Speaking Events, Random Acts, KSVY:
KSVY 91.3, Really Real People, host Jim Thomas
Interview about writing and life in Sonoma
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Mar 5, 2020, Thursday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Author Interview: Writing Through Life
with Amber Lee Starfire
December 2018
KSVY 91.3 FM, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau ~ a weekly radio show for writers and readers, folks interested in writing, and those who like to be read to! I had a run of 12 consecutive shows.
Random Acts
Monthly open mic at Readers’ Books, Sonoma
Co-hosted October 2012 to August 2018
2nd Saturday of every month, 5:00 – 6:45 pm
Deb Carlen: Writing Your Memoir (guest speaker)
Vintage House
264 1st St E, Sonoma, CA
Subject: “The only person who can tell your story is you.”
Jun 13, 2018, Wednesday, 11:00 – 12:00
Sonoma Valley Woman’s Club
541 1st St E, Sonoma, CA
Subject: Genealogy and Remembering our Past
Jan 19, 2018, Friday, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Sonoma Valley Woman’s Club
541 1st St E, Sonoma, CA
Memoir: How Our Past is in Our Present Work
Nov 20, 2017, Monday, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Tuolumne County Genealogical Society
LDS Family History Center
19841 Hillsdale Drive, Sonora, CA
Annual seminar and workshop
Oct 14, 2017, Saturday, 9:00 – 11:45 a.m.
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
12. Guest, Joel Blackwell, author, speaker, political activist
Topic: how to impact politics in today’s world
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Dec 27, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
11. Guest, Andy Weinberger, owner of Readers’ Books
Topic: his new book, The Ugly Man Sits in the Garden
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Dec 20, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
10. Guest, James O, poet, programmer, and park ranger
Topic: parks, poetry, and other poets
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Dec 13, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Sonoma Valley Regional Library
755 West Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Queen Bee, Reflections on Life and Other Rude Awakenings
Author talk and book signing
Dec 7, 2016, Wednesday, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
9. Guest, Meta Strauss, author of Saving El Chico
Topic: fiction inspired by Texas livin’
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Dec 6, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
8. Guest, Shotsie Gorman, tattoo artist and poet
Topic: tats, poets, and Ginsberg
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Nov 29, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
7. Guest, Deb Carlen, Five Ideas, editor
Topic: Get thee to an editor!
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Nov 22, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
6. Guest, Ed Davis, local author
Topic: Writing, where it’s taken us, what lies ahead?
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Nov 15, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Tuolumne County Historical Society
Author talk and book signing:
Tuolumne County Museum
158 Bradford Street, Sonora, CA
Moments in Time, Excerpts from a Family Memoir
(Stories from Sonora, 1943 to 1953)
Nov 11, 2016, Friday, 10:00 a.m. – noon
Tuolumne County Historical Society
Thursday Evening History Program
at the Tuolumne County Public Library
480 Greenley Road, Sonora, CA
Author talk and book signing:
Moments in Time, Excerpts from a Family Memoir
(Stories from Sonora, 1943 to 1953)
Nov 10, 2016, Thursday, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
5. Guest, Katy Byrne, local author, radio host, columnist
Topic: Audacity and the courage to speak up
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Nov 8, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Radio Set Go
Hosts, Kristine and Shotsie Gorman
Guest, Catherine Sevenau
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Nov 7, 2016, Monday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
4. Guest, Carla Heine, local author and historian
Topic: The Ancestors, Ghosts, and Their Gifts
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Nov 1, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
3. Guest, Mary Reynolds Thompson, author, speaker, teacher
Topic: Reclaiming the Wild Soul, archetypes/landscape
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Oct 25, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, It’s All About You with Stan Pappas
Interview and introduction to having my own radio show
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Oct 20, 2016, Thursday, 10:00 – 11:00 am
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
2. Guest, Marguerita Castanera,
Book Passage director of “The Cooks with Books”
Topic: The linking of food and love
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Oct 18, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
KSVY 91.3, Speakeasy with Catherine Sevenau
Launch date of my own radio show
1. Guest, Rebecca Lawton, author, scientist, and river guide
Topic: Why write; how it flows into our life as writers
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Oct 11, 2016, Tuesday evening, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Sonoma Book Buddies
Queen Bee, Reflections on Life and Other Rude Awakenings
author talk and discussion
Sep 22, 2016, 4:00 – 6:00
KSVY 91.3, The Morning Show with Daedalus Howell
Author Talk
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Sep 20, 2016, Tuesday, 8:20 – 8:40 am
KSVY 91.3, The Morning Show with Christa Granton
Topic: A Conversation in Search of Funny
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Sep 9, 2016, Friday, 8:20 – 8:40 am
KSVY 91.3, The Morning Show with Christa Granton
I am her guest in training
Tune in to KSVY.org or 91.3 FM
Aug 19, 2016, Friday, 8:40 – 9:00 am
Marin Book launch at Book Passage
Queen Bee, Reflections on Life and Other Rude Awakenings
51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA
www.BookPassage.com
Jul 10, 2016, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
KSVY 91.3 Radio, The Morning Show with Christa Graton
Author Interview
Tune in to Sun FM 91.3
Jun 27, 2016, Friday, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Sonoma Valley Historical Society
Research Your Heritage
History Museum: First Thursday Lecture Series
270 1st St West, Sonoma, CA
DepotParkMuseum.org
May 5, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Queen Bee book launch
Book launch at Readers’ Books
Queen Bee, Reflections on Life and Other Rude Awakenings
130 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Feb 11, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Why Write? You Tube, courtesy of Judy Baker
How to Write Your Life: The Making of Your Memoir
Sonoma Community Center
Instructor, Deb Carlen
Guest presentation on memoir
276 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Nov 27, 2015, Tuesday, 7:15 p.m.
Readers’ Books: Disturbing the Dead
130 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Genealogy Class, $36
Apr 13, 2015, Monday, 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Berkeley City Commons Club
2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Author talk and book signing
Apr 10, 2015, Friday, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sonoma Valley Regional Library
755 West Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Author talk and book signing
Behind These Doors, A Family memoir
Program
Feb 11, 2015, Wednesday, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
KSVY 91.3 Radio, Sonic Discovery: Interview by James O
Book reading and author talk
Tune in to Sun FM 91.3
Jan 27, 2015, 9:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Soroptimist International Sonoma Valley
405 West MacArthur Street, Sonoma, CA
Author talk and book signing
Jan 27, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Readers’ Books Birthday Party, Local Author Signings
Readers’ Books
130 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Nov 22, 2014, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Book launch at Readers’ Books
Passages from Behind Theses Doors, A Family Memoir
130 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Review
Nov 13, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Community Center
A Night of Story & Rhyme
with members of Sonoma Writers Alliance
Sonoma Community Center
276 E. Napa Street, Sonoma, CA
Program
Oct 22, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Meet the Artists an evening soirée w/painters and poets
Studio 35
35 Patten Street, Sonoma, CA
Review
Oct 10, 2014, 5:00 p.m.
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Book Launch at Readers’ on Nov 13, 2014:
I posted on Facebook that my book launch on Thursday night was a “Life Event.” It absolutely was. I felt held, seen, heard, and loved. It was joyous with my heart filled to the brim. It could very well be the high point of all this (and you know what, it would be enough) or it will be seeds of my book going further than that room and my circle of friends.
People say their life passes before their eyes just before they think they’re going to die, but mine presented itself that night. I was touched by how many from my past and present were there. Most do not get this kind of acknowledgment until they’re dead, and some don’t even get it then. I’m glad I was able to be there for mine. A hundred+ people came: friends, family, community, a few I didn’t know. The crowd was out the door, and I was over the moon.
Catherine Sevenau, Behind These Doors book launch
Sonoma Index-Tribune, Sonoma Valley Sun, Bohemian, Nov 2014:
Sonoma, California— On Thursday, November 13, 7:00 pm, at Readers’ Books in Sonoma, Catherine Sevenau, a longtime Sonoma Valley resident and Realtor, will read selections from her new book, Passages from Behind These Doors: A Family Memoir. Reception to follow.
Sevenau’s memoir explores a turbulent childhood: the breakdowns and broken dreams of her fractured family; being raised by a thirteen-year-old sister who was put in charge of her upbringing, and living with an unhinged mother. The narratives are told with brutal honesty, humor, irreverence and grace, reflecting her will to not only survive, but to thrive.
Passages from Behind These Doors reflects the complicated and sometimes messy relationships that come with family, along with the possibility of transforming our lives into something brilliant. Sevenau says, “It’s about laughter and tears, sin and prayer, good intentions and unattended sorrows; it’s about all that, and about keeping a family together.”
Her book is a preview and sweet taste of the forthcoming unabridged version. Available in audio, eBook, and paperback.