Readings and Events

Presentations, Readings, Artistic Expressions

June 3, 2019
There’s No Stopping to My Thoughts (theater production)
(Role) Parishioner
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Oakland, CA

April 28- May 3, 2019
Writer-in-Residence
Moshin Vineyards, Heraldsburg, CA
Community Reading & Author Talk 4-28-19

March 26, 2019
Women’s Month
Our Voices, Our Stories Reading & Discussion
All The Women In My Family Sing
African American Art & Culture Complex
San Francisco. CA

February 26, 2019
Alameda County Public Health
Black History Month Author Showcase
Reading and Panel
Oakland, CA

December 17, 2018
Bay Area Generations: Reading
Joyce Gordon Gallery
Oakland, CA

November 9, 2018
The Oakland Renaissance: A Roundtable of Afro-Futurist Luminaries
Panel Discussion & Interview: The Millions (panelist)
Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
https://themillions.com/2019/01/the-oakland-renaissance-a-roundtable-of-afro-futurist-luminaries.html

October 20, 2018
Lit Crawl
AfroSurreal Writers Workshop Collective: Beyond Wakanda: Reading
The Laundry Café- San Francisco, CA

October 16, 2018
Living Room Light Exchange Bay Area: Reading and Discussion
AfroSurreal Writers Workshop
San Francisco, CA

June 23, 2018
NEA funded Digital Literature Garden: Co-curator and reading
AfroSurreal Writers Workshop Collective
Projection Series and Digital Stories
Frank Ogawa Plaza- Oakland, CA

May 26, 2018
Two Languages One Community Workshops: Reading
Reception and Reading (Steven Fong and the Grocery Store)
Oakland Asian Cultural Center- Oakland, CA

May 20, 2018
Reader for Where’s My Tiara anthology literary event: Reading & Discussion
Read contribution I Remember Harlem
Marcus Book Store, Oakland, CA

April 27, 2018
Reader for All The Women In My Family Sing anthology literary event: Reading & Discussion
Read contribution Not Shirley Temple Curls
Oakland Center for Spiritual Living, Oakland, CA

March 24, 2018
Reader for Where’s My Tiara anthology literary event
Read contribution I Remember Harlem
Elk Grove, CA

February 28, 2018
Reader for All The Women In My Family Sing anthology literary event
Read contribution Not Shirley Temple Curls
Barnes & Noble, San Jose, CA

February 15, 2018
Reader for All The Women In My Family Sing anthology literary event
Read contribution Not Shirley Temple Curls
Laurel Book Store, Oakland, CA

November 18, 2017
AfroSurreal Writers Workshop/Poet & Writers Brunch and Reading
Featured Reader: My Blackberry Summer
San Francisco, CA

November, 2017
Supercharge Your Life After 60 anthology
Read my story Reconstructing Mom
Railroad Book Depot, Pittsburgh, CA

October 28, 2017
Reader at Witches, Bitches & Creeps Literary Event
Reading of work-in-progress “Aminah, Moon Water Goddess”
Liminal, a Feminist Writing Space, Oakland, CA

June 16, 2017
Director- Time Capsules/Migrations Stories Project with AfroSurreal Writers Workshop & Story/Corps
Curated program of interviews of African-Americans of the Great Migrations with StoryCorps
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

June 2- June 29, 2017
Co-curator, Let’s Play Exhibition: Intuition, Imagination, and Black Creativity (Co-curator), Presented audio and reading of short story (Piece-a-ways) Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

May 11, 2017
Co-hosted reading series, Intuition & Creativity for AfroSurreal Writers Workshop.
Bi-monthly series at Nomadic Press, Oakland, CA

May 6, 2017
Interviewed by Bookscover2cover with Sandra Fluck
Dera Williams on Discovering and Writing Heritage
https://bookscover2cover.com/2017/05/dera-williams-on-discovering-and-writing-heritage/

April 26, May 2 &3, 2017
Family Research Workshop
Merritt College (Africana Center) Oakland, CA

February 2012- February 2016
Part of African American Genealogical Society of Northern California team that assisted participants in genealogy research at Black Family History Day at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

February 7, 14, 28 2016
Black History Month Lecture Series:
Quilts in the Underground Railroad
The African-American History of Oral Tradition