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Free Events for Wednesday, January 26, 2000


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This page lists free events taking place in San Francisco. It is broken down into several categories. You can receive a weekly e-mail listing of free events as well. You can also have your event listed for free.


Concerts, Plays and Films

The Grouprojection -- Open Reel night at Yakety Yak
679 Sutter Street (between Mason & Taylor)
The Grouprojection is a casual setting for exposure, connections, and maybe a hoot or two. Link up with local artists and show your shine or watch another's. Yakety Yak is a hub for the creative and the observers of your talent. Come and see the light of San Francisco's artists projected on Yakety Yak every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Film/Video artists: Bring your original work to be screened on VHS, 16mm or Super 8.
07:00pm [E-Mail] (415) 351-2090

Swetha Dixit: Indian Dance
Glen Park Branch Library, 653 Chenery St.
Swetha Dixit Performs South Indian Dances for Ages 3 and Older.
06:45pm [Web Page] (415) 337-4740


Readings and Lectures

Afro-San Francisco Society of Poets
Western Addition Branch Library, 1550 Scott St.
Afro-San Francisco Society of Poets presents an open forum of poetry readings in support of local poets. All welcomed to participate.
07:00pm [Web Page] (415) 292-2160

Chip Ward: Canaries On The Rim
Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia St.
The desert lands of western Utah hide the nation's dirtiest industrial polluter, two toxic waste incinerators, a hazardous waste dump, a radioactive waste landfill, a bombing range, and a proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel. This is Chip Ward's backyard. More than just a chronicle of life as a downwinder, Canaries on the Rim is the story of grassroots activism and the heroism of an ordinary couple caught up in a struggle they never asked for.
07:30pm [Web Page] (415) 282-9246

Gina Kolata: Flu
The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St.
In 1918, the Great Flu killed an estimated 40 million people. No one on the face of the earth was safe as the pandemic raged. Some eighty years later scientists unearthed shards of the flu virus in human remains frozen in the Arctic tundra. New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata tells the riveting story of this mysterious killer in Flu: The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It.
07:00pm [Web Page] (415) 863-8688

Neeli Cherkovski: Whitman's Wild Children
Stacey's Bookstore, 581 Market St.
In "Whitman's Wild Children," Neeli Cherkovski looks at twelve contemporary beat poets who, like Whitman, took "his own road" and had little to do with what was thought acceptable to mainstream America. They, again like Whitman, shook off preconceptions of form and content and allowed intuition to lead them forward. Cherkovski is co-director of The Graduate Program in Writing and Consciousness at New College of California and the author of several books of poetry and critically acclaimed biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski.
12:30pm [Web Page] (415) 421-4687

Douglas Coupland: Miss Wyoming
Clean Well-Lighted, 601 Van Ness Avenue
She is a former beauty pageant contender. He is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without a scratch. He comes away from a medical emergency with a unique and vivid plan. From the bestselling author of Generation X and Girlfriend in a Coma, comes Miss Wyoming, a smart, funny, fast-paced mystery with a heartfelt American romance at its core.
07:30pm [Web Page] (415) 441-6670

Afro-San Francisco Society of Poets
Western Addition Branch Library, 1550 Scott St.
An open forum of poetry readings in support of local poets. All are welcome to participate.
07:00pm [Web Page] (415) 292-2160


Clubs and Hobbies

Spanish Conversation
Bernal Heights Branch Library, 500 Cortland Ave.
Works from different Latin American authors are read (a chapter each time) the week before and will be discussed the following week.
07:30pm [Web Page] (415) 695-5160

Afro-San Francisco Society of Poets Open Forum
Western Addition Branch Library, 1550 Scott St.
The Afro-San Francisco Society of Poets presents an open forum of poetry readings in support of local poets. All welcomed to participate.
07:00pm [Web Page] (415) 292-2160


Games and Sports

Chess and Checkers Club
Ingleside Branch Library, 387 Ashton Ave.
For children of all ages.
03:30pm [Web Page] (415) 337-4745

Family Game Night
Bernal Heights Branch Library, 500 Cortland Ave.
Come play Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble (English or Spanish,) Yahtzee, Boggle, and more.
06:00pm - 08:30pm [Web Page] (415) 695-5160


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