Events on Saturday, October 11

Bay Area Derby Girls 2008 Championship Bout
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Sports
Bay Area Derby Girls 2008 Championship Bout
@ Fort Mason Center
The Bay Area's finest quad-skating athletes are wrapping up their league's season with a bang. Tonight, the Oakland Outlaws and the...  View details »
Haruki Murakami
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Reading
Haruki Murakami
@ Zellerbach Hall
Despite the criticism leveled by his country's literati that his novels read too much like works in translation, Haruki Murakami has...  View details »
Sold Out!
The Bay Area Guide to Independent Fashion Festival
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Fashion
Bay Area Fashion
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
At this fashion-forward all-day gathering, designers, craftspeople, and clotheshorses alike celebrate the Bay Area's ever-churning independent fashion scene. The event accompanies...  View details »
Christian Divine: <em> Protest-ploitation </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Protest-ploitation
@ Artists' Television Access
The revolution may not have been televised, but it certainly was filmed: by 1970, it seemed that filmmakers of all stripes...  View details »
Heavy Lode presents Frisco Freak Out
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Music: Festival
Frisco Freak Out
@ Thee Parkside
Sure, the summer of love may be long gone, but a day full of smoldering grooves, shared eats, and all manner...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em> </em>Raylene Gorum:<em> </em><em>Volume Too: Tapings and Prints</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Volume Too
@ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking</em>
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
Film: Festival
Envisioning Russia
@ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Commemorating the centenary of Russian cinema, the PFA festival draws from an extensive catalog of films produced at Mosfilm, the most...  View details »
Ongoing
Koralie: <em>Haiku</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Koralie
@ FIFTY24SF Gallery
French street artist Koralie started out wheat-pasting the walls of Toulouse with her signature kimono-clad geishas and has since moved on...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>New Heaven: Drawings by Nathaniel Russell</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
New Heaven
@ Mollusk Surf Shop
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Word for Word presents <em>More Stories by Tobias Wolff</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
More Stories by Tobias Wolff
@ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...  View details »
Ongoing
Kate Durkin: <em>It's Alright</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
It's Alright
@ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em> Art of Democracy: War and Empire </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Art of Democracy
@ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<em>Beyond the Mirror</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Beyond the Mirror
@ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...  View details »
Ongoing
Jason J&auml;gel:<em> </em><em>73 Funshine</em><em> </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
73 Funshine
@ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Superstars Next Door: A Celebration of San Francisco Amateur Sex Cinema from the '60s
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
The Superstars Next Door
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The '60s infused San Franciscans with a recklessness and disregard for authority that affected every genre of art and ushered in...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>I feel I am free but I know I am not</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art: Photography
I feel I am free but I know I am not
@ SF Camerawork
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
@ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...  View details »
Ongoing
Cool Globes
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
More Flavor: Exhibition
Cool Globes
@ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>West, Wester, Westest</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
West, Wester, Westest
@ Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Fecal Face's Chicago correspondent, Ryan Christian, heads west with a talent pool plucked from all over the map — New York,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Game Over: Art of the Gamer Generation</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Game Over
@ Giant Robot
Whether they favor 3D first-person shooters or old-school 8-bit technology, video-game junkies can find something to geek out about at Giant...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
Film
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
@ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...  View details »
Ongoing
MATCHA: Japanese Tattoo
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Lecture
Japanese Tattoo
@ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
BhangraFest
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
More Flavor: Festival
BhangraFest
@ Various Locations
BhangraFest is San Francisco's way of vibrantly celebrating one of India's most popular styles of music. Learn the latest moves during...  View details »
Ongoing
buZ blurr: <em> Two Sides to Every Boxcar </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
buZ blurr
@ Babylon Falling
Trains may not have the same hold on the popular imagination as they once did, but a recent flurry of films...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Evan Bissell: <em>somewhere in advance of nowhere: youth, imagination and transformation</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
somewhere in advance of nowhere
@ Intersection for the Arts
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em> L.A. Paint </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
L.A. Paint
@ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California's Chief Curator of Art, Philip Linhares, ignores the myth of a San Francisco/LA cultural divide and showcases...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>7 Beggars</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
7 Beggars
@ Climate Theater
Over 200 years ago, Rebbe Nachman said to a group of followers, "Now I am going to tell you stories." Flash...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Wizard of Oz</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
The Wizard of Oz
@ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Good Breeding</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Good Breeding
@ Zeum Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens
Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding is a new addition to a rich history of Oresteia adaptations, but it has already generated plenty...  View details »
Ongoing
Shanghai San Francisco
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Competition
Shanghai SF
@ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art: Photography
Brought to Light
@ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...  View details »
Ongoing
Ground Scores: Guided Tours of San Francisco Past and Personal
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
More Flavor: Tour
Ground Scores
@ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg: <em>Outpost</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
@ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Moment for Reflection: New Work by Lydia Fong</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
A Moment for Reflection
@ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>One-Man Star Wars Trilogy</em>
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
Performing Arts: Comedy
One-Man Star Wars Trilogy
@ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
The Totoro Forest Project
@ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
French Cinema Now
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
Film: Festival
French Cinema Now
@ Landmark Clay Theatre
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The...  View details »
Ongoing
Jay Nelson: <em>The Autonomous Zone</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Jay Nelson
@ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em> Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008 </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
@ Oakland Museum of California
In honor of Dias de los Muertos, small altars of glowing candles and sugar skulls, large-scale public installations, and processions fill...  View details »
Ongoing
No Nude Men Productions presents <em>The Monk</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Monk
@ EXIT Stage Left
No Nude Men Productions brings Matthew Lewis' 1796 Gothic novel of broken vows and grisly murder to the stage. Stuart Bousel,...  View details »
Ongoing
Richard T. Walker: <em>i want to want you like i wanted to want you</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Richard T. Walker
@ David Cunningham Projects
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tim Lee
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Tim Lee
@ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Icarus/Rise</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Dance
Icarus/Rise
@ Red Poppy Art House
The hot sun melting fragile wax wings has long served as a cautionary tale about the hubris of man. Now director,...  View details »
Ongoing
Frank Lobdell: <em> The Dance Series 1969-1972 </em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Frank Lobdell
@ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Ingmar Bergman
@ CFI Rafael Film Center
The installation Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions explores and celebrates the influential oeuvre of one of the world's...  View details »
Ongoing
Bay Area Now 5: <em>Inside/Outside</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Bay Area Now 5
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...  View details »
Ongoing
Spencer Sweeney
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Spencer Sweeney
@ Jack Hanley Gallery
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Rock 'n' Roll</em>
Month_10 Sunday Day_12
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll
@ American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,...  View details »
Ongoing