12 more events and then...Lit Crawl San Francisco brings 45 events to the Mission on Saturday night!
Check out what's coming up in the next couple of days below!
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Cleve Jones: When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Tuesday, October 17, CANCELLED!
Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. We will hope to include Cleve Jones in a future festival event.
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California’s Environmental Future
Tuesday, October 17, 8pm
The Lost Church
988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
Co-presented by Heyday Books
In this forward-looking panel, an artist, a historian, and a journalist walk into a bar to share their insights about our state's ecological future, including its greatest imminent threats and its best possibilities for regeneration. Together, these thinkers will extrapolate what this future may look like—and what it could look like were we to dispel our apathy and embrace our collective ability for change. Featuring artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann (The Deserts of California), environmental historian Peter Alagona (The Accidental Ecosystem), and reporter Rosanna Xia (California Against the Sea), moderated by KQED's Ezra David Romero. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm. $15 adv / door
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
Wednesday, October 18, 6pm
The Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Sponsored by Office Economic and Workforce Development
We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Co-author William J. Bauer Jr. will read from the book and discuss his work with Terria Smith, editor of News from Native California and the recent anthology Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance. FREE, pre-registration required, $5-10 suggested donation |
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That's My Word: Bay Area Rappers Write Their Life Stories
Thursday, October 19, 7pm
The Commons at KQED
2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco CA 94110 Sponsored by Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Co-presented by KQED Live Join two of the Bay Area's legendary rap artists, Black C and Mac Mall, as they discuss gripping stories from their recently published memoirs. In vivid, unflinching detail, Black C's A Part of Survival and Mac Mall's My Opinion shed light on the Bay Area's street life, drug trade, and pimp culture of the 1980s and 1990s—and reveal how the resourceful artists turned their setbacks into widespread success during hip-hop's Golden Age. Conversation moderated by KQED Arts & Culture senior editor Gabe Meline. $15 adv / door |
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An Evening with McSweeney’s and special guest Tim Heidecker
Friday, October 20, 7pm
Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Sponsored by Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Co-presented by McSweeney's
As part of their 25th Anniversary Year, Bay Area institution McSweeney’s hosts a special evening highlighting McSweeney’s first two and half decades. Come have drinks and food beforehand, enjoy riveting readings, and stay afterward to continue the celebration. Doors at 6pm, show at 7pm. $20 adv / door |
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Grace Notes: Poetry at Grace Cathedral
Friday, October 20, 7:30pm
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street San Francisco, CA 94108
Sponsored by Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Litquake returns for our eighth year to the fabulously gothic Grace Cathedral atop Nob Hill, for this special evening of exalted verse, celebrating the sacred and profane, domestic and divine, with poetry in the pews from a distinguished roster of poets. Curated and hosted by D.A. Powell and Preeti Vangani, the lineup features readings from Gillian Conoley, Jane Hirshfield, Vandana Khanna, J. Michael Martinez, and sam sax. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation |
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Lit Crawl San Francisco
Saturday, October 21, 5-9pm
Multiple Venues
Lit Crawl San Francisco is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District that caps off Litquake Festival each year in a grand finale of local literati. Lit Crawl SF brings together 200+ authors and close to 5,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique, resonant brand: smart and silly, worldly and wacky, with events presented in venues usual (bars, cafes, galleries, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations, tattoo parlors, barbershops, and laundromats). FREE |
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