Events on Saturday, October 31
Saturday 10/31 @ Grace Cathedral
In keeping with the traditional roots of Halloween, Grace Cathedral's monthly music, dancing, and art night has invited local artists Bert...
Saturday 10/31 @ Cat Club
Dress up in your best ghoulish, but fashionable, frock as you must be positively trannylicious to party with Hostesses Heklina (aka...
Journey to the End of the Night
Saturday 10/31 @ Steuart & Mission Sts
The journey in question is the one participants will take, once they join this competition — part hide-and-seek, and part tag...
Saturday 10/31 @ Treasure Island
Once again, Playa favorites the Space Cowboys have taken over a massive Treasure Island warehouse and kitted it out with enough...
Saturday 10/31 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Never a man of small ambitions, comix legend R. Crumb ups the ante again with the release of The Book of...
Saturday 10/31 @ Bently Reserve
Expect plenty of playa regulars, sexy ghouls and gals, and bass-heads at this go-for-broke rager of a Halloween party benefiting the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/31 @ Swarm Gallery
Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title...
Saturday 10/31 @ Landmark Clay Theatre
The French invented the art of the moving image over a century ago, and they haven't stopped innovating onscreen since. The...
Saturday 10/31 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Saturday 10/31 @ Hypnodrome
The Cockettes, San Francisco's original acid-fried gender-benders, are the honorary fairy godmothers of every queen who has flown a freak flag...
Saturday 10/31 @ Altman Siegel Gallery
A few swabs of glorious color, a firm line or three, and voila, a magnificent bird or a wide-eyed deer appear...
Saturday 10/31 @ Roxie Theater
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Saturday 10/31 @ San Francisco Public Library
The Sex Pistols may have imploded after their notorious final show at SF's now-defunct Winterland Ballroom, but the city's own punk...
Saturday 10/31 @ Fort Mason Center
Since 1969, the Exploratorium has merged science and fun with its hands-on collection; now, it brings that curatorial savvy outdoors, with...
Saturday 10/31 @ 499 Castro St
One of the many transformations that occurs in Gus van Sant's Milk is that of the Castro from a sleepy, working-class...
Saturday 10/31 @ Great Star Theater
To quote the chorus of an old Samhain song, Brain-Dead Alive is simply, "all murder, all guts, all fun." In the...
Saturday 10/31 @ Various locations
For four weekends every year, San Franciscans get to experience art in its wild, untamed state — not as finished work...
Saturday 10/31 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
John Baldessari's turbulent, on-again, off-again love affair with Los Angeles is as inseparable from the story of contemporary West Coast art...
Saturday 10/31 @ Scenius
Something bad, something very bad, has happened in the nondescript hotel room Tim Roseborough has built in his installation Here Is...
Saturday 10/31 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Saturday 10/31 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Saturday 10/31 @ The Phoenix Theater
Spine-tingling chills abound in The Woman in Black, an old-school ghost story told in classic Victorian style. The tale centers around...
Saturday 10/31 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 10/31 @ de Young Museum
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of...
Saturday 10/31 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild...
Saturday 10/31 @ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....
Saturday 10/31 @ Berkeley Art Museum
In his younger years, Amsterdam-born photographer Ari Marcopoulos worked as studio assistant to Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and their influence...
Saturday 10/31 @ Castle in the Air
You can thank the Victorians for the continuing source of horror and fascination that is the photography of Anne Geddes. OK,...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
Saturday 10/31 @ The Fillmore
It can feel as tedious as picking out a new toothpaste when wading through the sea of Death Cab for Postal...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Saturday 10/31 @ Intersection for the Arts
An unlikely, curious, and beautiful patchwork of vignettes ruminating on the future make up the dance-theatre hybrid The Future Project :...
Saturday 10/31 @ Hayes Valley Park
The work of emerging sculptor Mark Baugh-Sasaki reflects both his San Francisco upbringing (including an adolescence spent mountain biking through the...
Saturday 10/31 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Saturday 10/31 @ California College of the Arts
Reception: Tues., Sept. 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska,...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Saturday 10/31 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Saturday 10/31 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Jews on Vinyl is a unique exhibition based on Roger Bennett and Josh Kun's new book: And You Shall Know Us by...
Saturday 10/31 @ ODC
The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Saturday 10/31 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 10/31 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Saturday 10/31 @ Roxie Theater
Before 1960 Weequahic High School (WHS) was known as one of the top schools in...
Saturday 10/31 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Saturday 10/31 @ Asian Art Museum
In the 19th-century Siam and Burma—two neighboring kingdoms in Southeast Asia—were renowned for their golden-roofed temples, lush gardens, and handsomely adorned...
