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  • October 2020

  • Mon 5

    Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani

    October 5, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    Join us on Monday, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir, Here We Are, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please...

    Free
  • Tue 6

    Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson

    October 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present... The Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH, a novel, featuring reading, discussion, and music by author Robert Duncan,...

    Free
  • Wed 7

    Virtual Event: Kazim Ali, Gillian Conoley, and Brian Teare

    October 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    virtual

    Join us on Wednesday, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new...

    Free
  • Thu 8

    San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam

    October 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online

    featuring  special guests, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete, Lourdes Figuroa and more. Josiah Luis Alderete is a full...

    Free
  • Fri 9

    Zach Norris, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities

    October 9, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
    online

    Zach Norris is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, and...

    Free
  • Sat 10
    Bawdy Storytelling

    Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure

    October 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
    online

    Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• “Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” - Oprah Magazine https://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This Kinktacular Evening...

    $10 – $69.69
  • Mon 12

    Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua

    October 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    virtual

    Join us on Monday, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline's new collection, The...

    Free
  • Thu 15

    San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    San Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...

    Free
  • Fri 16

    THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar

    October 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
    ZOOOM

    THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...

    Free
  • Tue 20

    Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)

    October 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
    Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

  • Wed 21

    SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

    October 21, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online

    The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo...

    Free
  • Fri 23

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas

    October 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
    online

    An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...

    Free
  • Sat 24

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Libby Copeland, The Lost Family

    October 24, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
    online

    The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for...

    Free
  • Mon 26

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra

    October 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. Set in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to...

    Free
  • Wed 28

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez

    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online

    An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...

    Free
  • November 2020

  • Sat 7

    Ayşegül Savaş Reading

    November 7, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    You must register to attend this event! Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. Ayşegül...

    Free
  • Thu 12

    Harmada: Juan Cárdenas and Edgar Garbelotto celebrate João Gilberto Noll

    November 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm PST

    Join Unabridged Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating João Gilberto Noll’s Harmada, a mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from...

    Free
  • Fri 13

    Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson

    November 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Friday, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection, If We Were Electric, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! If...

    Free
  • Fri 13

    KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom”

    November 13, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PST

    This November, KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom,” a celebration of Arhm Choi Wild’s collection of poetry. Joined by Isabella “Isa” Borgeson and Hieu Minh Nguyen,...

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  • Wed 18

    Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody

    November 18, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Wednesday, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody, as they discuss their latest...

    Free
  • Thu 19
    Jane Hirshfield

    Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez

    November 19, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
    Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    November 19, 2020 Jewish Community Center/Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez Mill Valley poet Jane Hirshfield’s most recent, ninth poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf,...

  • Thu 19

    Author: Rand Quinn, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools

    November 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. San Francisco’s school...

    Free
  • Fri 20

    Panel: How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

    November 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
    online

    Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series, with a roundtable...

    Free
  • Mon 30

    Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan

    November 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...

    Free
  • December 2020

  • Fri 11

    Andrea & Edmund Read You Art Out Loud

    December 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Andrea Passwater's "We Sing" (The Rumpus) and Edmund Zagorin's "Year Are Sentences" (Rabid Oak Review) are out soon in the anthology Best Small Fictions 2020....

    $7
  • Fri 18

    HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jamie Townsend, Topazu, Subset

    December 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST
    online

    Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 Readings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith Introduced by Jamie Townsend Music...

    Free
  • January 2021

  • Tue 19

    LUSH: A SOMArts Series

    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
    SOMArts 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    LUSH: A SOMArts Series launches on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. The first of three virtual programs, this event features readings, a panel discussion, and Q&A with Juli...

    $5 – $20
  • Wed 27

    ‘Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure’ MCD Virtual Event

    January 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST
    Museum of Craft and Design 2569 Third Street, San Francisco

    The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes writer and speaker Katie Treggiden for a virtual discussion of her new book, "Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure"...

    $8
  • February 2021

  • Thu 4

    Lunar New Year Poetry and Calligraphy with Poets Michael Warr, Chun Yu, and Calligrapher Aiqin Zhou

    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Celebrate the Year of the Ox with us! Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu read works in English and Chinese (Mandarin) that reflect the essence...

    Free – $25
  • Thu 4
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    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!

    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
    online

    During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

    Free
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