Events on Saturday, September 26
Saturday 9/26 @ Golden Gate Park
Like a two-wheeled version of Bay to Breakers, the annual Tour de Fat celebrates beer, biking, and the great outdoors with...
Saturday 9/26 @ Brava Theater Center
Race has been the elephant in the boudoir, so to speak, during the burlesque revival. While performers of color have been...
Saturday 9/26 @ Mint Plaza
Forget Bryant Park. For fashion, Mint Plaza is where it's at. Over 70 Bay Area designers are transforming the recently renovated...
Saturday 9/26 @ Pier 41
Once again proving that you haven't earned your sea legs until you've sailed in high heels, the ladies of Trannyshack are...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/26 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Saturday 9/26 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival
Saturday 9/26 @ Various locations
The eclectic MPTF celebrates oddball musical instruments and the musicians who build (or find) and play them. Some of the noise-makers...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Saturday 9/26 @ Off-Market Theater
Actor and writer Jennifer Jajeh is many things: single, a Christian, and a first generation Palestinian American. She's also incredibly funny....
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Saturday 9/26 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ 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...
Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition
Saturday 9/26 @ 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...
American Idiot -- The Stage version of Green Day's explosive Grammy-winning album
Saturday 9/26 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 9/26 @ 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 9/26 @ ODC
The ODC Dance Commons is transformed into an old school juke joint every Saturday Night! This Lindy Hop and Blues Dance...
Global Perspectives: Architecture Summer Studios in Europe and South America Exhibition
Saturday 9/26 @ 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)....
