Events on Thursday, July 8
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Café du Soleil
A group of SF community members who care about sustainability have been officially recognized as the 55th Transition Initiative in the...
Mob Figaz featuring The Jacka & Husalah + Strong Arm Steady + DJ Quest
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Slim's
Hailing from the Bay Area, the collective known as Mob Figaz features the mighty talents of The Jacka, Rydah...
A Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films – Program 2
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SFMOMA
This art-house classic, Warhol’s most commercially successful film, features 16mm films projected split screen with a single audio track. In choreographed...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
This is the Book I have Written for You
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Park Life
Tucker Nichols is the artist behind anonymouspostcard.org. The site allows users to submit anonymous complaints which Nichols turns into works of...
Thursday 7/ 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...
Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Roxie Theater
Some movies are measured by the quality of the acting — others, by the quantity of blood. You can treat yourself...
Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
The Pansy Craze was a period in the '20s and '30s when gay performers ("pansies") and gay clubs started to gain...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Rena Bransten Gallery
Poppers are the drug of choice for outré filmmaker John Waters. He confesses to once taking a huff of amyl nitrate...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ 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...
More Glitter — Less Bitter: Photos by Daniel Nicoletta
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Electric Works
In 1973 Harvey Milk opened a camera shop in the Castro, after a roll of film that he left at another...
Paul Klee: Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Carl Djerassi's generous promise to give SFMOMA a substantial group of intimate works — mostly drawings, prints, and watercolors — by...
As It Is Written: Project 304,805
Thursday 7/ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This presentation in the...
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Thursday 7/ 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...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SFMOMA
On January 18, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's...
RitLab: After-Work DIY Art-Making
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Create, Schmooze, Nosh, and Drink with Old Friends and New Inspired by the coast-to-coast D-I-Y craft movement, the CJM presents a...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SFMOMA
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This exhibition showcases museum-produced...
Thursday 7/ 8 @ Elbo Room
Afrolicious with DJs/hosts brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz, along with resident drummers J. Elrod and B. Lee bring you the best in Latin and...
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Thursday 7/ 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....
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
Thursday 7/ 8 @ SFMOMA
This past February, SFMOMA announced an unprecedented partnership to house and display the collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher...
