Events on Monday, November 12

ODC/Dance Unplugged presents KT Nelson's <i>A Walk in the Woods</i>

Dance

A Walk in the Woods

Monday 11/12 @ ODC Theater

Dovetailing with the ODC's planned renovations, the theater's renowned choreographer KT Nelson presents <i>A Walk in the Woods</i>, an ambitious, new... 

Donuts One-Year Anniversary feat. DJs Ian Svenonius, Calvin Johnson, and Hey Willpower

Party

Donuts One-Year Anniversary Party

Monday 11/12 @ Knockout

Whereas most dance parties are akin to your classic glazed coffee sponge, a Donuts party is like a jelly-and-chocolate-filled éclair with... 

Black Dice

Music

Black Dice

Monday 11/12 @ 12 Galaxies

When Brooklyn-based, Rhode Island School of Design-trained no-wavers Black Dice first started putting records out on DFA, it was under the... 

Ongoing Events

<i>after the quake</i>

Theatre

after the quake

Monday 11/12 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest... 

Olafur Eliasson

Art

Olafur Eliasson

Monday 11/12 @ SFMOMA

From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential... 

<i>The Book Art of Edward Gorey</i>

Art

The Book Art of Edward Gorey

Monday 11/12 @ The Book Club of California

When he wasn't writing and illustrating his own darkly humorous and anachronistic books, Edward Gorey often lent his dexterous hand and... 

New Italian Cinema

Film

New Italian Cinema

Monday 11/12 @ San Francisco Film Society

More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is... 

<i>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</i>

Film: Documentary

The Future Is Unwritten

Monday 11/12 @ Lumiere Theatre

Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce... 

Of Montreal w/ Grand Buffet and MGMT

Music

Of Montreal

Monday 11/12 @ Great American Music Hall

Of Montreal are the most resilient of Athens, GA's psychedelic Elephant 6 collective. Since the glorious flameouts of the Olivia Tremor... 

Lucy McKenzie: <I>New Work</I>

Art

Lucy McKenzie

Monday 11/12 @ SFMOMA

Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At... 

Rex Ray

Art

Rex Ray

Monday 11/12 @ Gallery 16

An exhibition of new paintings further cements Rex Ray's status among San Francisco's most prolific artists and... 

11th International Latino Film Festival

Film

Int'l Latino Film Festival

Monday 11/12 @ Various locations

With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... 

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Monday 11/12 @ Various locations

San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Monday 11/12 @ SFMOMA

The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... 

<i>Super Heroes Super Villains</i>

Art

Super Heroes Super Villains

Monday 11/12 @ Creativity Explored

In Creativity Explored's Super Heroes Super Villains exhibition, artists present interpretations of fictional caped crusaders while accompanying texts tell the stories... 

<I>The Gun Show</I>

Art

The Gun Show

Monday 11/12 @ Root Division

As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations... 

<i>GROUNDED?</i>

Art

GROUNDED?

Monday 11/12 @ Intersection for the Arts

In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Monday 11/12 @ Double Punch Toy Store

  With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... 

Jonathan Callan, Frank Ebert, Armando Miguelez, Julio Cesar Morales, and Gabrielle Teschner: <i>Displaced</i>

Art

Displaced

Monday 11/12 @ John Berggruen Gallery

The X-Ray Project: <i>Inside Terrorism</i>

Art

Inside Terrorism

Monday 11/12 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak... 

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Monday 11/12 @ Various locations

Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of... 

Nathan Redwood: <i>Recent Works</i>

Art

Recent Works

Monday 11/12 @ Electric Works

  Nathan Redwood's paintings present a compelling vision of end-times: roughed-up scapes of cloudy thoroughfares paired together with busted Dust Bowl... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Monday 11/12 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... 

<i>Blame It on Fidel!</i>

Film

Blame It on Fidel!

Monday 11/12 @ Roxie Theater

Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Monday 11/12 @ de Young Museum

Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as...