Events on Saturday, June 7
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Slim's
Like so many prolific UK musicians who've made it big in their home country, Newton Faulkner is still relatively unknown in...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Mezzanine
Death From Above 1979's Jesse F. Keeler (JFK) and fellow electro-lover ALP joined razor-sharp synths in 2005 and have globe-hopped as...
Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Cornerstone Place
A lot of people think that just because they won the last pudding cup, they know a thing or two about...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ The Independent
Neo-psychers the Black Angels plumb a pretty wide range of obscurist delights, cozying up to everyone from Spacemen 3 and My...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Rickshaw Stop
"Lazer bass" may be the buzzed-about genre-du-jour, but Orlando's South Rakkas Crew deserve a few air-horn blasts for bridging the electro,...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Telegraph Ave btwn Bancroft Way & Parker St
Though the "world music" tag still invokes American recording-industry hegemony, this one-day extravaganza promises to be loads of fun. Those with...
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Saturday 6/ 7 @ The Endup
San Francisco's leading techno party has enlisted one of electronic music's busiest producer/DJs, Matt Edwards, to help bid adieu to [KONTROL]'s...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
SF International Arts Festival
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Various locations
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
Exit Sign confronts all the major thematic touchstones of a self-respecting rock opera: love, death, and the dubious nature of reality...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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....
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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,...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Red Vic
The invigorating flipside of America's obsession with "reality" TV is the found-art movement. FOUND magazine has turned from lark to legit...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
