Playwright Charles Busch and Bay Area icon F. Conrad Frank in conversation with director F. Allen Sawyer discussing this Barbary Coast tale.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Carol is an evocative look back at a time when same sex love came with the threat of horrific consequences.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Discuss A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux with fellow members.
This event will be held on Zoom.
Join author and founder of Lit Camp and Page Street co-working, Janis Cooke Newman, for a conversation on how to create your own literary community. Panelists include members of Page Street, Creative Caffeine Daily (an online community for writers), and the Lit Camp community.
Mechanics’ Institute once again joins the annual world-wide celebration of James Joyce’s epic novel with a community gathering and readings. Join this exuberant evening of Irish music, open mic readings, and culinary delights. This year will feature readings from you, our Joycean celebrants! Bring your book or selections in hand to read.
Gather 'round as a family to hear stories and make crafts nestled in the Library of the Mechanics' Institute! We’ll read 2-4 stories appropriate for children ages 5-6 and younger plus make a fun craft to take home. Family Story Time will be located on the 2nd floor in the Library. All are welcome!
In this workshop, Grant Faulkner, co-founder of 100 Word Story and San Francisco's Flash Fiction Collective—and the author of The Art of Brevity—will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional limit, exploring the many different forms that short shorts can take.
Join us for a special Author Talk with Grandmaster Vinay Bhat before the Summer Celebration Blitz at Mechanics' Institute. Free and open for all.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Independent research and analysis are at your fingertips with Morningstar Investment Research Center.
This event is onsite.
Greta Gerwig's adaptation of the beloved novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a deeply moving retelling of this coming-of-age drama.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Discuss The Years by Annie Ernaux with fellow members.
This event will be held on Zoom.
Join Mechanics' Institute for the finale of our 10 month NEA Big Read series inspired by the themes from Interior Chinatown by author Charles Yu.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Discuss The Red and the Black by Stendhal with fellow members. This is the first of two meetings on The Red and the Black.
This event will be held on Zoom.
Celebrate Bastille Day with Le Jazz Hot Quartet!
Gather 'round as a family to hear stories and make crafts nestled in the Library of the Mechanics' Institute! We’ll read 2-4 stories appropriate for children ages 5-6 and younger plus make a fun craft to take home. Family Story Time will be located on the 2nd floor in the Library. All are welcome!
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Learn settings and features to extend your battery life and protect your privacy.
Join us as we examine two new books about espionage—one fiction, one non-fiction. Linda Joy Myers' novel The Forger of Marseille undertakes topics not often covered in WWII fiction: life in Marseille, forging documents, and details of escaping on foot over the Pyrenees. Leslie Absher's memoir Spy Daughter, Queer Girl, examines the cost of professional and family secrets.
Join three award-winning writers—poet Heather Bourbeau, journalist Alissa Greenberg, and author Julia Scheeres—as they discuss writing overlooked histories.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Discuss The Red and the Black by Stendhal with fellow members. This is the second of two meetings on The Red and the Black.
This event will be held on Zoom.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Have you noticed after you've been searching for information on the web, that ads mirroring your search begin to pop up and follow you around? Join fellow members for a short presentation on how to protect your privacy on the web, followed by a question and answer session with librarian, Myles Cooper.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Discuss Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov with fellow members.
This event will be held on Zoom.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Learn how to download eAudiobooks from MI’s growing collection.
This event will be held on Zoom.
Gather 'round as a family to hear stories and make crafts nestled in the Library of the Mechanics' Institute! We’ll read 2-4 stories appropriate for children ages 5-6 and younger plus make a fun craft to take home. Family Story Time will be located on the 2nd floor in the Library. All are welcome!
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Discuss Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo with fellow members.
This event will be held on Zoom.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Gather 'round as a family to hear stories and make crafts nestled in the Library of the Mechanics' Institute! We’ll read 2-4 stories appropriate for children ages 5-6 and younger plus make a fun craft to take home. Family Story Time will be located on the 2nd floor in the Library. All are welcome!
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Gather 'round as a family to hear stories and make crafts nestled in the Library of the Mechanics' Institute! We’ll read 2-4 stories appropriate for children ages 5-6 and younger plus make a fun craft to take home. Family Story Time will be located on the 2nd floor in the Library. All are welcome!
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
Gather 'round as a family to hear stories and make crafts nestled in the Library of the Mechanics' Institute! We’ll read 2-4 stories appropriate for children ages 5-6 and younger plus make a fun craft to take home. Family Story Time will be located on the 2nd floor in the Library. All are welcome!
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
In-person tours are back! If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member, the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
