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Tuesday, October 10

Free Admission Day | San Francisco Botanical Garden

The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the most diverse gardens in the world. A unique urban oasis, the garden is a living museum within Golden Gate Park, offering 55 acres of both landscaped gardens and open spaces, and showcasing over 9,000 different kinds ...Monthly

5:30 pmMarin Green Drinks & Free Appetizers | San Rafael  FREE
6:00 pmLitquake’s Literary Night: 50 Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude | 2017  
6:00 pmFifty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude | SF Main Library  FREE
6:00 pmBook Reading & Writing Workshop | SF Main Library  FREE
6:30 pm“America: The Cookbook” Book Launch | Omnivore Books  FREE
6:30 pmCookies & Comedy Night | SF  FREE
“The Show Must Go On” Drag Show Fundraiser | SF
Tuesday, October 10 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 11:00 pm | Cost: $5*
*Sliding scale donation of $5-25.
| El Rio
Please join them for a fundraiser on Tuesday, October 10. They are raising money as a direct response to Trump’s ban on trans military personnel. Fundraising will benefit The San Francisco Resistance and the SF LGBT Center. Continue the momentum from their Emergency Protest March ...

Straight No Chaser: Writers at the Bar | SF
Tuesday, October 10 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE | Vesuvio
In what has become a Litquake tradition, hallowed North Beach watering hole Vesuvio Café opens its doors for an edgy and entertaining evening reading. This year, they feature contributors to Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see authors ...
Litquake 2017: Black Against Empire | SF
Tuesday, October 10 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free but an RSVP is required.
| American Bookbinders Museum
In celebration of San Francisco’s 13th Annual One City One Book selection, they present an evening with “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party”, and its co-author, Waldo E. Martin, Jr. Bold. Engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and ...
“Saving San Francisco’s Heart” Book Launch | SF
Tuesday, October 10 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE | The Green Arcade
San Francisco is under attack — by developers, greedy speculators and others who see this city as a place from which to extract money, even at the cost of destroying communities. Saving San Francisco’s Heart:  How to win elections, reclaim our city, and keep SF a ...
Litquake 2017: Naked on the Page: Six Memoirists Bare All | SF
Tuesday, October 10 – 7:00 pm - Ends at 8:30 pm | Cost: $10 | San Francisco Center for the Book
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.” —Michel de Montaigne. Literary memoir transports the readers into the visceral reality of the life of the author. As we read, we walk as they do, talk as they do, but also fail, hurt, love. ...
8:00 pmWin Tix: Comedy Night: Graham Elwood (Cram / Strip Poker Game Show) | The Punch Line  WIN
8:00 pmTown Business Comedy Night | Oakland  FREE*
*Use promo code HELLAFUNNY for free tickets. Otherwise $15.
8:00 pmMilkin’ It: Tuesday Night Free Comedy | Upper Haight  FREE*
*Free, but donations are appreciated.
8:00 pmFree Women’s Comedy Night | Oakland  FREE*
*Free, but there is a two drink minimum and donations are welcome.
9:00 pmHaightian Democracy Free Stand-Up | SF  FREE
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