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Win Tix: “STEAM Carnival” Huge Interactive Science Festival | Pier 48
STEAM Carnival (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art) is a high-impact, high-voltage entertainment showcase fun for all ages integrating art with science and technology, robots and lasers. STEAM Carnival comes to San Francisco November 6-8, 2015 at Pier 48 at AT&T Park.
> Buy Tickets – $25 Adults, $20 ...
Rotunda Dance Series: Pan-African Drums & Dance | SF City Hall
Friday, November 6 – 12:00 pm - Ends at 1:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Francisco City Hall
In a return performance at San Francisco City Hall’s rotunda, Nimely Napla’s Pan African Dance Company will perform a harvest dance, known as the “Farming Ballet,” performed by a line of drummers with dancers wearing different regional masks from Liberia, many of them created by ...
The 2015 Craftys Awards with Free Food & Drinks | SoMa
Want to see who receives the 2015 Craftys Awards? After a two-month nationwide search in categories such as fashion sewing and knitting, awards will be handed out to amazing DIY designers.
Free, but an RSVP is required by November 5.
Attended get to watch the livestream being ...
The Dept. of Make Believe Open House: Permits to Make Believe & Licenses to Dream | Oakland
Friday, November 6 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Chapter 510
Downtown Oakland is the new home for something that’s never been seen before: Chapter 510 & the Department of Make Believe, a youth writing center combined with an interactive storefront specializing in magical bureaucracy. It’s about time.
Come support those Oakland students and celebrate their city’s ...
“Electric Fashion” Corset & Costume Night | Friday Nights at the de Young
In concert with the exhibit: “Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition”, you are invited to a special “costume-friendly” Friday Night at the DeYoung. The theme is a visit to the Fair…through a Dark Garden lens. You are welcome to come in period ...Every Friday
100 Foot Tall Film Night: Quotidian Hypnosis | The Great Wall of Oakland
Friday, November 6 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | The Great Wall of Oakland
A program of films that illustrate the quotidian using many formal elements of hypnosis (slow motion, dissolve, superimposition, structuralism). Lead curator–Karly Stark; with support from the Great Wall’s Curatorial Committee.
Artists presenting work:
Talia Feder
Kuesti Fraun
Vivian G
Holly Wilson
Laura Gower
Alexei Dmitriev
Widowspeak: Slowcore Rock ‘n Roll | UC Berkeley
Friday, November 6 – 5:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | UC Berkeley - Sproul Plaza
Widowspeak has grown up in a lot of ways. The band’s third album, All Yours, is one that could only come from Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas: a honed and elegant interweaving of dream-pop and slowcore rock and roll, easygoing melodies and dusty, snaking ...
“Oakland First Fridays” Block Party
Friday, November 6 – 5:00 pm - Ends at 9:30 pm |
Cost: FREE | Telegraph & 27th
Oakland First Fridays is an immersive art and community experience on the first Friday of each month from 5-9:30pm for five huge blocks on Telegraph Avenue between 27th Street & 22nd Street. Photography from @skyhighoakland via Oakland First Fridays Oakland’s KONO district (Koreatown/Northgate) springs to life ...Monthly
Pixar’s “Inside Out” Movie in the Park, Free Popcorn & Its It Ice Cream | Presidio
Friday, November 6 – 5:30 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Main Post Theatre Lawn
Grab a blanket and enjoy a fun, free outdoor movie under the stars, complete with free popcorn and It’s It ice-cream.
The event will be held on the lawn behind the Presidio Dance Theatre, 386 Arguello Boulevard, on the Presidio’s Main Post. Inclement weather will move ...
“Empty Without You” Participatory Love Letter Performance Art | San Jose
Friday, November 6 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
On Friday, November 6, ICA Live will present a participatory performance by Genevieve Hastings, whose art installations often include constructed environments with “receiving stations” that explore how people engage with personal memories. The artist encourages audience participation through encounters with objects, images, sounds, and scents ...
North Beach First Fridays Art Crawl | SF
Friday, November 6 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 9:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | North Beach
On the first Friday of every month, over a dozen North Beach galleries, museums, bars, and restaurants stay open late for a self-guided First Fridays Art Crawl with special events to showcase the ever-growing collections of art and entertainment that diversify North Beach. First Fridays Art Crawl ...Monthly
Oakland Art Murmur | First Fridays Art Walk
Friday, November 6 – 6:00 pm - Ends at 10:00 pm |
Cost: FREE | Broadway/Telegraph
Over 30 Oakland Art Murmur affiliate venues have coordinated openings on the first Friday of every month. Oakland Art Murmur presents a free monthly evening art walk, known as the ‘Art Murmur.” Every first Friday of the month, affiliate venues are open to the public from 6-9 ...Monthly
