Events on Saturday, October 25
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- Chance Operations
- @ Climate Theater
- Although John Cage is perhaps most infamous for those four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, his larger cultural legacy was... View details »
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- Silent Painting Protest
- @ Mission Dolores Park
- There is plenty to be upset about at this point in our country's history: a crippled economy, a seemingly endless war,... View details »
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- 6th Annual Pirate Ship Party
- @ Embarcadero, Aquatic Park
- Peg leg buried in the back of your closet? Captain Jack hat gathering dust? Urban Diversion presents the perfect opportunity to... View details »
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- Christian Lander
- @ The Booksmith
- Christian Lander's much-discussed blog, Stuff White People Like, is an Internet sensation, and now it's also a book. And whether you... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- International Vintage Poster Fair
- @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
- Beyond the perfectly coiffed Martini & Rossi damsels, vintage posters offer a whole host of tantalizing imagery, from the dark geometry... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
- @ Oakland Metro Operahouse
- Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Music: Festival
- Wonders of Cannabis
- @ Golden Gate Park
- Equal parts Malcolm X and Abbie Hoffman, Dead Prez make hyper-intelligent and unflinchingly combative hip-hop that mixes progressive politics and thug... View details »
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- 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 »
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- I Love Beijing
- @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
- After being inundated with state-sponsored images of Beijing during the Olympics, Bay Area audiences can get a different perspective during Chinese... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Film: Festival
- DocFest
- @ Various locations
- The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Halloween
- Shocktoberfest!! 2008
- @ Hypnodrome
- In the "terror and taboo" tradition of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Thrillpeddlers presents an evening of horror-themed one-acts that pit humans... View details »
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- Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- It's anyone guess as to whether Andy Warhol ever imagined that his silk-screen portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Relay
- @ The Lab
- This multimedia exhibit and concert series of experimental sound artists play on the various meanings of the word "relay," both as... View details »
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- Dustin Fosnot
- @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts
- Domestic trappings and urban landscapes collide in Dustin Fosnot's latest series, Cyanide. To install these jarring pieces, the artist drops mattresses... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Music: Electronic
- Laurie Anderson
- @ Zellerbach Hall
- Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work for two nights at Zellerbach Hall. Featuring innovative electronic grooves,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Rocky Horror Show
- @ Victoria Theatre
- When Rocky Horror first brought its gender-bending antics and rock 'n roll sci-fi to the stage in 1973, it screamed cult... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- 22nd Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert
- @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
- Back for its 22nd year, the Bridge School Benefit Concert unites socially conscious rockers in the name of a good cause.... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Other Than History
- @ Silverman Gallery
- The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,... View details »
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- 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 »
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