All events on Wednesday February 06
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- Music: Global
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Hugh Masekela
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Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm) @ Zellerbach Hall
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Afro-pop innovator and consummate trumpeter Hugh Masekela appears in Berkeley alongside a band of standout players from his own Chissa Records. First given a trumpet... View details »
- Art
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Blackout
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Wednesday Feb 6 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division
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Anyone who's gone camping or spelunking knows that our senses become heightened in pitch-black darkness. In Root Division's Blackout exhibition, more than a dozen resident... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Iron Ladies of Liberia
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Wednesday Feb 6 (6–8pm) @ San Francisco Public Library
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While Liberia was one of the few African nations to escape direct European occupation, its recent history has been marred by nearly two decades of... View details »
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- Art
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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
- Film: Animation
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Persepolis
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Wednesday Feb 6 @ Various locations
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Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
- Art
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Tim Lee
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Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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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 his work for a... View details »
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Jens Haaning
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Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Jens Haaning's new exhibit at SFAI is a reminder as to why the Copenhagen native's work has earned critical paeans. His daring conceptual works toy... View details »
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Andrew Moore
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Wednesday Feb 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery
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Andrew Moore's new photographic exhibition contains grand images of colonial and imperial architecture from settings throughout Russia and Cuba. The peeling walls and hollow interiors... View details »
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Finders Keepers
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Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–3pm) @ Creativity Explored
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Following on the heels of SFMOMA's recent Joseph Cornell exhibition, Creativity Explored encourages artists to experiment with assemblage. Like the late, great Cornell, the participants... View details »
- Film
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African Film Festival
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Wednesday Feb 6 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
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Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
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Chuck Arnett
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Wednesday Feb 6 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society
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June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo featured the masculine denizens... View details »
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Caroline Hwang
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Wednesday Feb 6 (11:30am–8pm) @ Giant Robot
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Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Black White + Gray
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Wednesday Feb 6 @ Roxie New College Film Center
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Sam approaches Robert seeking "somebody to spoil." Robert responds, "you found him." So goes the momentous meeting between iconoclastic curator/collector Sam Wagstaff and some-say-pornographic, others... View details »
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Jordan Kantor
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Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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Just as Hans Holbein the Younger's famous stretched skull in The Ambassadors functioned as a memento mori, Jordan Kantor's painting of three stacked skulls serves... View details »
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Bad Moon Rising
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Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery
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Alluding to both Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 protest song and Sonic Youth's dark 1985 album, the group exhibit Bad Moon Rising continues the sentiment that... View details »
