Events on Saturday, April 3
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Clara St. Brewing
Tired of Bud Lite, Blue Moon, and PBR? Maybe you could do a better job making beer for yourself. Bryan Hermannsson...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ LGBT Community Center
Even the living-dead gotta get down, and tonight's the night: Zombie Prom night. Grab your date, put on your best zombie-wear,...
Big Idea Night Party: Under the Influence
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The latest in this series of free parties by the YBCA is curated by Oakland collective thePeople. Tonight their maxim is:...
The Contribution Featuring Members of Railroad Earth, New Monsoon, and String Cheese Incident
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Great American Music Hall
It was at Hornings Hideout in 2005 that Jeff Miller and Phil Ferlino [of New Monsoon] and I [Tim Carbone of...
Two Together Two: Jim McBride & Stanton Kaye
Saturday 4/ 3 @ San Francisco Cinematheque
Screening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (map) Stanton Kaye and Jim McBride in-person presented in association with Tosca Cafe...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Slim's
This very special evening is a benefit for LA's City of Hope Cancer Center. City of Hope is recognized worldwide...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Lab
This art and music showcase is the culmination of a year-long project by three students from Irvington High School. Juhi Ardissono,...
Launch Party for Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Booksmith
While the last ten years have seen an explosion of South Asian American fiction in the
Giants of Jazz on Film: The Great Jazz Singers
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Mark Cantor is a walking encyclopedia of jazz stories from household legends to the obscure sideman. Narrating clips from his extensive...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Gallery Extraña
Emily the Strange's black bangs make her hard to miss, and her cheeky misanthropy has won her legions of adoring fans....
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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....
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ CounterPULSE
José Navarette doesn't just want his audience to groove, he wants them to move too — to take action against the...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ Moscone Center
Set phasers to stun. WonderCon is beaming down to Moscone Center for three nerd-tastic days of sci-fi, fantasy, and comic mania....
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mysterious flashes of ancient Japan nestle with sexy snapshots of modern Tokyo in this world premiere. Well before the digital age,...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
