Friday Nights at the de Young: Mayan Music & Film Screening | 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 Schedule | October 11, 2013
- 1-8 pm: Exhibition: Artifice, by the Urbanauts, Sean Orlando and Matthew Passmore.
The Urbanauts—Sean Orlando and Matthew Passmore (Rebar)——are back at the deYoung Museum for the final phase of their Artist Fellows project: Artifice- 6:30-8:30 pm: Asociacion Mayab – Performance and Live Music
The program includes live music by the Orquesta Jaranera del Mayab, a traditional 10-piece orchestra from the Yucatán, and dance from Marimba Voz Cuchumatan, from Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala. Local dancers from Grupo Maya Mam, Grupo Jaranero Mayab, and Chan Kahal perform a series of festive, ritual, and ceremonial dances.
On view is traditional art produced locally by Maya artists from the women’s groups at Asociacion Mayab, as well as by artists visiting from the Yucatán and Guatemala. They display works of embroidery, weaving, and hammock-making and painting.- 7-8 pm: Film Screening: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth (2011, 98 min.)
The ancient Maya believed this present world would end and a new cycle arise after 5125 years.
How does the story end? Does the water change color? Do the oceans collapse? Does the sky fall as the last tree is cut?
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth allows the Maya of today to answer, following six young Maya in Guatemala and Chiapas through their daily and ceremonial lives, revealing their determination to resist the destruction of their culture and environment. As corporations go to the ends of the earth to extract all value, all resources, the subjects put forth a wholly indigenous perspective in their own words, without narration. Each story touches upon a facet of the current global crisis. The Maya, like many indigenous people, believe they are the guardians of the earth.
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Cost: FREE*
