This week’s Curator: Annalee Newitz of Our Opinions Are Correct and Ars Technica Live.
As cozy season officially begins, it’s time to ponder how alien parasites and investigative journalists teamed up to protect the homeless in San Francisco (yes that is actually the plot of the movie Venom)…and to consider what to do this week. We’ve got some incredible underground performances, high tech art, true tales from the Muni Diaries, the Bay Area Science Festival’s Discovery Day, and the tragically final Shipwreck performance (SOB!). Plus, much more!
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COMING UP THIS WEEK:
Ray of Light Presents: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
It just wouldn’t be Halloween without those naughty denizens of Transsexual, Transylvania coming to Earth to save our horny souls. See the movie, see the performance, and do the Time Warp again!
WEDS OCT. 31-SAT NOV. 3, Victoria Theater, 8PM. San Francisco. $30-40.
Shipwreck Presents: Stephen King
This is your last-ever chance to experience this unique storytelling smackdown. Six writers are given a mission: write a smutty story, shipping characters from a book or writer’s ouevre (in this case, it’s Stephen King’s body of work ahem). Each story is read by the brilliant house thespian Baruch Porras-Hernandez while the audience furiously tweets and evaluates. Then, the audience votes on which story is the best. It’s hilarious and nasty and wrong in all the right ways. A perfect evening for people who love books. And, after many successful years, it’s the last-ever installment of this monthly show. So come out for Big Steve, or come to watch this ship sail. Either way, come.
THURS NOV. 1, Booksmith, 7PM. San Francisco. $12.
Humanmade Town Hall
Humanmade is a brand-new nonprofit maker space, and this is their first town hall. Come learn about what you can do to participate in the community, get a tour of the facility, and find out how to make things!
FRI NOV. 2, 150 Hooper St., Unit 211, San Francisco. 6:30-8:30PM. FREE.
IncivilitySF: Elect to Dissent!
This is the perfect San Francisco antidote to midterm blues. A lineup of amazing performers will deliver satire, personal stories, incantations, and remonstrations about elections and electoral politics. You’ll get all-new material from Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Micia Mosely, Evan Johnson, Sabrina Wenske, and Peter Griggs. The evening is hosted by Andrew Goldfarb, and produced by the inimitable Nathaniel Justiniano and Nicole Gluckstern. If you love underground performance and have a lot of feels about politics right now, grab tickets now to this weekend’s performances.
FRI NOV.2-SAT NOV. 3, The Lost Church, 8:00 (doors at 7:30). San Francisco. $10-15.
Bay Area Science Festival Discovery Day
It’s the perfect time to bring yourself and kids of all ages to enjoy a day at AT&T Park, packed to the bleachers with science. There will be mind-blowing demonstrations, experiments, geeky games, tons of hands-on activities, and opportunities to meet local scientists and engineers. What could be better?
SAT NOV. 3, AT&T Park, San Francisco. 11AM-4:30PM. FREE
Codame Art+Tech: Intersections
After a day of science in the park, head over to the San Francisco Art Institute’s campus at Fort Mason for an evening of installations, performances, and screenings that merge art with technology. According to Codame, “The works in Intersections examine the interrelationship of humans and our environments, whether organic or algorithmic…In Intersections, we invite you to touch, listen, watch, and feel the profound transformations we have wrought upon our living world, and that world upon us. Come journey with us through the particle accelerator, the network, the camera lens, the data cloud, the waterway, and the algal bloom.” Sounds glorious.
SAT. NOV. 3, Fort Mason (directions), 6:00-10:00PM. San Francisco. $20. This event is part of The Leonardo Convening.
Muni Diaries Live!
It’s the 20th installment of Muni Diaries Live, brought to you by the incredible humans behind the Muni Diaries website and podcast. This is always a riveting, weird, and funny storytelling event, followed by a haiku battle. Because obviously. Come listen (and maybe share) your Muni tales.
SAT NOV. 3, Elbo Room, 7:00PM (doors at 6:00). San Francisco. $16.