Events on Saturday, May 8
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Veterans War Memorial
Ever get the urge to get a few friends together, dress up as Diana Ross, and play bingo with an order...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Uptown Nightclub
Hottub got their name from an old SNL skit where Eddie Murphy, as James Brown, sings "Hot tub, gonna make you...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Upper Playground
Street artist Alex Pardee has a studio in Walnut Creek which used to be a brothel in the 1920s. He usually...
Hapa Ramen Pop-up Noodle Party
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Coffee Bar
Hapa Ramen, the latest entry into SF's burgeoning street food/pop-up restaurant scene, has culinary street cred: in their spare time, founding...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Amnesia
San Francisco has Banksy fever. The British artist's stencil stunts have been cropping up across the city to coincide with the...
Poor Man's Whiskey presents Old and In The Way
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Great American Music Hall
The Bay Area's outlaw music bards bring a reputation for high-energy live shows and an incomparable fusion of folk, punk, rock...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Slim's
MONO have returned with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn to the Immortal Wind. The music is naturally majestic,...
Giants of Jazz on Film: Benny Goodman and the Kings of Swing
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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
To the Limit: Pina Bausch on Film
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 1:AM Gallery
The folks behind New York collective TrustoCorp have tossed aside the spray paint and developed their own technique for creating street...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ Asian Art Museum
By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and...
Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ Zellerbach Hall
Cal Performances says: At the heart of this new multimedia work from brilliant storyteller Laurie Anderson is the pleasure of language...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ New People
In 1954, Japanese director Tomoyuki Tanaka was flying over Bikini Atoll on his way to Indonesia, when he was inspired to...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Film Screening: LIGHT IN THE WEST: PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER 1860-1880
Saturday 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
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Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
This suite of drawings, commissioned by SFMOMA, offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. British artist Ewan...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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....
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique....
Saturday 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Just as photography has been instrumental in shaping California's popular image, the state — and San Francisco, in particular — has...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Elbo Room
DJs Disco Shawn and Oro11, the guys behind Bersas Discos, bring you Tormenta Tropical, a place where the underground sounds of...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ SFMOMA
From its early days, SFMOMA has been devoted to fostering close relationships with artists, and these ties often have led to...
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