Notable San Francisco: 4/23-4/28

This Week in San Francisco!

Monday 4/23: Poet and activist Alice Rogof reads at Dog Eared Books. Free, 7pm.

Tuesday 4/24: Comedian Eric Barry is at LOL for LLS, a fundraiser for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Donation based, 8-10pm, Milk Bar.

Wednesday 4/25: El Rio hosts a donation-based grilled cheese party benefitting FeelGoodWorld. Burlesque following sandwich-eating. Donation based, 6pm. Oakland’s Feelmore 510 hosts “Ask a Ho,” a panel of Bay Area-based sex workers moderated by Shannon Williams of the Sex Workers Outreach Project. Free, 7:30-9:30.

Thursday 4/26: David Vann reads from Dirt, the author’s fifth novel telling “the story of twenty-two-year-old Galen, who lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a kind of eccentric isolation.” Free, 7:30 Booksmith. 

Friday 4/27: Wrap up National Poetry Month at City Hall with Poems Under the Dome, San Francisco’s largest open mic poetry night. Free, 5:30-8pm.

Saturday 4/28: Open Studios all day at Hunter’s Point studios. Muni Diaries celebrates its fourth year of bringing monthly readings to the city. Free, 6pm The Make Out Room.

 

Share
Tweet
Share

Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages.

You May Also Like

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper.

We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Get your Rumpus merch in our online store. Subscribe to receive Letters in the Mail from authors, join us by becoming a monthly or yearly Member and/or make a tax-deductible donation here.

We support independent bookstores! 10% of sales on any titles purchased through our Bookshop.org page or affiliate links benefits the magazine.

The Rumpus in your Inbox!
The Rumpus
© 2023, The Rumpus.

The Rumpus needs your help. We need to raise $25,000 $10,000 to fill our funding gap for 2024.

Our home base is Asheville, NC and Hurricane Helene severely impacted our ability to host events, launch new initiatives, and caused other significant financial setbacks this fall.

Can you support us at any level by Dec. 31? Every dollar counts and is a sign that our readers collectively value creative labor and independent publishing.

YEs, I'd like to help!

Sign up for the weekly Rumpus

Once a week, we'll send you a roundup of what's new on the magazine, invites to upcoming events, open calls for submissions, and more!

Total
0
Share