All events on Sunday July 20
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- Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
- Sunday July 20 (2pm) @ Sigmund Stern Grove
- Free
- Alonzo King's company infuses modern dance and ballet with other traditions and techniques. This spirit of cross-pollination invigorates the company's contributions to the Stern Grove... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- North Beach Jazz Fest
- Sunday July 20 @ Various locations More times »
- Although NIMBYs had the North Beach Jazz Fest marked for extinction, the summer institution has persevered, adding four new evening shows and new venues to... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- A Summer Feast
- Sunday July 20 (6–9pm) @ Perbacco
- The magazines Gastronomica and Meatpaper throw a scrumptious party to extol the joys of cooking without guilt. Hosted at Perbacco, which features a hearty menu,... View details »
- Reading
- Ethan Canin
- Sunday July 20 (3pm) @ Diesel, A Bookstore
- Free
- Though still best known for his short-story collections (Emperor of the Air, The Palace Thief), Ethan Canin is also an accomplished novelist. His latest is... View details »
- Music: Classical
- San Francisco Symphony
- Sunday July 20 (2pm) @ Mission Dolores Park
- Free
- The San Francisco Symphony offers a perfect picnic opportunity with this afternoon's free outdoor concert. Members of the orchestra demonstrate their instruments before the show,... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
- GOOD Block Party
- Sunday July 20 (1–8pm) @ 111 Minna Gallery
- One stop on a party tour organized by GOOD magazine, this neighborhood get-down gives you the chance to have fun and make a difference —... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Dale Chihuly
- Sunday July 20 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 2nd Skin
- Sunday July 20 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Frida Kahlo
- Sunday July 20 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
- Sunday July 20 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He worked on light shows... View details »
- Art
- American Symbols
- Sunday July 20 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art More times »
- 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
- Half-Life of a Dream
- Sunday July 20 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over 50 paintings, sculptures, and... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Trevor Paglen
- Sunday July 20 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Fair
- Zine Fest
- Sunday July 20 (11am–7pm) @ County Fair Building More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Birth of the Cool
- Sunday July 20 (noon–5pm) @ Oakland Museum of California More times »
- Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That history, largely one of... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival
- Sunday July 20 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- Noise Pop gets more buzz and Outside Lands nabs the big names, but the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival still offers the best sampling... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Victory Gardens 2008+
- Sunday July 20 @ City Hall More times »
- During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green activist Amy Franceschini joins... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Superstition Obstacle Course
- Sunday July 20 (10am–5pm) @ Exploratorium More times »
- ... ening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack thereof), via an obstacle... View details »
- Art
- Women Impressionists
- Sunday July 20 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
- 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: Photography
- The Art of Lee Miller
- Sunday July 20 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso; fearless... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Diamond Days Festival
- Sunday July 20 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- While the Mission Creek Festival rocks San Francisco, Heeb magazine gives East Bay folks a good reason to stay put with four nights of shows... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival
- Sunday July 20 @ Hypnodrome More times »
- Not to be confused with the Theater of the Absurd, the Theatre of the Ridiculous was the love child of Gay Lib and the '60s... View details »
- Film
- A Listener's Tale
- Sunday July 20 (1pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- Yerba Buena film programmer Joel Shepard snags another unusual US premiere. This one is a documentary tone poem set in a Buddhist community in Sikkim,... View details »
- Art: Festival
- MOVE>SOUND
- Sunday July 20 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Ground Scores
- Sunday July 20 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Bay Area Now 5
- Sunday July 20 (noon–5pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts More times »
- Giveaway
- 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 »
- Art
- Open for Business
- Sunday July 20 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Windows on Nature
- Sunday July 20 (11am–5pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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
- The Wackness
- Sunday July 20 @ Various locations More times »
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Workshop
- Fritz Haeg
- Sunday July 20 (11am–3pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- Free
- It's notable enough when art-addled architects redirect their creative attention to the natural world — think Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, or Andy Goldsworthy's structural... View details »
- Art
- Jennifer Merrill
- Sunday July 20 @ Iceberger Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What You Will
- Sunday July 20 (3pm) @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
- Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers, or the tongue-in-cheek Sheriff... View details »
- Art
- Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
- Sunday July 20 (11am–7pm) @ Park Life More times »
- Free
- Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a deeper unease. Inspired by... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Sunday July 20 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
- Art
- Room for Thought
- Sunday July 20 (10am–7:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
- 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 »
- Film
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
- Sunday July 20 (3, 5, 7 & 9pm) @ Roxie New College Film Center More times »
- Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Chris & Don: A Love Story
- Sunday July 20 @ Landmark Embarcadero More times »
- The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer Christopher Isherwood (his Berlin... View details »
