Events on Saturday, June 14

Women Wielding Cameras: Women, Power, and Politics Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Women Wielding Cameras

Saturday 6/14 @ Koret Auditorium

Although it lasts for just one Saturday afternoon, this little film festival packs a serious punch, with four documentaries serving up... 

Detroit Cobras w/ Les Sans Culottes and Hi-Nobles

Music

Detroit Cobras

Saturday 6/14 @ Slim's

Detroit's retro-inspired garage group might not write their own songs (they crib them from esoteric '50s and '60s rock and soul... 

[CANCELLED] Paid Dues feat. De La Soul, Blackalicious, Hieroglyphics, and Sage Francis

Music: Hip-Hop

Paid Dues

Saturday 6/14 @ Berkeley Community Theatre

What can really be said about this summer's hip-hop mega-summit? The Olympian names on the marquee tell the story — De... 

Soul Selections Vol. 1 feat. Afrika Bambaataa & Mr. V

Music: Hip-Hop

Soul Selections

Saturday 6/14 @ Temple-no

Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... 

Writers with Drinks feat. Armistead Maupin, Sheerly Avni, and Naomi Hirahara

Books: Reading

Writers with Drinks

Saturday 6/14 @ The Make-Out Room

This special edition of Charlie Anders' variety show and reading series coincides with the National Queer Arts Festival, and local literary... 

Ongoing Events

Special Event

Dykes on Bikes®

Saturday 6/14 @ GLBT Historical Society

Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride... 

Karla Wozniak: <em>Road Works</em>

Art

Karla Wozniak

Saturday 6/14 @ Gregory Lind Gallery

Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly... 

<em>'Tis Pity She's a Whore</em>

Theatre

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Saturday 6/14 @ American Conservatory Theater

Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael... 

<em>Portals</em>: Jen Stark, Anna Fidler, and Jana Flynn

Art

Portals

Saturday 6/14 @ Johansson Projects

This trio of artists transforms one-dimensional planes of paper into doorways that lead to strange universes. Armed with an X-Acto knife,... 

Amy Stein: <em>New American Fables</em>

Art: Photography

New American Fables

Saturday 6/14 @ Robert Koch Gallery

Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic... 

<em>A Complicated Dominion: Nature and New Political Narratives</em>

Art

A Complicated Dominion

Saturday 6/14 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With... 

North Beach Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

North Beach Festival

Saturday 6/14 @ Washington Square

The American Planning Association named North Beach one of America's top-ten Great Neighborhoods last year, for its unique maintenance of local... 

<em>Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens</em>

Art: Photography

Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens

Saturday 6/14 @ Berkeley Art Museum

After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He... 

San Francisco Black Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Black Film Festival

Saturday 6/14 @ Various locations

The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's... 

30th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Ethnic Dance Festival

Saturday 6/14 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

The 30th edition of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival continues to spotlight Bay Area dancers carrying on the traditions of... 

Christian Marclay:<em> Stereo</em>

Art

Christian Marclay

Saturday 6/14 @ Fraenkel Gallery

Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in... 

<em>Up the Yangtze</em>

Film: Documentary

Up the Yangtze

Saturday 6/14 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... 

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

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Saturday 6/14 @ 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... 

William T. Wiley: <em>Punball: Only One Earth</em>

Art

William T. Wiley

Saturday 6/14 @ Electric Works

Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting... 

Under 100: Exhibition, Sale, and Screen-Print Event

Special Event

Under 100

Saturday 6/14 @ Root Division

From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every... 

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

Special Event

2nd Skin

Saturday 6/14 @ Exploratorium

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

Film

Times and Winds

Saturday 6/14 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema

While local cinephiles were still circling calendar dates in anticipation of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, the sponsoring SF... 

Northern California Pirate Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Northern California Pirate Festival

Saturday 6/14 @ Vallejo Waterfront

In response to the Million Pirate March that marauded through this year's Bay to Breakers running race, the swashbucklers of the... 

Joe Goode Performance Group presents <em>Wonderboy</em>

Dance

Wonderboy

Saturday 6/14 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers... 

<em>American Symbols: From Lady Liberty to the Stars and Stripes</em>

Art

American Symbols

Saturday 6/14 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art

Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations.... 

<em>Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector</em>

Art

Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector

Saturday 6/14 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design

Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the... 

<em>ArtSpan: 30 Under 30</em>

Art

ArtSpan: 30 Under 30

Saturday 6/14 @ Varnish Fine Art

Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on... 

Alicia McCarthy

Art

Alicia McCarthy

Saturday 6/14 @ Jack Hanley Gallery

Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this... 

Festival: Performing Arts

4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

Saturday 6/14 @ Brava Theater Center

This annual festival presents a broad spectrum of narratives crafted by contemporary filmmakers who draw on personal experiences, both as queer... 

Peter Simon and Roger Steffens: <em>The Reggae Scrapbook</em>

Art: Photography

The Reggae Scrapbook

Saturday 6/14 @ Babylon Falling

The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and... 

Amanda M. Smith: <em>Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers</em>

Art

Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers

Saturday 6/14 @ Jack Fischer Gallery

Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened,... 

<em>Soft Underbelly Recognition</em>

Art

Soft Underbelly Recognition

Saturday 6/14 @ Little Tree Gallery

In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition —... 

<em>Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-century</em>

Special Event

Birth of the Cool

Saturday 6/14 @ Oakland Museum of California

Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That... 

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

Art

Paul Sietsema

Saturday 6/14 @ SFMOMA

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

Another Hole in the Head

Festival: Performing Arts

Another Hole in the Head

Saturday 6/14 @ Roxie Theater

Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror... 

<em>Berlin Alexanderplatz </em>(1980)

Film

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Saturday 6/14 @ SFMOMA

As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural... 

Trevor Paglen: <em>The Other Night Sky</em>

Art: Photography

Trevor Paglen

Saturday 6/14 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of... 

<em>365</em>

Art

365

Saturday 6/14 @ 111 Minna Gallery

  365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual... 

David M. Stein: <em>Improbable\Unlikely</em>

Art

Improbable\Unlikely

Saturday 6/14 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery

David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely... 

Sarah Wagner: <em>Nuclear Family</em>

Art

Sarah Wagner

Saturday 6/14 @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement... 

Suzanne Husky: <em>You Make Me Make You</em>

Art

Suzanne Husky

Saturday 6/14 @ Triple Base

Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and... 

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

Art

Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle

Saturday 6/14 @ 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>Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place</em>

Art: Photography

Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place

Saturday 6/14 @ SF Camerawork

Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean... 

Superstition Obstacle Course

Special Event

Superstition Obstacle Course

Saturday 6/14 @ Exploratorium

  Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack... 

Ryan McGinley: <em>Spring and by Summer Fall</em>

Art: Photography

Ryan McGinley

Saturday 6/14 @ Ratio 3

Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like... 

<em>The Rape of the Sabine Women</em>

Art

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Saturday 6/14 @ SFMOMA

Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical... 

<em>Quarter Century: </em>Creativity Explored's 25th Anniversary

Art

Quarter Century

Saturday 6/14 @ Creativity Explored

Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th... 

Leigh Wells

Art

Leigh Wells

Saturday 6/14 @ Gallery 16

Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little... 

Thrillpeddlers present Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Theatre

Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Saturday 6/14 @ Hypnodrome

Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay... 

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

Special Event

Art & Artifice

Saturday 6/14 @ Museum of Performance & Design

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

Christopher Brown<em> </em>and Clare Kirkconnell

Art

Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell

Saturday 6/14 @ John Berggruen Gallery

Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets... 

Sean Talley

Art

Sean Talley

Saturday 6/14 @ Jancar Jones Gallery

Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes... 

<em>Frida Kahlo</em>

Art

Frida Kahlo

Saturday 6/14 @ SFMOMA

The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led... 

Tim Lee

Art

Tim Lee

Saturday 6/14 @ 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... 

Dale Chihuly

Art

Dale Chihuly

Saturday 6/14 @ de Young Museum

Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,... 

Bitter Pills: Michael Haneke Made-for-Television

Film

Bitter Pills

Saturday 6/14 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard... 

Adam5100: <em>The Heart vs the Mind in a Fight to the Finish</em>

Art

Adam5100

Saturday 6/14 @ Rowan Morrison

The graffiti artist Adam5100 may have started out bombing derelict sections of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but he's brushed up on his... 

<em>The Group</em>

Theatre

The Group

Saturday 6/14 @ Climate Theater

From Dale Carnegie to Norman Vincent Peale (who coined the phrase "the power of positive thinking") to the current worldwide success...