Interested in saving water? Have you considered installing a greywater system, a rainwater harvesting system, or maybe even a composting toilet? Come learn about these simple, water saving technologies and meet local people who've already installed them.

The evening will be a mix of short presentations on each technology, and time to meet and talk informally with system owners. This is a great opportunity to get answers to your questions, from the general to the nitty-gritty. There will also be food and drink for you.

This is a benefit to raise funds for a greywater study Greywater Action is doing. The study will be the largest of its kind to date, surveying and testing 100 simple greywater systems. Your donation will help pay for soil testing! Learn more about Greywater Action and the study at www.greywateraction.org

Schedule of events 7:00 Doors open. Free wine, beer, juice, and snacks 7:30 Greywater presentation and Q+A time with system owners 8:00 Rainwater presentation and Q+A with system owners 8:30 Composting toilet presentation Q+A chats with system owners

Ben Wheatley follows up his heralded 'Down Terrace' with another inventive, genre-flouting film. Taking a non-traditional approach to the horror genre, 'Kill List' begins with an uncomfortable dinner party with two hit men in attendance and takes several different dramatic (and, eventually, quite bloody) turns after that. Moving effortlessly from kitchen-sink realism to stakeout humor and ending up in the occult territory of 'The Wicker Man', Wheatley's film is consistently unsettling, surprising and shocking. As the London Guardian puts it, "If Ricky Gervais or Mike Leigh made a horror film, it might look something like this."

March 16-22 Showtimes 2:30, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 (2:30 show only on March 18 and 20)

What: Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck (Theme: At War) Where: SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St, between 8th and 9th) When: Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2011, 7:00pm�"9:00pm, house opens 6:30pm What else: Tickets are $10 advance, $5 with a potluck dish, and $12 at the door. For more information visit http://feastofwords.somarts.org or write feastofwords <at> somarts.org

Writer, performer, and Sister Spit veteran Ben McCoy will follow her reading with a short, on-the-spot writing exercise for the audience. A team of culinary guests from the youth-run 1940’s style supper club Old Skool Café and potluck contributors from the audience will provide the evening’s meal.

The theme “I Am Crime” is inspired by I Am Crime: Art on the Edge of Law, a visual art exhibition on view in SOMArts’ Main Gallery March 9�"April 19. Guests of Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck may wish to arrive early to view this exhibition of more than 30 artists and collectives that challenge, question or circumvent the law through their work.

House opens at 6:30pm on Tuesday, Mar. 20, and space is limited. Tickets are $10 in advance, $5 with a potluck dish, or $12 at the door, cash bar. Purchase tickets online at feastofwords.eventbrite.com.

About Ben McCoy McCoy is a writer, and performer. McCoy has toured with the US and parts of Canada with Sister Spit, and was nominated for a San Francisco Literary Foundation of the Arts award. Like most people with an internet connection, Ben's writing has appeared on the HuffingtonPost. Currently Ben is a contributor for http://ironingboardcollective.wordpress.com About Old Skool Café (OSC) OSC is one of a kind youth-run 1940’s supper club, featuring talented young chefs, waiters and entertainers. OSC is a faith-based, violence prevention program, providing jobs and training to youth, (with an emphasis on at-risk, urban youth) ages 16 to 24. OSC confronts the epidemic of violence by providing at- risk and previously incarcerated and foster care youth with a variety of career opportunities that would normally not be afforded them.

Vast and Undetectable Panel Discussion: Visual Languages of Art and Science

The SFAC Gallery, in partnership with Science <at> Cal, will host a panel discussion in conjunction of the SFAC Gallery exhibition, Vast and Undetectable. Moderated by exhibition curator, Aimee Le Duc, the panel is comprised of artists from Vast and Undetectable as well as esteemed scientists from UC Berkeley, Dr. Peggy Hellweg and Bernard Sadoulet. The panel will consider the similarities and differences between the visual languages artists and scientists use to articulate the concepts, theories and experiments that make up their work.

Panelists Dr. Peggy Hellweg Researcher, UC Berkeley Seismological Lab

Bernard Sadoulet, Professor of Physics, Director, UC Institute for Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

Luca Antonucci, Vast and Undetectable exhibiting artist

Jonathon Keats,Vast and Undetectable exhibiting artist

Daniel Small, Vast and Undetectable exhibiting artist

The discussion will be held from 6-7:30pm with a reception in the SFAC Gallery to follow from 7:30-8:30.

This event will be free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please RSVP to SFAC Gallery, 415.554.6080 or aimee.leduc <at> sfgov.org by March 16.

When: Wednesday, March 21, 7+9pm Where: SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Free admission Exhibiting artists are paired with local attorneys who are experts in intellectual property, immigration, and criminal law. The discussion is moderated by artist and attorney JD Beltran and featured artists Ray Beldner, Dreamers Adrift, and Mark McCloud, and attorneys Simon Frankel, Hendrik Pretorius, and Tony Serra.

This is an event accompanying SomArt's 'I Am Crime: Art on the Edge of Law' exhibition that includes more than 30 artists and collectives that challenge, question or circumvent the law through their work. Curated by Justin Hoover, I Am Crime touches on issues of equity�" who gets to break the law, when, and why.

For more information about the exhibition and additional accompanying events, please visit: http://www.somarts.org/iamcrime

Johansson Projects presents Hymns to the Moon, where sublime omens haunt everyday spaces, both of the landscape and of the imagination. Robert Minervini and Tadashi Moriyama depict visions of a timeless future.

Moriyama's works swarm with details in their depiction of the last judgment for the digital age. Weeds, wires, blood and guts coil around classical sculpture, original sin and corporate headquarters. At the crux of his painted paranoia, viewers are struck with, surprisingly, an overwhelming sense of euphoria. Even amidst all the anxiety and desire, in the heat of the moment there is a great togetherness. His animations follow un-phased individuals reacquainting themselves with the new landscape we have cultivated. The combination of lunar energy and digital power leads them to a strange state of enlightenment.

Minervini sheds light on the aftermath of some unnatural disaster, presenting it in all of its jaded beauty. His apathetic dystopias are drenched in the washed-out neon hues of Sunset strip. He paints lo-fi Vanitas that reek of expired mortality while retaining a California cool. There is a hallucinatory quality to the works; they bridge the ancient past with a dystopian future while seeming to hover above the present as if in a ghostly dream.

Show runs March 22- May 5, 2012 Opening Reception: April 6, 5-8pm

March 22, 2012 - April 28, 2012; Opening Reception Thurs, March 22, 5:30-7:30pm

Cain Schulte Contemporary Art is pleased to present the newest metal sculptures by David Buckingham in "Hell Is Other People". The artist's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery addresses a variety of issues found within American culture, from gun fascination, violence and rampant capitalism to current neuroses surrounding gender, sexuality, and the attainment of beauty through artificial means. His varied but incredibly cohesive work often recalls the aesthetic principles of Pop Art, text-based Conceptual Art and the mischievous theories of the Situationist International; he melds and perverts the basic tenets of these movements in an exceptionally complex and daring pastiche. March 22, 2012 - April 28, 2012; Opening Reception Thurs, March 22, 5:30-7:30pm.

MORE INFO: Marina Cain Bianchi ** http://www.cainschulte.com ** info <at> cainschulte.com ** 415-543-1550 Presented by Cain Schulte Contemporary Art

Thu, Mar 22 2012 - 6:00pm Dr. Laurie Santos, The Monkey Whisperer: The Evolution of Irrationality �" Insights from Monkeys

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Director, Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory
Santos, who has been called “the Monkey Whisperer,” studies the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. She’ll discuss her recent work on "monkey economics" and will show that some of the silly financial choices seen in humans can be observed in monkeys too. Come hear the intriguing thoughts of the woman recently voted one of Popular Science magazine's “Brilliant 10” Young Minds

Lisa Townsend + Mica Sigourney

Reflecting on Albert Camus’ investigation of free will in L’Étranger (The Stranger), Lisa Townsend questions the troubling impenitence experienced by Camus’ protagonist, Mersault. Indifference delivers a moving dancetheater commentary on cruelty, remorse, and the societal burdens imposed on cultural outsiders - strangers.

There is nothing understated or apologetic about MASTERWORK. It’s a self obsessed, introspective piece of nightlife-influenced experimental performance that endeavours to magnify the ego of the artist. In the words of the artist Mica Sigourney, “MASTERWORK is the most important performance of our generation and time, created and directed by one of the most important performers/artists of our generation and time.” Enough said.

Future Fridays -Brian David Johnson Friday, March 23 (6pm-7:30pm) A series of community conversations with science and futurist thought leaders. The first speaker in the series is Brian David Johnson. The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, he develops an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called "future casting"-using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. He is the author of Screen Future, The Future of Entertainment, Computing, and the Devices We Love. Brian has also directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. Advance ticket holders will receive a complimentary copy of Brian’s recent book The Tomorrow Project Anthology - Conversations About the Future (2011). Tickets: $20 Members/ $23 Guests ($29 at the door, no discounts + subject to availability) Series Tickets (all four speakers): $66 Members / $78 Guests. Ticket proceeds help underwrite the educational programming at Chabot. This series is proudly sponsored by Rudney Associates

Upcoming Future Fridays Speakers:

Friday, April 20 - Ben Burtt- Sound Designer and Director at Lucasfilm/Pixar.

Friday, May 11 - Bill Nye the Climate Guy- scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor and driving force behind the Bill Nye's Climate Lab exhibition at Chabot Space + Science Center.

Friday, November 2 - Ray Jayawardhana - a professor and Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics at the University of Toronto.

Mar 23, 7pm to 10pm

An evening of dance artistry will feature special guest performances from prominent local dance companies, a Silent Auction, and culinary delights in addition to a digital art preview by British born media artist Ben Wood all to benefit Push Dance Company's upcoming home season in Union Square. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes for our DJ dance party. Mar 23, 7pm to 10pm.

MORE INFO: Brittany Delany ** http://www.pushdance.org ** info <at> pushdance.org ** 415-800-7943 Presented by Push Dance Company

941 Geary is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Amsterdam-based artist, Niels Shoe Meulman (NSM), opening March 24, 2012 at 941 Geary. The new works of the show have been shaped by the wide variety of artistic paths NSM has traveled. The opening will be free and open to the public, and the show will run until April 21, 2012.

Before running his own design company, and later an advertising agency, NSM apprenticed with Anthon Beeke, a Dutch graphic designer considered at the top of his field. Through a classic master/pupil education NSM developed the required skillset needed to be a designer and typographer. This mastery of the mechanical aspects of design can be seen throughout the body of works comprising ‘Justified Scriptures.’ Each work, form the small to the large, demonstrates NSM’s superb sense of space and precision. NSM has said that he draws inspiration from television programs about nature and science, explaining in an interview, “Most laws of graphic design and graffiti are universal laws. Balance, continuity, those kinds of things. In a way nature is our only reference.” NSM’s new work brings a harmonious organization to chaos, with bold free-form strokes repeating themselves over and over until a pattern is formed.

The trained eye can decipher words written in NSM’s signature fusion of calligraffiti amidst the patterns in a few of the works, including in the huge (dimensions) linen canvas titled Unknown, though most of NSM’s latest work is a painting style which is self-described as “Abstract Expressionism with a calligraphic origin.” The intricate curves of NSM’s linework are derived from a long interest in the beauty of the written word, referencing an impressive range of forms, from Arabic calligraphy of sacred texts to the vertical writing of East Asian scripts to the richly illuminated manuscripts of medieval times. These influences are then dismantled into abstracted compositions, where the main focus seems to be the integration of natural forms and structured design.

‘Justified Scriptures’ can be seen as following in the footsteps left by the multitude of incredible Modernist painters, whereas famed art historian Clement Greenberg once noted, “The excitement of their art seems to lie most of all in its pure preoccupation with the invention and arrangement of spaces, surfaces, shapes, colors, etc., to the exclusion of whatever is not necessarily implicated in these factors.”

From the Artist:

“If these works remind you of mass graves, bookshelves, military parades, meditative exercises, blocks of text or people in general (all different but the same), then I'm happy.

I'm starting to abandon the idea of telling stories but acknowledge the beauty of communication. I don't believe anything anymore and what's left is language itself. That's what this work is about.”

Born in Amsterdam in 1967, Niels Meulman is an internationally known artist, designer, and art director. Meulman began tagging in 1979 and became a graffiti legend by the time he was 18. Known as ‘Shoe’ within the graffiti community, his work evolved into a business for lettering and he furthered his technique by apprenticing under the Dutch graphic design master, Anthon Beeke. Meulman revolutionized the art of writing with Calligraffiti, an art form that fuses calligraphy and graffiti. Widely acclaimed, Meulman’s designs and artwork are in the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

RAYKO EXHIBITION showcases images exploring photography's ongoing tensions between public and private domains

Voyeurism and Intimacy: the Public/Private Divide in Photography Juried by Todd Hido

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 24th, 6-8pm Exhibition dates: March 15th - April 6th, 2012

RayKo Photo Center Gallery 428 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107

The Society for Photographic education is hosting its national conference in San Francisco this year. As part of the event, RayKo Photo Center is sponsoring a members show, "Intimacy and Voyeurism: The Public/Private Divide in Photography" juried by photographer Todd Hido (who may be the perfect juror for such a topic). Out of the 1200 submissions, Mr. Hido whittled the selections down to a mere 40 pieces by 36 different artists. This exhibition will showcase images about photography's ongoing tensions between public and private domains, and will explore how the lines between those domains are often blurred. The following artists, who also happen to be photography educators or students of photography, were chosen for the exhibition:

Malena Barnhart, Sean Black, Tara Bogart, Kristy Lynn Carpenter, Daniel Coburn, Rachel Cox, Jess Dugan, Marico Fayre, Polly Gaillard, Tracie Heller, Rachel Hubbard, Julie Jones, Chris Jordan, Ashley Kaucshinger, John Kobeck, Julia Kozerski, Joseph Labate, Andrea Land, Sarah-Marie Land, Mark Lee, Alex Leme, Nora Lewis, Kimberly Llerena, Amelia Morris, Jay Mulin, Teresa Munisteri, Peggy Nolan, Emma Powell, Julia Schlosser, Besty Schneider, Marta Shumylo, Ernesto Somoza, Leona Strassburg, Claire Warden, and Laine Wyatt

Join us for the opening reception on March 24th when Todd Hido announces the best of show winner from this competition. There’s a lot to see, ranging from spy pictures of people fighting in the streets, miniatures of houses with strange guests illuminated within, scratchy Polaroids with messages written on them, abandoned motel rooms where something appears to have gone terrible wrong, to brilliant color images of women and men of various ages and stages wearing everything imaginable…

The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides and fosters an understanding of photography as a means of diverse creative expression, cultural insight, and experimental practice. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services, and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms through teaching and learning, scholarship, and criticism. To learn more about Society for Photographic Education or the SPE national conference, go to www.spenational.org

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books, the latest monograph being A Road Divided, released in 2010.

About RayKo

RayKo Photo Center + Gallery is a comprehensive photographic facility, located near the Yerba Buena Arts District, with resources for anyone with a passion for photography. Established in the early 1990’s, RayKo Photo Center has grown to become one of San Francisco’s most beloved photography darkroom spaces; it includes traditional b+w and color labs as well as a state-of-the-art digital department, a professional rental studio, galleries, and the Photographer’s Marketplace - a retail space promoting the work of regional artists. RayKo also has San Francisco’s 1st Art*O*Mat vending machine and a vintage 1947 black + white Auto-Photo Booth.

RayKo Gallery serves to advance public appreciate of photography and create opportunities for regional and national artists to create and present their work. RayKo Gallery offers 1600 square feet of exhibition space and the Photographer’s Marketplace, which supports the work of Bay Area artists, and encourages the collection of artwork by making it accessible to collectors of all levels. The Photographer’s Marketplace offers photography collectors unique and affordable work from artists living and working in the surrounding area.

Join San Francisco Renaissance Voices for The Legend of Hercules: Music from the Court of Ferrariae part of their 2011-12 Season Renaissance Myth and Legend. The demigod Hercules, son of the great god Jupiter and the mortal woman Alcmena, and his legendary strength have inspired countless stories, artworks and music, was also the name give to the Duke of Ferrariae whose court employed the best musicians of the day. Join us for this Concert from the Court of Ferrariae featuring music from the early Renaissance including music by Johannes Martini (C1440-c1497), Jacob Obrecht (c1457-1505), Heinrich Isaac (c1450-1517), and Josquin des Prez (c1450-1521); featured is Martini's Magnificat Tertii Toni.

Last December, we saw San Francisco lookin' real sharp and dancin' real fierce when we partnered with Dusty Stax for the sold out Winter Formal Dance at The Verdi Club. Guests begged so loudly for a follow up that we're going for round two - so keep that fancy shoe polish handy.

That's right, on Saturday, March 24, The Bold Italic and Dusty Stax present Spring Fling, a celebration of soul and girl group hits performed by the supergroup Gold Star Band.

All your favorites will be back on the mic - Quinn DeVeaux, Noelle Cahill ( Magic Trick ), and Jen Snyder, backed by the Golden Girls as they croon out classics by Ike and Tina, Irma Thomas, and The Crystals, to name a few. Dick Vivian will be back behind the turntables with Sama from Rooky Ricardo's . Ike's Place will be on site selling sandwich sustenance and Kanon Organic Vodka will provide ticketholders with a delicious complimentary cocktail concoction. And our ace photographer, Gabriel Wheeler , will be back to capture everyone in their gorgeous glory.

We strongly suggest grabbing tickets early. We had to turn people away at the door for the Winter Formal, and we want to make sure if you're dressed that nice you make it to the dancefloor.

As always, don’t stress about finding a date. You can show up stag or with friends ... just don’t forget your dancing shoes.

Dress Code: No denim will be permitted. For fellas: ties and collars are a must and leave those sneakers at home. Now is your chance to don that linen suit. Ladies: you know what to do and let’s see those spring colors.

21 and over dance all night! Price of admission includes free Kanon Organic Vodka cocktail.

Evelyn Abston just recorded a CD titled, "Let Their Voice Be Heard. It's theme to promote understanding and unity between all beings on the planet. And to celebrate the release of the CD. Evelyn is holding a fundraiser to promote an organization that is in alignment of the messge of her CD. Loma Vista Farm in beautiful Vallejo California is a having a fundraiser to keep this teaching farm strong, abundant and alive. A farm that teaches environmental education to students of all ages. For more information on the farm please go to www.lomavistafarm.org

Evelyn Abston has been an animal activist since she adopted her first kitten in 1986. since then she has volunteered for the Humane Society of the North Bay. She has taught the Open Paw program for cats, a training program for shelter animals. She is a producer for a TV show on VCAT in Vallejo, "The Paw Stops Here" a show to promote educational information for pet parents and topics that affect humans and animals.

Join Evelyn and special musical guests for an afternoon of love, community, music and fun, fun, fun! There will also be a raffle for some fantastic prizes. Suggested Love Donation, $15.

Crowden Music Center's Sundays <at> Four series gets down to the basics of great chamber music-outstanding collaborative artists and rich programming in an intimate setting. On March 25, local prodigy and cellist Tessa Seymour returns home to perform with her long-time collaborator, pianist Miles Graber. Seymour is one of the most exciting young musicians to emerge from the Bay Area in recent years. The many accomplishments already under her belt at age 18 include a televised Carnegie Hall debut, first place in the 2007 San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, and performing for the Dalai Lama. Free "Meet-the-Artists" reception. www.crowden.org.

MORE INFO: Jen Strauss ** http://www.crowden.org/Events/sundays.htm#seymour ** info <at> crowden.org ** 510-559-6910 Presented by Crowden Music Center

Mill Valley Chamber Music Society presents Eroica Trio
The Eroica Trio performs in concert March 25 for the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society. Honored with multiple Grammy®-nominations and known for its audience appeal, flawless technical virtuosity, elegance and enthusiasm, the critically acclaimed Eroica Trio features three award-winning soloists ~ pianist Erika Nickrenz, violinist Susie Parker and cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio. Their Mill Valley on March 25 concert program includes Gaspar Cassado: Piano Trio in C Major; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67; Ravel: Piano Trio in A

Headlands hosts an evening with OPENharvest; Members of the food and art collective present an interactive, multi-sensory experience involving image, conversation, and savory, Japan-inspired tastings in pop-up locations on-site at Headlands.

OPENharvest was created when members of the Bay Area collective OPENrestaurant joined forces with Tokyo’s Food Light Project to build support for Japanese organic farms and sustainable fisheries affected by last year's cataclysmic events at Fukushima. The Bay Area contingent traveled to Japan to visit farmers, fishermen, cooks and artists, documenting along the way and organizing a series of edible and artistic events at such locations as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

View works by 19 artists working in a range of media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, installation, mixed media and artist's books.

Featuring Arc Studios artists Kirk Brooks, April Hankins, Soad A. Kader, Mike Kimball, Saundra McPherson, Ben Needham, Priscilla Otani, Rachel Sager, William Salit, Stephen C. Wagner, Tanya Wilkinson, + Hilary Williams.

With guest artists Johnny Botts, Clare Kuo, Eric Larson, Alan Mazzetti, Marilynne Morshead, Greg Nelson, + Heather Polley.

Open studios at Arc continue on Saturday + Sunday, March 31st + April 1st, noon-5PM.

MORE INFO: Stephen Wagner ** http://www.arc-sf.com/ ** arcstudiossf <at> gmail.com ** 415-861-3504 Presented by Arc Studios + Gallery

Screening of "I’m Here" with Presentation by Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley Professor of Robotics

What can our robots tell us about ourselves? They continue to be an irresistible topic for cinema and culture, and robots like the Terminator have a long history going back to Frankenstein's creation and the Golem. But the next generation of robots won't rigidly follow orders. Instead, they'll use advanced sensing, computation and data from the cloud to cooperate with and enhance human abilities. These robots will apply statistical machine learning to be more aware than oblivious, more social than solitary, and more like companions than tools. Using film clips and a complete screening of Spike Jonze's short film "I'm Here", Professor Goldberg will present examples of new robots and describe his own research in "superhuman surgery" and "cloud robotics."

Written and directed by Spike Jonze, I'm Here is a bittersweet science-fiction romance starring Andrew Garfield and Sienna Guillory as two robots in an everyday world. (US 2010) 30 min. Special thanks to Spike Jonze and MJZ, Inc.

Ken Goldberg, Ph.D. is an inventor working at the intersection of art, robotics and social media. On the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media, he also holds an appointment in the UC San Francisco Medical School where he pursues research in medical robotics.

Science on Screen. California Film Institute presents a new series made possible by a grant from the Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Conceived by the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts, "Science on Screen" is a program that creatively pairs film screenings with lively presentations by scientific experts and technological innovators, providing the perfect combination of entertainment and enlightenment.

Day 1 of Death Guild's Nineteenth Anniversary Week!

Performing live:

STROMKERN -- http://www.stromkern.com/ (only US show!) INURE -- https://www.facebook.com/1nure

With DJs:

Decay Melting Girl

Get your four day pass for the Sun, Mon, Tue + Wed events for just $41!

Stromkern, one of San Francisco's favorite industrial acts, returns to DNA Lounge for the first time Since their historic tour with Front Line Assembly in 2006. After a 6 year hiatus from making music, the group resurfaces with a new EP, "Dead Letters," in March. Joined by long-time Stromkern drummer Matt Berger, legendary producer Dan Clark of the Dark Clan, and synthpop prodigy Andrew Sega of Iris, Stromkern frontman Ned Kirby blew away a packed audience at last Summer's wtII Festival in Chicago - the band's comeback show. The Death Guild Anniversary show will be the first Stromkern performance since then. This is not to be missed.

Now at nineteen years, Death Guild is the oldest weekly goth/industrial dance night in the country, and the second oldest in the world! Every Monday, six DJs in two rooms play a mix of gothic, industrial, synthpop, noise, ambient, and weird stuff for those who love the darker side of things.

Join the Death Guild group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/deathguild/

industrial. doors <at> 8pm; show <at> 9pm. all ages. $12 advance; $17 door.

Every third Sunday of the month, BYOF Cinema Orgy presents Amateur Erotica Night!

BYOF means Bring your own film! It's like an open mic, but for DIY Erotica/Porn. We're showing at the newly opened S3X Gallery, a vintage porn theater turned art-erotica gallery

http://www.s3xgallery.moonfruit.com/#

We Screen anything from:

Clips/Homemade films. Short films. Compilations (of your films) Excerpts from longer films. Trailers. Documentaries. Experimental films. VJ (video mixing/mash ups). Photo slideshows. From horror, sci-fi, comedy (etc) themed to no theme. From Gonzo to artsy. From XXX to PG ... and whatever else there is.

We accept all work 15 minutes and under. DVD is the preffered media, but we can also accept flash drives, and laptops with proper outputs. Any Questions? Just ask.

8pm - Midnight

Videos. Sexy games, and after party.

Bring your own pillows, blankets, yoga mattes... whatever makes you comfy.

NO DRESS CODE!

Dress up sexy or come casual. Come in your pajama's, swimwear, lingerie, or nothing at all!

CHEAP DRINKS AND SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED

Join the FB http://www.facebook.com/events/362308157142191/

VIDEO RULES: 1.) No Bestiality, pedophilia or scat should be contained in the films. 2.) Consensual violence is okay, but non consensual sex/violence will not be allowed. 3.) We are not liable for what is shown at the screening, and no work has been pre-screened.

SPACE RULES: 1.) No cameras are allowed. We will not confiscate camera's or cell phones, but if you are taking photo's of others without there permission you will be asked to leave.

2.) You can come naked and touch yourself or your lover(s), but you can not touch others without there permission.

Back for one night only: an encore performance of the dark and delightful songs from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's famous THREEPENNY OPERA, as presented by local opera company Goat Hall Productions (goathall.org). Monday night (3/19), 8PM, at the new Stage Werx Theater in the Mission District (446 Valencia St. between 15th + 16th).

Follow notorious criminal and pimp, Macheath Messer (a.k.a Mack the Knife), through the dark streets of London in this biblical parable; a Marxist-influenced critique of capitalist values. See why Weill, Brecht, and other post-WWI "Epic Theatre" artists were forced to flee Germany in fear of arrest by the Gestapo.

The work is the origin of many well-know tunes including Pirate Jenny, the Ballad of Mack the Knife, Barbara Song, Tango Ballad, and the Jealousy Duet-- performed this evening by classically trained singers and accompaniment. With Zoltan DiBartolo, Michelle Jasso, Sibel Demirmen, Harriet March Page, Mark Alburger, Alexis Lane Jensen, Nathan Tucker, John Bilotta, and Allison Lovejoy. Directed by Margery Fairchild of Dark Porch Theater.

Goat Hall Productions is a community of musicians, composers and writers presenting classic and contemporary operas, as well as new music theater, that reflect and define the world around us, while shining a light on the human condition.

Join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, March 20th, beginning with an artist talk at 4:30pm. On display March 19 - 23.

The Negotiation presents the work of artists Michal Wisniowski, Elin Bengtsson, Francesca Du Brock, and Pabi, as dialogues with the traumatic.

Trauma manifests itself in multiple realities, from the secret and personal, to the national or global. To exist is to be confronted with trauma, and we devise mechanisms and strategies for negotiating its presence. In The Negotiation, strategies for a dialogue with the traumatic are explored in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media.

The Diego Rivera Gallery is located on the San Francisco Art Institute campus at 800 Chestnut St. in San Francisco.

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About the Artists:

Michal Wisniowski is a Polish born artist residing in the San Francisco bay area. His formative years were divided between then-communist Poland and living in a racially hostile Germany as a political refugee. Immigration to the United States in the nineties served as additional culture shock and continuation of a nomadic life-style that would bring him to live in Montana, then North Carolina, and finally California.

Elin Bengtsson spent her first 28 years in the forests of Sweden, which left her with a dark mind, good skin, and a BFA from Valand School of Fine Arts. For the last 2 years she has been adjusting to the Californian air, increasingly occupied with the idea of Gods wrath.

Francesca Du Brock was born and raised in Alaska and has lived throughout the United States and South America. She is interested in exploration, exile, displacement, shifting identity, and memory.

Pabi is a Danish artist concerned with revealing formative memories and their manifestation through the body. Through his work, he expresses the enduring scars of body and soul that stay with us for life.

3-Course Progressive Dinner w/ Cutting Edge Speakers, featuring extraordinary fare from 3 model sustainable restaurants: Gather, Five + Revival Bar + Kitchen. Within 3 blocks participants will meet award winning chefs/owners + savor their local, seasonal food. Network, make new friends, indulge yourself + learn about Slow Money, Slow Food and local, sustainable food! Menu: organic pizzas; rainbow trout w/ turnip, chard + red mustard or roasted chicken w/ mushrooms + sunchokes; butterscotch pudding w/ peanut brittle, pecan pie, apple cinnamon cake, whoopie pie; wine/beer, coffee/tea. Cost includes food, tax, tip, speakers, networking. Gift certificates, student/senior discounts.

MORE INFO: Monique Isenheim ** http://www.bayareagreentours.org ** info <at> bayareagreentours.org ** 510-704-0379 Presented by Bay Area Green Tours

First Person Singular continues its 2012: Apocalypse Not Now Season with None Too Keene: Nancy Drew Noir - a radical redressing of the girl sleuth's first mystery, with special guest Eddie "The Czar or Noir" Muller, founder of The Film Noir Foundation and San Francisco's Noir City Film Festival.

She knew. About the coded phrases served up at social teas. About the untidy passions externalized in a broken locket. About what goes down on a hidden staircase. With one hundred and seventy five mysteries solved by age eighteen, Nancy Drew had seen more than Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Mike Hammer combined. And she'd seen enough. On graduating high school, she quit sleuthing, and took to writing her memoirs. "For profit," she once told an inquiring librarian. "And no other fool reason." When the manuscript for The Secret of the Old Clock hit Grosset + Dunlap's desks in 1930, they knew they had gold, but they balked. "On prose like that," said friend James M. Cain, "You could've cracked a shotglass". Enter "Carolyn Keene," a collective pseudonym for a group of editors who cake decorated Drew's language with enough twee adverbs to choke a Girl Scout. It worked. The books sold 80 million copies, a new role model emerged, and Nancy Drew laughed all the way to the bank.

In the process, American literature got swindled.

To restore this lost voice of hard-boiled crime writing, we called on the best: noir preservationist Eddie Muller, author of Dark City; The Distance; and Grindhouse, and founder of The Film Noir Foundation, and San Francisco's Noir City Film Festival. In celebration of his efforts, we are presenting an evening of selections from the original manuscript, read by streetwise gamine of local theater, Lydia Odette Warren. Muller will be on hand to provide context and commentary, and piano-bar veteran Richard Leiter will surrender the blue notes in a live, original score. Think you know Nancy Drew? You haven't got a clue.

Performed by Lydia Odette Warren, with a live original score by Richard Leiter. Special Guest Eddie "The Czar of Noir" Muller.

ODC's 41st home season features three world premieres from Brenda Way and KT Nelson- Breathing Underwater, Transit and Cut-Out Guy- as well as repertory favorites Raking Light, I look vacantly at the Pacific...though regret, and Part of a Longer Story. Breathing Underwater features a score by avant-cellist Zoe Keating who will play live alongside members of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, and Transit features imaginative prop pieces by The Crucible's bicycle artist Max Chen. On Wednesday, March 21, join fellow bike enthusiasts and bike to Transit. Bike vallet parking courtesy of the San Francisco Bike Coalition.

MORE INFO: Nancy Bertossa ** http://www.odcdance.org/dancedowntown ** boxoffice <at> odctheater.org ** 415-863-6606 Presented by ODC/Dance

Join us for an evening of exploring Irish-American poetry through the voices of three esteemed local poets. This is the second event in a series held at The Meridian Gallery by Crossroads in celebration of the art exhibit of Irish painter, Patrick Graham.

Terry Ehret

Terry Ehret is a poet and teacher, one of the founders of the innovative Sixteen Rivers Press, a hands-on publishing collective run by and for San Francisco Bay Area Poets. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly's Cove Press. Literary awards include the National Poetry Series, California Book Award, Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer's Award, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004-2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches.

Gerald Fleming

Gerald Fleming's poetry and prose poems have appeared widely over the past thirty years. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, and between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazineBarnabe Mountain Review, whose archives can be found at U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library. His book of poemsSwimmer Climbing onto Shore was published in 2005, and a book of prose poems, Night of Pure Breathing, appeared last spring from Hanging Loose Press in New York. He taught in the San Francisco public schools for thirty-seven years, and has published three books for teachers, the most recent of which is Rain, Steam, and Speed(Jossey-Bass/Wiley). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. A new book of longer prose poems, The Choreographer, is due out in spring of 2013.

Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty's books include A Tonalist an essay poem from Nightboat Books, the novels, Cunning and Ultravioleta. A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975 - 2007 came out from Omnidawn in 2007. Who That Divines is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. She is the author of ten other books of poetry going back to 1980. She won the Poetry Center Book Award in 1983, a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award in Poetry in 1992, a New Langton Arts Award in Literature 1998 and a Fund for Poetry grant in 2007. She has taught at Mills College and Naropa University, among other places, and is Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. For more, see the blog A Tonalist Notes.

BCNM presents a screening of the new documentary Picture Start, directed by Harry Killas. Picture Start documents how a small group of artists put Vancouver at the leading edge of contemporary art. The film focuses on Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace and Rodney Graham, three celebrated artists of the so-called Vancouver School. Featuring interviews with the artists, curators and collectors, the film seeks to answer key questions as to how and why these artists came together as contemporaries in what might be thought of as an unlikely setting.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Blake Stimson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sandra Phillips (SFMOMA) and Harry Killas.

MORE INFO: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu ** info.bcnm <at> berkeley.edu ** 510-495-3505 Presented by UC's Berkeley Center for New Media

One of the world's “coolest film festivals” according to MovieMaker Magazine, The Disposable Film Festival premieres its 5th annual competitive shorts program here in San Francisco before screening it around the world. Be the first to see this year's collection of the best disposable films made on everyday devices like cell phones, pocket cameras, and webcams.

With over 3,000 recording sessions, 100 gold albums, 19 Grammy nominations and 4 Grammy awards to his credit, Carlton is one of the most acclaimed musicians of his generation. He has performed on recordings with artists from Joni Mitchell to Michael Jackson and has released a diverse body of work as a solo jazz instrumentalist with groups such as The Crusaders and Fourplay.

MORE INFO: http://www.firehousearts.org ** 925-931-4848 Presented by City of Pleasanton Firehouse Arts Center

Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24, at 8 p.m.

The premiere of a new work, a rare solo performance by Hope Mohr and the Bay Area debut of New York-based choreographer/performer Dusan Tynek's company will headline the fifth San Francisco home season of Hope Mohr Dance. Hope Mohr Dance (HMD) is a bold and visionary company that both creates original work and presents other contemporary choreographers, giving Bay Area audiences the opportunity to see new dance in a regional and national context. Mohr thoughtfully pairs her own rigorously crafted and emotionally resonant choreography with work of other artists, thus creating a provocative aesthetic "call and response" not often seen elsewhere in the U.S. Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24, at 8 p.m..

MORE INFO: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/219483 ** hopemohr <at> gmail.com ** 800-838-3006 Presented by Hope Mohr Dance

At 40 years of age, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. abandoned the traditional American Dream to follow his own. Unsatisfied with his comfortable, middle-class life, Amos traded in his computer for a printing press and his white collar for a pair of overalls. Armed with life, liberty, peanuts, and a meager yearly income of $7,000, Amos cranked out a new, mutinous declaration of independence.

Proceed and Be Bold! joins Amos for a titillating retelling of his story, while examining the pretensions and provisions of the art world. The work of this self-proclaimed “Humble Negro Printer” raises emotionally-charged questions and reveals remarkable depth beneath the bold print. By learning the rules and then choosing to break them, Amos redefines what life (and letterpress printing) can be: exhilarating and subversive.

His provocative sense of humor seeps out of every word he speaks and his radical philosophies on the American consciousness (or unconsciousness) will awaken any listless bystander. After experiencing Amos’ humble journey, you’ll never look at your middle class life the same way again.

CENTAUR-JP Allen’s Powerful, Unusual Local San Francisco Drama About Murder and Lost Love

Special Opening Night Event 3/23: Filmmaker and Cast attending, with local band McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Special Second Night Event 3/24: Double Feature with Sex and Imagining (also from Coffee and Language Productions)

Coffee and Language Productions presents CENTAUR, JP Allen's surprising and poetic story about a San Francisco man documenting his plan of murder and revenge, making its Theatrical Premiere on Friday, March 23, 2012 at Landmark's Lumiere Theatre, 1572 California Street, San Francisco, playing with daily shows through Thursday, March 29.

In Allen's haunting and unexpectedly sensual drama, an unidentified man is stunned by the death of his girlfriend, Jennifer, in a car accident with a drunk driver. However, the drunk escapes punishment because of a mistake by the police. Determined to get revenge, the unidentified man decides to play a "complex game" of murder and record his efforts, and memories of Jennifer, by making a video that mirrors a gift she gave him just before she died. Filmed in spectacular locations in and around San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, in a noir style, this local independent drama features outstanding performances by Bay Area actors JP Allen, as the unidentified main character, Amy Mordecai as Jennifer, and Chris Pflueger as the driver. CENTAUR also showcases brilliant music by popular Austin band, Michael Slattery and Shoulders. Written and Photographed by JP Allen.

More about the cast:

Amy Mordecai has played leading roles at major theatres across the San Francisco Bay Area including California and SF Shakespeare Festivals, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the AmeRican CitiZeN's Theatre, where she is a founding member. Favorite roles include Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Virginia in The Life of Galileo. She is a graduate of SFSU Drama program, has worked as an actor for over twenty years, and has two extraordinary children.

Chris Pflueger has appeared in leading roles in five feature film from Coffee and Language Productions - CENTAUR, Sephanie's Image, SEX AND IMAGINING, Belief, and Coffee and Language (the film). He has also appeared in films and TV programs such as Just Like Heaven with Reese Witherspoon, the TV series Trauma, as well as numerous national commercials.

The film's running time is 87 minutes; it is not rated.

The sound-and-image anarchists behind 'Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers', the 2001 cult short film, successfully transfer to a larger arena in 'Sound of Noise', a delightful comic cocktail mixing a modern urban symphony, a police procedural and a love story. The up-tempo feature debut of Swedish directors Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson boasts the most complex and wacky musical numbers since Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 'Delicatessen', hitting notes alternately silly, raucous and rhapsodic. The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring (an engaging Bengt Nilsson), tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to track down a group of six guerrilla percussionists whose public performances are terrorizing the city. The drumming set pieces correspond to an avant-garde score in four movements: “Doctor, Doctor, Gimme Gas (In My Ass),” “Money 4 U, Honey,” “Fuck the Music Kill! Kill!” and “Electric Love.” Where the short film had the six drummers imaginatively using standard apartment furnishings as their instruments, the feature unleashes them on an unspecified city’s civic and cultural institutions. “Doctor, Doctor” plays out in a hospital operating room, literally removing the sound from a windbag patient; staged like a robbery, “Money” makes beautiful music from a bank’s paraphernalia; the classical music establishment comes under attack from heavy machinery in “Music;” and daredevil “Love” unfurls in midair on the city’s electric lines. There is even an amusing backstory for each of the soberly dressed drummers and investigator Warnebring, their music-hating nemesis. Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 pm

Win IPAD2, Flatscreen TV and some major cash!!!

Urban Services YMCA is the social services arm of San Francisco in providing life-changing programs that strengthen families, build successful communities, and promote educational excellence. We are organizing a Bingo night to raise funds. All proceeds go towards serving your community.

Please don’t miss the opportunity to have fun and create lasting, meaningful change in your neighborhood! Buy tickets right away at http://urbanbingonight2012-zvents.eventbrite.com/.

Community Music Center is pleased to host the Beijing Guitar Duo for a free Concert with Conversation in our 130-seat concert hall. We thank San Francisco Performances for the wonderful opportunity they've given us to share this music with the community.

The impressive individual talents of Meng Su and Yameng Wang come together to create what is sure to be one of the most exciting guitar duos on the scene today. Ms. Su and Ms. Wang first met at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, where they both studied with the acclaimed professor Chen Zhi. The Beijing Guitar Duo was formally established at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2008 at the encouragement of their mentor Manuel Barrueco.

As recipients of the “Solomon H. Snyder Award,” the Beijing Guitar Duo will make its New York debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on April 19, 2010. Other upcoming performances include recitals in Denmark, China, Germany and the United States.

For more information about this Free Concert with Conversation, contact: Community Music Center (415) 647-6015 x75 info <at> sfcmc.org

March 23rd, 7-11pm; March 24-25, 12-5pm

Opening Reception Gala Friday March 23rd 7-11pm Open Studios Sat + Sun 12-5pm

2425 17th St,SF,CA <at> Potrero

San Francisco's largest Artist's collective is holding its 12th Annual Spring Open Studios on March 23rd thru 25th. Come see over 140 artists as they exhibit their work from their studios. Painters, sculptures, photographers, fashion designers, jewelers and textile artists will be showing. Please come and support original local artists, expand your art collection and find great deals. The opening reception gala will be on Friday, March 23rd from 7-11pm. On Sat + Sun we will have open studios from 12 - 5pm. As always, Free Admission and Free Refreshments. March 23rd, 7-11pm; March 24-25, 12-5pm.

MORE INFO: http://www.artexplosionstudios.com Presented by Art Explosion Studios 17th Street

Peek into the real life of playwright Williams and re-meet his most memorable females characters, including Blanche DuBois, Maggie the Cat and Amanda Wingfield. Gain new insight and understanding of these characters and how they continue to evoke sympathy and serve as martyrs for common women in this new theatrical piece.

Directed by Lennie Dean

WHEN: March 23 to April 7, 2012 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 2 p.m. Sundays March 25 and April 1, 2012 2 p.m. Saturday April 7, 2012

TICKETS: $10 to $25 Ticket prices 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays: General $25; Senior (62 and over) $20; Youth (13 to 21) $20; Children (5 to 12) $10. Ticket prices 8 p.m. Thursdays and 2 p.m. Saturdays: General $20; Senior (62 and over) $15; Youth (13 to 21) $15; Children (5 to 12) $10.

The Challenge is a ridiculously fun “Amazing Race” style competition packed into one incredible day. Teams of two or more will dash around the city, racing against other Challengers for immortal glory (and cash prizes!) as they solve tricky clues, strategize the best route, and explore undiscovered corners of the city.

In Other Words is a group exhibition that looks at language and its capacity to clarify and confuse, convene and separate, inspire and discourage. Language can excite our spirit, comfort our feelings, and inform our intellect; it can also extinguish desire, destroy confidence, and cloud perception. By exploring a range of areas concerning the influence and evolution of language in our lives - the impact of technology, the obscurity of industry-specific terminology, the psychological internalization of language, and the recontexutalization of language - the artists in this exhibition demonstrate through a diversity of media the many ways in which we strive to communicate to each other.

Features work by Katie Gilmartin, Julia Goodman, Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, Susan O’Malley, Meryl Pataky, Alex Potts, Cassie Thornton, Annie Vought and Christine Wong Yap.

The “In Other Words” exhibit comes to a close. Please join us in this candid talk to hear directly from the creative minds that graced our gallery with such fun and thought-provoking art.

Drone Magic is a unique festival with bagpipe music from aound the world. For the 8th time pipers gather to perform the music and traditions of their heritage. From dark laments to fiery dance music, listen to the piping traditions of Ireland, Spain, Bulgaria, Northumberland, Scotland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Hungary.

Ethnic Bulgarian food by Hristo Kolev, and libations will be available for purchase. Schedule: 5:00PM Videos, 6:00PM Lady pipers, 7:30PM Gala concert.

MORE INFO: John Daley ** http://www.CroatianAmericanWeb.org ** johndaley2 <at> gmail.com ** 510-649-0941 Presented by Croatian American Cultural Center

The first large scale multi discipline exhibition by Brad Bernhardt is coming to the CELL, also known as CELLspace, on March 24th for one night only. This genre bending show will include a focused selection of over 40 paintings, 3D installments, and 5 live DJ sets from local legends, including Syd Gris. The event will cost $5, and the first 30 people in the door will receive a complimentary original print. This blend of art and music will infuse the concepts of gallery and nightclub into an explosion of colors and sounds to enlighten the senses.

The exhibition is not just a simple art show: it is much more complex than that. It is a movement, a kind of enlightened way of thought expressed through paintings on canvas, a street sticker campaign, 3D installments, and primal, hard-hitting sounds. The work is meant to unmask what we truly are: primal beings trapped inside a world that rejects us. The intent of the MoNkey BiZness collection is to unleash the primal being trapped deep within us, so that we can evolve and reach our full potential as human beings.

Brad Bernhardt is a West Coast based visual artist currently residing in the San Francisco Bay area. He has been involved in many exhibitions, including his spring 2010 show “Weapons of Mass Consumption” that was featured in Las Vegas Weekly and the Las Vegas Informer. He also created over 40 signature works displayed on the popular television series the Ultimate Fighter, some of which were featured in the October 2010 edition of Maxim Magazine. He received a degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has been working in the art and design worlds for the past 5 years creating a visual style all his own.

Join Frank Garvey, Scarlet Moon, Dave Gursom, the Robotic Ensemble and many other Surrealist Warriors of the Unconscious in a very special event and PERFORMANCE at OmniCircus!

Join Frank Garvey and MOTH NOR RUST for ENDLESS NIGHT, a surreal cabaret with the ROBOTIC ENSEMBLE of the OmniCircus. Featuring Scarlet Moon, Larry Beau, Dave Gursom, Taylor Way, and many other fine performers TBA

Special guests include Bosch, Breughel, Goya, Herman Melville and Auguste Rodin... it's possible that Homer will be able to make it but he's having some trouble finding a good road to hitch-hike on, he is after all blind as a bat... Louis Bunuel says he'll pick him up if he follows the route Kerouac recommended... and btw Jack and Jerry Garcia are coming for sure.

Watch the new version of our ENDLESS NIGHT video here- http://youtu.be/l82LLB6-AYs

ENDLESS NIGHT, song by Frank Garvey, sung by Frank Garvey and Kyrstyn Pixton.

We are releasing a 2-CD set called ENDLESS NIGHT. Here is a preview of the first disc called BIRDS OF PARADISE- http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3582319

Here is a preview of the second disc called BIRDS OF PREY- http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3582530

Cloud Shepherd is a San Francisco Bay Area improvisational quartet committed to the pasturing of ever-changing, nonlinear cumulations of sound.

India Cooke: Violin Grammy Award nominated violinist, composer and educator has performed with Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders, Cecil Taylor, Joelle Leandre, and many others.

www.cloud-shepherd.bandcamp.com

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Solace Trio is a trio of violin, and guitars

Go Van Gogh steps out to Disco Volante Sat March 24th 9pm

Room to dance, and a full bar. Whats not to like at this happening fun Oakland venue. Go Van Gogh starts at 930 for several sets of what they do best.

The San Francisco Chronicle says

"Listening to Go Van Gogh is like traveling the world in your ears, as the band plays an eclectic mix of genres. Their music is like a gateway drug: Once you're hooked on Go Van Gogh, you might dig deeper to search out their musical influences. Go Van Gogh excel at bringing the party wherever they perform"

http://govangogh.net

https://www.facebook.com/events/256537727764290/

The fun is back! The excitement is back! The audience participation is back!

Join live cast Barely Legal for their live, loud + late-night Rocky Horror Party in downtown San Jose on Saturday, March 24. We’ll have:

• Music + dancing! • Rowdy preshow action! • Ridiculous games! • And so much fun it’s Barely Legal!

The Shout is a storytelling series combining invited, prepared storytellers with on-the-spot inspiration. Hosts Rami Margron and Cassidy Brown present a variety of ace storytellers from all walks of life telling their own true stories to entertain, educate, enlighten, and edify. Audience members are also given an opportunity to put their name in the hat and get picked to tell their own stories.

Don’t ride blindly through the Wiggle! Come explore its political and physical history with Thinkwalks.

The Lower Haight neighborhood is known to cyclists as The Wiggle, a hill-avoidance bike route that inspires passion.

Recent research has shown that it’s also the cradle of San Francisco. On this walking tour for anyone, bicyclist or not, you’ll learn about SF’s earliest moments, when Captain Anza stood on the banks of a now-nameless waterway and declared, “Um, how about putting it here?”

We’ll talk creeks and native villages. We’ll uncover secrets of the Duboce mural. (Did you know that the mural is secretly a map?) This walk is a wide look at local geology: where creeks and dunes were and why, where they went, and what about those bedrock hills that have simply disappeared? Were they washed away by the giant floods?

Since it’s a highly active bicycle route, we’ll talk bike politics, street design and street history, including the various freeway proposals and citizen revolts. No matter how much or how little you already know about San Francisco, you’ll find yourself looking at things a new way after this walk.

Rain doesn’t necessarily cancel. Check here to see exact weather by the minute as it approaches!

Feel free to call if you have questions.

RSVPs welcome but not required. Snacks will be provided.

EcoTuesday, a unique, structured monthly networking event for sustainable business leaders will be held this month at the beautiful CompoClay showroom featuring Carolyn Parrs, Mind Over Markets as our speaker.

Carolyn will discuss... Effective Messaging in Today's Green Market * Re-framing your message so it's relevant to the times * Bringing your message from the planetary to the personal * Delivering your message successfully through your social media channels.

Enjoy an evening of networking in a relaxed and comfortable environment!

This month's venue: CompoClay Showroom 60 Post St., S.F. Green Products. Green Operations. Green Society.

MORE INFO: Nikki Pava ** http://ecotuesday.com ** ecotuesday <at> ecotuesday.com Presented by EcoTuesday

Litquake presents author Adam Johnson in conversation with Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware.

The New York Times called Johnson's latest novel, The Orphan Master's Son, "a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice."

The Epicenter embraces a theater of ideas between writers and readers with a literary conversation followed by audience Q+A, book sales and signing. Admission is free, cocktails recommended. Capacity is limited, so come early.

MORE INFO: Jack Boulware ** http://www.litquake.org/calendar-of-events/event/adam-johnson-at-the-epicenter ** info <at> litquake.org ** 415-440-4177 Presented by Litquake Literary Festival

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the worst days of our lives...

LitUp Writers is back with “Chaos + Catastrophe: Worst Days of Our Lives.” Join us as six talented writers take to our stage to share humorous stories about their most disastrous days -- from broken engagements to corporate jobs from hell to horrifying hook-ups and more. It will be an evening jam-packed with hilarity, despair, and perhaps a little insight as well.

The show is on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at Intersection for the Arts in SOMA. The performance begins at 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7 PM. $5 cover.

The storytellers for the evening will be:

Jessie Alsop David Berkeley Kate Clark Graham Gremore Jill Huettich Katie Wheeler-Dubin

The evening will also feature live music by singer/songwriter David Berkeley, whose fourth studio album “Some Kind of Cure” was released in 2011.

Arne Hillesland, Master Ginerator, Distillery No. 209
David King, President, Anchor Distilling Company
William Smith, President and Master Distiller, SFVodka
Lance Winters, Master Distiller, St. George Spirits

San Francisco is surrounded by celebrity chefs and artisan eateries that take pride in their use of all that is local. Luckily for us, this home-grown sensibility overflows into the world of hooch. Bay Area craft distillers like Distillery No. 209 and St. George drive the handcrafted cocktail scene, creating community-conscious and delicious drinkable products that pay tribute to the locavore spirit. Our panel of malt masters will speak to the art of beverage creation, the modern craft movement, and San Francisco’s rich culinary traditions. Join us for an inside scoop on drinking by the Bay, followed by ten tastings from the best local boozeries, brought to you by Liquor.com

Beloved San Francisco comedy show, The Romane Event Comedy Show, celebrates its 7 Year Anniversary Show with a Bay Area Comedy All-Stars Show! Join fast rising comedy star, Paco Romane ("Best Comedian" SFBG) and headliner Joe Klocek (Comedy Central), at The Romane Event Comedy Show! The show also features comedy All-Stars: Joe Tobin (The Punchline), Kaseem Bentley (SF Sketchfest), award-winning sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster, special guest from NYC Erin Judge (Comedy Central), Ben Kolina and hosted by the godfather of SF comedy Tony Sparks! Plus music by local legend Dj Specific!

The Romane Event is one of the hottest comedy shows in the country and after 6 Years is always a great night with fun audiences and exciting atmosphere. Watch the best comedians in an "anything goes and probably will" environment, with cool tunes by Dj Specific, and stiff drinks, in one of San Francisco's best clubs, The Make-Out Room. It is the longest running monthly comedy show in The Bay Area and features the Bay Area's top stand-up comics. See a lineup of many of whom have appeared on late-night television and have performed on Comedy Central, Letterman, The Tonight Show, HBO and more!

$10 (includes entry into Maharaja) Dan Nainan takes the stage at 7:30 pm

Laugh out loud with comedian Dan Nainan. You may have seen him in an Apple commercial, in the film The Last Airbender, in TedIndia, or possibly at a Democratic National Convention. The list goes on as his popularity continues to escalate. Of Indian and Japanese descent, Intel engineer-cum-comedian Nainan brings his wit and humor to MATCHA in full force.

Cruise through Maharaja (last chance, closes SOON) and the collection galleries on docent tours. Participate in our "caption this comic" contest (one-panel comics by Five True Fans), relax with a cocktail, and hang with friends, all to the musical backdrop provided by heavy hitter DJ King Most.

http://www.danielnainan.com/ http://kingmost.tumblr.com/ http://fivetruefans.tumblr.com/

Un Banquete en Tetlapayac is Debroise’s contemporary reenactment of the events surrounding the filming of director Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico (1931). Eisenstein’s production was halted for some time when the lead actor went to jail for accidentally shooting his sister. During the hiatus, the crew killed time at the Hacienda Tetlapayac, watching movies, eating, drinking, debating, and dancing. Sixty-seven years later, Debroise invited a group of artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals to reconstruct what happened at the hacienda. Un Banquete is both homage to Eisenstein’s directorial legacy and an investigation of representation, nature, and history itself.

All roads lead to Oakland. . .no, this isn't the beginning of a Black Panther how-to pamphlet. It's San Francisco's most celebrated absurdist, satirist, and underground comedian crossing the bridge to the East Bay for one magical night of his patented brand of side-splitting one-man character-based sketch comedy. Tonight, Franken is also pleased to showcase his high-speed piano playing talents in conjunction with his manic, cultural-skewing, mind-bending comedic talents. Original songs such as "The River Police", "I Marry Man For Money" and "(Stay Alive For Just A Little Longer) Grandma" punctuate the laughs this evening. It's not everyday that Franken brings the love to Oakland -- just this day; or this night rather. It's An Evening With Will Franken In Bed On Stage.

Barefoot Chamber Concerts presents Faire Violls and Corey Carleton performing music for a consort of viols and a voice by William Byrd, "The Father of English Music." Byrd not only composed some of the greatest Renaissance sacred choral music, but also created a body of innovative and gorgeous chamber music for viols, including many consort songs. Faire Violls' program features gems from these instrumental works, among the first pieces to be written idiomatically for viols, and consort songs that have become justly famous as cornerstones of the repertoire.

For more details, and to order tickets online, visit www.barefootchamberconcerts.com.

MORE INFO: Barefoot Chamber Concerts ** http://www.barefootchamberconcerts.com/2011-2012-season/faire-violls-corey-carleton-byrdsong-march-30-2012/ ** info <at> barefootchamberconcerts.com ** 510-220-1195 Presented by Barefoot Chamber Concerts

The seed saving event of the year! Potluck supper, hoe down music, home-grown garden seeds, and the company of fantastic local gardeners! There will be a short presentation from Fred Hempel, of Baia Nicchia Farm + Nursery about tomato and pepper varieties. This event is open to all, from new gardeners to experienced seed savers.

The San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra with singers Susan Gundunas and Twila Ehmcke will be performing one of the gems of the Baroque musical era, Stabat Mater, written in 1736 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.

Originally a medioeval poem in Latin, Stabat Mater is an intense and profound work on the thoughts of Mary at the foot of the cross as Jesus was dying. Pergolesi's musical setting is one of the better known. The work is traditionally performed during the Lent period, prior to Easter.

The orchestra will be joined by Jerome Lenk (Musical Director of Mission Dolores) on the harpsichord, for the San Francisco performance.

MORE INFO: Nicola Swinburne Bocus, concertmaster ** http://www.sfmandolin.org ** nicola <at> sfmandolin.org ** 510-649-9519 Presented by San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra

The Hunger VAMPIRATES! High Seas Blood Bath Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bucket of Blood!

tickets online: http://​vampirates2012.eventbrite.c​om/

$13 Vamped/Dark Pirate/Goth (General Admission) $20 in street clothes $30 VIP Booty

DJ Slaveboy, DJ Glamtasm, DJ Digital Druid, DJ gravedigger, DJ Capt Kaoss + more spin on two dance floors goth : industrial : new wave : dark wave : garage

Featuring: Lord of the Fangs - http://​www.lordofthefangs.com/ Vending by http://​www.KorruptLabel.com/ Vlad's Deep Sea Dungeon with Maestro Stefanos http://​www.stefanosandchey.com/

Vampirate Wench Dancers Tarot Readings Mermaid Oracle Costume Contest with Prizes Raffle And other Wickedly Dark Proprietors

Presale Tickets at Eventbrite for $10 General Admission/$30 VIP Booty Meet-up Prior to The Hunger ==========================​======== Please visit Wicked Grounds Café to meet before or after the Hunger San Francisco’s only Kink Kafé located at 289 8th Street, San Francisco. They have a wonderful selection of coffees, teas, adult sodas and bottled waters. The deserts are to die for!

Ambitious and elegantly made, Bertrand Bonello’s film depicts life in a Paris brothel at the turn of the 20th century. Staying within the house’s walls for all but two brief (but important) moments, the scenario details the clients and day-to-day lives of a variety of the working women within including Madeleine, who suffers a terrible fate at the hand of a client; voluptuous new girl Pauline; Algerian beauty Samira ('Secret of the Grain’s' Hafsia Herzi); and the no-nonsense madam Marie-France (the always wonderful Noémie Lvovsky). Using a variety of techniques, including split screen and an anachronistic soundtrack, 'House of Pleasures' reflects on the world’s oldest profession in an entirely new way.

March 30 - April 5

Serious waterways once flowed in SF’s Mission District. Ships sailed to and fro with the tides. Salt water mixed with sewage-polluted streams that flowed from freshwater hilltop springs. Some creeks were filled in, others covered over. And some were mythologized - if they ever existed. We’ll dig deep to uncover and evaluate controversies. We’ll climb hills and range widely to check out groundwater springs.

The politics of development struggle with the forces of nature to create the city as we know it. Which one’s winning? Let’s share our ideas and research about the landforms, floods, flumes, the politics of drinking water and global water supplies. This is a tour for curious folks and unfettered fanatics.

Rain doesn’t necessarily cancel. Check here to see exact weather by the minute as it approaches!

Feel free to call if you have questions.

RSVPs welcome but not required. Snacks will be provided.

LAUNCH FUNDRAISER PARTY - INTERNATIONAL RESCUE GROUP

PROVIDING FIRST-LINE SUPPORT AND HUMANITARIAN AID TO DISASTER-HIT COASTAL COMMUNITIES.

Saturday evening March 31st at 7pm at Pasta Pelican on the Alameda Estuary, we'll be "splashing" the boat and she will be at the dock for champagne visits all evening, with dinner and live music and dancing! Here's a great chance to meet the crew, founders, volunteers and contributors who have got International Rescue Group started!

Our celebrity host will be Jeffrey Weissman. who co-starred as George McFly in the Back to the Future sequels, he co-starred in Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider, and with John Lithgow in Twilight Zone the Movie.

More than a costume party, you get to really BE your character. Have fun clowning around with historical figures, cartoon characters, famous actors, fairytale characters, and more! DJ FACT.50 will be spinning tunes all night long so you can bust a move with the eclectic crowd. And if dancing isn't your thing, vendors, magicians, and fortune tellers will have you spellbound. PRIZES for best costume, most convincing character, and most original character. Entrance is FREE.

The Film Society’s Artist in Residence program brings an international filmmaker to San Francisco for a two-week residency. Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed will present his drama 'Qarantina', network with local filmmakers and visit Bay Area high school and college classrooms.

A broken family under patriarch Salih lives uneasily within the gated courtyard of a dilapidated house in Baghdad. Meriam, Salih’s daughter, has fallen silent, refusing to tell her father what’s wrong. Salih’s young second wife, Kerima, and his preteen son, Muhanad, provide Meriam with some protection from her father. Meanwhile, with the family hard up for money, Muhanad must work in the street shining shoes and, more ominously, the entire household must cohabitate with a sullen and imperious boarder, a man who works as a hired killer and has taken Kerima as his mistress. In 'Qarantina' Rasheed gorgeously captures today’s Baghdad, a moody and colorful place in the grip of a brooding listlessness. This stunned atmosphere is furthered by the performances of the formidable cast, who suggest unexpected sources of resilience in the wake of catastrophe.

Director Oday Rasheed in person.

Litquake and the Writers' Grotto present the return of REGRETURATURE: An evening of readings that probably shouldn't see the light of day! Everybody has to start somewhere, and here's what happens when good writers start bad. Join members of the acclaimed San Francisco Writers' Grotto for the second annual night of Regreturature, as they sheepishly read works they may now regret, from fiction to nonfiction, blogs, journalism, opinion pieces, even diary entries. Featuring Grotto inhabitants Katie Crouch, Heather Donohue, Isaac Fitzgerald, Jeff Greenwald, Rachel Levin, James Nestor, Todd Oppenheimer, Caroline Paul, Mary Roach, and more. Emceed by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware.

MORE INFO: Jack Boulware ** http://litquake.org ** jb <at> litquake.org ** 415-750-1497 Presented by Litquake Literary Festival

To follow the Process check out the Meridian Dance Blog: www.meridiangallerydance.wordpress.com

"Departing from my impression of Graham's signature style of figurative representation - where bodies depicted in physical exchange lose the definition and contours of their shape, becoming amorphous while still retaining their distinctly humanoid characteristics - I will ask how changes in our bodies' forms may be triggered by recognizing the feelings of another in our own psycho-somatic anatomy. A study in embodied empathy, Yours and Mine pairs the vocabulary of contemporary dance with the durational quality of time-based performance art."

-Macklin Kowal

"Yours and Mine" a dance performed by choreographer Macklin Kowal at the Meridian Gallery. Macklin, an Irish-American choreographer, will be the Dancer In Residence at the Meridian and will be performing an original dance choreography inspired by Patrick Graham's work, specifically responding to Graham's depictions of the human form. Kowal's performance will be a study in embodied empathy.

Macklin Kowal (Choreographer) is a a performer and performance maker currently based in Oakland. A San Francisco native, he is an alumnus of the city's School of the Arts, and San Francisco State University, as well as of l'Universite de Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis. His approach to making performance has been shaped by formative experiences under the direction of Marina Abramovic, Minna Harri, Ann Magnuson, Prumsodun Ok, and Tessa Wills. Active in San Francisco's contemporary dance/performance scene since 2009, Kowal's work has been presented by the Garage, the Home Theater Festival, Zero Performance's Too Much! A Queer Performance Marathon, the San Francisco Art Institute.

On the occasion of Catherine Clark Gallery's 21st anniversary, ZYZZYVA, the San Francisco literary journal dedicated to publishing the work of the West Coast's best artists and writers since 1985, is prominently featuring in its Spring 2012 issue selected pieces of work curated by the Gallery over the past two decades. Join Zyzzyva editors and guest authors for a live reading and launch of their Spring Issue at Catharine Clark Gallery on Saturday, April 7, in further celebration of the anniversary.

MORE INFO: Rhiannon E. MacFadyen, Marketing Director ** http://www.cclarkgallery.com ** info <at> cclarkgallery.com ** 415-399-1439 Presented by Catharine Clark Gallery

April 12-22, 2012; Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 5pm

April 12-15 Triangle of the Squinches, is set to a commissioned score by legendary musician Mickey Hart and features an innovative kinetic set by architect Christopher Haas.

April 18-22 Alonzo King's Scheherazade is a re-envisioning of the ancient collection of Persian, Sanskrit, and Arabic stories of 1,001 Nights. The new score by tabla master Zakir Hussain re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov, incorporating traditional Persian as well as Western instruments. Alonzo King LINES Ballet's Scheherazade honors Diaghilev's spirit of cutting-edge artistic collaboration, immersing audiences in a luminescent and richly textured world.

More information: linesballet.org April 12-22, 2012; Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 5pm.

MORE INFO: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater ** http://tickets.ybca.org/single/psDetail.aspx?psn=13888 ** kaila <at> linesballet.org ** 415-978-2787 Presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet

The 2012 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival now celebrating its 45th year, is one of California's most prominent celebrations of Asian traditions. Each year, over 200,000 people attend this dazzling display showcasing the color and grace of the Japanese culture and the diversity of the Japanese American Community. Please join us and become a sponsor of this popular Japanese American community event.

This year’s Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday April 14-15 and April 21-22, 2012. All are welcome to join in the festivities as we celebrate Japanese and Japanese American culture in San Francisco’s Japantown!

The festival will be held on Post Street between Laguna and Fillmore Streets. There will be food booths, cultural performances, martial arts, live bands, the annual Queen Program, and more. The Grand Parade will be held on April 22, beginning at City Hall and concluding in Japantown.

The 2012 Festival will celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. and will also pay tribute to the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service comprised of all Japanese American soldiers receiving the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. The highest civilian honor bestowed by the U. S. Congress. The festival will also recognize the one year anniversary of the Tohoku Region Earthquake and Tsunami.

The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival is said to be the second largest festival outside of Washington, D.C. to celebrate the blooming of cherry blossoms; and held at one of three remaining Japantowns in the United States.

Upcoming Vintage Days Event: 100th Anniversary of the Titanic, April 14th + 15th 1912 (2012), San Francisco - California

Take a voyage back in time to commemorate the RMS Titanic…from Tea, to tours, to a sampling dinner of the Last Meal on the Titanic...weekend festival:

Register Here: http://www.thevintagedays.com

April 14 and 15, 12pm - 6pm both days; Preview Party Friday, April 13, 6-9pm

Spring Open Studios in the Mission is THE arts event in Spring you won't want to miss. 100's of emerging and established artists open their doors to the public. Art Wine and Dine Artists Katerina Connearney, Katia Claude, Hilla Hueber, Angela Oswald, and Valerie Scott have come together for a group show "Five Creative Energies - A Tribute to the Muse" and will be showing their recent work at a.Muse Gallery. A Preview Party takes place on Friday April 13, from 6 - 9 pm. April 14 and 15, 12pm - 6pm both days; Preview Party Friday, April 13, 6-9pm.

MORE INFO: Hilla Hueber ** http://www.artwineanddine.com ** info <at> artwineanddine.com Presented by Art, Wine, and Dine Artists

The season's spectacular close is Handel's ode Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music, based on the work by 17th Century English poet John Dryden, with three acclaimed vocal soloists and the Philharmonia Chorale. For their recent performances in Haydn's The Creation, the San Francisco Chronicle raved: "Dominique Labelle was nothing short of exquisite... Philip Cutlip was a lithe, muscular counterweight." The New York Sun has called James Taylor's singing "almost impossibly fresh, lovely - and accurate."

Handel's setting of this literary gem is a masterpiece, reminding concertgoers of music's ability to sway hearts and minds.

MORE INFO: David Challinor, Patron Services Manager ** http://www.philharmonia.org ** marketing <at> philharmonia.org ** 415-252-1288 Presented by Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra + Philharmonia Chorale

Fri + Sat, April 20 and 21 at 8pm; Sun, April 22 at 4pm

Not Quite Opera Productions, a theater dedicated to developing musical theater, launches Round One Cabaret, an uplifting evening of new songs by Bay Area musical composers at the Alcove Theater. This revue, directed by Anne Nygren Doherty, writer/composer of long running hit Absolutely San Francisco, features top notch vocal performances, soaring melodies, witty lyrics and penetrating insight. The showcase features songs from 10 new musicals by Cory Bytoff, Owen Dockham, Richard Jennings, Randy Kasten, Sandy Kasten, Ron Lytle, Pat Morris, Tracy Held Potter, Liz White Salk and Patrick Wills. Music direction by Scott DeTurk. Full price ticket comes with free concessions. Fri + Sat, April 20 and 21 at 8pm; Sun, April 22 at 4pm.

MORE INFO: Anne Doherty ** http://www.TheAlcoveTheater.com ** RoundOne <at> TheAlcoveTheater.com ** 415-992-8168 Presented by Not Quite Opera Productions

Friday, April 20th, 8pm to 10pm

With a radical redefinition of how a concert should be experienced, we use works by living and lesser-known composers of the past to recontextualize proven masterworks, all while concealing the identity of said works and composers from the audience. How might you hear works differently if you do not know whether they were written 100 years ago or last year? New Lens's selection of contemporary pieces represents living composers whose aesthetics and goals align with those of their pre-rift counterparts, so the results may surprise you.

This inaugural series will center around Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio.

For information about the Finisterra Piano Trio, please visit www.finisterra.org. Friday, April 20th, 8pm to 10pm.

MORE INFO: Garrett Shatzer ** http://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performances/ ** newlensconcertseries <at> gmail.com Presented by New Lens Concert Series

Fri-Sat, April 20-21 at 8pm + Sun, April 22 at 3pm

"Labayen Dance SF Announces The Company's Spring 2012 Season: "Revivals + Premieres" Featuring Enrico Labayen's award winning work "Cloth" which won the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography and "en-Gulf-ed", nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design. The season will also premiere "Kulang and Dasal" a work that delves into the perception of memory and reason through narrative driven scenarios + "Rice Blues", a light-hearted romp inspired by the Harajuku District fashion of Japan. The revival of "Frida: Broken Column" and the world premiere of Laura Bernasconi's "Marriage Song". Fri-Sat, April 20-21 at 8pm + Sun, April 22 at 3pm.

MORE INFO: Enrico Labayen ** http://www.labayendancesf.org ** pr <at> labayendancesf.org ** 415-509-3129 Presented by LABAYEN DANCE/SF

This hike is a fun, adventurous way to experience the natural beauty of the California coast while supporting GirlVentures’ mission to empower adolescent girls to develop and express their strengths.

The scenic hike is great for beginners and experienced hikers. There is a 7-mile loop and a 3-mile route. All ages are welcome!

By registering you are helping to ensure that ALL Bay Area girls have access to empowering outdoor education programs.

Take that first step. Register at www.girlventures.org

GirlVentures Outdoor Adventures for Inner Discovery

Oddball Films hosts a benefit for Save KUSF featuring the great Ralph Carney + Guests live on the Cinestage! Mr. Carney is a jazz multi-instrumentalist/horn player who has spent the better part of the last 2 decades criss-crossing the world, on stage and in studios with the likes of Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Elvis Costello to name only a few. Plus! A selection of the finest animation films with the jazziest soundtracks in the Oddball Films collection including Dave Fleischer’s Minnie The Moocher (1932) featuring Betty Boop, Bimbo and the music of Cab Calloway and His Orchestra; legendary animators Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert’s vibrant Begone Dull Care (1949) with the music of the Oscar Peterson Trio; principal animator on Yellow Submarine Paul Dreissen’s Cat’s Cradle (1974) and much more!

"Ralph's great...He's guided by some other source of information. He's like a broken toy that works better than before it was broken." - Tom Waits

HOT GREEKS A New Full-Length, Restored Version of The Cockettes’ 1972 Musical Comedy March 22 - May 5, 2012 (Thurs. Fri. + Sat. = 8:00 pm) Back by Popular Demand = Limited Engagement - 21 Shows Only 40th Anniversary of Original Production Hypnodrome Theatre in SF http://thrillpeddlers.com

"Thrillpeddlers is proud to announce their Spring Season 2012 production of HOT GREEKS, A New Full-Length, Fully Restored Version of The Cockettes’ 1972 Musical Extravaganza, an original musical by Martin Worman and Scrumbly Koldewyn. This is the 40th Anniversary of the original production. Originally produced as a Nocturnal Dream Show and performed in 1972 at midnight at the Palace Theatre in Chinatown in SF, HOT GREEKS was the fabled + fabulous Cockettes’ only other scripted book musical besides PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI. The Cockettes were a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated these two shows, but also exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies to glitter rock stars and their outrageous fashions. In 2010 The Thrillpeddlers mounted a condensed 70-minute version of HOT GREEKS and it was an instant, sold-out hit. This new 2012 production expands the show to a full-length version and restores 3 songs from the original 1972 production.

Synopsis: In HOT GREEKS, college rhythm meets the Peloponnesian War as Athens University takes on Sparta State for their annual pigskin showdown. This musical, loosely based on Aristophanes’ LYSISTRATA, features the Tri Thigh Sorority girls and their hunky footballer sweethearts jiving to the big-band hit parade sounds of the 1940s. The kids sing and dance through the ruins of ancient Greece, on their way to consult the Oracle of Delphi (The Hot Twat of Tangier) in their pursuit of victory on the gridiron. Dancing columns, vestal virgins, country cousins, and even a pig, all join Lysistrata on her journey to save the day for the Gods and Greece.

HOT GREEKS is directed by Russell Blackwood and original Cockette and composer Scrumbly Koldewyn serves as Musical Director and plays piano for all performances. Thrillpeddler and San Francisco favorites will be featured in this revival, including: Tom Orr (Pendulum), Noah Haydon (Pandora), Rik Lopes (Lysistrata), Annie Larson (Clitoristra), Birdie-Bob Watt (Myron), Steven Satyricon (Doric), Ste Fishell (Corinthian), Bobby Singer (Ionic), James Toczyl (Annie), Russell Blackwood (Mata Dildoes) Joshua Devore (Diameter), Lisa Appleyard (Mrs. Ova), Jan Adrienne Gilbert (Leda) and others to flesh out a cast of 23.

HOT GREEKS, A New Full-Length, Restored Version of the Cockettes’ 1972 Musical Extravaganza is directed by Russell Blackwood, and original Cockette and composer Scrumbly Koldewyn is the Musical Director. Scenery by James Blackwood, costumes by Maxx Kurzunski, Kara Emry, and Morningwood, lights by Nicholas Torre, sound design by Chris Paulina, Dave Maier as Fight Director, and choreography by Bonni Suval, D’Arcy Drollinger, Cindy Goldfield, Michael Phillis and Rory Davis.

HOT GREEKS plays as a limited engagement - running only 21 performances - Thurs. Fri. + Sat. at 8:00 pm from March 22 - May 5, 2012. Previews are March 22, 23 + 24 (Thurs. - Sat.) Opening Night (press night) - Thurs., March 29 at 8:00 pm.

2012 dates for HOT GREEKS are: March (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm) March 22, 23, 24 (previews) / March 29 (opening night), 30, 31 April (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm April 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 May (Fri. 8pm / Sat. 8pm) May 3, 4, 5

Thrillpeddlers’ Hypnodrome Theatre is located at 575 10th St. 94103, in SF 94103. (Bryant + Division Sts.) Tickets are $30 gen. admission or $69 for “Shock Boxes” and “Turkish Lounges**” (admits two) and are available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/225549 or by calling 800-838-3006.

Oddball Films, in association with San Francisco Cinematheque and 3rd i Films, is proud to present EXPERIMENTA India. What are possible cinematic entry points to addressing the context of experimental filmmaking in India? From experiments in animation, found footage and stylised montage in the late 60’s and early 70’s to the most recent innovations in experimental narrative, this selection of films and videos, never before seen in the US, offer a peek into the aesthetic and socio-political complexities of experimental filmmaking in India.

Festival Director Shai Heredia of EXPERIMENTA India will be present to introduce these programs - which have never before been seen in the United States.

Shai Heredia is a filmmaker and curator. In 2003, she founded Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. She has curated experimental film programs for major film and art venues around the globe, including the Tate Modern, Berlinale Film Festival, and the Images Festival in Toronto. Her latest film, ‘I Am Micro’, co-directed with Shumona Goel, has screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Images Festival. ‘I am Micro’ is currently screening as part of the exhibition ‘Being Singular Plural’ at the Guggenheim Museum NYC (March 2�"June 6, 2012).

Everyday, fresh insights from science and philosophy shed new light on the processes of human experience + the how of feeling, thinking, and believing + and invite us to redefine who we are as human beings.

Pioneers on the frontier of human understanding will guide an exciting exploration of what it means to be human.

AMERICAN TEACHER chronicles the stories of four teachers who live and work in disparate urban and rural areas of the country. By following these teachers as they reach different milestones in their careers, the film tells the deeper story of the teaching profession in America today. The film shows us the experience of these four young teachers as they recognize the importance of what they do, and how much they love what they do, but ask: can I afford to continue to teach?

The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring producers Ninive Calegari and Dave Eggers, and film star Jonathan Dearman.

Hosted by Sausalito's award-winning charter school, Willow Creek, this event will help raise awareness for Willow Creek's Spring launch of a pilot program modeled on San Francisco's 826 Valencia, a program founded in 2002 by American Teacher producers Ninive Calegari and Dave Eggers.

A $10 donation is suggested, with proceeds to benefit the Willow Creek after-school tutoring pilot program.

Come down and plug into the Occupy Movement at the new ING cafe! Occupy SF Outreach will have a presentation and all are welcome to come down and join in on the discussion. This is a great opportunity to meet some occupiers and ask any questions you may have. See you there!

Upgrade! San Francisco is proud to present a lecture with Boston-based media artist and activist John Craig Freeman.

Freeman will present on his recent projects using Augmented Reality (AR), a technology he uses to place artworks virtually anywhere in the world, without prior permission from government or private authorities - and will discuss the profound implications for art and activism in the public sphere.

He has twenty years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public works at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities.

John Craig Freeman is currently an Associate Professor of New Media, at Emerson College (Boston) in the Department of Visual and Media Arts and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, at UC San Diego. http://johncraigfreeman.wordpress.com/

7-7:30pm meet and greet; 7:30-8:30 lecture + questions.

Upgrade! SF, is a regular programming series with speakers and socializing designed to foster community around new media arts in San Francisco. http://www.upgradesf.org/

Support for this talk is provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program. http://soex.org/artistsresources.html

Peter Cole: The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition. Acclaimed poet and translator, and winner of both the MacArthur Genius and National Jewish Book Awards, Peter Cole will read from his forthcoming book, "The Poetry of Kabbalah", sharing dazzling English renderings of work from three continents over some 1500 years. The Jewish mystical tradition demonstrates how song can conduct and preserve tranformative knowledge, Cole is also the author of "Sacred Trash, Things on Which I've Stumbled", and "What is Doubled".

"The Poetry of Kabbalah is the crown of Peter Cole's sublime achievement as a poet-translator" - Harold Bloom

MORE INFO: http://www.marinjcc.org/cjp ** info <at> marinjcc.org ** 415-444-8000 Presented by Osher Marin JCC

Passionate about fighting climate change? So is Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives. Hear about his efforts from the filmmaker herself, Friday + Saturday March 30 + 31.

FILMMAKER IN PERSON: producer Bonni Cohen will speak to audiences at Embarcadero in San Francisco, on Friday, March 30 + Saturday, March 31, at 7:10pm show each night.

Jon Shenk's THE ISLAND PRESIDENT tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced--the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.

THE ISLAND PRESIDENT captures Nasheed's first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies--leveraging the Maldives' underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.

San Francisco engagement runs for one week.

Pinchit is proudly sponsoring the First Annual San Francisco POUR Event, hosted at the exquisite Julia Morgan Ballroom A fantastic evening full of first-rate pours of beer, cocktails, wine, spirits, and more With your tasting glass and guide in hand, you’ll sample over 30 brands and learn about their unique attributes along the way The First Annual San Francisco POUR Event’s attendees will be greeted in the Grand Entrance of the historic Merchant Exchange Building, from where they will be whisked away to the elegant Julia Morgan Ballroom on the 16th floor. Tasting glass and guide in hand, over 30 brands will be pouring their best for our 500+ guests.

In addition to the top-of-the-line tasting, there will be live entertainment, light appetizers provided by Credo, a souvenir sampling glass, and more. VIP Attendees will be treated to expedited early admission to the event, as well as the opportunity to sip reserved choices, and a gift bag upon departure.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Barbary Coast Conservancy of the American Cocktail. (see below for more information on the BCCAC)

So, join us after work on Friday the 30th and be our guest at the First Annual San Francisco POUR. Your Happy Hour plans just got a lot more interesting.

Partial List of participating brands: (check back with MORE TBA...)

Black Star Beer Blue Moon (and a SPECIAL SAMPLING of a yet-to-be released brewing) Branca Menta Bulleit Bourbon + Rye Carpano Antica Casa Noble Tequila Corona Corralejo Tequila Crystal Head Vodka Don Julio Tequila Fernet Branca Pale Moon Punt e Mes Seagrams Sweet Tea Stolichnaya Vodka Stolichnaya Flavors Templeton Rye VAD Vodka Victoria Zaya Rum

About The Barbary Coast Conservancy of the American Cocktail:

The Barbary Coast Conservancy of the American Cocktail is a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation co-founded by San Francisco bartenders and entrepreneurs H. Joseph Ehrmann, Duggan McDonnell and Jeff Hollinger with the purpose of preserving the cultural heritage of saloons and their cocktails in San Francisco, while also preserving California's culinary philosophy and tradition via special public events, publications and educational seminars. They are the Founders and Operators of San Francisco Cocktail Week, which is approaching its 5th Anniversary in 2011 as the World's First Cocktail Week. The Conservancy exists to bring together all interested people, whether in the professional beverage trades or interested in beverages on a personal or casual level, to discuss, debate, create, enjoy, compare and contrast the past, present and future of beverage culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Conservancy's home is The Cocktail Bill Boothby Center for the Beverage Arts.

Electric Ganesh - World Devotional Guitarist and Pioneer GuruGanesha Singh Plugs In. GuruGanesha steps into the limelight with his most recent musical venture, leading a multi-talented ensemble culled from the A-list of players and singers on today's rapidly-expanding kirtan/chant/yoga music scene.

Join GuruGanesha + his all star band - Michelle Hurtado, Hans Christian, Daniel Paul, Sat Kartar Singh, Gurusangat + Russel Green - for a magical evening of joyful chanting, mystical world music and hilarious stories from the spiritual path!

"This is a project that I've had in my heart for many years," says GuruGanesha.

MORE INFO: http://rudramandir.com/performance/the-guruganesha-band.html ** info <at> rudramandir.com ** 510-486-8700 Presented by Rudramandir Center

NON STOP BHANGRA PRESENTS FAMILY VIBES W/SPECIAL GUEST BANG DATA (OFFICIAL CD RELEASE FOR THEIR DEBUT ALBUM "LA SOPA")

We are excited to share that Bay Area's Latin Alternative sensation Bang Data will be celebrating the release of their official Debut Album at the next Family Vibes session with Non Stop Bhangra!

The band is hot on the heels of their recent video for the hit single “Bang Data,” which was featured on Youtube Music’s homepage and garnered over 40,000 views in less than three days.The song “Bang Data” has already been featured on Emmy Award winning television drama Breaking Bad (http://on.fb.me/bangdatabb) in September 2011 on the episode titled “Salud.” Accompanying the song's new video, Bang Data just re-released the digital single of the song via iTunes.

So Join us for another kick ass session of "Family Vibes"-- an event aimed at growing a community of artists from all genres coming together for an exciting night of mashed up sounds to create some of the most positive and forward pushing vibes!

March 31 and April 1 April Fools Day Weekend

Playland closed?! April Fools! We're open all weekend-no fooling. And there's no better place for clowning, joking, magic and fun. You'll say, "Thanks for the pranks, Playland!"

Bring your April ticket stub from the Conservatory of Flowers and get $2 off your admission to Playland-Not-at-the-Beach, April 1-15. And since turnabout is fair play, the Conservatory will give you $2 off with your April Playland-Not-at-the-Beach admission ticket, April 1-15.

The special events of April Fools Day Weekend are in addition to all of Playland's regular attractions. Guests pay one low price to enter and can 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.

Join us, as one brave scealaí (myth-teller) lures you into the fantastical world of Ancient Ireland.

Clare Muireann Murphy brings you on this dark and ferocious journey where warriors leap with blinding frenzy, one-eyed monsters hunt the shores and shape-shifters blur the line between this world and the ever-so-close otherworld. Learn how fairies came from fallen gods, how broken promises can change the fate of a nation and how great battles shaped the very earth itself.

Presented by the Storytelling Association of California.

Clare Muireann Murphy is a breath of fresh air and a dynamic force in the new generation of Irish storytellers. She draws on a wide repertoire of Irish mythology and folktales, world tales, and her own original stories, “dancing on the water and tearing up the sky” to entertain her audiences. Murphy has toured the world, mesmerizing audiences wherever she tells. Her appearances include the Globe Theatre and the Barbican PIt Theatre in London; Vienna LIt Festival; Kilkenny Arts Festival; Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival; and many more appearances at International Festivals and other venues throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, the Far East, and the United States.

It's our first FUNraizer of the year, a fantabulous line-up and just $10 at the door!

Presenting ACTION JACKSON!, headliners for Decompression 2011, instigating pure eruptions of wild delighted dancing . . .

http://actionjacksonsf.com/ ... http://actionjacksonsf.com/?page_id=7 for videos

PLUS our new find! ZebraJohnson with their outrageous punk stomping dirty ditties - 41 songs in 35 minutes!

The beatbox stylings of Time Barsky http://www.timbarsky.com/

And MORE from DUSTFISH'S own:

Anita Dick(MamaDora) + La Malinche (Andalay Andaley): Spanish Drag Divas who push the envelopes of genderism, politics, humor and craziness.

Still MORE; Our beloved Burlesque sensation . . . Ms. K ! https://www.facebook.com/pages/MzK/128861843855670

Dropping the beats upstairs:

Anodyne Industries (Dustfish) http://anodyneindustries.net/ Random Intent (Dustfish) Ernie Trevino (Brass Tax) Leo (Dustfish) Dex Stakker (Opulent Temple)

And MC Treasure Chest!!!

Drink specials, BOOTY CHECKPOINT! and the usual DUSTFISH shenanigans! it's All Fool's Eve!!!!!!

Spread the word FAR and WIDE, this is gonna be a good one!!!!

Get your space geek fix here at Space UP! SpaceUP San Francisco is an un-conference. Similar to BarCamp, the attendees can make up a topic and become a speaker. It's chaotic, fun, and a great way to meet people who like what you like. SpaceUP is great gathering of artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and folks interested in space travel with real bona-fide space experts and NASA folks to exchange ideas. It is part of a larger citizen science movement which overlaps nicely with the MAKE movement. People want to participate! People want to go to space! Find out how at SpaceUP San Francisco! Here are the details: What: SpaceUP San Francisco When: Saturday March 31-Sunday April 1. (SpaceTweetUp on Friday March 30) Times: 11am-6pm Saturday, 9am-4:00pm Sunday (subject to change)

During the Civil War from 1980-1992 Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, aka "Santiago," was the most recognized voice in El Salvador. Broadcasting on the FMLN's "Radio Venceremos," his courageous voice kept people's spirits up as he denounced the daily violations of human rights committed by the Salvadorian military.

Santiago and his team were among the first to report on the infamous massacre at El Mozote. The radio played a major role in recruiting campesino support for the FMLN, and provided education about Salvadoran history. Consalvi also serves as Director of the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen.

Join us for this discussion on war, memory and the role of community media in El Salvador.

MORE INFO: Jason Wallach ** http://www.missionculturalcenter.org ** events <at> missionculturalcenter.org ** 415-821-1155 Presented by Mission Cultural Center

Benjamin Simon, conductor Avi Avital, mandolin Brian Thorsett, tenor

Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri Overture Paisiello: Concerto for Mandolin + Strings in E-flat major Rossini: String Sonata No. 2 in A major Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 ("Italian")

Join us in celebrating the leap-year birthday of Gioachino Rossini with two renowned soloists--tenor Brian Thorsett + mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital--performing works by Rossini, Paisiello + Mendelssohn.

Admission is free, but tickets are required for non-members! Reserve online, or call 415.692.5258 to reserve by phone. Doors open 45 minutes before concert. Tickets are not required for SFCO supporting members.

MORE INFO: Janas Page ** http://www.sfchamberorchestra.org/events/mainstage/ ** tickets <at> sfchamberorchestra.org ** 415-692-5258 Presented by San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

WHAT: Jay Rubin + J. Philip Gabriel, translators of the biggest international novel of 2011 - Haruki Murakami's 1Q84- talk about their decades-long collaboration with the world-famous Japanese author. They focus on 1Q84, which was the first of Murakami's novels they translated together, and share insights and secrets on this, one of the most talked-about books of the past year.

WHO: Jay Rubin is the translator of classics of Japanese literature, including Haruki Murakami, Natsume Soseki, and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. In addition, Rubin is a professor at Harvard and the author of a well-received book on Murakami, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (Vintage, 2005). J. Philip Gabriel has translated numerous works by Haruki Murakami, plus works by Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe and Senji Kuroi. His translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore received the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 3, 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

WHERE: The event takes place at 111 Minna Gallery in downtown San Francisco at 111 Minna Street, just two blocks from the Montgomery BART station. Beverages and sandwiches will be available for sale at the venue.

LINKS: Event listing on the Center's website: http://catranslation.org/events/2011-2012/#event-54

Facebook listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/204030583025198/ Venue website: http://www.111minnagallery.com/about/ ###

-- Scott Esposito Marketing and Web Manager Managing Editor TWO LINES Online Center for the Art of Translation sesposito <at> catranslation.org www.catranslation.org Blog: http://catranslation.org/blog/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/center.for.translation

The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption Presents Chalice Consort: Tomas Luis da Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories

"Ever since their publication in 1585, Tomas Luis da Victoria's famous eighteen Responsories for the Holy Week Tenebrae service have been considered one of the highest points of expressive music of the High Renaissance. They are very rarely performed as a set, but have an extraordinarily powerful emotional effect when heard together, as in Chalice Consort's performance this week. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear profound music of great drama and passion." ~Davitt Moroney, Artistic Director

MORE INFO: Rebekah ** http://www.chaliceconsort.org/concerts.html ** chaliceconsort <at> yahoo.com ** 415-875-9544 Presented by Chalice Consort

North Beach Citizens’ Creative Events Committee is pleased to announce Reflections 2012, an art exhibition taking place from March 31, 2012, through April 26, 2012, at The Cannery located in Fisherman’s Wharf. This exhibition benefits North Beach Citizens, a non-profit organization that utilizes the talents of the North Beach community to innovatively address the needs of its homeless and low-income citizens in an atmosphere of trust, integrity, and respect.

Artists must utilize a mirror (maximum size of 3 feet x 4 feet) as their medium for artist expression and base their work on the theme of self-reflection, self-realization, or transformation. All media is eligible including photography, collage, painting, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, stenciling, carving, printmaking, video, and digital media.
Featured artists include:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Genea Barnes, Jack Hirschman,
Amanda Lynn, Winston Smith, and MOMO
Join us for the opening reception on April 5, 2012 at The Cannery!

Referencing Armistead's Maupin's well known book (and the movie) "Tales of the City", artists will present work not only about actual cities, but about the hopes, memories and dreams of the people who reside and travel through it. Spaces explored will be real and imaginary, concrete and layered in a space-time continuum, paradoxical and inspirational. We invite you to travel through the idea of a city with us.

April 6 at 8 pm; April 7 at 8 pm; April 8 at 7 pm

One of the country's most unusual, fun and diverse performances festivals-The Flow Show-returns to San Francisco for three performances. "The Flow Show 4" will feature award-winning performers on hoops, juggling, Maori poi and other forms of movement with unique props with a culturally-based but decidedly contemporary spin in "The Flow Show." Twenty artists will perform.

"The Flow Show has grown" to become a much-anticipated annual event that strikes a dynamic balance between the alternative, experimental and the increasingly popular. "The Flow Show" audience is an avid mix that runs the gamut from Burning Man attendees and fire dancing aficionados to ballet and modern dance goers. April 6 at 8 pm; April 7 at 8 pm; April 8 at 7 pm.

MORE INFO: http://www.theflowshow.org Presented by The Flow Show

The Have and Have Not Group Show curated by Lee Ballard APRIL 7 - APRIL 28, 2012 Artist Opening Reception: Saturday April 7, 5-8pm

Varnish Fine Art is proud to present another Lee Ballard curated group exhibit featuring the contemporary fine artwork of 18+ illustrators from the sci-fi/fantasy comics realm including Barron Storey and Rick Berry, two of the most influential American illustrators alive today.

Since it’s inception in 2003, Varnish has supported underground and alternative artists, including exhibiting the fine artworks of illustrators and those who work with “alternative press,” several of whom are contributors to this group show. Lee Ballard, a well-known illustrator in his own right, was a participant in Varnish’s 2005’s YooHoo + Donuts group show and curated the 2008 CROM: Group show of Alternative Press Expo (APE) Artists exhibit.

The Have and Have Not Group Show features fine artworks of various media by Jon Wayshak, Rick Berry, Robert Bowen, Kyoshi Nakazawa, Brad Isdrab, Morning Breath/Doug Cunningham, Scott Cambell, Jerome Opeña, Lucien Shapiro, Barron Storey, Shelly Wan, Sam Keith, Lee Ballard, Ian Ameling, Rogelio Martinez and Eidolon Crew.

The Conspiracy of Beards offers an evening of song with musical guests Peter whitehead and Hazy Loper to benefit Jai Bhim International's educational projects in India

April 7th <at> 8 pm $20 donation requested at the door at The SF Buddhist Center 37 Bartlett Street near 21st and Valencia, in The Mission www.sfbuddhistcenter.org

This is a smoke-free and alcohol-free event and the space is handicap-accessible.

More information: 415.289.2019 or www.jaibhiminternational.org

SF's Conspiracy of Beards is a 30 (+/-) member male choir that performs gritty, original arrangements of the songs of the great Leonard Cohen. Transforming Cohen's simple melodies into complex 4- and 5-part harmonies, Conspiracy of Beards achieves a sound that is both robust and tender, with influences of jazz, gospel, indie rock, barbershop, classical and doo-wop through the unique arrangements choir members create. Using the genius of Cohen's words, The Beards inspire audiences to ponder romance, politics, sex, longing and spirituality, all amid laughter and cheers. www.conspiracyofbeards.com

All proceeds of this evening benefit Jai Bhim International, a registered 501c-3 non-profit organization, #26-3130349. Jai Bhim International collaborates on youth development projects in India in the ex-untouchable/Dalit community, incorporating Communicative English practice, dance, music, yoga, creative writing,and meditation. www.jaibhiminternational.org

Musician/dancer Dohee Lee will bring her dynamic voice to Meridian Gallery in a solo performance featuring music composed for her ongoing project entitled Mago. Mago is a multidisciplinary performance and installation piece that combines music, art installation, film/animation and dance/movement, and is inspired by Korean shamanic music and ritual, traditional mask dance and puppet arts, and mythology.

Dohee Lee (composer, vocalist, percussionist, dancer and performance artist)

Born on Jeju Island in South Korea, where shamanic tradition is very strong, Dohee Lee learned Korean dance, Korean percussion, and vocals in the tradition of Kyunggi-Do. Her art now focuses on fusing these traditional forms with contemporary elements. Each piece and performance blends Eastern and modern Western musical forms and contemporary dance languages into works that emphasize the ritualistic and healing aspects of music and dance. In 2004 Lee founded the Puri Project with the goal to present a fusion of dance, music, spoken word and visual art with audience participation.

Lee has presented her work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, performed at Carnegie Hall with the Kronos Quartet, and collaborated with a wide range of performers including Shinichi Iova-Koga’s inkBoat, choreographers/dancers Sherwood Chen and Amara Tabor Smith, musicians Francis Wong, Jon Jang, Tatsu Aoki, Lawrence Ochs and Scott Amendola, Joan Jeanrenaud and Theresa Wong. She has also performed new work with Nanos Operetta, Yannis Adoniou’s KUNST-STOFF, the Kronos Quartet, ETHEL string quartet, the Degenerate Art Ensemble and choreographer/dancer Anna Halprin. www.doheelee.com

Opener Lew, the "confident underdog", will help audiences laugh their worries away. Then, Carter will take the stage, unleashing a flurry of impersonations, observations, and outrageous social commentary that critics call "one of a kind" and "a must see".

MORE INFO: http://www.firehousearts.org ** 925-931-4848 Presented by City of Pleasanton Firehouse Arts Center

North Beach Citizens’ 11th annual Spring fundraising event, An Italian Dinner Celebration, will be held on Sunday, April 15, 2012, in the basement of the historic Saints Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square. Proceeds from the event directly support the organization’s goal to innovatively address the needs of homeless and low-income citizens in the North Beach neighborhood.

Hosted by Honorary Chair Francis Ford Coppola and Honorary Co-Hosts Jeannette Etheredge and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, An Italian Dinner Celebration will feature a three-course family-style dinner by Rose Pistola, wines by Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a special performance by internationally acclaimed musical revue, Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, and a spectacular event experience created by Jack Morton Worldwide. Mark Buell, President of the Recreation and Park Commission, will lead the program as Master of Ceremonies and Auctioneer extraordinaire.

Don't miss this special performance by the Canterbury Cathedral Choir, as they visit Grace Cathedral on their limited U.S. tour. This is your only opportunity to hear this landmark choir in Northern California! Tickets are $35 - 55 and are available at cityboxoffice.com or 415-392-4400.

Fri, April 27, 8 pm + Sat, April 28, 2 pm and 8 pm

Bad Unkl Sista presents the world premiere of "First Breath - Last Breath." Melding Butoh, dance, aerial installations, couture costuming, elaborate sets that double as percussion instruments, film and music, "First Breath - Last Breath" is at once a spectacle and a meditation on life and death. Directed, choreographed and costumed by Artistic Director and Bad Unkl Sista founder, Anastazia Louise, this is a performance event where structured design and spontaneous surprise share equal weight. Live music by Goyo Aranaga with electronic musician F'kir Eldercake, soprano Julia Hathaway, multi-instrumentalist Connor Jon O'Sullivan, violist Surly, and percussionist Daniel Yasmin. Fri, April 27, 8 pm + Sat, April 28, 2 pm and 8 pm.

MORE INFO: Goyo Aranaga ** http://badunklsista.com ** badunklsista <at> gmail.com ** 800-838-3006 Presented by Bad Unkl Sista

The 34th annual parade honoring St. Stupid. Starts at noon at Joe DiMaggio Playground, rain or shine. Go to the website for full info, if you can understand it...

Direct from smash runs in New Your, LA and all points in-between, Miss Coco Peru brings her live one- person comedic tour de farce "There Comes A Time" for the first time ever to SF's Victoria Theatre!

Star of stage + screen (TRICK, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS) Coco Peru (aka Clinton Leupp) fearlessly explore all facets of human nature, expertly turning darkness into illumination. Audiences can look forward to hysterical reportage on her appearance at her friend Bea Arthur's memorial at New York's Majestic Theatre ("my Broadway debut!"), her crazy turn as the original "Angel Schunard" in the backer‚s audition of Rent, and wryly pointed observations of life that only Miss Coco Peru can deliver.

This one night only of a gazillion laughs will be introduced by nightlife maven Sasha Soprano and is produced by SF impressario Marc Huestis.

Laura Stachel, M.D., M.P.H., Co-Founder and Executive Director, We Care Solar, and Ned Tozun, Co-Founder and President, d.light are two award-winning social entrepreneurs who will discuss their solar projects that help save lives in developing nations. d.light is an affordable solar light that replaces kerosene lamps that have badly burned bodies and homes. We Care's solar suitcase provides hospitals light at night, replacing surgery by flashlight. Stachel and Tozun have recently been featured in magazines and on television for their products that save lives of many individuals. Hear why they decided to produce these items and what it took to do so.

Poet, essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman talks about her latest memoir, a dramatic love story that combines science, inspiration, wisdom and heart. "One Hundred Names for Love" exposes the terror of wordlessness when her husband, Paul West, loses the ability to speak or write. Her book is a testament to the joyous necessity of language for both the mind and spirit.

Ackerman is the bestselling author of "The Zookeeper's Wife," "An Alchemy of Mind" and "Dawn Light."

MORE INFO: http://www.paloaltojcc.org ** info <at> paloaltojcc.org ** 650-233-8700 Presented by The Oshman Family JCC

Although he wasn’t credited as director, Hawks is widely acknowledged to have had a strong hand in this oft-remade science fiction classic, and the film’s brisk, cross-talking style and themes of professionalism and responsibility are undeniably Hawksian. At an isolated Arctic research station, a strange craft is discovered under the ice, its pilot an “intelligent carrot” whose rapid reproduction threatens not just the base but the entire planet. Hawks focuses less on the creature itself than on the tiny community’s reactions to it, with new allegiances forming and rifts opening as wonder crosses over into terror. Juliet Clark

Written by Charles Lederer, Hawks, from the story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr. Photographed by Russell Harlan. With Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Douglas Spencer, Dewey Martin. (87 mins, B+W, 35mm)

Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time). (113 min)

As part of our film series - Film 50: History of Cinema

Have you ever wondered why Saudi Arabia avoided the winds of change while the surrounding region was swept into upheaval during the Arab Spring? Join EFF and Saudi blogger Ahmed Al Omran for an insider’s look at this Middle Eastern country and a discussion about blogging, government censorship, and politics at our upcoming Geek Reading on Thursday, April 5. Best known for his widely read and longstanding blog, Saudi Jeans, Omran is a multimedia journalist working as a production assistant on the social media desk at NPR.

Spotlighting everything from student protests to the ongoing plight of a writer facing death threats for blasphemous Tweets, Saudi Jeans offers a rare glimpse inside Saudi Arabia with daily snapshots of a fascinating moment in history. Omran will discuss what it is like to contend with government censorship in a country where bloggers are few and far between, and his talk will shed light on the state of online discourse in Saudi Arabia.

EFF Geek Readings bring Internet users, bloggers, free speech advocates, and other interested folks together to hear from prominent writers and thinkers, meet like-minded community members, and exchange ideas.

Apr 5 (concert) + Apr 6 + 7 (performance), 8pm

Z Space in association with Gallery Paule Anglim + The Oliver Ranch Foundation present. Artist and Songwriter Terry Allen offers his multimedia theater piece: Ghost Ship Rodez.

The narrative arc encompasses the 17 days tormented French playwright and actor Antonin Artaud spent chained to a metal cot in the bowels of a ship as he was being deported from Ireland back to France.

This theatrical work with live origianl music imagines what might have happened in Artaud's mind during his grueling voyage.

April 5 - Concert by Terry Allen + Band April 6 + 7 - "Ghost Ship Rodez", multimedia performance Apr 5 (concert) + Apr 6 + 7 (performance), 8pm.

MORE INFO: Chelsea Graven ** http://www.zspace.org ** zspace <at> zspace.org ** 415-626-0453 Presented by Z SPace

Free Event This is an Art Show for the First Friday Art Tour, Santa Cruz.

Erotic Artist Nancy Peach has represented some of the most widely known names in the Sex Positive Community, including Lochai, Madison Young (who introduced her to the genre), and Maggie Mayhem among others, and has exhibited her work at such high-profile venues as the Citadel, The Center for Sex and Culture, Mission Control, The Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, and Femina Potens Gallery. In 2009, Nancy was given one of the Best Emerging Erotic Artist Awards by the Tom of Finland Foundation. More of Nancy's work may be viewed at www.nancypeach.com

This event is a collaboration with poet and author Alysyn Bourque, who will be reading selections from her Blacklight Chronicles, followed by a reception and book signing. On exhibit will be Nancy Peach's latest illustrations featured in the pages of Blacklight Chronicles. Nancy Peach will also be exhibiting her newest portrait of Peter Berlin. The Two Knotty Boys, Rain Degrey and Lillakat will also be on exhibit.

For more information about Alysyn, please visit: www.alysynbourque.com

Reception Fri, Apr 6, 5:30-8:30pm; Exhibit Apr 6-27

The public is invited to the opening reception of a collaborative exhibition among the members of the Northern California, Peninsula and South Bay Area chapters of the Women's Caucus for Art.

40 Watts: Illuminating Herstory investigates the diverse voices of women artists and the depth and breadth of work being created. Multiple generations of women's art are represented and within the selection are myriad formations of feminist thought and aesthetics. The works are also a testament to the drive that propelled them and their work forward - their experiences and their history.

Works exhibited from April 6 - 27, 2012. Reception Fri, Apr 6, 5:30-8:30pm; Exhibit Apr 6-27.

MORE INFO: Ellen Lee ** http://www.ncwca.org/ ** elstan <at> comcast.net ** 650-591-2801 Presented by Pacific Region Women's Caucus for Art

CLUSTERNOOK by WONDERBOOM! April 6 - May 19, 2012 Opening Reception, Friday, April 6, 6pm-9pm

Marion and Rose’s Workshop presents an art exhibition titled CLUSTERNOOK by the local and mysterious art collective of fun-havers known only as Wonderboom! Join us for the opening reception, Friday April 6th, 6-9pm.

CLUSTERNOOK is an eclectic installation by Wonderboom. CLUSTERNOOK, will feature a clubhouse, objet d’art and paintings. deriving inspiration from kitsch aesthetic, folk art sensibilities and garage sale finds. The constructed clubhouse titled by the artists, The Funny Company, is made from reclaimed wood, screenprinted elements and spice drops. It negotiates a space in which fantasy, innocence and simulation blend.

Wonderboom looks for media outside the canvas, painting on found material with a unique process of surface layering and excavation. A variety of styles are seen as each member of the collective utilizes their own representational technique, varying from the graphic to impasto. An underlying storybook narrative unifies the depicted subjects, inviting visual participation. Wonderboom incorporates odd, unusual and over-loved objects into a lexi- con of lighthearted whimsy. These artworks create a nostalgic experience, allowing us a glimpse into a new old place, made new.

Marion and Rose’s Workshop 461 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607 510-214-6794 www.marionandrose.com 2 blocks from the 12th St. BART Station Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-7pm, Sunday 12-5pm, open late for First Fridays until 9pm

Marion and Rose’s Workshop, located in charming Old Oakland opened in late 2011 and is part of Oakland’s Popuphood. We believe in high craft, good design and fine art for everyone. The shop features a well-edited collection of objects, clothing, and uncommon home and personal accessories from all over the world. ##############

For additional information or images please contact: Alissa Goss or Kerri Johnson: 510-214-6794, marionandrose <at> gmail.com, www.marionandrose.com

Anthony Discenza Additional information will be provided later Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour April 6 �" 29, 2012 Reception Friday, April 6th, 7-10 pm

Open Sundays, 1-5pm, and by appointment.

MacArthur B Arthur is pleased to announce Additional information will be provided later, a solo exhibition of work by Anthony Discenza. Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour.

In popular remodel shows such as “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” the operation of a domestic interior is suspended, and re-envisioned as a production site for the creation of a new, “better” home. The home is denied its identity, its home-ness, for the duration of an unoccupied remodeling. The engine of such shows is the spectacle of a certain “behind-the-scenes” voyeurism, where aggressive demolition is followed by Sturm und Drang consultations regarding fabric colors and bathroom finishes. At the end, a satisfyingly cathartic release is provided for all via the big reveal: the bus is moved, the doors are opened and the home-turned-production site shifts radically, via the implied return of use value, back into a home, one more in keeping with the dictates of conventional tastes and the market.

It can be said that contemporary artistic praxes, in their current deployment, suffer from a similar logic. The metaphor is a tenuous one, but there is some use in it. The artist’s studio is a place where signs and matter are subjected to a process of being broken down, re-imagined and re-assembled, in order that they may be assigned a new status/identity, that of the artwork. Then, magically, these materials, having undergone their makeover at the hands of the artist, are delivered to a venue and set up for display, in the big reveal of “The Exhibition.”

But, as Godard declared, ‘Every edit is a lie.’ What is problematic here is the cut at the end of the show. In EMHE, a large bus reveals the house to the family/us after the remodel is completed, and they/we scream, cry and emote as we proceed to tour the result of the miraculous transformation from old home to new house. But there is always a mysterious break, a point of discontinuity, between the final stages of labor and production and the presentation of the finished result. The remade house is now re-presented as a fait accompli, from which all traces of the intense upheaval we have just witnessed have been purged. Similarly, under the paradigm of exhibition practice, we are typically denied the intense uncertainty of the artist as to the status, quality, and meaning of his/her own product. In this way, the exhibition is a false edit in the flow of actual artistic practice, placing the artist and the work into sharply delineated narratives of production (labor) and presentation (marketing) that deny the often incomplete nature of artistic investigation.

In Additional information will be provided later, Anthony Discenza is presenting work that represents a number of different inquiries within his practice. These works, which may or may not be “finished,” make no attempt to reconcile how they may fit together into a more cohesive narrative or artistic “brand.” We (the curators and Discenza) would like to posit that the remodel of stuff into art is a murkier business than the standard division between [studio production] and [exhibition display ] acknowledges. Our intention is to complicate this model by providing multiple points of access for conversation, critique, expansion, and general uncertainty. We intend to leave open the question of what constitutes a finished work, both in words (via artist/curatorial statements) and in space, by situating both the context and presentation of the work as things most unsettled, forestalling completion of the auratic makeover into art.

BATS Signature Improv Comedy Competition! Theatresports is an entertaining and engaging night of theater presented as a competition. Two teams compete in a mix of improvised scenes, songs, and games! Expect lots of audience participation and, most importantly, expect the unexpected!

For this single-elimination tournament, BATS Main Stage Company has split up into eight teams. Each week only one team will move on to the next round until the last two undefeated teams meet in the Championship Match on Friday, April 27.

Founded in 1986, BATS has become the premier improvisational performing company and improv training school in the Bay Area, attracting more than 12,000 audience members and 1,300 workshop enrollments every year. www.improv.org

April 7 - 8 Easter Weekend at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach An Easter egg hunt in a setting like no other. Seek and ye shall find eggs-cellent surprises at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach! Throughout our Museum of Fun, kids can find eggs-tra-ordinary things among the antiques of our Penny Arcade, all among free play machines of Pinball Alley and around the classic games of the Carousel Carnival. Hunters big and small can search the exhibitions dedicated to bygone American amusements and eggs-change what they find for prizes! The yolks on us at Playland's Easter Egg Hunt.

Bring your April ticket stub from the Conservatory of Flowers and get $2 off your admission to Playland-Not-at-the-Beach, April 1-15. And since turnabout is fair play, the Conservatory will give you $2 off with your April Playland-Not-at-the-Beach admission ticket, April 1-15.

The special events of Easter Weekend are in addition to all of Playland's regular attractions. Guests pay one low price to enter and can 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.

Come meet and greet our new Executive Director Stacie Powers Cuellar and current Operations Manager Jocelyn Thompson as we discuss the future of the Brava Theater Center and its role in the community. Also enjoy performances by resident artists Loco Bloco, Cuicacalli Escuela de Danza, and 915 Cayuga as well as spoken word artists Sonia Rao, Kate Kilbane, and Spokespeople. 2-4pm: Open House with performances by resident artists 6-8:30pm: Inquiry Collective with Spoken Word Artists 9pm: 915 Cayuga's Spring Holiday Showdown

Opening reception Sat, April 7, 5pm - 8pm; Exhibit April 7 - 28, 11am to 6pm Tues-Sat

Artist Reception: Saturday April 7, 2012 from 5-8pm

Varnish Fine Art is proud to present another Lee Ballard curated group exhibit featuring the contemporary fine artwork of 18+ illustrators from the sci-fi/fantasy comics realm including Barron Storey and Rick Berry, two of the most influential American illustrators alive today.

The Have and Have Not Group Show features fine artworks of various media by Jon Wayshak, Rick Berry, Robert Bowen, Kyoshi Nakazawa, Brad Isdrab, Morning Breath/Doug Cunningham, Scott Cambell, Lucien Shapiro, Barron Storey, Shelly Wan, Sam Keith, Lee Ballard, Ian Ameling, Rogelio Martinez and Eidolon Crew. Opening reception Sat, April 7, 5pm - 8pm; Exhibit April 7 - 28, 11am to 6pm Tues-Sat.

MORE INFO: Jen Rogers ** http://www.varnishfineart.com ** Q <at> varnishfineart.com ** 415-433-4400 Presented by Varnish Fine Art

Opening reception Sat, April 7, 6-9pm, exhibit runs to May 5

Arc Gallery and McKinley Art Solutions are pleased to present 'Lost and Found', a group exhibit featuring thirteen Bay Area artists renowned for their creative use of discarded objects. This survey of Bay Area assemblage addresses materials reborn to a second life as an item to treasure, given restitution for service as an object 'non-grata'.

Featured Artists: Andrew Knipe, Arthur Comings, Brandy Eiger, Dianne Hoffman, Dolores Gray, John Whitmarsh, Kat Flyn. Kevin Grady, Leigh Ellison, Linda Raynsford, Liz Mamorsky, Mirto Golino, Robt Berg.

Curator: Matt McKinley of McKinley Art Solutions. Opening reception Sat, April 7, 6-9pm, exhibit runs to May 5.

MORE INFO: Matt McKinley ** http://www.arc-sf.com/ ** info <at> mckinleyartsolutions.com ** 415-902-9863 Presented by Arc Studios + Gallery

The Underground Hit!

Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations are encouraged.)

ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH FOR THIS?

“Frank Moore, a genius explorer of the frontiers of human affection.” www.reddit.com

"...He's wonderful and hilarious and knows exactly what it's all about and has earned my undying respect. What he's doing is impossible, and he knows it. That's good art...." L.A. Weekly

“Merging improv, erotica, entertainment, religion and ritual, Frank Moore �" self-styled shaman, world-renowned disabled performance artist, and 2008 presidential candidate ...." �" East Bay Express

"If performance art has a radical edge, it has to be Frank Moore." Cleveland Edition

"Surely wonderful and mind-goosing experience." L.A. Reader

Downloadable poster here: http://www.eroplay.com/UZOF_APR_2012.pdf

Because life is entertaining.

Life's True Stories told without notes or scripts.

Rami Margron and Cassidy Brown present The SHOUT, a live storytelling series featuring a variety of ace storytellers from all walks of life to entertain, enlighten, and edify; But if you are inspired, you are invited to put your name in the hat and maybe get picked for one of the wildcard slots.

Entrance is sliding scale: $5 to $20 to whatever! Tickets at the door.

Doors open at 7:00, show starts at 7:30.

Upcoming Event Ed Lee: What's Next for San Francisco Tue, Apr 10 2012 - 6:00pm Ed Lee: What’s Next for San Francisco

Mayor, San Francisco

After serving for a year as the appointed mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee now begins his first full term as the city's top elected official. Challenged with job creation, neighborhood revitalization, stimulating economic growth, balancing the budget and more, Lee must now decide how to move the city forward. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear the mayor talk about the many issues still facing San Francisco today.

Location: SF Club Office

 Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program Cost: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students (with valid ID; Premium seating $45 standard, $30 members

Location Blue Room, The Commonwealth Club General Admission

Listen to and ask questions of Mark McCaffrey of the National Center for Science Education as he explains how + why so many people are skeptical of climate change. This all happens in La Peña Lounge with an excellent selection of food + brews. A 6 minute stroll from Ashby BART.

BIG BLUE: Compelling Speakers, Stories, Discoveries, Technologies + the World Premier of Okeanos

What if liquid robots could completely change the way we understand currents? Sniff for oil leaks? Identify bad actors in marine protected areas? Why is Gigartina so sexy? Why is our whole conservation paradigm false and how can we change it? What does an explorer and photographer see when he stays in the water in the remotest area for a really long time? What comes out when a composer gets inspired to write an opera to the Ocean? How do the poets and lineage holders advocate for a new relationship with the Ocean? ALL THIS AND THE WORLD PREMIERE OF CAPACITOR'S OKEANOS.

Doors open at 4:30 for registration and networking. Program begins at 5:00. Expect an immersive experience Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center. The 1st part of the evening will feature TEDx talks by a group of vital writers, scientists, researchers, chefs + aquapreneurs. See data visualizations, infographics, and technologies being used to understand and address the issues of the sea, get inspired by original music and art. Co-hosted by celebrity activist Deborah Bassett.

We’re planning a breath-taking, inspirational and activating gathering with scientists, advocates, entrepreneurs and artists who have made the ocean the focus of their life’s work. The 2nd half of the evening includes the WORLD PREMIER OF OKEANOS, with voiceover by TED Prize Winner SYLVIA EARLE, presented by the incomparable San Francisco dance troupe and TED mainstage presenter Capacitor. Please plan to stay for the Ocean Issues Speakeasy and engage with the top Marine Advocates in the world. Ticket invitations go out to registered TEDxSF members.

Apply to join - http://tedxsf.org/event-oceans/

About TEDxSF: Ideas worth spreading. The San Francisco TEDx community seeks to extend the TED experience at a regional level, highlighting exceptional people and creative works, connecting people across disciplines, creating conversations and driving action. Our 4,000+ members explore big questions with a broad spirit of inquiry.

Premiering April 12-15, 2012 in San Francisco, Okeanos is a multidisciplinary portrait of the ocean as body, resource, metaphor, and force. It is a performance to inspire and educate audiences about the ocean and connect them to ocean conservation.

Okeanos features the distinctive artistic and technical components that Capacitor has become famous for - inventive and articulated dance vocabulary, contemporary circus, abstract structures that mirror nature, poetic integration of audio/video multimedia, sculptural costumes, scientifically supported content, and conservation partnerships.

Under the Artistic Direction of Jodi Lomask, Capacitor's four dancers, four circus artists, and two musicians perform within a constructed oceanic video/aerial/performance environment. Interviews with scientific advisers Dr. Sylvia Earle and Dr. Tierney Thys punctuate the electronic sound score. For more information, please visit www.capacitor.org/okeanos

April 14-15, 12-6pm (Opening April 12, 6-9pm)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - See the finest examples of work by many Mission artists in one place! This year, Spring Open Studios kicks-off with a party and exhibit of the best Mission District artwork at the expansive Workspace Ltd gallery on April 12, 6-9pm. "It's the perfect place to start a tour of artists' studios," said Jon Rogers, co-founder of Mission Artists United (MAU). "We asked influential gallery owners to choose the work that best shows the vibrancy of the Mission arts scene." The official Spring Open Studios weekend event is Saturday + Sunday, April 14-15, 12-6pm, with a Sneak Peek of Workspace studios April 13, 7-10pm. April 14-15, 12-6pm (Opening April 12, 6-9pm).

MORE INFO: Jennifer Berkowitz ** http://workspacelimited.org ** jengberkowitz <at> gmail.com ** 310-909-6632 Presented by WorkSpace Limited

On Thursday, April 12, at 7pm, current Culinary Fellow Niki Ford will present, “Coming of Age in the Kitchen,” a unique event blending her passions for food, literature, and performance art. The evening will begin with a reading of a short story by author Tamar Adler describing an experience she had as a girl cooking with her brother. Following the reading, a dinner with wine pairing will be served in the Historic Villa, featuring the meal described in Adler’s story. This event is the first of a number of culinary events that Ford will curate as part of her residency at the Lucas Artists Residency Program. Ford drew on her considerable background in the fine and performance arts - she holds a B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and enjoyed a seven‐year‐long career as a performance artist before deciding to pursue the culinary arts - to conceive of and coordinate this event. She asked Adler to write her short story, entitled “Wherewith Shall It Be Salted," specifically to be performed at Montalvo. Based on Adler’s childhood, the piece describes an unchaperoned dinner party thrown by a teenage girl and her 12‐year‐old brother during a period of family hardship. - MORE -

Chef Niki Ford Author Tamar Adler “The goal for the evening will be to create a narrative context for people to emotionally engage with the meal,” says Ford. Ford began her residency at Montalvo in January 2012. Prior to her arrival, she cooked for six years at Chez Panisse, and served multiple stints at the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy in Rome. In her cooking practice, she draws creative inspiration from her immediate environment to create meals in step with the landscape and the seasons. As a passionate advocate for locally‐grown and sustainably‐sourced food, she aims to educate through the food she cooks. Adler began her career as an editor for Harper’s, but after several years realized her true calling was in the kitchen. She, too, was a cook at Chez Panisse, and has written a number of articles about her experiences preparing food. Her 2011 book An Everlasting Meal, a tribute to the late M.F.K. Fisher’s 1942 classic How to Cook a Wolf, is a rallying cry to the home cook. Praised by chef Alice Waters as “a book to sink into and read deeply,” it counsels readers to cook and eat with “economy and grace. ” COMING OF AGE IN THE KITCHEN

Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents the following readers on the theme: Break. Join us as these seven authors BREAK through what we think we know about the topic.

Shannon Cain’s debut short story collection, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, is the recipient of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. http://www.shannoncain.com

Stan Goldberg is the author of Lessons for the Living: Stories of Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Courage at the End of Life. http://stangoldbergwriter.com/

Leo Litwak’s novel Waiting for the News received the National Jewish Book Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_E._Litwak

Meredith Maran is the author of A Theory of Small Earthquakes. http://meredithmaran.com/

Sommer Schafer’s first publication is forthcoming later this year in Barge Journal.

Linda Gray Sexton’s newest memoir is Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide. http://www.lindagraysexton.com/

Mary Paynter Sherwin’s work is published in The Midway Journal, Drash: Northwest Mosaic, and Unswept. http://splab.org/mary-sherwin/

Why There Are Words, curated by founder Peg Alford Pursell, draws a full house of Marin, Sonoma, SF, and East Bay residents every second Thursday of the month.

Great Directors Speak! YBCA April Film Series

This seven-film program is a series of portraits of world-class directors discussing their work. From the epic to the intimate, these films provide a rare opportunity to hear filmmakers speaking openly and directly.

DOUBLE FEATURE Thu, Apr 12, 7:30pm

Robert Bresson: Without a Trace By François Weyergans

Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was one of cinema's great artists. Completing 13 feature films in a career that spanned more than four decades, Bresson directed masterpieces such as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and The Trial of Joan of Arc. Directors from Godard to Tarkovsky, from Fassbinder to Scorsese, have cited him as a major influence on their work. Filmed mostly in Bresson’s country home in 1965, this extremely rare on-camera interview features the director describing his singular approach to filmmaking: from the inspiration behind his films, to his ideas on the use of sound, actors, editing and music. (1965, 64 min, digital)

Followed by…

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman By Chantal Akerman A self-portrait by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. The first part opens with Akerman in her apartment, reading from a text directly to the camera, describing the often humorous problems she encountered making this film. The second lets Akerman’s films speak for her, taking clips from her extensive filmography and linking them anonymously until they form a new film. There are scenes from Jeanne Dielman, her best-known film, but also glimpses of several other works�"her forays into experimental film, comedic shorts, musicals, and narrative features. (1996, 64 min, digital)

The idea of the Green Hairstreak Corridor came to Liam O'Brien while surveying all of the butterflies of San Francisco County in 2007. It seemed to him there was something we could do for this creature. Five years into it, the project now attracts not only the attention of the surrounding Upper Sunset neighborhood, but national conservationists and others seeking innovative ways to address the problems of vanishing urban ecosystems.

Incline Gallery presents, Counterproof: The Other Side of Print, by Guest Curator John Zarobell. The exhibit will feature works in a number of different media by Adam Feibelman (Adam5100), Imin Yeh, Elisheva Biernoff, David Linger, and The Great Tortilla Conspiracy. Counterproof will explore new avenues in contemporary printmaking by juxtaposing divergent approaches; the exhibition simultaneously celebrates and deconstructs the very notion of printmaking itself.

In Counterproof, Adam Feibelman (Adam5100) will show a new collection of hand cut and sewn stencils. His work plays on the notion of the manipulation of paper and light to generate negative space through layering. Taking on the form of paper relief sculptures, his work represents hundreds of hours of meticulous, precise work.

Imin Yeh respects the power of print as a medium capable of information sharing and reproducibility through ephemera and graphics. Labor, cultural commodification, and play are recurring themes and subject matter in her work. Yeh will present a paper installation along with a limited-edition poster.

Elisheva Biernoff is a storyteller of events in time and nature. Her work investigates fictions and fantasies, and how we encounter and interpret them. She will be represented at Incline Gallery with her installation, Out the Window. Elisheva Biernoff appears courtesy of Eli Ridgway Gallery.

David Linger is known for his printed porcelain plates, which combine modern techniques with antiquated imagery. Through process and presentation, his levitating images and text capture ephemeral occurrences.

The Great Tortilla Conspiracy is a collective of artists Art Hazelwood, Jos Sances, Rene Yañez and Rio Yañez, who use tortillas as canvases. Their work raises issues related to identity, immigration, miracle tortilla apparitions, and the rise of Transgenic Corn. They will stage a performance during the opening reception.

From projecting light through mediums, running porcelain plates through a press, to sewing stencils together-the artists in Counterproof are redefining print, producing works of extended conceptual reach.

Bay Area ensemble Clerestory is joined by Kymry Esainko, principal pianist for the Santa Rosa Symphony, for Harmony + Ivory, a lively musical conversation between a piano and nine men's voices. The 75 minute performance includes 19th century German songs by Brahms and Wolf as well as the nostalgic tunes of the World War II era vocal group, Comedian Harmonists. The concert continues with lush harmonies of newly resurgent Dutch composer Henk Badings and a song of hope by David Goodman dedicated to the people of Nicaragua, and concludes with American spirituals and jazz standards.

MORE INFO: http://www.clerestory.org ** info <at> clerestory.org Presented by Clerestory

Friday, April 13th 8pm, Saturday, April 14th 8pm, Sunday, April 15th 2pm

'Uhane...ten unstoppable women become one multi-faceted voice. Nine hundred and fifty one years of deeply rooted stories that will take you on a personal journey of revelation. Daring to remember ghosts and shadows, fearless illuminations...

In the tales of 'Uhane, bodies swirl, extend, caress, in a whisper that is tender but strong, unearthing memories - is this real or an imagined ghost story? A seamless weaving of gesture, emotion driven movement, and choreography that is infused with the clarity of voice.

'Uhane will be Purple Moon Dance Project founder and Artistic Director Jill Togawa's last San Francisco performances and PMPD's most ambitious collective presentation. Friday, April 13th 8pm, Saturday, April 14th 8pm, Sunday, April 15th 2pm.

MORE INFO: Jill Togawa ** http://www.purplemoondance.org ** project <at> purplemoondance.org ** 415-552-1105 Presented by Purple Moon Dance Project

Local writers Diane Karagienakos and Christopher Barranti met in a writing group several years ago, helping each other with feedback on their work. Now the two are collaborating at the Exit Theatre April 13-29 with a three-week run of two short plays sharing one stage. The two works, both directed by Kathryn Wood and presented with a short intermission, complement and contrast each other with female/male perspectives on love, death, relationships and sexting.

It Is What It Is by Ms. Karagienakos is a multi-layered multimedia meditation on what it really means to connect in today's hyper-connected world. Estranged siblings brought together around their father's deathbed struggle with buried issues and simmering conflict. As their father's condition worsens and spoken dialogue becomes explosive, the audience is given a more complete, and often hysterically funny, perspective thanks to their texts, IMs and emails.

In a classic San Francisco bar room set piece, "The Watch Tower" by Mr. Barranti focuses on the passing revelations and deep insights found among a group of strangers at the bottom of a shot glass on a rainy afternoon. Emotionally starved characters experience an unexpected awakening as their facades are swept under the bar mat. Absurdly humorous, combative and revealing, this new play will be instantly familiar to local audiences.

The Exit Theatre (www.sffringe.org), located at 156 Eddy Street, is within walking distance of San Francisco’s Union Square and the Powell Street BART station. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/226137.

For more information, please visit www.myadultland.com.

Ano Nuevo Elephant Seals + Tidepooling - "Betty's List" with Kim Powell, Blue Water Ventures - 4/14

Note from Betty: Our first Outdoor Adventure for 2012 is the annual outing with guide Kim Powell taking us to Ano Nuevo State Park to visit Elephant Seals plus tidepooling at Davenport Landing to meet some creatures of the sea. It's a fun time with optional lunch at the popular Davenport Road House.

You will enjoy this outing for all levels from beginners to advanced.

It's easy and yet you can challenge yourself if you want to! Couples and Singles all are welcome! - Betty

- Please reserve your space asap as this will sell out! Hosted by the "Betty's List" Team

Head Guide: Kim Powell, Blue Water Ventures

Davenport Landing and Ano Nuevo State Park

(Locations along beautiful Highway One)

* Reservation Information -

$65 - Early Bird Reservations

$75- Standard Reservation

Online: http://bettyslist.com/blpage.php?id=3782

Phone: 415-503-1375 or E-mail: BettyEventInfo [ <at> ] aol [.] com

Pay by Check: Your check should be payable to "Sullivan Communications, Inc" and mailed to Sullivan Communications, Inc, 2261 Market Street #309, San Francisco, CA 94114. Important: If you pay by mail, please enclose a note with your e-mail address and phone number so we can send your confirmation and reach you easily.

Schedule Details + Food Options -

- 10:00 AM - Optional - Meet in Davenport for Breakfast at Pastry Shop

- 10:30 - 12:00 Noon - Meet at Davenport Landing for Tidepooling

- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Optional Lunch "on your own" at Road House Cafe in Davenpor (Or bring your lunch and picnic at the beach or coastline areas.

Davenport Road House is right off of Highway One in the quaint town of Davenport. The Arros Deli and US Post Office are a few blocks north of the Road House Cafe in Davenport. For more detailed directions please visit: Road House Cafe 831-426-8801)

- 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Elephant Seal walk at Ano Nuevo State Reserve (The reserve is located about 90 minutes south of San Francisco off of Highway One. The entrance is 12 miles south of Pescadero Road, 3 miles south of Rossi Road, and just north of the San Mateo/Santa Cruz County border. For more details, please visit www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=523

* Message from Guide Kim Powell -

Welcome to our day together on April 14th visiting the seal pups of Ano Nuevo State Reserve and the Tidepools of Davenport Landing hosted by Betty's List and Blue Water Ventures.

We invite you to join our team of naturalists as we hike to Ano Nuevo State Reserve, an area rich in cultural and natural history. In April, elephant seal pups, or 'weaners" form playful aggregations known as "weaner pods" on the remote beaches of Ano Nuevo. We will hike through this State Park jewel to view these amazing animals learning about their ecology and behavior.

The Ano Nuevo area was once a large settlement site for the Ohlone Indians. Our day will include examining a shell midden left by these early Native Americans. Before hiking to Ano Nuevo, you will have the option to join your naturalist as we explore the tidepools of Davenport Landing followed by lunch at the Road House Cafe in historical Davenport.

On April 14th, we will go out rain or shine, but not in a heavy downpour. Light rains do not cancel our day so please come prepared! Refunds are given if we cancel the trip due to heavy rains which are unlikely in April.

Additional Fees -($10 parking fee at Ano Nuevo State Reserve; lunch at Road House Cafe in Davenport or bring a picnic lunch

How to Dress -(Please be prepared for a hot sunny day or a cool fog laden one. Dress in layers with an outer shell such as a windbreaker. Please bring a lunch and water bottle on the hike. Be sure to have sunscreen. Cameras and binoculars packed in a daypack with a garbage bag inside in case it rains is recommended. Hiking shoes or a sturdy tennis shoe for walking over sand are needed. You will need shoes that can get wet ( no flip flops) for tidepooling at Davenport Landing. Sandals with a back strap and some tread are acceptable for tidepooling.

Distance We Will Walk -(- Ano Nuevo: 3 1/2 miles round trip over sand with some elevation gain while going over sand dunes; some cardiovascular conditioning suggested (- Davenport Landing: 1/2-1 mile round trip over sand; leisurely pace

We are looking forward to our adventure together to view the seal pups of Ano Nuevo and beyond!

April 14-15, 12pm-6pm; Preview party April 12, 6pm-9pm, at Workspace Ltd (2150 Folsom).

Mission Artists United Spring Open Studios April 14 + 15 12pm-6pm, Preview Party April 12 6pm-9pm at Workspace Ltd (2150 Folsom).

Mission district artists open their studio doors to the public! MAU invites you to stroll through six neighboring group studios in the sunny Mission district of San Francisco. All studios are situated within 6 blocks of each other making the area a great destination for those who love to discover art.

Participating studios are 1890 Bryant Street (1890 Bryant at Mariposa), ActivSpace (3150 18th Street), The Blue Studio (2111 Mission Street), Developing Environments (540 Alabama), Project Artaud (499 Alabama Street), and Workspace Ltd. April 14-15, 12pm-6pm; Preview party April 12, 6pm-9pm, at Workspace Ltd (2150 Folsom)..

MORE INFO: Jon Rogers ** http://www.missionartistsunited.org/ ** info <at> missionartistsunited.org ** 415-691-9911 Presented by Mission Artists United

This bike ride covers more ground than our usual mural walk!

Street art and muraling are on the same continuum. Where’s the line? Is there one? Which artists have been blurring it and how?

The mural culture that has taken root in the US came from Mexico. What was going on in Mexico that made it unfold that way? How did mural culture come to SF?

The 1934 Coit Tower murals are an early piece of the story. Here in the Mission District, we see more evolution: how the Mexican movement led to Socialist Realism then the Chicano mural movement became the Mission school. These transformations spawned a whole culture of street artists.

We’ll focus this walk more on the political and social questions than on art techniques, but you’ll get to see some of SF’s most amazing murals and hear insider stories about their creation, along with participating in the usual Thinkwalks exploratory discussions. Rain doesn’t necessarily cancel. Check here to see exact weather by the minute as it approaches!

Feel free to call if you have questions!

RSVPs welcome but not required.

White Walls is pleased to present Élan Vital, an accumulation of Michael Page’s new work into what is guaranteed to be an impressive solo show. The show has been much awaited since a 2011 solo show at Shooting Gallery, entitled Into Passing, where the artist created visual landscapes made stunning with ethereally blended colors and dreamlike scenes. With a much larger space to utilize, Élan Vital will feature thirty paintings and six drawings, as well as an installation. The opening reception is Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 7-11 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through May 5, 2012.

Vital force, evolution, and the development of organisms is what Michael Page, San Francisco-based artist, has based this latest body of work on. With a healthy interest in new life, spirituality, and the infinite variations of consciousness, Michael paints dreamscapes of alternative realities. Through boundless shapes of thick brush strokes and effervescent colors, his paintings portray the Pneuma or spirit/soul that breathes in every living organism. Numerous influences surfaced for Michael going into the show; old masters of art, Greek and Nordic mythology, and specifically an eye-opening book by Dr. Rick Strassman entitled “The Spirit Molecule”. The book details the hallucinatory effects of massive quantities of Dimethyltryptamine or DMT, a molecule present in the pineal gland of humans and all other animals on the vast planet which we experience high levels of naturally only two times in our life- at birth and death.

While Michael’s last show portrayed life in a darker realm by exploring the individual’s existence through its inevitable demise, Élan Vital takes a different approach. Michael explains, “I again wanted to turn my pieces inward, but looking at the beginning of life, rather than the darker side of leaving life.” Throughout the thirty paintings and drawings, varying in sizes from twelve inches to six feet, are a representation of snap shots of consciousness, moments in time, and a meeting of one’s soul, painted by Michael’s abstract motions and free flowing lines.

As the show progressed over the last year of its creation, many other influences presented themselves seemingly from outside the dimension of consciousness. A particular piece exemplifies this portraying the transformation of Zeus into a swan to seduce Leda, the mother of Helen and Polydeuces. When further explored, these characters too were the basis of this “molecule” in the sense that they represent a spirit or higher consciousness presenting new life and parallel realities to grasp and hold.

Via Luminosa The Spheres of Creation

Join RFCL for an evening of free ecstatic dance, electroacoustic music and improvised ritual theater.

Celestial bodies spiral and spin, a dance of light, a play of radiant life, a cosmic ballet. Whirl and twirl of white winged, serpentine splendor, a dipping diving voyage to distant shores. Nothing returning to nothing, nothing going away from nothing. Resplendent, ardent entanglement of sound and light, this ever churning dance of Life.

Come ready to be an integral element in the invocation, a participant rather than part of the audience. A participant might dance, twirl, squeal, paint their face, jump, convulse, open up their hearts to the sky and let the gods come in or stand still with overflowing attention.

Saturday April 14th 7pm-midnight Radiance Oak: 278 4th St. Oakland 7 blocks from the Lake Merrit BART station http://www.radianceoak.org/map

Dimensions Dance Theater presents the premiere of DOWN THE CONGO LINE, Saturday April 14 at Oakland’s Malonga Casquelourde Center for the Arts. DOWN THE CONGO LINE features three works by choreographers LaTanya d. Tigner and Isaura Oliveira, with live music by MJ’s Brass Boppers; Kiazi Malonga and drummers; and Vinicius Oliveira accompanied by other renowned percussionists.

Dimensions Artistic Director Deborah Vaughn’s 2010 visit to the Republic of Congo inspired her to create an evening of dance that brings the enduring vitality and power of Congolese dance and drumming to Bay Area audiences. The dynamic mix of music and dance steeped in Congolese tradition and performed live onstage promises to thrill audiences of all ages.

Come do The Time Warp again in the East Bay!

April 14 is long-time cast member Toby’s farewell show - we’re sad to see him go, but we want to send him off with a huge night. Join us for:

• Music, dancing + mingling • A Rowdy preshow • Ridiculous games • Fun surprises! • A noisy farewell for Toby • And so much fun it's Barely Legal

San Francisco is famous for its hills, which lend the city its character and breathtaking views. On this tour, we'll explore the unique qualities that have shaped San Francisco's distinctive terrain, while munching through edible seismic activities and getting up close and personal with the local geology. We'll visit stellar rock formations that draw geologists from around the world, and you'll gain a new appreciation for the city's legendary landscape.

Special on April 15 - Anniversary edition commemorating the 1906 earthquake!

2.5 miles, moderate climbing, 2.5 hours includes snacks

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218537

Discovery Street offers walking tours that explore the science of everyday life, in your food, on the street, and inside you.

Join Joanna Macy and Jack Macy to explore ways to build energy, teamwork, and joy in creating a just and livable future for all here on Earth. Joanna and Jack will introduce you to The Work That Reconnects, experiential group work used worldwide in movements for peace, justice, and environmental sanity. Wear loose clothes, bring a mat/cushion if you'd prefer that to a chair, and come prepared to fall in love with life again.

Joanna Macy, ecophilosopher and scholar of Buddhism and systems theory, helps people transform despair, burnout, and numbness into constructive, collaborative action. Jack Macy is a sustainability activist and internationally known leader in the zero waste movement.

MORE INFO: Tom Smith ** http://www.uuoakland.org/involved/social_justice_activities/earth_justice/ ** contratom <at> gmail.com ** 510-817-4310 Presented by First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Qcomedy presents an evening of Hilarity with LA Comedian Bob "Bobaloo" Koenig, ("Bears On The Run" "Outlaugh!" "I Survived A Japanese Game Show") Qcomedy Founder Nick Leonard (The Bilicious Show, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Bay Area Comedy Legend Karen Ripley ("Outlaugh!", "Queer Queens Of Comedy") All hosted by Sf Favorite Scot Free (The alter ego of drag comedienne Pippi Lovestocking) plus Poet Baruch Porras-Hernandez and hilarious Sf comics David Hawkins and Casey Ley.

San Francisco's favorite spot for queer and queer friendly comedy. Now at our new, big, theatrical location at 16th and Valencia!

One night only Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party blankets SOMArts Cultural Center's unique post-industrial space and bamboo grove in site-specific luminous art installations, live music and performances, digital and cinematic projections and sound sculptures by more than 30 Bay Area artists. Night Light also features five experimental audio-visual performances by 2010 SECA Art Award winner Mauricio Ancalmo, Spanish contemporary dance duo ENTOMO, experimental musicians Amar Chaudhary and David Molina, and multimedia artist Surabhi Suraf from 8:30pm to 10pm. The exhibition will be on view from 8pm to midnight. Advance tickets are recommended and will guarantee faster entry on the evening of the event. For the full list of exhibiting artists and performance descriptions, please visit, http://www.somarts.org/nightlight/.

Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck is a monthly dinner party where writers and foodies come together to eat, write, and share. This month Bay Area writer, performer and curator of the Porchlight Storytelling Series Beth Lisick presents new work on the evening’s theme “Leap of Faith,” inspired by the departure of Feast of Words co-founder and co-host Irina Zadov.

Potluck contributors from the audience and San Francisco based chef, saxophonist and composer John Ingle provide the evening’s culinary delights. As always, guests will take part in a writing exercise and can share the work they’ve created for a chance to win literary and culinary prizes.

House opens at 6:30pm on Tuesday, April 17, and space is limited. Tickets are $10 in advance, $5 with a potluck dish, or $12 at the door, cash bar. Purchase tickets online at feastofwords.eventbrite.com.

Get ready to enjoy a spirit-enriching presentation about grizzly bears and Yellowstone National Park. This celebration of the Yellowstone ecosystem will inspire those who already know Yellowstone to return to this rugged and majestic region, and will motivate others to discover the raw power of one of North America's wildest landscapes. Michael Leach will focus on the importance of keystone species, such as grizzlies and wolves, while sharing information about the area's biogeography, the plight of the Yellowstone bison, and Yellowstone's hope for the future. He will also describe how his organization, Yellowstone Country Guardians, works to advocate for this important landscape.

MORE INFO: Noreen Weeden ** http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/education/speaker-series/ ** nweeden <at> goldengateaudubon.org ** 510-843-2222 Presented by Golden Gate Audubon Society

"2012 Spring Dance Concert"

PRODUCER: Sonoma State University Department Theatre Arts + Dance presents

WHAT: "2012 Spring Dance Concert"

Highlighted by professional choreography by Kristen Daley, Nancy Lyons, Scott Wells and Christine Cali, featuring new music by Jesse Olsen Bay and showcasing 30 dancers - the 2012 Spring Dance Concert will feature four contemporary, physical, athletic and humorous dance works as it explores the pleasure of dance; rituals and desire; human connections; and the technological state of being.

Directed by Kristen Daley and Nancy Lyons

Oakland East Bay Symphony continues its exploration of rich musical cultures by featuring new works written by two prominent Filipino jazz musicians and composers on its program, "Notes from the Philippines." Jazz pianist and composer Victor Noriega draws on his heritage of Filipino songs in a new work, entitled "Generations, Directions", written expressly for Oakland East Bay Symphony. In addition, local jazz artist Art Khu will also present a new work, "The Symphony of Souls". Rising star and Oakland native, cellist David Requiro, will make his Oakland East Bay Symphony debut playing DvoYak's powerful Cello Concerto, and Felix Mendelssohn will be featured with the Ruy Blas Overture.

MORE INFO: http://www.oebs.org Presented by Oakland East Bay Symphony

BATS Improv vs. Stanford Improv in the Rubber Chicken Match! In this annual battle for glory - the young Stanford Improvisers (aka the SImps) take on the pros from the BATS Improv in a winner-takes-all Theatresports Match!

In Theatresports, teams perform hilarious scenes, challenging games, and amazing musical numbers...all made up on the spot and scored by a panel of "expert" judges. At the end of the night, the team with the most points takes home the revered Rubber Chicken!

Founded in 1986, BATS has become the premier improvisational performing company and improv training school in the Bay Area, attracting more than 12,000 audience members and 1,300 workshop enrollments every year. www.improv.org

The theme for this year’s Festival is PODER Popular and looks at the power of the people and the art that they create when they gather, not in conservatories, but in living rooms and in the streets. The secular dances are fundamental to the daily survival of many cultures, traditions and artists themselves. Dance and music serves as a vital form of expression and as a release from daily problems, worries, and hard ships.

From the creators of Earthdance comes the Deep Green Festival and Conference, an Earth Day celebration of cannabis, health, and ecology. The Deep Green Festival features 3 stages of music and performances, presentations by top experts, vendors and exhibitors, educational exhibits, an Eco-Fashion Show, an Earth Temple, and much more.

Music acts include the conscious hip-hop group Luminaries, reggae sensations Indubious, Bay Area favorites Dogon Lights, contemporary folk artist Human, electronic artist and singer Jillian Ann, and many others. Festival speakers include hemp expert Chris Conrad, grow guru Ed Rosenthal, California NORML Director Dale Gieringer, visionary and entheogen expert Ralph Metzner, and the founders of Harborside Health Center and stars of "Weed Wars" Steve and Andrew DeAngelo.

The Deep Green Conference will feature in-depth panels and workshops addressing industrial hemp, organic agriculture, current medical cannabis research, cannabis/hemp legalization, and more.

Tickets are available online at www.deepgreenfest.eventbrite.com. Festival: $15 in advance/$25 day of event. Conference + Festival: $60 in advance, $75 day of event.

Improvised Hitchcock is authentic Spine-Chilling Suspense! Deadly games of cat and mouse! An innocent victim chased across famous landmarks and exotic locations, pursued by police, spies, and impostors! See Improvised Hitchcock and enjoy thrilling (and hilarious) improvised tales of danger and romance inspired by the Master of Suspense!

Founded in 1986, BATS has become the premier improvisational performing company and improv training school in the Bay Area, attracting more than 12,000 audience members and 1,300 workshop enrollments every year. www.improv.org

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra's Family Concert series presents its third and final program of the 2011-2012 season, designed for young listeners as well as adults learning about classical music. Meet the Composers presents an informative and entertaining program as we travel back in time to meet a few of classical music's greatest composers: grumpy Johnny Bach and his twenty children, deaf Ludwig B. who can only hear music inside his head, and present-day Gabi Frank who will show us how different things are today for a modern composer. Admission is free, but tickets are required for non-members! Reserve online or call 415.692.5258 to make your reservation by phone.

MORE INFO: Janas Page ** http://www.sfchamberorchestra.org/events/family/ ** info <at> sfchamberorchestra.org ** 415-692-3367 Presented by San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

Gaucho, a gypsy jazz sextet, was formed in 2002. The lineup consists of Dave Ricketts + Michael Groh on guitars, Ari Munkres on standup bass, Rob Reich on accordion, Ralph Carney on horns, and Pete Devine on drums + percussion. On occasion, guest artists bring their own spice to the mix. While we base much of our repertoire in the music of Django Reinhart and the gypsy jazz of 1930’s Europe, we also find inspiration in the rhythmic drive and collective improvisation of New Orleans swing music and the “gut bucket” sound. Gaucho is a first-rate ensemble, playing the music we love with boundless energy, passion, and humor. Gaucho was voted ‘Best Jazz Band’ by SF Weekly reader poll in 2009. Pearl is their newest album of four they have recorded. www.gauchojazz.com

Sunday, April 22, 2012 7-9pm 2 sets Noertker's Moxie Quintet Annelise Zamula - tenor saxophone, flute Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute John Vaughn - baritone sax, flute Bill Noertker - contrabass Dax Compise - drums

"Intriguing contrapuntal combinations and disguised virtuosity help to find the way to an instant comprehension of Noertker's intention. ...truly great music, independent from genres." -Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

As artists, we are always thinking in scale. It helps us define our work; it also serves as a challenge to some of us who work smaller. We invite you to join us to “Think Big” with this series of work that uses grand scale in conjunction with concepts effectively and intentionally.

Opening April 5 at 6pm, running through April 28

The Chinese Culture Foundation opens "On the Edge of Culture," a group exhibition presenting an experimental take on culture. The exhibit's inclusion of 1.5 generation artists-artists having a foothold in two or more cultures-features Artist-in-Residence Carol Koffel, with Stella Zhang, Jiang Xueman, Liang Liting, Liu Yin, and a video exchange with Fei Contemporary Art Center in Shanghai.Carol Koffel has spent the last three months at the CCC as our inaugural Artist in Residence. In the show, she is challenged to incorporate community elements into her work and experiment with culture and 1.5 generation. Opening April 5 at 6pm, running through April 28.

MORE INFO: Emmy ** http://www.c-c-c.org ** info <at> c-c-c.org ** 415-986-1822 Presented by Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

Local artist Benjamin Witzke presents a collection of natural science art with a broad range of subjects and a focus on native California ecology and herpetology in particular. Ben studied zoology at Humboldt state before combining his passion for nature and the sciences with his skill as a draftsmen, earning a degree in Illustration from California College of the Arts, and a graduate degree in Scientific Illustration from CSU Monterey Bay. He is currently illustrating newly described species of West African frogs and their tadpoles for the California Academy of Sciences.

fabric8 is pleased to present Wayward Wanderings, a solo show featuring new paintings by David Garvey.

Opening Reception Friday, April 6, 6-9PM Showing through May 7, 2012

In his first-ever solo show, former medical illustrator Garvey uses his highly-detailed technique to bring his paintings to life. His exhibition depicts scenes of a wayward reality, from whimsical creatures and scenarios to dreamscapes and poignant visual metaphors.

David Garvey was born in New York City in 1970 and attended Pratt Institute, from where he graduated with a BFA in 1994. He has had an eclectic career in the arts, having done illustration work for websites, publications, pharmaceutical giants, and entertainment conglomerates. His paintings and drawings are on display in restaurants, hotels, and casino

An eclectic assemblage of image and movement based work from an international collaboration reflecting on silence in a city. With resonate inquiries to visualization, absence, and materiality, the work unfolds a series of precarious architectural scenes. Cross-references span the paintings of American artist Edward Hopper, to the disparate environment of the works making in Tokyo, Berlin, Taipei, and San Francisco.

For this San Francisco production, the work enlists an idiosyncratic cast of notable collaborators, Yuko Kaseki (Berlin based contemporary Butoh dancer and movement artist, and co-founder of cokaseki), José Navarrete (San Francisco based choreographer and performance artist, and co-founder of Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Company), and Christian Nagler (San Francisco based artist, writer, and performer, creating often apart of the Nonsite Collective).

By assemblage, TABLEAU STATIONS: Made of silence, air, and glass collects primarily from three different works initiated outside of the US beginning in 2010: Stations of Appearance (a site-specific work for photography and video created along the Tokaido Line between Tokyo and Kyoto in connection with the Japan-US Friendship Commission), in 2011: At the Window (inspired by a man in his eighties with Alzheimer's who repeatedly opened the windows of local residents questioning why they were there and who invited them - created while in residence at the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei), and Different Types of Silence (a dance performance for theater exploring oppositional notions of silence in primary collaboration with Yuko Kaseki and Diego Agullo - developed in Berlin at ADA and F40/Theatre Thikwa). Work is currently being re-explored in San Francisco for its April showing at CounterPULSE.

Performance: Yuko Kaseki, José Navarrete, Christian Nagler, Isak Immanuel (with additional artists in Japan and Taiwan for video)

Choreography: by ensemble

Sound/Music: Clem Snide, Toshio Hosokawa, various by ensemble

Artistic Direction and Photography/Video Installation: Isak Immanuel

TABLEAU STATIONS

is a performance and exhibition series creating work in dance and the visual arts. Acting as a context to explore experimental collaborations, it was initiated (with the project Floor of Sky in 2004) by interdisciplinary artist and choreographer Isak Immanuel. Projects shift through an exploration of place and the absences and inversions of quotidian moments. The impetus of the work came from an inquiry on how to negotiate contemporary public spaces of a city with the intimacies and economies of individual bodies. Since its conception, it has created solo and ensemble works, site-specific performances, video, and mixed media photography within the context of theaters, galleries, metro stations, airports, intersections, and civic space in the United States, East Asia, and Europe.

Tableau Stations: Made of silence, air, and glass is presented through CounterPULSE's curated Co-Production Program.

The research and creative process of the work has been supported in part by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Japan-US Friendship Commission, AIR Taipei, ADA, Theatre Thikwa, + TheOffCenter.

San Francisco's Shelton Theater presents the hysterical comedy, Beyond Therapy, directed by Matt Shelton. Considered one of the funniest plays ever written.Time magazine says it gives the most precious gift of all, guaranteed laughter. The farcical comedy focuses on Prudence and Bruce, two Manhattanites who are seeking stable romantic relationships with the help of their psychiatrists, each of whom suggests the patient place a personal ad.

After showing to sell-out crowds on the East Coast, and as featured in the New York Times, the film "They Call It Myanmar" with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi comes to San Francisco’s Bridge Theater April 6 through 12. The film has sold out at theaters in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and is now launching on a tour of Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Shot clandestinely over three years by novelist, filmmaker, and Cornell Physicist Robert H. Lieberman, this film provides an astonishing and intimate look inside what has been the second most isolated country on the planet.

Providing a grand sweep of the country, its people and its troubled history, this visually stunning documentary brings a human dimension to a country that still remains a mystery to much of the world. The Hollywood Reporter has called the documentary “The definitive Burma film…which defies the odds and delivers a compelling portrait that dwells with you.”

Film director Robert H. Lieberman ‘62 will make special guest appearances in San Francisco at 7 PM screenings on April 6, 7, and 9, and at 4:50 PM on Sunday April 8. Film producer Deborah C. Hoard ’78 will appear on at 7 PM screenings on April 11 and 12.

To see a trailer, go to: http://www.theycallitmyanmar.com

Tickets available online now at http://www.landmarktheaters.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=106266

The Science of Art, an event to highlight the scientific principals, enquiry and exploration behind the fine and industrial arts processes taught and practiced here at the Crucible! The event will bring together Crucible faculty, guest artists, a curated gallery of exhibits and demonstrations, projects from local schools as well as special performances, food, and the participation of a number of other local art and science related organizations and university programs. Our goal is to connect ourselves and our community to The Science of Art and give us an opportunity to further understand the world in which we live and work, making way for new creativity and innovation at every stage of our process.

A fun day for the whole family! Our open houses are a wonderful way to experience the excitement of The Crucible’s 56,000 sq. ft. studio, where furnaces roar and sparks fly. Check out exciting live demonstrations and exhibits explaining the science behind the art of The Crucible. Catch amazing fiery performances and wander through our student and faculty art show displaying the creativity of The Crucible.

Event Highlights: ★ Intriguing demonstrations combining science and art including the Science of Fire, Venturi Effect, Ruben's Tube, Harmonograph, Die Moto Bio-diesel motorcycle display, mysteries of steel made visible, Raku firing, bicycle physics, and other fascinating experiments in action ★ Guest exhibits by Tech Shop, Chabot Space + Science Center, and Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Also, Ron Hipschman, Exploratorium staff physicist, will give a lecture and demonstration about many ways to make color--from neon signs to oil slicks to rainbows and more. ★ Amazing molten metal pour in our foundry ★ Fiery stage performances by our fire performance faculty + students ★ Live music by, Oakland based ensemble, Gamelan X ★ Spectacular art show showcasing work from Crucible students, faculty + staff ★ Beautiful handmade art for sale by Crucible artists ★ Eye popping discounts on Crucible classes ★ Bicycles for sale in The Crucible's Bike Shop ★ Tasty food and drink ★ Chances to win free tuition for a Crucible class!

Opening reception Sat, April 7, 5pm - 8pm; Exhibit April 7 - 28, 11am to 6pm Tues-Sat

Artist Reception: Saturday April 7, 2012 from 5-8pm

Varnish Fine Art is proud to present another Lee Ballard curated group exhibit featuring the contemporary fine artwork of 18+ illustrators from the sci-fi/fantasy comics realm including Barron Storey and Rick Berry, two of the most influential American illustrators alive today.

The Have and Have Not Group Show features fine artworks of various media by Jon Wayshak, Rick Berry, Robert Bowen, Kyoshi Nakazawa, Brad Isdrab, Morning Breath/Doug Cunningham, Scott Cambell, Lucien Shapiro, Barron Storey, Shelly Wan, Sam Keith, Lee Ballard, Ian Ameling, Rogelio Martinez and Eidolon Crew. Opening reception Sat, April 7, 5pm - 8pm; Exhibit April 7 - 28, 11am to 6pm Tues-Sat.

MORE INFO: Jen Rogers ** http://www.varnishfineart.com ** Q <at> varnishfineart.com ** 415-433-4400 Presented by Varnish Fine Art

On Saturday, April 7, ATA Gallery's flagship exhibition series OTHER CINEMA presents musicologist John Smalley’s enlightening lecture-demo John Cage and the Spirit of Dada, examining Cage in relation to collage and experimental techniques pioneered by the Dadaists and Constructivists. Embedding copious Cage musical clips and documentary excerpts, John also explores the complex exchanges with other avant-gardists such as Duchamp, Satie, Ono, La Monte Young, and the Fluxus circle.

ALSO: Jon Roy flies in from Atlanta to introduce his in-progress Bitter Music, on another beloved “hobohemian,” Harry Partch. Doc sequences and a historic newsreel from Mills College flesh out Roy’s tribute.

_________________________________________________________________ JOHN SMALLEY, a native of San Francisco, holds advanced degrees in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, where he taught for six years. A researcher of music’s intersections with literature, art, film, and philosophy, he has lectured and performed as a vocal soloist throughout the Bay Area and was awarded a prestigious Shenson Performing Arts Fellowship in 2009.

JON ROY is filmmaker, visual artist, and a composer. He maintains the blog newdissonance.com with other composers.

DJ TRIPP's BIRTHDAY BOOTIE! - http://bass211.com Bootie's resident DJ celebrates his b-day with a special prime time set

------------------------------------------- Also celebrating a birthday! DJ JAY-R - http://soundcloud.com/djjayr

------------------------------------------- Midnight Mashup Show: SYLPHIE Aerial hoops performer from: VAU DE VIRE SOCIETY - http://vaudeviresociety.com -------------------------------------------

Upstairs room: Rare disco-funk with DJ BUS STATION JOHN (Tubesteak Connection) - http://auntcharlieslounge.com/html/tubsteak.htm -------------------------------------------

Opening DJ: DADA -------------------------------------------

Hosted by: YA-YA -------------------------------------------

FREE Bootie mashup CDs to the first 100 people through the door! $10 before 10pm, $20 cover, 21+ w/ID -------------------------------------------

$15 advance tickets -- SKIP THE LINE! Available at: http://dnalounge.com/tickets/bootiesf -------------------------------------------

http://BootieSF.com Everyone loves a birthday at Bootie, and no one more so than resident DJ Tripp, who will be celebrating his B-Day Bootie for the 7th year in a row with a special prime-time set! Also celebrating a birthday will be fellow b-day boy DJ Jay-R, spinning on the main floor into the late night, while DJ Dada gets the night kicked off in style!

For the Midnight Mashup Show, Vau de Vire Society continues its Bootie residency with an aerial hoops performance from the amazing Sylphie. And in the upstairs room, DJ Bus Station John returns with the same rare vintage disco-funk records he plays at Tubesteak Connection, his long-running Thursday night party at Aunt Charlie's in the Tenderloin

Pictures + Words: The Artist Series.

March 26, 2012: On Sunday, April 8, the Bay Area Free Book Exchange launches Pictures + Words: The Artist Series. Curated by El Cerrito artist Philip King, this will be an exhibition in three parts by local artists taking an opportunity to liberate the words: “book,” “free,” and “exchange,” as a new way to display their work. The series launches with After Wyoming, a response to “Book,” by Richmond printmaker and book artist Michelle Wilson. The Bay Area Free Book Exchange is located at 10520 San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito, and is open every weekend from 9AM-6PM. A reception will be held on April 8, from 2-5 PM, where visitors will be able to enjoy food and drink, see the art, and help themselves to the free books. All activities are free and open to the public.

The quiet materiality of Wilson’s work includes a sense of the time taken making it, making her own paper and carving blocks to print her imagery. Like so much of the best contemporary artwork it brings with it its own lucid conscience, and a sense of story. As a book artist, Wilson has chosen to liberate her visual narratives from their bindings, and instead presents a series of “pages,” in a nonlinear sequence of events. Wilson was recently an Artist-In-Residence at Jentel Arts, an arts residency program in Sheridan, Wyoming. After Wyoming is her response to her time there and experiences since returning.

Pictures + Words: The Artist Series continues in May with paintings by Philip King, followed by the collected images of Timonthy Buckwalter. All the artists live and work in the East Bay.

The Bay Area Free Book Exchange was established May 17, 2009. It was created and is run cooperatively by local book sellers/book lovers who process thousands of books every month. They thus continually stock the shelves of the Free Book Exchange. All the books on all the shelves are available to the public free of charge. It is an ever-changing treasure hunt among thousands of books. Open Every Weekend Saturday + Sunday 9am-6pm. For information on the artist series please contact: Michelle Wilson at michelle <at> michellewilsonprojects.com.

Date: Sunday April 8th and 29th, 2012 at 6:15 pm

Sultry Spanish nights, The citrus groves of Andalucia. If the Iberian Peninsula gets your heart racing, then brace yourself for a night with Carolina Lugo's + Carolé Acuña's Ballet Flamenco. Indulge your inner Carmen, Pachamam's well worn hardwood floors resonate with the pulsating sounds of footwork, song, castanets, syncopated hand clapping and guitar. Carolina Lugo and her daughter Carolé Acuña and their company of Flamenco musicians and dancers paint a visual canvas in movement through dance for a very special evening of entertainment. If you have not seen this group in one of it's many Concert Hall performances, this is an opportunity to experience their high energy and passion for their art that defines a new dimension in Flamenco and Spanish dance traditions.

Best to arrive 30 minutes before show times for seating. Allow for traffic and parking which is available next door or across the street.

Contact Carolina Lugo for additional information about classes, workshops, and bookings at 925-939-7850 /carolinalugo1 <at> msn.com or visit her website at www.carolinalugo.com

For additional information please contact Manager Richard Tonkin 510-504-4448

MONKS: The Transatlantic Feedback Directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdoZC105B70 More Info:

The monks were 5 American GI's in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, heavy metal, punk and techno music.

The genre-overlapping documentary film not only illustrates the pop music phenomenon in its political, social and cultural-historic contexts, but also reveals the monks project as the first marriage of art and popular music, months before Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.

Plus Shorts...

Cloven Hoofed Directed by Dietmar Post

Crime+Punishment By Stephen Parr / Oddball Films

FREE Pub Crawl! FREE to enter Rock Paper Scissors Tournament! PRIZE: Tournament champion wins $100 bar tab! DRINK SPECIAL: Get drink tix at the first bar so that all wells + premium beers are $3.50 throughout the night. DRESS TO COMPETE: Prizes for best athletic wear.

--> Compete in Rock Paper Scissors tournament qualifying rounds while moving from bar to bar. Meet new people while earning points to compete in the finals at the last bar. --> Top players from qualifying rounds along with several wild card players compete at the final bar. Champion receives $100 in bar tabs! --> Soul/Funk/Old School Dance Party following tournament.

'Like' us on Facebook *and* RSVP you're attending in order to receive a '2ND CHANCE' game card - used to replay a game if you lose! This will help you get one step closer to the $100 bar tab prize!

LIKE US HERE: https://www.facebook.com/beerpubcrawl

RSVP HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/175140762606215/

WHEN: Wednesday, April 11th (and continuing weekly on Wednesdays) WHERE: First bar is MONROE - 473 Broadway St, SF TIME: Signup at 8:30PM. Arrive by 9pm to compete in the rock paper scissors tournament. Pub crawlers/non-tournament players also welcome.

Follow us on twitter to follow pub crawl locations: https://twitter.com/#!/SFBeerOlympics

This event is endorsed by the World RPS Society. We will be using their Official Rules of RPS Play, available on their website: http://worldrps.com/game-basics

No purchase necessary. Must be 21+

The Arts at CIIS, in collaboration with ATA, presents MENA Experimental, an ongoing occasional series featuring experimental film and new media from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. This first evening includes recent short films and videos from emerging and established international artists, live music during intermission, and a reception.

The program's first half explores forms of intimate relationships in both social and private spaces. The films in the second half explore the ethics of looking at images of suffering and war.

The San Francisco Arab Film Festival is a community co-sponsor.

MORE INFO: http://www.ciis.edu/arts ** arts <at> ciis.edu ** 415-575-6242 Presented by The Arts at CIIS

10 Connect :: A group show of ten artists Show dates: April 13 - May 25, 2012 Opening reception 2nd Friday, April 13, 2012 6 - 9pm Closing party/reception: May 25, 2012 6 - 9pm Weekend dates: Saturdays from 2 - 6 pm and by appointment This event is free and open to the public.

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first live-work building for artists in Oakland’s Jingletown Community. 10 Connect, an exhibition at Gray Loft Gallery, shows the remarkable work of ten artists who helped pave the way for a distinctive, flourishing arts community. The artists featured in 10 Connect - all women - have all been or currently are residents of the original building.

In addition to carving physical spaces in which to work, artist communities forge relationships that encourage the commitment needed to make art. The artists showcased in 10 Connect bring to the exhibition three decades of this type of shared support, while maintaining a diversity of style, medium and philosophy. The group participates in informal critiques and discussions that afford the opportunity for each artist to not only develop her unique visual language, but also allay feelings of isolation correlated (by virtue of the solitude necessary to work) with being an artist. 10 Connect will therefore examine how enduring friendships shape creative practice and determine both the physical and abstract places where artwork finds home. Further, 10 Connect investigates an ongoing, intellectual sense of place and explores how these friendships inform the work of these women artists.

While each artist is accomplished in her own right and works from an individual identity, 10 Connect will speak to the significant role that the renowned Jingletown Community has had on these ten artists living and working in the Bay Area. This group show will include work from:

Suzy Barnard, painting Ruth Boerefijn, mixed media installation Leslie Frierman Grunditz, painting and mixed media Lynn McGeever, painting Susan Moyski, sculpture Susan Parish, sculpture Amy Sollins, drawing Andrea Voinot, painting Jan Watten, photography Karyn Yandow, photography

About The Gray Loft Gallery The Gray Loft Gallery celebrates the phenomenal achievements of emerging and established artists, with an emphasis on those who live and work in the Bay Area. The newly-opened Gray Loft Gallery is a unique venue located on the 3rd floor of one of Oakland’s oldest warehouses.

Todd Thomas Brown The Biology of Ancestry in the Making of Now Mixed Media Works

April 13 - June 3, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 2012, 6:30-8:30pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 1-5pm

The Biology of Ancestry in the Making of Now is a recent series of mixed-media paintings that explores the interweave between past and present, biology and identity. How do our ancestors live through us, and how do we remake ourselves anew? About his art, Todd Thomas Brown writes, “I am the living sum and dynamic of my ancestors before me, a complex and nearly indefinable amalgamation of characteristics that have travelled and mutated across time, from one organism into the next. My work maps a personal search into the intricacies of identity, informed through a poetic inquiry into idea of personal biology. Past and present are superimposed, the social-political realities of today are interwoven with an immensity of personal histories of all who came before. How do we live with the many of who we are?”

Todd Thomas Brown is a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California. He is the founder of the Red Poppy Art House and the Mission Arts + Performance Project (MAPP), and is an advisor for EDELO artist space in Chiapas, Mexico. Brown has been awarded grants from the San Francisco Foundation and Zellerbach Family Foundation for his work with music ensemble Nefasha Ayer. He was among the first three artists to be selected for an experimental Artist Fellowship program at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation’s Innovation Fund. Brown’s large-scale mixed-media works have been exhibited across the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, and Peru.

On Saturday, April 14 at 11 am, new life will be breathed into a classic children’s book. The Saint Michael Quartet will perform an updated version of composer Glen Roven’s musical adaptation of the book The Runaway Bunny. Also participating will be Montalvo Executive Director Angela McConnell, who will narrate the performance. The show is presented as part of Montalvo’s Family Performing Arts Series.

A touching allegory of the boundless love mothers have for their children, The Runaway Bunny is one of the most popular picture books of all time. Originally written in 1942 by prolific author Margaret Wise Brown - who also wrote the classic Goodnight Moon - it tells the story of a restless baby rabbit who wants to run away, and his mother who assures him that no matter how far he goes or how elaborately he disguises himself, he will always be her little bunny. The Runaway Bunny has been continuously in print for the past 70 years, and has been translated into 23 different languages, including Japanese, Hebrew, and French.

Drawing inspiration from Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, four-time Emmy-winning composer Glen Roven decided to create a classical music adaptation of The Runaway Bunny,

featuring a full orchestra, solo violin, and narrator. The piece, which was recorded in 2005 for the Sony/BMG label by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Brooke Shields as narrator, made its Carnegie Hall premier in 2008. It has since been performed at venues all over the United States and Canada. Now, Roven has reworked the piece for piano trio, giving it what he has described as “a fresh, contemporary feeling.” The upcoming performance at Montalvo will be the debut of the modified composition.

The Saint Michael Trio, which will perform Roven’s brand new arrangement, is a nationally renowned, locally based chamber recital group. Members Russell Hancock, Daniel Cher, and Michel Flexer are each highly accomplished musicians who balance their passion for classical music with demanding day-jobs in Silicon Valley: Hancock is President and CEO of a nonprofit economic advocacy and analysis group; Cher is a medical doctor and scientific researcher; and Flexer is a software engineer and serial entrepreneur. In addition to virtuoso musical ability, the group is best known for engaging performances blending lighthearted humor with serious education.

Angela McConnell has been Executive Director of Montalvo since 2008. Her arrival has corresponded with a period of renewed purpose and ambitious expansion for the institution. A mother of three, she fondly recalls reading The Runaway Bunny to her children when they were small. She looks forward to bringing the story to life for new audiences.

About TEDxHultBusinessSchoolSF

TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading". The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.

MORE INFO: Marjan Mohsenin ** http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4417 ** Marjan.Mohsenin <at> hult.edu ** 415-216-6229 Presented by Hult International Business School

Where is your truck GrilledCheezGuy?

Where is your place GrilledCheezGuy?

Where are you GrilledCheezGuy?

I feel your pain. I still remain that legendary sandwich you have heard about here and there. We have gone far and wide but still remain without ever having a real home.

Well April 14th you get to see what it would be like if we did. For one night, during the month of National Grilled Cheese month, I will be doing one night of full service a la cart cheesing. I am happy to partner up once again with my friends at Old Skool Cafe. Service will be provided by the wonderful young men and women that work with Old Skool Cafe.

Not only are you getting your grilled cheese you love, you also are going to get to sit down and enjoy my 4 sandwiches being entered into the National Grilled Cheese Invitational before anyone else does! The menu will be reveaied 2 weeks prior to event.

Why do you never have fried pickles GrilledCheezGuy??!

I know! I feel your pain. Here is the good news!

There will be GUARANTEED FRIED PICKLES BEING ROCKED ALL NIGHT. We are talking our all new recipe of spicy home-made dill pickles with our amazing aioli!

For all you devout pickle lovers, and there are a lot of you out there, we will still be serving the pickles on ice to give you that ying to your grilled cheese's yummy yang.

To try and maintain order to our night, we are taking reservatoins via eventbrite. We will be serving 2 seatings for the evening at 5:30 and 8:00 pm. We will also accept walk-ins if we do not sell out of the 2 slots.

Come join me in hopes of going and winning a possible 4 more trophies to add to my 5X record! I am proud to bring back more trophies to the bay area and brie-yond!

Email at mike.davidson1 <at> gmail.com

NON STOP BHANGRA #80 UNDER ONE ROOF--A MASSIVE GLOBAL EVENT! BHANGRA, BOLLYWOOD, + BASS

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012 Public Works (Main Room) 161 Erie Street San Francisco

21+

Pre-Sale: $10 / Door: $15 ***cash only bar Purchase Tickets: http://nsb80.eventbrite.com/

Time: 9:00pm-4:00am Bhangra Lesson: 9:30pm Dholrhythms Dance Company: 10:00pm Non Stop Bhangra DJ Sets: 10:30pm-1:00am Late Night Bollywood Sets: 1:00am-close

NON STOP BHANGRA MEETS HOOKAHDOME:

After three months of full capacity shows at Public Works, Non Stop Bhangra teams up with legendary Burning Man camp Hookahdome, taking over the full venue to bring one of the biggest shows of this spring to Bay Area. Bridging the gap between the bass driven desert sounds of the Playa and the infectious energy of Bhangra, the venue will open both floors to bring the two sounds together for the first time ever. In the main room, Non Stop Bhangra will be mixing it up with some of the hottest Bollywood Dj's on the West Coast, getting your shoulders and heart pumping to the Bhangra beats than dancing deep into the night with a mesh of Bollywood club hits.

As always, the night begins with its ritual Bhangra dance lesson and performances by the beautiful ladies of the Dholrhythms Dance Company. Upstairs loft will be featuring the cream of the crop from the Hookahdome family while celebrating a CD Release Party for Jef Stott's "Arcana" (Six Degree Records). Guest artists this month will include Kush Arora, Drumspyder, Dulce Vita from Opulent Temple, as well as Bollywood Dj's Prashant (Portland) and Dj Percaution. Enhancing the experience, Amar will be mixing visuals across three screens while Marcus Murray brushes a new creation with his live painting. Adding to the visual feast will be mesmerizing Belly Dancers and Go Go Dancers in the upstairs loft. If Under One Roof was not already epic enough, a festive scene outside will include Kasa Indian Food truck and the Hookah Lounge teleported from the Playa to SF. This is guaranteed to be one massive party with endless energy, killer beats and non stop fun! Don't miss it!

Sunday April 15, 1:00-3:00 PM

Free Special Family Celebration, Sunday, April 15, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, at The San Francisco Botanical Garden Society's Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture to celebrate our library's expanded children's services.

Enjoy special Story Time readings with our most popular kids' picture books, explore our unique children's book collection consisting of over 1,600 books (and growing). Dig into a dirt cake! Take a guided family tour of the garden in full bloom with spring flowers at their best including our magnificent magnolias. Sunday April 15, 1:00-3:00 PM.

MORE INFO: Lia Thomas ** http://sfbotanicalgarden.org/mailings/12-0314-library.html ** 415-661-1316 x403 Presented by The San Francisco Botanical Garden Society

Hailing from the Bay Area, the internationally-acclaimed Red Hot Chachkas infuse the klezmer tradition of Eastern European Yiddish music with jazz, rock, old time, classical and Latin influences in their original compositions, arrangements and improvisations.

Their contagious musical performances inspire and transform audiences and their hot sound and upbeat tempo gets folks on the dance floor.

Led by bandleader and classical violinist Julie Egger, the seasoned musicians draw on disparate influences and backgrounds, including soulful Barbara Speed (clarinet), Diana Strong (accordion), bluegrass Tony Phillips (mandolin), jazzy Breck Diebel (bass), and rockin' Michael Arrow (drums).

MORE INFO: http://www.paloaltojcc.org ** info <at> paloaltojcc.org ** 650-233-8700 Presented by The Oshman Family JCC

Sabine Breitwieser will be speaking on "Media Bichos and other Displays for Engaging People to Watch Videos in the Museum"

Curator, author, and lecturer Sabine Breitwieser was appointed the Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, NY in 2010. From 1988 to 2007, she served as founding Director and Curator of the Generali Foundation, a public contemporary art museum in Vienna. She is also Secretary and Treasurer of CIMAM-the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. Ms. Breitwieser holds a Doctor Juris from the University of Vienna, and studied law at the Johannes-Kepler-University Linz.

MORE INFO: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu ** info.bcnm <at> berkeley.edu ** 510-495-3505 Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media/Art Techonology + Culture Colloquium [ATC]

What are emotion, purpose, and meaning? UC Berkeley neuroscientist Terrence Deacon describes great strides toward understanding CONSCIOUSNESS. Prof. Deacon's presentation will focus on the central idea of his new book, "Incomplete Nature," namely that key elements of consciousness (values, feelings, meanings, etc.) emerge from specific CONSTRAINTS on the physical processes of a nervous system. "Incomplete Nature" is the inaugural selection of the brand new Wonderfest Book Club.

MORE INFO: Tucker Hiatt ** http://wonderfest.org/incomplete-nature/ ** tucker <at> wonderfest.org Presented by Wonderfest + Ask a Scientist

The 2012 SkeptiCal Science + Skepticism Conference brings science and critical thinking to Northern California. The plenary speakers are:

* Dr. Alison Gopnik on "The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life" * Dr. Sarah Strand on "The Neurobiology of Religious Experience" * Dr. Indre Viskontas on "The Allure of Mystery: Why Debunking Often Falls Flat" * Dr. Alex Zwissler on "How Do We Know What to Believe?"

Other presentations include a mentalism performance, a homeopathy challenge, and a live podcast recording of This Week In Science.

You can hear the experts and embrace the controversies at SkeptiCal 2012. Please join us!

MORE INFO: http://www.skepticalcon.org/ Presented by Bay Area Skeptics and Sacramento Area Skeptics

Grab some popcorn, pull up a chair, and catch some of the city's hottest dance artists at the 11th installment of RAWdance's CONCEPT series, an informal and intimate salon of contemporary dance. This biannual salon offers a diverse sampling of the Bay Area's exceptional dance talent.

RAWdance will perform excerpts from a work-in-progress installation inspired by the battles over the regulation of intimacy and marriage, which is slated to premiere in UN Plaza in June. The company’s co-directors Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith will also revive their October 2011 duet, "A Public Affair", created for Orson Restaurant and described as “visionary dance at its best” by Critical Dance.

RAWdance will be joined by Erin Mei-Ling Stuart’s Goldie Award winning EmSpace Dance, with early investigations into a piece about primates and prayer that is set to premiere in 2013. (This little morsel is the story of a girl who lost her tail.) Also sharing works-in-progress, Christy Funsch offers her latest solo, HammerHorse, pairing work (relentless phrasing) and play (fantastical imaginings), in equal amounts, and David Martinez presents a solo for dance powerhouse Chin-chin Hsu. Breton Tyner-Bryan, performer with Deborah Slater Dance Theater and PUSH dance company and instructor at Alonzo King’s LINES Dance Center, will share an excerpted quintet. “Break the Mold”, originally commissioned by the LINES Dance Center, will be re-envisioned for the intimate Sanchez Street space. Rounding out the program, San Jose’s Dominic V. Duong will revisit Exurgency, winner of the "Audience Choice Award" at the 2009 sjDANCEco ChoreoProject Awards and finalist at ODC Theater’s 2011 A.W.A.R.D. Show.

- “RAWdance's "Concept" series…is an emotionally and intellectually satisfying way to tune into recent Bay Area choreography.” - Dance View

- "[RAWdance's CONCEPT series] is bound to be the quintessential San Francisco experience of traveling to a new neighborhood and discovering a hidden jewel in the city." - Bay Area Reporter

- "Every iteration of "the CONCEPT" brings something new, so prepare to be surprised." - SF Weekly

Come experience a strange and beautiful centuries-old singing tradition!

Sacred Harp is an 'a capella' tradition of group part singing which features eerie harmonies and poetic religious lyrics (though not all singers are religious, especially on the West Coast - so no Christianity is required). The songs focus on topics like the inevitability of death, love and salvation, and the approaching apocalypse. Singers split into four groups based on their vocal range, and all four groups sing at the top of their lungs, guided from the center by a rotating 'leader'.

Though Sacred Harp is hard to describe, Rolling Stone called it a "robust, harmonically intricate blend of country joy and unearthly drone". Join us! No singing or music experience is necessary - Sacred Harp is a great way to learn to read music, because the hymn book uses "shape notes" instead of the traditional circles.

Note: this is not a concert! Sacred Harp is a group experience. If you'd just like to listen, that's ok - but you'll be encouraged to borrow a hymn book (there will be some available) so you can sit with the singers and follow along.

Though Sacred Harp singings occur regularly in the Bay Area (www.fasola.org for more information) this weekend's events are special:

On Saturday, April 21st, from 1-4pm, there will be a traditional "Singing School" at which beginners (or even experienced singers) are guided through the basics of Sacred Harp singing. It will be held at All Saints’ Chapel, 2451 Ridge Rd, in Berkeley, for a $5-10 donation (no-one turned away for lack of funds).

Sunday, April 22nd, is the 8th Annual Golden Gate All-Day Sacred Harp Singing, from 9-3pm, at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro St <at> Southern Heights. The event, a rare chance to hear the full glory of Sacred Harp as sung by a large number of people, is free; it includes a noon potluck to which attendees are encouraged but not required to contribute.

Email juliandamashek (at) gmail.com for more information.