These 479 activities are worth leaving the house for.
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October 26 at 6:30pm
Mill Valley Public Library · Mill Valley • FREE
AM radio, post-Cold War paranoia, and conspiracy theories of a Texas childhood frame Daniel Pena and Sasha Vasilyuk at the Mill Valley Public Library for a free author talk.
October 27 at 1am +7
Feldman's Books · Downtown Menlo Park
Spend a year inside Plato's mind. This weekly reading group works through The Republic cover to cover, wrestling with justice, tyranny, democracy, and the soul alongside fellow seekers in a beloved used bookstore.
October 26 at 7pm
Green Apple Books on the Park · Inner Sunset • Free
A physician and National Book Award finalist bears witness to Gaza. Fady Joudah reads from his new collection of poems, essays, and photographs on grief, resilience, and Palestinian interiority.
October 26 at 6:30pm
Wine Down SF · South of Market • $$
Book club, but make it wine: discuss Caro Claire Burke's "Yesteryear" over a bottle of Vaughn Duffy Old River Red Cuvee at this lively Folsom Street wine bar.
October 26 at 7pm
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers · Chinatown • $0
Ken Knabb, translator of Guy Debord and the Situationists, unpacks his newly updated blueprint for revolution at the bookstore that helped launch the Beats. Free, in-store or on Zoom.
October 27 at 6pm
San Francisco Main Library · Civic Center • FREE
Local community leaders gather at the Koret Auditorium for a conversation on environmental justice, drawing on Susanna Kwan's One City One Book selection Awake in the Floating City to examine how our relationships with parks and cities shape the future.
Browse the Bay Area neighborhood by neighborhood, get ideas just for you, or ask me anything.
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Mon, Oct 26 · 4:00 PM
South San Francisco Public Library · El Camino
Mon, Oct 26 · 5:00 PM
Zoom Electricians · Mission District
Free
Mon, Oct 26 · 6:00 PM
The Strand Theater · Mid-Market
$0
Tue, Oct 27 · 6:45 PM
New Life Church · Cupertino
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Library Easton Branch · Easton Addition
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Library Easton Branch · Easton Addition
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:15 AM
California Academy of Sciences · Golden Gate Park
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Mountain View Public Library · Old Mountain View
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Tue, Oct 27 · 1:30 PM
Congregational Church of the Peninsula · Belmont
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Tue, Oct 27 · 6:00 PM
Mata Amritanandamayi Center · Castro Valley
Tue, Oct 27 · 7:00 PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers · Chinatown
$0
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:15 AM
Belvedere Tiburon Library · Belvedere Tiburon
Tue, Oct 27 · 7:00 PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers · Chinatown
$0
Tue, Oct 27 · 6:30 PM
Excelsior Branch Library · Excelsior
Tue, Oct 27 · 5:30 PM
San Mateo Public Library · Baywood - Aragon
Tue, Oct 27 · 5:30 PM
San Mateo Public Library · Baywood - Aragon
Tue, Oct 27 · 6:00 PM
Encina Commons · Stanford
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Library Easton Branch · Easton Addition
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:15 AM
Belvedere Tiburon Library · Belvedere Tiburon
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:15 AM
Belvedere Tiburon Library · Belvedere Tiburon
Tue, Oct 27 · 10:00 AM
Pioneer Park · Novato
Tue, Oct 27 · 11:00 AM
Children's Library · Community Center
Tue, Oct 27 · 7:00 PM
Bird & Beckett Books & Records · Glen Park
FREE
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:15 AM
Marin City Library · Sausalito
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Burlingame Library Easton Branch · Easton Addition
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:15 AM
Marin City Library · Sausalito
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:30 AM
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay - Berkeley Branch · North Shattuck
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:00 AM
Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos · Los Gatos
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:00 AM
The East Cut Community Benefit District · Transbay
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 4:00 PM
Wheeler Hall · Southside
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Pegasus Books · Downtown Berkeley
Wed, Oct 28 · 6:30 PM
Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe · North Beach
$
Wed, Oct 28 · 1:00 PM
Denny's Restaurant · Brentwood
$
Wed, Oct 28 · 6:00 PM
111 Minna Gallery · Transbay
$0
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:30 AM
Children's Library · Community Center
Wed, Oct 28 · 6:30 PM
Mill Valley Public Library · Mill Valley
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Swedish American Hall · Duboce Triangle
Free
Wed, Oct 28 · 3:30 PM
Belvedere Tiburon Library · Belvedere Tiburon
Wed, Oct 28 · 4:00 PM
Barnes & Noble · Centennial
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Wed, Oct 28 · 8:30 PM
The Starry Plough Pub · South Berkeley
$
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:30 PM
The Academy SF · Duboce Triangle
Wed, Oct 28 · 7:00 PM
Burlingame Library Easton Branch · Easton Addition
Wed, Oct 28 · 10:30 AM
Burlingame Public Library · Downtown
Wed, Oct 28 · 2:00 PM
Sutardja Dai Hall · Northside
Free
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