Events on Saturday, September 27
Saturday 9/27 @ Mission Dolores Park
The Expo for Independent Arts is the only free grassroots culture fair in these parts, and its list of activities is...
Saturday 9/27 @ Club 6ix
Like so much music out of the UK, Kevin Martin's projects have always shown a strong Jamaican influence. Whether recording as...
Saturday 9/27 @ Presidio Main Post Theater
It's hard to beat the good old days of the MGM musical, with their dazzling costumes, extravagant sets, Gershwin-penned tunes, and...
Saturday 9/27 @ The Booksmith
Sufjan Stevens still has a ways to go to make good on his promise of 50 albums for 50 states, but...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/27 @ Meridian Gallery
Since 2006, when the Art of Democracy coalition was formed by a San Franciscan and a New Yorker, some 40 associated...
Saturday 9/27 @ American Conservatory Theater
Tom Stoppard's 2007 work follows hippies, idealogues, and idealistic rockers through three decades of political turmoil and personal exploration in Cambridge,...
Saturday 9/27 @ The Independent
Inspiration to guitar-dads everywhere, Mission of Burma prove the rock doesn't have to stop on the other side of the hill....
Saturday 9/27 @ Cartoon Art Museum
If any two names make underground-comics fans quiver, they are Hayao Miyazaki and the Cartoon Art Museum. Miyazaki has earned global...
Saturday 9/27 @ Annunciation Cathedral
This festival of Hellenic flavor, hosted by the parish of Annunciation Cathedral, is a treat for both foodies and cultural savants....
Saturday 9/27 @ Needles & Pens
From epic billboards to small squares reading "Beware of Dog," signs have long fascinated photographers; Lee Friedlander in particular found an...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ Great Meadow, Fort Mason
The blues may have well-documented origins in the Mississippi Delta, but the country's longest continuously running blues fest calls the Bay...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ Magic Theater
Inventive theatre group Word for Word produces a literal adaptation of three Tobias Wolff stories that showcases the prolific writer's ability...
Saturday 9/27 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ Electric Works
Jason Jägel paints borderless canvasses packed with cartoon-like figures and doodles that merge and collide. Inspired by fiction, comics, and especially...
Saturday 9/27 @ Future Primitive Sound Headquarters / Edo Salon-Gallery
Kate Durkin combines stitching, acrylic, and collage to create an imaginative world reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ Hackett-Freedman Gallery
During WWII, Picasso's Guernica set the gold standard for depictions of war in modern painting, as the young American soldier Frank...
Saturday 9/27 @ Crissy Field
Though it may be hard to tell during some chilly summer nights in SF, the ten hottest years in recorded history...
Saturday 9/27 @ Ratio 3
Somewhere in this excellent installation by "Lydia Fong" (the latest alias of San Francisco artist Barry McGee) there may just be...
Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare
Saturday 9/27 @ Zellerbach Hall
Cal Performances snags the hotly anticipated West Coast premiere of Mark Morris' adaptation of Sergey Prokofiev's ballet, based on the Bard's...
Saturday 9/27 @ Frey Norris Gallery
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin uses mismatched groups of human and animal bones (some real, some cast in plaster) to form skeletal...
I feel I am free but I know I am not
Saturday 9/27 @ SF Camerawork
This series of participatory events, curated by Chuck Mobley, destabilizes the viewer's static relationship to the photograph-as-object — the exhibit seeks...
Saturday 9/27 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
somewhere in advance of nowhere
Saturday 9/27 @ Intersection for the Arts
With Evan Bissell's effusive portraits hung like billboards across the city, it's impossible to separate somewhere in advance of nowhere from...
Saturday 9/27 @ Various locations
Home to classic painted ladies, tree-lined hills, and recent prefab houses, San Francisco's landscape is distinct and ever-evolving. During the Architecture...
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Saturday 9/27 @ SFMOMA
The fanciful shapes and feline curves in Paul Klee's figures can sometimes disguise the painter's intellectual rigor, but his forays into...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Dorothy may have made it back to Kansas, but America's cultural imagination never really left Oz. Or so goes the thesis...
California Academy of Sciences Opening Weekend
Saturday 9/27 @ California Academy of Sciences
After three years of renovations, the Academy of Sciences has marched its extensive collection of penguins, fish, and other fauna into...
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg
Saturday 9/27 @ Johansson Projects
David Hamill and Jeff Konigsberg dream up visionary architectural spaces, but their free-form renderings look nothing like the exacting models and...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
After studying any one of Spencer Sweeney's works in his new show at Jack Hanley, it's clear that the New York...
Saturday 9/27 @ Aurora Theatre
It's a familiar story: two men vie for a powerful political position, and a nasty bout of mudslinging ensues as the...
Saturday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ White Walls Gallery
Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama posters flooded city walls and the public consciousness earlier this year with a burst...
Saturday 9/27 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Nat Russell's hairy creatures and loping surfers have a distinctly Pacific aura; the artist's solo show at the beachside Mollusk Surf...
Saturday 9/27 @ David Cunningham Projects
The American West has long attracted artists, especially those who focus on the great outdoors. Richard T. Walker's new solo exhibition...
Saturday 9/27 @ Post Street Theatre
Long ago (2001), in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), Charles Ross turned a Star Wars obsession that started during childhood...
