
Welcome!
Join us on the streetcorner at 16th & Mission every Thursday night at 9:00pm, and lend your voice to this ecclectic group of street performers. From musicians and emcees to poets and comics, there's something for everyone here under just the stars and streetlights...Upcoming Events
April 17Get Here Early
Last week, we had a bunch of people to pack in at the end of the night, and some people didn\'t get a chance to perform. This Thursday, get to the corner at 9:00pm!
9:00 - 12:00
April 30Poems Under the Dome »

3rd Annual open-mic celebration for National Poetry Month. Bring your favourite poem to read under the dome at City Hall! Hosted by 'Diamond Dave' Whitaker.
5:00 - 8:00
May 155th Anniversary!
Arrive early, as we anticipate a lot of people showing up. More details soon...
8:00 - 12:00
send inquiries to seven7h tangent
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29 April 2008 Poems Under the Domeby Amber Bouman |
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11 April 2008 Thanks for a great night! |
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go ahead and ask. Most of us are open to musical accompaniment, or an impromptu jam. For my part, i'd be more than happy to have someone just randomly begin playing something while i'm reading. Anyway...something to think about.
Also, i hope everyone who wanted a copy of Review No. VI, Sodden...No More, got one. We will have more issues, including back issues of all 6 books available on May |
15th, our 5th Anniversary, in case you didn't.
Also, as a reminder, we're shooting to begin at 9:00pm, starting this coming Thursday, so that everyone who wants to perform is able to do so. We feel bad when midnight comes around, and people are still waiting to do something... Thanks again, everybody, and we'll see you next week. Bring a friend...or several. |
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7 April 2008 Living Poets filmby Amber Bouman |
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Also, here are links to articles on 16th & Mission from SF Weekly and SF Bay Guardian, including a link to our Best Place to Pick Up a Poet award from 2006! |
6 April 2008 More Photos! And Other Stuff!by Amber Bouman |
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5 April 2008 Photos |
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4 April 2008 New Website! |
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When i first stumbled (no joke—i think i nearly knocked over Joe Lewis' bass...) onto this charming ragtag of artists and performers one warm Mission evening, i remember thinking to myself, "This is what i moved to San Francisco for..." The raw, beautiful simplicity of this event is what continues to make it attractive 5 years hence. It's a momentous shift from the open-mic scene in coffeehouses, bars, and libraries; that quasi-formality that unfortunately turns many people away, despite their having something to say. Here there's no mic, no sign-up. Just the street, and the |
people gathered here...and, forgive my audacity, but that's something damn special. While many things about 16th & Mission remain the same, as well they ought to, a lot of people are putting in a lot of work for the sake of advancing both this space itself, and the performing arts in all their various incarnations. We're gearing up for the third annual Poems Under the Dome, an open-mic celebration of National Poetry Month at City Hall. Next week, we're releasing Sodden...No More, volume No. VI of our monthly publication, The 16th & Mission Review. And those are just a few of the things on our plate. But i'll quit waxing rhapsodic. The purpose of this website is to serve as a guide to what's happening both specifically at 16th & Mission, and in the arts community that |
has sprung up around it. The idea is to let everyone know when events are taking place (hence the calendar to the right), and give people involved the ability to write about everything from a particularly moving performance you saw, advice for other performers, and to comment on what's happening in general. In addition, we're hoping to have audio and video soon. If you'd like to contribute to 16thmission.com, or you have an event you'd like to plug, go ahead and email me about setting up an account. Accounts currently aren't available automatically (as we're trying to get living, breathing...and hopefully performing people involved with this). Thanks for visiting, and most importantly, we hope to see you at 16th & Mission one Thursday night... |
