Events on Friday, July 30

Gamelan Sekar Jaya

Music: Global

Gamelan Sekar Jaya

Friday 7/30 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Gamelan is an Indonesian form of music created with metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs, strings, and bamboo flutes. The instruments are tuned... 

Soilwork w/ Death Angel, Augury, and Mutiny Within

Music

Soilwork w/ Death Angel, Augury, and Mutiny Within

Friday 7/30 @ Slim's

The Godfathers of Swedish modern metal, Soilwork, are pleased to announce that they will embark on a North American headlining tour... 

Kinky Friedman

Music

Kinky Friedman

Friday 7/30 @ Great American Music Hall

Outrageous and irreverent but nearly always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman wrote and performed satirical country songs during the '70s and has been... 

Ongoing Events

Wanderlust w/ DJ Moby

Festival: Music

Wanderlust

Friday 7/30 @ Squaw Valley USA

Wanderlust is where yoga retreat meets indie-rock festival. It was founded in 2009 by music exec Jeff Krasno and his yoga... 

Oakland Lost and Found Photo Show

Art: Photography

Oakland Lost and Found

Friday 7/30 @ Woody's Cafe

In 1943, Kasper Koojoolian established Kasper's Hot Dogs in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood. His grandson Harry Yaglijian, the third-generation owner of the... 

<em>Cremaster Cycle</em>

Film

Cremaster Cycle

Friday 7/30 @ Roxie Theater

Conceptual artist Matthew Barney first learned the word "cremaster" at his sister's wedding. He was talking to his family physician, Dr.... 

<em>Misspelled</em>: An Alphabet by Victor Reyes

Art

Misspelled

Friday 7/30 @ Robert Berman Gallery/E6

Over the past two years, a series of electric-colored letters have sprouted up around the Mission. With their swirls and flourishes,... 

<em>Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities</em>

Special Event

Wondrous Strange: A Twenty-first Century Cabinet of Curiosities

Friday 7/30 @ Fort Mason Center

Wunderkammern, German for wonder rooms, were totally hot during the Renaissance. These collections of bizarre objects and early scientific specimens were... 

Dave Eggers: <em>It Is Right to Draw Their Fur </em>and David Byrne:<em> Arboretum </em>

Art

Dave Eggers: It Is Right to Draw Their Fur and David Byrne: Arboretum

Friday 7/30 @ Electric Works

SF author Dave Eggers and Talking Heads musician David Byrne are buddies. They go on bike rides together in the Marin... 

Tracy Morgan

Comedy

Tracy Morgan

Friday 7/30 @ Cobb's Comedy Club

Tracy Morgan is well-endowed. He claims that a previous partner likened their love-making sessions to getting stuffed with Stove Top stuffing,... 

Thrillpeddlers presents <em>Pearls Over Shanghai</em>

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Friday 7/30 @ 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... 

<em>Winnebago Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Winnebago Man

Friday 7/30 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre

Jack Rebney has been dubbed "the world's angriest RV salesman." In the summer of '88, a group of disgruntled crew members... 

Free Gold Watch presents Grady Gordon: <em>Memento Vivere</em>

Art

Grady Gordon: Memento Vivere

Friday 7/30 @ Free Gold Watch

Grady Gordon says: Grady Gordon is originally from Santa Fe, NM. He has a BFA in Illustration from California College of... 

<em>Beatles to Bowie</em>

Art: Photography

Beatles to Bowie

Friday 7/30 @ San Francisco Art Exchange

The Beatles to Bowie photography showcase is about rock stars and also the people behind the camera. The show includes rare... 

Joe Goode Performance Group presents <em>Traveling Light</em>

Dance

Traveling Light

Friday 7/30 @ Old Mint Building

Traveling Light, Joe Goode Performance Group's latest production, is aptly titled. The local company doesn't need to bring much with them... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Friday 7/30 @ 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... 

30th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Festival: Film

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Friday 7/30 @ Various locations

In its 30th year, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival showcases complex perspectives on Jewish identity. One angle: Jews are badass.... 

<em>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Friday 7/30 @ Asian Art Museum

By any metric, Shanghai is a city of superlatives: it boasts the largest population of any metropolitan area in China, and... 

TechnoCraft:<em> </em>Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality

Art

TechnoCraft

Friday 7/30 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

SF-based industrial designer Yves Béhar has designed a waterproof rechargeable vibrator, dog accessories, the XO laptop, and an enormous Swarovski chandelier... 

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the... 

Dispatches from the Archives

Art

Dispatches from the Archives

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced... 

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

Art

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher... 

Picturing Modernity

Art: Photography

Picturing Modernity

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

Organized in conjunction with New Topographics: Photographs of a... 

<em>Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life</em>

Art

Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life

Friday 7/30 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Reinventing Ritual is the first international exhibition to examine how artists are transforming traditional practices into opportunities for contemplation and critique.... 

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Art

Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by... 

Art

SFMOMA Live Art presents Rebecca Solnit

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

Solnit's forthcoming book Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas... 

ODC/Dance Summer Sampler

Dance

ODC/Dance Summer Sampler

Friday 7/30 @ ODC

Join ODC for its fourth annual Summer Sampler
A Delicious Sampling of Wine, Hors d'Oeuvres and Dance
... 

People's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Friday 7/30 @ 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... 

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Art

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Friday 7/30 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) is the first museum survey of Maira Kalman’s narrative
... 

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Art: Photography

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition spanAs It Is Written: Project 304,805

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Friday 7/30 @ 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... 

The Anniversary Show

Art

The Anniversary Show

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's... 

New Work: Mika Rottenberg

Film

New Work: Mika Rottenberg

Friday 7/30 @ SFMOMA

Mika Rottenberg’s immersive video installations address issues of gender and labor through outrageous narratives centered around real women (not... 

A Spirited Life in the Secular World: Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sam Keen / Lecture & Workshop

Workshop/Class

A Spirited Life in the Secular World: Brother David Steindl-Rast and Sam Keen / Lecture & Workshop

Friday 7/30 @ Berkeley Arts and Letters