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Friday, 19 March, 2010 - My Other Half - Gallery 146 Artist Reception

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Collaboration is defined as the process where two or more people work together in an intersection of common goals by sharing knowledge, learning, and building consensus. In the spirit of collaboration, CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE’S COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAM and GALLERY 146 are pleased to invite you to the exhibition entitled MY OTHER HALF.

“It seems inevitable that from a collective of artists that commune together frequently, we would witness spontaneous and enlightening results,” said Ivan Vera, CAP Program Manager. “Some collaborations were borne from one artist demonstrating the potential of one technique incorporated into a different media and some out of mutual admiration for one another’s work.” After witnessing the potential exemplified in just a few works, Hospitality House decided to further elaborate on the theme by setting the boundaries for the exercise that became this exhibition.

“When it comes to a successful collaboration, both sides seek to enhance the final outcome by merging sensibilities into one triumphant combination of ideas,” Vera explains. “Realizing the concept of negotiating and merging ideas is akin to the compromise involved in a successful partnership is insinuated in the exhibition’s title.”

The final collaborations will be flanked by and linked to one individual work from its contributors to illustrate their stylistic sources. Since some participants will be taking part in multiple collaborations, and since the pieces are being linked to one another, the gallery will present an interesting visual mapping of where the stylistic offerings of this community intersect one another.

The exhibition will be on view from March 5 through May 5, 2010. There will be an artist reception Friday, March 19th from 5 to 7 PM.

GALLERY 146 promotes artists from the Community Arts Program at Central City Hospitality House, a free-of-charge fine arts studio in the Tenderloin.

Friday, 19 March, 2010 - Dusted

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

The luggage store is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring “Dusted: work by Dustin Fosnot. Fosnot uses materials that are close at hand or found on the street and reworks them to comment on their originating environment or their related materiality His work is also about creating other worlds, which the viewer can be transported to - all the pieces are loosely tied together through their content, the different materials in the pieces are related in terms of the cheapness or found aspects.

The pieces revolve around stereotypical depictions of environmental degradation, the economy, or pollution. However, these larger themes are more like springboards with which to create other worlds, which have simpler meanings people can relate to such as wonder and humor. Most of this work balances between cliché, darkness, play, and humor.

For instance, one of Fosnot’s works “Snow Blind” ( Styrofoam, mixed media, portrays a “fossilized” view of industrial society…where cars are seen speeding down a freeway, frozen in motion. The cars become artifacts of a “lost age”

Fosnot finds beauty in trash or what most people find useless. Reworking material such as broken glass into geological formations, begins to speak about the erosive forces of nature that are at play within the urban environment and how time tends to overwhelm and engulf all things cities, mountains, and earth.

Friday, 19 March, 2010 - ' A Golden Dawn ' by Savanna Snow and Michael Eli

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

' You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.' -Isadora Duncan

A Golden Dawn is the collaborative effort of California artists Michael Eli and Savanna Snow opening this March 19th at Art At The Oakbook, a community oriented art gallery based in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA. This show of drawings, paintings and an environmental installation seeks to place the viewer at the dawn of a New Romantic movement via a re-contexting of California’s golden naturalistic and romantic ages. Here, representing many months of collaborative work created on found materials from key sites connected to the historical figures they invoke, these two artists offer up a mediation on the past Utopian movements of turn of the century America: Late 1800's - 1900's. Key figures in time such as Joaquin Miller, William Merrit Chase, Bernard Maybeck, John Muir, Ordonez De Montalvo and The Stella Matutina play prominently in this show among many others that attempted to pave the way towards a brighter, more vast future.

Friday, 19 March, 2010 - L@TE: Friday Nights @BAM/PFA (Skank Bloc Bologna Number Four: Tosh Berman)

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:30:00 -0500

More of the unexpected from Skank Bloc Bologna Number Four! Tosh Berman presents Aleph, his father Wallace Berman’s hand-painted filmic meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. Just as Wallace did, Tosh will accompany Aleph with music of his choice. Local artist Jennifer Locke’s career as a professional dominatrix and champion submission wrestler informs her physically challenging “actions,” which she performs hidden from the audience and reiterated in a live video feed. A recorded sonic tour by U.K.-based dub poet Lynton Kwesi Johnston explores his experiences as an African Caribbean living in Britain. Skanking encouraged!

Preceded at 6 p.m. by one of our favorite KALX DJs spinning in the lobby, where wine and beer are available for purchase.

General admission to the BAM galleries is just $5 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Friday, 19 March, 2010 - The Chairs

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

An elderly couple living on an island spend their time sharing old stories and entertaining imaginary guests in this daring and timeless farce by Eugene Ionesco. Directed by David Lear

WHEN: March 19 to April 11, 2010 March 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 and April 2, 3, 9, 10 + 11 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays No performance Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010.

TICKETS: $17 to $22 General $22; Senior (62+) $17; Youth (13-21) $17

BOX OFFICE: 707-523-4185 Order tickets online, by telephone or at the door. Reservations recommended

WEB SITE: www.6thstreetplayhouse.com

Friday, 19 March, 2010 - ZOYRES EASTERN EUROPEAN WILD FERMENT

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

ZOYRES EASTERN EUROPEAN WILD FERMENT: Reunion Show and Sauerkraut Sampling  Friday, March 19

Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment has been delighting Bay Area audiences since 2004 with their inventive take on klezmer and Balkan music and their home-brewed and fermented pickles, krauts, kimchees, beers, and wines (which often accompany Zoyres performances). Over the years, Zoyres has developed a dynamic collective sound that’s complex and catchy, down-home and danceable. Drawing on Eastern European folk music, free improvisation, jazz, rock, and drum-n-bass, the Zoyres recipe is a fusion nonpareil—an exciting new taste based on Old World flavors!  Mike Perlmutter: alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet Liam Staskawicz: trombone Jonathan Russell: clarinet, bass clarinet Josh Sirotiak: tuba Eddie Pollard: drums  From Zoyres: “The name ‘Zoyres’ derives from the Yiddish term for fermented vegetables, ‘zoyers.’ These foods have been transformed by culture and community (of the microbial sort) through incredible biochemical fermentation processes. These ‘cultural’ transformations underlie our own cultural development, as humans have relied and reveled in fermented foods for millennia. Zoyres’s music represents the geo-social analogue to the biochemical ferment. Our music, of Eastern European origin, brined in the contemporary cultural milieu, is akin to the pickle, still evident in its cucumbral origin, but with a taste and texture transformed.”  “Set up as a folk band but equally influenced by jazz, Zoyres offers fascinating interpretations of ancient Balkan and klezmer songs, plus some original material that adds weird meters and jazzy horn solos to the old song structures. Zoyres advertises itself as a dance band, partly because of the tautness of its rhythms, and partly because it sounds a lot bigger than it actually is. But the band’s real selling point is that its members have real chops.” —Rachel Swan, East Bay Express  www.zoyres.com  www.myspace.com/zoyres  www.youtube.com/zoyres  $10 - $15 admission. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm. ZOYRES EASTERN EUROPEAN WILD FERMENT: Reunion Show and Sauerkraut Sampling  Friday, March 19

Friday, 19 March, 2010 - COLLABORATIVE DREAMS Improvisation-based videos by David Finkelstein

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Tonight New York artist David Finkelstein will present his video work, dramatic, hallucinatory explorations of the inner landscape, at Artist Television Access. His videos are based on completely improvised dialogues, in which two actors explore their inner visions in a process which Finkelstein compares to a collaborative form of dreaming. These dialogues are then transformed into dynamic, complex, and meticulously crafted compositions of original music, words, and visual images. Works to be screened will include Terrifying Blankness (2008) featuring Cassie Terman, and Reproductive Technology (2008) with Allison Farrow, as well as several shorter videos. Finkelstein has been making theater since 1982, and video since 2000. His work has been screened at numerous festivals and venues, winning 9 awards.

'The throughline is one of emotions, of moods and energy. These pieces are filled with ideas; you don't stop thinking while you're watching, but the intellect doesn't run the show. If you get inside the feelings of these films, they make sense. --Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Houdini Weekend at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

'Houdini Magic Weekend!' Date: March 20-21 Magicians from around Northern California are performing and putting on classes. Don't miss one of our most popular events.

The special events of the Houdini Magic Weekend are in addition to all of Playland's regular attractions. Guests pay one low price to enter and play all day: $10 for children and seniors, and $15 for general admission. Playland-Not-at-the-Beach is a nonprofit Museum of Fun. Designed and built entirely by volunteers, the 20+ interactive exhibits celebrate the magic and history of America's bygone amusements -- circuses, carnivals, magic, side shows, penny arcades, amusement devices, pinball arcades, haunted houses, and beautiful art everywhere. Our goal is to educate newer generations about the bygone days and allow those who remember Whitney's Playland and the Sutro Baths the opportunity to recapture the glorious sights and sounds of that marvelous era.

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Obscura Day in San Francisco - Field Trip to Musee Mecanique&Aquatic Park Tombstones

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Join Atlas Obscura (http://atlasobscura.com) for an afternoon excursion to the amazing Musee Mecanique for an afternoon of creepy wind-up fortune tellers, prisoner-made toothpick automata, and naughty peep shows of yesteryear. Proprietor Dan Zelinsky will be on hand to tell stories and answer questions about the contraptions. When all the quarters run out, we'll head down to Aquatic Park for afternoon snacks on the terraces made of discarded Gold Rush era tombstones.
DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS
Musee Mecanique: Noon-2pm, Aquatic Park 2:30 pm. Meet us at the entrance to the Musee at noon, or find us inside pawing the machines.
ABOUT OBSCURA DAY

Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places taking place around the world on March 20, 2010. It is sponsored by Atlas Obscura, a guide to the world's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. To find out more about the Atlas and Obscura Day, or to find out how you can host an event in your city, visit http://ObscuraDay.com, or follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/atlasobcura) or Facebook (http://facebook.com/atlasobscura).

Official RSVP here: http://obscuraday-sf.eventbrite.com/

Musee Mecanique on Atlas Obscura - http://bit.ly/dezDJv

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Obscura Evening at the Long Now

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Please join Atlas Obscura and the Long Now Foundation for a reception at The Long Now Foundation Museum + Store from 5-7pm on March 20th for Atlas Obscura Day.

Several of the engineers and project staff working on the 10,000 Year Clock and Rosetta Project will be on hand to give explanations and demonstrations of artifacts in the Museum. We are walking distance from Musee Mecanique and our space in San Francisco is home to a few Atlas Obscura sites including a Longplayer listening outpost, and later prototypes of the 10,000 Year Clock. We will have wine and nibbles for those in attendance, and our large monitor will be displaying the recently launched Long Now Locations category on Atlas Obscura.

RSVP and details:

http://obscuraday-long-now.eventbrite.com/

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Time(Lapse) - Opening at Krowswork Gallery

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Krowswork Gallery is pleased to present Time(Lapse), an exhibition featuring photography, video, and installation by Drone Dungeon, Katja Mater, Kim Miskowicz, and Liena Vayzman. Each of these artists is exploring image degradation through manipulated or natural cycles of time, echoing yet ultimately breaking with the sequential and linear clarity charted by photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s famous “Motion Studies” in favor of a restructuring of narrative and an emphasis on the complexity of the whole.

In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge made history by capturing sequential photographs of the individual intervals of a horse in motion. By thwarting time in such dramatic fashion, Muybridge positioned himself at the frontier of the moving image,* and his photographs seem inseparable from the very trajectory of history he foretold: one in which cutting edge technology would be able to decipher processes that had been up till then literally a blur. But now, in 2010, it must be admitted that the clarity that trajectory portended may not be the actual end result at all.

While the artists in this exhibition do not profess to be answering to Muybridge, their specific explorations of time and motion in a photographic medium answer to Muybridge’s experiments 130 years ago, and in some ways their approaches can be viewed as both as a critique and a continuation of the paradigm he initiated. Each of them is working to overlap and condense accumulated motion and time into singular imagery—an effort that purposely nullifies the sequential rationale of the original motion studies and obscures the very intelligibility Muybridge was seeking through them. Yet these artists, like their 19th-century predecessor, are very much in step with the psychic demands of their time, which today require that information be processed faster, that natural cycles previously thought untouchable be understood as manipulable by man and his technology, that linear narrative be treated as suspect, and that uncertainty, not clarity, rule the day.

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Music at Large presents “The Rights of Spring”

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

{freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of music…}

featuring

Lewis Jordan (saxophone/poetry) India Cooke (violin) Karl Evangelista (electric guitar) Eric Marshall (acoustic bass) Sandor Moss (drums)

Music at Large is a series dedicated to interdisciplinary work. The categories that are often presented to us are not of our own making. As a personal, practical and political imperative we have to be the definers of our world.

http://www.myspace.com/lewisjordanmusicatlarge http://www lewisjordan.com/

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - The Mikado Singalong

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

If you’ve ever sat in the audience wishing you could sing along, now’s your chance! You are invited to be a part of the extended chorus in this fun production, which promises to put you, literally, right in the middle of the action. The Mikado Sing-Along will be presented in full with a live orchestra and beautiful costumes. If you choose to come in costume you have the chance to win one of many fabulous prizes in our costume contest. Be a charming 'little maid' or a bloodthirsty Mikado and come sing your tit-willow off!

Very possibly the most popular musical comedy in the English language, The Mikado is a playful satire set in a fanciful (and wholly imaginary) Japan. In a time when flirting is a capital offense, wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo has fallen in love with the beautiful Yum-Yum, fiancée to the recently appointed Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko. When the honored Mikado, emperor of Japan, demands the execution of Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo volunteers to take Ko-Ko’s place under the condition that he first be allowed to marry Yum-Yum, chaos, desperation, and comical mayhem ensue in classic Gilbert and Sullivan style, with impromptu marriages, forged death certificates, and the revelation of a prince in disguise.

This fun-filled event features the cast of our sold-out summer 2008 production of The Mikado. Our last SingAlong sold out quickly so buy your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Kooks, Eccentrics and Oddballs: California Artist

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Event: “KOOKS, ECCENTRICS AND ODDBALLS: CALIFORNIA ARTISTS”. Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of documentary films profiling three exceptionally eccentric California artists. CHRIS BURDEN, the infamous performance and installation artist who explores ideas of personal (and interpersonal) danger and the taboo, FREDRIC HOBBS, the San Francisco creator of rolling sculpture (perhaps the first “art car”), and musical genius and visionary HARRY PARTCH.

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Rebecca Griffin, Jazz Vocalist

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:30:00 -0500

Jazz vocalist Rebecca Griffin brings a warm, sultry sound to original arrangements of tunes ranging from Ellington and Porter to Radiohead and Jeff Buckley. Hear sound clips, see live performance videos and more at http://www.rebeccagriffin.com

Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - The Visionary Art of Morris Graves

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Meridian Gallery’s The Visionary Art of Morris Graves offers the largest exhibition of work by the major American painter Morris Graves in recent memory. Curated by eminent Art Historian Peter Selz, the exhibition, which marks Graves’ 100th birthday, focuses on the mythic motifs and symbolism that run throughout his long career.

Morris Graves (1910 – 2001) was a largely self-taught artist closely associated with the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. His paintings, often small works on paper, were among the earliest to synthesize Eastern aesthetics and philosophy with the American Transcendental tradition.

In his own words, Graves was working “to evolve a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.”

Graves was a friend and an artist of great mutual significance for John Cage and Merce Cunningham; Meridian will contextualize Morris Graves and his work within a series of related music, poetry, and dance events.

Runs March 20 - May 15, 2010. See our website (www.meridiangallery.org) for more information.

Sunday, 21 March, 2010 - ArtSpan Tour des Artistes benefiting ArtSpan's Art for City Youth Program

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:30:00 -0500

Hosts: Michael Yochum, ArtSpan's Board Chairman and Therese Martin, ArtSpan's former executive director

Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 Time: 10:30am - 3:30pm

Starting Location: ARC Studios and Gallery, 1246 Folsom between 8th and 9th streets (http://arcsf.net/)

The tour will begin with coffee and pastries, followed by a VIP Brunch-Around tour of five working artists' studios in the SOMA area: - William Salit - Sandy Yagi - Katherine Arnold - Carolyn Hinman - Philippe Jestin

Connect with local artists and learn the inspiration behind their artwork! Enjoy VIP limo bus transportation and refreshments along the way. Tour lead by ArtSpan's Board Chairman, Michael Yochum, and ArtSpan's former executive director, Therese Martin.

Tour des Artistes raises funds for ArtSpan's Art for City Youth program. Currently all of the funding for art education in two under-served, San Francisco elementary schools is provided by ArtSpan and SF Open Studio artists, at no cost to the schools or students.

Cost is $75 per person. Purchase an ArtSpan Supporting Membership, and your Tour des Artistes tickets are included. Find out more here: http://artspantourdesartistesmarch2010.eventbrite.com/

About ArtSpan's Art for City Youth Program:

Art for City Youth (ACY) helps students enjoy art by making and discussing art with professional artists. SF Open Studios artists provide Bessie Carmichael Elementary School students with a classroom lesson on how to look at art, a docent tour of the SF Open Studios Exhibition, and a hands-on art class. The program gives artists experience working with youth and publicizes their ability to work with schools and community groups. For more information on this program, visit http://www.artspan.org/art-city-youth

Sunday, 21 March, 2010 - A Concert to Benefit the Cosmic Ray Division of Yerevan Physics Inst.

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0500

The 9th annual benefit concert in support of Armenia's Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) will take place at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco on Sunday, March 21st, 2010. The concert will feature three renowned musicians, Anahit Nercesyan, Soprano, Hrachia Niksalyan, Tenor, and Levon Abrahamyan, Pianist. The distinguished musicians will perform pieces by Puccini, Verdi, Tigranian, and Neapolitan popular songs. Prior to the show, there will be a pre-concert talk about the program, as well as a photograph exhibit.

MORE INFO: Anahid Yeremian ** http://www.crdfriends.org ** crdfriends@crdfriends.org ** 650-926-4444 Presented by The Support Committee for Armenia's Cosmic Ray Division (SCARD)

Sunday, 21 March, 2010 - FILM NIGHT: Marína of the Zabbaleen: Portrait of a Child Recycler

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Marína of the Zabbaleen, by Egyptian filmmaker Engi Wassef, is a documentary film that explores the world of seven-year-old Marína in the Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. An impressionistic portrait of childhood and family, Marína also tells the story of the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community of recyclers whose entrepreneurial waste management system produces one of the highest recycling rates in the world. As reported in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal, in the spring and fall of 2009, in reaction to the recent swine flu outbreak, the Egyptian government ordered the slaughter of all of the country’s pigs—the vast majority of which were raised by the Coptic Christian Zabbaleen and used integrally in the first phase of the recycling process. For almost a century, the Zabbaleen had raised pigs to consume the thousands of tons of organic waste generated daily by Cairo’s residents. The ramifications of the pig cull were far-reaching, devastating the livelihood of this minority community and imperiling Cairo’s entire system of waste management. (Cairo is the largest producer of waste on the African continent.) Yet the reasons for the pig cull were based at least as much on Egypt’s religious and political life as on scientific reasoning.

Marína premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where artistic director Peter Scarlet called it one of his favorite films of the festival. The film went on to win a Muhr Award at the Dubai International Film Festival.

“Filled with glancing light and happy faces, Marina of the Zabbaleen … fights hard to sweeten the misery of its surroundings. Its success is due in no small part to Rob Hauer’s eloquent cinematography, which creeps inside the mind of a child. … The film never loses its admiration for human resilience and childish imagination. Or for the tenacity of faith among those who seem most abandoned by their God.” —The New York Times

“The principal strength of Wassef's debut is its delicate, revealing look at Marina's life. … A portrait of the few who live off the rubbish of the affluent, Wassef's Zabbaleen is richly observed and poignant.” —Slant Magazine

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 - Honeymoon in Pyongyang

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

In 2008 newlyweds Kris and Noah Lang had the chance to visit Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on their honeymoon. Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst, they were surprised every step of the way.

Please join the Langs as they share photos and videos from travel around the northern part of the Korean peninsula. After the slideshow they will answer questions about this mysterious and largely unvisited country.

Noah Lang is a partner in Electric Works, a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in German Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University. In 1987, Noah took his first trip to the East, when he walked across the border of East-West Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie. Subsequently, he made two trips behind the Iron Curtain before the wall came down in 1989. Since then he has traveled around Eastern and Central Europe, taking in the sights, mushroom hunting and comparing stories of nostalgia and bitterness of the 'good old days' of socialism.

Kris Lang got Noah heading east as part of a tour visiting China instigated by her circus school coach, who was raised in the Chinese acrobat system. Besides China and the DPRK, they have traveled to Japan, the UK, Germany and Czech Republic.

This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 - SF Online Community Report MeetUp, Wed. March 24, 7 PM Pacific

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

The fourth Wed. of the month is the free monthly gathering of online community managers, enthusiasts, and innovators to meet and discuss tools and strategies for building and managing effective communities.

This month our MeetUp features a round-robin discussion on community management best practices, tips and tools, goals, and techniques for managing a successful online community. We'll have a number of online community experts on hand to moderate and lead the discussion. RSVP with any topics you'd like to talk about and join in the conversation! http://www.meetup.com/SF-Online-Community-Report/calendar/12702636

Here are all the ways you can take part in the event! Feel free to participate in any and all of these ways:

Follow the action on Twitter: hashtag: #ocrsf and via TweetChat.

Participate virtually in the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life (slurl to location in Second Life): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26 You can see a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life.

Join the San Francisco Online Community Report MeetUp group on Facebook

RSVP: RSVP http://www.meetup.com/SF-Online-Community-Report/calendar/12702636 to the MeetUp group . You can also join the San Francisco Online Community Report MeetUp group on Facebook .

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 - LOADED VISIONS: Videopoems by Antero Alli

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:30:00 -0500

Filmmaker in person.

'These are not videotaped poetry readings but experimental shorts using poetry as oblique narratives as way of invoking the spirits dwelling in the text itself. If tribal shamans created content for television, these videopoems might be construed for their brand of commercials.' -- Antero Alli

featuring LILY IN LIMBO (1996; 27:00) poetry by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) BOOK OF QUESTIONS (1993; 6:00), text by Pablo Neruda WITCH BURNING (1998; 4:00), text by Sylvi Plath A.A. ANTI-PHILOSOPHER (1999; 4:00), text by Tristan Tzara MOUVEMENT (2001; 4:00) and FAIRY (2001; 4:00), text by Arthur Rimbaud. SOME PASS THIS WAY (1994; 8:00), text by Sean Blosl. D.U.I. (1991; 8:00) , THE WORD, WEIRD (1993; 6:30), and COLD FORCE (1994; 4:00), text by Antero Alli

Watch 'Mouvement' (a VideoPoem; text by Rimbaud) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7IHctIVfCs

LOADED VISIONS Total Running Time: 72 minutes

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 - They Came to Play

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:30:00 -0500

This one-night-only special program combines a screening of the award-winning documentary They Came to Play with live performances by two of the pianists featured in the film. Directed by Alex Rotaru and produced by Lori Miller, They Came to Play is a rousing and uplifting film about the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Held every four years, the event attracts top amateur pianists from around the world, convening in Fort Worth, Texas for a week of music, competition and camaraderie. All of them have made their careers outside of music, but you wouldn’t know it from the quality of their performances. Including commentary from Van Cliburn himself, as well as professional gold-medalists, the film features beautiful performances of masterworks, from Beethoven to Alkan and from Rachmaninoff to Barber.

This program is highlighted by live performances of two pianists appearing in the film: Ken Iisaka of Mill Valley and Esfir Ross of Oakland. They will perform on a Steinway supplied by Sherman Clay + Co. Program approximately 2 hours.

Thursday, 25 March, 2010 - A Series of Reflections Art Show

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0500

'A Series of Reflections' is the new self-portrait show by WAM (women's art movement) to be hosted at the Boneflowers Boutique located at 1747 Polk Street SF CA 94109. Our closing reception will be Thursday March 25th from 4-8pm. There will be wine and snacks and complimentary tarot readings!

Thursday, 25 March, 2010 - Twestival San Francisco

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Twestival is a globally held event brought together by the twitter community to raise money for charity.

In February 2009, over 200 + cities worldwide raised $250,000 for Charity Water during Twestival. Making it possible to drink approximately 17 wells in 3rd world countries.

In September 2009, San Francisco chose OperationSmile.org as their charity to donate to, and raised $6,000 to help raise money for children with cleft lips in 3rd world countries.

San Francisco's goal is to help bring awareness to ConcernWorldWide (@concern) on March 25, 2009. Helping educate children who are in need, helping educate teachers, and build schools where needed.

Joining us for a special performance will be @Stroke9!

Sponsors include but not limited to: Paypal, LIVE105, Tap11, Eye-Fi, PopChips, and more! Full Details of our event can be seen at http://www.twestivalsf.com

If you have any questions please email us at info@twestivalsf.com Follow @twestivalsf on Twitter or reach out to @krystyl (SF Coordinator) directly.

Thursday, 25 March, 2010 - Second April

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

“Second April” March 25th - May 7, 2010.

RECEPTION: Thursday March 25th, 11:30 - 1pm

A solo exhibition of new work by Bay Area and NY based sublime landscape painter Suzanne Onodera. This body of work was inspired by the poems of Edna St Vincent Millay and the New York Hudson River area where Onodera was an artist in resident, fall'08 and winter '09.

Onodera attended the School of the Art Institute, Chicago,IL.and California College of the Arts, BFA (Painting) Oakland, CA. Her work resides in public and private collections in the US and Europe. She is represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco,CA., Lanoue Gallery, Boston, MA and Tang Gallery, Bisbee, AZ. EBMUD GALLERY HOURS: M-F 8:30am - 4pm

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - Dance Anywhere - conceptual public art project

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0500

On March 26, 2010, thousands of dancers worldwide will come together simultaneously in dance to celebrate the universal importance and joy of movement. In its sixth year, dance anywhere will take place on Friday, March 26, 2010 at noon(PDT).

Dance anywhere® is a conceptual public art project and free to all participants.

Anyone is encouraged to participate, and the project involves people of all ages, abilities, nationalities, and backgrounds.

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - Announcing a benefit for East Bay Food Not Bombs!

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Announcing a benefit for East Bay Food Not Bombs! Friday, March 26, 2010 from 6-10pm. at the Art House Gallery&Cultural Center 2905 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley CA 94705 (between Ashby and Russell, next to Paco Dog Collars.) $12 suggested donation, vegetarian/vegan meal included.

Featuring- Carol Denney and Friends Sylvia Bagge and her psychedelic cello Phoenix

Gourmet vegan meal served from 6pm until ? music and performances from 7-10pm.

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - AGAINST the GRAYNE

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

This two story installation will be curated by Dylan Kelly, Sid Enk Jr, Elle, and Mike 3.5 ink, We will be paying homage to the tree's in our lives, and what better way than creating the entire show on found wooden surfaces, And who better to bring this than local bay area artists and live painters,

our goal is to create an interactive audience experience, and positive setting for people to enjoy theLive ART, our installation, and of course this event will be facilitated with drink specials always found at the SpaceGallery bar.

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - KrOB'S FILM FARM presents... 'DRIVE-OUT THEATrE'

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:15:00 -0500

It’s an amazing event, KrOB’s Film Farm. It’s KrOB showing his movies and edits. You pay $20.00, you get on the bus. Each time that old bus will trundle off to a delightful pre-picked secret destination, and en route, while the bus rumbles along with Chicken at the wheel, two projectors will simultaneously present KrOB’s show. Leave the driving to Chicken, the show to KrOB. (from hal robins)

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KrOB mixes the Jonathan Demme Concert Films!

STOP MAKING SENSE (talking heads, 1984)
SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA (spalding gray, 1987)
STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK (robyn hitchcock, 1998)
HEART OF GOLD (neil young, 2006)

These are among the finest concert movies ever made. I'll be selecting songs and stories from all 4 of these films sans EYENOISE. We'll stop at various locales and experiment with outside projection. For the first time, DRIVE-OUT THEATrE will be 'driven-in'. Soon, we'll have a map of stops for anyone who wants to join us for the drive-in portion as we show various clips.

DRIVE-OUT THEATrE is a monthly moving image series featured on two screens (in front and in back) on a brand-new projection system installed in Chicken John's bus. The APPLAUSE Bus: a great rolling lounge.. a personalized green tortoise bus from 1968, cushy and vintage, that's become an institution in itself. 'Farmers' can take their shoes off, lie back and get snuggly with freinds and would-be strangers. Chicken's bus trips are always special and FILM FARM on the bus is extraordinarily great. We're looking forward to all the shows planned for this year!

Plenty of delicious theatre candy will be on hand to help suspend disbelief!!!

Chili for all served up by the Soup Slut!!!

FILM FARM posters designed by KrOB and Claudia Hek will be on sale as well (always $10)!!!

Chicken John, himself, will be driving the APPLAUSE bus!!!

The APPLAUSE Bus can take 40 people, so confirm your spot now!

Send $20. via Paypal to KrOB at smquestionmark@yahoo.com.

We'll be back to drop everyone off @ Ritual before midnight (in time for BART trips).

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - Is He Dead?

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Set in Paris in 1846, a talented, but struggling landscape painter, is convinced by his bohemian friends that faking his own death will inflate the value of his art. The artist disappears only to reappear as his imaginary twin sister. Written in 1898, this Mark Twain comedy was rediscovered in 2002 by scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who found the manuscript at the University of California, Berkeley. “Is He Dead?” had its Broadway debut in 2007.

Directed by Elizabeth Craven and Barton Smith.

WHEN: March 26 - April 17, 2010 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m. Thursday April 15 2 p.m. Sundays

SPECIAL EVENT: Post show discussion with Stanford University Prof. Shelley Fishkin Sunday, April 11. Call the box office for more information.

TICKETS: $20 to $28 Presale $25 General, $20 Seniors and Students $22 to $28 at the door.

LOCATION: Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma, Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA

PHONE: 707-763-8920 Order tickets by telephone 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday Or tickets can be purchased online or at the door.

WEB SITE: www.cinnabartheater.org

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - Culture at the Crossroads: Jazz-Balkan Fusion

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

SF Jazz Vocalist Milla Milojkovic explores the possibilities with Chicago Tamburasi: Adis Sirbubalo, Danny Ovanin, Ryan Werner and Steve Ovanin. Chef Hristos Kolov will have his cuisine prepared at 7:30PM. Kolo dancing after the concert.

Milla Milojkovic is a well-known jazz singer, and currently resides in San Francisco. Born to a Croatian mother who grew up in Bosnia, and a Serbian father, folk music and culture was a prominent feature of her youth. Milla was an inspired musician and vocalist from an early age; she began playing tamburitza and piano at the age of 5, and eventually went on to study opera at Manhattan School of Music, earning a Bachelor of Music from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Milla has worked and recorded with artists such as Larry Vuckovich, Adam Shulman, Noel Jewkes, John Wiitala, and Dayna Stephens. Milla enjoys the creative freedoms of jazz, and believes that there is a true synthesis between jazz and Balkan music, for both genres welcome improvisation and require chops.

Danny Ovanin is a well known and highly accomplished Tamburas. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Danny has been playing tambura since the young age of 6. Danny is the son of Croatian parents who instilled in their children a love for Croatian culture, language, and most notably, music. He was very active with the Yeseta Brothers in Los Angeles, and following a move to Chicago, Danny began to play with prestigious musicians such as Joe Kirin, Joe Grlica, and Robi Sestili. He has produced recordings with Boduli, Slanina, 8601, Sonya Kosovec, Momcilo Nikolic and TRroma. His “home” band is TRroma of Chicago, and Danny was recently awarded a 2009 Founder’s Award from the Tamburitza Association of America.

Ryan Werner, Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Ryan was an active and young member of the Milwaukee CFU Tamburitzans, and excelled especially as a basprim and prim player in his youth. After playing and touring with Vatra, Ryan made his move to Chicago, where he was quickly recognized for his talent, and began playing with Boduli and 8601. His musical prowess and curiosity led him to study acoustic and electric guitar. Ryan has played with Ludi Ritam, KontraBand Tamburica Orchestra of Chicago, and currently TRroma. Ryan’s primary instruments are Basprim and Celo, and further to his instrumental chops, he is a natural and sublime singer. Ryan was recently awarded a 2009 Founder’s Award from the Tamburitza Association of America.

Adis Sirbubalo started playing accordion at the age of 9. He attended Music High School in Sarajevo and got a degree in Classical Performance. In 2007 he got a Bachelor Degree with Honors in Jazz Piano Performance from Columbia College of Chicago. He has worked with top jazz musicians: Eddie Gomez, Christian McBride, Chuchito Valdes, and many others. He was twice awarded Best Soloist at Elmhurst Jazz Festival and Notre Dame Jazz Festival. He also plays with ODE, Eyes Manouche, Greta Pope Entertainment, and his jazz accordion

Steve Ovanin is a well known and highly accomplished Tamburas. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Steve has been playing tambura since the age of 7. Following a move to Chicago, Steve began to play with prestigious bands such as Boduli, Slanina, and TRroma. In addition to these, he has recorded with Sinovi and Oluja. Steve has toured in Croatia, playing at the Brod Fest in Slavonski Brod twice with Boduli, and going on to play throughout the country with gypsy bands, Gazda, and Expanonia.

Friday, 26 March, 2010 - HÄXAN Accompanied with live new score by DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN!

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Our January screening (with live music) of Benjamin Christensen's silent masterpiece HÄXAN was such a success that we're bringing it back -- so that all those folks who were turned away at the door can see it in all its magnificent, loony glory! Featuring crazed nuns, flaming witches, and a spectacularly obscene performance by the director himself as Satan, HÄXAN is like no other film ever made: an uncontrolled rampage of feverish, violent images, part historical recreation, part religious satire, all hallucination.

Once again, Artists Television Access is proud to present HÄXAN in a newly butchered version, prepared especially for these screenings by conceptual artist Dr. Astronaut Body. Now missing over half an hour of crucial footage and structurally reorganized for maximum impact, HÄXAN will be accompanied by a new score performed live by the San Francisco electronica band DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! Including members of The Pine Box Boys and Reagan’s Polyp, DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! is part of the same creative team that has premiered new scores for THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, KOYAANISQATSI, and the Led Zeppelin film THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, all at Artists Television Access.

Saturday, 27 March, 2010 - ArtSpan's Benefit Art Showand Auction 2010

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500

VIP Ticket (Admits One) - $75 (advance ticket sales only)
VIP Reception (6:00 - 6:30pm) features: * Exclusive preview of artwork starting at 6pm * Champagne cocktail reception and gourmet hors d’oeuvres * Preferred seating for live auction * 5% discount on art purchases (up to $50 per purchase)
General Ticket (Admits One) - $25 in advance - $30 at the door * Open bar and light hors d'oeuvres

* First Silent Auction Section will close at 7:30pm * Live Auction will begin at 8:15pm * Creative Cocktail Attire Encouraged

Physical tickets will not be issued. Your name will be on the guest list at the check-in table when you arrive. Questions? Call (415) 861-9838.

Bid on more than 140 original artworks by established and emerging artists in live and silent auctions at San Francisco's premier visual art event! Nibble snacks from Thomas John Events catering and sip luscious cocktails from an open bar, featuring Pernod Absinthe, while bidding on fabulous, affordable local art!

Proceeds from the auction benefit all of ArtSpan’s programs, including Art for City Youth, providing arts education to 700 under-served youth, and San Francisco Open Studios, the city’s largest free visual arts event held each year featuring over 800 artists.

First and Second place awards will be bestowed in the following categories: Representational, Non-representational, Figurative, Fine Craft, 3-Dimensional, and Photography. Jurors will also present Juror's Choice awards.

Saturday, 27 March, 2010 - Descry Magazine Launch, Benefit and Art Exhibit

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Descry is an independent, biannual publication born out of the striking necessity to support the visibility of emerging photographers and artists, particularly women, people of color, and queers. Our publication is a nod to the fleeting romanticism, beauty and beast of the modern world. Developed out of San Francisco’s Mission District, Descry is an innovative adjunct to the arts and counter culture movement with a combined documentary and conceptual approach to culture, politics, gender, and social experience.

Saturday, 27 March, 2010 - Artist Salon Presented by Saturday Night @ CIIS

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Visual artist and poet Truong Tran, set designer/photographer Tim Stapleton, and poet, musician, and performer Genny Lim gather for an artists' salon centered on the theme of interdisciplinary arts. Join us for a reception and lively conversation on creating, finding, and performing art across multiple disciplines. Genny Lim's live and recorded poetry/music collaborations have included jazz greats, Max Roach, and Herbie Lewis. Tim Stapleton has been a professional Scenic Designer for thirty years. Tim's paintings have been shown at the Mina Dresden Gallery. Truong Tran is a poet and visual artists committed to making art accessible through the creative reuse of everyday materials.

Saturday, 27 March, 2010 - Scalpel

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Written&Directed by D'arcy Drollinger Described as the Manchurian Candidate greets the Stepford Wives, Scalpel cuts deep into two great American obsessions: beauty and conspiracy. A darkly comedic rock thriller, Scalpel delights in a world where youth and perfection is the ultimate commodity – a commodity worth killing for.

Saturday, 27 March, 2010 - The Fuxedos Beat Up Berkele

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:00:00 -0500

WHAT: THE FUXEDOS smash into the Starry Plough! Our first East Bay show since late '08!

WHO: In addition to getting your tuchus joyfully kicked by The Fuxedos -- America's favorite surreally hilarious, theatrical punky art rock band -- you'll also be wowed by...

The eclectic junkyard musical stew of Rube Waddell, performing the hell out of their own idiosyncratic breed of modern Americana! http://www.rubewaddell.org/

The mini-orchestral stylings of Khi Darag!, ripping through their virtual soundtrack for a macabre, '60s Middle Eastern thriller! http://www.myspace.com/khidarag

And a rare solo set from Rube Waddell's inimitable Freddi Price!

HOW MUCH: A mere $10.

Fuxshitup! http://www.fuxedos.com

Saturday, 27 March, 2010 - Art of Restraint

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Step inside and experience rope cinching tight into eager flesh as bodies struggle and dance in the air in an erotic ballet of dominance and submission. Taking pride in the way 'Yes Ma'am' and 'Yes Sir' make their way carefully from between our eager lips. Some of the most skilled rope artists and bondage experts in the country have gathered in this closed gallery setting to meld art and bondage to intertwine submission and empowerment in a dynamic exchange between two people and an audience starving for connection. Doors will be locked at 8pm sharp, placing you in the center of a hot avant-garde bondage scene. Welcome to the fourth edition of Art of Restraint. Lights out at 11pm sharp...unless you are fortunate enough to be a Femina Potens Member. Members of Femina Potens will be invited to stay for the sexy after hours with the artists and models. Come be a part of what the SF Gate called 'The Most Happening Art Space in San Francisco' and the SF Guardian calls 'The Best XXX XX in the Castro'. $75 per ticket or $50 for Members - Sign up to become a member today at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/94174 and purchase tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91652

Sunday, 28 March, 2010 - Switchboard Music Festival 2010

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:00:00 -0500

The third annual Switchboard Music Festival is an 8-hour, non- stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event.

Performances by Thorny Brocky, Kate Campbell, Teslim, Sqwonk, Sabbaticus Rex, Real Vocal String Quartet, Billygoat, Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, Zoë Keating, miRthkon; and music composed by Gerard Beljon, Cornelius Boots, Ryan Brown, Luciano Chessa, Ruby Fulton, Missy Mazzoli, Marc Mellits, Aaron Novik, Belinda Reynolds, and Jonathan Russell.

Wednesday, 31 March, 2010 - Out of Order Seder

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500

PASSOVER EVENT/FUNDRAISER Out of Order Seder

Put the Hagaddah back on the shelf, and join the Contemporary Jewish Museum's young professional group, the Contemporaries, for the first annual Out of Order Seder. More cabaret, than kosher ritual, this unforgettable event features cutting edge artists who will put their own spin on the story of Exodus. Emceed by UC Davis professor and contemporary culture scholar Ari Kellman, the evening includes:

• Josh Kornbluth, former host of The Josh Kornbluth Show on KQED and author and performer of several critically-acclaimed one-man shows including Citizen Josh, Ben Franklin: Unplugged, and Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
• Nato Green, official comedian of Stephen Elliott's Progressive Reading Series, founder of the San Francisco comedy institution Iron Comic(r), host of the New Jew Revue and producer of Laughing Liberally Local 415
• Amy Tobin, performance artist and creator of the cabaret rock opera The Esther Show, named one of the 'Heeb Hundred' in Heeb Magzine and one of the 'Forward 50' in the Forward Magazine
• John Schott, co-founder of the band Good Planet and guitarist with the Grammy-nominated band T.J. Kirk
• Rabbi Noa Rachael Kushner, serving Marin County’s Congregation Rodef Sholom; poet, essayist, and contributor to several books including The Torah: A Women's Commentary, Choosing a Jewish Life, and The Women's Seder Sourcebook

In addition to the performances, guests will also savor an exquisite Passover meal created by San Francisco's Taste Catering, all within the Museum's spectacular diamond-shaped 'Yud' Gallery.
Ticket purchase includes a one-year membership to the Contemporaries, the Museum’s membership group for young professionals and art enthusiasts. Throughout the year members of the Contemporaries enjoy dynamic social, educational, and philanthropic activities from private exhibition walkthroughs to special lectures.
Proceeds from the evening support the Museum's education programming. Event Sponsors: Batiste Rum, Taste Catering
Out of Order Seder A Passover cabaret and fundraising event featuring food, drink and performances by Josh Kornbluth, Nato Green, Amy Tobin, John Schott, and Rabbi Noa Rachael Kushner

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7 PM For more information please visit our website www.thecjm.org For additional questions or to buy tickets over the phone please contact Stacey Silver, Director of Community Affairs ssilver@thecjm.org 415.655.7836

Wednesday, 31 March, 2010 - GROW THE F*CK UP!

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:00:00 -0500

GROW THE F*CK UP! Writers reading from new work

Kim Addonizio, Alan Black, Jack Boulware, Tony DuShane, Beth Lisick, Bucky Sinister, Michelle Tea

Thursday, 01 April, 2010 - No Fooling, Evri Kwong Solo Exhibition

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Sandra Lee Gallery Presents: No Fooling

A solo exhibition featuring socio-politically charged paintings and drawings by internationally renowned Bay Area artist Evri Kwong. Artist reception in conjunction with San Francisco’s 1st Thursday Art Walk: April 1st, 5:00pm - 7:30pm.

Kwong’s distinctive and highly stylized paintings offer up social critiques of contemporary consumerist culture and the contradictions inherent within. Juxtaposing glossy painted scenes with sketchy Sharpie drawings, Kwong’s bold panels are incisive examinations of the skewed narratives that underlie American society.

Thursday, 01 April, 2010 - Please join National Award Winning Artist and new Author, April Martin Chartrand for her Book Reading/Signing and Audio Visual Presentation.

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:00:00 -0500

~A soulful collection of thought provoking poems and illustrations spanning a rich spectrum of emotions from illusions – love.~

LOCATION: SFPL 100 Larkin St., SF CA Latino Hispanic Room / Lower Level - Room 'A' (enter Grove St.) COST: FREE EVENT BOOK SALES: A staffer from the SFPL’s Book Bay Main Store will oversee sales. $13-.

This independent reading event is produced the Author and is not “SFPL” sponsored.

Thursday, 01 April, 2010 - David Eagleman - Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:30:00 -0500

The Long Now Foundation's monthly series Seminars About Long-term Thinking http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/apr/01/six-easy-steps-avert-collapse-civilization/

David Eagleman presents: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive. Sum, his collection of afterlife alternatives, made a stunning literary debut last year and now appears in 21 languages. Simultaneously he is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, specializing in time perception. In this talk he spells out how to save the world.

The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars were started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking; to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand. http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/

Thursday April 1, 02010 Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours

Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $10 http://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1490

Long Now Members can reserve 2 complimentary seats. https://www.longnow.org/membership/

Thursday, 01 April, 2010 - CounterPULSE Winter 2010 Artists in Residence: Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, José Navarrete and Violeta Luna

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

CounterPULSE’s Winter 2010 artists in residence present their new work examining water privatization and the effects of incarceration on families in a double bill.

Kendra Kimbrough Barnes

“Home is That Way?”

Kendra Kimbrough Barnes creates an impassioned dance piece about a family dealing with incarceration. When a son/ a brother loses an idea of where home is (literally and figuratively) after being in the prison system, this leads to retracing steps. Told in four chapters, “Home is That Way?” is a dance drama that that recalls the innocence, genius, tragedy, and rebirth of an imaginative boy.

José Navarrete and Violeta Luna

“New Rituals for a Desperate Era”

“New Rituals for a Desperate Era” reinterprets ancient Mexican mythology and iconography to address pressing ecological issues around water rights and shortages. Drawing from the poetry and didactic power of pre-Hispanic myths, it constructs a compelling discourse on the depletion of our natural resources, in a production that combines contemporary dance, performance art, new music composition, visual art installation, and video.

Friday, 02 April, 2010 - Katie Gray at Pure Beauty on Haight St

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Katie Gray is a talented artist we are glad to have at Pure Beauty Salon on Haight for the First Fridays Haight St. Art Walk. Light refreshments and wine will be served. please see www.katiegray.info, and www.fanciemammal.blogspot.com for more information. Pure Beauty Salon upstairs in the Salon 1560 Haight st, at Clayton 5-8pm April 2nd 2010

Friday, 02 April, 2010 - Johansson Projects presents The Velveteen Order featuring Keer Tanchak + Christina Corfield

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Johansson Projects presents The Velveteen Order, where powder and paint mask flesh in favor of fiction, serving up Rococo thrills yummier than brioche.

Christina Corfield crafts moving dioramas which flaunt the brush of a gaze and the stroke of a sword. Her videos hyperbolize the Old Regime's pretend-sion, ignoring distinctions between historical documentation and fairy tale musings. Redundancy and stripped down actions append significance to the subtlest minutiae. Keer Tanchak's aluminum glamscapes, which mix 1800's lackadaisical malaise with the 2000's self-awareness, quietly invite circumspection of modern wealth and frivolity. Tanchak's exploitation of Old France's artificial flavoring sweetens the modern epidemic dubbed 'bourgeois ennui.' With seductive visuals and witty commentary, absolutism was never so liberating.

A 2003 MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tanchak completed her BFA at Concordia University in Montreal in 2000. She has exhibited extensively in Canada and the USA as well as London, Kuwait, Puerto Rico and Mexico City. Tanchak has received recognition and acclaim from publications such as UR Chicago, Montreal Mirror, and Vie Des Arts. Christina Corfield received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute along with a BA from the Glasgow School of art in 2003. She has exhibited in London, Glasgow, San Francisco, Berlin, and Chicago and her work has been written about in The Sunday Times and The Glasgow Herald.

Show runs April 2nd through May 15th Opening Reception APril 2nd, 5-8pm

Friday, 02 April, 2010 - Miya Masaoka, David Wessel, and Nils Bultmann

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Meridian Gallery presents an evening of improvisations performed by: Miya Masaoka, koto and electronics David Wessel, SLABS Nils Bultmann, viola

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - SF Bicycle Coalition Healthy Saturdays Kick-Off Picnic

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Join the SF Bicycle Coalition for a kid-friendly day in Golden Gate Park to kick-off six months of car-free Healthy Saturdays. We'll be celebrating our work to help win this car-free space with Freedom from Training Wheels, to help kids learn to ride on two wheels, a picnic and fun games, like frisbee. Bring a blanket to sit on and something to share at the potluck picnic. FREE!

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - PrideWars

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0500

PrideWars is a pot-luck picnic and outdoor lasertag party for friends in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans community. We’re going to form 6 teams, and play 12 minute games of high-tech capture-the-flag in a beautiful 5 acre wooded area in John Mclaren Park in San Francisco.

We provide the latest outdoor commercial lasertag equipment and radio headsets to communicate for each player. The lasertag equipment we use is incredible! It has a range of over 1,000' and a radio-based hit-confirmation that shows players score in real-time. Everyone will experience an hour of exciting game time, and 4 hours of partying, mingling, having a pot-luck lunch, and meeting other fabulous people in the pride community!

The hills in this beautiful park are somewhat steep. You’re going to have other gay, les, and bi people shooting at you as you attempt to steal their flag away from them. You’re going to hear your teammates scream for help over your radio headset. By the end of this party you’ll be exhausted and exhilarated. It will be the most fun you’ve had in a long time! No lasertag experience necessary. “Pridewars” is a picnic party for anyone in the pride community!

For more information and to register, visit:

http://sflasertag.org/pridewars

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - New Territory at White Walls

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0500

New Territory New Works by Henry Gunderson, Akira, Cheryl Molnar, Robert Burden, and Mark Warren Jacques

Opening: Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 from 7-11pm Show Runs Through: April 25th, 2010

White Walls is proud to present New Territory: new works by Henry Gunderson, Akira, Cheryl Molnar, Robert Burden, and Mark Warren Jacques. New Territory brings together five artists that are breaking ground through their visual interpretations of contemporary West Coast living. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010, from 7-11pm.

These five young artists are forging a new aesthetic and conceptual approach to fine art. Whether a cut and dry rebuttal to American mass media or a whimsical look into outer space, this group is covering new territory through their visual interpretations of all they experience in a day. Through various mediums, subject matter, and even scale you will find four individual voices speaking in their own language. Unifying them is an imperative to communicate that which they see- or don’t see- in this West Coast existence.

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - Guitar Hero is Dead

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Saturday 4/3/10 8PM-12AM Flux 53 Theater Presents “Guitar Hero is Dead”

Modal Kombat (http://www.modalkombat.com/) League of Art Game Composers (http://www.myspace.com/lagcomposers) And Visionary Instruments (http://www.visionaryinstruments.com)

Guitar Hero Is Dead: Guitarists To Play Video Games Using Real Guitars as Controllers.

Forget about using a plastic guitar to mimic your favorite band. What if you could use a real guitar just like any other video game joystick -- and thrash your opponent while you create original music?

Two classically-trained New York City guitarists calling themselves 'Modal Kombat' have hacked into classic video games Pong, Tetris, Mortal Kombat and Mario Kart. On April 2 at Oakland's Flux53, they'll make their characters move -- and battle against each other -- with a flurry of guitar-plucking.

The event, part of Modal Kombat's 'Guitar Hero is Dead' Tour, is a video-game battle/performance-art hybrid that's open to the public. The goal is to demonstrate that real guitars -- or other musical instruments -- can be viable video game controllers.

LAG, the league of art game composers, is a union of experimental electronic music composers. The music of LAG focuses on utilizing, creating, and fusing games,art and intricate network structures. Active members of LAG include Cole Ingraham, Chad McKinney, Curtis McKinney, and Ben O'Brien.

Visionary Instruments is powered by the creative force and endless inspiration of Ben Lewry - guitar designer, fabricator, and repairman.

Years of experience studying exactly what makes a guitar sing, have led to the formulation of a new breed of instruments. This generation of electric guitars is built with the highest quality woods, carefully thought out designs, and the most modern electronics you'll find anywhere. Not to mention the patented line of video guitars.

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - Pacific Exchange 4

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

The Pacific Exchange concert series brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange ideas and create music on a single concert stage. Thingamajigs created this event to emphasize the commonalities of artists living on the Pacific Rim, as well as to showcase their diversity.

The Pacific Exchange concerts have exhibited the music of composers from Japan, Korea, and the United States. The performance group tov, Megumi Matsuhashi, Jon Brummit, Jean Ann, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Ji-yoon Chun, Shizuka Takeuchi, Tomoko Sogabe, Akiko Hasegawa, and Niji Ito are just a few of the artists that have been featured by this series.

This is the first Pacific Exchange concert held in the USA and we will host Japan's ADACHI Tomomi along with Laetitia Sonami, Judy Halebsky, Dylan Bolles, Suki O'Kane, and Edward Schocker.

Artists involved:

ADACHI Tomomi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and installation artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed improvised music and contemporary works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, etc. all over the world including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Merkin Hall, STEIM, Experimental Intermedia, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Flanders Festival. He has made several sound installations and original instruments (e.g.'Tomomin', his hand made electric instrument is familiar with many musicians). Also he directed Japanese premiere of John Cage's 'Europera5' in 2007.

Adachi will present his improvisational works that focus on self-made electronic/acoustic instruments and interfaces including his well-known tupperware instruments and infrared sensor shirt.

Judy Halebsky's book of poems Sky=Empty won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize from New Issues Poetry + Prose. Since doing her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College, she has worked collaboratively with Thingamajig artists writing text for performance. Residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony as well as a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts have supported her work. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, she studies Japanese literature at Hosei University in Tokyo on a MEXT fellowship. For the Pacific Exchange series, she will read poems from her new book that explore issues of language and translation between Japanese and English.

Laetitia Sonami is a composer, performer, and sound installation artist who was born in France and settled in the United States in 1975 to pursue her interest in the emerging field of electronic music. She studied with Eliane Radigue, Joel Chadabe, Robert Ashley and David Behrman.

Sonami’s work combines text, music and 'found sound' from the world, in compositions which have been described as 'performance novels. Her signature instrument, the Lady's Glove, is fitted with a vast array of sensors which track the slightest motion of her enigmatic dance: with it Sonami can create performances where her movements can shape the music and in some instances visual environments. The lady’s glove has become a fine instrument which challenges notions of technology and virtuosity. Sonami’s sound installations combine audio and kinetic elements embedded in ubiquitous objects such as light bulbs, rubber gloves, bags and more recently toilet plungers. She collects electrical wire and embroids them in walls.

Dylan Bolles, Suki O’Kane, and Edward Schocker make up the nucleus of a new ensemble that combines traditional Eastern sensibilities with modern American technologies and performance practices. Creating pieces in a group collaborative process that sometimes incorporate voice and additional instruments, this ensemble of musicians expands and contracts within each performance situation.

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - Puttin' on the Ritz

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

A Benefit to Fight AIDS
You are cordially invited to:
Puttin' on
THE RITZ
A Spring Formal with:
The Space Cowboys
Brass Tax
False Profit
Swag
The Deep End
Strategik
SEISMIC
Angles of bAss

All your favorite Bay Area crews coming together to help us throw our classiest event of the year at the amazing Bently Reserve. Three rooms of sound (all donated by JK), and professional lighting donated by Got Light. We're starting early with a cocktail hour, prize giveaways, hors d'oeuvres, and music by TophOne! We will be auctioning off a couple of items including a Bus Party with the always awesome Das Frachtgut - The Teacher With The Bus. Please come dressed to impress!

-A limited amount of first comers will automatically be entered into a raffle to win a burningman ticket with the purchase of a $15 ticket!

-After that we will have a limited amount of tickets available at $15

-$20 tickets until the day before the show or until we run out - whichever comes first

-We will likely have some tickets available at the door for $25, but that is not guaranteed, so get your presale tickets — you do not want to miss this event.

Feast your eyes on this lineup!

3L3tronic, 8Ball, Aaron Jae, Agent Zero, Bam, Bassben, Benchun, Brad Robinson, Carbon Community, CRUNKLE, Ding Dong, DJJD, Dr. Toast, Ernie Trevino (Live on Drums!), Ethan Miller, Influence, JoeJoe, Kapt'n Kirk, Kramer, Lokae, Mace, Murphstar, Phoenix (aka Donna Matrix), Smoove, Shissla, Tamo, TophOne

PLUS

An elegant fashion show featuring designs by:

Alexandria von Bromssen, Gelareh, Miranda Caroligne, Miss Velvet Cream, Silver Lucy Design, Tamo Design

Dance performances by: The Cheese Puffs and CanCandies

Art installation by Peter Hudson

As with all our Brass Cowboys events, all proceeds are going to AIDS/LifeCycle. We're riding our bikes 545 miles from SF to LA to improve the lives of those suffering with HIV/AIDS. Your support is HUGELY appreciated!

Saturday, 03 April, 2010 - Dan Carbone presents New Works at the Dark Room

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:00:00 -0500

Bay Area absurdist writer/ performer Dan Carbone (whom the SF Bay Guardian has described as “Jonathan Winters meets Cocteau”) returns to the Dark Room for an evening of NEW WORKS including “Ol’ Blue Balls” about a chance encounter between Frank Sinatra and a little girl in the 1950s, “The Koreans,” about a surreal, true-life encounter between Carbone and some young Korean students on the streets of downtown Oakland and “Debbie and the Demons” in which a woman wreaks havoc all around the globe. (CHECK OUT THE PROMO VIDEO “DEBBIE n THE DEMONS!” by MIKE KUCHAR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaRCfRFAG2s)

Sunday, 04 April, 2010 - City Solo: April 2010

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0500

CITY SOLO: A karaoke champion, an army of Vietnam war cliches, the voices in your head, and a bevy of stereotypical Latinas take the stage at Off-Market Theater!

City Solo is a fresh, new solo performance series featuring a diverse collection of the finest solo artists, comedians, and storytellers in the Bay Area. In April 2010, the City Solo Sunday evening showcases will feature:

THAO P. NGUYEN In 'Fortunate Daughter,' Thao, 25, wakes up on a good morning in Vietnam, dons her full-metal jacket and goes deer hunting on Hamburger Hill with Forrest Gump and Martin Sheen. Only she survives. Later, she meets her grandmother for the first time.

ENZO LOMBARD In 'Love, Humiliation, and Karaoke,' Enzo really does not want to end up cut into little pieces and deposited on the side of the highway. Yet he’s risking just that by driving 600 miles to meet SanDiegoDavid, a complete stranger he met online. What has Enzo gotten himself into?

CAITLIN GILL In 'The Mental Audit,' an official from the Internal Review Service has arrived at Caitlin's brain to conduct a Mental Audit, to see if her mind's internal contents meet her external claims!

SARITA OCON 'Compromise' is a darkly comic solo-work about the performance of cultural identity. An exaggerated, reenacted audition, the piece shifts through a series of images of the 'Latina' as conceived by white US commercial performance - confronting themes of race and gender, stereotype and projection,and raising questions about how artists navigate and negotiate within the industries of performance (with an excerpt from 'References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot' by Jose Rivera).

Monday, 05 April, 2010 - StreetWars: Watergun assassins

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500

At the start of the game you will receive an envelope containing the following:

* A picture of your intended target
* The home address of your intended target
* The work address of your intended target
* The name of your intended target

Upon receipt of these items, your mission is to find and kill (by way of water gun, water balloon or super soaker) your target across the city, while evading the assassins on your trail. Learn more and watch videos from CurrentTV, CNN, and NBC

Game dates: April 5th to May 2nd Sign up deadline - March 27th

TO JOIN and for full info http://www.streetwars.net/sf2010.php

Tuesday, 06 April, 2010 - SF Bicycle Coalition Biking Book Club

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:30:00 -0500

Come meet the friendly folks of the Biking Book Club at the SF Bicycle Coalition for an evening of robust discussion about bike and transportation related books. We will be discussing our recent picks: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt, and two optional books, Calvin Trillian's Tepper Isn't Going Out and David Byrnes' Bicycle Diaries, and choosing the next book(s) to read for our Club, so bring your ideas. You can also join in on the discussion online at sfbike.org/books

Thursday, 08 April, 2010 - Louann Brizendine, Author of 'The Female Brain' + 'The Male Brain'

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Why “Y” Makes a Difference
For all those times you’ve wondered “Why?,” Louann Brizendine has the answers. A neurobiologist, Dr. Brizendine has studied exactly why our brain leads us to act and react the way we do. Founder of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic, Brizendine first focused on the female brain, studying the neurology behind the emotions and actions of women, and coming to conclusions that helped answer many of those “why” questions that females kept asking her. Now she has answers for the other half. Brizendine explores the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the 'male reality' is fundamentally different from the female one.

Friday, 09 April, 2010 - Besa: A Shabbat Dinner

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:30:00 -0500

With Photographer Norman Gershman

Gershman's photographs tell the story of Albanian and Kosovar Muslims who – following a Muslim code of honor, besa – risked their lives to shelter Jews from the Nazis. Shabbat dinner is included.

Friday, 09 April, 2010 - In the Mix Dance Party

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0500

DANCE on the edge of musical exploration and celebrate the sonic sensibilities of DJ Skwint blending a full spectrum of melodious genres, tempos, textures and eclectic beats. Skwint has much more to offer than your regular hip-hop mix DJ. With his diverse interest in hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, reggae, pop, electro house, world and other genres, Skwint’s unique mix of smooth blends led to his nationally ranked scratching status and recent CD release with Wisdom.

Maze Daiko members Janet Koike and Tina Blaine add bursts of Japanese Taiko to the evening’s kinetic spice. Alisha Blau weaves a magical warmup journey from 7-8 before each DJ set begins.

Friday, 09 April, 2010 - Ram's Head Theatrical Society presents Into the Woods

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

Ram's Head Theatrical Society, Stanford University's oldest and largest student-run theater group, will be staging five performances of Stephen Sondheim's Tony-award-winning musical, Into the Woods. The show will run for five performances: Friday April 9, Saturday April 10, Thursday April 15, Friday April 16, and Saturday April 17 all at 8PM in Memorial Auditorium on the Stanford campus.

Sunday, 11 April, 2010 - North Bay Art Fair

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0500

1st Annual North Bay Art Fair

Featuring fine art drawings, photography, paintings and more.

Free Admission Free Parking Hourly Door Prizes People's Choice Awards Cash bar

Tuesday, 13 April, 2010 - Danger to Self: On the Front Lines with an ER Psychiatrist

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Doctor Paul R. Linde takes readers behind the scenes at the SF General psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives. As he and his colleagues encounter patients who are hallucinating, drunk, catatonic, aggressive, suicidal, high on drugs, paranoid, and physically sick, Linde examines the many ethical, legal, moral, and medical issues that confront today's psychiatric providers. He describes a profession under siege from the outside—health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, government regulators, and even 'patients' rights' advocates—and from the inside—biomedical and academic psychiatrists who have forgotten to care for the patient and have instead become checklist-marking pill-peddlers. While lifting the veil on a crucial area of psychiatry that is as real as it gets, Danger to Self also injects a healthy dose of compassion into the practice of medicine and psychiatry.

Thursday, 15 April, 2010 - ABIGAIL the salem witch trials / a rock opera

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 -0500

~ Buzz, Skycastle and Lunar Eclipse presents ~

Abigail the salem witch trials ~ a rock opera

At The Paradise Live 314 11th Street 11th Street / near Folsom Street http://www.paradisesf.com/

Opening Night April 15th

$10.00 at the door doors @ 8:00 / show starts at 9:00
All shows are on Thursday Nights
Show runs: April 15th, 22nd + 29th May 6th, 13th, 20th + 27th June 3rd + 10th July 8th, 15th, 22nd + 29th

13 chances to be bewitched

After the show there will be musical performance's (Bands to be announced) ************************************************************

In England the Queen spoke the word of God, this was understood by all. A young eleven year old named Abigail Williams was taught that she would not be allowed to go to heaven, but would have to repent for her entire life. In public Abigail would conduct herself as Puritan society would have her act. Standing behind her parents, only speaking when spoken too and to never ever dance or sing.

In the privacy of the Williams house was LOVE! Abigail would dance in circles for hours, she and her parents would sing happy songs late into the nights. The shades would be pulled down low, so none could see the happenings inside. If anyone would see or hear these activities, the community would punish the Williams family. For Abigail, the risk was worth the secrecy because the LOVE around her at home was the world to her. This was her place of total freedom. ************************************************************

Buzz Productions, with Skycastle Music and Lunar Eclipse Records has been doing rock and roll opera's since 1998.

We ran our first big LIVE run of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at The DNA Lounge for a three month run. We followed that up in 1999, by staging TOMMY at the DNA for a two month run.

In 2000 we put on THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW in several venues throughout the two and a half month run to crowds of hundreds. For the next two years we performed JCSS during the Christmas months at The Paradise Lounge and StudioZ.

During this time we worked on a new type of production, PINK FLOYD THE WALL, where we teamed with Green Mill Film works who did original film work which played along with the performance. We did THE WALL in 2002 at the StudioZ space to sold out crowds for two months.

For many years we would revive our JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR winter shows. We all took a break for several years to work on our first original, Abigail the salem witch trials. Now, in 2010, we are ready to knock you witches off of your broomsticks.

Bless our gift, Abigail ************************************************************

Friday, 16 April, 2010 - Borderland Birds / Aves Fronterizas

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Electric Works presents Borderland Birds / Aves Fronterizas, works on paper by David Tomb, April 16—May 22. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, April 16, 6-8 PM that is free and open to the public. The reception at 130 8th Street in San Francisco features work inspired by Tomb’s birding trips to the borderlands of the United States and Mexico.

For this exhibition, Tomb, a critically acclaimed painter of portraits of people, brings his rigorous attention to birds. Secondary to dealing with the subject matter of birds, Borderland Birds / Aves Fronterizas also highlights the impact of the US-Mexico border fence; a project environmentalists say spells disaster for the sensitive ecology of the region. Beyond simple cataloging and rendering of the splendid birds of the borderland region, Tomb's work calls to mind the plight of people who have to cross this border on a daily basis, a feat fraught with problems migrating birds do with relative ease.

Part drawing show, part installation, in the gallery Tomb recreates the sights and sounds of the borderland region by use of native vegetation and ambient sound recordings. Viewers will be transported to two fragile and unique areas: the beautiful Sky Islands of Mexico/Southern Arizona and the Lower Rio Grande Valley that borders Mexico and Texas. While much of this habitat has been converted to corporate agriculture some remote hidden mountain canyons still harbor a rich trove of beautiful and rare creatures. Tomb’s exhibition will focus on the following species: Montezuma Quail, Aztec Thrush, Aplomado Falcon, and Coati.

Tomb combines experience in the field with research of bird specimens at the California Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley. His final masterful renderings of the birds are life size and depict the birds in their natural habitat. As an avid birder, he has been lucky enough to have his nerves rattled by the freaky chorus of Chachalacas in the thorny scrub and to have glimpsed the jewel-like Elegant Trogon during July monsoons. Tomb received his BFA from California State University Long Beach and has shown nationally and internationally. During the exhibition the gallery will be available for docent-led tours. For further information, contact Judith Lang (415) 279-2014.

Saturday, 17 April, 2010 - Berkeley Shoreline Cleanup

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:00:00 -0500

Give back by cleaning up the planet and a park. 2 1/2 hour cleanup at various times, includes educational video called 'Synthetic Seas.'

Please register at http://bayareaearthday.net

Saturday, 17 April, 2010 - Round Rhythm: Alissa Goss + Tallulah Terryll

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:00:00 -0500

Round Rhythm features the work of Alissa Goss and Tallulah Terryll, two visual artists who practice in Oakland. Both artists deal with repetition, color and texture to conjure up ideas about nature. Using clay, Goss meticulously crafts intimate sculptures and installations. Handmade stencils, ink and paints are Terryll's choice for her works on paper. Opening Reception: Sat. April 17 6-9pm First Friday Reception: May 7, 7-10pm Tea + Artist Talk: Sunday, May 23, 3-6pm (discussion will begin at 4pm)

Sunday, 18 April, 2010 - Cypress String Quartet

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0500

For over thirty years the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society has presented chamber music concerts at affordable tickets prices. The Mill Valley Chamber Music Society presents the Cypress String Quartet in concert Sunday, April 18, 2010.

Featuring Cecily Ward, violin; Tom Stone, violin; Ethan Filner, viola; and Jennifer Kloetzel, cello - the Cypress String Quartet is a vibrant member of the San Francisco arts community, representing the voice of the new generation of American culture while bringing passion, inspiration and enjoyment to every audience.

Widely celebrated for the power of its performances and its passionate dedication to the genre, the Cypress String Quartet combines technical precision with imaginative programming to create unforgettable concert experiences.

The internationally acclaimed Cypress String Quartet performs over 90 concerts each year at venues across America and around the world including the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Stanford Lively Arts, Krannert Center and Ravinia Festival.

The members of the Cypress Quartet play on exceptional instruments, including violins by Antonio Stradivarius (1681) and Carlos Bergonzi (1733), a viola by Vittorio Bellarosa (1947) and a cello by Hieronymus Amati II (1701).

The Cypress Quartet takes its name from the set of twelve love songs for string quartet, 'The Cypresses,' by Antonin Dvorak. When: 5 p.m. Sunday, April 18, 2010 Program: Mendelssohn: op. 13; Kevin Puts: Lento Assai; Beethoven: op. 135 Location: Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley Cost: $10 to $25. ($25 general; $10 youth under 18) Tickets: Order through Brown Paper Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006; or purchase at the door. Phone: 415-381-4453 Website: www.chambermusicmillvalley.org Cypress String Quartet website: http://www.cypressquartet.com

Thursday, 22 April, 2010 - Is Photography Over?

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0500

Phyllis Wattis Theater Photography has almost always been in crisis. In the beginning, the terms of this crisis were cast as dichotomies: is photography science or art? Nature or technology? Representation or truth? This questioning has intensified and become more complicated over the intervening years. At times, the issues have required a profound rethinking of what photography is, does, and means. This is one of those times. Given the nature of contemporary art practice, the condition of visual culture, the advent of new technologies, and many other factors, what is at stake today in seeing something as a photograph? What is the value of continuing to speak of photography as a specific practice or discipline? Is photography over?

SFMOMA has invited major thinkers and practitioners to write responses to this question (to be published online at sfmoma.org/isphotographyover in February) and then to convene for a symposium on the prospects for the survival of photography. Participants include scholars and artists Vince Aletti, George Baker, Walead Beshty, Jennifer Blessing, Charlotte Cotton, Geoff Dyer, Okwui Enwezor, Peter Galassi, Corey Keller, Douglas Nickel, Trevor Paglen, Kathy Ryan, Blake Stimson, and Joel Snyder. Free.

This symposium is made possible by generous support of the Fraenkel Gallery Fund for New Studies in Photography.

Saturday, 24 April, 2010 - Berkeley Earth Day

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:00:00 -0500

Cultural Performers • Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents Earth Day Dance (12-1pm) • Reggae Angels (1:30-3pm) • Venzuelan Music Project (3:30-5pm)

Activities • Demonstrations of biodiesel and electric cars, solar power • Berkeley Farmer's Market • Climbing Wall, Chalk4Peace • Vegetarian food, craft and community booths

Volunteers Needed Call 510-654-6346 www.hesternet.net

Please don’t drive. Take Berkeley BART, walk one block west Valet Bike Parking by Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Coalition

Saturday, 01 May, 2010 - Marin Arts Council Open Studios and Festival

Sat, 01 May 2010 11:00:00 -0500

Marin Arts Council Open Studios and Festival Two consecutive weekends of Open Studios and Arts Festival A springtime tour of Marin and its vibrant arts scene

WHAT: Marin Arts Council Open Studios and Festival

Artists open their studios and theater companies, dancers, poets and storytellers take to the stage in this annual Marin County arts festival honoring the talented artists and performers who live and work in Marin County.

Get the free 'Arts of Marin Tourguide 2010,' then take off on this self-guided discovery tour through the towns and hamlets of Marin County visiting hundreds of artists’ studios and enjoying performances by members of its vibrant performing arts community.

WHEN: May 1 and 2, 2010 and May 8 and 9, 2010 Open Studios: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays Events and performances: Admission to be announced.

WHERE: Marin County, California

OPEN STUDIOS: May 1 and 2 and May 8 and 9, 2010 at artists' studios in cities, towns and hamlets throughout Marin County.

ARTS FESTIVAL: May 1 and 2 and May 8 and 9, 2010 at the Marin Arts Council gallery in San Rafael and Marin County performance locations. Events and specific locations to be announced.

Saturday, 22 May, 2010 - 5th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area, The World's Largest DIY Festival

Sat, 22 May 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Maker Faire is a family fun festival to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, build, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology.

FEATURING 600+ MAKERS, INCLUDING: Rockets + Robots, DIY Science + Technology, Arts + Crafts, Bicycles, Electronics, Artisan Foods, Urban Farming, Sustainable Living, Woodworking, Circuit Boards, Maker Shed, Alternative Energy Vehicles, Fire Arts, Live Music, Art Cars, Tesla Coils, Arduino + Kits, and so much more!

Tel: 707.827.7074

Sunday, 23 May, 2010 - Turquoise: Natural or Otherwise

Sun, 23 May 2010 13:00:00 -0500

Please join the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco for Turquoise: Natural or Otherwise, a lecture at River of Words Gallery in Berkeley on May 23, Sunday from 1p.m. to 3 p.m. Dayton’s lecture will give an overview of turquoise through history and focus on the fact that 95 percent of all currently available turquoise is not natural. Natural turquoise will be for sale so bring your checkbooks in order to take advantage of this opportunity.

Dayton Simmons has been involved with turquoise since he set his first piece at age 12 in 1975. Twenty years later he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and established Silver Day Trading Co. where he is a purveyor of gem grade natural turquoise stones and fine jewelry, a miner, an expert at repair of antique American Indian jewelry and an educator of turquoise.

May 23rd from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. River Of Words Gallery in the Sawtooth Building 2599 Eighth St. # 38 (between Dwight and Parker, closest to Parker) Berkeley, CA 94710 Questions? Contact Suzanne Pugh: spugh@ccsf.edu

Sunday, 23 May, 2010 - Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, All You Can Dance Day

Sun, 23 May 2010 13:00:00 -0500

An open house event that features half hour samplings of the wide range of classes offered at LINES from Hip-Hop, to Ballet, Jazz and more. Geared towards adults dancers of all levels and absolute beginners are especially welcome!

All You Can Dance for Just $5 Sunday, May 23rd, 1-5:30 pm $5 at the door Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, 5th Floor 26 7th Street San Francisco, CA Sampler Event of 15+ classes

Saturday, 29 May, 2010 - San Francisco Carnaval 2010 - “Colors Of Sound, Splashes Of Culture”

Sat, 29 May 2010 10:00:00 -0500

San Francisco Carnaval 2010 is California’s largest multi-cultural celebration, and one of San Francisco’s most popular and cherished traditions. San Francisco Carnaval 2010 will showcase the very best of Latin American and Caribbean cultures with a dynamic array of food, music, drumming, dancing, live music, and artistry.

Grandstand seating is available for $30 and can be purchased after March 1, 2010 online at www.sfcarnaval.com

Contributions to donation boxes are appreciated

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please call the SF Carnaval hotline at 415.642.1748 or visit San Francisco Carnaval’s new website at www.sfcarnaval.com.

Tuesday, 01 June, 2010 - Fou Fou Ha

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:00:00 -0500

Fou Fou Ha! is an animated performance troupe extraordinaire, described as “wildly unique” (NBC) with “genuine talent at it’s best” (Metrowise Magazine). With a myriad of color-filled costumes- resembling a cross between Dr. Seuss, Antique Court Jesters and fantastic Anime characters, Fou Fou Ha! performs “jaw-dropping dance numbers” (7x7 Magazine) that mix a “Fosse precision with a Jim Henson sensibility.” (SF Weekly)

Sunday, 30 August, 2065 - Conversations 5 Opening Reception

Sun, 30 Aug 2065 19:00:00 -0500

Conversation 5: Jamie Vasta and Nicholas Pye and Sheila Pye Dates: July 23 – September 19, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 23, 7 – 9pm Location: SFAC Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister), San Francisco, CA Conversations is an ongoing series of exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery featuring a local artist alongside an artist from another point on the globe. The intent of this series is two-fold: on an intimate level it allows for a closer look at the production of two individual artists, and it also informs an expansive perspective of how artists from our region participate in an international contemporary art dialogue. Conversation 5 features San Francisco-based artist Jamie Vasta and the Toronto-based artist team Nicholas Pye&Sheila Pye. Sirens Jamie Vasta is renowned for her exuberant paintings depicting dark and dramatic narratives. Vasta “paints” with glitter, and the result is a surface that is entirely beautiful and enticing – drawing the view closer, in spite of the often violent subject matter. For this new body of work Vasta has created three large-scale works that will reside both on the floor and on the walls of the SFAC Gallery. Her subject matter revolves around the mythical stories of Sirens luring sailors to their death. With charged with potent sexual and psychological content, Sirens pushes the viewer to reflect on gender-based power dynamics, as well as the very human tendency to be seduced by what is desirable yet dangerous. Loudly, Death Unties Nicholas Pye&Sheila Pye have been making films and photographs together, in addition to their individual practices, since 2001. In 2004 the Pyes created the short film, The Paper Wall, which became the first in what was to be a trilogy of works about relationships. The Paper Wall is about a brother and sister expressing their desires silently to each other through a wall. The second film, A Life of Errors, produced in 2006, is about a battle of wills and the testing of various relationship breaking points. Loudly, Death Unties, produced in 2008, is the final film in the trilogy. The film, ultimately, is about the death of a lover. In Irish folklore, the wail of a Banshee announces the inevitable death of someone. In Loudly, Death Unties a Banshee, in the form of a little girl, arrives and through a series of uncanny circumstances, she forces one lover to say goodbye to the other. This film is making its Bay Area premiere and has received rave reviews in Artfoum, Art in America and Art News.

Friday, 07 June, 2115 - SF Camerawork's Opening Reception for Summer 2009 Exhibitions

Fri, 07 Jun 2115 17:00:00 -0500

San Francisco Camerawork Join us to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions that will be on view from June 4 – August 22, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4th 5-8 PM Ersatz Group Exhibition Ersatz Group Exhibition uses the aesthetics and mechanisms of the postal service as means for an exhibition of artwork created by mail. Mail art has evolved as an artistic genre since the mid 20th century and remains a popular form of expression due to its egalitarian, free form structure. Keeping within an egalitarian framework, the exhibition is co-curated by UPS professional Dennis D’Ambrogio, with assistance from co-curators Chris Fitzpatrick and Chuck Mobley. Curators Larry Rinder and Evelyne Jouanno have been invited to tour the exhibition in advance of the opening and respond to the work in the exhibition catalog that will accompany the show. The catalog will serve as a directory of international artists, and beginning in July will be available in book form from print-on-demand company Blurb, as well as a downloadable PDF on SF Camerawork’s website. Leaving a Mark: Cutter Photozine Cutter Photozine is a Bay Area-based documentary photo magazine dedicated to featuring people telling their own stories and documenting their own existence. Cutter seeks to undo a traditional voyeurism of the 'other' and place the power of sight in the focused home of the author. This special exhibition celebrates the launch of the second issue: Leaving a Mark with more than 25 artists featured. The exhibition Leaving a Mark: Cutter Photozine is organized by Cutter editors, Jesse Rose Roberts, Heather Renee Russ and, Rachel Styer. 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography Doris Jew Conrath and Jim Stone The James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is administered annually by SF Camerawork for The San Francisco Foundation, and is given in recognition of artistic achievements by California-born artists. The 2009 award recipients are Doris Jew Conrath and Jim Stone. Jurors for this year’s award were: Allan deSouza, artist and SFAI professor, and Cathy Kimball, executive director of San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art. Award recipient Doris Jew Conrath’s panoramic images are created out of several photographs. The artist explains, “Instead of wide views of a physical space taken by pivoting from one point, I record while walking around a structure and unfold the space in a manner similar to a world map created by using a cylindrical projection method. The individual photographs are then digitally stitched together, forming a new space that shows all sides, allowing the viewer to take in multi facets at once.” The photography of Jim Stone explores facets of America’s unusual and complex character, including such sub-themes as obsession and its public display, the mixing of religious and military iconography in a peaceable secular society, and the ironic difference between intent and achievement. Ultimately the artist sees his work as framing “an organized set of graphic and sociological concerns.”

Friday, 27 October, 2744 - “Terrorism Light and Dark” Rare+Unique Propaganda Films before 911

Fri, 27 Oct 2744 20:00:00 -0500

Oddball Films Presents Portland curator Dennis Nyback’s insightful and entertaining program of rare film clips from cartoons, silent comedies, propaganda and political spots illustrating our Country’s naive, racist and overwrought view of terrorism before 911. Juxtaposing clips as diverse as 1952’s US Government film “What You Need to Know About Biological Warfare” with the 1933 Warner Brothers Cartoon “Wake Up the Gypsy in Me”, Buster Keaton’s “Cops”, a warning about a eminent Communist Attack by Ronald Reagan and many more Nyback will introduce the films and answer questions.
Link to Detailed Program Notes: http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Terrorism_PR.pdf

Program Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaBrKXpe3I