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Friday Nights at the de Young: Venezuelan Jazz & Patagonia Talk | Golden Gate Park

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Friday, September 6, 2013 - 5:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries.

de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

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, September 6, 2013 Highlights

  • 6-8:45 pm: “Patterns,” by Artist-in-Residence Jenny E. Balisle (Kimball Education Gallery)
    Artist Jenny E. Balisle invites visitors to engage in an exploration of pattern through the de Young’s artwork, architecture, and park setting. Balisle’s practice incorporates work in three separate media: abstract paintings, pen and ink drawings, and sculptural installations made from heated acrylic sheets. These pieces are conceptually linked by an interest in dichotomous relationships—the simple and the complex, the beautiful and the grotesque, micro and macro perspectives, and natural and man-made environments. As Artist-in-Residence, she will investigate the museum’s incredible diversity of collections inside and out during the month of September.
  • 6:30-8:30 pm: Live Music of Venezuela by the VNote Ensemble (Wilsey Court)
    Hailed for its spirited performances and fascinating fusion of Venezuelan folk music with adventurous jazz, the VNote Ensemble gives voice to the hidden treasures of Venezuelan music. Original compositions, keen arrangements, and great musicianship blend to deliver a unique sound performed by Jackeline Rago (Venezuelan cuatro, percussion, and vocals), Donna Viscuso (flute), Sam Bevan (bass), and Michaelle Goerlitz (percussion).
  • 7-8 pm: Guest Lecture: Southern Patagonia’s Yagán People: Tales from the Ends of the Earth, by Jacqueline Windh (Koret Auditorium)
    Jacqueline Windh spent months with the Yagán people of Navarino Island to learn about their culture as she worked on an English translation of Hai kur mamashu chis, which means “I want to tell you a story” in the Yagán language. The book is a collection of traditional tales of creation, transformation, and good and evil that Ursula and Cristina Calderón heard around the campfire in their native Yagán tongue as children and recounted in Spanish to Cristina Zárraga. Windh’s presentation will be a mixture of lecture and stories, illustrated with images of the Yagán and their traditional territory in southern Patagonia.

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*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries.
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Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA