Events on Saturday, October 11
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Bay Area Derby Girls 2008 Championship Bout
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ Thee Parkside
Sure, the summer of love may be long gone, but a day full of smoldering grooves, shared eats, and all manner...
Saturday 10/11 @ Artists' Television Access
The revolution may not have been televised, but it certainly was filmed: by 1970, it seemed that filmmakers of all stripes...
Saturday 10/11 @ Zellerbach Hall
Despite the criticism leveled by his country's literati that his novels read too much like works in translation, Haruki Murakami has...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/11 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Saturday 10/11 @ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...
Saturday 10/11 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 10/11 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Saturday 10/11 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ Various locations
The topic of Suckered: Writers Confess a Profound Lack of Judgment, Litquake's star-studded opening night, is eerily prescient, given our country's...
Saturday 10/11 @ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...
Saturday 10/11 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ Rowan Morrison
Taping is typically used as a way to demarcate the space that's not to be painted. But in the work of...
Saturday 10/11 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 10/11 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Saturday 10/11 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Saturday 10/11 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Saturday 10/11 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
Saturday 10/11 @ 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...
