Literature
Saturday, April 27
2024 CCSF Connect: Open House & Resource Fair
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2024 CCSF Connect
Saturday, April 27, 2023 | 11am – 3pm
City College of San Francisco (Ocean Campus), 50 Frida Kahlo Way San Francisco
FREE | RSVP
Meet CCSF staff, faculty & ...
Tenderloin Branch Library Open House (SF)
Celebrate the inaugural Tenderloin Branch Open House, which will activate every floor of the Main Library for I Love Tenderloin Week. The event features a resource fair with the Main Library’s community partners, an Arabic Story Hour followed by arts and crafts, a Streaming Music ...
Sunday, April 28
826 Valencia’s Storytellers’ Showcase (Yerba Buena Gardens)
You’re invited to 826 Valencia’s eighth annual Storytellers’ Showcase!
Students from our programs in schools and in the Mission, Tenderloin, and Mission Bay will be reading their original writing for their families and community. All year, our young authors have been reflecting on the theme “Write ...
Poetry Preserves: 44 Years of Vital Verse (SF Main Library)
The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal celebrates National Poetry Month with a poetry reading featuring some of San Francisco’s finest bards. Readers include Nicole Henares, Karen Melander-Magoon, Phyllis Klein, Cesar Love, Ed Mycue, Antoinette Vella Payne, Rafael Pineda, Dan Richman, Alice Elizabeth Rogoff, John Rowe, Eva ...
Wednesday, May 1
Oakland’s “The Bookmark Bookstore” Moving Sale w/ 50% Off (May 1-12)
The Bookmark Bookstore is moving! In preparation for this major event, we’re hosting a huge Moving Sale.
Friday, April 26 – Sunday, April 28: first dibs & 50% off all purchases for members of the Friends of the OPL
May 1 – 12: 50% off ...
Saturday, May 4
“Write Together” 90 Minute Workshop of Writing in Silence (Berkeley)
Join us for a morning of writing in community. We’ll gather at 10:30 am to set intentions, then write together in silence for 90 minutes. Afterward, we’ll check back in with each other to see how we did.
Coffee & tea are available (free), and you ...
Family Day with the Bay Area Book Festival (Berkeley)
Family Day with the Bay Area Book Festival will celebrate “Star Wars: May the 4th be With You” and “National Free Comic Book Day.” Highlights include:
Young Readers/Writers Showcase
Youth and YA-oriented Author Talks, Panels, Signings
Family Reading Activities
Arts, Crafts, and STEAM Activities
Free Book Giveaway
Youth Literacy Information & ...
2024 Bay Area Book Festival’s Family Day (Berkeley)
The 10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival will take place in two parts: Family Day at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday, May 4, 2024 (geared towards youngsters through teens/YA) and our full 10th Anniversary festival on June 1 & 2, 2024 in Downtown Berkeley. We ...
SF’s Historic 1886 Victorian “Haas-Lilienthal House” Open House & Big Book Sale
After being closed to the general public since November 2023, San Francisco Heritage’s Haas-Lilienthal House will reopen with a free open house and accompanying big book sale on Saturday, May 4, 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Thousands of volumes from the collection of the late Gee ...
Saturday, May 11
“Grace’s Universe” Drag Queen Story Hour at The Sanctuary (Oakland
Welcome to Grace’s Universe Drag Queen Story Hour at The Sanctuary! For Mother’s Day Weekend, The Sanctuary, the only 100% sustainable Black queer woman owned apothecary, apparel, home decor boutique in the Bay Area, is hosting Tunita James, a Barnes & Noble Press Bestselling LGBTQIA Children’s book author ...
Saturday, June 1
10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival: Writer’s Day (Berkeley)
The 10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival will take place in two parts: Family Day at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday, May 4, 2024 (geared towards youngsters through teens/YA) and our full 10th Anniversary festival on June 1 & 2, 2024 in Downtown Berkeley. We ...
Sunday, June 2
10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival: Outdoor Fair (Berkeley)
The 10th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival will take place in two parts: Family Day at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday, May 4, 2024 (geared towards youngsters through teens/YA) and our full 10th Anniversary festival on June 1 & 2, 2024 in Downtown Berkeley. We ...
