San Francisco Events Neighborhood: Mission/ Bernal Heights

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Want ODC Theater : Daily from Fri., February 17 until Sun., February 19
Seeing a dance choreographed by Holly Johnson is like going to a Tennessee Williams play where the actors have forgotten how to speak and instead deliver their lines through movement. Her latest piece, Want, which has its world premier this weekend, dives into the intense emotions of human... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Performing Arts, Dance, Arts

Writers with Drinks Make-Out Room : Second Saturday of every month, 7:30pm
Charlie Anders, blond of bob and mini of skirt, is the hostess with the mostest science fiction at her literary hootenanny, Writers with Drinks. (She's also the news editor of io9, Gawker's sci-fi/fantasy blog.) Aside from Anders' charming ways, the lineup of readers is always delightful.... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Literary Events, LGBT Events, Arts

Paxton Gate Storyhour Paxton Gate's Curiosities for Kids : Every week Thursday, 11:00am
Have you ever seen a Gritchen in your kitchen? Or dared to dance with the One-Legged Zantz? We can’t think of a better time to start than during the final days before Christmas. Long out of print, Don’t Bump the Glump was Shel Silverstein’s first and strangest collection of... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Literary Events, Free Events, Family Events, Children's Events, Arts

Bawdy Storytelling Verdi Club : Second Wednesday of every month
“We’ve all done some fucked-up shit,” says Dixie De La Tour: going home with the wrong person, getting in over our heads in a BDSM scenario, sitting through that timeless, endless feature Nightmare Date II: The Boundary-Free Zone. We’ve all also been blown away by indoor... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Spoken Word, Sex & Fetish Events, Literary Events, Arts

Geezer The Marsh Theater : Every week Thursday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., February 9 until Sun., March 18
If you're looking for a little more humanity and a little less apocalypse on the subject of endings, Geoff Hoyle's Geezer is a very funny one-man show about aging, decline, and death. It's back for another run after a successful run in 2011. At the beginning, Hoyle tells us that his father died... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Theater, Performing Arts, Arts

Not Getting Any Younger The Marsh Theater : Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., December 1 until Sat., December 17
Marga Gomez is a stand-up comedian and solo performer. Her eight previous performances include Long Island Iced Latina and Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty & Gay. Now Gomez, who long ago came out as a lesbian, comes out as, well, aging in Not Getting Any Younger. Although she aimed for total... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Theater, Performing Arts, LGBT Events

Waiting For Godot Royce Gallery : Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., January 20 until Sat., February 18
"A country road. A tree. Evening." So go the opening stage directions of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one of the most important plays of the 20th century. But if the set description seems minimal, Tides Theatre's interpretation of them is anything but. Director Jennifer Welch says the... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Theater - Openings, Theater, Performing Arts, Performance Art, Arts

Lil Miss Hot Mess’ Roller Skating Birthday Extravaganza CELLspace : Sun., February 19, 3:00pm
Looking for an excuse to suit up in that unitard? (It’s San Francisco, so your excuse could just be “I woke up.”) Having some Xanadu fantasies, or craving an elevated heart rate not provoked by the DMV? Well, Lil Miss Hot Mess’ Roller Skating Birthday Extravaganza is a... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Games, Drag

Previously Secret Information Stage Werx 446 : Third Sunday of every month, 7:00pm
Comedians are “always depressed,” we hear. After we’re done fervently hoping it isn’t true, we wonder how “funny” and “depressing” ever came to be separate categories, especially post-Mitch Hedberg. At Previously Secret Information, they aren’t, sort... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Theater, Spoken Word, Performing Arts, Literary Events, Comedy, Arts

Murals and the Multi-Ethnic Mission Women's Building : Second Saturday of every month, 1:00pm
In the beginning it was, of course, Ohlone Indian. Then it was Spanish-Ohlone. Were there Russians? It was Italian. Then it was Irish and German. As far as we can tell, the Mission District was never Chinese, but this is San Francisco, so why shouldn't it have been? It was Mexican, and then it... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Tours, Free Events, Arts

Beginning Tribal Belly Dance ODC Dance Commons : Every week Saturday, 1:00pm
Jill Parker's Beginning Tribal Belly Dance classes are a classic San Francisco experience: They're welcoming, weird, diverse, sweaty, trance-inducing, and somehow simultaneously straight and gay. Some students love to feel they're in a place where it's OK to actually have a belly, some come to... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Dance, Classes & Seminars, Arts

“The Peace Keeper” Fabric8 : Daily from Mon., October 3 until Fri., August 31
We went to Rome once. One thing that blew our minds was the public art. There’s so much of it that some has been reclaimed by the needs of everyday life. You see people taking lunch on what’s left of an ancient fountain or a big sculpture that anywhere else would be surrounded by... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Parks & Preserves, Free Events, Arts, Art - Galleries

16th and Mission Poetry Slam 16th St. BART Station : Every week Thursday, 9:00pm
Sometimes, we need a little bit more than just poetry and music. Sometimes we have the urge to witness a wild-eyed man with one sweater sleeve missing shove pieces of paper into a coconut and then set it on fire - all while someone yells about why bird porn is a serious issue. The 16th &... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Poetry, Performing Arts, Music, Literary Events, Free Events, Community Events, Arts

The Real Americans The Marsh Theater : Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., February 17 until Sun., March 18
Self-absorbed coastal types have never been particularly good at understanding rural America, but the last decade seems to have intensified our bewilderment. And that bewilderment — that sense of alienation from how the other half of America thinks and lives — serves as the... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Theater, Politics, Performing Arts

Daytime Realness El Rio : Third Sunday of every month, 3:00pm
We always think about drag performers when we hear Gillian Welch's song “Barroom Girls.” Especially the part that goes, “She tosses and turns because the sun is unkind.” Because holy shit, when you're not sure if your tuck is tight enough, or whether your beard's growing... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Sex & Fetish Events, Performance Art, Libations, LGBT Events, Drag

Vogue and Tone Dance Mission Theater : Every week Tuesday, 8:00pm
Local dancer Jocquese Whitfield, aka JoQ, is the giant brain behind the new Vogue and Tone class (and a similar course at ODC). Why now, so many years after Paris Is Burning, and the Madonna song? Who cares? The class combines strenuous exercise with runway- and queen-inspired style; it’s... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Pop Culture, Dance

The Business: A Comedy Show Dark Room Theater : Every week Wednesday, 8:00pm
Four comedians anchor the weekly stand-up show The Business, and they’re all extremely smart and funny. Alex Koll has dramatic hair on his face and head, Sean Keane is bringin’ self-deprecation back, and Chris Garcia is mean and angry, yet somehow also gentle. But we bet they all hate... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Theater, Comedy

Classical Revolution Revolution Cafe : Every week Monday, 8:00pm
Armed with stringed instruments and intense training from the likes of Juilliard and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Revolution is on a mission to change the way classical music is perceived and performed in this city. Conceived in late 2006, the collective's intent has been... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Music, Free Events

"Loose Joints" Make-Out Room : Every week Friday, 10:00pm
Since 2007, the DJ trio of Tom Thump, Damon Bell, and DJ Centipede has offered up Loose Joints, the most ass-shakingest weekly survey of African-rooted pop in the city. Step into the Make-Out Room, order a couple of drinks, admire the sparkly ceiling decor, and listen before you dance. Along... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Music

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Will Durst's Elect to Laugh The Marsh Theater : Every week Tuesday
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Comedy, Theater, Performance Art, Arts

"Coo-Yah!" Som Bar : Every week Wednesday, 10:00pm
In the male-dominated world of DJs, local selectors Green B and Daneekah have managed to tilt the spotlight toward the ladies with their dancehall releases and long-running reggae party Coo-Yah!. The two met one day on Haight Street while flyering for separate parties, and began DJing together... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Nightlife, Music, Free Events

"Saturday Night Soul Party" Elbo Room : Third Saturday of every month, 10:00pm
The current surge of early-reggae and R&B club nights in town shows that the '60s are finally back in an authentic, non-Boomer-centric way. For the last few years, the twice-monthly Saturday Night Soul Party has maintained a spot on the top of the heap. DJs Phengren, Paul Paul, and Pink Panzer... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Nightlife, Music

Michael Abraham Jazz Session, Gaucho, Dink Dink Dink Amnesia : Every week Wednesday, 7:00pm
The term "gaucho" commonly refers to nomadic South American cowboys, which is pretty indicative of how the San Francisco band Gaucho plays its version of Gypsy jazz: in Gaucho's hands, le jazz manouche is left playfully unchained to the genre's European historical foundations, allowing the... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Music, Free Events

S.F. Indiefest Roxie Theater : Daily from Thu., February 9 until Thu., February 23
S.F. Indiefest, with its ardor for shoestring films and no-illusions filmmakers, is the most pragmatic, eyes-wide-open festival in town. Paradoxically, perhaps, the fest also embraces a party-hearty ethos guaranteed to beat the blues out of the blackest nihilist. Both impulses collide at... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film - Festivals, Film - Art House, Film, Arts

Into the Abyss Roxie Theater : Daily from Fri., January 20 until Sun., March 4
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you're looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you might be... More >>
Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film - Art House, Film, Arts