All events on Saturday July 19
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Zine Fest
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Saturday July 19 (11am–8pm) @ County Fair Building
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More than 100 small-press publishers, zine creators, and crafters flock to the SF Zine Fest this weekend to talk shop with fellow creators and sell... View details »
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Timothy Cummings
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Saturday July 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Catharine Clark Gallery
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Timothy Cummings skipped art school and taught himself to paint, honing his craft by taking cues from the Old Masters and soaking up the Spanish... View details »
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Ground Scores
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Saturday July 19 @ Various locations
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Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael Swaine riffs on an... View details »
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Bay Area Now 5
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Saturday July 19 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the past three years. Visual... View details »
- Music: Experimental
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Extra Life
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Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ Million Fishes
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Both Extra Life's Charlie Looker and Nat Baldwin have spent significant time in the Dirty Projectors, lending muscle and intellectual firepower to David Longstreth's already... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Feist
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Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
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No one could have foreseen Leslie Feist's slingshot rise to indie stardom. Wait. On second thought, it was always kind of obvious. After all, Feist's... View details »
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Gravy Train!!!!
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Saturday July 19 (9pm) @ Bottom of the Hill
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Gravy Train!!!! parlay toy instruments and gutter-wise goofballing into solid entertainment. Their basement electronica contrasts favorably with Peaches' intimate semiotics lessons, while their lascivious obsessions... View details »
- Music: Festival
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Download Festival
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Saturday July 19 (2pm) @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
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Although its name might be a sign o' the times, the Download Festival's headlining performances by post-post-punks the Jesus and Mary Chain and Gang of... View details »
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Datarock
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Saturday July 19 (10pm) @ Mezzanine
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Norwegian duo Datarock cite Devo as one of their main influences, as if it weren't obvious. (They wear matching sci-fi jumpsuits and have a proclivity... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
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Iron & the Albatross
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Saturday July 19 (8pm) @ JCC East Bay
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A chamber ensemble led by composer Ara Anderson, Iron & the Albatross weave together songs that are both playful and wistful. Listening to the group's... View details »
- Reading
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Dan Nelson
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Saturday July 19 (7–9pm) @ Rowan Morrison
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Dan Nelson's richly bound and weightily titled volume All Known Metal Bands is a staggering alphabetical grimoire of 51,000 groups that play the devil's music.... View details »
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Dance to ZE Beat
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Saturday July 19 (10pm) @ Edinburgh Castle Pub
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The small galaxy of strange attractors — art stars, noise-damaged musicians, mutant-disco producers, and guerrilla filmmakers — that made up the downtown New York scene... View details »
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Tour de Fat
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Saturday July 19 (9am–4pm) @ Speedway Meadow
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Like a two-wheeled version of Bay to Breakers, the annual Tour de Fat celebrates beer, biking, and the great outdoors with typical San Francisco-style merriment.... View details »
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Tim Lee
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Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
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Although it's tempting to dismiss Vancouver-based artist Tim Lee's use of comedy-as-conceptual-device as lacking in depth or social concern, to mistake his work for a... View details »
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Dale Chihuly
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Saturday July 19 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum
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Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish, fields of lush succulents,... View details »
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2nd Skin
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Saturday July 19 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium
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With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing. Materials include everything from... View details »
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Frida Kahlo
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Saturday July 19 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led her to pursue painting... View details »
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American Symbols
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Saturday July 19 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
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Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations. Highlighting these many points... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Trevor Paglen
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Saturday July 19 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum
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Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of technologically sophisticated methods on... View details »
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INsects INsectos
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Saturday July 19 (1–6pm) @ Creativity Explored
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From Them! to Mothra, Cold War movie audiences frequently endured attacks from gigantic insects. And while INsects INsectos — the new sculpture group show at... View details »
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Women Impressionists
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Saturday July 19 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum
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Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often acknowledged are female contributors... View details »
- Art: Festival
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MOVE>SOUND
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Saturday July 19 @ Various locations
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Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco. Spanning events and performances... View details »
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A Complicated Dominion
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Saturday July 19 (noon–5pm) @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
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When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With a nod to this... View details »
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Insider/Outsider
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Saturday July 19 (noon–4pm) @ Root Division
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Ethnic identity in this country is fluid enough that it's difficult to parse the similarities and differences between, say, three neighbors in the same San... View details »
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Open for Business
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Saturday July 19 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base
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Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within. Each vendor sets up... View details »
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Radialvedic
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Saturday July 19 (noon–6pm) @ Johansson Projects
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With its allusions to prayer wheels and mandalas, Johansson Projects' latest show, Radialvedic, offers up meditations in the round. Although the three artists here work... View details »
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Windows on Nature
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Saturday July 19 (11am–7pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery
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With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns. Koh binds color-film transparencies... View details »
- Film
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The Wackness
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Saturday July 19 @ Various locations
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The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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Hum
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Saturday July 19 (2–5pm) @ Project Artaud Theater
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The drone moves across a remarkable spread of human activity, from religious chanting and doom metal to the whir of white noise. For Hum,... View details »
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Jennifer Merrill
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Saturday July 19 @ Iceberger Gallery
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Jennifer Merrill's cut-paper constructions ape medical illustrations, but her body-part diagrams, cutaway views, and bold colors depict emotional life, rather than physical science. The fighting... View details »
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Kiki
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Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ Ratio 3
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As many LGBT folks are rushing to the altar, this retrospective of the short-lived but influential SF gallery Kiki comes at an interesting time. Founded... View details »
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Ted Pushinsky
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Saturday July 19 (10am–10pm) @ Hamburger Eyes Photo Epicenter
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Ted Pushinsky has chronicled the streets of San Francisco with his 35mm camera for almost three decades, capturing everything from brawls to boxing rings to... View details »
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Room for Thought
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Saturday July 19 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA
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In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle. In Luminous Point, Hahn... View details »
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Mariah Johnson
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Saturday July 19 (1–6pm) @ The Lab
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Mariah Johnson's installations re-envision household order as natural phenomena, draping and wrapping bed linens over chairs, walls, and floors in ways that twist the familiar... View details »
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Fanee
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Saturday July 19 (noon–7pm) @ The Shooting Gallery
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Fanee's Holla at the Bay is a provocative portrayal of female objectification and sexuality that leaves little to the imagination. Two-dozen postcard-sized marker drawings depict... View details »
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We Remember the Sun
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Saturday July 19 (11am–6pm) @ San Francisco Art Institute - Walter and McBean Galleries
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Judging from countless references to "Summers of Love," enthusiastic rock 'n roll movies, and a psychedelic exhibition at the Whitney, Americans are currently smitten with... View details »
