Events on Sunday, June 8
Alice in Wonderland Croquet Tournament, Tea Party, and Trunk Show
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Sigmund Stern Grove
The event producers at Eternal Spring maintain a repertoire of innovative fashion shows that goes beyond the ordinary catwalk strut. The...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Listeners who dig the cross-pollination of delta blues and Malian griot music on Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabaté's Kulanjan might already...
Encounters at the End of the World
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 21 Grand
A few weeks before Encounters at the End of the World opens in the Bay Area, 21 Grand throws a party...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ SFMOMA
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art was one of the first major museums to establish a department specifically dedicated to media...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Jia Zhang-ke's films have always taken a gritty, neo-realist view of China's new position in the global economy, as well as...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Park Life
Some may feel that the twin horrors of global warming and terrorism are hurtling humans into a fiery end of days,...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Paramount Theatre
For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
SF International Arts Festival
Sunday 6/ 8 @ Various locations
The International Arts Festival situates the Bay Area's creative microcosm in a global context. The calendar is brimming with performances at...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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....
Sunday 6/ 8 @ 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...
