Events on Sunday, June 15

Booker T. Jones w/ Bettye LaVette

Music

Booker T. Jones

Sunday 6/15 @ Stern Grove

Stern Grove kicks off its free summer concert series with a powerful double shot of soul. Booker T. Jones is still... 

Snoop Dogg's West Fest

Music: Hip-Hop

Snoop Dogg's West Fest

Sunday 6/15 @ The Fillmore

Porn entrepreneur, soccer coach, reality-TV star, family man, slang originator — just a few of the roles that Snoop Dogg has... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Suzanne Husky

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>'Tis Pity She's a Whore</em>

Theatre

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens</em>

Art: Photography

Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens

Sunday 6/15 @ Berkeley Art Museum

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

Father's Day Tintype Salon

Art: Photography

Tintype Salon

Sunday 6/15 @ RayKo Photo Center

The tintype was the turn-of-the-century snapshot. Cheap, quick to produce, and durable, it stole photography from the restricted realm of elite... 

Another Hole in the Head

Festival: Performing Arts

Another Hole in the Head

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

30th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Ethnic Dance Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>Up the Yangtze</em>

Film: Documentary

Up the Yangtze

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>Unlikely Arrivals</em>

Art

Unlikely Arrivals

Sunday 6/15 @ 2nd Floor Projects

Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a... 

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

Art: Photography

Trevor Paglen

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Superstition Obstacle Course

Special Event

Superstition Obstacle Course

Sunday 6/15 @ Exploratorium

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

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

Dance

Wonderboy

Sunday 6/15 @ 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>The Rape of the Sabine Women</em>

Art

The Rape of the Sabine Women

Sunday 6/15 @ SFMOMA

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

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

Art: Photography

The Reggae Scrapbook

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Festival: Performing Arts

4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ Brava Theater Center

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

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

Art

Paul Sietsema

Sunday 6/15 @ SFMOMA

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

<em>Frida Kahlo</em>

Art

Frida Kahlo

Sunday 6/15 @ SFMOMA

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

Dale Chihuly

Art

Dale Chihuly

Sunday 6/15 @ 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

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

<em>365</em>

Art

365

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Birth of the Cool

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

American Symbols

Sunday 6/15 @ 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.... 

North Beach Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

North Beach Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

San Francisco Black Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Black Film Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Way That We Rhyme

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

Thrillpeddlers present Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Theatre

Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival

Sunday 6/15 @ Hypnodrome

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

Film

Times and Winds

Sunday 6/15 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

2nd Skin

Sunday 6/15 @ Exploratorium

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

Northern California Pirate Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Northern California Pirate Festival

Sunday 6/15 @ Vallejo Waterfront

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

<em>Where To and Back</em>: The Axel Corti Trilogy

Film

The Axel Corti Trilogy

Sunday 6/15 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater

A week after the last showing of R.W. Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, the PFA screens this lesser-known European epic, originally produced for... 

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

Art

Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector

Sunday 6/15 @ 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...