• A Midsummer Night's Dream by Nirmala Nataraj
• The Way That We Rhyme by Nirmala Nataraj
• The Sorrows of an American by Lisa Ryers
• Figaro by Nirmala Nataraj

• Asian Art Museum
• SF Ethnic Dance Festival
• SFMOMA

Fri May 23

"'Picket Fencing' is simply my attempt to capture the spirit of that manic scenario using a cast of characters I have developed over time. The implied politics or metaphors are left open-ended for the viewer to parse. Remember, it's always fun until someone looses an eye." - John Casey

Fri May 23

Being an American has rarely been so depressing. Current US policy inspires a maelstrom of international bile. Presidential candidates deliver a rhetoric of hope and change which experience suggests is an attempt to co-opt the desire for radical transformation for an agenda that will do little to upset the demands of capital.

Sun May 25

Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared. Authors Marc Masters and Weasel Walter will read from the book, discuss the movement, and play music and videos from the time period...

Sun May 25

Featuring 160 independent designers of men's and women's clothing, accessories, bags, jewelry, home decor, dolls, weird stuff that is hard to categorize, some art, and other sundry...

LiYana Silver's BeFor(e) Play Unfiltered Underground Comedy Show Rooster's New Talent Showcase thirty-seven isolated events (world premiere) Jewels in the Square Speaking Chinese (world premiere) Mordake (world premiere) Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Mortified SF Brian Malow She...Dancing new world into being! the beauty that was mine, through the middle, without stopping & Oust Nita Little: Mind in Motion Carnival Fever Showdown: An Epic Battle on the Wheels of Steel Dancing for the Health of it Spring Dance Concert World Premiere of Twyla Tharp's Armenia "I", The Impeachment Trial of George W. Bush and Richard B Cheney Rocky LaPorte

Donald Feasel Joan Perlman Nicholas Park Suite Jesus Hopeless and Otherwise You make me you

Intergenerational Writer's Lab 2008 Reading #3 The Arrival of Benito Cereno Nomy Lamm at Smack Dab: Open Mic in the Castro An Unpredictable Evening with August Kleinzahler Ted Kerasote Book Group Meeting for May Ellen Sussman Joel Derfner at Books Inc. in the Castro Impresarios Author Michael Ondaatje for Divisadero! Revision Bootcamp for Writers