This week in San Francisco…
Monday 10/24: Henry Rollins reads from Occupants, his own ‘visual testimony’ or joy and compassion that persists, albeit quietly, throughout waves of anger and suffering. Books Inc. FREE 7PM. BTW, it’s your last day to register to vote in SF County.
Tuesday 10/25: The Center for the Art of Translation holds the launch for its newest in the Two Lines series of poetry and prose in translation. booze & books. 6:30PM, Make Out Room, $10 suggested donation.
Wednesday 10/26: Justin Chin reads from 98 Wounds, a ‘series of improbably linked stories that reimagines and reconciles the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, the misfits, and the cranky contrarians’ of a free and divided gay community plunging towards the mainstream. City Lights FREE 7PM. The Civil Rights Film Fest screens The Fall of the I Hotel, a documentary chronicling the legendary community backlash against the International Hotel redevelopment. New People, 7PM FREE
Thursday 10/27: Paul La Farge reads from Luminous Airplanes at City Lights FREE 7PM. The Women and Gender Studies department at SFSU is celebrating its 40th anniversary all day with free panel discussions, lectures, and screenings.
Friday 10/28: Southern Exposure unveils the fruits of a new project, Words and Things, a collection of newly commissioned literary works by visual artists. FREE 7PM. You can write for a cause tonight-the Rainforest Action Network is hosting a lecture and write-in on the tar sands oil pipeline project at the Cal Ecology Center 7-9PM.
Saturday 10/29: Check out the last weekend of SF Open Studios, happening in Hunter’s Point this weekend
Sunday 10/30: Bird and Beckett hosts its regular concert series, Which Way West? featuring violinist Catharine Clune, pianist Joshua Raoul Brody and trombonist Greg Stephens. 4-6:30PM FREE.
