All events on Sunday June 15
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- The Axel Corti Trilogy
- Sunday June 15 (4pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
- A week after the last showing of R.W. Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, the PFA screens this lesser-known European epic, originally produced for television. Austrian director Axel... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Booker T. Jones
- Sunday June 15 (2pm) @ Stern Grove
- Free
- Stern Grove kicks off its free summer concert series with a powerful double shot of soul. Booker T. Jones is still probably best known for... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Snoop Dogg's West Fest
- Sunday June 15 (8pm) @ The Fillmore
- Porn entrepreneur, soccer coach, reality-TV star, family man, slang originator — just a few of the roles that Snoop Dogg has taken on over the... View details »
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- SF Black Film Festival
- Sunday June 15 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's festival stretches over ten... View details »
- Art
- Dale Chihuly
- Sunday June 15 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
- Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
- Art
- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- Sunday June 15 @ SFMOMA More times »
- Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical myth, art history, and... View details »
- Art
- The Way That We Rhyme
- Sunday June 15 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to do. To that end,... View details »
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- 2nd Skin
- Sunday June 15 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
- Art
- Frida Kahlo
- Sunday June 15 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
- Art
- Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
- Sunday June 15 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design More times »
- Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the 1950s with the verve... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Reggae Scrapbook
- Sunday June 15 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
- Free
- The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and archives, award-winning photographer Peter... View details »
- Art
- Paul Sietsema
- Sunday June 15 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles several media within a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Sunday June 15 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
- Art
- American Symbols
- Sunday June 15 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
- Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
- Art
- Suzanne Husky
- Sunday June 15 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
- Free
- Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and environmental angst, aren't always... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Sunday June 15 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
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- Birth of the Cool
- Sunday June 15 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
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- Another Hole in the Head
- Sunday June 15 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
- Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror films from around the... View details »
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- Ethnic Dance Festival
- Sunday June 15 (2pm) @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre More times »
- The 30th edition of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival continues to spotlight Bay Area dancers carrying on the traditions of over 35 dance forms.... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Tintype Salon
- Sunday June 15 (10am–2pm) @ RayKo Photo Center More times »
- The tintype was the turn-of-the-century snapshot. Cheap, quick to produce, and durable, it stole photography from the restricted realm of elite portraiture and made it... View details »
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- North Beach Festival
- Sunday June 15 (10am–6pm) @ Washington Square More times »
- Free
- The American Planning Association named North Beach one of America's top-ten Great Neighborhoods last year, for its unique maintenance of local character and adaptability to... View details »
- Film
- Bitter Pills
- Sunday June 15 (4 & 7:30pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard slap in the face.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Wonderboy
- Sunday June 15 (7pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- With an expert hand, Guggenheim Fellow Joe Goode directs and choreographs Wonderboy, which follows the travails of an unlikely superhero. Dancers move around a puppet... View details »
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- 365
- Sunday June 15 @ 111 Minna Gallery More times »
- ... m>365 showcases 14 of the country's best contemporary abstract artists working in every style, from nouveau-surrealist to neo-expressionist. The visual experience is only heightened... View details »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Sunday June 15 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- ... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
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- Northern California Pirate Festival
- Sunday June 15 (10am–6pm) @ Vallejo Waterfront More times »
- Free
- In response to the Million Pirate March that marauded through this year's Bay to Breakers running race, the swashbucklers of the East Bay have assembled... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Sunday June 15 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Sunday June 15 @ Hypnodrome More times »
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
- Film: Festival
- 4th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
- Sunday June 15 @ Brava Theater Center More times »
- Free
- This annual festival presents a broad spectrum of narratives crafted by contemporary filmmakers who draw on personal experiences, both as queer women and as representatives... View details »
- Film
- Times and Winds
- Sunday June 15 (11:15am, 1:40pm, 4:15pm, 7:15pm & 10pm) @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema More times »
- While local cinephiles were still circling calendar dates in anticipation of this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, the sponsoring SF Film Society announced a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Sunday June 15 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
- Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael Hayden and René Augesen's... View details »
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- Unlikely Arrivals
- Sunday June 15 (noon–5pm) @ 2nd Floor Projects More times »
- Free
- Curator Margaret Tedesco warms the walls of her Mission-district gallery with abstract color compositions in Unlikely Arrivals, an exhibition featuring a trio of artists whose... View details »
