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Promenade decouverte Art Deco @ San Francisco

Promenade decouverte Art Deco @ San Francisco

Sat, Oct 17, 6:00 PM
From Les Gaulois
4.8

Promenade decouverte des immeubles Art Deco de la Marina ou Financial District [a definir bientot] et de l'histoire du mouvement Art Deco. [details a venir]

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Anhad Naad Sufi Qawwali at Medicine for Nightmares

Anhad Naad Sufi Qawwali at Medicine for Nightmares

Thu, Oct 15, 2:00 AM
From San Francisco Indian Music Meetup
4.9

Come join us for an evening of Sufi poetry and South Asian Qawwali music at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore. For this event we are sharing your donation 50/50 with this iconic community oriented bookstore acknowledging their contribution to the cultures of Mission district. About Medicine for Nightmare Bookstore: "**Lifting Diverse Voices:** Co-founded by Josiah Luis Alderete and Tân Khánh Cao, the shop specializes in radical literature, poetry, and Spanish-language books that reflect the neighborhood's diverse and marginalized communities. * **Cultural Sanctuary:** Operating in the heart of the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, the store functions as a gathering place and community portal preserving the Mission's deep literary legacy." https://medicinefornightmares.com/ Suggested donation $10 or more.

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🎙️🎤 NOCHE DE KARAOKE EN ESPAÑOL 🎉 🎊

🎙️🎤 NOCHE DE KARAOKE EN ESPAÑOL 🎉 🎊

Wed, Oct 14, 2:00 AM
From Meet Up En Español
4.9

🎤✨ Karaoke Night en Español! 🎟 Get your ticket and join us: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/juryzamora/2425167 Good music, new faces, and your favorite Spanish songs! 🎶🥂 Come with friends or come on your own for a laid-back night of Spanish conversation, laughter, and karaoke. 💛 Sing your heart out, share a duet, or simply enjoy the music no pressure to perform! Beginner Spanish? Shower singer? You belong here, too. 🙌 🎟 Get your ticket and join us: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/juryzamora/2425167 Paid event · Meetup RSVP alone does not include admission. 🎤✨ ¡Noche de Karaoke en Español! ¡Buena música, nuevas amistades y esas canciones que no puedes dejar de cantar! 🎶🥂 Ven con amigos o por tu cuenta a conversar, reír y disfrutar del karaoke. 💛 Canta con todo, comparte un dueto o simplemente disfruta del ambiente. ¡Sin presión! ¿Estás aprendiendo español? ¿Solo cantas en la ducha? ¡Aquí también hay lugar para ti! 🙌 🎟 Compra tu boleto y acompáñanos: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/juryzamora/2425167 Evento de pago · El RSVP de Meetup no incluye entrada. 🗓 Tuesday / Martes, October 13 · 7–11 PM 📍 Tupper and Reed · Berkeley ¡Nos vemos! 🎤✨

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🍜 Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia San Francisco (Easy English) @6pm

🍜 Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia San Francisco (Easy English) @6pm

Tue, Oct 20, 11:00 PM
From 🍜 Lounge Asia Americas | Asian Socials (Easy English)
4.5

🌏 Make new international friends in San Francisco. Come alone, practise your English, and enjoy a relaxed social night. 😊 A friendly meetup for networking, language exchange, and real conversation — open to everyone. Why People Love Lounge Asia 🍜 **Asian-focused event** 🤝 Many guests come alone 💬 No need for perfect English 🌏 No games or forced introductions — just enjoy the conversation Lounge Asia began within the Asian community, so people from Asia often feel comfortable and at home here. At the same time, everyone is welcome — locals, expats, travellers, students, returnees, digital nomads, and globally minded people. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Join 1️⃣ Tap "RSVP" on this page 2️⃣ Show your Meetup QR code at reception 3️⃣ Collect your name tag and start meeting people ✅ Entry: 5USD ✅ Limited capacity — please RSVP early Many people attend alone, so don't worry if it's your first time. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Find Us 📍 Venue Rickhouse 246 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108, United States ⏰ Start Time — **San Francisco Local Time** **6pm** ⚠️ Important: This is the local time in San Francisco. Meetup may display Brisbane time or another time zone, so please follow the local time shown above. 🚶 Getting There Please use your preferred map app for directions to the venue. Our Lounge Asia organisers will be there to welcome you 😊 ━━━━━━━━━━ 🍺 Please Support the Venue This event is free or low-cost because the venue supports our community. Please purchase at least one drink during the event. Your support helps us keep organising events at great venues. ━━━━━━━━━━ 💚 Please Be Respectful Lounge Asia is a friendly social event where everyone should feel comfortable and welcome. 🚫 This is NOT a pickup or dating event. Anyone who makes others uncomfortable may be removed immediately. Not allowed: harassment, unwanted attention, MLM / crypto / religious recruitment, or anything that makes others uncomfortable. Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry or ask anyone to leave. 🪪 A valid government-issued photo ID is strictly required for entry. No photo ID, no entry. Driver's licences must be issued by the government of the country where the event is held. 📸 Photos and short videos may be taken for community and promotional purposes. If you prefer not to appear, please let an organiser know when you arrive. ━━━━━━━━━━ Lounge Asia is already growing in Australia and is now expanding across Asia — Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Our goal is simple: More friendship, more understanding, and more genuine connections across cultures. 📱 Instagram: @_lounge_asia 🎥 Watch Event Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw) 👉 GET VIP ACCESS: [https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8) ━━━━━━━━━━ 🌏 Come say hi! Hey, come hang out! 来一起玩吧! 一起來聊天吧! 気軽に遊びに来てね! 편하게 놀러 와요! มาเจอกันนะ! Tới chơi nha! Tara, sali ka na! Yuk, gabung! လာပြီး အတူပျော်ကြရအောင်! មកលេងជាមួយគ្នាណា! ມາພົບກັນເດີ້! Хамтдаа цуглацгаая! Komm einfach vorbei! Jom join kita! See you at Lounge Asia!

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🎤 🎙️ NOCHE DE KARAOKE EN ESPAÑOL 🎉🎊

🎤 🎙️ NOCHE DE KARAOKE EN ESPAÑOL 🎉🎊

Wed, Oct 14, 2:00 AM
From Berkeley Language Exchange English-Spanish
4.8

🎟 Get your ticket and join us: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/juryzamora/2425167 🎤✨ Karaoke Night en Español! Good music, new faces, and your favorite Spanish songs! 🎶🥂 Come with friends or come on your own for a laid-back night of Spanish conversation, laughter, and karaoke. 💛 Sing your heart out, share a duet, or simply enjoy the music—no pressure to perform! Beginner Spanish? Shower singer? You belong here, too. 🙌 🎟 Get your ticket and join us: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/juryzamora/2425167 Paid event · Meetup RSVP alone does not include admission. 🎤✨ ¡Noche de Karaoke en Español! ¡Buena música, nuevas amistades y esas canciones que no puedes dejar de cantar! 🎶🥂 Ven con amigos o por tu cuenta a conversar, reír y disfrutar del karaoke. 💛 Canta con todo, comparte un dueto o simplemente disfruta del ambiente. ¡Sin presión! ¿Estás aprendiendo español? ¿Solo cantas en la ducha? ¡Aquí también hay lugar para ti! 🙌 🎟 Compra tu boleto y acompáñanos: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/juryzamora/2425167 Evento de pago · El RSVP de Meetup no incluye entrada. 🗓 Tuesday / Martes, October 13 · 7–11 PM 📍 Tupper and Reed · Berkeley ¡Nos vemos! 🎤✨

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The Geography Within Us: A Poetry Gathering on Place, Memory, and Belonging

The Geography Within Us: A Poetry Gathering on Place, Memory, and Belonging

Sat, Oct 17, 9:00 PM
From Kaavya Connections: World Poetry, Literature & Music
5.0

Perhaps home is not simply the place we come from. Perhaps it is a language in which our name sounds different. A kitchen where someone knows what we like to eat. A city whose streets our feet remember. A landscape whose seasons still live somewhere in the body. A person beside whom we do not have to explain ourselves. A song that returns us somewhere. Or a place where we arrived as strangers and, slowly, unexpectedly, learned to belong. We carry many geographies within us. The place where we were born. The neighborhood where we grew up. The cities we chose and the ones circumstance chose for us. The landscapes we left behind. The languages through which we learned to understand the world. The people who made unfamiliar places feel like home. Over time, these places become more than locations on a map. They enter our memories, our gestures, our food, our music, our language, even the ways we understand distance and belonging. Sometimes we leave a place and discover that it never entirely leaves us. And sometimes a place we never imagined belonging to becomes part of who we are. **The Geography Within Us** is **a gathering devoted to place, memory, and belonging, and to the many landscapes, languages, people, and journeys that quietly become part of our inner lives**. Together, we will explore not simply where we come from, but the more mysterious question of **what places have become part of who we are.** Across traditions, poets have carried entire worlds within their poems. Mahmoud Darwish carried Palestine through memory and language. Agha Shahid Ali recreated Kashmir across distance and longing. Derek Walcott explored the ways landscape, history, and identity become inseparable. Naomi Shihab Nye finds belonging in family, language, ordinary encounters, and the crossings between cultures. Joy Harjo writes of land, ancestry, memory, and our deep relationship with place. Their poems remind us that geography is not only something outside us. It can also become something we carry within. This gathering asks: **What places have become part of who we are?** **How do landscapes, languages, cities, and communities continue to live within us long after we leave them?** **And how do the places we discover unexpectedly change our understanding of where we belong?** We will read poems about childhood streets and adopted cities, familiar landscapes and distant homelands, kitchens and train stations, migration and arrival, language and memory, journeys and returns, and the unexpected places where belonging finds us. You are welcome to bring: * A poem about a place that has shaped you. * A piece connected to a city, landscape, language, neighborhood, or community you carry within you. * A poem about leaving somewhere, arriving somewhere, or unexpectedly finding a sense of belonging. * A song, photograph, recipe, memory, or passage that transports you to another place. * An original work about a geography, real or imagined, that has become part of who you are. We invite poetry from all languages and traditions. Together, we will read, translate, reflect, and listen, allowing the different geographies we carry to meet in the same room. As always with Kaavya Connections, the gathering may wander beyond the theme. We follow where the poems, memories, and conversations lead. Join us for an afternoon exploring the places that made us, the places that changed us, the places that surprised us, and the places that continue to live quietly within us. Bring a friend, a poem, a place, or simply come to listen. **Above all, bring the worlds you carry within you.** Please find more about us here — Kaavya Connections Website: [https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/](https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) Please also join the mailing list for upcoming gatherings and events: [https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/mailing-list/](https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/mailing-list/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) If you would like to volunteer to help organize future gatherings and performances, please email: [contact@kaavyaconnections.com](mailto:contact@kaavyaconnections.com) **Kaavya Connections**

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