Events on Saturday, August 30
Activism Through Documentary Film
Saturday 8/30 @ Artists' Television Access
As YouTube and digital-video technology collapse the distance between film production and distribution, it's no surprise that industrious political documentarians are...
Saturday 8/30 @ Great American Music Hall
Wailing and twisting onstage, Slim Cessna and his cohorts shake things up tonight with their spooky brand of gospel. Banjos, bass,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/30 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Saturday 8/30 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Saturday 8/30 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Saturday 8/30 @ The Boxcar Theatre
Revenge of the Nerds meets High School Musical in this musical satire of sad-sack teens with angular hair cuts. The underdogs...
Saturday 8/30 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Ron Stoner rode a wave of acclaim over mid-'60s SoCal beach culture, legendary for the vivid eye he brought to surf...
Saturday 8/30 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 8/30 @ Various locations
Slow Food — a vital cultural movement that challenges people's relationship with the food they eat — gears up for the...
Saturday 8/30 @ White Walls Gallery
Cleon Peterson's multipanel works depict violent urban scenes in black acrylic and hot pink enamel, bringing the seedy underworld of the...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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 8/30 @ SFMOMA
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray,...
Saturday 8/30 @ 21 Grand
Filipino collective Kwatro-Kantos sets up shop at 21 Grand for a monthlong tagay — a ritual toast over a round of...
Saturday 8/30 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often...
Saturday 8/30 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Saturday 8/30 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Saturday 8/30 @ Adobe Bookshop
In a world seemingly fueled by of-the-moment celebrity gossip, it's easy to forget that the public's fascination with the wealthy is...
Saturday 8/30 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Saturday 8/30 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Saturday 8/30 @ Glama-Rama Salon
Winston Smith's dense, darkly playful collages are Boschian panoramas of our consumer society. Smith wasn't the first punk to pick up...
Saturday 8/30 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Saturday 8/30 @ Johansson Projects
With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the...
Saturday 8/30 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Saturday 8/30 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Saturday 8/30 @ John Hinkel Park
With its infamous opening salvo ("Merdre!"), Alfred Jarry's vulgar, nonsensical satire of 19th-century despotism, Ubu Roi scandalized Parisian theatergoers upon its...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 8/30 @ Triple Base
A musician, comic-book author, and freak-folk portraitist, Christine Shields evokes a fiercely personal vision of girlhood with pastel-colored, phantasmal paintings of...
Saturday 8/30 @ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...
Saturday 8/30 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans...
Saturday 8/30 @ Catharine Clark Gallery
In Broken Homes, Julie Heffernan's canvases echo with whispers of the old masters — a hint of Velásquez here, Cranach and...
Saturday 8/30 @ New Conservatory Theatre
Tom Orr lives up to his billing as a star of comedy, cabaret, and porn by parodying show tunes in various...
Saturday 8/30 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Saturday 8/30 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
In his biopic of
9 @ Night: Cinema of the Forgotten
Saturday 8/30 @ Roxie Theater
Rob Nilsson has always been a fiercely independent filmmaker, but his 9 @ Night series takes his maverick spirit to another...
