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LOVE in ACTION Projects
events on the calendar that show this little red heart are what SF Heart calls Love in Action projects,benefits,volunteer,
fundraiser for good causes.

Please visit and support our local venues all of which have calendars of upcoming events on their own websites.

Adobe Books
3130 24th Street
San Francisco
415 864-3936
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Alley Cat Bookstore and Gallery
3036 24th Street
San Francisco
415-824-1761
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Bazaar Cafe
5927 California St,
San Francisco
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The Beat Museum
540 Broadway @ Columbus Ave, S.F.
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Bird & Beckett Books & Records
653 Chenery St.
bet. Diamond and Castro,S.F.
(415 )586-3733
+LIVE MUSIC SERIES
and more.
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The Booksmith
1644 Haight St.
San Francisco
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THE BINDERY
1727 Haight Street
San Francisco
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Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street
San Francisco
(415) 781-7532
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Book Passage
1 Ferry Building
San Francisco
(415) 835-1020
San Francisco Events
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The Brava Theater
Women in the Arts
2781 24th Street
San Francisco
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Browser Bookstore
2195 Fillmore St,
San Francisco
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California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco
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Clarion Music Center
2 Waverly Place
San Francisco
415-391-1317
Clara Hsu ~ Poetic Journey
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City Arts & Lectures
upcoming events
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City Lights Booksellers
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
(415) 362-8193
events resume in Sept.
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Folio Books
3957 24th Street
San Francisco
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Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco
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Green Apple Books
506 Clement St.
San Francisco
Event calendar
for both Green Apple locations
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Green Apple Books/ 9th Ave
1231 9th Ave
San Francisco
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Goethe-Institut San Francisco
530 Bush Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco
Events
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The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street @Gough
San Francisco
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Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street
San Francisco
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La Promenade Cafe
3643 Balboa St.@38th Ave
San Francisco
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Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post St.
San Francisco
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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
MCCLA
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco (map)
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Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St (at 3rd)
San Francisco ~ Get directions
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The Sydney Goldstein Theater(formerly Nourse) 275 Hayes St,
San Francisco
(415) 392-4400
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The Poetry Center (SFSU)

Red Poppy Arthouse
2698 Folsom St
San Francisco
(415) 826.2402
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Sacred Grounds Cafe
2095 Hayes @ Cole
San Francisco
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San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco
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San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St
San Francisco
(415) 557-4400
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SF Live Arts at Cyprian’s
2097 Turk Street @ Lyon
San Francisco map
(415) 454.5238
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Conservatory of Flowers
100 John F. Kennedy Drive
Golden Gate Park
map - directions - parking
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San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park, near the corner of 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way.
Calendar of Events
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De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
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The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
Lincoln Park
San Francisco

Tue. Nov. 5 ~ Sun., 24, 2919
San Francisco and Berkeley,
INSIDE the MAGNETIC FIELDS:
SURREALISM @ 100
A festival of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of the emergence of Surrealism.
From lectures and panel discussions to performances and film screenings,two weeks exploring Surrealism at a variety of venues.

~*~ART BOOK SALE is back!
November 8 – 15, 2019
FRIENDS BOOKSTORE
Fort Mason

40% off all art, photo, architecture and graphic novels. All week. Fresh stock in every category will be in store, in addition to the regular sections. Buy Books- Support Our Libraries

HAPY BIRTHDAY (cont.)

November 15, 1887 ~born, Georgia O'Keeffe in Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe is the best known and most successful American woman painter; her larger-than-life, paintings of flowers are world famous. Georgia O'Keefe

Nov. 21, 1694 ~ born in Paris. François-Marie Arouet, nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopherfamous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation of church and state. At 65 he spent three days writing Candide.

Nov. 22 .1869 ~ born, Andre [Paul Guillame] Gide (d-1951)

Nov. 22, 1819 ~ George Eliot, aka Mary Anne Evans, English novelist,
(d- 22 Dec. 1880 Grave site)

Nov. 24, 1849 ~born, Frances Hodgson Burnett , writer of The Secret Garden(d.1924)

November 30, 1835 ~ American humorist Mark Twain, aka Samuel Clemens ( d.1910)

Nov. 29, 1832 ~C. S. Lewis
English essayist, children's writer,
and Christian apologist. (d.1963)

Louisa May Alcott, Pennsylvania-born author of Little Women and Little Men (d.1888)

ONGOING

De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco

Nov.9, 2019 – March 15, 2020
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983]

The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
Lincoln Park
San Francisco

art exhibition
October. 12 – February 9, 2020
JAMES TISSET~FASHION & FAITH

NOVEMBER 2019

MON . TUES . WEDS . THURS . FRI . SAT . SUN

Please Support our creativeSan Francisco community of artists, authors, poets, musicians,performers, publishers, workers for changeand framers of dreams by atttending and encouraging their works, supporting our local book stores,and the venues that
make it possible for them to
do what they love.

SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POETRY CALENDAR
For questions, comments, reports of errors
or broken links, please CONTACT
Nicole Savage, editor, sfheart.com
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MONDAY

Monday November 11, 2019
(6:30PM-7:30PM
FOLIO BOOKS
3957 24th St. in Noe Valley.
San Francisco

Odd Mondays
celebrates non-fiction with readings by three writers of history:Tamim Ansary, Brandon Brown, & Julia Flynn Siler will read from their newest books: Tamim:THE INVENTION OF YESTERDAY:
A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture,
Conflict, and Connection;
Brandon:THE APOLLO CHRONICLES: Engineering America's First Moon Missions; and Julia:THE WHITE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown. Free admission, free refreshments. A book signing will follow

Monday, November 11, 2019
Doors at 6:30 PM Presentation 7:00 PM
Dark Garden, 321 Linden St,
San Francisco ~ 415-431-7684

Ecstatic Transgression:
The Queer Surrealism of Pierre Molinier
with Peter Maravelis
Admission is free but reservations are required.
Call 415-362-8193 Ext.24 to check on availability. Reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Capacity is limited.
In conjunction with
Inside the Magnetic Fields: SURREALISM @ 100

NOVEMBER 18, 2019
7 PM – 9 PM
BIRD and BECKETT BOOKS
653 Chenery ~ San Francisco
between Diamond and Castro, San Francisco

POETS!
GENE BERSON & GRACE MARIE GRAFTON
followed by an OPEN MIC
Hosted by SF Poet Laureate, Kim Shuck,
and Jerry Ferazz, resident Troubador
1ST & 3RD MONDAY POETRY SERIES

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TUESDAY

Tuesday, November 12., 2019
PARK BRANCH LIBRARY
7:00 PM
1833 Page, between Cole & Shrader
San Francisco

ON THE PAGE OFF THE PAGE
Open Mic Poetry Series (and music)
As always, we'll have food for the body
the mind, and the spirit. Everybody
(performers, audience, and friends) welcome!
Hosted by RICHARD IVANHOE
SECOND TUESDAY MONTHLY POETRY SERIES~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
7:00 PM
CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS
261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco,
(Admission Free)

James Leo Cahill celebrates the release of the new book: ZOOLOGICAL SURREALISM:
The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painleve'
published by University of Minnesota Press
In conjunction with
Inside the Magnetic Fields: SURREALISM @ 100

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
8:30 PM
SRV/A
An Undisclosed Location
(directions on how to get there will involve picking up a mysterious envelope left for you at the front counter of CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE. Envelopes become available after October 13th, on the eve of the full moon on a first come, first serve basis. SRV/A is a clandestine arting cabal whispered into life...FREE!
In conjunction with
Inside the Magnetic Fields: SURREALISM @ 100

Tuesday, November 19, 2019
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
PianoFight
144 Taylor St, San Francisco

THE WORD PARTY
feature TBA
Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm – 3min time limit, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment,
FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
3RD TUESDAY POETRY/ OPEN MIC AND JAZZ SERIES

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WEDNESDAY

Wednesday November 13, 2019
Open mic sign up at 7; feature at 8.
Come at 7 and sign up. We’d love to hear you.
at SACRED GROUNDS CAFE
2095 Hayes @ Cole ~ San Francisco

SACRED GROUNDS
POETRY READING SERIES (1972)
hosted by Dan Brady
Feature TBA
WEEKLY SACRED GROUNDS POETRY READING + OPEN MIC

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THURSDAY

ONGOING

San Francisco Women Artists
(SFWA) Gallery
647 Irving Street @ 8th Avenue
San Francisco
Hours ~Tuesday ~ Sat.10am to 6pm
Sundays ~12 noon to 4pm Sundays

2 EXHIBITS
CURVES & SHAPES
ART & ACTIVISM
An Exhibition by Bay Area Artists
Juror: Laura Grigsby Art Consulting
VIEW SHOW

Thurday, November 14, 2019
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
California Institute of Integral Studies
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
1453 Mission Street ~ San Francisco

DECODING SACRED GEOMETRY IN INDIAN ART
A TALK WITH MESMA BELSARÉ
Tickets $10 ~ $15. at door ~ $8-members
Join dancer, painter and actor Mesma Belsaré for this interactive exploration into sacred geometry in classical Indian art. Using visuals, dance, and lecture.

2ND Thursday, November 14,2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Latino/Hispanic Room (Lower Level )
100 Larkin Street ~ San Francisco

POEM JAM
Join San Francisco Poet Laureate,
KIM SHUCK and special poet guests
LINDA NOEL, DUANE BIG EAGLE, KITTY COSTELLO, and more in a poetry reading in honor of the late Native American poet and storyteller Mary TallMountain,for this month's poem jam. Free!
2ND THURSDAY MONTHLY POETRY READING SERIES

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FRIDAY

Friday, November 15, 2019
5:30-8 PM
BIRD and BECKETT BOOKS
653 Chenery ~ San Francisco
between Diamond and Castro, San Francisco

Cubano Be, Cubano Bop:
Caribbean Rhythms in American Jazz!
The Scott Foster Ensemble
featuring percussionist John Santos
jazz in the bookshop since 2002
every Friday after work- read more

3RD Friday,November 13,2019
7:00 PM

HAIGHT ASHBURY PEACE VIGIL
corner of Masonic and Fell, Golden Gate Park Panhandle. We will have our usual signs, music, candles, and snacks. Join us for the whole two hours or for just five minutes. Everybody welcome!
If you join us, please dress for the weather.
Pictures from past vigils can be seen here
3RD FRIDAY PEACE VIGIL
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SATURDAY

EVERY SATURDAY is FREE MUSEUM DAY
at the De Young &The Legion of Honor
9:30 am to 5:15 pm

Saturday, November 16, 2019,
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco

Wilsey Court
Music Performance by
Nation" Artist Mike Henderson
Courtesy of Chris W. Nelson
Want to meet a living legend? Mike Henderson’s breakthrough figurative paintings of the 1960s reveal the spiritof protest and social justice in San Francisco. In addition to painting, Henderson is an accomplished blues guitarist. Hear live blues by the artist whose work is featured in the new Soul of a Nation exhibition.

FIRST SATURDAY each month:
(Dogpatch, Potrero, Mission)
MINNESOTA PROJECT GALLERIES
1275 Minnesota St. and 1150 25th St.
and select other SFADA member galleries present special opportunities to connect with artists or learn more about current exhibitions. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Check back often as these events are continually updated!

1ST Saturday, December 7, 2019
7-9:30 PM
LA PROMENADE CAFE
Good food at reasonable prices!
3643 Balboa St. Ave.near 38th Ave
-across from Balboa Theatre
San Francisco

!STSaturday San Francisco Poetry readiing feature TBA
Hosted by STEPHANIE MANNING
followed by an Open Mic
Come One! Come All!
FIRST SATURDAY POETRY READING SERIES

Saturday,December 7, 2019
Doors -- 7:30 pm.
BLACK & BROWN SOCIAL CLUB
476 Valencia street~San Francisco
Mission District

The Black & Brown Social Club presents
Black & Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality
TBA
1ST SAT. OF THE MONTH POETRY SERIES

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SUNDAY

Sunday, November 17, 2019
We begin promptly at 11:00 AM
Cultural Integration Fellowship
* ground level
corner of Fulton & 3rd Avenue
San Francisco

Open Mike Community Event with
SALLY LOVE SAUNDERS

Guests are cordially invited.Bring your own poem to share, or come to listen!
Refreshments will be served.
Free will offering

Sunday, November 17, 2019
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
San Francisco Art Institute
Osher Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco,

El Surrealismo en México: Histories, Reflections, Engagements
A lecture with Dr. Arturo Dávila-Sánchez, who will explore the rich history of Mexican Surrealism and read some contemporary texts influenced by Surrealism. FREE!
Inside the Magnetic Fields: SURREALISM @ 100

SAN FRANCISCO POETS

Susan Birkeland 1961 ~ 2006
City of Love
Tony Vaughan1947 ~ 2008
After An Evening of Poetry
and Wine & Approaching Desire
George Tsongas
(1927 - January 2010)
The City is a Dream
John Dowling
(Aug. 7, 1956 -. Dec.16, 2012)
The Revolution in North Beach
Joie Cook
(Nov. 4, 1951 ~ Feb. 24, 2013)
There Are Nights in San Francisco
Micheline
Don Brennan
(Sept. 27, 1935 ~ Mar. 18, 2013)
Spirit Walk &
Old World Cafes
Leonard Irving
Bleak Morning on Jones Street
Vince Storti
June 9, 1944 ~March 2017
Walking Woman 1 &
Mime Troupe Witness 1
Peter Sherburn-Zimmer
Dec.1944)~ Feb.2019
Broadway Queen &
what may a poem be?
Ronald Sauer
The San Francisco Renaissance
Rebecca (an acrostic poem)

Don Altadena
Foghorns bloom,
we break upon meaning
Jerry Ferraz
Guitara
Richard Hack
Three poems
Paul Leclerc
Porter prospectus
Rosemary Manno
What the Beatniks Saw in North Beach
& Ode To Michelangelo Park at Twilight
Bill Mercer
Vesuvio's North Beach
Jane Rades
My Adopted City
Mark Schwartz
All the Critical Mass bicycles
confiscated should be: &
There was a little alley
in San Francisco
Kim Shuck
On Columbus
Mike Aguzin
420 and a Vision & Cheer
Mia Kirsi Stageberg
Angels of San Francisco

IN MEMORIAM

ALLEN COHEN Poetry
April 23,1941~April 30, 2004
The Decline & Fall of San Francisco by Allen Cohen

Dan Harrington (Dec 12 2012)
Offering For A Friend by Jerry Ferraz and Enchantment by Peter Sherburn Zimmer

* John Ross (1938-2011)
* Victor Martinez (1954-2011)
* Carlos Ramirez (1938-2013)
by Jorge Argueta
Jehanah Wedgewood
(1941- Nov, 2010)
George Tsongas
(1927 - January 2010)
Patricia Carr Lamerdin
(Aug. 15, 1926 - Nov. 9, 2009
Bill Witherup
Mar. 24, 1935- June 3, 2009
Harold Norse
July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009
by Neeli Cherkovski
Vampyre Mike
Dec. 3, 1953 - Mar. 22, 2008
Poet OZZY
Nov. 1940 - May 2007

The Cool Grey City of Love
by George Sterling
Legends of San Francisco
by George W. Caldwell, M.D.(1919)

A LITTLE HISTORY

November 1, 1966

Big Brother and the Holding Company
Matrix S.F ~ Artist: Stanley Mouse

November 3, 1967
Canned Heat
Lothar and the Hand People
Allmen Joy
poster
Avalon Ballroom
ArtistBob Fried

November 6, 1968
First day of San Francisco State College strike.

Nov 7, 1998
Mayor Brown was hit with 3 pastry pies by the Biotic Baking Brigade in protest for "skyrocketing evictions" and his "collusion with big business to perform an economic cleansing of SF."

Nov. 8, 1966
Movie and TV actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California, vows to stamp out anti-war protestors and obscene publications. Reagan defeated incumbent Gov. Edmund G. Brown by almost one million votes.

Nov. 16, 1897 England:
Released from Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde writes his friend Robert Ross: "The form of government which is most suitable to the artist is no government at all."

Nov 26, 1965
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
David Meltzer
Show: Benefit For Vietnam Day Committee
Berkeley Little Theatre
(Berkeley, Ca)
Artist: Peter Bailey

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Nov. 1, 1971 ~ Stephen Crane , Newark, New Jersey. American poet, novelist (The Red Badge of Courage), war correspondent. Superb writer of American antiwar fiction, chronicles of the underclass, aphoristic poetry.

Nov. 1, 1880, Sholem Asch, Polish-born Yiddish American novelist and playwright ( d.1957)

Nov. 7, 1913 ~ Albert Camus, born in Mondovi, Algeria won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Nov.11, 1821, born Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russia. Most known work includes Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. (d.Feb.9 1881)
Dostoyevsky (wikipedia)

Nov. 11, 1922 ~ American writer, Kurt Vonnegut, highlighted the horrors & absurdities of 20th centurycivilization."

Nov. 12, 1840 François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin was largely self-educated, his early life spent working as a craftsman, doing decorative, architectural work. He was a naturalist, and turned away from the idealism of the Greeks, and the decorative beauty of the Baroque and neo-Baroque movements.

Nov. 27, 1944 _ April 1978 ~ Emmett Grogan was born in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the subway. among other things Emmett was a US Defence Department certified schizophrenic who deliberately sent himself amphetamine-crazy on a military bazooka range.
EMMETT, MAC AND PETER COYOTE link2
link2 The Diggers
diggers theatre (wikipedia modern art.

Nov, 13, 1937~HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Diamond Dave Whitaker, legendary
San Francisco
Poet activist for over 50 years. Diamond Dave is a San Francisco treasure and everything he does is Love in Action!

The Birth of Cool ~ San Francisco’s original scenester looks back on a half century of bohemian life with Colleen Hubbard

Cast a wide net - Find the common Thread- Let life Flourish -Then Don't Panic- just keep it ... Organic!

November 14, 1840 ~ Happy Birthday Claude Monet, founder of French impressionist painting, The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting

Monet's Studio Boat

Nov. 15,1887 ~ St. Louis poet and 1951
Pulitzer Prize winner Marianne Moore (d.1972)

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS
261 Columbus Ave., North Beach
San Francisco

City Lights celebrates the release
The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye
& Tate Swindell. published
by City Lights Books
Available in Hardcover (limited edition) or Paperback

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MONTHLY ART EVENTS

19TH ANNUAL PRISON ART SHOW
The show is available for walk-in viewing from Oct. 21, to Dec. 23,
Monday through Friday ~9PM - 5PM
TONY'SERRA'S PIER 5 LAW OFFICES
3330 Geary Boulevard, 3rd Floor East,
San Francisco

FIRST THURSDAY each month
Visit SFADA.com for a full list of galleries, exhibitions, and SDFA EVENTS throughout
We look forward to seeing you
in our galleries. FIRST THURSDAY
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FIRST FRIDAY IN NORTH BEACH

FIRST SATURDAY each month:
(Dogpatch, Potrero, Mission)
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MINNESOTA PROJECT GALLERIES
1275 Minnesota St. and 1150 25th St.
and select other SFADA member galleries present special opportunities to connect with artists or learn more about current exhibitions. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Check back often as these events are continually updated!

ART CHANGES LIVES, you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
3245 Sixteenth St ~SF, (map)
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San Francisco Museums for All offers opportunities to experience art and educational enrichment at more than 15 museums and cultural centers by providing free entry to residents participating in public benefit programs offered by the Human Services Agency.

In San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Children’s Creativity Museum
de Young Museum
Exploratorium

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MUSEUMS
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St.
San Francisco
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Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St.
San Francisco
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Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco
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De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
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The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco map
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SFMOMA
Modern Art Museum
151 Third Street
San Francisco
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
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SF Opera ~ SF Ballet
SF Symphony
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GALLERIES

CANESSA GALLERY
708 Montgomery St, SF
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CITYART
Cooperative Gallery
828 Valencia Street, SF
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DOLBY CHADWICK GALLERY
210 Post Street, SF

EDEN FINE ART GALLERY
223 Jefferson St, SF
(415) 908-1007
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FAR OUT GALLERY
3004 Taraval St @ 40th Ave.
San Francisco
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FORT MASON CAMPUS
2 Marina Boulevard, Pier 2, SF
Directions
Exhibitions -Public Events
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GREY CITY GALLERY (facebook)
250 Columbus #202
Saroyan Place
North Beach ~ San Francisco
North Beach First Friday.
www.artbyashcroft.com
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SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN ARTISTS
647 Irving St.,SF
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Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

***RADIO ONLINE***

EVERY FRIDAY~ Noon to 3pm
www.KPOO.com or 89.5FM in San Francisco
LA VERDAD MUSICAL (THE MUSICAL TRUTH)
AVOTCJA (pronounced Avacha)
playing the best of African, Caribbean,Jazz, Bomba ,
Plena & Latin dance.
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Dave Common Thread Collective
~*~ 2nd Saturdays 8-10pm ~*~on
www.MutinyRadio.fm
OPEN MIC w/ co-host Global Val
Commom Thread Collective

DeafMovies.org
(aka the Deaf Cinema List),a collection of films in ASL & other Sign Languages.
Thanks to John Lubostky who researched and compiled this DeafMovies list!
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FILMS
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Tuesday French Movie Night:
7 to 8 PM
The Alliance Française of San Francisco
offers a weekly French Film
1345 Bush Street ~ San Francisco map
To help non-French speakers discover French cinema, all films are screened with English subtitles. ~ The theater doors open 25 minutes before the movie starts. You are welcome to wait in the library if you arrive before then.
WEEKLY TUESDAY FILM SERIES
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~* FREE MUSEUMS ON SATURDAY*~
Every Saturday the DE YOUNG and LEGION OF HONOR Museums offer free general admission to all residents of the nine Bay Area counties, featuring engaging art experiences for the entire family, including art making, gallery guides, and tours with discussion including free entry to Soul of a Nation, for all visitors on four Sat. throughout the run of the exhibition.
Please read New information

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
at SAN FRANCISCO LIBRARY
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FILM
(Ongoing Current Calendar Links)

Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

Balboa Theatre
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Vogue Theater
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Castro Theatre
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Roxie Theater
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Clay Theatre
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Lee Neighborhood Theaters
Four Star Marina Presidio
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OPERA PLAZA CINEMA
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Embarcadero Center Cinema
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Alamo Drafthouse

San Francisco Film Society
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Silent Film Festival
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Cinemalit
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Bamfa
(UC Berkeley Art Museum
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The Prisoners Literature Project
Volunteer With Us
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California Poets in the Schools
Since 1964, CPITS has become one of the largest writers-in-the-schools programs in the nation, serving students K-12 in districts both urban and rural.
California Poets in the Schools empowers students of all ages throughout California to express their creativity, imagination, and intellectual curiosity through writing, performing and publishing their own poetry. We train and coordinate a multicultural network of published poets, who bring their passion and craft to public and private schools, juvenile halls, hospitals, libraries and other community settings.
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LOVE IN ACTION

These special programs are
LOVE IN ACTION

826 VALENCIA
826 Valencia the Writing Center

828 mission statement
Since opening in 2006, this nonprofit organization has enlisted help from hundreds of qualified volunteer tutors eager to teach students in the area.
Volunteer now »

The Imagine Bus
bringing arts education
where it's needed most
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ART CHANGES LIVES
you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
(where art changes lives)
3245 Sixteenth St ~
San Francisco (map)

Children's Creativity Museum
221 Fourth Street
San Francisco
Children’s Creativity Museum is a non-profit organization that offers is a hands-on, multimedia arts and technology experience for kids.
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THE RANDALL MUSEUM
Natural History Museum, Science Museum & Arts Center Open Tues. through Sat. ~ 10 am – 5 pm

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Poets: Here Now and There Then, Beats and Otherwise, Artist Friends, Odds and Ends

POETS
Jennifer Barone
Charles Curtis Blackwell artist poet

Charles is (.mini documentary of the painter Charles Curtis Blackwell)
Bob Booker Ambush Review
Bob Booker @ The 8th Annual Beat
Museum Poetry Festival (youtube)

Neeli Cherkovski
Ana Elsner poem for George Tsongas
Ferlinghetti
Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman by Matt Gonzalez
Clare Hsu ~poet/ president of Clarion Music, Performing Arts Center
Diamond Dave, S. F. Rabble Rouser and Revolutionary Rebel By Hugh Dander
Fifteen Poems Jack Hirschman
Q R Hand
Phil Deal poet, artist, musician, inventor
Fifteen Poems Jack Hirschman
devorah major
David Meltzer
A Tribute to David Meltzer
THE ART / THE VEIL:Meltzer
Ed MyCue
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima Lunch Poems - video
Gary Snyder
Kim Shuck -S.F. Poet Laureate
George Tsongas North Beach Poet
Cara Vida
Mel C. Thompson
Cara Vida
A.D.Winans Fansite

Antonin Artaud mad as hell
Anais Nin
Baudelaire -Les Fleurs du mal
William Blake Archive
Ira Cohen
Ira Cohen youtube videos
Robert Creeley
ee cummings paintings
Hermann Hesse and Paintings
Krishnamurti
Robert Lax
Robert Lax poetry
Pablo Neruda poems
Charles Olson reads 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27
Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section LXXXI
read by the poet

BEATS gone/ gone/ gone beyond
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg performs William Blake
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan poems

Charles Bukowski
William Burroughs
William Burroughs Reality Studio
Howard Hart by Armour Garland
Kenneth Rexroth Archive
(David Meltzer, Summer 1969)
Jack Hirschman Remembers:
Kenneth Rexroth and the Beats
Interview with Kenneth Rexroth
Gregory Corso
Herbert E. Huncke
Kirby Doyle links:
obituary, & announcement of memorial readingS F Chronicle, 05.14.03
Kirby Doyle page
Hammond Guthrie's Third Page
"The Birth of Digger Batman" by Kirby Doyle,as published in The Digger Papers
Remembrances of Kirby Doyle by McClure, Peter Coyote,Tisa Walden, Philomene Long and John Thomas, and Claude Hayward.
Jack Kerouac
Bob Kaufman (1925-1986)
Philip Lamantia

In memory of Jack Micheline Poet-
by Jack Hirschman
Harold Norse July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009
Charles Olson
Jack Spicer

Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen chapbook
Mark Other Place by Phillip Whalen
Academy of Beat Poets
American Museum of Beat Art
The Beat Generation:
Beat SuperNova
Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Cosmic Baseball Association
How Beat Happened
Lit Kicks
Decade of Bebop, Beatniks & Painting
Arthur Monroe1998
Naropa U. Internet Archive
Harry Redl : Portraits of Beat Generation
Beat Generation/Bohemian Dialectic
Why the Beats Still Matter

Kenneth Patchen links
Kenneth Patchen;
Poetry and Jazz days, 1957–1959
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
A Letter to God by Kenneth Patchen

Shig Murao: The Enigmatic Soul of City Lights and the San Francisco
BJ PAPA Interview by Catz Forsman.

Kenneth Patchen:Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941)

Kenneth Patchen -- In Order To

Kenneth Patchen – Reads His Poetry with the Chamber Jazz Sextet
As I Opened the Window

Kenneth Patchen - Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?-
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada.-

Beautiful You Are (Poem by Kenneth Patchen)


kenneth patchen poems
kenneth patchen youtube

Harry Smith Archives (1923-1991)
M.C. Escher Gallery

Vincent van Gogh Gallery
Vincent van Gogh Letters

Literary stamps
Art Crimes Writing on the Wall
Art Daily

Women in the Arts National Museum
Women Painters Index: 1893 Expo
Women in Art video
Women are Art - Corot video
Women of the Beat Generation
The Golda Foundation presents
Vali Myers, a Memoir

Project Gutenberg
Poetry through the Ages
Poetry Foundation
*UBUWEB*
*Aspen web version - multimedia magazine in a box
surrealist.com ~ A history of surrealism, surreal art, and the artists involved in the surrealist art movement. A definitive history of the surrealist movement.

ODDS & ENDS
International SurreaLists Art
the ART STORY Modern Art Insight (new)
A Book Lover's San Francisco - The New York Times

Fusion Anomaly objects that were found, mixed and compiled by Atomjack
Light and Dust Anthology
Institute for study of Bohemian Literature
Open Culture
the best free cultural and education media on the web

Transcendental Biographies:
The effect of the Transcendental Planet in the lives of historical, cultural and artistic personalities
Neurotic Poets

Political Writings of George Orwell
Essays, newspaper columns, letters and editorials.
George Orwell complete works,photos
Oscar Wilde

For the Love of Beauty!
On The Edge The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting

A Book Lover's San Francisco - The New York Times (2005)

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