Events on Saturday, April 11

Flying Lotus w/ Kode9 and the Bug
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Music: Electronic
Flying Lotus
@ Club Mighty
Since the release of his acclaimed Los Angeles LP last year, Flying Lotus has been subtly vying for the role of...  View details »
LA[Heart]SF presents Birds and Batteries, the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, and French Miami
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Music: Rock/Pop
Birds and Batteries
@ 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...  View details »
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Nerd Nite SF
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Party
Nerd Nite SF
@ 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...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Migdalia Valdes: <em>Every Day in Black and White</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art: Photography
Migdalia Valdes
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Galaxy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>Draw</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Draw
@ The Shooting Gallery
Draw offers up over 300 sketched specimens from the urban jungle — skateboard designs, music-related art, tattoos, graffiti — with everything...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Pighunt</em> (2008)
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Film
Pighunt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco's GLBT History</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Exhibition
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 »
Ongoing
2008 SECA Art Award
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
2008 SECA Art Award
@ SFMOMA
SFMOMA's biennial award for local talent — bestowed by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) — always highlights...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Story</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Story
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Irreverent: Contemporary Nordic Craft Art</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Irreverent
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ranjani Shettar
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Ranjani Shettar
@ SFMOMA
Bulbous wicker material thins to a curly finish; iron lotus chips meekly huddle together like bathing sea lions; a flotilla of...  View details »
Ongoing
Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
42nd Annual Cherry Blossom Festival
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Festival
Cherry Blossom Festival
@ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Spring has officially sprung, and with it comes San Francisco's annual Cherry Blossom Festival. For two weekends, Japantown transforms into a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Under a Full Moon: 30 Years of Perpetual Indulgence</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Exhibition
Under a Full Moon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Outdoor Exploratorium
Month_04 Sunday Day_12
More Flavor: Exhibition
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Paul McCarthy: <em>Low Life Slow Life: Part 2 </em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Paul McCarthy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Our City Dreams</em> (2008)
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Film: Documentary
Our City Dreams
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Jonathan Runcio: <em>Capital Zero</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Jonathan Runcio
@ Ratio 3
Even though SF artist Jonathan Runcio has likened his vibrantly hued, three-dimensional works to "crumpled paintings," his exhibition at Ratio 3...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Wings for Words: New Bookworks from Korea and Japan</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Wings for Words
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Heroes and Villains</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Heroes and Villains
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Inside/Outside: Artist Environments</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Inside/Outside
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Watcher in the Woods</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
The Watcher in the Woods
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Warhol Live</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Warhol Live
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
J. MAYER H.: <em>Patterns of Speculation</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art: Architecture/Design
J. MAYER H.
@ SFMOMA
J. MAYER H., a progressive architecture firm based in Berlin, understands all too well the modern compunction to confuse, rather than...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Audacious Artefacts: Parisian Grand Guignol</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Theatre
Audacious Artefacts
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
William Kentridge: <em>Five Themes</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
William Kentridge
@ SFMOMA
Although any dutiful curator will point out that William Kentridge's extensive career includes media as disparate as tapestries and puppets, each...  View details »
Ongoing
Shanghai San Francisco
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: Competition
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 »
Ongoing
Frank Warren's <em>PostSecret</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
PostSecret
@ Bedford Gallery
It all started in 2004, when Frank Warren distributed 3,000 postcards to total strangers. The rules were simple: write down a...  View details »
Ongoing
Yan Pei-Ming: <em>YES!</em>
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
Yan Pei-Ming
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jews on Vinyl
Month_04 Saturday Day_11
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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