Gallery Exhibit – Michael McConnell and Aaron Petersen
Braunstein/Quay Gallery
July
Experience McConnell’s exploration of the tensions between youth and maturity, and Petersen’s work that combines areas of dense activity with those of sublimely washed veils of color.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/278-9850.
Gallery Exhibit – From Richie Rich to Wendy the Witch: The Art of Harvey Comics
Cartoon Arty Museum
July
Celebrate the art and characters created and/or popularized by Harvey including Casper, The Friendly Ghost; Wendy, The Good Little Witch; Richie Rich, The Poor Little Rich Boy; Hot Stuff, The Little Devil; Sad Sack; Joe Palooka; Little Dot; Little Audrey; Little Lotta, and many more.
Cost – $6 General/Senior/Student, $4 Children 6-12 years, $2 Members
For more information call 415/227-8666 ext. 314.
Gallery Exhibit – Margaret Fitzgerald & Ediko Holman
Chandler Fine Art and Framing
July
Find inspiration in Fitzgerald’s Palimpsest Paintings, abstracts that simultaneously exude both calmness and energy, and Ediko Holman’s Raku Vessels, a collection of hand-built, raku ceramic vessels.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/546-1113.
Event – Summer Frame Sale
Chandler Fine Art and Framing
July
Receive 20% off of all custom framing through August 30th for any Yerba Buena Alliance member. Mention promotion at the time of order.
Cost – 20% discount
For more information call 415/546-1113.
Event – Farm to Table Tasting Menu
Luce
July, Sunday evenings
Celebrate summer with Chef de Cuisine Dominique Crenn as she showcases her appreciation for local farmers, ranchers and fishermen by presenting the Sunday Supper tasting menu. Each evening's menu is inspired by Crenn's Saturday pilgrimages to the local farmers market, making for a different presentation of ingredients and flavors each week.
Cost – 4-course supper is $45 per person, $65 with wine pairing
For more information or to make a reservation call 415/616-6566.
Gallery Exhibit – Mind Over Metal: Beasley, Meadmore, Price and Tsutakawa
Sculpturesite Gallery
July
Visit Mind Over Metal, an exhibition of the work of four nationally and internationally recognized sculptors who use steel and bronze to create dynamic abstract sculpture. The late Clement Meadmore, renowned Bay Area artist Bruce Beasley, Southern California based artist Bret Price and Gerard Tsutakawa of the Pacific Northwest, will present work. Cost – Free
For more information call 415/495-6400.
Gallery Exhibit – The Streets of San Francisco
The Society of California Pioneers
July
Learn the identities of those individuals whose names are perpetuated in asphalt and concrete. The exhibit incorporates maps, photographs, prints, and artifacts that recall San Francisco’s transformation from mission outpost to instant metropolis as well as the people who made significant contributions to the life of the community.
Cost – $5 General, $2.50 Seniors/Students
For more information call 415/957-1849.
Performing Arts – Oh My Godmother!
Zeum
July, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 8pm; Sundays 3pm
Fresh off a series of sold-out runs, Ron Lytle's unstoppable musical comedy Oh My Godmother!, a campy, boisterous retelling of the Cinderella story, is not to be missed. Lots of zany humor, snappy dialogue, syncopated showstoppers, and soaring romance makes this the #1 musical to see this summer in San Francisco.
Cost – Thursday $25, Friday and Saturday $35, Sunday $30
For more information call 800/838-3006.
Film/Video – Mysterious Objects: The Short Films of Api Chatpong Weerasethakul
YBCA
July 3, 7:30 pm
July 6, 2:00 pm
Witness a captivating and unpredictable body of work, very little of which has been accessible until now, that sheds new light on an artist known as one of the most radically original filmmakers around.
Cost – $8 General, $6 Members/Seniors/Students/Teachers
For more information call 415/978-2787.
Performing Arts – Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 3, 12:30-1:30pm
Groove to this annual audience favorite! These young people both compose and perform with flair and total poise that belies their youth.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Film/Video – Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
SFMOMA
July 5-26, see website for schedule
View the film of Jean Cocteau, said to exemplify the surrealist movement in France. Nowhere is this truer than in his so-called Orphic Trilogy—three films inspired by the figure of Orpheus, the poet and musician of ancient mythology. For today’s viewer, the trilogy opens doors to Cocteau’s incomparable poetic consciousness.
Cost – $5 General, Free to Member and with museum admission
For more information call 415/357-4000.
Performing Arts – Children’s Garden Series: Venezuelan Music Project
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 5, 11am and 12:15pm
Spend time in the sun with interactive performing arts designed to delight children under 10 and their adults. Combining Indigenous-Venezuelan, West African and Spanish-European influences, VMP is a dynamic ensemble full of vibrancy, energy and color.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Event – The Family Studio: Animal Estates
SFMOMA
July 6, 11am-3pm
Working with special guest artist Fritz Haeg as part of his Animal Estates 5.0: San Francisco project, these Family Studios focus on creating model homes for the California slender salamander; includes an animal-inspired garment-making workshop.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/357-4000.
Performing Arts – Merola's Schwabacher Summer Concert
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 6, 2-4pm
Bring your friends and family to enjoy the perfect opera experience with cool grass underfoot and the sun overhead. Artists from the acclaimed Merola Opera Program will perform semi-staged, extended excerpts from I Pagliacci, La Traviata, Manon and Don Pasquale. Bring a picnic, sunscreen and see and hear tomorrow’s opera stars with a full orchestra!
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Gallery Exhibit – Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art
SFMOMA
Opens July 10
This thematic selection of approximately 50 paintings, sculptures, and installations spanning 1987 to 2007 brings into focus an underlying subject common among Chinese artists of the post-Mao era: their exploration of personal dream-states in relation to the collective state dream.
Cost – $12.50 General, $8 Senior, $7 Student, Free to Members
For more information call 415/357-4000.
Party – Artist Reception for Eunkang Koh and Michelle Knox
Varnish Fine Art
July 10, 6-9pm
Celebrate the 2-artist show of recent works by metal and glass sculptor Michelle Knox and goache and ink artist Eunkang Koh. Both Koh and Knox approach the landscape of our reality from a tranquil center. Each artist has shown extensively, but this show marks the debut of Knox and Koh at Varnish Fine Art.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/222-6131.
Film/Video – Cinekink
YBCA
July 10-12, see website for complete schedule
Cinekink is an NY-based organization that encourages the positive depiction of alternative sexuality through its annual film festival. With offerings drawn from Hollywood and beyond, works presented at the festival range from documentary, drama, camp, comedy, hot porn and everything in between.
Cost – $8 General, $6 Members/Seniors/Students/Teachers
For more information call 415/978-2787.
Performing Arts – Patrick Ball
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 10, 12:30-1:30pm
Playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland and telling marvelous tales of wit and enchantment, legendary harpist Patrick Ball not only brings new life to two cherished traditions, but blends them in concert to create a richly theatrical and hauntingly beautiful performance.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Performing Arts – Children’s Garden Series: The Unique Derique
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 11, 19 at 11am and 12:15pm
Spend time in the sun with interactive performing arts designed to delight children under 10 and their adults. Turning his agile limbs into a drum set or a harpsichord keyboard, the unique Derique delights audiences of all ages.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Event – Family Activity Day
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
July 12, 12-4pm
Hand-print your own red, white, and blue pinwheel, then try it out on Yerba Buena Lane! Author and curator Kit Hinrichs will also sign copies of his latest book, 100 American Flags: A Unique Collection of Old Glory Memorabilia, which is available for purchase in our Museum Store.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/227-4888.
Performing Arts – Children’s Garden Series: Balamcoatl, Mesoamerican Music & Dance
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 12, 12-1pm
Spend time in the sun with interactive performing arts designed to delight children under 10 and their adults. Balamcoatl takes audiences on a journey of movement and experimental sound from the South to the North of Mexico, using traditional regional costumes and instruments.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Performing Arts – The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 12, 1-2:30pm
Featuring Shelby’s Peaceable Kingdom, the program provides a musical exploration of the individual instruments of the jazz orchestra and their roles as well as the larger sections of reed, brass and rhythm instruments, allowing the audience to compare this structure to that of a classical orchestra.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Performing Arts – San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Red State
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 13, 2pm
Fasten your seatbelts for another wild and thought-provoking ride with the world-renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe, featuring the ensemble’s annual new musical addressing contemporary America, Red State.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Event – Immigration at the Golden Gate: Book Talk and Signing by Robert Barde
California Historical Society
July 17, 6-8pm
Hear Barde read his account of a Chinese female immigrant’s 20-month detention on Angel Island, part of the Chinese immigration experience in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her tale is chillingly relevant to today’s debates over exclusion and detention.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/357-1848.
Discussion – William Steig and the World of The New Yorker
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
July 17, 7pm
Join Robert Mankoff and Owen Smith from The New Yorker for a panel discussion on the “serious” issue of cartooning in the nation’s most prestigious magazine and the work of William Steig. Filmmaker Leah Wolchok will present a teaser from her forthcoming documentary on The New Yorker cartoonists. Co-sponsored by the Cartoon Art Museum.
Cost -- $12 General, $8 Members
For more information call 415/655-7837.
Seminar – Learning from Frida Kahlo: Exploring Issues of Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art
UC Berkeley Extension
5 meetings July 17 to Aug. 14, Thursdays 6:30-9:30 pm
Taking the work of Frida Kahlo as its starting point, this course explores how other artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries tackle themes of identity. Kahlo is positioned within a broader context of art history, using this expanded field as a means of defining the ways in which art reflects and constructs our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.
Cost – $295
For more information or to enroll call 510/642-4111 and refer to EDP 014985.
Film/Video – A Listener’s Tale, by Arghya Basu
YBCA
July 17, 7:30pm
July 20, 1pm
A surprise discovery at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, this is a meditative, non-fiction visual poem shot among the people of Sikkim in a North-Eastern state of India.
Cost – $8 General, $6 Members/Seniors/Students/Teachers
For more information call 415/978-2787.
Performing Arts – The Nice Guy Trio
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 17, 12:30-1:30pm
What do a trumpeter, an accordionist, and a bassist have in common? They’re Nice Guys! Together, they create a sound that is intimate and spontaneous as they navigate through a uniquely diverse collection of original compositions and songs from folk traditions around the globe.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Event – From the Horse’s Mouth: Comics Read by Their Creators
Cartoon Art Museum
July 18, 7-9pm
Join fellow comic enthusiasts for an eclectic line-up of small-press cartoonists who will read from their respective works, accompanied by a special PowerPoint presentation. All funds raised benefit Zine Fest, a vital annual showcase of the diversity, vitality and ongoing exuberance of the small-press movement.
Cost – $5 Suggested Donation
For more information call 415/227-8666 ext. 314.
Performing Arts – Children’s Garden Series: California Sing-Along with Charlie Chin
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 18, 11am and 12:15pm
Join folksinger Charlie Chin as he plays the guitar and banjo, taking us on a sing-along journey through California history. You'll visit the Gold Rush, the building of the Trans-continental Railroad, pass through the Golden Gate and find your hearts in San Francisco.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Gallery Exhibit – Bay Area Now 5
YBCA
Opens July 19
Immerse yourself in the art created by the twenty-one BAN 5 visual artists who consider questions around how to re-imagine a regional survey in the midst of globalization. The survey exhibition explores the many ways artists are influenced by their experiences both inside and outside of the Bay Area.
Cost – $7 General, $5 Seniors/Students/Teachers, Free for Members
For more information call 415/978-2787.
Performing Arts – Yosvany Terry: Ye-dé-gbé, The Afro Caribbean Legacy
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 19, 1-3pm
Learn about Ye-dé-bgé, or “with the approval of the spirits” in the West African language Fon. Composer/musician Yosvany Terry consciously communicates his African and Cuban lineage through sounds that originated in Africa and inspired new music in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Event – The Family Studio: Animal Estates
SFMOMA
July 20, 11am-3pm
Working with special guest artist Fritz Haeg as part of his Animal Estates 5.0: San Francisco project, these Family Studios focus on creating model homes for the California the peregrine falcon; includes an animal movement workshop.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/357-4000.
Performing Arts – TODCO Poets
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 22, 12:30-1:30pm
Proving that creativity is ageless, the TODCO Poets wax eloquent on romance, sex, friendships, family, politics, aging and other topics that have occupied poets since time immemorial. Hear them recite their original work in a beautiful garden setting.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Performing Arts – The Stairwell Sisters
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 24, 12:30-1:30
Rock out to acoustic old-timey music with a "punk rock intensity.” The Stairwell Sisters have appeared on stages from the nationally syndicated radio show A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center (NYC), Celtic Connections (UK), Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (SF) and many points in between.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Performing Arts – Children’s Garden Series: Chelle! & Friends
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 25, 11am and 12:15m
Spend time in the sun with interactive performing arts designed to delight children under 10 and their adults. Chelle! & Friends perform music from New Orleans, one of the most musical, fun-loving cities in the world.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Performing Arts – San Francisco Theater Festival
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 27, 11am-5pm
Celebrate the Bay Area’s lively theater world with this colorful and exciting festival of short performances by over 100 theater companies and solo artists on 14 outdoor and indoor stages.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Event – Day of “Transfer and Exchange”
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
July 31, 7pm
Visitors will have a chance to remove a mirror from the installation In The Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, and put in its place a "covenant,” in which the visitor promises to do works of goodwill after leaving the Museum. As a reminder of this promise, each visitor will take home one of the handmade mirrors made exclusively for this installation.
Cost – Free with reserved ticket, see www.thecjm.org
For more information call 415/655-7845.
Performing Arts – Le Jazz Hot
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
July 31, 12:30-1:30pm
Celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s pioneering Hot Club de France, often called Gypsy jazz. Borrowing from the all-string instrumentation of violin, bass and guitar from the original Hot Club, the ensemble breathes new life into the music with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group’s superb guitarist Paul Mehling.
Cost – Free
For more information call 415/543-1718.
Thousands of people visit the Yerba Buena Neighborhood to attend conferences at the Moscone Center each month. To learn more about which conventions are in town please visit their Web site.
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