Friday Nights at the de Young: String Quartet & Film Screening | Golden Gate Park

Submitted by the Event Organizer

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 13, 2013
String Quartet & Film Screening | Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018

Friday Night Schedule for September 13, 2013

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 Crossover String Music by Quartet San Francisco –  Wilsey Court

Quartet San Francisco will play selections from their three Grammy-nominated CDs, as well as offer a sneak preview of their upcoming September release Pacific Premieres: New Works by California Composers.

7-8 pm: Film Screening: The Worlds of Bernice Bing – Koret Auditorium

• 7 pm: Opening poem by Flo Oy Wong and introduction by Cynthia Tom of Asian American Women Artists Association
• 7:05 pm: Film screening: The Worlds of Bernice Bing (Dir: Madeleine Lim, 2013, 34 min.)
• 7:40 pm: Q&A with Jennifer Banta Yoshida, Lenore Chinn, and Rudy Lemcke; moderated by Mark Dean Johnson

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.