Events on Sunday, August 1

Out Side Art: a Block Party

Special Event: Fundraisers

Out Side Art

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 161 Erie St

A recent search of the Craiglist housing section for our fine city includes an offer for rent-free housing in exchange for... 

Ongoing Events

Wanderlust w/ DJ Moby

Festival: Music

Wanderlust

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Grady Gordon: Memento Vivere

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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>Misspelled</em>: An Alphabet by Victor Reyes

Art

Misspelled

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Fort Mason Center

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

<em>Pixar: 25 Years of Animation</em>

Film: Animation

Pixar: 25 Years of Animation

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Oakland Museum of California

Pixar Chief Scientist Loren Carpenter is obsessed with zoetropes — the spinning "wheels of life" that were one of the first... 

Tracy Morgan

Comedy

Tracy Morgan

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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,... 

Outdoor Exploratorium

Special Event

Outdoor Exploratorium

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Winnebago Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Winnebago Man

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Shanghai</em>

Special Event

Shanghai

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Asian Art Museum

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

Stern Grove Festival

Festival: Music

Stern Grove Festival

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Sigmund Stern Grove

In 1931, in memory of her late husband, Rosalie Meyer Stern donated the Sigmund Stern Grove to the city of SF... 

<em>Beatles to Bowie</em>

Art: Photography

Beatles to Bowie

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

Oakland Lost and Found Photo Show

Art: Photography

Oakland Lost and Found

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Dance

Traveling Light

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Cremaster Cycle</em>

Film

Cremaster Cycle

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Roxie Theater

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

30th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Festival: Film

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Various locations

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

Renegade Craft Fair

Art: Happening

Renegade Craft Fair

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Fort Mason Festival Pavilion

The aisles of the Renegade Craft Fair are like the best of Etsy.com coming to life. Chicagoans Sue Daly and Kathleen... 

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

Theatre

Pearls Over Shanghai

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

TechnoCraft

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

Dub Mission

Music: DJ

Dub Mission

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Elbo Room

Now 15+ years strong, DUB MISSION  is one of the longest-running dub & reggae parties in the U.S., and the world.... 

Art

SFMOMA Live Art presents Rebecca Solnit

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

Art

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Art: Photography

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

A turning point in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition span<em>Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life</em>

Art

Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

New Work: Mika Rottenberg

Film

New Work: Mika Rottenberg

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

People's Torah

Art

People's Torah

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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)

Sunday 8/ 1 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

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

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Art

As It Is Written: Project 304,805

Sunday 8/ 1 @ 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

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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

Picturing Modernity

Art: Photography

Picturing Modernity

Sunday 8/ 1 @ SFMOMA

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