Sunday, September 20
L. Flick Hatcher – Romancing Normal
Sunday, September 20 – 11:00 am |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
This poignant story follows Drew as he navigates his journey from straight to gay to grey. Along the way, Drew learns to love himself and fulfills a plan even greater than he had hoped for, proving that nice guys don’t always finish last.
Cybersentics Book Club
Your Muse headband “knows” everything
about your performance in bed. So does the market.
Over the last two decades, EEG technology moved from neuroscience labs into our living rooms — and, for those who trust it with their sleep, our beds. Sleek headsets promise to visualize your ...
Sharon Spaulding – Women Make History
Sunday, September 20 – 1:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
Get motivated by the grit of groundbreaking women in Women Make History: Fifty-Three Stories of Courage, Strength & Resilience, which documents the legacy of trailblazers whose accomplishments have been dismissed, forgotten, or wrongly attributed.
Sol Smith – The Adhder’s Guide to Self-Discovery
Sunday, September 20 – 2:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
From the author of the bestselling Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery comes a neuro-affirming guide for those living with or only now recognizing their ADHD, helping them to acknowledge their strengths, embrace their identity, and define success on their own terms.
Puccini’s Tosca
California Lyric Artists Association proudly presents Puccini’s Tosca, a gripping story of love, jealousy, tyranny, and sacrifice set amid the political turmoil of Rome in 1800.
Featuring an international and Bay Area cast, the CLAA Chorus and Orchestra, and conductor Umberto Barisciano returning from Italy, this production is performed ...
Kathryn Otoshi – The White Raven
Sunday, September 20 – 4:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
Award-winning author and illustrator Kathryn Otoshi—best known for her groundbreaking picture books that blend powerful social messages with vibrant visual storytelling—presents The White Raven, a poignant journey of self-acceptance, belonging, and the courage to rise above rejection to find light, love, and home.
Liza Gershman – Farm + Market Healdsburg
Sunday, September 20 – 4:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
We invite you to discover Farm + Market: Healdsburg by Liza Gershman, created in partnership with the Friends of the Healdsburg Farmers’ Market.
This book celebrates the collaboration between farmers and chefs in Sonoma County through intimate storytelling and vibrant photography. It features recipes from James Beard and ...
Helen Scheuerer with K.F. Breene – Kiss of the Black Flame
Sunday, September 20 – 6:00 pm |
Cost: $36 | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
From Helen Scheuerer, the internationally bestselling author of the Legends of Thezmarr series, comes a new epic romantasy trilogy about a gifted bookbinder and a cursed immortal general bound together by a dangerous magical bargain.
Some bargains are sealed with blood. Others with fire. The deadliest are sealed ...
Monday, September 21
Ekin Oklap – First Summer
Monday, September 21 – 5:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (SF)
First Summer is a dreamy debut novel by Ekin Oklap about the summer love that changes two girls at the edge of adulthood.
The book beautifully captures the innocence and agony of adolescence, along with the exquisite promise of love on the cusp of adulthood—a moment ...
Tuesday, September 22
Free Swedish Fiction Talk + Book Celebration (Corte Madera)
Tuesday, September 22 – 6:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Book Passage (Corte Madera)
Join Vendela Vida and David Katznelson to celebrate their new anthology of Swedish fiction, Out of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden, published by the University of Minnesota Press.
The anthology is filled with stories by well-known Swedish writers, ranging from August Strindberg to Selma Lagerlöf. In ...
Free Book Launch: Lisa Moore Ramée’s “More Trouble Than It’s Worth” (Berkeley)
Join us at Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore on Tuesday, September 22 at 6:30 PM when author LISA MOORE RAMEE will celebrate the launch of her new book, More Trouble Than It’s Worth, and will be joined by author ANGELA DALTON for the conversation.
In this powerful and ...
Friday, September 25
Most Best Open Mic
Celebrate Bay Area poets, musicians, storytellers and showpeople. Who will win the performance of the night & be broadcast on KALW?
The Bay Area’s best performers shine at KALW’s Most Best Open Mic! Host Charlie Getter gathers a homegrown harvest of poets, musicians, and storytellers with ...
Saturday, September 26
Trinity Alley $5 Book Fair (SF)
Saturday, September 26 – 10:00 am - Ends at 5:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | 34 Trinity Place
Announcing the final $5 Book Fair of the year:
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 25th and 26th. 10am-5pm.
34 Trinity Place, San Francisco, CA, 94104. (Bush at Montgomery)
A Great Source for Used Books
1000’s of books from Bay Area bookstores + booksellers.
New remainder, vintage, and rare books.
All books (and ...
Sunday, September 27
Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (Oakland)
Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (BAQZF) is pleased to announce its return for the 9th annual in-person event, in addition to a two week-long virtual event. This year’s hybrid event will host online vendors on the BAQZF website from September 12th through September 26th, culminating ...
Warfield Commons Grand Opening 2026: Free Arts Celebration (Downtown SF)
Warfield Commons celebrates its grand opening in downtown San Francisco with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, music performances, art activations, local food vendors, building tours, and activities. Third-floor programming includes storytime, poetry readings, office hours with Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network staff, children’s puppet shows, and Well-Crafted activities.
Third ...
Saturday, October 3
28th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair (Oakland)
Saturday, October 3 – 10:00 am - Ends at 5:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | The Humanist Hall
The Bay 28th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair brings together dozens of publishers, micro-presses, and community organizations for a day of book and information tables, workshops, panel discussions and skill sharing
This year we ponder the Analog: In an age of mass collapse and rising ...
Thursday, October 8
Free KPFA Event: “The People’s History” Dave Zirin’s New Howard Zinn Biography (Oakland)
KPFA co-presents this evening celebrating the publication of The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, by Dave Zirin, a columnist at The Nation.
The new book examines the life and work of the iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, whose bestselling work, A People’s History of the United States, changed the ...
Thursday Night Poem Jam | SF Main Library
Thursday, October 8 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 7:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Main Public Library
Join San Francisco Main Public Library with talented poets for a poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series, moderated by Kim Shuck, takes place on Thursdays at 6 pm in the Main Library. Thursday Night Poem Jam Every 2nd Thursday | ...Monthly
Saturday, October 10
1st Annual Indigenous Arts and Music Fest (North Bay)
The 1st Annual Indigenous Arts and Music Fest kicks off Indigenous People’s Day weekend and coincides with the United States’ 250-year celebrations this year. The lineup so far includes the Scotts Valley Pomo Dancers, Big Valley Pomo Dancers, Audiopharmacy, Kulingtang Dialect, Tsim Nuj, and Stewie ...
Lunada’s “New Moon Fest” 2026: 25th Anniversary Lit + Poetry Night (Mission)
Saturday, October 10 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Galería de la Raza Studio 24
Galería de la Raza’s Lunada New Moon Fest marks the 25th anniversary of Lunada Literary Lounge and serves as the final stop of Litquake’s ¡Poetry on la Veinti Cuatro! crawl. The free event features poetry and spoken-word performances, musica, an open mic, a DJ and ...
Saturday Write Fever: Insta-Plays Written & Performed | SF
Saturday, October 10 – 8:30 pm - Ends at 10:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | EXIT Theatre
Every second Saturday of the month, EXIT Theatre invites writers, actors, directors, theater creators and theater audiences alike to a free evening of quick script-making and flash-fried performance. Join in for: 8:30 pm: Mixer 9 pm: Writing sprint where writers have 30 minutes to generate original monologues based ...Monthly
Saturday, October 17
Filipino American International Book Festival 2026 (SF Main Library)
Saturday, October 17 – 10:30 am |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Public Library
FilBookFest 8, the Filipino American International Book Festival, returns to the San Francisco Public Library on October 17-18, 2026. This free, two-day event celebrates Filipino American stories during Filipino American History Month with panel discussions, book signings, and readings by writers, scholars, and creatives from ...
Sunday, October 18
Filipino American International Book Festival 2026 (SF Main Library)
Sunday, October 18 – 10:30 am |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Public Library
FilBookFest 8, the Filipino American International Book Festival, returns to the San Francisco Public Library on October 17-18, 2026. This free, two-day event celebrates Filipino American stories during Filipino American History Month with panel discussions, book signings, and readings by writers, scholars, and creatives from ...
Thursday, November 12
Thursday Night Poem Jam | SF Main Library
Thursday, November 12 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 7:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Main Public Library
Join San Francisco Main Public Library with talented poets for a poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series, moderated by Kim Shuck, takes place on Thursdays at 6 pm in the Main Library. Thursday Night Poem Jam Every 2nd Thursday | ...Monthly
Performance: Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam Celebrates Janice Gould’s This Music
Thursday, November 12 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 7:15 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Latino Room (lower level)
San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck and special guests celebrate This Music, a memoir in prose poems by the late Native poet and essayist Janice Gould at SFPL’s Monthly poetry reading.
Saturday, November 14
Saturday Write Fever: Insta-Plays Written & Performed | SF
Saturday, November 14 – 8:30 pm - Ends at 10:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | EXIT Theatre
Every second Saturday of the month, EXIT Theatre invites writers, actors, directors, theater creators and theater audiences alike to a free evening of quick script-making and flash-fried performance. Join in for: 8:30 pm: Mixer 9 pm: Writing sprint where writers have 30 minutes to generate original monologues based ...Monthly
Sunday, November 29
Performance: Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam Celebrates Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories
Sunday, November 29 – 1:00 pm - Ends at 2:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Latino Room (lower level)
San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck and special guests celebrate American Indian Stories by writer, editor, translator and musician Zitkala-Ša at SFPL’s Monthly poetry reading.
Sunday, December 6
Presentation: Eugene O’Neill: 51 Plays in 51 Minutes
Sunday, December 6 – 1:00 pm - Ends at 2:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Latino Room (lower level)
Eric Fraisher Hayes gives a lively, fast-paced introduction to playwright Eugene O’Neill, his plays and the local treasure that is Tao House. Using images, anecdotes and audience participation, Eric will cover the playwright’s life and work in less than an hour!
Eric Fraisher Hayes is the ...
Thursday, December 10
Thursday Night Poem Jam | SF Main Library
Thursday, December 10 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 7:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Main Public Library
Join San Francisco Main Public Library with talented poets for a poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series, moderated by Kim Shuck, takes place on Thursdays at 6 pm in the Main Library. Thursday Night Poem Jam Every 2nd Thursday | ...Monthly
Performance: Kim Shuck’s Poem Celebrates November Dance Shirt
Thursday, December 10 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 7:15 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Latino Room (lower level)
San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, poet Lauren Ito and special guests celebrate Shuck’s new collection November Dance Shirt at SFPL’s Monthly poetry reading.
Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and ...
