Events on Saturday, April 17
Saturday 4/17 @ Fox Theater
Fox Theater says: I and Love and You, The Avett Brothers' big-label debut, is delivered in a style that defies pigeonholing...
Saturday 4/17 @ Various
Record Store Day is the brainchild of Chris Brown, an employee of Bull Moose Record Store in Maine. It's a day...
Saturday 4/17 @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
French chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in a 2007 waterskiing crash. But she sublimated the experience into art. When...
Saturday 4/17 @ Sirron Norris Studio & Gallery
If you've visited the murals in Balmy Alley in the Mission, or wolfed down one of Jay's cheesesteaks, chances are you've...
Holly Golightly & the Broke-offs
Saturday 4/17 @ Cafe du Nord
Yes, Holly Golightly is her real name. Yes, she lived on a Dutch barge in Kent, UK for 12 years and...
Saturday 4/17 @ Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
SF Jazz says: Grammy-winner and world music superstar Veloso's first Festival performance since his sold-out 2004 show! A founder of Brazil's...
Debora Iyall (of Romeo Void) + Persephone's Bees
Saturday 4/17 @ Slim's
Debora Iyall is back in California and releasing new songs filled with her trademark poetic lyrics and inimitable vocals....
Saturday 4/17 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Stephanie Barber returns to San Francisco for the West Coast debut of her piece, In the Jungle, a multi-media performance piece...
Saturday 4/17 @ SOMArts
Award-winning photographer, writer and cultural critic Candacy A. Taylor, presents Beauty Shop Culture, an exhibition that explores the beauty shop as...
Modulations: Live Electronic Music and Sound Art Installations by CCRMA
Saturday 4/17 @ SOMArts
Featuring: Abrahammer, Adam Somers, baeksanchang, Björn Anton Erlach, Bruno and Tania, Chris Chafe and Fred Malouf, Donald Krump (aka "The Fox"),...
Saturday 4/17 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
The world premiere of Ken Paul Rosenthal's long-awaited Crooked Beauty, a poetic documentary that explores positive and compassionate models for transforming...
Kirk Boyd talks with Persis Karim / 2048: Humanity's Agreement to Live Together
Saturday 4/17 @ The Booksmith
2048 sets out a visionary, audacious, but, Kirk Boyd insists, achievable goal: drafting an enforceable international agreement that will allow the...
Saturday 4/17 @ SOMArts
Award-winning photographer, writer and cultural critic Candacy A. Taylor, presents Beauty Shop Culture, an exhibition that explores the beauty shop as...
Crossroads: HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Saturday 4/17 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Cinematheque presents an afternoon tribute to and an illustrated lecture from Barbara Hammer on the occasion of the publication HAMMER! Making...
Saturday 4/17 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
The first of three short film programs of new and rediscovered works at Crossroads: Paul Clipson: Chorus (2009) 7 min....
Ongoing Events
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ Landmark Embarcadero
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film about Thierry Guetta, a graffiti stalker who chronicled Shepard Fairey and other key...
Saturday 4/17 @ Gallery 16
Sonny Smith's 100 Records art project started life as a novel about music. But Smith found he couldn't stop thinking about...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 4/17 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 4/17 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Saturday 4/17 @ Great American Music Hall
San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green has amazed suspecting and unsuspecting audience members in the Bay Area throughout the past few years...
Saturday 4/17 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Cinematheque’s soon-to-be-annual festival of recent and rediscovered films will showcase new avant-garde works from emerging and established filmmakers along with a...
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Saturday 4/17 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Activating the Medium XIII: Ice
Saturday 4/17 @ The Lab
23five Incorporated, in collaboration with swissnex San Francisco and The Lab, presents the thirteenth annual Activating The Medium festival, with two...
Saturday 4/17 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Romance unfolds in a new musical wound around the tender love songs of Matthew Sweet's landmark album, Girlfriend. Meeting in homeroom....
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Saturday 4/17 @ 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 4/17 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
