Wednesday 3/23: The MFA Reading Series at the University of San Francisco presents Louise Glück. Free, 7:45 p.m., University of San Francisco.
Galeria de la Raza’s Lunada Literary Lounge helps to keep the spirit of the Mission alive with “the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word, música, song, and story.” Tonight’s features are the celebrated writer/performer Marga Gomez, musical group Tarimba, plus an open mic. Gomez (whom Robin Williams once called “a lesbian Lenny Bruce”) is also featured at Punchline on Tuesday night, but tonight will be family. $5, 7:30 p.m. (open mic signup at 7:15), Galería de la Raza.
Thursday 3/24: Thursday’s At Readers, a series curated by San Francisco’s Poet Laureate emeritus, Jack Hirschman, features Cathleen Williams and Gary Hicks. Free, 6:30 p.m., Readers Bookstore, Fort Mason, Building C.
The only word for this is ploimdik! Did you know that the Jewish Community Center has a series called “Uninhibted About Sex?” And tonight there’ll be featuring Dixie De La Tour’s Bawdy Storytelling Event, “UnOrthodox”? Now you do. We could just plotz when we heard about this one. $27, 8 p.m., Jewish Community Center.
Friday 3/25: Word Week presents “Queer Words: LGBT Authors.” Featuring award winners Wilfredo Pascual (2015 Curt Johnson Prize for creative non fiction), Anne Raeff (2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction), and Roberto F. Santiago (Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize). Plus prosecco, prosciutto, and Italian cheeses will be served. A banquet! Free, 7 p.m., Cliché Noe Gifts + Home.
Saturday 3/26: The theme for tonight’s edition of Oakland’s beloved open mic, “Saturday Night Special” is “Colorful” and the featured readers are Rei Jeckler and Garrett Murphy. And, maybe… you? Free, 7 p.m. (sign up early), Nick’s Lounge.
Monday 3/28: This month’s edition (#31) of Bay Area Generations was guest curated by Peggy Morrison. B.A.G. features intergenerational pairs of readers: Jason Zuchowski + Mike Murray, Clyde Always + Stephen Kopel, Jon Sindel + William Taylor, Jr., Karen Penley + Katie Wheeler-Dubin, and Raluca Ioanid + Elise Kazanjian. $7 suggested donation, 7 p.m., Hotel Rex.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Irish Stories, a Word for Word production at Z space. Word for Word is a theatre company that stages short stories theatrically without adapting the text. The stories are performed verbatim, or “word for word.” The current production presents Emma Donoghue’s Night Vision and Colm Tóibín’s Silence. Reviewer Barry David Horwitz writes that the stories reveal “how women can survive and blossom under terrible conditions, becoming independent writers, thinkers, and rebels…” Read the review here. For further information, click here.
For more extensive coverage of the Bay Area theatre scene, visit TheatreStorm.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Rachael Herron. Read an interview here.
And here’s some older video of one of last week’s SF Notables, Iris Jamahl Dunkle.
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