This week in San Francisco: we are at the last week of the month, and so many of our roommates are gearing up for a festival in the desert, so lets make this week a good send off.
Monday 8/22: Sheila McClear reads from her Last of the Live Nude Girls and discusses her life as a ‘painfully inhibited late-bloomer’ turned exotic dancer in Times Square. 7:30PM Booksmith FREE. And as always- you are encouraged to frequent the city’s open mics! Tonight there’s one at 50 Mason Social House with songwriter Jeff Desira, who will host a lineup of comics, poets, musicians, and..you? 7PM, FREE.
Tuesday 8/23: As long as the calendar says it’s summer, you can count on more free wine and classic movies at the Intercontinental. This week it’s the Maltese Falcon.7:30PM FREE.
Wednesday 8/24: Award winning poet and bilingual children’s book author Jorge Argueta reads at Ictus Gallery 7-9PM, $7. Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee are at the Booksmith reading from their newly published books and discussing ‘the expectations and realities’ of intercultural marriage 7:30PM FREE.
Thursday 8/25: If your lunch hour’s open and you’re looking to spend some time outdoors-check out this week’s Yerba Buena Gardens Lunchtime Concert, where Sawai Koto USA will be playing from 12:30-1PM Yerba Buena Gardens. Good Vibrations’ Polk Street store is hosting a reading by Rachel Adair with her new sensual novel “”All Acts of Love and Pleasure are Her Rituals” 6:30-830PM FREE Good Vibrations. Gabby Young and other Animals has been listed as a brit pop, jazz, and gypsy folk group-and they’re playing for free if you can make it over to Amoeba by 6PM.
Friday 8/28: 826 Valencia is hosting its second 8/26 write-a-thon sit-in from 12-8:26PM. Get friends family and strangers to sponsor you to write like a motherf*cker to raise money for 826 educational programs and get yourself 10% off fall classes at the SF Writer’s Grotto. FREE 826 Valencia. Shake out your hand cramps afterward at the Valencia Street Evening Fair and pick up freebies and discounts from all your favorite shops 5-10PM.
Saturday 8/27: Crafting and free stuff! The Dolores Park Really Really Free Market happens today from 1-6PM. Bring your stuff or just yourself and trade away. The Presidio branch of the public library is hosting a collage Crafternoon beginning at 4PM. The title says its collage-specific, but show up with your own projects and pick over ideas and supplies with fellow DIYers from all over town. FREE.
