Food Utopia: Sculpture, Lecture & String Quartet | Friday Nights at the de Young
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de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
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Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018
One of San Francisco’s most celebrated after-hours museum events returns for a fall season of 2018.
These nine Friday Nights feature free admission to the main-level galleries highlighted by a reinterpretation of contemporary art in their permanent collection and new acquisitions called Specters of Disruption. In addition, Friday Nights will offer reduced-price tickets of $14 to the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions from 6–8:30 pm.
Through social-media moments and in-person dialogue, visitors can engage and commune with the art and with one another in a warm and welcoming setting. Enjoy specialty drinks and mocktails, coffees, teas, and snacks. Bring your friends. Strike a pose at the selfie wall. Listen to music. Make art. Activities take place from 6–8:30 pm.
Dig into Georgia O’Keeffe’s garden and her passion for the land at Lake George. Come learn about food utopias, edible flowers, food sculpture and live music with the Real String Vocal Quartet.
6 pm: Live Music by the Real Vocal String Quartet – Wilsey Court
The Real Vocal String Quartet plays original songs and unique arrangements that pay tribute to music from Appalachia to Kenya or Brazil, with sparkling improvisation. String quartet, string band, vocal quartet, jaw-dropping improvising world-music collective… pick a box and the Real Vocal String Quartet will think outside it, with style.6 pm: Artist Demonstration: Food Sculpture by The Invisible Underground – Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
Ever wonder how to sculpt a piece of food? Shawn Feeney and the Invisible Underground can show you! Check him out as he sculpts seasonal fruit all evening long.6 pm: Artist Demonstration: “Flowers as Food” with the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture – Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
Flowers as Food, presented by CUESA
- Seasonal farmers’ market treat: strawberries dipped in crème fraiche and rose-petal sugar
- Flower-matching and other food games
- Flower seasonality chart handout
7 pm: Guest Lecture: “The Future of Food and Family Farmers: Thinking about Food Utopias,” by Paul V. Stock, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas – Koret Auditorium
From pollinating bees to dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, how we produce and consume food says much about our relationship with the air, water, plants, and animals that surround us and nourish us. Family farmers play a vital role in the system. We all have different and deeply personal answers about what constitutes good food that are shaped by traditions, experiences, nutrition, and community. So what’s in your food utopia?
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
