Events on Friday, April 30
Friday 4/30 @ Berkeley Art Museum
John Herschend and Will Rogan, founders of the Thing Quarterly, make art a hands-on experience. Each issue features an everyday object...
Friday 4/30 @ Oddball Film + Video
Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of rare 16mm films that explore the themes of Time, Space and...
Friday 4/30 @ The Fillmore
When Zach Schwartz lost his job in the dot-com bust, he decided to reinvent himself and start a new band. He'd...
Afrolicious 3-Year Anniversary Party Night 2
Friday 4/30 @ Elbo Room
For the last three years the Afrolicious party has established itself as a worldwide destination for dancers, DJs, bands and music...
Friday 4/30 @ CounterPULSE
CounterPULSE lights up a birthday cake with a three-night performance festival fundraiser designed to echo the different aspects of this unusual...
Dr. Rock & Latin Rock Inc presents: Lava + Mestizo "Classic Latin Rock" + Carmen Milagro
Friday 4/30 @ Slim's
This Bay Area-based band plays different styles of Latin music including: Latin Jazz, Cha-Cha-Cha, Latin Rock, Latin Funk and Salsa. Lava...
Joe Rut (CD Release Show) / Comedian Will Franken
Friday 4/30 @ Great American Music Hall
Joe Rut celebrates the release of this fifth CD, Injured While Faking own Death, with a rare full band performance. Joe...
Ongoing Events
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Friday 4/30 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Friday 4/30 @ 18 Reasons
Scratch 'n' sniff usually gets relegated to Lisa Frank novelties, but To Curry Favor, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik's latest exhibit at the...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
Influenced by the Northern European painting tradition as well as by photography, television, and cinema, Luc Tuymans blends filmic techniques with...
Friday 4/30 @ CounterPULSE
SF performance space CounterPULSE's 19th birthday kicks off with the Agitprop Cabaret, which CP describes as being reserved for "overtly political...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ 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
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Friday 4/30 @ Piedmont Theater
When George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg first brainstormed settings for the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, they considered a...
Friday 4/30 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Friday 4/30 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Friday 4/30 @ 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....
SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Shell-Shock, or Ammunition and Ornament
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
Highlighting the historical relationship of art-making and the war effort both at home and on the battlefield, this iteration of Arts...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Friday 4/30 @ 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
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Friday 4/30 @ Roxie Theater
A platoon of eagles and vultures attack the residents of a small town. Many people died. It's not known what caused...
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Friday 4/30 @ San Francisco Performances
Innovative and sensual, Compañía Nacional de Danza has established itself as one of the great contemporary dance companies in the world....
SMITHS: Arts & Skills Service: On Shell-Shock, or Ammunition and Ornament
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
Highlighting the historical relationship of art-making and the war effort both at home and on the battlefield, this iteration of Arts...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
