Events on Wednesday, November 4
In Present Tense: Films of Ute Aurand
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
At the California College of the Arts (map) Ute Aurand in person Presented in collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive Over...
Wendell Berry & Michael Pollan in conversation
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ City Arts & Lectures
Wendell Berry is a writer, a poet, an essayist and a novelist but first and foremost, he is a farmer. Berry...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ David Brower Center
Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado's work is saturated with a deep affection and empathy for his subjects, who comprise the world's dispossessed...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
A Sundance hit, this documentary chronicles the latest capers of the Yes Men, two pranksters who have made a career out...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Tenderloin District
Creative types are often pigeonholed as harbingers of gentrification, and the current wave of gallery openings and other creative endeavors underway...
The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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 :...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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,...
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Roxie Theater
Before 1960 Weequahic High School (WHS) was known as one of the top schools in...
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ 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...
Tiny Kushner — the West Coast premiere of 5 short plays by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner
Wednesday 11/ 4 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
WRITTEN BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TONY TACCONE There’s really nothing tiny about...
