Friday Nights at the de Young: John Santos Sextet & WWII Film | Golden Gate Park
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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 Schedule: July 5, 2013
6-8:45 pm: July Artist-in-Residence: Jewel Castro (Kimball Education Gallery)
De Young Artist-in-Residence Jewel Castro is a multimedia artist whose work engages Samoan history, transnational movement as it relates to cultural identification, Samoan art forms and production, and Castro’s relationships with her ancestors. Her art expresses an Oceanic way of being, the collective experience both visible and invisible—in skin, air, blood, the harmony of voices, the quality of light, the color of weather and water, movement, wildlife, architecture, the landscape, textiles, and the organic process of engaging history in the present.6:30-8:30 pm: The John Santos Sextet (Wilsey Court)
The John Santos Sextet’s original compositions and arrangements will emphasize the art of musical improvisation and the tremendous leaps of rhythmic and harmonic faith that are required for this style of Afro-Caribbean jazz. Highly expressive and open-ended passages are woven into the music and can be intimately and personally interpreted by the listener. Many decades of experience playing music—and many years of experience playing music together—allow these artists to navigate freely in this way.7-8 pm: Japanese American Heroes of WWII Film and Lecture Series: “Honor Bound: A Personal Journey” (Koret Auditorium)
Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (1995, 58 min.) A film and lecture related to American Heroes: Japanese American World War II Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal. Executive Producer/Writer: Wendy Hanamura
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Cost: FREE*
