Events on Saturday, August 8
Three Minute Film Festival and Black Tie Gala
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Root Division
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it can also be a generative constraint when it comes to filmmaking. Such...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Forget BlueRay discs and plasma TVs. For true cinephiles, nothing lets a movie really sing like a pristine celluloid print. In...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ SFMOMA
In his introduction to The Americans, photographer Robert Frank's monumental, mid-century portrait of his adopted country, Beat poet Jack Kerouac wrote,...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Electric Works
Along with the Grateful Dead, the Cockettes, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III, underground comix were one of the freakiest things to...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Modernism
Walter Benjamin, reflecting on book collecting, wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Lab
The Mission has seen many white cubes come and go, but the Lab has staying power. Chalk it up to the...
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Various locations
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is always an eye-opening reminder of the diversity and variety of experience that falls under...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Robert Tat Gallery
Mannequins are the ultimate commodification of beauty: a plasticized ideal of body shape and expression crafted for the sole purpose of...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Old Mint Building
Joe Goode Performance Group says: Joe Goode Performance Group's witty and provocative theatrical installation takes the audience on a journey through...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Johansson Projects
Jennie Ottinger's art presents a floating world populated with refugees from Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon canvases. Their skeletal frames...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sports, like romance, have become somewhat of an over-determined cinematic subject. Beyond ESPN, a series of sports-themed films and docs curated...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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 8/ 8 @ Landmark Bridge Theater
It could be a tabloid headline: "Cult-movie host morphs into seven-figure film director." Instead, it's the end to this 12th season...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Union Square
Foodies, prepare yourselves: the Chefs. Food. Wine. festival is three delicious days of culinary paradise. Thursday night kicks things off with...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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 8/ 8 @ Swarm Gallery
Steeped in the lush landscapes of their native Northwest, Seattle-based Vaughn Bell and Portland-based Josh Keyes cultivate a vision of the...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Trading in glitz and gloss for elegant understatement, American pottery master Warren MacKenzie has spent half a century crafting simple, eminently...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Off-Market Theater
The ever-trusty Urban Dictionary describes a sh*t-show as a term, "used when 'shenanigans' just won't do." S.H.*.T Show V (as in...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Coit Tower
Equal parts walking tour, scavenger hunt, and interactive play, this playful excursion leads participants into a hard-boiled noir adventure. Provided with...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Various locations
Complete the following sentence. In just seven days: a) God created the world; b) I can make you a man; c)...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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 8/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
