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Sunday, October 18
 

12:00pm PDT

FilBookFest
Sunday October 18, 2026 12:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
SFPL Main Branch
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FREE

Part of Words Around the World

Co-presented with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the Filipino American Center at SFPL, PAWA, and the San Francisco Public Library

The Filipino American International Book Festival (FilBookFest) returns in October for its 8th iteration, continuing its legacy as the largest Filipino American literary festival in the United States. Held during Filipino American History Month, FilBookFest brings together an exciting array of writers, scholars, and creatives from across the globe, including the U.S., Canada, and the Philippines, to the iconic San Francisco Public Library. Keynote speakers for 2026 include Randy Ribay, author of Patron Saints of Nothing & Nest of Tongues; Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, author of Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation; and Professor M. Evelina Galang, author of When the Hibiscus Falls and recipient of the inaugural PAWA Lifetime Achievement Award. Other featured authors include Mia Alvar, Marivi Soliven, Mia Manansala (US); Yvette Tan, Jet Tagasa and Jaya Jacobo (Philippines); Candy Gourlay (UK), as well as children’s authors Tracy Badua (US) and Analene Go (Canada). The festival will also feature a bustling marketplace with tables from PAWA Books, Arkipelago Books, Eastwind Books, and Bel Canto Books. For a full program schedule and author lineup, visit filbookfestival.org. 
Sunday October 18, 2026 12:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
SFPL Main Branch 100 Larkin St, San Francisco
  Words Around the World, FREE

2:00pm PDT

How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir with Truong Tran
Sunday October 18, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
City Lights
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Co-presented with City Lights

How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir is an experiment in nonlinear autobiography by the author of the American Book Award–winning Book of the Other, Truong Tran. Beginning in the present—at a writing residency in the aftermath of this success—How to Exi(s)t unpeels the layers between present and past in bursts of brief poetic essays. Unsparing, even caustic in its insistence on racism as a dominant note of American life, but marked by surprising tenderness and humor, How to Exi(s)t is a compelling portrayal of Tran’s pedagogical philosophy as well as an interrogation of a poetic language that conceals as much as it reveals. In conversation with Garrett Caples.

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Garrett Caples

Garrett Caples is a poet moonlighting as an editor at City Lights, yet his most recent book is Proses (Wave 2024), a collection of tales. No one knows what he's up to.
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Truong Tran

Poet and visual artist Truong Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam. He earned his MFA from San Francisco State University and is the author of five collections of poetry: The Book of Perceptions (1999), a finalist for a Kiriyama Prize; placing the accents (1999), a finalist for a W... Read More →
Sunday October 18, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
City Lights 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Storytelling/Memoir, FREE

2:00pm PDT

Listen to Your Elders: An Elder Project Reading
Sunday October 18, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
SFPL Haight Branch
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FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Co-presented with San Francisco Public Library

Litquake’s Elder Project brings creative writing and storytelling workshops to retirement communities across San Francisco and Oakland. Seniors participate in reading, storytelling, discussion, hands-on creative writing, and in-class sharing sessions to explore their own stories, the stories of their communities, and stories about the world, while using the techniques of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that they've learned in classes. Share in the beauty of their words, hear their stories, listen to your elders.

Sunday October 18, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
SFPL Haight Branch 1833 Page St, San Francisco
  Storytelling/Memoir, FREE

3:00pm PDT

Menopause Extravaganza: The Science and Culture of a Subject No One Used to Want to Talk About
Sunday October 18, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Gray Area Theater
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$10 advance / $15 door

Co-presented with Gray Area Theater

Menopause, a natural consequence of aging, has for centuries been alternately ignored and belittled, seen mostly through a male lens of bafflement, repugnance, and boilerplate misogyny. Now, however, a growing body of women and their doctors are rejecting this traditional view, developing new therapies and strategies as well as ways to appreciate the new freedoms it can offer. This energizing (and overdue) afternoon features Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain, reading from her forthcoming Your Brain on Menopause and joining other panelists in a conversation led by Keli Dailey: Dr. Sarah Isquick (a colleague of Dr. Sally Greenwald, featured in the recent New Yorker article “The Billionaires’ Vagina Club”), psychiatrist Dr. Alecia Greenlee, and menopause doula Lasara Firefox Allen, author of Genderqueer Menopause. Select performers from The Menopause Monologues® will kick off the event.Bring your friends for a conversation-sparking afternoon. Doors at 2:30pm.

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Keli Dailey

Keli Dailey is a journalist, comedian, and teacher whose work explores democracy, midlife, and the absurdities of modern life. She created the comedy-news series News Hangover and founded MenoPower, a storytelling project that uses humor to tackle menopause and aging. A former John S. Knight Jou... Read More →
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Lasara Firefox Allen

Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them/Mx.) is a trans, genderqueer author, educator, and certified menopause doula and coach. They are the founder and CEO of Genderqueer Futures, a global education and coaching practice specializing in gender-affirming menopause care for providers and gender-expansive... Read More →
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Louann Brizendine

Dr Louann Brizendine is a UCSF clinical professor, Yale, Harvard, and UCSF trained in medicine and neuropsychiatry; founder of the UCSF Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic; author of the NYT bestselling The Female Brain and upcoming Your Brain on Menopause.... Read More →
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Sarah Isquick

Dr. Sarah Isquick is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner who founded her San Francisco concierge practice on a simple belief: women deserve unhurried, deeply personal care from a physician who truly knows them. She specializes in hormonal healt... Read More →
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Alecia Greenlee

Alecia Greenlee, MD, MPH, is a reproductive psychiatrist, speaker, and founder of Bloom & Build Integrative Psychiatry in Campbell, California. Board-certified in adult and consultation-liaison psychiatry, she trained at UCSF, Harvard's Cambridge Health Alliance, and the University of Chicago... Read More →
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Rebecca Foust

Rebecca Foust’s books include You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems (Blue Light Press 2026) and Only (Four Way Books 2022). Her poems appear widely in venues including The Slowdown, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, POETRY, and Southern Review, winning the James Dickey, New Ohio Review, Pablo Neruda, James Hearst, and Poetry International prizes in recent years... Read More →
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The Menopause Monologues®

The Menopause Monologues® is an acclaimed theatrical production that combines powerful storytelling, education, and community engagement to elevate conversations around menopause and women’s health. Following sold-out runs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, and with a Seattle production p... Read More →
Sunday October 18, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Gray Area Theater 2665 Mission St, San Francisco 94110
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