This Week: The May Monthly Rumpus! Have some Lit&Lunch at 111 Minna, Bawdy Storytelling, an extra Rumpus-y Literary Death Match, and crazy drunken San Franciscans in varying degrees of nudity: it’s Bay to Breakers!
Monday 5/10: It’s time for the Monthly Rumpus again! This month: Keith Lee Morris, Jillian Lauren, Beth Lisick, and Andrew Sean Greer! Comedy by Kyle Kinane, music by Michael Mullen, plus a special guest, our very own Ted Wilson! As always, $10 cheap, 21+, 7pm @ 3225 22nd Street.
Tuesday 5/11: Lit&Lunch takes over 111 Minna for a free lecture with Marlon Hom on Asian American poetry and the 100th anniversary of the Angel Island Detention Center. This event is free, and food and drinks will be available for sale. 1230-130pm @ 111 Minna.
Wednesday 5/12: How many times have you been out rock-starring on a Saturday night, wandering from a Burning Man-style genital portrait video shoot to an LGBT Masturbate-a-thon, finding yourself at a BDSM Mommy/Little Boy play party as the sun came up – and lived to tell the tale?! Hear the stories of others and tell your own at Bawdy Storytelling’s May event. $10, 8pm @ The Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission Street.
Thursday 5/13: Explaining modern man via everyday artifacts, Hamburger Eyes presents Casual Abyss, a photo exhibit at the Mission Cultural Center. Curated by Ray Potes and Maurizzio Hector Pineda, the opening reception takes place between 6 and 930 pm tonight. $5+ sliding scale donation @ 2868 Mission Street.
Friday 5/14: See four Bay Area authors battle to the death at the Elbo Room for Literary Death Match. As always, The Rumpus’ own funny woman, Elissa Bassist will be hosting, and this month Rumpus Film Editor, Jeremy Hatch will be reading alongside Matthew Zapruder, Braden Marks, and Randall Mann. Tickets $7 pre-order and student price/$10 at the door, 21+, 7pm @ 647 Valencia Street.
Saturday 5/15: Spend the afternoon with Justine Nagan at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where here film, Typeface, will be screening. The film explores the commercially dying (but artistically reviving) art of woodblock printing through the story of the Hamilton Wood Type Museum and print shop in rural Wisconsin. Nagan will be present at the 6pm showing to discuss her work. Tickets $8, 6pm & 8pm @ 701 Mission Street.
Sunday 5/16: Drunk, naked, marathon runners, creatively costumed joggers, and general debauchery – it’s the third Sunday in May, and that means it’s time for Bay to Breakers to take over the city for the 99th annual 12k race. Participate in the mayhem, or watch from the sidelines – the race begins bright and early at 8am on Beale and Howard Streets, and snakes through the city via Fell Street and Golden Gate Park’s JFK Drive, ending at Ocean Beach.
