Friday Nights at the de Young: Poetry & Film Screening | de Young Museum
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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.
James Turrell’s “Three Gems” open during Friday Nights
Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden
5:00 pm
In 2014, artist James Turrell (b. 1943) contacted the Museums to refurbushThree Gems (2005), a site-specific “skyspace” located in a grass-covered hill in the Osher Sculpture Garden. The work was approaching its tenth anniversary at the de Young, having been installed during the opening of the new building in 2005.Mixed-Media Art-Making Station with Suzanne Couture
Buchanan Court
6:00 pm
Every week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone of all ages to tap into their creativity.Poetry Performance by San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía
Wilsey Court
6:30 pm
Poetry Performance by San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía with an introduction by curator, artist, and community activist, Rene Yanez.Murguía will take about the origins of his short story, The Other Barrio and about the 1975 Gartland Hotel fire, and the start of gentrification in the Mission District of San Francisco. He will read one or two paragraphs from the story, and then recite two poems: “Mission Vision” and “Silicon City.”
Film Screening: “The Other Barrio” (2015, 91 min)
Koret Auditorium
7:00 pm
Produced by Louis F. Dematteis and Dante Betteo
Directed by Dante Betteo
Production Designer: Rene Yanez
Music and Sound Design: Greg Landau
Staring Richard Montoya, Veronica Valencia, Pearl Wong, Geoff Hoyle, Vincent Calvarese, and Alejandro Murguia.Camilo y los Robot Ninjas
Live music by Camilo y los Robot Ninjas featuring the Latin Dub Stars
Wilsey Court
7:15 pm
Guitar: Camilo Landau
Bass: Ayla Davila
Drums: Josh Jones
Keyboards and Trumpet: Marco Diaz
Tres and electronic percussion: Greg Landau
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*
