By Jerucifer, Arts & Events Editor

That Green Day song says, “Wake me up when September ends” – well you definitely don’t want to sleep through this month!! You might wake up and have missed some of the coolest events happening here in the Bay Area! Here’s what I’m most excited about for the week of 9/12…

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This Week’s Partners’ Events

The Lost Church SF
September Calendar | 988 Columbus Ave, SF | see schedule for details

Ctrl Alt Del: Tashlique 2023
9/16 | Chrissy Field East Beach | 1199 E Beach, SF | 3-5 pm | free

Mark the start of your new year with Reboot and the JCCSF. Reset your system with our modern spin on a 600-year-old Rosh Hashanah ritual called tashlich. This custom of ridding ourselves of all our bad vuggum (karma) from the previous year and getting a fresh start for the new one is traditionally enacted by tossing crumbs (we now use birdseed to be more eco-conscious) into the ocean. Join us 3 p.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 16 by the shore at Crissy Field East Beach for a brief, engaging ritual. Bring a shofar, if you have one, to blow along with some of San Francisco’s finest players from the Jazz Mafia, the Irish Pipers Band, and the Ministers of Sound of the Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church.

This Week’s Events

Tuesday, 9/12

Brian Copeland’s Grandma & Me
9/9-10/20 | The Marsh | 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley | 5 & 7:30 pm shows | $25-100

In 1979, Brian Copeland’s mother passed away leaving his grandmother with five children ranging in age from 1 to 14 to raise. In 2001, a newly divorced Brian finds himself as a single parent to three kids. In an evening of laughter, tears and sociology, Brian explores how his Grandmother did it and how single parents make it through the day.

September 9 – October 7, 2023: Saturdays at 5 pm

October 13 – October 20, 2023: Fridays at 7:30 pm

Mallrat
9/12 | Bimbo’s 365 Club | 1025 Columbus Ave, SF | 8 pm | $20-25

Prized producer, songwriter and collaborator Mallrat – aka Grace Shaw – is a master of clever, timeless pop. Her trio of early EPs – Uninvited (2016), In The Sky (2018), Driving Music (2019) – are documents of an artist on the rise. Mallrat has garnered attention from the NY Times, NYLON, NPR and more. PAPER named her in their “100 Women Revolutionizing Pop,” after making it onto the “Best of” lists by The Fader, Billboard, NOISEY, NME, triple J and Teen Vogue. At home in Australia, she continues to feature high up in triple J’s Hottest 100.

B. Hamilton
9/12 | The Golden Bull | 412 14th St, Oakland | 8 pm | $12

B. Hamilton + Caleb Nichols + Noah Kwid + Curling

Pulp Fiction
9/12 | The Cut Outdoor Cinema | 250 Main St, SF | 7 pm | $14-27

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Wednesday, 9/13

Documentary Screening + Panel Discussion
9/13 | Brava Theater | 2781 24th St, SF | 6 pm | $0-10

This short documentary on Mission Verde captures the inspiring journey of a community’s collective effort to preserve and care for iconic Ficus trees along 24th St in the Mission District. It highlights the incredible impact achieved when city government, neighborhood residents, and volunteers unite to find a unique solution to preserve and grow the tree canopy in their neighborhood. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

9th Ave: Caitlin Donohue with Rhana Hashemi
9/13 | Green Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Ave, SF | 7 pm | free

Humans have used cannabis for thousands of years, since Neolithic peoples sought out its medicinal benefits. But for the past century, its use has been largely criminalized. Stigma around cannabis has made it difficult for people of all ages to get straightforward answers about how to minimize health risks related to cannabis consumption or to understand how the plant has shaped and continues to shape society today.

In Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas, culture writer Caitlin Donohue crafts a comprehensive and thought-provoking review of cannabis in the Western Hemisphere. Donohue’s investigation spans from Vancouver, Canada, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, interviewing medical researchers, educators, activists, artists, business leaders, and other experts to explore the long relationship between cannabis and the human race, its almost universal prohibition in the twentieth century, and modern efforts to legalize the much-maligned plant in all its forms.

Nuovo Testamento
9/13 | Rickshaw Stop | 155 Fell St, SF | 8 pm | $17-20

The Los Angeles & Bologna-based trio, Nuovo Testamento, is lighting up the dance floor with their uniquely dark italo disco-flavored pop hits. Following the release of the coldwave cult favorite Exposure EP in 2019 on Avant! Records, their acclaimed full length, New Earth, exploded onto the scene with its graceful touch of 1980s-influenced club elements, contagious rhythms and the powerful punch of synthpop. Produced by sound engineer Maurizio Baggio, their new album Love Lines is reminiscent of the work of Shep Pettibone, Chris Barbosa and serves as a reminder of the power of pop music.

Death Race 2000
9/13 | Roxie Theatre | 3117 16th St, SF | 9:15 pm | $5-14

Leave it to Anna to pick this tale taking place in a dystopian future, where a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill’s brutality.

Thursday, 9/14

2023 SF Open Studios “Get-the-Guide” Party!
9/14 | Southern Pacific Brewery | 620 Treat Ave, SF | 5-8 pm | free

Do not miss this fun opportunity to pick up SF Open Studios promotional materials including hot-of-the-press 2023 guides, posters, postcards, balloons and more!Meet the ArtSpan staff to learn about SF Open Studios events, ArtSpan’s programs, how to volunteer and more ways to get involved!

Meet friends, grab a drink and a snack from Southern Pacific Brewing’s modern bar bites menu.

Dengue Fever
9/14 | The Guild Theatre | 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park | 8 pm | $31-59

Los Angeles-based Cambodian pop/psychedelia group, featuring vocalist Chhom Nimol.

Hip-Hop Herstory: Celebrating Bay Area Women
9/14 | KQED Live | 2601 Mariposa St, SF | 7:30 pm | $10

MCs, DJs, promoters — women have helped build hip-hop culture since its foundation. Yet in a male-dominated music industry, many of their stories aren’t told. It’s time to correct the record with a night of music and conversation. We’ll go behind the scenes of 1988’s “The Real Freaky Tales, The Girls Story” with Kimmie Fresh, and unpack pimp culture with RyanNicole, co-host of the vodcast ‘What’s Pimpin’?’ After the panels, Tia Nomore, Stoni Jones, and Alien Mac Kitty, three rising stars of Bay Area rap, will grace the stage with live performances. Nastia Voynovskaya, co-editor of KQED’s That’s My Word, will host.

Jelly Roll
9/14 | Concord Pavilion | 2000 Kirker Pass Rd, Concord | 7 pm | $39-99

Outright genre-bending singer/songwriter/rapper Jelly Roll has quietly been building a remarkable career, under the radar & on his own terms. Since his days selling his mix tapes out of his car, he has constantly been releasing new music (more than 24 albums), touring relentlessly, consistently topping various iTunes charts, engaging a rabid fanbase & creating videos that have amassed nearly 2 billion views on YouTube. He pairs deeply personal lyrics with music that blends Old-school Rap, Classic Rock, Country & Soul to create music that is therapeutic, raw & tackles the heaviness in life.

Friday, 9/15

Olive Klug w/ Mia Stegner
9/15 | Bottom of the Hill | 1233 16th St, SF | 8 pm | $16-19

Olive Klug is a key player in the new wave of contemporary folk singers, Olive Klug is an independent singer/songwriter with a rare vocal gift. Self-styled after genre icons like Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlile, Olive is known for their beautiful tone and vividly honest storytelling. Their sound is reminiscent of the Golden Age of American Folk Music, but with a uniquely modern lyrical sensibility.

Flop Festival
9/15-115 | Church of Clown | 2400 Bayshore Blvd, SF | 8 pm | $25-150

Clowns and Queens, don your finest noses and break out your Sunday best, the Church of Clown is celebrating the beauty and frivolity of life with its inaugural Flop Festival. Spanning 8 weeks from September 15 – November 5 Flop Festival features an eclectic collection of Bay Area artists, movers, and dreamers. Come commune with the sacred fools and loose yourself, if only for an evening, in the rapture of the ridiculous with any of the experimental and eccentric performances offered, or fully immerse yourself in the divine dance of the absurd with a full festival pass and become born anew in the fold of the fool. The Church of Clown was founded to carry forth the eternal cause of the Clown, and to carry forward the light of laughter for a weary world. Join our cause and find the salvation you seek at San Francisco’s newest Independent Clown Festival: Flop Fest every Friday, Saturday, Sunday evening at 8pm until November 5.

Mercury Soul
9/15 | The San Francisco Mint | 88 5th St, SF | 7:30 pm | $60

Mercury Soul’s signature fusion of DJs, classical ensembles and immersive visuals comes to the historic San Francisco Mint! This stunning Greek-revival structure, built in 1874 to accommodate the riches of the California Gold Rush, will be brought to life with visceral DJ sets and captivating pop-up classical performances. Indulge in cocktails beneath the night sky in the Mint’s courtyard, while being treated to a lavish blend of DJs and composers from San Francisco Opera’s stunning upcoming season.

Book Launch, Art Exhibition, and I-Didn’t-Die Party
9/15 | Ritual Coffee Roasters | 1026 Valencia St, SF | 7 pm | free

Yep. I’m just saying it outright. Ten months ago I was almost killed in a car accident, and now I’m ready to celebrate not dying—and more. Thriving. I’ve got a new book to offer, and a wall full of drawings to show. So yeah, this is a party, Paul-style. With art, books, music, drinks, and well, obviously, coffee!

Murakami: Monsterized
9/15 | Asian Art Museum | 200 Larkin Street, SF | 1-5 pm | $29-35

Blurring the line between frightening and fun, these monsters embody the forces and behaviors that threaten and haunt us, as well as those that offer us diversion and escape from chaos. Several new works created for this exhibition find Murakami responding to a social environment marked by a global pandemic and a shift toward virtual interaction. Paintings of distorted figures reflect the swelling egos of individuals promoting themselves relentlessly on social media, while works recording the artist’s creation of NFTs, including avatars, look with optimism toward a digitally liberated future.

Saturday, 9/16

25th Anniversary Music Festival and Fundraiser
9/16 | Bazaar Cafe | 5927 California St, SF | 10 am – 10 pm | free

Featuring San Francisco’s only all-original open-mic, a regular live music rotation, house-made biscuits, a rotating art gallery, and a lush secret garden, the café is a beloved communal space in the Richmond. But with the challenges of running a small business in San Francisco and recently increased rent, the café is struggling to break even. As Bazaar celebrates its 25th, it’s asking its community to come together to invest in improvements that will help the café establish a sustainable model for years to come.

The 25th anniversary celebration will feature the following:

• Over 40 musical performances from café regulars
• Face painting (12-3 pm)
• Fresh, house-made biscuits
• Temporary tattoos
• A raffle for café apparel and swag

72nd SAN FRANCISCO GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL “A JOURNEY OF GREEK
9/16 | Annunciation Cathedral | 245 Valencia St, SF | 12 pm | free

The San Francisco Greek Food Festival has been proudly produced annually for the last seven decades by the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of San Francisco members. It is an intergenerational effort designed to unite the broader community in celebration of Greek culture. Join us!

FAME ft. Playboi
9/16 | Love + Propaganda | 85 Campton Pl, SF | 9:30 pm | free w/ RSVP before 11 pm

Welcome to the Best Boutique Nightclub in San Francisco! Get ready to experience the ultimate nightlife destination with world-class Hip-Hop and Top 40s DJs spinning the hottest tracks all night long. Prepare to be amazed by surprise guest performances that will elevate your party experience to the next level.

Annie Lederman
9/16 | Cobb’s Comedy Club | 915 Columbus Ave, SF | 9:45 pm | $30.25-40.25

Annie Lederman is a standup comedian, podcaster, writer & actress. She is co-host of the hit podcast TRASH TUESDAY’s along with Khahlya Kuhn and Esther Povistky. When she isn’t hosting her own podcasts she is usually chatting with her best friends on theirs.

Kamaal Williams
9/16 | The New Parish | 1743 San Pablo Ave, Oakland | 9 pm | $30

London’s Kamaal Williams is a gifted keyboardist, DJ, and producer known for combining his love of ’70s-style jazz fusion and funk with contemporary hip-hop and electronic dance music influences. An integral part of the vibrant South London scene, he holds a special place among jazzmen, rappers, and DJs for his accessible, easy-grooving style. Since releasing his solo breakthrough, The Return, he’s gained a foothold in global club culture.

Sunday, 9/17

Who’s That Live
9/17 | Cobb’s Comedy Club | 915 Columbus Ave, SF | 7:30 | $20.25-25.25

Sergio started stand up in San Francisco, CA. He has been making people laugh from local bars to the Punch Line SF, Cobb’s Comedy Club, Hollywood Improv, Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store. Personal trainer, entrepreneur, turned stand up comic. He produces and hosts ‘My Limited View’ Podcast where guests share their personal triumphs. Sergio was born in Nicaragua, and moved to the States to escape the war. He has been making people laugh since he was six, and he finally decided to make it a career.

Samantha Fish
9/17 | The Independent | 628 Divisadero St, SF | 8 pm | $35

As an award-winning artist, singer/songwriter/guitarist Samantha Fish has brought extraordinary power to her self-expression, capturing her inner world in combustible riffs, visceral rhythms, and spine-tingling vocal work. Samantha’s latest effort, Death Wish Blues, is a collaboration with Outlaw Country badass Jesse Dayton. The album has been #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart for three consecutive weeks. The album, written by Samantha and Jesse, showcases the pair’s apparent chemistry and gritty vitality.

Lolita (1962)
9/17 | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema | 2550 Mission St, SF | 11 am | $13.75

Stanley Kubrick’s LOLITA is a brilliant and sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s celebrated and controversial novel of a middle-aged man’s doomed sexual obsession for a precocious “nymphet” girl.

Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze (Shelly Winters), his widowed landlady, in order to pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. Made from a double-entendre-filled script by Nabokov himself, Kubrick’s road movie/comedy of manners/Old World-meets-New World satire/tale of erotic obsession features Peter Sellers in one of his greatest, most unhinged roles and is shot in beautiful black and white. An uncomfortable, subversive, black comedy masterpiece.

Hip-Hop Cypher w/ LiL MC
9/17 | Freight & Salvage | 2020 Addison St, Berkeley | 3 pm | free

Join us for the EIGHTH Acoustic Hip-Hop Cypher w/ LiL MC. We’ll be using a live beat machine to program drums in various genres of Hip-Hop music and inviting participants to engage in a classic Hip-Hop cypher where we take turns either freestyling or sharing written rap verses over live beat sets that we program together. LiL MC will give a brief explanation and lesson on rapping then we will discuss content ideas and collectively create a simple hook and take turns freestyling lyrics that are cohesive with the theme we have chosen. This is an informal cypher with no microphone, just a group of artistic open-minded individuals participating in a collective musical experience rooted in Hip-Hop culture.

WERD. | NAVID
9/17 | Monarch 101 6th St, SF | 9 pm | $5

Navid Zahraie aka Navbox came to the U.S. from Iran in the 90s as a classically trained pianist with a deep passion for music. That passion turned him onto electronic music and he picked up mixing records at the turn the of the century. In the early 2000’s he got his start DJing in DC before relocating to Boston. Soon after, he found himself playing Boston’s underground circuit and tangled up in house & techno.

Monday, 9/18

LeatherWeek: Tom of Finland
9/18 | Roxie Theatre | 3117 16th St, SF | 6 pm | $5-11

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specializing in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

Mixtape Mondays: Karaoke & Pop-Up Drag
9/18 | Amado’s | 998 Valencia St, SF | 7:30 pm | free

Happy hour just got even happier Mondays at Amado’s! Join mixtape mistress Polly Amber Ross and a band of drag misfits and party like it’s 1999. Come for the delicious drinks and fantastic food and stay for the Drag Roulette – where your song request might be randomly performed by our cast. Mix it up with us in 2023 at the happiest happy hour around! New performers every week!

Kinky Drag for Folsom
9/18 | DNA Lounge | 375 11th St, SF | 8 pm | $10-15

Monday Night Hubba is the perfect way to start your week sexy: with cocktails, tease, comedy and a more intimate experience than Hubba’s big monthly extravaganzas! Each Monday night is a fun-filled, shimmering showcase of local, national and international burlesque and variety talent — and a chance to see the most dazzling debuts before they hit it big!

Don’t Follow the Lights
9/18 | Circus Center | 755 Frederick St, SF | 7:30 pm | $70-80

An immersive, interactive show with branching narratives, circus arts, and different possible endings depending on audience actions set in the fairy world and populated by a menagerie of delightfully mischievous fae. Our show will pull audience into the world, where they will be greeted by impish fawns, regal courtly fairies, and Baba Yaga herself, among others.

Rad Upcoming Events 

9/22 | Davies Symphony Hall | Opening Night Gala
9/23-9/24 | Downtown Lafayette | Lafayette Art & Wine Festival

Don’t forget to check out our Big Bad List of Rad Ongoing Events right here!

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