Mechanics' Institute remains closed, but our "Library To Go" service is in full swing! Get the full scoop here.
Are you a crafty member of the Mechanics' Institute? Knit happens, but we'd love to see your crochet too! Bring a project and get to know your fellow Mechanics' Institute members and staff over Zoom. Knit Happens bimonthly: every second and last Tuesday. All skill levels welcome — join us!
In Trieste, Italy, a military doctor finds an unidentified sailor who he believes is Finnish, like himself.
Tech and the City: Using vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the idea and innovations that have emerged from it, Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the objects and settings we live with. Cosponsored by Gray Area and Goethe-Institut SF
A Zoom salon of The Naked Kiss: A prostitute tries to start a new life in a small Midwestern town.
If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member the Virtual Tour of the Mechanics' 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 this workshop, we will explore poems that live in a liminal space. Hybrid poetics blurs the lines between poetry and other literary genres. The benefits of hybrid writing are many; it provides writers with opportunities to explore and expand writing practices, especially for those who are writing to make the invisible visible. Participants will survey a sampling of hybrid poems and have an opportunity to take liberties with a variety of genres, styles, and techniques and leave class with a literary chimera of their own.
A Zoom salon of Steamboat Bill, Jr.: In this classic Buster Keaton silent, an effete college student reunites with his father, the burly captain of a paddle steamer.
Are you a crafty member of the Mechanics' Institute? Knit happens, but we'd love to see your crochet too! Bring a project and get to know your fellow Mechanics' Institute members and staff over Zoom. Knit Happens bimonthly: every second and last Tuesday. All skill levels welcome — join us!
Discuss the 1936 novel by French writer George Bernanos with fellow members.
Roberto Lovato reflects on his life as a child of Salvadoran immigrants, and later, his participation in the guerrilla movement in wartime El Salvador.
A Zoom salon of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek: A small-town girl with a yen for soldiers discovers she's married and pregnant after a wild night -- but can't remember the father's name.
A piercing, deeply moving new novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son Hamnet -- a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fiftheenth-century Britain -- and the years leading up to the production of his great play.
If you have been wondering where to start when it comes to building a meaningful platform, this 90 minute workshop will give you a specific, practical roadmap.
A Zoom salon of Ball of Fire: A staid scholar (Gary Cooper) becomes entangled with a tough talking nightclub singer (Barbara Stanwyck) in this screwball comedy.
Are you a crafty member of the Mechanics' Institute? Knit happens, but we'd love to see your crochet too! Bring a project and get to know your fellow Mechanics' Institute members and staff over Zoom. Knit Happens bimonthly: every second and last Tuesday. All skill levels welcome — join us!
Half fable, half manifesto, this brilliant new take on the ancient concept of cash lays bare its unparalleled capacity to empower and enthrall us.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about how to come up with feature article ideas, and how to find and interview expert sources.
A Zoom salon of Charade: A beautiful young widow must contend with crooks who are convinced she knows where her dead husband hid a stash of gold.
Are you a crafty member of the Mechanics' Institute? Knit happens, but we'd love to see your crochet too! Bring a project and get to know your fellow Mechanics' Institute members and staff over Zoom. Knit Happens bimonthly: every second and last Tuesday. All skill levels welcome — join us!
Join MI author David Landau as he presents his latest book Brothers From Time to Time, a history of the Cuban revolution, and a discussion of his 25 year writing and publication odyssey.
Are you a crafty member of the Mechanics' Institute? Knit happens, but we'd love to see your crochet too! Bring a project and get to know your fellow Mechanics' Institute members and staff over Zoom. Knit Happens bimonthly: every second and last Tuesday. All skill levels welcome — join us!
A lot can be learned about writing and self-editing from watching an editor in the trenches. Learn how an editor works in real time.
