Hardly Strictly Tribute Concert Series | Contemporary Jewish Museum

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$5 Admission Night | Contemporary Jewish Museum

Every Thursday night admission to the Contemporary Jewish Museum is just $5 after 5 pm (or $8 during special exhibitions). On these evenings the museum also offers a wide range of cultural events like concerts, film screenings, workshops and talks that are often free with museum admission.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is housed in a stunning modern building in Jessie Square in the SoMa district of San Francisco.

$5 After 5 Thursdays at CJM
Every Thursday | 5-8 pm
Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St, SF
$5 every Thursday after 5 pm ($8 during special exhibitions)

POTENTIAL MUSEUM SURCHARGES – During certain special exhibitions (like Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition from July 30-October 30) there is a $3 surcharge which makes admission $8. Always check the CJM website for latest pricing.

And don’t forget, every first Tuesday of each month, admission to the museum is free all day.

Thursday, August 20, 2015
$5 Admission Night | Contemporary Jewish Museum

Ben Fong-Torres is an acclaimed music journalist of forty-five years, a former Rolling Stone editor and the author of eight books, including The Grateful Dead Scrapbook, Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll, Willin’: The Story of Little Feat, and The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio. He is also the San Francisco Chronicle radio columnist, and was portrayed in the film Almost Famous.

Tom Heyman is a San Francisco-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has played with a variety of A-list musicians including John Doe and Chuck Prophet, and bands like The Court and Spark. His second solo record Deliver Me received four-star reviews in both Mojo and Uncut magazines, and songs from the record were heard in the TV shows True Blood, Justified, and Damages.

Beth Lisick is author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool. Of her latest collection, Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, Largehearted Boy’s David Gutowski says, “It is the book that made me laugh out loud more than anything else I have read all year.” Beth is also an actor, screenwriter, co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, and co-creator of the web series Rods and Cones.

San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía is author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award), and most recently, the poetry volume Stray Poems (City Lights). He was a founding member and first director of the Mission Cultural Center, and is a professor at San Francisco State University. His short story “The Other Barrio” was basis for a film shot in the Mission District.

Daphne Gottlieb is the author of ten books including the new collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead. She is the winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, as well as five books of poetry. She edited two anthologies, and, with artist Diane DiMassa, co-created the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious.

San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin began covering rock shows for the paper shortly after the end of the Civil War, and is author of more than a dozen books about pop music, including Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns, The Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues, and Red, the autobiography of Sammy Hagar. He has served on the nominating committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Sylvie Simmons is a veteran music journalist, ukulele prodigy, and author of several music biographies including the bestselling I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen. Praised by J.G. Ballard, bowed to by Leonard Cohen, called “short enough” by Lou Reed, Sylvie is a rock and roll writer in name and form. Her album Sylvie was called “beautifully constructed and timeless” by Devendra Banhart.

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