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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.
Soak up the atmosphere of the museum at night while enjoying an eclectic mix of live music and performances, film screenings, dancing, mixed media art-making stations, curatorial talks, and more celebrating the life and work of Keith Haring. Tonight features Member Preview Hours for Keith Haring: The Political Line (tickets required and advance ticketing highly recommended; free for members).
6:00 pmArtist Tim Sullivan, along with Chris Corrente, is one of the masterminds behind the hugely popular Bay Area cable and online television show What Is Art? LIVE! On November 7, Sullivan will be conducting interviews around the museum.
Buchanan Court6:00 pmEvery week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone, of all ages, to tap into their creativity.
Kimball Education Gallery6:00 pmLeonard Tebegetu will create a body of sculptural and architectural work influenced by sustainable construction techniques. Working with natural materials available to various local populations as well as recycled materials wherever possible, Tebegetu shares economically feasible processes that allow the average person with no specialized construction skills to create functional and beautiful structures. Visitors to the gallery will be invited to learn basic construction and fabrication techniques utilizing available local resources and recycled materials.
Wilsey Court6:00 pmCJ Grossman shares community responses about suicide by teens who have been bullied. Through visual aids and conversation, she educates visitors about ways to help prevent bullying.
Wilsey Court6:30 pmDance party, featuring music by Fab 5 Freddy, artist and personal friend of Keith Haring, and art making for all. Everybody is invited.
Wilsey Court7:00 pmRashad Pridgen, a dynamic dance artist, facilitator, and founder of the AfroHouseHop dance movement, has been a part of the urban dance culture for more than 15 years. With roots in underground dance culture, AfroHouseHop builds on the stylistic forms of Pan-African dance, the soul of Deep House, and the momentum of Hip-Hop.
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*
