Events on Saturday, October 25
Saturday 10/25 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/25 @ Climate Theater
Although John Cage is perhaps most infamous for those four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, his larger cultural legacy was...
Saturday 10/25 @ Embarcadero, Aquatic Park
Peg leg buried in the back of your closet? Captain Jack hat gathering dust? Urban Diversion presents the perfect opportunity to...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Ongoing Events
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 10/25 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard: Tale of the Vixen and the Cock
Saturday 10/25 @ Oakland Metro Operahouse
Director Tom Dean teams up with Vau de Vire Society choreographer Shannon Gaines to lend a modern spin to two Stravinsky...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Saturday 10/25 @ Triple Base
For many political dissidents, the creation of "autonomous zones" often represents a significant stepping-stone in the march toward independence from a...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Saturday 10/25 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ Various locations
The seventh annual DocFest features 60 films from around the world, many of which underscore the organizers' affinity for quirky esoterica...
Saturday 10/25 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ Silverman Gallery
The artists in Silverman Gallery's latest show use fanciful relics to invent alternative histories. To create her piece Mail Order Tumbleweeds,...
Saturday 10/25 @ Zellerbach Hall
Music and performance maverick Laurie Anderson presents her most political work for two nights at Zellerbach Hall. Featuring innovative electronic grooves,...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
22nd Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert
Saturday 10/25 @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
Back for its 22nd year, the Bridge School Benefit Concert unites socially conscious rockers in the name of a good cause....
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
International Vintage Poster Fair
Saturday 10/25 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
Beyond the perfectly coiffed Martini & Rossi damsels, vintage posters offer a whole host of tantalizing imagery, from the dark geometry...
