Events on Saturday, November 21
Saturday 11/21 @ Mezzanine
Happening in cities around the world, Style Wars is a souped-up fashion show in the Project Runway mold: one minute you're...
Saturday 11/21 @ Fox Theater
Café Tacuba have been rocking en Español since a group of graphic-design students got together to jam in Mexico City in...
Saturday 11/21 @ Artists' Television Access
On the morning of November 20, 1969, 79 American Indians, including young couples and children, landed on Alcatraz, giving the US...
Saturday 11/21 @ SOMArts
Come join us for a “Flabulous!” night! Queer performance artists, Kentucky Fried Woman & Jay Walker, in conjunction with NOLOSE and...
Municipal Waste + Off with Their Heads + Phobia + Cauldron
Saturday 11/21 @ Slim's
Born in the sewers of Richmond, Virginia during 2000, with the aim of...
Journeys from Berlin/1971: Yvonne Rainer
Saturday 11/21 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Event taking place at the San Francisco Art Institute (map) Yvonne Rainer in person The films of Yvonne Rainer confront the...
Saturday 11/21 @ Great American Music Hall
Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house—all by himself. He's been called a...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/21 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA mounts a colorful tribute to the continued influence of the Tropicália movement in Brazilian art. When Lives Become Form explores...
Saturday 11/21 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Ti West's homage to the trashy occult-horror films of the early '80s requires something rarely asked of contemporary horror-film audiences: patience....
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Roxie Theater
Official 2009 Sundance selection Art & Copy captures an inside look at the real people behind pop culture's most iconic advertisements....
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Ratio 3
Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ CounterPULSE
CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Saturday 11/21 @ Landmark Embarcadero
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ SF Playhouse
A Rubik's cube of shifting love allegiances and convoluted gender bending, David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy is a breezy, mischievous...
Saturday 11/21 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Saturday 11/21 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 11/21 @ ODC
An eclectic evening of new works from Bay Area dance artists Julie Caffey, Jessica Damon, Erin Derstine, Antoine Hunter, Ara...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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,...
Saturday 11/21 @ ODC
An eclectic evening of new works from Bay Area dance artists Julie Caffey, Jessica Damon, Erin Derstine, Antoine Hunter, Ara...
Saturday 11/21 @ Roxie Theater
What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Saturday 11/21 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ SOMArts
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery presents Unfurling: This Land, a group show featuring Mark Bode, Mike Dingle and Isabel Rucker, producing new work...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 11/21 @ 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 11/21 @ ODC
The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance...
Saturday 11/21 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
