The Octopus Literary Salon

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2018 Best All Ages Venue - East Bay Express

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

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!!

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Click on any calendar event below for more information:

October 2018

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
30	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Open Mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free	Sunny Nestler (Book Launch) & Dave D'estroyer 5pm Free Let's Talk About Sex 7pm $5-20	Pandemonium Press: Hot! New! Books! 7pm Free	Kim Lembo: Live Music Happy Hour 5pm Free Silent Book Club 7pm Free	1st Friday Art Opening: Arlene Kim Suda 5pm Free Wayfairy, ForgetMeNauts & Wend (Boise) 8pm $5-10	Eugene Ostashevsky, Brent Cunningham, Laura Moriarty & MC Zarina Zabrisky 7pm Free Ziplock, Ryan Von Gonten, Little Arcs & Jana Horn (Austin) 930pm $8
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Open Mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free Shutups, Matt Robidoux, Red Ribbon & Low Hums 9pm	Live Music Happy Hour with Emily Zisman & Keith Alan Mitchell 5pm Free Gratitude Blooming Happy Hour #9: GROWTH 630pm Free	Private party 530-730pm	The Oakland Literacy Coalition presents "The Raising of America" 6pm Free	Naked Bulb 7pm Free	Cassette Store Day! Zoetic Press & Drunk Monkeys Press Readings 7pm Free BLOOD, Big Rip & Rapid Decline 930pm $7
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Solidarity Sundays: Political Action 230pm Free	Open Mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free End Time, False Figure & Color TV (Minneapolis) 9pm $7	"Unmasked, Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty" 7pm Free Randy (Randy Newman covers!!), Jeanette (Panaderia) & Degreaser (Florida) 930pm $5	Talk Story 630pm Free Mentira / Neon / Screaming Fist / Hoy Como Ayer 9pm $8-10	Old Survivor: Film Screening 7-8pm Free Experimental Music Series Debut with Woe, Genital Quartz, Scissoring & Breeze 9pm $5	Crime Scene (Mystery Night): Kelli Stanley, Kris E Calvin, Mark Coggins, Catriona McPherson & Dietrich Kalteis 7pm Free Collate (Portland), Smiley & Time Fraud 10pm $6	The Rabbles, She Mob & Poetry by Julien Poirier 7pm $7 Surf Night: 3 Balls of Fire (LA) & The Copper Tones 10pm $7
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
	Open Mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free	Dirty Old Women - Erotica 730pm	131 Different Things with Nick Zinner (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs!), Zachary Lipez & Stacy Wakefield 930pm Free Yea-Ming Chen & Tiny Rock 7pm $5	Private Party 4-6pm Late for the Train & Chelsea Coleman 7pm $7	Phone Bank for Beto! 3-5pm Free THERE with Doug Sovern 7pm Free Slick!, Sleeper Cult & BBQT (Austin) 10pm $8	Disciples of Markos 7pm Halloween Bash with Belle & Sebastian, Wire, GBV & Blue Oyster Cult 10pm $5-10
28	29	30	31	1	2	3
	Open mic with Alexander McAlister 630pm Free	African Book Club: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria) 7pm Free	A Night of Grimdark, Horror & Fantasy 5pm Free Halloween II: Benefit for Girls Rock Camp with Bad Brains, ABBA, Placebo, Big Black, Suicide, System of a Down & Coil 8pm $7-777

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