Not surprisingly, things slow down a bit over Labor Day weekend. But, less can be more when you have options like these!
Thursday 9/1: The Flash Fiction Collective presents work from 11 writers from the Grotto: Heather Bourbeau, Jenny Bitner, Jane Ciabattari, Christopher Cook, Laurie Doyle, Thaisa Frank, Vanessa Hua, Chad Koch, Joshua Mohr, Ethel Rohan, and Lyzette Wanzer. It may be a while before you run across another lineup like that! Free, 7 p.m., Dog Eared Books on Valencia.
Friday 9/2: Nomadic Press presents Cassandra Dallett and Natasha Dennerstein. Free, but donations will be solicited. 7 p.m., Nomadic Press in Oakland. (Note: Street parking is available, but organizers recommend parking at Walgreens, a block away as “the easiest thing to do.”)
The California Jazz Conservancy’s Dillon Vado Trio collaborates with poet Amos White to present Beyond Words—An Evening of Jazz and Poetry. Featuring Bonnie Kwong, Candy Shue, DeWayne Dickerson, Amos White, and The Dillon Vado Trio. $15, 8 p.m., California Jazz Conservancy.
Monday 9/5: POETS! Bird and Beckett Books presents Phyllis Holliday and Alice Rogoff. Free, 7 p.m., Bird and Beckett.
Tuesday 9/6: The Loft at Spice Monkey presents Hot! New Books! with Rosa Lane, Jon Sindell, Brynn Saito, and Richard Loranger.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Veils, a two-hander by Tom Coash, being staged at Pear Theatre in Mountain View. Coash was a teaching at American University in Cairo in the 1990s when he began developing his ideas for the play, whose two characters are a Black American Muslim woman who has traveled to Egypt to become a better Muslim and learn Arabic and a “liberated” Egyptian who questions her decision to wear the veil. You can read more about the play and the playwright here. For ticket information, click here.
For 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, Sandra Wassilie. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Natasha Dennerstein.
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