Ruth’s Table

What does it mean to be a man today? And how can compassion, connection, and courage reshape masculinity for the better? Join us for a powerful conversation with Ed Frauenheim, co-author of Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection. Ed describes the old model of “Confined Masculinity” as an emotional straitjacket—one that limits […]

This workshop will give attendees time to imagine their own Utopias at look for images to bring together to create a visual representation of their ideal worlds. These ideas will be combined into collages I'm making as collective visions of utopia. Come, it will be fun!

Celebrate remembrance, memory, and joy with us on Capp Street. Join the Songs & Stories Intergenerational Choir, co-presented by CMC & Ruth’s Table, for an afternoon honoring Día de los Muertos through music, storytelling, art, and live performances! Songs and Stories: The After Party! — led by Beth Wilmurt and Rowena Richie, featuring a mixed-age […]

Intergenerational Open Mic at Ruth's Table presented by Decentered Arts, Golden Sardine, Litquake Elders Project, Community Living Campaign. Come one, come all with poetry, music and writing to share at our intergenerational open mic. 3 min slots, sign ups in person.

We’re a group of immigrant writers and translators from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan, whose writing developed in response to USSR’s totalitarian regime and to Russia’s authoritarian tactics of censorship and war. As artists working in the United States today, we’re here to push back against the growing threat to freedom of expression in this country.

✨ Save the Date ✨ We’re closing out the year with BASKETS ON THE EDGE, a group exhibition by the Bay Area Basket Makers. Since 1984, this collective has reimagined the basket through craft, community, and bold experimentation — working with materials from kelp to recycled plastic. 🎶 The opening celebration will feature a live […]

Co-presented with Ruth's Table Litquake’s Elder Project brings creative writing and storytelling workshops to retirement communities across San Francisco and Oakland. Seniors participate in reading, storytelling, discussion, hands-on creative writing, and in-class sharing sessions to explore their own stories, the stories of their communities, and stories about the world, while using the techniques of fiction, […]