City Arts & Lectures

"The cry BUT WE DON’T KNOW WHO ELENA FERRANTE IS, EXCEPT FOR THOSE OF US WHO LOOKED UP HER REAL ESTATE RECORDS! is met from me only with the words: ‘Thank God.’ I am tired of knowing who people are." Read Patricia Lockwood's latest for the London Review of Books, and don't miss Lockwood in conversation with Sheila Heti on March 1! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3aUvylu

Check out Adam Savage's new costume! Though we're so missing being with you all at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, we're very glad our friends can put the space to such excellent use, in the meantime!

"My brother was helping me carry my stuff up to his apartment. 'Just don’t talk about Ethan Frome, okay?'" Read Lily King's new short story "Timeline," and don't miss King in conversation on Feb 18! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/2ZoOcN4

I was trying to write an atmosphere, Lockwood said. I was trying to write something that is on the inside of your head that is almost before language, that is pre-language, that is just instinct and that’s awareness of what the herd is doing around you. Coming up! Don't miss Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Sheila Heti on March 1! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/3aUvylu

Meat-free lamb, vegan beef tenderloin, scallops, eggs, brie?? Impossible Foods is trying to make this all possible. Don't miss Pat Brown, the creator of the Impossible Burger, with Traci Des Jardins on November 9 for Going Meatless: The Future of Sustainable Food! Tickets on sale here: https://bit.ly/3m6XaHY

We could not be more excited for this event next Monday! Get your tickets today, here: https://bit.ly/3diDsG7!

IN MEMBER PRE-SALE!! A limited number of tickets are available to a special DRIVE-IN screening of Young Frankenstein (1974) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture! Members get exclusive access to this event for one day--but act fast because tickets are limited! Join today and we'll send you the link to purchase drive-in tickets: https://bit.ly/30FNVGu ...and just a reminder...it's pronounced "FRONK-en-steen"...

"In an odd way, the question isn’t the emotional cost of the work. But, rather, what’s the emotional cost of not doing the work? I feel that the ability to be able to process these interactions is a kind of gift to myself. Otherwise it would just sit there, and do a different kind of work in me." Don't miss Claudia Rankine in conversation with Stephen Best TONIGHT at 5pm! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/34ePdJF

"Rankine’s path has a breath of epical romance to it: the knight says the words so that the lady will lower the drawbridge; midway through a charmed banquet, all the fruits turn to dust." Don't miss Claudia Rankine in conversation with Stephen Best tomorrow at 5pm Pacific! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/34ePdJF

"What Aretha Franklin did with her release of 'Respect' in 1967during that decade when Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, and Martin Luther King Jr. were all assassinatedis not unlike the personal revolution Lizzo calls for with her work." Read Claudia Rankine's profile of Lizzo, and don't miss Rankine in conversation with Stephen Best on October 1 at 5pm! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/34ePdJF