Events on Saturday, April 11

Nerd Nite SF

Party

Nerd Nite SF

Saturday 4/11 @ Langton Labs

Nerd Nite, NYC's monthly meet-up geared toward the studious with a sense of humor, hits the road this spring for a... 

Flying Lotus w/ Kode9 and the Bug

Music: Electronic

Flying Lotus

Saturday 4/11 @ Club Mighty

Since the release of his acclaimed Los Angeles LP last year, Flying Lotus has been subtly vying for the role of... 

LA[Heart]SF presents Birds and Batteries, the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, and French Miami

Music

Birds and Batteries

Saturday 4/11 @ El Rio

The folks at LA-based music blog Radio Free Silverlake and San Francisco blog/indie label New and Used Records have joined forces... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art</em>

Art

Irreverent

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

Sean McFarland: <em>Pictures of Earth</em>

Art: Photography

Sean McFarland

Saturday 4/11 @ SF Camerawork

In 2003, an 1857 albumen print of Gustave Le Gray's The Great Wave, Sète set the new world record for the... 

<em>The Watcher in the Woods</em>

Art

The Watcher in the Woods

Saturday 4/11 @ Gallery 1988

If you've ever seen Disney's one-off horror film The Watcher in the Woods (1980), you can imagine the creepiness of a... 

<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

Jonathan Runcio: <em>Capital Zero</em>

Art

Jonathan Runcio

Saturday 4/11 @ Ratio 3

Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3... 

<em>The Story</em>

Theatre

The Story

Saturday 4/11 @ SF Playhouse

In the West Coast premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's play, the ever-present issue of integrity in journalism is brought to the... 

<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>

Art

Galaxy

Saturday 4/11 @ Berkeley Art Museum

With the financial crisis affecting all spheres of the market, including the art world, it's not surprising that museums are looking... 

<em>Heroes and Villains</em>

Art

Heroes and Villains

Saturday 4/11 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective

The aptly titled Heroes and Villains is an eclectic exhibition bringing together a spectrum of works that focus on everyone's favorite... 

<em>Draw</em>

Art

Draw

Saturday 4/11 @ The Shooting Gallery

Draw offers up over 300 sketched specimens from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything... 

Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 </em>

Art

Paul McCarthy

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

<em>Pighunt</em> (2008)

Film

Pighunt

Saturday 4/11 @ Landmark Clay Theatre

Bacon may have had its 15 minutes, but a 3,000-pound killer pig is forever. If you missed Jim Isaac's wonderfully twisted... 

Yan Pei-Ming: <em>YES!</em>

Art

Yan Pei-Ming

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

<em>Wings for Words: New Bookworks from Korea and Japan</em>

Art

Wings for Words

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

Migdalia Valdes: <em>Every Day in Black and White</em>

Art: Photography

Migdalia Valdes

Saturday 4/11 @ Intersection for the Arts

Ten years ago, Migdalia Valdes decided she would snap a roll of film a day for the rest of her life.... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

William Kentridge: <em>Five Themes</em>

Art

William Kentridge

Saturday 4/11 @ SFMOMA

Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each... 

<em>Our City Dreams</em> (2008)

Film: Documentary

Our City Dreams

Saturday 4/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Chiara Clemente's Our City Dreams is a lyrical and joyful portrait of five female artists reflecting on their shared home of... 

42nd Annual Cherry Blossom Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Cherry Blossom Festival

Saturday 4/11 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema

Frank Warren's <em>PostSecret</em>

Art

PostSecret

Saturday 4/11 @ Bedford Gallery

It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a... 

<em>Under a Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence</em>

Special Event

Under a Full Moon

Saturday 4/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Clad in their trademark brazier-like wimples and Kabuki-meets-Mardis Gras makeup, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have always carried out their good... 

J. MAYER H.: <em>Patterns of Speculation</em>

Art

J. MAYER H.

Saturday 4/11 @ SFMOMA

J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than... 

Ranjani Shettar

Art

Ranjani Shettar

Saturday 4/11 @ SFMOMA

Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of... 

Shanghai San Francisco

Special Event

Shanghai SF

Saturday 4/11 @ Coit Tower

Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with... 

<em>Warhol Live</em>

Art

Warhol Live

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>

Art

Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Saturday 4/11 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

In an exhibit that the New York Times labeled "must be seen to be believed," dancer and visual artist Nick Cave... 

2008 SECA Art Award

Art

2008 SECA Art Award

Saturday 4/11 @ SFMOMA

SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights... 

<em>Audacious Artefacts: Parisian Grand Guignol</em>

Theatre

Audacious Artefacts

Saturday 4/11 @ Hypnodrome

Horror, erotica, and live theatre collide and combine for the nage-à-trois of hair-raising delights that is the Thrillpeddlers' modern-day Grand Guignol.... 

<em>Inside/Outside: Artist Environments</em>

Art

Inside/Outside

Saturday 4/11 @ 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... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Saturday 4/11 @ 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...