Full Color: A Staged Reading
2018-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Studio Grand Oakland, 3234 Grand Ave, Oakland , CA, 94610, United States
Full Color: A Staged Reading
Afro Urban Society and Studio Grand present ‘Full Color’, a short story written by Itoro Udofia that has been adapted for the stage in a dynamic literary reading. The story follows Inem, a first generation Nigerian woman returning home after five years of estrangement from her family. We follow her as she grapples with the fractured memories and loss she experiences when attempting to piece her life together amidst family tragedy. Ultimately, the story is about finding reconciliation with one’s cultural and personal history as a survivor. This reading is to honor Sexual Assault Awareness month and all survivors attempting to find a road to recovery.
More Info TBA

Muni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show
2018-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street, San Francisco , CA, 94110, United States
Muni Diaries is celebrating 10 years of documenting life in our fair city, as viewed through the eyes of everyday commuters like you. For the last decade, more than 4,000 San Franciscans submitted stories about the hilarity, and the humanity, that happens on our journeys between Point A and Point B. There were so many slices of life that needed to be told, we expanded to include stories that happen all over the 7×7: on Muni and off. We couldn’t have done this without you, so join us in lighting all 10 birthday candles, listening to great stories, and, as always, cheering our poets in the Muni Haiku Battle.
A sneak peek of our birthday lineup:
– Alexandria Love, Muni Haiku Battle reigning champion
– Gwen Carmen, storyteller extraordinaire
– Parker Gibbs, “scene champion and loudmouth about town,” who you may also know as “DJ Foodcourt”
Full lineup coming soon!
Grab a ticket, and we’ll see you at the Elbo Room on April 21!
Muni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show
Saturday, Apr 21, 2018
Doors: 6 p.m.
Show: 7 p.m.
Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Take Muni there: J-Church, 12, 14, 22, 33, 49, or BART: 16th or 24th St. Stations

You're Going to Die presents Death is Real with Mount Eerie
2018-04-21 19:00 - 22:30 | Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
You’re Going to Die Presents…
Death is Real with Mount Eerie
+
special appearances by
Scott Ferreter
& words from
Dr. Michael Fratkin
@
The Swedish American Hall
Doors at 7pm
Show at 8pm
Tickets here: http://bit.ly/2tO3zBB
As a part of Reimagine End of Life . April 16-22, You’re Going to Die offers another curated entertainment experience proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their brilliant beaming mortal magic. YG2D Presents curated shows steeped in the context of mortality, showcasing inspiringly enlivening musical acts with movingly entertaining spoken word.
YG2D presents Mount Eerie…
In 2015 Phil Elverum’s wife, the French Canadian cartoonist & musician Geneviève Castrée, was diagnosed with cancer just after giving birth to their first child. She died a year later. Elverum wrote & recorded his Mount Eerie album “A Crow Looked At Me” throughout the fall of 2016 in the same room where Geneviève died, using mostly her instruments; her guitar, her bass, her pick, her amp, her old family accordion, writing the words on her paper.
The songs are about the brutal details of that experience, from the hospitalizations to the grieving, the specific domestic banalities that become existential in the context of such huge & abrupt loss. These songs are devastating in their straightforward vulnerability. They are pretty & they are deep, & they find a love that prevails beneath the overwhelming & real sorrow. It is unlike anything else in the Mount Eerie catalog in its unvarnished expressions of personal grief, metaphor-free.
YG2D presents Dr. Michael Fratkin…
Father, husband, brother, son, and physician, Dr. Fratkin is dedicated to the well being of his community. Since completing his training, he has made his home and built his family in rural Northern California. He has served his community in primary care in a community clinic system, as a medical director of our local hospice, as a leader in the community hospital medical staff, and a transformative voice for improving the experience of people facing the end of life.
This event is a part of ReImagine End of Life [https://www.letsreimagine.org/], co-created by a loose network of artists, storytellers, healthcare professionals, innovators, designers, organizations & individuals, banding together to amplify the end-of-life conversation.
