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Arts & Culture Series Presents Author Kevin Fagan
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Jessica Sterling
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When: Sunday, June 29, 2:00pm PT
Where: In person at Epworth United Methodist Church Sanctuary, 1953 Hopkins Street, Berkeley, and Livestreamed via Zoom.
Open to: Although held in the church sanctuary, this is not a religious event and is open to all.
Accessibility: via ramp on Napa Street side of the church
Kevin Fagan, an award-winning San Francisco Chronicle reporter and Pulitzer Prize nominee who has covered homelessness for decades, will be joining us to talk about his book The Lost and the Found. Fagan and photographer Brant Ward famously embedded themselves, day and night, for six months in 2003 in San Francisco’s homeless encampments to produce one of many projects they did to explore the depth of the homeless crisis, and as a reporter and editor, Fagan has been covering the subject off and on for nearly 50 years. Hearing Fagans’ stories about those who live on the city’s streets will, hopefully, help us to better understand what might cause the downward spirals that can take, in some cases, our middle class neighbors to a life of panhandling, AIDS, fentanyl, disease and, ultimately, death.
The Lost and The Found follows, in depth, the lives and decisions of two people that ended up living on the streets of San Francisco, lost and addicted to drugs. We learn how they ultimately fought to save themselves, and with help, reconnected with family members that loved them. Reading this book and hearing from Kevin Fagan, who stayed in their lives as an empathic person that provided friendship and support, will forever change our perceptions about the homeless people that we interact with in our daily lives.
Kevin Fagan is nationally recognized for his empathetic coverage of homelessness, poverty, and social justice issues. He won the Bill Workman Award from the San Francisco Press Club, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice in Journalism, and the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
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