Events on Wednesday, October 8
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Bottom of the Hill
Awash in naïve, girl group-style croons and minimalist electronics, lo-fi duo High Places toe the line between Animal Collective's layered complexity...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Hemlock Tavern
Though their militant rock anthems seem ready-made for a hall packed with drunken rebels, Awesome Color are also well-suited to the...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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,...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
The curators of Dead Channels never fail to fully exploit — or graphically illustrate — the many senses of the phrase...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
In some parts of the US, closed-minded thinking keeps the works of Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling out of...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Rediscovering the Fourth Generation
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ SFMOMA
In China, the years 1978-1989 were a period of unparalleled change. Deng Xiaoping's policies modernized the economy, and artists, writers, and...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ World Affairs Center
The relationship between people and food is deeply affected by tradition, as well as by the social and political climate —...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Brava Theater Center
Some advice for aspiring dictators and repressive regimes worldwide: think carefully before banishing artists; it rarely proves to be a good...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Asian Art Museum
Bushido, the samurai code of honor, has long informed the iconography of traditional Japanese tattooing, making the latter the perfect subject...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Wednesday 10/ 8 @ 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...
