Events on Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday 9/29 @ San Francisco Public Library
Playwright George Birimisa has been portraying the follies, flings, and foibles of gay male life for nearly six decades, and, boy,...
San Francisco International Standup Comedy Competition Finals
Tuesday 9/29 @ Rockit Room
The San Francisco International Standup Comedy Competition has been the starting point for many comedians' careers. Dana Carvey, Dane Cook, Ellen...
Tuesday 9/29 @ California College of the Arts
The Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal makes art without actually making objects. His conception of art ventures beyond materiality to encompass the...
Of Heaven & Earth: Films of Tom Chomont
Tuesday 9/29 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at the San Francisco Art Institute - 800 Chestnut St. map Curated and presented by Kyle Stephan presented in association...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 9/29 @ SF Camerawork
In honor of their 35th anniversary, the folks of SF Camerawork have mounted an ambitious two-part exhibition that aims to reflect...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Various locations
Part police procedural, part postmodern ghost story, Doug Dorst's darkly funny debut novel Alive in Necropolis has been rightfully hailed as...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Then and Now: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Gallery Paule Anglim
Working on the cutting edge of the art world from the '50s until his death in 2008, local polymath Bruce Conner...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Various locations
There may be no such thing as a free lunch but there is such a thing as a free night of...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Famous for his serene and timeless photographs of oceans and movie palaces, Hiroshi Sugimoto explores a more volatile subject matter in...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ SFMOMA
Marilyn Monroe caught in a moment of intense vulnerability. The line of a model's Dior gown mirrored in the curves of...
Tuesday 9/29 @ Conservatory of Flowers
Ever wonder how vanilla extract gets from the bean to the bottle? Or maybe how curries are flavored, from plant to...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Mary Anne Kluth and Laurel Roth
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
Tuesday 9/29 @ California College of the Arts
This event takes place at the Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway, Oakland CA Ana...
Textiles Program Annual Student Exhibition
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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
Tuesday 9/29 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Music by Green Day Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong Book by Billie Joe Armstrong &...
Tuesday 9/29 @ California College of the Arts
Irwin Student Center, Oakland campus
5212 Broadway
Reception: Wednesday, September 30 from 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Work from Richard Elliott’s spring...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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,...
Tuesday 9/29 @ 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...
