Events on Saturday, March 14
St. Patrick's Day Parade & Festival
Saturday 3/14 @ Civic Center
New York City's festivities might get more news coverage, but SF's annual St. Patrick's day parade is the largest display of...
Saturday 3/14 @ Elbo Room
Known for his out-there turntable antics, DJ /rupture is an unmistakable original. His most recent release, a collaboration with guitarist Andy...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/14 @ 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 3/14 @ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...
Saturday 3/14 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
From Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau to Donald Judd's Marfa, Texas ranch, artists have long made their homes extensions of their studios, and...
Saturday 3/14 @ Hypnodrome
Horror, erotica, and live theatre collide and combine for the ménage-à-trois of hair-raising delights that is the Thrillpeddlers' modern-day Grand Guignol....
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
Saturday 3/14 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Don't be misled by its parenthetical title — the early 20th-century ancestor of the Hitachi Magic Wand is only one link...
Saturday 3/14 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sleek, colorless efficiency be damned; Irreverent presents two sides of the new Scandinavian art. Blending homage to traditional materials and processes...
Saturday 3/14 @ 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 3/14 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Looking at artist Kristen Morgin's nimbly crafted sculptures — such as a faded, dent-laden pedal car — it's hard to avoid...
Saturday 3/14 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating...
Saturday 3/14 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
SF International Asian American Film Fest
Saturday 3/14 @ Various locations
"The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival" may be a mouthful, but it's also one of the premier festivals of...
Saturday 3/14 @ Bedford Gallery
It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a...
Saturday 3/14 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Paul McCarthy's career can be described as a movement from liquids to solids. The artist's early performance-based work — which found...
Saturday 3/14 @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
The large-scale oil paintings and watercolors in Yan Pei-Ming's first West Coast show bear the scars of an ongoing struggle with...
Saturday 3/14 @ EXIT Theatre
The local sketch-comedy savants of Killing My Lobster certainly make good on the title of their second full-length play, Pure Shock...
Saturday 3/14 @ de Young Museum
After popular exhibits on the clothing of Vivenne Westwood and socialite Nan Kempner, the de Young has struck the mother lode:...
Saturday 3/14 @ San Francisco Center for the Book
The San Francisco Center for the Book adds an international spin to its venerable collection of artists' books with Wings for...
Saturday 3/14 @ 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 3/14 @ Gallery 16
In a time when technology often overshadows conventional art forms, the work of SF-based artist Elliot Anderson seamlessly merges the techno-savvy...
Saturday 3/14 @ Novellus Theater
Some of the world's best dancers congregate at ODC, a company known for its athleticism and innovation. This year's Dance Downtown...
Saturday 3/14 @ SF Camerawork
South Africans first watched television in 1976, when all media was still controlled by their Nationalist government. Since the abolition of...
Saturday 3/14 @ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...
Saturday 3/14 @ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...
Saturday 3/14 @ de Young Museum
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," Andy Warhol once quipped. Warhol Live focuses on the artist's...
Saturday 3/14 @ 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...
