Events on Sunday, November 30

Bazaar Bizarre

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Bazaar Bizarre

Sunday 11/30 @ County Fair Building

Gift shopping should be fun, not painful or guilt-ridden. Offering an alternative to the chaotic and impersonal department-store experience, the Bazaar... 

<em>Dark House</em>

Film: Shorts

Dark House

Sunday 11/30 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In Dark House, four experimental short films play with emptiness in architecture and examine the innate human desire to fill blank... 

The Herbaliser w/ DJ Shortkut

Music: Electronic

The Herbaliser

Sunday 11/30 @ The Independent

London-based group the Herbaliser have been crafting jazz-hop fusion tracks since the mid '90s. While these longtime Ninja Tune signees have... 

Ongoing Events

Dame Edna Everage: Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour

Performing Arts

Dame Edna Everage

Sunday 11/30 @ Post Street Theatre

Longtime stage personality of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage evokes an older, more genteel age of female impersonation. With... 

<em> Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008 </em>

Art

Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008

Sunday 11/30 @ 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... 

<em>The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now</em>

Art

The Art of Participation

Sunday 11/30 @ SFMOMA

While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Sunday 11/30 @ The Castro Theatre

Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... 

<em>Stolen Land: New Works by Other</em>

Art

Stolen Land

Sunday 11/30 @ Needles & Pens

Spray paint and linocuts may make strange bedfellows, but Canadian-born artist Troy Lovegates, who works under the name Other, has redefined... 

<em>The Totoro Forest Project</em>

Art

The Totoro Forest Project

Sunday 11/30 @ 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... 

<em>Joe Turner's Come and Gone</em>

Theatre

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Sunday 11/30 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

August Wilson's series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, is the most ambitious and critically successful attempt ever to stage the... 

<em>Trouble the Water</em>

Film: Documentary

Trouble the Water

Sunday 11/30 @ Red Vic

Hurricane Katrina presents a real challenge for filmmakers: it's difficult to effectively capture the legacy of a disaster that still afflicts... 

<em> Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook </em>

Art

Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Sunday 11/30 @ SFMOMA

The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into... 

<em>Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered</em>

Art

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered

Sunday 11/30 @ 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... 

<em> L.A. Paint </em>

Art

L.A. Paint

Sunday 11/30 @ 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... 

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Festival: Performing Arts

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Sunday 11/30 @ Cow Palace

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Fanciful prose and tea and crumpets aren't the only things flowing freely at the 30th-annual Dickens Christmas... 

Yves Saint Laurent

Special Event

Yves Saint Laurent

Sunday 11/30 @ de Young Museum

After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:... 

<em>As Bees in Honey Drown</em>

Theatre

As Bees in Honey Drown

Sunday 11/30 @ New Conservatory Theatre

It's all about appearances in As Bees in Honey Drown, a play in which the glitterati flock to anything à la... 

<em>Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900</em>

Art: Photography

Brought to Light

Sunday 11/30 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring... 

Martin Puryear

Art

Martin Puryear

Sunday 11/30 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's retrospective of the great American sculptor Martin Puryear quickly dispenses with woodworking's crafty, small-scale reputation. Monumental in size, Puryear's abstract...