Events on Friday, September 25

Pop-Up Magazine #2

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Pop-Up Magazine #2

Friday 9/25 @ Brava Theater Center

The future of journalism is not happening online, but on stage. After a stunningly successful debut, the salon-esque Pop-Up Magazine returns... 

Kid Koala Presents The Slew: Live w/ Adira

Music: DJ

Kid Koala

Friday 9/25 @ The Independent

Gifted turntablist and Deltron 3030 member Kid Koala’s most recent collaboration finds him working with frequent partner Dynomite D (Dylan Frombach).... 

ODC/Dance Unplugged

Dance

ODC/Dance Unplugged

Friday 9/25 @ ODC

ODC/Dance unplugged offers a first glimpse into the latest work by acclaimed choreographer and ODC Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson. In Labor... 

Ongoing Events

Earthdance 2009

Festival

Earthdance 2009

Friday 9/25 @ Lupin Lodge

In 1996, Chris Deckker founded Earthdance with a single crazy idea in mind—to spread peace through music via a synched-up global... 

<em>Moby Dick</em>

Art

Moby Dick

Friday 9/25 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Moby Dick has long been a springboard for grand considerations of everything from transcendental philosophy to racism and political upheaval. Melville's... 

<em>Brief Encounter</em>

Theatre

Brief Encounter

Friday 9/25 @ American Conservatory Theater

Teaming up with ACT, England's Kneehigh Theatre smashes the fourth wall and then reconstructs it as a video screen in their... 

<em>Then and Now: Photographs by Sebasti&atilde;o Salgado</em>

Art: Photography

Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

<em>An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself</em>

Art: Photography

San Francisco Plays Itself

Friday 9/25 @ SF Camerawork

In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect... 

<em>American Idiot</em>

Theatre

American Idiot

Friday 9/25 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Local punks-turned-multi-platinum-Grammy-winners Green Day are returning to their Berkeley stomping grounds, but not how you'd expect. Collaborating with Spring Awakening director... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

Ari Marcopoulos: <em>Within Arm's Reach</em>

Art: Photography

Ari Marcopoulos

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

Bruce Conner

Art

Bruce Conner

Friday 9/25 @ Gallery Paule Anglim

Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner... 

Mel Kadel: <em>Echo Test</em>

Art

Mel Kadel

Friday 9/25 @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery

LA-based Mel Kadel turns out pen-and-ink drawings that teem with creatures straight from a Sendak story. Flitting about, pushing, pulling, and... 

<em>Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs</em>

Special Event

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

12th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival

Festival: Music

Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival

Friday 9/25 @ Various locations

The eclectic MPTF celebrates oddball musical instruments and the musicians who build (or find) and play them. Some of the noise-makers... 

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

Special Event

Passionate Struggle

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

John Baldessari: <em>A Print Retrospective</em>

Art

John Baldessari

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

7th Annual <em>Altered Barbie</em>

Art

Altered Barbie

Friday 9/25 @ Shotwell 50 Studios

One of the 20th century's most recognizable, beloved, and debated icons (and her genital-less beau) gets made over by more than... 

Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth: <em>Theory of the Unforeseen</em>

Art

Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth

Friday 9/25 @ Frey Norris Gallery

Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth's art plays off of science's tendency to make the world endlessly sub-divisible. What Michael Pollan... 

<em>Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004</em>

Art: Photography

Richard Avedon

Friday 9/25 @ SFMOMA

Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of... 

Mark Baugh-Sasaki: <em>Adaptations</em>

Art

Mark Baugh-Sasaki

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

Conservatory of Flowers presents <em>Edible Expeditions</em>

Special Event

Edible Expeditions

Friday 9/25 @ Conservatory of Flowers

Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to... 

<em>Punk Passage: San Francisco First Wave Punk 1977-1981</em>

Art: Photography

Punk Passage

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

Free Night of Theater

Theatre

Free Night of Theater

Friday 9/25 @ Various locations

There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of... 

<em>There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak</em>

Art

There's a Mystery There

Friday 9/25 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

With everyone atwitter about the October release of the Dave Eggers-penned, Spike Jonze-helmed, and Arcade Fire-filled adaptation of Where the Wild... 

Hiroshi Sugimoto: <em>Lightning Fields</em>

Art: Photography

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Friday 9/25 @ Fraenkel Gallery

Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in... 

Charley Harper

Art

Charley Harper

Friday 9/25 @ Altman Siegel Gallery

A few swabs of glorious color, a firm line or three, and voila, a magnificent bird or a wide-eyed deer appear... 

<em>Wallworks</em>

Art

Wallworks

Friday 9/25 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Ten years ago, renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki designed YBCA's unique exhibition space. Now, with Wallworks, the beauty and utility of... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Friday 9/25 @ 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... 

Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition

Art

Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition

Friday 9/25 @ California College of the Arts

North/South Galleries, Oakland campus
5241 College Avenue
Oakland CA 94618 Reception: Wed., Sept. 30, 5:30–7:30 p.m.   Graduate and undergraduate... 

Global Perspectives: Architecture Summer Studios in Europe and South America Exhibition

Art

Global Perspectives: Architecture Summer Studios in Europe and South America Exhibition

Friday 9/25 @ California College of the Arts

Featuring student work from the Architecture summer 2009 travel studios in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Central Europe (Vienna, Berlin, and Basel).... 

Moby-Dick

Art

Moby-Dick

Friday 9/25 @ 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,... 

Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box

Art

Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box

Friday 9/25 @ California College of the Arts

This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA   Ana... 

American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album

Theatre

American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album

Friday 9/25 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater

Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong  Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Art

Jews on Vinyl

Friday 9/25 @ 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...