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Sat, November 21

Chabot Space & Science Center - New Planetarium Show! Tales of the Maya Skies
To celebrate the public debut of the new digital full-dome show, Tales of the Maya Skies, Chabot, in collaboration with community organizations, will host an all-day celebration featuring authentic Maya ...
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
MCCA Day of the Dead: Bring Back the Dead at MCCLA
San Francisco's Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts celebrates Dia de los Muertos with the exhibit Bring Back the Dead with altars and installations by the Rivera Family, Larry Reed, ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $5
Arcega Michael Arcega: The Collaspe at Marx & Zavattero
The solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega presents a multi-dimensional installation that explores a meditative post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Arcega uses humor in his sculptures to deal with episodes of ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Moran A Sense of Place: Location/Inspiration at the de Saisset Museum
The works in this group exhibition represent are executed in a variety of media, most of the pieces represent actual locales that one can find on a map. For some ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: Free
Moby Dick 'Moby Dick' at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
A group of 32 international artists (including Damian Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska, and Richard Serra), working across multiple media (from sculpture to film, video, drawing, and photography), present works ...
Categories: Arts: Literature
Time: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Cost: Free
Go Fukakusa Andrea Higgins - 'Appearance'
For nearly ten years Andrea Higgins has painted conceptual 'portraits' by representing people as textiles from their wardrobes. The paintings are optical, abstract compositions. Every fiber is represented by a ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Cost: Free
Fernando Botero the Abu Ghraib Series
The Latin American artist's collection of paintings and drawings that shows the horrors of prisoner abuse is now on display at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Varies
Paul DeMarinis From Their Studios: Stanford University
This exhibition includes 48 works by 13 artists who teach studio art at Stanford University: Kevin Bean (painting), Matt Kahn (paintings/design), Terry Berlier (sculpture and media), Jan Krawitz (film), Enrique ...
Categories: Arts: Multimedia
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been painting and drawing for as long as he has been writing. This solo exhibition is the first to take a retrospective view, giving insight into Ferlinghetti's ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Cost: Free
Asawa Ruth Asawa: Interstices: Sculpture and Drawings
This exhibit includes Ruth Asawa's crochet wire sculptures and works on paper. For more than forty years, Asawa has pushed her materials (like paper, wire, clay, concrete, fiber, steel, and ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Sendak on Sendak
The man who brought you 'Where the Wild Things Are' tells his life story through a retrospective that includes original watercolors, drawings, and sketches.
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $10
SF Mime Troupe Celebrating 50 Years of the SF Mime Troupe
This exhibit includes photographs, props, costumes, scripts, and other eccentric ephemera culled from the San Francisco Mime Troupe's vast archive. Leading a path to the Yerba Buena exhibit will be ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Cost: $7
Taraneh One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran
Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran (Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Rezavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi) alongside new work ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Pie Ranch Workday and Barn Dance
Every third Saturday of the month Pie Ranch hosts its barn dance and community potluck. For those of you who don't know, Co-founder Jered Lawson helped launch Buy Fresh Buy ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 2:00 PM
Cost: Free
Pumpkin Cooking Contest
Yes, it's another Omnivore Food Contest. This time, make anything with pumpkin or pumpkin seeds, from pie to bread to mole to anything you can think of! Bring your dish ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $5
Cafe Tacuba
The Mexican four-man band celebrates 20 years of music at the Fox Theatre.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $39.50
La Cenerentola
Opera San Jose puts on this rendition of the classic Cinderella tale composed by Gioachino Rossini. Showtimes vary. For details, visit Opera San Jose website.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $52-$91
Lay of the Land
Solo performer Tim Miller explores the 'State of the Queer Union' in his newest production. Show times vary. For details, visit Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $25
8th Annual Salsa Congress
Salsa dancers from all over the world move their hips at three days of performances and workshops. Showtimes vary. For details, visit Salsa Congress website.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $35
A Christmas Story: San Jose Rep
San Jose Repertory stages the classic holiday tale of young Ralphie and his quest for a Red Rider BB Gun. Show times vary. For details visit San Jose Repertory Theatre.
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $36-$62
Boom
Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb tells the story of a gay man who seeks to repopulate the world after the eminent apocalypse and the woman who answers his advertisement. Showtimes vary. ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $31-$51
Exploratorium's 40th Anniversary
Celebrate 40 years of the science museum with enormous bubbles, Tesla Coils and a laboratory for children's toys. Events and times vary. For details, visit the Exploratorium website.
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: All Day Event
Cost: Free
Smuin Smuin Ballet Fall Program at Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Smuin Ballet's Fall Program opens with a world premiere by choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert, accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning group Kronos Quartet's album Pieces of Africa. The program continues with ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $18-$56
Tiny Kushner: Berkeley Rep
The Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote 'Angels in America' now brings us five one-act plays featuring characters like Laura Bush and the queen of Albania. Showtimes very. For details, please ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $13.50-$39.00
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
See the 3,000-year-old 'boy king' Tutankhamun along with over 100 artifacts from his tomb and ancient Egypt in this traveling exhibit.
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $22.50-32.50
Esperanza Spalding San Francisco Jazz Fest
The San Francisco Jazz Festival is a two-week celebration with jazz concerts, from the classic to the avant-garde, gathering the legends of today and the rising stars of tomorrow in ...
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: TBA
Cost: Varies

Sun, November 22

Arcega Michael Arcega: The Collaspe at Marx & Zavattero
The solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega presents a multi-dimensional installation that explores a meditative post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Arcega uses humor in his sculptures to deal with episodes of ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Moran A Sense of Place: Location/Inspiration at the de Saisset Museum
The works in this group exhibition represent are executed in a variety of media, most of the pieces represent actual locales that one can find on a map. For some ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: Free
Go Fukakusa Andrea Higgins - 'Appearance'
For nearly ten years Andrea Higgins has painted conceptual 'portraits' by representing people as textiles from their wardrobes. The paintings are optical, abstract compositions. Every fiber is represented by a ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Cost: Free
Paul DeMarinis From Their Studios: Stanford University
This exhibition includes 48 works by 13 artists who teach studio art at Stanford University: Kevin Bean (painting), Matt Kahn (paintings/design), Terry Berlier (sculpture and media), Jan Krawitz (film), Enrique ...
Categories: Arts: Multimedia
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: Free
Sendak on Sendak
The man who brought you 'Where the Wild Things Are' tells his life story through a retrospective that includes original watercolors, drawings, and sketches.
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: $10
Soul Sunday Brunch
Farmerbrown is about supporting local and African-American farmers, using organic, biodynamic, and/or sustainably raised foods, and beverages whenever possible. Our focus is Southern food, a gift that is often mis-represented. ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Cost: $15
SF Mime Troupe Celebrating 50 Years of the SF Mime Troupe
This exhibit includes photographs, props, costumes, scripts, and other eccentric ephemera culled from the San Francisco Mime Troupe's vast archive. Leading a path to the Yerba Buena exhibit will be ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Cost: $7
La Cenerentola
Opera San Jose puts on this rendition of the classic Cinderella tale composed by Gioachino Rossini. Showtimes vary. For details, visit Opera San Jose website.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $52-$91
Lay of the Land
Solo performer Tim Miller explores the 'State of the Queer Union' in his newest production. Show times vary. For details, visit Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $25
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
Christian Baldini makes his debut as the symphony's new conductor with Ravel and Dvorak.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $5-$16
8th Annual Salsa Congress
Salsa dancers from all over the world move their hips at three days of performances and workshops. Showtimes vary. For details, visit Salsa Congress website.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $35
A Christmas Story: San Jose Rep
San Jose Repertory stages the classic holiday tale of young Ralphie and his quest for a Red Rider BB Gun. Show times vary. For details visit San Jose Repertory Theatre.
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $36-$62
Boom
Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb tells the story of a gay man who seeks to repopulate the world after the eminent apocalypse and the woman who answers his advertisement. Showtimes vary. ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $31-$51
Smuin Smuin Ballet Fall Program at Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Smuin Ballet's Fall Program opens with a world premiere by choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert, accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning group Kronos Quartet's album Pieces of Africa. The program continues with ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $18-$56
Tiny Kushner: Berkeley Rep
The Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote 'Angels in America' now brings us five one-act plays featuring characters like Laura Bush and the queen of Albania. Showtimes very. For details, please ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $13.50-$39.00
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
See the 3,000-year-old 'boy king' Tutankhamun along with over 100 artifacts from his tomb and ancient Egypt in this traveling exhibit.
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: All Day Event
Cost: $22.50-32.50

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