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Kimberly's Engagements

Upcoming Events

July 5, 2022
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where Kimberly answers 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.​
July 14-15, 2022
Berlin, Germany
Weight Stigma Conference
This conference is hosted by a different city with a different theme every time. I was scheduled to do the keynote for the 2020 conference in New Zealand, but you know what happened to gatherings in 2020. Though this year's conference focus is different, it's kizmet that I need to be in Berlin the following week for Summer Arts anyway, so they invited me to offer a bit of storytelling from Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old at this year's conference. Happy to be there!

July 25, 2022
Stuttgart, Germany
Stuttgart University School of Education: Damaged Like Me Reading and Discussion
I'm pleased to return to discuss my newest book at Stuttgart University. It was such a good crowd and conversation when I was there in 2019.

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! 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.

August 2, 2022
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST - CANCELLED
The Hope Desk will be back next month!

August 27, 2022
Zoom
Hugo House: Short Essays for the Internet, 1:10-4:10pm PST
This will be a Zoom workshop with Hugo House and we'll work on basic opinion, personal and reported essays, pitching and where to publish. Sign up as soon as you can. These are small groups and usually fill quickly.

September 6, 2022
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where Kimberly answers 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.

September 18 - October 9, 2022
Zoom
Hugo House: Writing for Life, Sundays, Times TBA
This is a four part zoom class with Hugo House about The Writing Life. It'll be my first time teaching it and I've assembled some fun stuff. Whether you're new to writing or the joy is gone—this class is for you. In each session we'll experiment with how to relate to the world, make meaning and convey passion through writing. Between sessions, you'll be prompted to interact with the world—engaging with artwork, nature, conversation and social context - perhaps differently than you have before. Stay tuned for more details.

October 4, 2022
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where Kimberly answers 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.

October 18-November 15, 2022
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 1, 2022
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where Kimberly answers 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.

December 4, 2022
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.

December 6, 2022
Zoom
The Hope Desk, 3pm PST/6pm EST
It's like a social equality help desk where Kimberly answers 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.

Upcoming Events: 2023

January 1-6, 2023
Pahoa, HI
Body Wise Professional Development Intensive
Join us for this five-day educational intensive 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.​

June 26-July 23, 2023
Cal State Fresno
CSU Summer Arts

This is the last year at CSU Fresno before Summer Arts changes location again. So, if you're in the central valley or SoCal, get in it. The schedule has not been confirmed yet, but I've proposed a two week course about Writing the Novel. It's a big project. I'll invite some amazing guest artists to help you tackle it.

Events Archive: 2022

Jan 2: San diego central library
feb 18: Readout festival
Mar 1: SFSU
mar 3: Sonoma state
mar 8: stuttgart University
mar 8: mesa college
mar 18: University of alaska fairbanks
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mar 20: hugo house
Apr 21: Midwestern State
may 16-21: human sciences research council
may 23-27: International symposium on poetic inquiry
may 31: human sciences research council
jun 1: impact centre
jun 18: Marfa Pride

Events Archive: 2021

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
Feb 25: cal state san marcos
feb 26-28: Readout festival
mar 9: lake washington tech
mar 12: ku'ikahi mediation center
mar 14: elderqueer
mar 15: Cal state san marcos
mar 24: mansfield university
apr 3: corporeal writing
apr 5: WN4DC Symposium
apr 15: Lifebeat
Apr 18: Fat studies book launch
apr 23: cherish the child symposium
apr 23: vermont studio center
may 22: hugo house
jun 22: sinister wisdom
jul 1: charis books
jul 2: tgi reading series
Jul 11: Two Rivers Bookstore
jul 19: CSU SUmmer arts
aug 4: women in theatre conference
Aug 7: corporeal writing
Aug 31: shrimp teeth
sep 4: hugo house
Oct 2: Hugo House
oct 14: accessible yoga conference
oct 16: unconscious bias training
oct 21: ku'ikahi mediation center
oct 23: brilliant bystander training

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

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)

"Dark's performance was so packed with information, humor, and poetry... One thing is certain: her show is a must-see!"
​— The Scribe (Colorado Springs, CO)
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