All events on Saturday February 09

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Music: Classical
Bang on a Can All Stars
Saturday Feb 9 (8pm) @ Novellus Theater
One of the most enduring collaborations of New York's freewheeling '80s music scene, Bang on a Can was formed by composers Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe,... View details »
Bang on a Can All Stars
Film
Sessue Hayakawa
Saturday Feb 9 (6:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Silent actor Sessue Hayakawa is one of the more fascinating footnotes of American film history, having chanced into film acting in 1914 and, by the... View details »
Sessue Hayakawa
More Flavor: Fashion
Eternal Spring 2008
Saturday Feb 9 (2–10pm) @ SomArts Cultural Center
Defying the wintry chill of the last few months, the artists, performers, and workshop hosts of Eternal Spring drum up anticipation of the new season's... View details »
Eternal Spring 2008
Music: Rock/Pop
Super Furry Animals
Saturday Feb 9 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
Despite the resurgence of all things "psychedelic," no one can accuse Super Furry Animals of hijacking the wavy-gravy train — they practically man the conductor's... View details »
Super Furry Animals

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
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 »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Art
Douglas Gordon
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Art
Olafur Eliasson
Saturday Feb 9 @ SFMOMA More times »
From the almost primordial rising sun he installed in the Tate Modern to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Danish/Icelandic artist Olaf Eliasson's enormous, experiential sculptures and video pieces... View details »
Olafur Eliasson
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Saturday Feb 9 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Art
Lucy McKenzie
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie is a savvy image-maker, as interested in the history of images as in creating new ones. At SFMOMA, McKenzie turns her... View details »
Lucy McKenzie
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Saturday Feb 9 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Saturday Feb 9 @ Various locations More times »
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 »
Persepolis
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Saturday Feb 9 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Art
Tim Lee
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
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 »
Tim Lee
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Paul McCarthy
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
Free
Paul McCarthy built his impeccable reputation from art's most basic materials: paint, food, human bodies, and criticism of cultural codes. McCarthy's bizarre, shrewd provocations encompass... View details »
Paul McCarthy
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An-My Lê
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Art
Jens Haaning
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
Free
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 »
Jens Haaning
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Andrew Moore
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–5pm) @ Rena Bransten Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Andrew Moore
Art: Photography
Katsushige Nakahashi
Saturday Feb 9 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
While reenactments and reconstructions often serve the purpose of more fully understanding an event or object, Japanese photographer Katsushige Nakahashi's pieces hint at the easily... View details »
Katsushige Nakahashi
Art
Finders Keepers
Saturday Feb 9 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
Free
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 »
Finders Keepers
Film
African Film Festival
Saturday Feb 9 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
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 »
African Film Festival
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lydia's Funeral Video
Saturday Feb 9 (8pm) @ The Dark Room More times »
Visions of the not-so-distant future usually connote alien invasions, zombie attacks, or at least some presidential administration shake-ups, but local actress, musician, playwright, and stand-up... View details »
Lydia's Funeral Video
Art: Architecture/Design
Is It a Fiber Show?
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–6pm) @ Bucheon Gallery More times »
Free
In the syntax of the art world, the 20th century represents a period when nearly every artistic medium and practice was put on trial —... View details »
Is It a Fiber Show?
Art
Chuck Arnett
Saturday Feb 9 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
Free
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 »
Chuck Arnett
Art
Conduits of Labor
Saturday Feb 9 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
Conduits of Labor
Art
Caroline Hwang
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–8pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
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 »
Caroline Hwang
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San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Saturday Feb 9 @ Various locations More times »
Despite being so far west of the Mississippi, San Francisco can seem like a bluegrass lover's paradise. The annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is the... View details »
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Film: Documentary
Quest for Fear
Saturday Feb 9 @ Red Vic More times »
Giveaway
The annual Mavericks surf competition happened a few weeks ago, but shredders hungry for more can head to the Red Vic to catch a weeklong... View details »
Quest for Fear
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SF Indiefest
Saturday Feb 9 @ Various locations More times »
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This year, the festival celebrates... View details »
SF Indiefest
Film
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Saturday Feb 9 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is to seek an illegal... View details »
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Saturday Feb 9 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy to forget there is... View details »
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Art
Blackout
Saturday Feb 9 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division More times »
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 »
Blackout
Art
Enter the Center
Saturday Feb 9 (1–5pm) @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery More times »
Free
For the past couple of years, local artists Frank Lyon and David Wilson have played music together as Ship. Under the umbrella of Ribbons Publications,... View details »
Enter the Center
Art
An Equal Playing Field
Saturday Feb 9 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement to reconcile with his... View details »
An Equal Playing Field
Art
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Saturday Feb 9 (noon–6pm) @ New Langton Arts More times »
Free
Following the Brooklyn Art Museum's retrospective Global Feminisms show and the Geffen Contemporary's historically focused Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, this show demonstrates that... View details »
Small Things End, Great Things Endure
Art
Deadpan Exchange III
Saturday Feb 9 (1–6pm) @ The Lab More times »
Free
While comedians are lucky to keep their jokes alive over the course of an evening, the visual artists in Deadpan Exchange have somehow breathed non-stop... View details »
Deadpan Exchange III
Art
Emory Douglas
Saturday Feb 9 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory Douglas' incendiary graphic-design work... View details »
Emory Douglas
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Jordan Kantor
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
Free
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 »
Jordan Kantor
Art
Structured Thoughts
Saturday Feb 9 (10am–6pm) @ Hang Annex More times »
Free
Hang's latest show features pieces from four Bay Area artists whose painting, sculpture, and multimedia works encourage a tactile, visceral exploration of the natural world.... View details »
Structured Thoughts
Art
Bad Moon Rising
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Bad Moon Rising
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Jordan Eagles
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–5:30pm) @ Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Jordan Eagles' work will have you seeing red, literally. His white plexiglass panels are covered in resin-coated splotches of animal blood, which at first resemble... View details »
Jordan Eagles
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Leonora Carrington
Saturday Feb 9 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
Leonora Carrington
Film
Taxi to the Dark Side
Saturday Feb 9 @ Landmark Opera Plaza More times »
It's not as if Taxi to the Dark Side tells us anything new about the growing use of torture in US foreign policy; in fact,... View details »
Taxi to the Dark Side