A daylong benefit on Sunday to help an Oakland literary salon will feature 100 readers and 12 music acts over the space of 12 hours. The Octopus Literary Salon opened four years ago in Oakland’s Uptown District, transforming a former Quizno’s into a cafe and performance space for a diverse array of artists.
The venue is being forced to move within a year due to a rent increase, according to an announcement by the owners.
Sunday’s benefit event, by the Octopus Preservation Committee and Power Unit 17, is aimed to help pay for the transition to a new space. The “Octopus Day” event runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday at the literary salon, 2101 Webster St.
Each hour from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. there will be 10 readers, with a brief music act at the end of the hour.
From 7:45 p.m. till 10 p.m., the event will feature all-music performances starting with short sets by Marinero and Yogurt Brain and will finish with Preening and Marbled Eye.
A donation of $20 is requested for the event but no one will be turned away, organizers said.
A GoFundMe site created to help the venue can be found at https://www.gofundme.com/the-octopus-literary-salon-needs-you.
Bay City News is a 24/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area. © 2022 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited.
New York played home run derby against Jeff Samardzija and Derek Holland.
The Giants placed southpaw Conner Menez on the taxi squad Saturday and manager Bruce Bochy announced that Menez will...
A grass fire on Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County has grown to three acres Saturday night, with zero...
