This week in San Francisco…!!!
Tuesday 9/6: Comedians and collaborators Boots Riley and W. Kamau Bell discuss their careers, dreams, and years of incorporating the political and personal into the totally hilarious. All proceeds go towards the tour for Bell’s current Laughter Against the Machine project. Stage Werx, 8PM $20. Also: its First Tuesdays so remember to make it to the DeYoung, SF MOMA, the Legion of Honor, or YBCA on your way there.
Wednesday 9/7: the SF Fringe Festival, a “crap shoot by design” celebration of inexpensive and accessible theatrical performance, opens today. Check their site to find multiple SF theaters breaking fourth walls every night of the week. Mary Jo McConohay reads from Maya Roads, an account of her decades living in the modern jungles of an ancient civilization-witnessing both the longevity of Mayan cultural vitality and the crippling effects ofviolence in the form of wars, drug trafficking, and environmental degradation. Booksmith 7:30PM, FREE.
Thursday 9/8: Spectacular Oakland-based aerial dance group Project Bandaloop is celebrating its 20th season all over the Bay, and they’re putting on two free shows in downtown San Francisco this week. Check them out on your lunch break today at the Mint Plaza, 12:00PM, or at 5PM happy hour Friday. Also today, a City Lights reading and discussion of More Notes from a Dirty Old Man, a volume of unpublished gems from twenty years of Charles Bukowski’s weekly column, Notes from a Dirty Old Man. 7PM, FREE. Poet Bin Ramke reads from his recent Tendril and Theory of Mind at Bookshop West Portal tonight 7PM FREE.
Friday 9/9: Five local acts in as many hours for $7 at the Knockout. Part of the The Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, the annual September festival rooting out out Bay Area platforms for emerging musicians, public performers, and visual artists to access new audiences. Sneak a listen at the MCMA site here. LA’s famed Impro Theater is here putting on their acclaimed Jane Austen Unscripted-an improvisational show inspired by female wit and noblemen of both the awkward and suave variety. Bayfront Theater 8PM $20.
Saturday 9/10: The Bayview Book Giveaway is happening at the Bayview Opera House from 12-4PM. It’s built mostly for the little ones, so if you have a tot, haul her over for storytelling, music, crafts, snacks, and free books.
Sunday 9/11: Pack a picnic and celebrate the beginning of our true outdoors seasons with free opera in Golden Gate Park’s Sharon Meadow at 1:30PM.
