This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film party at the Victoria Theater, and feel better about not running any marathons recently by collecting pledges for ArtSeed’s Art-a-thon to benefit art education programs.
Monday 4/12: Support The Rumpus by coming out to the Makeout Room for April’s Monthly Rumpus featuring performances by Yo-Yo Master Doctor Popular, The Yellow Dress and Peter Squires, and readings by Mac McClelland, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Randall Mann, Susan Steinberg, and Broke-Ass Stuart. As always, it’s $10 cheap, and raffle prizes will abound. 21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street.
Tuesday 4/13: Is Italy experiencing another artistic renaissance? Decide for yourself at the opening reception of .IT Italian Art Today with artists Matteo Bergamasco, Mariella Bettineschi, Davide Coltro, Renato D’Agostin, Francesco De Grandi, Daniele Girardi, Angelo Musco, and Antonio Pio Saracino. 6:30pm @ the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 425 Washington Street.
Wednesday 4/14: Fight the humpday blues with a murder mystery reading at Booksmith. Katie Crouch will be reading from her book Men and Dogs at 7:30pm. 1644 Haight Street.
Thursday 4/15: Fourteen Hills, SFSU’s writing review, is hosting the Second Annual Gina Berriault Award Reading with Adam Johnson. It’s totally free — all you have to do is show up at SFSU’s poetry center in the Humanities Building, room 512. 7pm @ 1600 Holloway.
Also going down tonight, Litquake, The Believer, and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco present: You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You. The book is a humor anthology of horrible advice from incredibly funny people. Said funny people will be there, including Daniel Handler and Eugene Mirman! Tickets $20, 8pm @ 3200 California Street.
Friday 4/16: Today marks the 13th annual Day of Silence, a peaceful protest by students against the anti-LGBT attitudes present in schools. Completely unrelated, but a damn fine way to spend a Friday night, the San Francisco Cinematheque presents Crossroads: the opening night of Lawrence Jordan’s animated film, Cosmic Alchemy!, with a preview of Moments of Illumination, a documentary made about Jordan’s work. Tickets $10 ($5 for SFC members), 8pm @ the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street.
Saturday 4/17: Get your art on! Take your child, borrow a child, or just admit your undying love for glitter glue and finger painting and head down to the Presidio for ArtSeed’s annual all day Art-a-thon. Start collecting pledges now, or sponsor yourself at the door for any amount you can afford. 10am-8pm @ Thoreau Center’s Acre Cafe, 1013 Torney Ave.
Sunday 4/18: Grab a sundae and check out the sweet vintage toy collection at Toy Boat before moseying down the block for a reading at Green Apple Books. Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch will be reading from their unique New York travel diary, Ten Walks/Two Talks. Damion Searls will also read from his dazzling anthology of Thoreau’s Journals. 7:30pm @ 506 Clement Street.
