Renowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg, and co-founder of Howlround, a free and open platform for theater-makers worldwide. When working with Claudia Rankine on her new play “The White Card,” Carl was transitioning, and this book came from that experience. “On March 16 of 2017 I become a man, a white man,” writes Carl, just months after Trump’s election, two months shy of Carl’s fifty-first birthday, and just a few more months away from the eruption of the #MeToo movement.

Against the backdrop of our pivotal political moment, Carl’s personal journey interweaves with a broader mission: Carl delivers a cutting, clear-eyed dissection of gender and identity in America. Carl has a unique vantage point—having moved through the world for decades as a woman before walking those same streets as a man. And he uses his first-hand experience to shine a light on the subtle double standards and injustices that run through daily the daily lives of millions in America. Even as Carl is finally able to celebrate his arrival in the world as the man he has always known himself to be, he must reimagine masculinity and challenge it. “To construct that man,” he writes, “knowing what I know as a woman, is my work now.”

Carl delivers a singular, heart-baring story—about what it’s like to transition at age fifty, to become oneself after waiting a lifetime, and how this transformation ripples through all the habits and relationships (including his roles as spouse and sibling) he has built over half a century.

P. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes and teaches. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-one years, the writer Lynette D’Amico, and their dogs.

Come shop Fog City Flea’s carefully curated market of makers & merchants from the Bay Area and beyond…growing in size and scope each week in our second-floor Grand Hall!

Sunday’s 10am – 5pm

Join Fort Point for a special San Francisco cycling experience to celebrate SF Beer Week. Their team will take you on a guided tour to several SF landmarks from their can designs, ending at their Ferry Building taproom where the first round is on the house. Grab tickets here.

Author Antoinette Constable, who was a young girl in WWII France, has written a compelling coming-of-age novel for young adult readers, Natalie in the Shadow of the Swastika. Set in 1940 occupied Paris, eight-year-old Natalie and her family—a Jewish mother, gentile father, and two sisters—cope with the harsh facts of war and Hitler’s occupying army. When her ailing father suddenly disappears, Natalie’s safe surroundings are forever changed. Her struggles with the painful family separation and the dangerous threats against her Jewish mother reveal a growing maturity in the face of confusing loss. Natalie’s fierce resolve to hold onto hope and her love of family leads her from innocence to understanding and resilience, despite the violence of war.

Born and raised in France, Antoinette Constable was a career nurse holding British and American degrees, and is also retired from her own catering business. She has lived in the United States for many years, where she raised her four children as a single mother. Her work has won the PEN First Prize for Poetry, as well as the Ann Stanford Award from the University of Southern California, and has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Barnabe Mountain Review, Bay Area Poets Coalition, California Quarterly (CQ), Denver Metropolitan State Magazine, The Healing Muse, Louisville Review, and POEM. Her chapbook of war-related poems, The Lasting War, was published in December 2014.

Join the Ferry Building and MINDBODY SF for Wellness Wednesdays, a free series every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. Drop-ins are welcome, or reserve your spot via the MINDBODY app. For more info on this week’s class and teacher, follow us on Instagram at @ferrybuilding!

Wednesday’s 5:30pm – 6:30pm

January 22 Baptiste Power Yoga Samantha Zabrycki
February 5 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
February 12 LINES Ballet Jen Bakane
February 19 Baptiste Power Yoga Annie Morrison
February 26 Anchor Meditation Kelly Ryan
March 4 SF POLE
March 11 Atma Yoga Carlo F
March 18 Shred 415 LILY DE CHOUDENS
March 25 Baptiste Power Yoga Amelia Andaleon
April 1 VRV3
April 8 Baptiste Power Yoga Tiana Noveen
April 15 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
April 29 Baptiste Power Yoga Jen Silvera
May 6 Baptiste Power Yoga Meghan Zimmerman

During his 2016 presidential run, the revelation of the Access Hollywood tape and subsequent allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against Donald Trump looked like they might doom his candidacy. Trump survived, and the first two years of the real estate scion’s presidency were marked not by controversy over his behavior around women but by the Mueller investigation.

So far, Trump has dodged the #MeToo bullet that has taken down so many once-powerful men. But despite the decades of tabloid fascination with his personal life, the story of Trump’s relationship with women has never been fully told. Considering his bully pulpit in the White House, the reckoning is overdue. All the President’s Women offers the most detailed account yet of Trump’s history with women, dating back to his childhood and high school days through his rise in real estate, reality TV, and politics. This book will show that Trump’s behavior goes far beyond occasional “locker-room talk” and unwanted advances. Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy detail more than a dozen new allegations against Trump, including a disturbing attack on a woman at Mar-a-Lago, an incident at a private Manhattan sex club involving a teenage girl, as well as Trump’s behavior at fashion shows and beauty pageants—events that gave the future president a hunting ground to harass young women.

Veteran journalists Levine and El-Faizy tell the story of Trump from the point of view of the women in his orbit—wives, mistresses, playmates, and those whom the president has dated, kissed, groped, or lusted after.

Monique El-Faizy is a Paris-based journalist and the author of God and Country: How Evangelicals Have Become America’s New Mainstream. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Marie Claire, GQ, and Glamour.

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis was sworn in as the 50th Lieutenant Governor of California by Governor Gavin Newsom on January 7th, 2019. She is the first woman elected Lt. Governor of California. From 2010 to 2013, Kounalakis served as President Barack Obama’s Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary. Kounalakis was the first Greek-American woman—and at age 43 one of America’s youngest—to serve as U.S. Ambassador. Her highly acclaimed memoir, Madam Ambassador, Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties and Democracy in Budapest chronicles the onset of Hungary’s democratic backsliding.

Come shop Fog City Flea’s carefully curated market of makers & merchants from the Bay Area and beyond…growing in size and scope each week in our second-floor Grand Hall!

Sunday’s 10am – 5pm

Join Fort Point for a special San Francisco cycling experience to celebrate SF Beer Week. Their team will take you on a guided tour to several SF landmarks from their can designs, ending at their Ferry Building taproom where the first round is on the house. Grab tickets here.

Compelled by her anti-war work with returning Vietnam veterans and her passion for social justice, Elena Schwolsky traveled to the then-forbidden island of Cuba in 1972 with a brigade of youthful volunteers to help build houses for workers and support the still young Cuban Revolution; a decision that would shape her life and ultimately lead her back to Cuba twenty years later—as she shares in her beautifully narrated new book Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba.

Elena returns to the island––a pediatric AIDS nurse weary from the constant loss and sorrow surrounding her work, a grieving widow dealing with the death of her husband—himself a victim of the disease, and a lifelong activist hoping to reconnect with the resilient spirit she felt as a young ‘brigadista’. The author takes readers along through her humorous attempts to navigate this very different culture—into Havana’s controversial AIDS sanatorium and the lives of the generous, opinionated and passionate Cubans who become her family and help her to heal.

Elena Schwolsky, RN, MPH, is a nurse, community health educator, activist, and writer who spent a decade as a pediatric nurse at the height of the AIDS epidemic. She has trained AIDS educators in Cuba and Tanzania and currently teaches community health workers in diverse urban neighborhoods in New York City. Her essays have appeared in The American Journal of Nursing and The Veteran, and her work has been included in the anthologies Storied Dishes: What Our Family Recipes Tell Us About Who We Are and Where We’ve Been and Reflections on Nursing: 80 inspiring stories on the art and science of nursing. A chapter she co-wrote appears in the textbook Children, Families and AIDS: Psychosocial and Therapeutic Issues. Schwolsky is the recipient of a writing award from the Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund and is proud to be recognized as the madrina (godmother) of Proyecto Memorias, the Cuban AIDS Quilt project.

Join the Ferry Building and MINDBODY SF for Wellness Wednesdays, a free series every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. Drop-ins are welcome, or reserve your spot via the MINDBODY app. For more info on this week’s class and teacher, follow us on Instagram at @ferrybuilding!

Wednesday’s 5:30pm – 6:30pm

January 22 Baptiste Power Yoga Samantha Zabrycki
February 5 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
February 12 LINES Ballet Jen Bakane
February 19 Baptiste Power Yoga Annie Morrison
February 26 Anchor Meditation Kelly Ryan
March 4 SF POLE
March 11 Atma Yoga Carlo F
March 18 Shred 415 LILY DE CHOUDENS
March 25 Baptiste Power Yoga Amelia Andaleon
April 1 VRV3
April 8 Baptiste Power Yoga Tiana Noveen
April 15 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
April 29 Baptiste Power Yoga Jen Silvera
May 6 Baptiste Power Yoga Meghan Zimmerman

In the tradition of The Gatekeepers and The Presidents Club, historian Craig Fehrman offers a surprising new look into both the public and private lives of America’s presidents.

Most Americans are familiar with Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped win him the presidency: his published collection of speeches entitled Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln labored in secret to get his book ready for the 1860 election, tracking down newspaper transcripts, editing them carefully for fairness, and hunting for a printer who would meet his specifications. Political Debates sold fifty thousand copies—the rough equivalent of half a million books in today’s market—and it reveals something about Lincoln’s presidential ambitions. But it also reveals something about his heart and mind. When voters asked about his beliefs, Lincoln liked to point them to his book.

In Craig Fehrman’s groundbreaking work of history, Author in Chief, the story of America’s presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, the first presidential book to influence a campaign, and John Adams’s Autobiography, the first score-settling presidential memoir, Author in Chief draws on newly uncovered information—including never-before-published letters from Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan—to offer insights into the aspirations and inner lives of our nation’s presidents. We see Teddy Roosevelt, known today for his rugged adventures and bulletproof self-confidence, as a vulnerable first-time author, struggling to write the book that would become a classic of American history. We see Ronald Reagan painstakingly revising Where’s the Rest of Me?, a forgotten memoir in which he sharpened his sunny political image. We see Donald Trump negotiating the deal for Art of the Deal, the volume that made him synonymous with business savvy—and decades later boosted him again on his way to the White House.

Combining the narrative skill of a journalist with the rigorous scholarship of a historian, Fehrman presents hundreds of new stories, scenes, quotations, and telling details to create an entirely fresh take on our highest leaders. Author in Chief is a feast for history lovers, book lovers, and everybody curious about a behind-the-scenes look at our presidents.

Craig Fehrman is a journalist and historian who’s written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Slate, among others. He has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He lives in Indiana with his wife and children.

Come shop Fog City Flea’s carefully curated market of makers & merchants from the Bay Area and beyond…growing in size and scope each week in our second-floor Grand Hall!

Sunday’s 10am – 5pm

Join Fort Point for a special San Francisco cycling experience to celebrate SF Beer Week. Their team will take you on a guided tour to several SF landmarks from their can designs, ending at their Ferry Building taproom where the first round is on the house. Grab tickets here.

Join the Ferry Building and MINDBODY SF for Wellness Wednesdays, a free series every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. Drop-ins are welcome, or reserve your spot via the MINDBODY app. For more info on this week’s class and teacher, follow us on Instagram at @ferrybuilding!

Wednesday’s 5:30pm – 6:30pm

January 22 Baptiste Power Yoga Samantha Zabrycki
February 5 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
February 12 LINES Ballet Jen Bakane
February 19 Baptiste Power Yoga Annie Morrison
February 26 Anchor Meditation Kelly Ryan
March 4 SF POLE
March 11 Atma Yoga Carlo F
March 18 Shred 415 LILY DE CHOUDENS
March 25 Baptiste Power Yoga Amelia Andaleon
April 1 VRV3
April 8 Baptiste Power Yoga Tiana Noveen
April 15 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
April 29 Baptiste Power Yoga Jen Silvera
May 6 Baptiste Power Yoga Meghan Zimmerman

Karen Sherman, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012 after a 25-year career working on women’s issues in developing countries and embattled parts of the world. More than a memoir of that year, the book is a tribute to the women she met, and how their stories profoundly impacted her own life. “In many ways, our time in Rwanda surprised me.” says Sherman, “It deepened my sense of perspective for what it takes to be a woman almost anywhere in the world today, even when that womanhood is threatened or diminished by one’s family, culture or society. There is much that women in the developed and developing worlds can learn from each other, especially in this era of mass shootings and #MeToo.” Sherman and her three sons arrived in Rwanda after a tumultuous year in which her bid to become CEO of Women for Women International, an organization that helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives, had failed. She had worked there for close to a decade.

“Like so many people in our modern, success-driven society, the job defined me,” she writes. “But this work was much more than a job. Helping women who had survived war move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency resonated powerfully with me, given my background and experiences. It felt right, like what I was supposed to be doing. This failure felt personal. It was devastating.” So, she took a one-year posting to Rwanda, hoping it would distance her from the crises in her career and marriage and put her back in touch with the work on the ground. Throughout her career, she had heard hundreds of personal stories from women who had endured war. The common thread was that all had managed to survive. “Now that we were living in Rwanda,” she writes, “I thought maybe, if I could sit and talk with some of these women, learn more about their perspectives and choices, it might help to bring me back to myself.” For the rest of 2012 and into 2013, Sherman oversaw the completion of a new Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza and the transitions of leadership in three of the four African countries where Women for Women worked. Each of the five hundred thousand bricks used to construct the Center were hand made by Rwandan women. “The architects of the Center would often talk about the process of building as ‘brick by brick.’ But I always thought of it as woman by woman,” Sherman writes in the book’s prologue. “These women, and so many of the survivors I worked with, each in their own way, had been able to build or rebuild their lives one step, one small change, in some cases, one brick at a time,” she realizes. “They’d held onto their dreams, forged their own paths, taken risks, and led change in their families, communities, and countries. They had fully embraced their choices. In that moment I vowed to fully embrace mine.”

Karen Sherman brings more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, strategist, and executive level manager to her role as President of the Akilah Institute. Throughout her career, Sherman has combined her expertise, passion, and transformative leadership skills to affect lasting change for women in conflict-affected countries and those in transition. She has global and sectoral experience in: Women and girls’ education around the world, Women’s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship, Women in conflict-affected countries. Across her different roles, Sherman has worked with stakeholders at all levels, from community groups to corporate leaders and heads of state, to take programs from concept to scale. Most importantly, her work has resulted in measurable impacts on women’s income, health, decision-making, and social networks. Sherman serves as a thought leader and spokesperson on global women’s issues through the media, public appearances, and diverse social media platforms. She has been featured in multiple publications and was Executive Producer of The Other Side of War: Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope, published by National Geographic.

Join Fort Point for a special San Francisco cycling experience to celebrate SF Beer Week. Their team will take you on a guided tour to several SF landmarks from their can designs, ending at their Ferry Building taproom where the first round is on the house. Grab tickets here.

Join the Ferry Building and MINDBODY SF for Wellness Wednesdays, a free series every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. Drop-ins are welcome, or reserve your spot via the MINDBODY app. For more info on this week’s class and teacher, follow us on Instagram at @ferrybuilding!

Wednesday’s 5:30pm – 6:30pm

January 22 Baptiste Power Yoga Samantha Zabrycki
February 5 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
February 12 LINES Ballet Jen Bakane
February 19 Baptiste Power Yoga Annie Morrison
February 26 Anchor Meditation Kelly Ryan
March 4 SF POLE
March 11 Atma Yoga Carlo F
March 18 Shred 415 LILY DE CHOUDENS
March 25 Baptiste Power Yoga Amelia Andaleon
April 1 VRV3
April 8 Baptiste Power Yoga Tiana Noveen
April 15 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
April 29 Baptiste Power Yoga Jen Silvera
May 6 Baptiste Power Yoga Meghan Zimmerman

Debut author Sarah Kozloff offers a breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy of a ruler coming of age in A Queen in Hiding, first in the quartet of The Nine Realms series.

Exiled and hunted, Cerúlia, Princess of Weirandale, knows she has one destiny. Her enemies failed to kill her, and no one harboring her is safe. Raised in obscurity, she has no resources, no army, nothing that can help her against her enemies. Except their gods.

Sarah Kozloff holds an endowed chair as a professor of film history at Vassar College. She worked in the film industry in both television and film before becoming a professor. A Queen in Hiding is her debut fantasy novel.

The hummingbird represents joy, hope, love, and life itself. They are known for their perpetual motion. They can hover, and they can fly forward. They are also the only known bird that can fly backward. So, as in life, even if you fall backward momentarily, this book is a guide for helping you to stay in motion. Symbolically, this perpetual motion has hummingbirds operating in the present.

In The Reinvented Life, Pamela Chanel Monasch David shares her personal challenges, insights, and vulnerabilities as she transforms herself from being morbidly obese to living a life that focuses on health, wellness, and mindfulness. But this is more than a weight loss story. It’s a guide to reinventing every aspect of your life by starting with just one thing—that one thing has a ripple effect on your entire world. It’s a process of engaging with yourself to think about the life you want…and then taking the steps to get there. Pamela inspires you with her personal journey when she turned a “life or death” situation into a life of purpose.

Learn how to be the hummingbird in your own life. Stay in motion, enjoy the ride, and create your life’s reinvention.

Pamela is a fifth-generation San Franciscan. She earned a BS in Speech and Auditory Sciences from University of California at Santa Barbara and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Her career highlights include an extensive career in the Cosmetic and Fragrance industry with Bullocks Wilshire, I.Magnin and Macy*s Department stores; even earning her the nickname Chanel! She served as President of the San Francisco Cosmetic & Fragrance Association.

Transforming her retail experience to that of entrepreneurship, she parlayed her retail background and experience into non-traditional revenue generation in the Media (Radio) and point-of-sale industries.  She founded a Special Events company serving the Greater SF Bay Area and Sacramento, CA markets for innumerable corporate, CA State Capital and Private Events. Pamela is also proud owner of a Healthy Beverage online store and has nine years experience in the Network Marketing/Direct Selling Industry.

Pamela is dedicated to empowering and transforming businesses and individuals. She has served her community as a Board Member for The River City Theatre Company (RCTC), as an Ambassador for the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce and various community organizations.

Come shop Fog City Flea’s carefully curated market of makers & merchants from the Bay Area and beyond…growing in size and scope each week in our second-floor Grand Hall!

Sunday’s 10am – 5pm

Join Fort Point for a special San Francisco cycling experience to celebrate SF Beer Week. Their team will take you on a guided tour to several SF landmarks from their can designs, ending at their Ferry Building taproom where the first round is on the house. Grab tickets here.

Join the Ferry Building and MINDBODY SF for Wellness Wednesdays, a free series every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. Drop-ins are welcome, or reserve your spot via the MINDBODY app. For more info on this week’s class and teacher, follow us on Instagram at @ferrybuilding!

Wednesday’s 5:30pm – 6:30pm

January 22 Baptiste Power Yoga Samantha Zabrycki
February 5 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
February 12 LINES Ballet Jen Bakane
February 19 Baptiste Power Yoga Annie Morrison
February 26 Anchor Meditation Kelly Ryan
March 4 SF POLE
March 11 Atma Yoga Carlo F
March 18 Shred 415 LILY DE CHOUDENS
March 25 Baptiste Power Yoga Amelia Andaleon
April 1 VRV3
April 8 Baptiste Power Yoga Tiana Noveen
April 15 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
April 29 Baptiste Power Yoga Jen Silvera
May 6 Baptiste Power Yoga Meghan Zimmerman

Authors often hear that they should spend time on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and a half dozen other platforms building an audience for their writing. Handled adroitly, social media can prove to be a powerful tool. This panel discussion will cover specific examples of entranced audiences, signed deals, and careers launched from writers who have made social media work for them.

Panelists:

Laird Harrison
A genre nonconforming writer, Laird Harrison has published journalism and poetry, fiction and essays for magazines, literary journals, newspapers, book publishers, and websites, and worked in radio and video as well. He teaches at the the Writers Grotto.

Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera’s book Island of a Thousand Mirrors won the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region. She found her agent and first publisher on Facebook.

Lyzette Wanzer
Lyzette Wanzer is a San Francisco writer, editor, and creative writing workshop instructor. Her work reflects the peri-racial, social, and economic experiences of African-Americans and others. She’s a true believer in LinkedIn, and has taught many workshops on that topic.

Elise Marie Collins
Elise Marie Collins has consulted with small businesses, authors, and alumni associations on social media marketing and believes that a social media plan should be intuitive, fun, and seamless. Helping students and clients form healthy lifestyle patterns is Elise Collins’ passion and life purpose. She has taught yoga for the past 20 years and is the author of several books on healthy living, including her latest, Super Ager: You Can Look Younger, Have More Energy, a Better Memory, and Live a Long and Healthy Life. Elise enjoys sharing yoga wisdom and current scientific research.

This event is being held in partnership with Shack 15. Please visit Book Passage’s Ferry Building store to receive a free pass for the event and directions to Shack 15’s location on the second floor of the Ferry Building.

The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity, and outworking your peers. But working ever-longer hours isn’t sustainable for companies or individuals. Fatigue-induced mistakes, whether in the operating room or factory line, cost companies billions, and overwork alienates and burns out valuable employees.

But what if there is another way? Shorter tells the story of entrepreneurs and leaders all over the world who have discovered how to shrink the workweek without cutting salaries or sacrificing productivity or revenues. They show that by reducing distractions, eliminating inefficiencies, and creating time for high-quality focus and collaboration, 4-day workweeks can boost recruitment and retention, make leaders more thoughtful and companies more sustainable, and improve work-life balance. Using design thinking, a business and product development process pioneered in Silicon Valley, futurist and consultant Alex Pang creates a step-by-step guide for readers to redesign their workdays.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Ph.D. has spent two decades studying people, technology, and the worlds they make. A Silicon Valley-based futurist and consultant, he has worked with governments and Fortune 500 companies; given talks on five continents, at venues ranging from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, to Disney World; and held academic positions at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Oxford universities. Pang’s last book, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less is available in a dozen languages.

Come shop Fog City Flea’s carefully curated market of makers & merchants from the Bay Area and beyond…growing in size and scope each week in our second-floor Grand Hall!

Sunday’s 10am – 5pm

Join Fort Point for a special San Francisco cycling experience to celebrate SF Beer Week. Their team will take you on a guided tour to several SF landmarks from their can designs, ending at their Ferry Building taproom where the first round is on the house. Grab tickets here.

Join the Ferry Building and MINDBODY SF for Wellness Wednesdays, a free series every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. Drop-ins are welcome, or reserve your spot via the MINDBODY app. For more info on this week’s class and teacher, follow us on Instagram at @ferrybuilding!

Wednesday’s 5:30pm – 6:30pm

January 22 Baptiste Power Yoga Samantha Zabrycki
February 5 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
February 12 LINES Ballet Jen Bakane
February 19 Baptiste Power Yoga Annie Morrison
February 26 Anchor Meditation Kelly Ryan
March 4 SF POLE
March 11 Atma Yoga Carlo F
March 18 Shred 415 LILY DE CHOUDENS
March 25 Baptiste Power Yoga Amelia Andaleon
April 1 VRV3
April 8 Baptiste Power Yoga Tiana Noveen
April 15 Bay Jiu Jitsu Lindsay Goyne
April 29 Baptiste Power Yoga Jen Silvera
May 6 Baptiste Power Yoga Meghan Zimmerman

This event is being held in partnership with Shack 15. Please visit Book Passage’s Ferry Building store to receive a free pass for the event and directions to Shack 15’s location on the second floor of the Ferry Building.

How much is celebrity really worth? In a growing trend, Hollywood’s biggest stars from Ashton Kutcher to Beyoncé have set out to turn their fame into bankable capital by tossing out traditional endorsement deals in favor of strategic partnerships that grant them a stake in today’s top companies. Ushered in by 50 Cent’s deal with Vitamin Water—in which the rapper took equity instead of cash, eventually walking away with a nine-figure haul—celebrities of all different colors, genders, and talents have learned to capitalize on the invaluable benefits of their platform and visibility.

The ever-evolving, mutually beneficial relationship between Hollywood and Silicon Valley has led to everything from laughable flops and billion-dollar profits to rock star CEOs and paparazzi-worthy boards of directors. Through extensive reporting and exclusive interviews with stars like Shaq, Nas, Sophia Bush, and Steve Aoki, Forbes senior editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg takes an up-close-and-personal look at the rise of celebrity investors and their impact on companies including AirBnB, Spotify, and Uber.

A-List Angels is a book about business that reads like a thriller: entertaining, edifying, and not to be missed.

Zack O’Malley Greenburg is the senior editor of media & entertainment at Forbes and the author of 3 Kings, Empire State of Mind, and Michael Jackson, Inc. His work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Billboard, Vibe, McSweeney’s, and Sports Illustrated. Zack has served as an expert source for NPT, BBC, MTV, and CBS’s 60 Minutes; as a speaker, he has appeared at SXSW, CES, TEDx, Harvard, and Yale. He lives in New York.

Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds.

From the first sparks of inspiration—and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt—Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief. Brimming with rules, prompts, and practical tips, How to Be an Artist gives artists new ways to break through creative blocks, get the most from materials, navigate career challenges, and above all find joy in the work.

Packed into this dazzling handbook are more than sixty tips, prompts, and insights, including: Embrace Genre, Own Your Guilty Pleasures, Look Hard, Look Openly, Make Art for Now, Not the Future, Make an Enemy of Envy, Get Lost! and more—along with full-color artwork from visionaries ancient and modern, from Navajo sand artists to Rembrandt and Matisse, Vivian Maier and Hilma af Klint, Andy Warhol, Bill Traylor, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. This beautiful and useful book will help artists of all kinds—painters, photographers, writers, performers—realize their dreams.

Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and a 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York in 2007, Saltz had been art critic for The Village Voice since 1998, and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize during his tenure there. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and many others, and has appeared at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere.

Come shop Fog City Flea’s carefully curated market of makers & merchants from the Bay Area and beyond…growing in size and scope each week in our second-floor Grand Hall!

Sunday’s 10am – 5pm

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In Project 333, minimalist expert and author of Soulful Simplicity Courtney Carver takes a new approach to living simply—starting with your wardrobe. Project 333 promises that not only can you survive with just 33 items in your closet for 3 months, but you’ll thrive just like the thousands of woman who have taken on the challenge and never looked back. Let the de-cluttering begin!

Ever ask yourself how many of the items in your closet you actually wear? In search of a way to pare down on her expensive shopping habit, consistent lack of satisfaction with her purchases, and ever-growing closet, Carver created Project 333. In this book, she guides readers through their closets item-by-item, sifting through all the emotional baggage associated with those oh-so strappy high-heel sandals that cost a fortune but destroy your feet every time you walk more than a few steps to that extensive collection of never-worn little black dresses, to locate the items that actually look and feel like you. As Carver reveals in this book, once we finally release ourselves from the cyclical nature of consumerism and focus less on our shoes and more on our self-care, we not only look great but we feel great—and we can see a clear path to make other important changes in our lives that reach far beyond our closets. With tips, solutions, and a closet-full of inspiration, this life-changing minimalist manual shows readers that we are so much more than what we wear, and that who we are and what we have is so much more than enough.

Courtney Carver launched her blog “Be More with Less” in 2010 and is one of the top bloggers in the world on the subject of minimalism. She has been featured in countless articles, podcasts, and interviews on simplicity, and is the creator of the minimalist fashion challenge, Project 333, which was featured in O: The Oprah Magazine and Real Simple.

Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and founder of The Webby Awards. Tiffany’s films and work have received over eighty awards and distinctions including being selected for the Albert Einstein Foundation’s Genius: 100 Visions of the Future. NPR named her UC Berkeley address as one of its best commencement speeches and her films have premiered at top festivals including Sundance. She lectures worldwide on the relationship between technology and humanity. Find out more at TiffanyShlain.com and follow @TiffanyShlain.