KQED Event Calendar

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Sat, November 7

Fostering Financial Literacy in ESL Classrooms Using New Media Tools
Educator Conference: This workshop will offer ESL teachers a useful and effective financial literacy curriculum that is linguistically and age-appropriate for adult ESL students. It will demonstrate that the purposeful ...
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
san francisco bay aeriel shot Educator Workshop: 'Saving the Bay' Workshop for Informal Educators
In this workshop, informal educators will learn about free educational resources from 'Saving the Bay' and gather tips for how to effectively integrate 'Saving the Bay' multimedia into their work ...
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Cost: Free
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
Fabulous Food Festival
The Fabulous Food Festival features a festive feast of flavors on Saturday and Sunday, November 7th and 8th, 2009. As the only consumer specialty food show for the San Francisco ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 10:00 AM
Cost: $10
Arcega Michael Arcega: The Collaspe at Marx and Zavattero Gallery
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
Wine Road's Wine & Food Affair
The 11th annual Wine and Food Affair will host wines from a huge selection of local vineyards. Stay for just one day or the entire weekend. A free cook book ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: $25-$60
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
Adam 5100 The Stencil Show at White Walls
White Walls presents the 'Stencil Art Show' with new works from Adam 5100, David Soukup, Chris Stain, Ernesto Yerena, Tes One, and Casey Gray. These contemporary stencil artists utilizing ...
Categories: Arts: Visual Arts
Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Cost: Free
Wonderfest Wonderfest - Festival of Science - Stanford University
Don't miss Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science on November 7-8 at Stanford University and UC Berkeley campuses. Enjoy discussions from Moore's Law and its application to ...
Time: 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost: Free
Kitka Kitka: Armenian Folk Songs and Dances Workshop
Kitka and Hasmik presents Armenian folk songs and dance workshop. Hasmik's workshop at 4pm offers a full-body and voice immersion into Armenian song, dance, and life. Concert at 8pm. Come ...
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Cost: $15
Axis Axis Dance Company's Home Season 2009
AXIS Dance Company performs at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts for their 2009 home season. Known for their integration of performers with and without disabilities, their program includes a ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cost: $11-22
Ledoh Butoh Dance 50th Anniversary Festival
Celebrating Butoh Dance 50th Anniversary there will be 3 nights of performances including Bay Area and Beyond Butoh on Friday and the following night Ledoh, Katsura Kan, Koichi and Hiroko ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: Varies
Girlyman
This folk/pop trio strums their guitars, banjos and mandolins in this Berkeley coffeehouse.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $20.50
Jean-Luc Ponty
The French violinist, known for adding a unique spin on jazz and rock music, plays at Yoshi's in Oakland. Showtimes vary. For details, visit Yoshi's website.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $5-$28
ESP The Future Project: Sunday Will Come
This rapid-fire series of mini-plays, songs, and dances, is a surreal mosaic based on perceptions of the future. The Future Project is a collaboration between the Erika Chong Shuch Performance ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Cost: $15-25
Devo
The new wave group that made the synthesizer a prime instrument performs its robotic tunes at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 9:00 PM
Cost: $40-$75
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
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 8

Fabulous Food Festival
The Fabulous Food Festival features a festive feast of flavors on Saturday and Sunday, November 7th and 8th, 2009. As the only consumer specialty food show for the San Francisco ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 10:00 AM
Cost: $10
Wonderfest Wonderfest - Festival of Science- UC Berkeley
Don't miss Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science on November 7-8 at Stanford University and UC Berkeley campuses. Enjoy discussions from Moore's Law and its application to ...
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Arcega Michael Arcega: The Collaspe at Marx and Zavattero Gallery
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
Wine Road's Wine & Food Affair
The 11th annual Wine and Food Affair will host wines from a huge selection of local vineyards. Stay for just one day or the entire weekend. A free cook book ...
Categories: Family Friendly
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Cost: $25-$60
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
Ledoh Butoh Dance 50th Anniversary Festival
Celebrating Butoh Dance 50th Anniversary there will be 3 nights of performances including Bay Area and Beyond Butoh on Friday and the following night Ledoh, Katsura Kan, Koichi and Hiroko ...
Categories: Arts: Performance
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: Varies
Pixies perform Doolittle
Categories: Arts: Music
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $50-60
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
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

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