Events on Saturday, November 8
Saturday 11/ 8 @ CELLspace
All glamour and flair, the four women behind Conscious Fashionistas go against the grain, favoring thrifty, salvaged finds over newer, more...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 103 Harriet St
To celebrate the launch of his digital label, Brainfeeder, LA-based producer Flying Lotus has put together a roster of top-notch signees...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ Elbo Room
For the past year or so, Colombia's indigenous dance music, cumbia, has been blowing up across these 50 states of ours,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/ 8 @ Market Street Gallery
The curators, facilitators, and artists at SCRAP refer to themselves as "scroungers" with pride. From found and donated bits of wood,...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ Johansson Projects
The name of Johansson Projects' new show, Tickling Thicket, suggests a children's story tinged with dark humor, a suggestion Katy Stone...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Evolutions of a Sacred Space: Dias de los Muertos 2008
Saturday 11/ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA
While the dynamic between viewer and art object has traditionally been one of static separation, this major exhibit seeks to investigate...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday 11/ 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...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ CounterPULSE
Lucky 13, Huckabay McAllister Dance's newest performance, melds their sensual dancing with elements of fantasy and comedy. Co-directors Emma Lou Huckabay...
Saturday 11/ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous — from cross-dressing Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock-Coit to...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective
With this collaborative exhibit that opens a dialogue on nutrition education, resource scarcity, and urban homesteading, the Rock Paper Scissors collective...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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...
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Saturday 11/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
Who woulda thunk an Oskaloosa-born cellist would one day be remembered as a vital force in New York's experimental-music and underground-dance...
Saturday 11/ 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...
Saturday 11/ 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...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's new exhibit explores the sublime new worlds that opened when photography was first invented in the early 19th century, exploring...
Saturday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ Climate Theater
Last year, W. Kamau Bell's critically acclaimed one-man show turned heads with its candid approach to celebrity racism, social norms, the...
Saturday 11/ 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...
