Events on Saturday, March 27
Saturday 3/27 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
San Francisco's Dan the Automator has always blended turntable beats with live musicians, most notably as producer of the first Gorillaz...
Saturday 3/27 @ Oakland. Exact location provided with confirmation of purchase.
One man's weeds are another man's supper. Wild radish, miner's lettuce, chickweed, stinging nettles, and edible flowers — there's a bounty...
Saturday 3/27 @ Southern Exposure
Alison Pebworth’s new project explores the notion that the 19th-century stress ailment Americanitis is alive and kicking. She blends public art,...
Saturday 3/27 @ DNA Lounge
Eric Kleptone is a pioneering musician who also pushes the boundaries of the music business. The British DJ’s innovative ideas about...
Saturday 3/27 @ Bottom of the Hill
Tobacco coaxes woozy, trance-inducing melodies from a variety of vintage synths, keyboards, and found instruments. He's the frontman for Pittsburgh's Black...
Saturday 3/27 @ Various
Hate climate change? Punch its lights out! Observers of Earth Hour will be shutting off their power from 8:30pm 'til 9:30pm....
Saturday 3/27 @ Mezzanine
Innovation runs in Steven Ellison’s family: his great aunt was Alice Coltrane. Ellison weaves bass-invaded, abstract hip-hop under the pseudonym Flying...
Saturday 3/27 @ California College of the Arts
Oakland and San Francisco Campus Preview Day will begin on the Oakland Campus at 9:00 AM and move to the San...
The Farewell Tour w/ Copeland + I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business + Person L + Deas Vail
Saturday 3/27 @ Slim's
Copeland, the Lakeland, Fla.-based, indie alternative trio who’ve already brought soul-searching tracks like “Control Freak” and “Pin Your Wings,”...
Saturday 3/27 @ The Lab
Laura Arrington and The Lab bring you Springtime SQUART! — a night of fresh out of the kitchen dance and performance...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
Smith’s Arts & Skills Service considers SFMOMA’s original location in the War Memorial Veterans Building...
Dead Meadow / Imaad Wasif / The Upsidedown
Saturday 3/27 @ Great American Music Hall
We've longed for the day when LA-via-DC transplants DEAD MEADOW would drop a studio album that matched the power of one...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/27 @ Mission: Comics & Art
Aaron Zonka's art comically depicts the difference between a "hip ster" (a sunglass donned man who is rapidly stirring a cup-of-joe)...
Saturday 3/27 @ New Conservatory Theatre
The Sugar Witch mashes-up myth, Southern Gothic, and same-sex romance. Annabelle, the protagonist witch's magic power is storytelling. With it, she...
Saturday 3/27 @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
From George Washington's cherry tree chop to the sale of Manhattan for a pocketful of beads, American history is full of...
Saturday 3/27 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Saturday 3/27 @ Various locations
SFMOMA isn't the only cultural institution in town celebrating a milestone this year. In honor of its 40th anniversary the city-run...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 3/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
The exhibition is the result of French painter and photographer, Linda Ellia's, encounter with a copy of Mein Kampf in 2005. The...
Saturday 3/27 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Adorning royal personalities from the Duchess of Windsor to Daisy Fellowes and a cabal of Hollywood beauties, Cartier was the standard bearer...
Saturday 3/27 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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 3/27 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City....
Saturday 3/27 @ Creativity Explored
Hold that tiger! Creativity Explored's new exhibit, inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year's regal symbol, has plenty of tigers burning...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 3/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Saturday 3/27 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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 3/27 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
When the MSM is as focused on the health care gridlock as Tiger Woods' infidelities, it's easy to forget there is...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Saturday 3/27 @ 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...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
In Bruce Conner's electric Three Screen Ray ('06), a new acquisition that premieres in this exhibition, Ray Charles' '59 hit...
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Moments (Bringing Back the Now) #3: Formations/Fal-Core
Saturday 3/27 @ SOMArts
Join SOMArts this Friday for the third performance in the series Moments (Bringing Back the Now). Formations...
Saturday 3/27 @ 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 3/27 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 3/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Saturday 3/27 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
It is said that every one of the 304,805 letters in the Torah corresponds to a soul. CJM visitors both to...
Saturday 3/27 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Saturday 3/27 @ ODC
Reserve the edge of your seat. 3 Different Programs. 2 World-class Choreographers. 1 Extraordinary Company. World premieres by...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Saturday 3/27 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
