Friday 6/3: Waiting for a ferry? Only got a few minutes? Check out the students from the San Francisco Grotto Writing Program offering three-minute readings by dozens of writers. Literary tapas, one might say. Free, 6 p.m., Book Passage at the Ferry Buildling.
The Studio One Reading Series presents Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel (Managing Editor at Omnidawn Publishing), David Lau (Virgil and the Mountain Cat), and Garrett Caples (Power Ballads). Free, 7:30 p.m., Studio One Art Center.
Saturday, 6/4–Sunday 6/5: The San Francisco Chronicle presents the Bay Area Book Festival in downtown Berkeley, now in its second year. The festival includes over 250 authors and 120 events and covers ten city blocks. At its center is Lacuna, an art installation made out of 50,000 books. The structure morphs into new forms as the public helps themselves to books—that’s right, books are free for the taking. Free, 10 a.m.–6 p.m, Downtown Berkeley.
Monday 6/6: Poetry Express presents Jeramy DeCristo. Free, 7 p.m., Himalaya Flavors.
Raina J. León, Kevin Kvist Peters, Annelyse Gelman, and Arisa White read at the “Let’s Burn This Motherfucker to the Ground” reading series. Free, 7 p.m., Adobe Books Collective.
Tuesday 6/7: Russ Franklin (Cosmic Hotel) in conversation with Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son). Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde at Central Works in Berkeley, one of the Bay Area’s premiere art theaters. Gary Graves’s adaptation is set in the home of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny, as Stevenson, under the influence of cocaine, tells the shocking dream that would become the famous novella. Brian Herndon is frighteningly good as Stevenson, Jekyll, and Hyde. 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, Barbara Jane Reyes. Read an interview here.
And here’s some older video of a TED Talk by one of last week’s SF notables, Andrew Lam.
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