This week: Work on the memoir you’ve always wanted to write with Michelle Tea, dance to benefit Doctors Without Borders at San Francisco Hearts Haiti, watch SF IndieFest take over Portrero Hill venues, and get your mixtape on at The Makeout Room.
Monday 1/25: It’s not too late to get to work on your hobby-pursuing, self-improving, thing-doing New Years resolutions. Tonight at Intersection for the Arts, awesome author (and performer at the January Monthly Rumpus) Michelle Tea teaches a seminar aptly entitled “Performing Your Life.” Tea will explore the space where words and performance meet, and participants must be prepared to share work publicly. Register through IFTA’s website, 6-9pm @ 446 Valencia Street.
Tuesday 1/26: Watch designers Alexandria Von Bromssen, Julia Meeks, and Gail Shrive compete live to win the finale of the “Project Runway”-esque San Francisco Fashion Feud. Designers are given one hour to create a runway-ready outfit while you booze up are peruse the offerings of local indie vendors. 7-10pm, 119 Utah Street.
Wednesday 1/27: Local musicians and DJs team up with The Independent for San Francisco Hearts Haiti, a benefit show to raise money for the work Doctors Without Borders is doing in Haiti. $10, 21+, 7pm @ 628 Divisadero Street
Thursday 1/28: “Come on down to Dog Eared Books for a night of downhome polymorphous perversity (in a literary context of course). We’re presenting a fab foursome of readers – Larry Rinder, Jennifer Blowdryer, Ron Palmer, and Alvin Orloff – as well as a musical interlude with Tony Vaguely. It’s free and guaranteed to be more fun than a barrel full of monkeys!” I couldn’t have said it better myself. Stop by Midwinter Madness at Dog Eared Books at 900 Valencia Street between 7 and 10pm.
Friday 1/29: Spray paint becomes fine art in the hands of Chor Boogie, whose show Boogie Birds marks the opening of Air Castle, San Francisco’s newest gallery. Boogie’s birds are joined by the art of Anna Eva and Charles Papillo, and the music of Irina Mikhailova. Free for all ages, 6pm at 1706 Steiner Street (@ Post).
Saturday 1/30: Devote the day to local music. SF IndieFest’s Winter Music Festival takes over Thee Parkside at 2pm for an all ages show with DFR, Fever Charm, Lou Lou and the Guitar Fish, Finish Ticket, and Emily’s Amy. $10, 1600 17th Street. Then, hang around until 8pm for The Stone Foxes, Bird by Bird, The Soft White Sixties, and Evacuee (21+, $10 @ Thee Parkside), or make the three block trek over to Bottom of the Hill to see Battlehooch, Judgement Day, and The Hot Moon. 18+, $10 advance tickets/$12 at the door, 1233 17th Street.
Sunday 1/31: Join the San Francisco Mix Tape Society for their quarterly music exchange at The Makeout Room. This Sunday’s theme? Cities vs. Towns. Everybody who shows up with a mix will leave with a different one, and prizes will be awarded for best track listings and cover art. Free and 21+, 4-6pm @ 3225 22nd Street.
