Events on Wednesday, April 30
Wednesday 4/30 @ The Castro Theatre
Director Mike Leigh is the natural heir to the British kitchen-sink dramatists of the '50s and '60s who explored social issues...
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Wednesday 4/30 @ Slim's
Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox could be...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Rickshaw Stop
Akron/Family, a trio of ethereal, hirsute fellows from Pennsylvania via Brooklyn, descend on San Francisco. Their music — crackling alt-folk punctuated...
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Wednesday 4/30 @ The Independent
The Field is Axel Willner, a Swedish electro-wizard at the forefront of a growing European movement to reintroduce trance and minimalism...
Wednesday 4/30 @ The Fillmore
Decemberists leader Colin Meloy strips away the accordions, melodicas, and Stephen Colbert-trumping sidemen for tonight's solo acoustic performance. Befitting the man...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 4/30 @ GLBT Historical Society
June 26, 1964: Life magazine proclaims San Francisco "the gay capital" in its landmark spread, "Homosexuality in America." The cover photo...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Self Storage
Duchamp had his suitcase-sized monographs. Warhol, his yearly time capsules. Taking its inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Chronofile — an epic...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Forty years after
Wednesday 4/30 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Wednesday 4/30 @ Various locations
Kicking off with a conga line in the streets of San Francisco, the Bay Area National Dance Week explodes onto the...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Asian Art Museum
On display for a limited time because of the delicate nature of the artwork, this collection is a treasure trove of...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Istituto Italiano di Cultura
In 1991, designers Tibor Kalman and Olivero Toscani, along with clothing label United Colors of Benetton, launched COLORS magazine — a...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Xenodrome
Point Break LIVE! is like the production of a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Wednesday 4/30 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/30 @ de Young Museum
Gilbert & George, the art-world enfants terribles in natty bespoke suits, celebrate 40 years of having made their lives their work...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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,...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Reed Danziger and Liliana Porter
Wednesday 4/30 @ Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Liliana Porter and Reed Danziger. Porter's trademark tchotchkes star in Fox...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
San Francisco International Film Festival
Wednesday 4/30 @ Various locations
While San Franciscans certainly don't lack for choices when it comes to film festivals, true cinephiles know that the San Francisco...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape....
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
Wednesday 4/30 @ 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...
