Events on Saturday, October 8
Saturday 10/ 8 @ SFMOMA
Yoga is great, but yoga in a unique setting is even better. That's why we're so excited about our Art of...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Arch Drafting Supply
Your choices: Typewriter, ballpoint, quill pen, or cut-and-paste ransom letter? Addressed to a friend, lover, acquaintance, or stranger? Hearken back to...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Madison Square Park
Asian Health Services serves 21,000 patients and is one of the only organizations in the Bay Area offering HIV/AIDS services to...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Cafe du Nord
Thousands of bands imitate Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer, but few do so with the finesse of Dead Meadow, a power...
Leap's 28th Annual Sandcastle Contest
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Ocean Beach
If there were ever a superlative guaranteed to stun and awe, "largest sandcastle event in Northern California" might be it. SF...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Galería de la Raza
Photographer Lou Dematteis' Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest chronicles the human and environmental impact of Texaco’s...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ photograph and frame
The Art of the Fillmore collection is a series of vintage concert posters commissioned by the late great concert promoter Bill...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kurt Schwitters' work is an extraordinary time capsule from the turn of the 20th century, when the availability of artistic media...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre
You might know Rita Moreno as Anita from West Side Story, the voice of Carmen Sandiego in the animated Fox show,...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Marx & Zavattero
Yoon Lee's paintings are an intricate study in chaos. Hailing from South Korea, San Francisco, and New York, Lee is familiar...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Various locations
The 34th Mill Valley Film Festival kicks off with co-openers Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close as a woman who lives as...
Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues and Assassins
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Conservatory of Flowers
When Abraham Lincoln was but a wee lad, his mother ingested dairy from a cow that had been munching on snakeroot....
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Eighty-five years after his somewhat enigmatic death, the world is still processing the impact of Harry Houdini's art. Debunker of proclaimed...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ CELLspace
The Primitive Screwheads, a cult film-loving theatre troupe, take their name from a snarky one-liner spouted by the fiery character Ash...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Exposure Gallery
The San Francisco Exposure Gallery is proud to present our latest exhibit, entitled Double Exposure, featuring two bodies of work by...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ 941 Geary
It should perhaps come as no surprise that a country founded as a penal colony some 230-odd years ago should be...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Various locations
An art show, film screening, and pecha kucha night all culminate in the gem of this year's Estria Graffiti Arts Festival:...
Iva Gueorguieva and Julie Weitz
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Electric Works
Iva Gueorguieva was born in Bulgaira in 1974. She received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ House of Air
Remember back in April 2010, when it seemed like the whole city was ditching work early to ride on that temporary...
Brice Bischoff, Tabitha Soren, and Ellen Black
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Johansson Projects
Bischoff Soren Black is an exhibit by three artists who are obsessed with the natural world — caves and caverns, oceans,...
Saturday 10/ 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 10/ 8 @ a.Muse Gallery
Willetts' intricately rendered ink and gouache paintings focus on what we can know objectively about our anatomy and what it actually...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay, fresh off his world tour of The Clock, a 24-hour video remix of film clips charting the movement of...
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Landmark Lumiere Theatre
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 presents an alternative perspective on the Black Power movement of the late '60s: the perspective of...
Guided Walking Tour of the Castro
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Harvey Milk Plaza
From its roots as a haven for SF's Irish community, to the gay sexual revolution in the '70s, the Castro's story...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ RayKo Photo Center
When Elin Høyland heard about two elderly brothers, Harald and Mathias Ramen, living together in Tessanden, a small hamlet in rural...
Saturday 10/ 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 10/ 8 @ Photobooth
Vince Donovan and Michael Shindler came up with the idea for Photobooth one day over margaritas in the Mission. They wanted...
Music for a City, Music for the World
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Main Library
The year is 1911: Revolution is ripping through Mexico to the south, and east, Arizona isn't even a state. Meanwhile San...
The Artist Backstage: Drawings and Paintings by Zero Mostel
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Broadway legend, larger than life personality and target of Hollywood blacklisting, Zero Mostel was a prolific visual artist. Far away from...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
A compilation of recent videos from The 8th Floor featuring established and emerging artists based in Cuba. It explores a dynamic...
Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Charlotte Salomon was a young Jewish artist from Berlin, who worked feverishly between 1940 and 1942 to produce approximately 1300 paintings...
Allan deSouza: Close Quarters and Far Pavilions
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Allan deSouza’s new video and photographic installation, “Close Quarters and Far Pavilions,” evokes the exotic allure of a faraway place as...
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
There is no mistaking the ambitions of this low-budget first film scripted, directed and acted by Sasikumar. The film was hailed...
castaneda/reiman: Portrait of the Ground
Saturday 10/ 8 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman, of the collaborative castaneda/reiman, create a minimalist installation using the landscape as their starting point. With...
