The Octopus Literary Salon

2017 Best Cafe & Best Place for Literary Events!! - East Bay Express

2018 voting ends Friday! Vote for us here: https://posting.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/Survey?survey=15310985

Local Oakland musicians, poets & authors 6 days per week! Always all ages & ADA accessible!!

Delicious food, coffee, beer & wine! Gluten free & vegan options. House made sodas & ice cream.

New & used books for sale! Plus records & tapes!!

May 2018

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
29	30	1	2	3	4	5
		African Book Club: "Under the Udala Trees", Chinelo Okparanta (Novel, Nigeria) 7pm Free	Gratitude Blooming Happy Hour 5pm Free Pandemonium Press: Work & Workers 7pm Free	Stand up & Speak Out 7pm $5	Shipwreck Detective, Franck Martin, Red Virginia Creeper & Yate: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free Jessica Sun Lee Book Launch "KEURIUM" 7pm Free	Writers Reading: Glori Simmons, Dickson Lam & Adam Smyer 4pm Free Shutups, Dirty Limbs (Fresno), The Echo Bombs (Phoenix) & Superbrat 8pm $8
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
		Live Music Happy Hour: Emily Zisman 5pm Free Book Launch: Philip Kramer "Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail" 7pm Free Turner and Wendy Capehart & Ancient Forest (Seattle) 930pm $8	June & Man OSA Showcase 7pm Free	Kim Lembo & Daniel Lippincott are Monkey Mama: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free Babar in Exile 7pm Free	Paul Smith Stewart & 29th Street Swingtet 7pm $10 Nathooder, Brian Tester & Lance Hill 930pm $6	B. Lynn Goodwin plus special guests Aline Soules & Marianne Rogoff 4pm Free Jean Terrace, Windmills & Jordan Collins 7pm $5
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
		Thomas Carnacki, Kristine Barrett & Anka Draugelates/Cheryl Leonard Duo 7pm $10	Talk Story: BART Stories! 630pm Free	Inside Storytime 7pm Free Vincent Chu & Kim Magowan 930pm Free	THERE with Doug Sovern - Readings, Music, Trivia 7pm	Musical Benefit for The Aneurysm and AVM Foundation 4pm $15 adv $20 door Vernon Keeves III, Nancy James & James Siegel 7pm Free Hangtown, The City Hall & Schlotman 930pm $8
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
	Open Mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free Grace Sings Sludge, Jennifer Weisburg (HITS) & The Dilley Sisters 9pm $8	Verdandia (violin & harp): Live Music Happy Hour 530pm Free Dirty Old Women: Erotica 730pm Free	Trans Van Santos: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free Briget Boyle & Nino Moschella 7pm $7-10 Bonus Beast, Dybbuk & Benni (New Orleans) 930pm $7	Cambia: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free NaNoLitMo Writing Group with Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff 7pm Free Nopes, Cryderman & North by North 930pm $10	Chimera (String Quartet) 7pm $10 Just Busted, Mabs, Super Apes & Jock Tears (Vancouver) 930pm $8	Big Soda & Friends 330pm $10 MARY: A Journal of New Writing 6-9pm Free
27	28	29	30	31	1	2
	We open at 6pm today!! Open mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free Blues Lawyer Record Release! with Adam Payne & Gun Outfit!! 9pm $8	Sunfellow: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free Book Launch: Lauren Markham "Far Away Brothers" & Special Guest Shanthi Sekaran 7pm Free	Trans Van Santos: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free Jason Levis Trio & Flavor Profile 7pm $5-10	Jamie Duncan Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free The Escapery: Terra Incognita 7pm Free

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