Beast Crawl literary extravaganza
2 SEPTEMBER 2017 — saturday
Beast Crawl features more than 200 writers in a single night, in dozens of events, spread out over four hours and numerous local galleries, bars, restaurants, cafés, performance spaces, and storefronts, each leg lasts one hour, with a half hour break between legs, chose one reading per leg, all over downtown Oakland, free, 5:00-9:00; after party 9:30-2:00 a.m. (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)