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	The Labor Party   - Saturday, Sept 1   - 3:00-8:00 PM At the Club El Rio, 3158 Mission Street @ Cesar Chavez This is a Fundraiser for Modern Times Bookstore This Labor Day, the Modern Times Collective is advocating for our worker-owner interests: staying open! And so we planned a party for you at El Rio instead of charging a cover to get into the store. The afternoon features Live Music, Spoken Word, Dance, Food, Raffle and more! Performers include: The Po' Poets and Welfare Queens, Amos Payne, Lily Idalia, and the Foibles. This is a fundraiser for the store. $10 suggested donation. No one turned away. top of page
	Gay Shame Weekly Meetings   - Saturdays   - 5:30 PM Gay Shame is committed to a queer extravaganza that brings direct action to astounding levels of theatricality. We seek nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter the self-serving “values” of gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. Come to a general meeting: all are welcome. top of page
	POOR Press Book Release Party Digital Resistance Program Scholars   - Wednesday, September 5   - 7:00 PM Celebrate the release of POOR Press’s Fall 2007 Books and CD's created by the Race, Poverty, Disability, and Immigrante Digital Resistance Program Scholars! Check out the readings and performances from Gangs, Drugs and Denial: A Disabled Latino Immigrant Struggling in the U.S.A.; Life, Struggle and Reflection: Poetry and Art; Not Even In Therapy Pt 1: Recovering Poetically; and The First, The Last. POOR Press is a project of POOR Magazine, a grassroots, nonprofit, arts organization dedicated to providing vocational training, creative arts and literacy education, and multi-media access for adults, youth, and elders who struggle with poverty. top of page
	Toward a New Socialism Anatole Anton   - Thursday, September 6   - 7:30 PM Join San Francisco State professor, Anatole Anton, for a discussion on revolutionizing the U.S. political and social landscape. Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism’s failings and the imminent need for a new socialism as an alternative form of government. top of page
	The Emperor of the Moon Cutting Ball Theater/Hidden Classics Reading Series   - Tuesday, September 11   - 7:00 PM San Francisco based Cutting Ball Theater is an experimental company renowned for its unique, creative productions and re-visioned classics. This month, Aphra Behn (the first woman to make her living as a writer) brings Italian commedia dell’arte to Restoration England in this fantastical play about a trip to the moon. Now in its second year, The Hidden Classics Reading Series is a great way to get to know fascinating classic plays just on the edge of regional theater offerings. It is a rare opportunity to hear them read and to have a chance to discuss these plays with directors, dramaturgs and actors from The Cutting Ball company. top of page
	Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women Shizue Seigel, lolan buhain sevilla, Clara Hsu, and Vanessa Merina   - Wednesday, September 12   - 7:00 PM This new anthology of contemporary visual and literary art showcases the broad range of talent among Asian American women. The anthology is published by Asian American Women Artists Association, whose mission is to produce thought-provoking projects that challenge, inspire, and interpret the work of Asian American women artists. top of page
	Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State Norman Solomon   - Wednesday, September 19   - 7:30 PM Made Love, Got War is a critical assessment of how media spin and policy priorities have defined and shaped our view of scientific progress and national purpose. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group FAIR. He received the Annual Ruben Salazar Journalism Award in 2007 and is also a recipient of the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. top of page
	(Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions Steve Almond   - Thursday, September 20   - 7:30 PM Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series Steve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. His new book is a collection of essays ranging in topic from Oprah’s book club, Vonnegut, sexual failure, and The Boston Red Sox. Ecstatic Monkey Literary Promotions is a San Francisco-based organization that helps writers and small presses publicize their work and create community among new literary voices. top of page
	How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads Daniel Cassidy   - Friday, September 21   - 7:00 PM A New College of California Irish Studies Program Event Co-director of the Irish Studies program at New College of California and co-founder of the Crossroads Irish-American Festival, Cassidy cuts through two hundred years of Anglo-American academic “baloney” and reveals the massive, hidden influence of the Irish language on American vernacular and slang. top of page
	Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español   - Tuesday, September 25   - 7:00 PM Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for eight years. Books are available for 10% off at the store. The discussions are lively and fully in Spanish! September's selection is Mira si yo te querré by Luis Leante. The unexpected finding of an old photograph will make Montse Cambra, a forty-four year old doctor, leave her native Barcelona in search for her first love. Thus a trip begins that will take her all the way to the Sahara. The need for survival and the passion to live in a forgotten town in the desert will help her discover her true destiny. Mira si yo te querré is a love story that extends through time; the story of two periods and two cultures joined by a secret. It is the adventure of a woman who, in the solitude of the desert, discovers what is truly important. top of page
	Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing Louise Dunlap Author reading and free writing workshop   - Thursday, September 27   - 7:30 PM Louise Dunlap, PhD, began her career as a writing instructor during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, and continues to host writing workshops for activists today. In Undoing the Silence she instructs citizens on how to unearth the power of personal experience in order to change society through the written word. Bring a pen and paper or laptop for this hands-on event! top of page
	Coulda Been Me: Stories from the Big House Margo Perin   - Friday, September 28   - 7:30 PM In her new book, Perin attempts to build a bridge of understanding between communities that are traditionally placed in direct opposition to each other – incarcerated people and those working within the criminal justice system. Join Perin and participants for a night of storytelling by those who live and work on both sides of prison walls. top of page GO TO OCTOBER EVENTS CALENDAR