Name: Most Best Open Mic
Start: 2026-08-28T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-28T19:30:00-07:00
Location: 220 Montgomery St

Most Best Open Mic

Drop into our studio events and gallery space at 220 Montgomery for art, culture, and narrating the Bay.KALW’s events space is a hub for independent journalism, civic engagement and public discourse—right in the heart of San Francisco. We’ve activated 220 Montgomery Street with over 150 interactive events including town hall conversations with local leaders, concerts with internationally renowned bands, DJs, and artists, panels with writers, activists, and filmmakers, and much more.

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Celebrate Bay Area poets, musicians, storytellers and showpeople. Who will win the performance of the night & be broadcast on KALW?

220 Montgomery St

The Bay Area's best performers shine at KALW's Most Best Open Mic! Host Charlie Getter gathers a homegrown harvest of poets, musicians, and storytellers with something to say. Stay until the end to find out who will win performance of the night and have their voice broadcast on KALW 91.7 FM. Share your creative sparkle. Come to KALW's Most Best Open Mic!

Charlie Getter writes and performs poems in San Francisco. He's been a part of the 16th and Mission Chalk Circle Performance through all its different iratarations and names for the last 21 years. He's had three books of poetry published and his fourth, "why, explained." is forthcoming in early 2025 from seventh tangent press. He currently works on the tarmac at SFO.

📍 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI🚪 Doors open at 5🍷 Refreshments for donation (and KALW members get their first one on the house)🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you wantThis event is free thanks to member support. <a href="https://kalw.givecloud.co/give-now" title="https://kalw.givecloud.co/give-now" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Please become a KALW member </a>today and receive your first drink on us at all 220 Montgomery events.KALW's Most Best Open Mic happens the final Friday of every month from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.Please note:<ul><li>The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street</li><li>We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north</li><li>Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue</li><li>If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location</li></ul>

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