order to access and enhance memory. We will spend no time polishing writing (in fact, I hope we write some things we'll never want to share with anyone). Register for this workshop here.

April 5-May 2, 2021
Zoom
Weight Neutral 4 Diabetes Care Symposium: How Health Inequity and Fat Stigma are Experienced (If an interaction felt icky, it probably was!)
I'm so pleased to be joining this symposium. Fat stigma (including high weight bias) is a barrier to care for many patients. It’s also a danger to patients who do access care. Come along to learn how health inequity is connected to fat stigma so you can prevent patient interactions from becoming uncomfortable or icky. You can register here, and learn more about my talk in the title link.

April 6, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST

It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.

April 23, 2021
Zoom
Cherish the Child Symposium: Keynote Presentation
I'm pleased to offer the keynote presentation for this year's symposium. I'll be focusing on intersectionality of appearances and identities and how they affect children's care and services.

May 4, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST

It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.

May 22, 2021
Zoom
Hugo House: Making Meaning in Memoir, 1:10-4:10 PST
I think lots of places in Seattle are very cool, but yeah, Hugo House for sure. It's a 3 hour workshop on Making Meaning: Turning Memories into Memoir. This'll be hugely generative—come. I'm promising at least twelve ways to connect memory, experience, culture and meaning.

June 1, 2021
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST

It's like a social equality help desk where she'll answer questions that folks have been writing in. Zoom in and listen as Kimberly addresses at least two issues per week, maybe more, depending on your questions in the chat box. Anyone can sign up and join the call—and it's FREE! Tell your friends, your students, your parents, anyone who still thinks of social issues like it's 1975.

June 29, 2021
Damaged, Like Me Official Release!
This is my second essay collection with AK Press and I'm so thrilled.  (Pre-orders should be available by Fall 2020. You might even get the book early, if you pre-order.)

July 2, 2021
Zoom
The Great Indoor Reading Series: Damaged, Like Me, 8pm EST
I'm thrilled to read for the TGI event again, now that my new book is out. They were a great audience last time (and the three other readers were fab too.) Join us!

July 19-August 1, 2021
Zoom
CSU Summer Arts Social Action Writing: Creating Internet Content
Yes, you can believe your eyes, Summer Arts is going online!  So, I have created a course for you that is all about online content. It'll be an intense two weeks, still worth 3 units, but you can also pet your dog and lay on your sofa sometimes too. As internet influencers have taken the spotlight, it’s become clear that internet activism is anything but “slacktivism.” This course focuses on the short essay (including creative writing, opinion-editorial, and expository writing). You’ll learn with the help of professional freelance writers who make a living creating internet content, and youth activists whose work is changing lives NOW. Students will also choose to create one of the following projects: video essay, zine, or webinar.  Register now and learn more about our guest artists. (Psst, one of them is the amazing Melissa Fabello!)

September 15-October 13, 2021
Woodside, CA
Djerassi Writing Residency
I'm thrilled to return to Djerassi, 
where I did a major edit of The Daddies and finished a first draft of Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old, back in 2011. It's a beautiful, art-filled wilderness. (I mean, just look at the website.) I'm so lucky to return for a second time.

November 11-14, 2021
Detroit, MI
National Women's Studies Association Conference
More info coming soon.

Upcoming Events: 2022

January 2-7, 2022
Pahoa, HI
Body Wise Professional Development Retreat
Join us for this five-day experiential retreat where we'll work on uncovering unconscious bias and explore our own intersections of privilege and oppression and how they influence who we are to others. We'll also rest, write, meditate, move, spend time in water and nurture ourselves and each other on the journey.​

May 23-27, 2022

Capetown, South Africa
International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry
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More info coming soon.


July 27-August 17, 2022
Berlin, Germany
Summer Arts Berlin: Contemporary Art in Berlin: Visual, Media, Conceptual and Performance Art

Yes, we were scheduled for 2021, and it was sad to postpone, but everyone is still in for this amazing experience in 2022. If you've already applied and been accepted, you're still accepted! Stand by for more info in Spring 2022. If you couldn't go in 2021, you have a new chance. No matter what though, join the FB group for the course (even if you can't come, but want to be in the know). You can read about guest artists and cool stuff even now, while we wait out the pandemic. 

Events Archive: 2020

jan 22: uh hilo
Jan 21: Feminist Magazine
feb 21: Uh Hilo
feb 26: SFSU
feb 27-28: cal state monterey
mar 5: university of puget sound
mar 6: elliott bay books
mar 7: hugo house workshop
mar 12: chico state
mar 13-14: symposium on teaching and learning
mar 16: women and health
mar 19: uc san diego
mar 20-21: evolution of yoga summit
MAR 22: LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
MAR 24: EMORY UNIVERSITY
apr 10: Private birthday
jun 13: sista trio
jun 18-19: fat studies conference
jun 22-23: intl weight stigma conference
jul 25: loukko bookshop
aug 19: housmans bookshop
apr 20: uh hilo
may 15: ku'ikahi mediation center
may 17: private party
jun 7: Private party
jun 12: border voices poetry project
jun 16-19: fat studies conference
jun 15 &19: San diego public library
jun 26: ku'ikahi mediation center
jul 11: ku'ikahi mediation center
jul 17: mills college
jul 24: ku'ikahi mediation center
jul 31: uh hilo
aug 8: corporeal writing
sep 16, 23: Samantha Fields Master Class
sep 23: Ka'u Schools
Sep 30: Karl heinz jeron master class
oct 5: illinois college
oct 8: corporeal writing
oct 10: hugo house
oct 17: hugo house
oct 22: speakout
nov 3: mesa college
nov 5: emory university
nov 6: emory university
NOV 13: TGI reading series
nov 20: body peace conference
dec 12: dirty queer
dec 17: Ku'ikahi Mediation center
dec 23: stuttgart university
jan 6: Ka'u schools
jan 15: ku'ikahi mediation center
jan 22: ku'ikahi mediation center
jan 29: ku'ikahi mediation center
feb 3: ka'u schools
feb 7: hugo house
feb 12: kirkland productions

Events Archive: 2019

jan 8-13: body wise professional development retreat
jan 18: ku'ikahi mediation center
Feb 4: NYU Tandon
feb 5: bluestockings bookstore
feb 12: fallbrook library
mar 8: ku'ikahi mediation center
mar 23: loyola marymount university
mar 24: Author's guild
mar 28-31: saints and sinners literary festival
apr 2: sonoma state
apr 3: humboldt state
apr 4: chico state
Apr 8: Monterey Bay & San Jose State
apr 9-10: San fran state
apr 10: berkeley public library
apr 12: san diego art institute
may 16-19: Qualitative inquiry congress
may 30: subterranean books
may 31-jun 2: accessible yoga conference
Jun 9-14: body wise retreat
jul 1-14: CSU Summer Arts: magical realism
jul 15-28: CSU Summer arts: memoir writing
aug 15-sep 15: eastover artist residency
sep 19: ku'ikahi mediation center
oct 2-5: Intl Symposium on poetic inquiry
oct 7: acadia university
oct 8: al whittle theatre
oct 10-16: Berlin Summer arts
oct 17: stuttgart university
oct 19: London bias workshop
oct 21: pengwern books
OCT 30: WOMEN + CHILDREN FIRST
NOV 1-3: BALTIMORE BOOK FESTIVAL
nov 4: bluestockings
nov 12: SF Public Library
nov 14-17: NWSA Conference
nov 22: East Hawaii Cultural Center
dec 3: puna writers workshop
DEC 8: howard zinn book fair
dec 10: Counterpulse
DEC 1: The Hope Desk

Events Archive: 2018

JAN 20: WOMEN'S MARCH AND RALLY
JAN-MAR: CAL STATE SAN MARCOS SOCIAL ADVOCACY
MAR: CAL STATE SUMMER ARTS
mar 8: la bodega gallery
mar 17: loyola marymount university
mar 21: whistle stop bar
mar 28: kentucky wesleyan university
apr 4: chico state university
apr 5: sonoma state university
apr 9: san jose state
apr 10: cal state monterey
apr 11: san fran state
apr 12: cal state east bay
apr 13: the beat museum
apr 14: laurel book store
apr 26: conscious aging panel
apr 27: kalani honua book release
apr 28: basically books
jun 21: university of victoria, ca
jun 22: salt spring public library, CA
jun 26: simon fraser university, ca
jun 27: wax poetic interview
jun 27-29: arts in society conference, CA
jul 2-15, cal state summer arts
jul 11: the world we create
aug 3-5: asdah
aug 7: kona stories
sep 6: south puget sound community college
sep 22-23: corporeal writing
oct 12-13: cal state summer arts
oct 26: The Daddies Release
nov 4: center for sex and culture
nov 8-11: NWSA Conference
nov 9: charis books
nov 23: kukuau studio
nov 24: basically books
nov 25: basically books

Events Archive: 2017

jan-mar: cal state san marcos social advocacy
jan 14: ku'ikahi mediation center
jan 19: ku'ikahi mediation center
jan 24: illinois college
feb 14: UNC at Greensboro
feb 20: bad and nasty
feb 21: san marcos 111 theatre
FEB 27: INDIANA CAMPUS COMPACT SUMMIT
MAR 6: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
MAR 8: LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
MAR: 31: WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER
APR 12: PCA/ACA CONFERENCE
APR 20: NONESUCH THEATRE, UK
APR 26: BEDFORDSHIRE INTL SYSTEMIC SCHOOL, UK
MAY 5: KEELE UNIVERSITY, UK
MAY 6: COUNSELLING CONFERENCE, UK
MAY 14: DICKINSON HOUSE, BE
JUN 2: NONFICTION NOW CONFERENCE, IS
JUN 8: PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTL CONFERENCE, DE
JUN 14: ARTS IN SOCIETY CONFERENCE, FR
JUN 26: YOGA IS FOR EVERY BODY RETREAT
JUL 8: HAWAI'I PRIDE PARADE
JUL 14: WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER
SEP 29: THE NAKED DIETICIAN
OCT 7: KALANI HONUA
OCT 10: HAWAII YOGA FESTIVAL
OCT 14: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - MANOA
OCT 18: VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
OCT 19: FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
OCT 27: MIAMI UNIVERSITY
OCT 28: CSU SAN MARCOS
NOV 2: BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
NOV 19: SUNDAY ASSEMBLY
nov 29: ​MENIFEE COLLEGE
NOV 30: SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DEC 18: YOGA IS FOR EVERY BODY RETREAT

Events Archive: 2016

jan 16: ku'ikahi mediation center
jan 23-26: presbyterian college
jan-mar: cal state san marcos social advocacy
feb 22-23: dickinson college
mar 10: san diego city college
mar 19: loyola marymount university
mar 21: middlesex community college
mar 30-apr 2: AWPC
mar-apr: cal state summer arts
apr 15: miramar college
apr 18: san diego art institute
apr 22-24: seattle erotic arts festival
may 22-28: creative connections retreat
jun 11: kalani honua things i learned
jun 19-24: yoga is for every body retreat
jun 25: ku'ikahi mediation center
jun 28-jul 3: san diego fringe festival
jul 1: massey university
jul 11-24: cal state summer arts
jul 10: sunday assembly
jul 21: world theatre
aug 10: WTPC
aug 11-14: theatre for higher education conference
sep 23-25: fat activism conference
oct 11-16: Hawaii yoga festival
oct 26: wellesley college
nov 2: whistlestop bar
nov 5: san diego art institute
oct-dec: cal state san marcos sociology
nov 10-13: nwsac
dec 12-17: yoga is for every body retreat

Events Archive: 2015

jan 9: hawaii realtors association
jan-mar: cal state san marcos social advocacy
feb 9: cal state summer arts
feb 10: cal state los angeles
feb 18: arts and lectures series
mar 18: westminster college
mar 31: bridgewater state university
apr 7-8: cal state summer arts
apr 12-20: writing retreat
apr 30: la sue barcelona, ES
may 8-10: blaney spa and yoga center, IE
may 11: spoken word, IE
jul 6: monterey bay world theatre
jul 13-15: cal state summer arts
aug 15: ku'ikahi mediation center
jun 8-13: yoga is for every body retreat
jun 20: healing the world
jun 29-jul 12: cal state summer arts
OCT 8-10: INTL SYMPOSIUM ON POETIC INQUIRY
OCT 13: THE NARRATORS, TIGER TIGER
OCT 15: WEST VALLEY COLLEGE
OCT 16-17: CAL STATE MONTEREY BAY
OCT-NOV: DICKINSON HOUSE, BE
NOV 12-15: NWSA
NOV 19-22: NCAC
DEC 4: WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER
DEC 14-19: YOGA IS FOR EVERY BODY RETREAT
"The balance between objectivity and intimate analysis certainly gives Dark an edge and has made her a force to be reckoned with on every level..."
— Evening Echo (Cork, Ireland)

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​— The Scribe (Colorado Springs, CO)
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