Events on Friday, April 25

Digital Be-In 16: Ecocity

Festival: Performing Arts

Ecocity

Friday 4/25 @ Temple-no

"Earth Day is every day," goes the old slogan, but not every day is there as technologically minded and green a... 

KUSF Birthday Celebration feat. Wooden Shjips, Citay, and Jenny Hoyston

Music

KUSF Birthday Celebration

Friday 4/25 @ Cafe du Nord

SF's favorite left-of-the-dial radio station celebrates its 31st anniversary with this local triple bill. Wooden Shjips haven't played in town for... 

Plastiscines

Music

Plastiscines

Friday 4/25 @ Rickshaw Stop

Plastiscines, a Parisian all-girl group, are at the forefront of the bébés rockeurs movement, a burgeoning wave of French teen bands... 

Kimya Dawson

Music

Kimya Dawson

Friday 4/25 @ Herbst Theater

Long before a certain snarky film about a certain snarky pregnant teenager propelled Kimya Dawson to household-name status, the former Moldy... 

Special Event

San Francisco Film Race 2008

Friday 4/25 @ Various locations

Love the idea of film school but not the debt? Sick of waiting for your shot at flash-in-the-pan, YouTube celebrity? If... 

Booka Shade w/ M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi

Music: Electronic

Booka Shade

Friday 4/25 @ Mezzanine

German electrohouse pioneers Booka Shade treat San Francisco to a rare stateside club appearance on their way to Coachella. Walter Merziger... 

SFIFF: <em>The Golem </em>(1920) feat. Black Francis

Film

The Golem

Friday 4/25 @ The Castro Theatre

In an inspired pairing of sight and sound, the San Francisco International Film Festival presents The Golem with live original music... 

Para One w/ Surkin and Orgasmic

Music: Electronic

Para One

Friday 4/25 @ Mighty

Paris' Institubes imprint expands upon the usual "French touch" dance-music hallmarks. The label showcases a broad spectrum of artists, including future... 

Ongoing Events

Curatorial Industries presents <em>Self-Storage</em>

Art

Self-Storage

Friday 4/25 @ Self Storage

Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic... 

<em>Jellyfish</em>

Film

Jellyfish

Friday 4/25 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their... 

<em>Friedlander</em>

Art: Photography

Friedlander

Friday 4/25 @ SFMOMA

Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape.... 

<em>Flaming Sin: London's Grand Guignol</em>

Theatre

Flaming Sin

Friday 4/25 @ Hypnodrome

Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have... 

Deric Carner: <em>Double Heading</em>

Art

Deric Carner

Friday 4/25 @ Ping Pong Gallery

Armed with a lexicon of vivid symbols and isolated texts, Deric Carner designs placards that displace icons from their native environments.... 

Victor Cartagena: <em>The Invisible Nation</em>

Art

Victor Cartagena

Friday 4/25 @ Galería de la Raza

Salvadoran artist Victor Cartagena has worked in the Bay Area for nearly three decades, cataloging heartfelt narratives about cultural displacement, immigration,... 

<em>The Question Is Known: (W)here Is Latin American / Latino Art</em>

Art

The Question Is Known

Friday 4/25 @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Artist Antony Torres curates this powerful exhibition of 30 artists showing paintings, sculpture, and installations exploring Latino identity. Highlights include the... 

Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen

Art

DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen

Friday 4/25 @ Jancar Jones Gallery

Jancar Jones Gallery consecrates its new space with a group exhibition showcasing works from Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, and Chadwick Rantanen.... 

Bay Area National Dance Week

Dance

Bay Area National Dance Week

Friday 4/25 @ Various locations

Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the... 

Greg Lamarche: <em>Things I Picked up Along the Way</em>

Art

Greg Lamarche

Friday 4/25 @ White Walls Gallery

Greg Lamarche is crazy about the letters of the alphabet. It's a fascination that dates back to his years as a... 

<em>The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, Globalization</em>

Fashion/Style

The Fabric of Cultures

Friday 4/25 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art

This exhibit tracks the history of clothing and the evolving nature of fashion — from ceremonial robes to haute couture —... 

<em>2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing</em>

Special Event

2nd Skin

Friday 4/25 @ Exploratorium

With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing.... 

Paul Sietsema: <em>New Work</em>

Art

Paul Sietsema

Friday 4/25 @ SFMOMA

Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles... 

<em>Propogations</em>

Art

Propogations

Friday 4/25 @ Johansson Projects

Paul Hayes' folded-paper-and-wire sculpture Cultivated Momentum hangs from Johansson Projects' ceiling like a recycled-kelp forest, its black squiggles calling fish to... 

<em>COLORS Past and Present</em>

Art

COLORS Past and Present

Friday 4/25 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura

In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a... 

<em>Science Fair</em>

Art

Science Fair

Friday 4/25 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective

Rock Paper Scissors' Science Fair hosts much stranger exhibits than those found in elementary schools' baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano competitions. Guest curator Andrew... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Comedy

Point Break LIVE!

Friday 4/25 @ Xenodrome

Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown... 

An-My L&ecirc;: <em>Small Wars</em>

Art

An-My Lê

Friday 4/25 @ SFMOMA

An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle... 

<em>Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg</em>

Art: Photography

Protest in Paris 1968

Friday 4/25 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Forty years after Paris' famous May 1968 protests, the true meaning of the uprisings is debatable — but that's not for... 

<em> Lautrec in Leather: Chuck Arnett and the Birth of the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art

Chuck Arnett

Friday 4/25 @ GLBT Historical Society

June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo... 

<em>Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle</em>

Art

Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle

Friday 4/25 @ Sculpturesite Gallery

One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works... 

<em>The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics</em>

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Friday 4/25 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to... 

Gilbert &amp; George

Art

Gilbert & George

Friday 4/25 @ de Young Museum

Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work... 

<em>Neu Wave Feminism</em>

Art

Neu Wave Feminism

Friday 4/25 @ Femina Potens Gallery

Radical, queer-friendly gallery Femina Potens presents Neu Wave Feminism, a bold collection of subversive works that spotlights feminism's shifting borders. The... 

Enrique Chagoya: <em> Borderlandia </em>

Art

Enrique Chagoya

Friday 4/25 @ Berkeley Art Museum

The first major museum retrospective of Enrique Chagoya's mixed-media work revels in thorny cultural hierarchies and identity politics. Chagoya immigrated to... 

<em>Lies You Can Dance To </em>and <em>Color Me America</em>

Dance

Lies You Can Dance To and Color Me America

Friday 4/25 @ Project Artaud Theater

As part of ODC's series For the Record: Dancers Debate the Body Politic, the local company presents two new works by... 

Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter

Art

Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter

Friday 4/25 @ Hosfelt Gallery

Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox... 

Weston Teruya and Michele Carlson: <em>How I Learned to...</em>

Art

How I Learned to...

Friday 4/25 @ Intersection for the Arts

It's a pretty safe bet that elementary schools won't soon be competing with downtown museums and banks for a top architect's... 

Annie Leibovitz: <em>A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005</em>

Art: Photography

Annie Leibovitz

Friday 4/25 @ The Legion of Honor Museum

Working since the late '70s, photographer Annie Leibowitz has created both iconic celebrity portraits and intimate views of everyday people. She's... 

<em>Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet</em>

Special Event

Art & Artifice

Friday 4/25 @ Museum of Performance & Design

Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the... 

San Francisco International Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

San Francisco International Film Festival

Friday 4/25 @ Various locations

While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Friday 4/25 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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... 

<em>In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection</em>

Art

In Collaboration

Friday 4/25 @ SFMOMA

San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media... 

Robert Adler: <em>Burlesque</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Adler

Friday 4/25 @ Hyde Street Gallery

Like '60s cocktail culture and swing dancing before it, burlesque is currently undergoing a revival. Photographer Robert Adler's series Burlesque focuses... 

<em>Drama and                    Desire</em>: <em>Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690&ndash;1850</em>

Art

Drama and Desire

Friday 4/25 @ Asian Art Museum

On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of... 

<em>Feral</em>

Art

Feral

Friday 4/25 @ The Luggage Store

In Feral, Monica Canilao and Swoon build a wild, creative world out of layers of urban flotsam and jetsam, fabric scraps,... 

<em>After the Revolution: Contemporary Photography from Tehran and California</em>

Art: Photography

After the Revolution

Friday 4/25 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has...