Events on Sunday, May 16
Sunday 5/16 @ Howard & Beale St
The Bay to Breakers footrace is back and celebrating its 99th anniversary. In 1940, Bobbie Burke was the first women to...
Bean-Out: Temporary Restaurant Happening
Sunday 5/16 @ Gravel and Gold
When Mark Andrew Gravel stumbled upon the glittering signage of a Mission shop called Gravel and Gold, he thought he might...
Sunday 5/16 @ Thirsty Bear Brewery
Let's get ready to rumble! It's time for another installment of the themed cooking competition, SF Food Wars. Anyone can join,...
Sunday 5/16 @ Fabric8
When San Francisco artist Erik Otto was a kid, he painted with brooms and Egg Beaters. Now, he scrounges around various...
Set Your Goals + Comeback Kid + Title Fight + the Story So Far
Sunday 5/16 @ Slim's
This isn't their first rodeo, you know? In fact, Bay Area pop-punk band Set Your Goals have been rocking crowds from...
Ongoing Events
To the Limit: Pina Bausch on Film
Sunday 5/16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Pina Bausch, the German modern dance virtuoso, used to ask her dancers to react to a series of questions and statements...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Sunday 5/16 @ Hypnodrome
In early '70s San Francisco, before David Bowie and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, there were the Cockettes. This gender-bending, free-wheeling...
Chain Reaction 11 / Replay: SFAC Gallery 1970 – Present
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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
Sunday 5/16 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
When French photographer and painter Linda Ellia picked up Mein Kampf five years ago, she saw potential — for healing, discussion,...
Sunday 5/16 @ Elbo Room
Now 15+ years strong, DUB MISSION is one of the longest-running dub & reggae parties in the U.S., and the world....
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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
Sunday 5/16 @ 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
Sunday 5/16 @ 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
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Film Screening: LIGHT IN THE WEST: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1860-1880
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
spanArt
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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....
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Sunday 5/16 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Sunday 5/16 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
