The Bay Area's shelter-in-place order has brought countless events usually held as in-person gatherings online. We're aiming to support local businesses in San Francisco and Oakland by highlighting five of these events each day.
Got a suggestion for an online event based in SF or Oakland? Email our events reporter, Teresa Hammerl.
Here's your SF events calendar for Wednesday, April 15. Join a romance book club, learn how to train your puppy or watch a dance film festival — all from the comfort of your couch.
Ross Eustis: The role of music in recovery
Kick off the evening with a conversation (and maybe a song or two) featuring trumpeter and SFJAZZ digital project manager Ross Eustis. He'll discuss how music, especially jazz, can help us cope during this time of crisis, and what it will take for musicians, concert venues and other industry affiliates to recover.
When: Wednesday, April 15, 5 p.m.
How to join: Via Zoom
Price: Free, donations are welcome
Puppy First Steps Course
If you adopted a puppy before the start of the COVID-19 crisis — or are fostering one to take your mind off the news — training them through Zoom might seem like a major hurdle. But this four-week class series aims to make things work digitally, with step-by-step methods to teach your puppy what it needs to navigate the world.
When: Wednesday, April 15, 6 p.m.
How to join: Buy tickets online
Price: $130
SF Drop-In Poetry Workshop
Led by Tongo Eisen-Martin, this three-hour poetry workshop is designed for all levels, with the goal of helping poets sharpen their skills and clear out writer's block with new techniques and original, diverse prompts.
When: Wednesday, April 15, 6 p.m.
How to join: Register online
Price: $30
SF Dance Film Festival: Digital Season
Held each November, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival will hopefully evade the worst of the shelter-in-place shutdowns. But it's still giving back to digital audiences with "Solo Settings," a free program of seven short films about the power of imagination.
One of the films, Quinn Wharton and Laren Edson's "Waters Into Wilderness," will be making its world premiere as part of the showing, and the artists behind several of the films will drop in to discuss their work.
When: Wednesday, April 15, 7 p.m.
How to join: To join, log on a few minutes before 7 p.m., and look for a live video on Facebook.
Price: Free
Virtual Romance Book Club: 'The Blacksmith Queen'
Each month, Divisadero gift store Perdita hosts a book club centered around romance novels; this month, it's moving online. The group will discuss "The Blacksmith Queen," a fantasy romance novel from New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken. The story follows a rough-and-tumble blacksmith who has to protect her sister, a prophesied queen, from a jealous group of royal heirs.
When: Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
How to join: Via Zoom
Price: Free
Midday break
Need a virtual pick-me-up? Watch a Radiohead concert online, or travel back in time to when Metallica performed live at Outside Lands in 2017.
