Jazz, Film & Dance Performance | Friday Nights at the de Young
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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 at the de Young | November 8, 2013
- 6 pm: Film Screening: The Escape by Tatsu Aoki – Piazzoni Murals Room
Film screening: The Escape (2013, 30 minutes), by Tatsu Aoki. Repeat screening at 7:15 pm.- 6:30-8:30 pm: Live Jazz and Creative Music: Francis Wong’s Trio SF – Wilsey Court
- 7 pm: The Escape and Rescued Memories: New York Stories, by Lenora Lee – Koret Auditorium
By Lenora Lee Dance, with Kei Lun Martial Arts and Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo, featuring media design by Olivia Ting; music by Francis Wong; text by poet Genny Lim; lighting by Patty-Ann Farrell; and videography directed by Tatsu Aoki and filmed by Ben Estabrook, Eric Koziol, Keith Orchard, Joel Wanek, Zhouyun Chen, and Joshua Chuck.
The Escape and Rescued Memories: New York Stories are companion performance pieces inspired by stories of women who became vulnerable upon their arrival in the United States in the early 20th century. They seek to shed light on the the social history of the period for the Chinese in America, as well as the struggles and achievements of the women’s movement.- 7:15 pm: Film Screening: The Escape by Tatsu Aoki – Piazzoni Murals Room
Film screening: The Escape (2013, 30 minutes), by Tatsu Aoki. Repeat of 6 pm screening.
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Cost: FREE*
