Events on Saturday, November 21
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- Film: Documentary
- This Is Indian Land
- @ Artists' Television Access
- On the morning of November 20, 1969, 79 American Indians, including young couples and children, landed on Alcatraz, giving the US... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Café Tacuba
- @ Fox Theater
- Café Tacuba have been rocking en Español since a group of graphic-design students got together to jam in Mexico City in... View details »
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- Style Wars
- @ Mezzanine
- Happening in cities around the world, Style Wars is a souped-up fashion show in the Project Runway mold: one minute you're... View details »
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- Physics of Toys: A Knack for Snacks
- @ Exploratorium
- Hungry for a scientific snack? In celebration of the Exploratorium's 40th birthday, the Physics of Toys team serves up delectable "snacks,"... View details »
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- Keller Williams
- @ 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... View details »
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- Journeys from Berlin/1971: Yvonne Rainer
- @ San Francisco Cinematheque
- Event taking place at the San Francisco Art Institute (map) Yvonne Rainer in person The films of Yvonne Rainer confront the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Cow Eye Dissection Family Investigation Workshop
- @ Exploratorium
- Join us on November 21 for a behind-the-scenes investigation of the classic Exploratorium demonstration, Cow’s Eye Dissection. Try the dissection yourself,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Flabulous!
- @ SOMArts
- Come join us for a “Flabulous!” night! Queer performance artists, Kentucky Fried Woman & Jay Walker, in conjunction with NOLOSE and... View details »
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- Fall Saturday Camp
- @ Exploratorium
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Sign up now for our newest Day Camp experience, which takes place on three alternate Saturdays this Fall: October... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Municipal Waste + Off with Their Heads + Phobia + Cauldron
- @ Slim's
- Born in the sewers of Richmond, Virginia during 2000, with the aim of... View details »
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- Film Screening: Journeys from Berlin/1971
- @ San Francisco Art Institute
- Journeys from Berlin/1971 Yvonne Rainer (Director) Conveying with wit and inventiveness the personal implications of... View details »
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- Taro Hattori
- @ Swarm Gallery
- Taro Hattori's sculpture and installation work reflect his background in psychology, incisively and wittily capturing the misfires of desire. The title... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Richard Avedon
- @ SFMOMA
- Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- I Heart Hamas
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film: Festival
- CineKink
- @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Whether you're crazy for leather, proudly polyamorous, or you just like to watch, CineKink's popular, perverse film series educates while it... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- The CJM has already wowed with its stunning architecture and expansive collection, but if you needed another reason to visit, it's... View details »
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- Ara Peterson
- @ Ratio 3
- Ara Peterson brings together two bodies of work that both draw on memory and optical illusion to create the colorfully complex... View details »
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- William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch at Fifty
- @ San Francisco Art Institute
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William S. Burroughs as Author of Naked Lunch
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- Passionate Struggle
- @ 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... View details »
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- Mark Baugh-Sasaki
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Punk Passage
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Performing Diaspora
- @ CounterPULSE
- CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora Festival gives space to 13 performers who are innovating and experimenting within a range of traditional dance forms,... View details »
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- When Lives Become Form
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Carleton Watkins
- @ Fraenkel Gallery
- Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- She Stoops to Comedy
- @ 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... View details »
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- Moby Dick
- @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Moby Dick has long been a springboard for grand considerations of everything from transcendental philosophy to racism and political upheaval. Melville's... View details »
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- Coco Before Chanel
- @ Landmark Clay Theatre
- Audrey Tautou (aka Amélie) stars as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this visually stunning French film about the... View details »
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- Shanghai SF
- @ Coit Tower
- Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... View details »
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- The House of the Devil
- @ 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.... View details »
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- One Day
- @ Intersection for the Arts
- An ancient metropolis now home to some eight million residents, Tehran is as complicated, intriguing, and deeply layered as any city... View details »
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- Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pearls Over Shanghai
- @ 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... View details »
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- There's a Mystery There
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Art & Copy
- @ Roxie Theater
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- Art: Photography
- Ari Marcopoulos
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- November
- @ American Conservatory Theater
- David Mamet is, arguably, a lot of things: a misogynist, a feminist, underrated, overrated. One thing's for certain, though — he's... View details »
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- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Holly Andres
- @ Robert Koch Gallery
- Holly Andres reveals only part of the mysterious story behind the lush and saturated images that make up Sparrow Lane. Calling... View details »
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- Outdoor Exploratorium
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Pilot 55: Flights of Fancy
- @ ODC
- An eclectic evening of new works from Bay Area dance artists Julie Caffey, Jessica Damon, Erin Derstine, Antoine Hunter, Ara... View details »
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- Jews on Vinyl
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- A unique exhibition, which spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s, weaving an account that... View details »
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- Dispatches from the Archives
- @ SFMOMA
- How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
- @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
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- The Rent Party
- @ ODC
- The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance... View details »
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- DEFAMATION
- @ Roxie Theater
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- Moby-Dick
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Unfurling: This Land
- @ 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... View details »
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- Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Pilot 55: Flights of Fancy
- @ ODC
- An eclectic evening of new works from Bay Area dance artists Julie Caffey, Jessica Damon, Erin Derstine, Antoine Hunter, Ara... View details »
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- Exhibition: Everyday Miracles (Extended), Phase 2
- @ San Francisco Art Institute
- Opening reception for Phase 2: November 12, 2009, 5:30–7:30pm Curated by SFAI’s Director of Exhibitions and Public... View details »
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- As It Is Written: Project 304,805
- @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
- As It Is Written: Project 304,805, is an exhibition centered around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who while on... View details »
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