All events on Saturday July 12
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- Matmos
- Saturday July 12 (9pm) @ Great American Music Hall
- Giveaway
- There's intelligent dance music, and then there's intelligent dance music. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP, which exclusively relied on found sounds, Matmos have crafted entire albums... View details »
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- Mechanicrawl
- Saturday July 12 (3–8pm) @ Various Locations
- This plan-it-yourself tour of some of San Francisco's mechanical treasures is sure to appeal to steampunks, Popular Mechanics readers, Burning Man inventors, and gear hounds... View details »
- Film
- The New Talkies
- Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ Artists' Television Access
- Early movie audiences in Japan expected silent films to be accompanied by both music and live narration performed by a katsudo benshi. The benshi... View details »
- Reading
- F*ck Sports!
- Saturday July 12 (9pm) @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
- While many would cite a love of the game, the thrill of competition, or health benefits as reasons to play sports, many others would just... View details »
- Art
- Jennifer Merrill
- Saturday July 12 @ Iceberger Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
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- Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Showcase
- Saturday July 12 (3pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
- Giveaway
- The Girls Rock Camp Alliance, founded in Portland and now spanning the globe from Austin to Sweden, has a new local addition: the Bay Area... View details »
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- Renegade Craft Fair
- Saturday July 12 (11am–7pm) @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion More times »
- Free
- Sue Daly was just looking for a way to sell her adorable, nature-inspired jewelry when she decided to organize a fair for fellow DIY vendors.... View details »
- Reading
- The Mortified Guide to Love, Sex & Death
- Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ JCC East Bay
- Ah, the '90s: the time of tapered pants, Mr. Bungle, and the parade of literary shame known as Mortified. These ongoing readings, in which adults... View details »
- Art
- Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah
- Saturday July 12 (11am–5pm) @ Jack Fischer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Lauren DiCioccio and Aliza Lelah stitch up sublime social commentary. DiCioccio stretches muslin over copies of the New York Times and embroiders the headline images,... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tim Lee
- Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts More times »
- Free
- 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 his work for a... View details »
- Art
- Dale Chihuly
- Saturday July 12 (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 »
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- 2nd Skin
- Saturday July 12 (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 »
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- Art & Artifice
- Saturday July 12 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Performance & Design More times »
- Free
- Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the visual splendor of the... View details »
- Art
- Frida Kahlo
- Saturday July 12 (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: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Saturday July 12 (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
- Saturday July 12 (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
- Half-Life of a Dream
- Saturday July 12 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Saturday July 12 (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
- Saturday July 12 (10am–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 »
- Film
- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
- Saturday July 12 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
- After opening with Harold Lloyd's classic comedy The Kid Brother (1927), the 13th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival packs 11 programs into two long... View details »
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- Dykes on Bikes®
- Saturday July 12 (1–5pm) @ GLBT Historical Society More times »
- Free
- Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. The GLBT Historical... View details »
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- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Saturday July 12 @ City Hall More times »
- During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
- Art
- Leigh Wells
- Saturday July 12 (11am–5pm) @ Gallery 16 More times »
- Free
- Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little birds, rococo flourishes, arabesques,... View details »
- Art
- Let Us Now Praise San Francisco
- Saturday July 12 (11am–5pm) @ Marx & Zavattero More times »
- Free
- When James Agee and Walker Evans chronicled the plight of sharecroppers in the Depression-plagued South, their epic prose and images eventually became a generation's time... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Tammy Rae Carland
- Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Silverman Gallery More times »
- Free
- It should come as no surprise that Tammy Rae Carland's solo exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, draws its title from Ann Cvetkovich's lauded book. Between... View details »
- Art
- INsects INsectos
- Saturday July 12 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored More times »
- Free
- From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
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- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Saturday July 12 (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 »
- Art
- Women Impressionists
- Saturday July 12 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
- Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Art of Lee Miller
- Saturday July 12 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
- Art
- Soft Underbelly Recognition
- Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Little Tree Gallery More times »
- Free
- In the sprawling text that accompanies the show, LA-based curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer makes large conceptual claims about Soft Underbelly Recognition — a group exhibition that... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Saturday July 12 @ 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 »
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- CineKink
- Saturday July 12 (7 & 9pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it titillates. Susan for Now... View details »
- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- Saturday July 12 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
- Art: Photography
- New American Fables
- Saturday July 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Robert Koch Gallery More times »
- Free
- Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic narratives rarely end with... View details »
- Art
- A Complicated Dominion
- Saturday July 12 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery More times »
- Free
- When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
- Film
- Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
- Saturday July 12 @ SFMOMA More times »
- Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy — Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1949), and The Testament of Orpheus (1959) — spans... View details »
- Art
- Insider/Outsider
- Saturday July 12 (7–10pm) @ Root Division More times »
- OpeningFree
- Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
- Art
- The Beast in Me
- Saturday July 12 (11am–5pm) @ Ping Pong Gallery More times »
- Free
- While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man,"... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Mose Allison
- Saturday July 12 (8 & 10pm) @ Yoshi's San Francisco More times »
- Giveaway
- Mose Allison has lived in New York since 1956, but his smoky piano blues still bear the imprint of the Mississippi country where he came... View details »
- Art
- Open for Business
- Saturday July 12 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
- Free
- Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- Saturday July 12 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
- Free
- With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Saturday July 12 @ Various locations More times »
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
- Film
- Viva
- Saturday July 12 (2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30pm) @ Red Vic More times »
- It's hard to keep a feature film running on camp alone, so credit Viva's writer, director, and star, Anna Biller, for getting every shag... View details »
- Art
- Kiki
- Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3 More times »
- Free
- As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
- Saturday July 12 (noon–5pm) @ SF Camerawork More times »
- 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 Drapeau's two controversial tenures.... View details »
- Film: Festival
- San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
- Saturday July 12 @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
- It's tempting to curse San Francisco's notoriously frigid summers. But in the evenings, when you're huddled against a pungent BBQ blaze swaddled in a borrowed... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Heroes & Villains
- Saturday July 12 (7–11pm) @ The Shooting Gallery More times »
- OpeningFree
- A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman... View details »
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- The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
- Saturday July 12 (8pm–midnight) @ The Crucible More times »
- For those who can't wait until August's Burning Man to set stuff ablaze, there's always Crucible's Fire Arts Festival. The West Oakland industrial-arts hotbed hosts... View details »
- Art
- Ted Pushinsky
- Saturday July 12 (10am–10pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter More times »
- Free
- Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
- Art
- Maria Antelman and Tamar Halpern
- Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Jack Hanley Gallery More times »
- Free
- While artist Barbara Kruger makes clear that her declarative captions exist in opposition to the slick images with which they are paired, Maria Antelman's coupling... View details »
- Art
- Faux Modernist Posters of Four Letter L Word Nouns
- Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Jancar Jones Gallery More times »
- Free
- After having spent the last few generations ridding themselves of modernism's pungent aftertaste, the art world's contemporary painters are finally up to the task of... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Saturday July 12 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
- Art
- Room for Thought
- Saturday July 12 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
- Art
- We Remember the Sun
- Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries More times »
- Free
- Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
