Please join us on Sunday, March 14 for a delightful afternoon of art and good times. This show will feature new work by 7 eclectic Bay Area artists and photographers. Expect stunning portraits, dramatic photography, exquisite landscapes, emotive abstracts, intricate prints, and more.

All work is for sale. Artists will be on site to meet and greet guests.
Drinks and light fare will be served.
This event takes …

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution based in San Francisco. The Academy recently opened a new facility in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.
Normally $24.95 for adults, visit the Academy for free, every Third Wednesday of the month …

Dr. Sung Lim Kim, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, explores the social and political history of Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, and examines how both adult and children’s comics reflected the reality and ideals of that time.

Bay Area–artist Lisa Curet’s work channels and incorporates qualities found in pattern painting. Layer upon layer of shapes and color are applied, creating a tension between the varied surfaces. The combined results are flooded with resin, sealing and fusing the multiple applications. Inspired by travel and human interaction, she views her works as metaphors for one’s conscious perception of the world outside.
Keira Kotler is interested …

NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences is held every Thursday night with discounted admission of just $12. Each week the Academy features: music, cutting-edge science, and food and cocktails, but with a completely new lineup of events each week.
March 18, 2010: Craft Night
Give yourself a creative workout with craft night. Featuring reusable materials from SCRAP SF, and learn how to make jewelry, fashion masks, …

Join Atlas Obscura at The Bone Room for a show-and-tell tour with the owner and founder, Ron Cauble. Explore the wonders of Berkeley’s venerable natural history store with the man who knows it best. Hear behind-the scenes stories and get a chance to ask all those questions we know you have.

RSVP here: http://obscuraday-berkeley.eventbrite.com/
Cost: Free

Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places taking place …

As part of the 2010 Atlas Obscura Day, Join Stanford University Hospital chief engineer Leander Robinson on a tour of one of the largest pneumatic tube networks in the world. Snaking through the medical center’s walls are four miles of tubes that shuttle specimens and paperwork around the facility at 18 miles per hour. Robinson will explain how this incredible system works.
Meet at the fountain …

Join us at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for a demonstration of their amazing Victorian Computer, the Difference Engine #2. Regarded by many as the first example of a mechanical computer, the Difference Engine was only one of many inventions by the mathematician Charles Babbage. Due to his difficult personality and the enormous technical challenges involved in building his designs, the machines were …

Pretty Pretty (Look at You!) – Makeup sessions with Kegel Kater, Presented by RetroFit Vintage
In this makeup tutorial, Kegel applies intricate makeup for her role as whore/angel/lotus dancer in the Cockettes’ hit musical “Pearls Over Shanghai,” while discussing some key products and techniques.
Sign up for private makeup sessions, take advantage of special pricing on makeup and wigs, including Kryolan and Ben Nye products, and support …

In late March the Treasure Island Museum will unveil a new exhibit – Treasure Island Salutes the Sea Services, highlighting a century of events in San Francisco Bay Area sea services history.
The exhibit will feature a timeline of naval history, as well as objects, uniforms, and photographic material interpreting activities of the Navy, Coast Guard, Naval Reserve, Marines and Merchant Marines.
The Sea Services exhibit, …

Make My Monday is a party combining art-making, music, cocktails, and underground street food to extinguish your Monday blues. Enjoy waterfront views, and meet rising stars of the art community while they create art for sale from $5-$50.
Monday March 29th features an array of live art-making by local artists including participatory art experiences, installation art, and live painting. RSVP at mmm@fortmason.org to hold your place …

Throughout the 75th anniversary exhibitions at the SFMOMA, artists take up San Francisco’s cityscapes as subject and muse. This program of experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present offers evocative records of individual experiences of street life
These psychogeographic tours look at North Beach’s Broadway strip and the window reflections of a Beat poet protagonist. We examine the Mission’s storefronts for evidence …

Come make stuff at Countrerpluse’s “Crafty Crafty” Night. Bring whatever project you may be working on or meaning to start/learn and hopefully someone can help you out at our monthly craft night.
Tonight will be a night to hang out and make whatever you want to. There will be ample lighting, short movies/ music videos projected on walls, outlets for sewing machines and hot glue guns, …

Pretty Pretty (Look at You!) – Makeup sessions with Kegel Kater, Presented by RetroFit Vintage
In this makeup tutorial, Kegel applies intricate makeup for her role as whore/angel/lotus dancer in the Cockettes’ hit musical “Pearls Over Shanghai,” while discussing some key products and techniques.
Sign up for private makeup sessions, take advantage of special pricing on makeup and wigs, including Kryolan and Ben Nye products, and support …

See the historic Fort Point by the light of candles and stars on this evening tour with a park ranger as your guide. Candlelight tours are available Saturday evenings (6:30pm) during the months of November to February.
To make reservations: The first day to make reservations for Fall/Winter 2010/11 is September 1, 2010. Advanced reservations required by calling (415) 556-1693.

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