Brazil Night: Visual Quiz & Modernist Jazz | 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.
Friday Nights at the de Young: Brazil Camp at the de Young, Part II
August 22, 2014 | 6 – 8:30 pmEvery year, people from around the world gather in the small town of Cazadero, California, to experience Brazilian music and dance culture firsthand through a full-immersion educational program. Brazil Camp will bring some of their world-class artists to the de Young.
Live Music by the Chico Pinheiro Group
Wilsey Court
6:00 pmOne of the leading figures in modern Brazilian music, guitarist, composer, and arranger Chico Pinheiro was born in São Paulo. Self-taught, Pinheiro started playing the guitar and the piano when he was seven years old. After starting to perform professionally at age 15, he rounded out his musical education with a stay in Boston, where he received his music degree from Berklee College of Music, studying with legendary teachers Mick Goodrick and Hal Crook and winning several academic and musical prizes during his studies.
Mixed-Media Art-Making Stations
Buchanan Court
6:00 pmEvery week, Friday Night at the de Young offers art making to encourage everyone, of all ages, to tap into their creativity.
Quizdit: A Visual Quiz Event
Piazzoni Murals Room
6:00 pmTo celebrate Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection, recent de Young Artist-In-Residence Tim Roseborough will present Quizdit (formerly Contenda): A Visual Quiz Event. This interactive, multimedia event draws from the format of school quiz-bowl contests with questions about artistic movements and topics.
“Traced Memories” by Artist-in-Residence Adela Akers
Kimball Education Gallery
6:00 pmTextile artist Adela Akers is moving her studio to the de Young. Visitors to the new studio will learn how each choice in her art-making process contributes to the unique character and quality of her work.
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*