Friday Nights at the de Young: Curaçao | 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.
Curaçao Night will give de Young visitors a taste of the vibrant and colorful “Dushi Kòrsou” with music, dance, art, photography, and food from this island in the Dutch Caribbean.
6:30-8:30pm: Live Music | Wilsey Court
- Performance by Jazz Trio
- Performance by Grupo Ban Selebr’e
- Performance by Grupo Futuro i Memoria di Kòrsou demonstrating waltz, mazurka, dansa, tumba, and tambú
7-8pm: Intimate Talk: Curaçao | Hamon Education Tower
“Intimate Talks” on Curaçao’s green future: GreenTown; Curaçao Valley: CTEX and the E-commerce Zone; and a reading by Patricia Selbert, author of The House of Six Doors.7-8pm: Dance and Music by Lenora Lee | Koret Auditorium
Miyoshi Sketches is a new work by composer Francis Wong created with the support of Individual Artist Commissions of Cultural Equity Grants and features Tatsu Aoki and Chizuru Kineya, shamisen (Japanese three-string lute); Yangqin Zhao, yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer); Jim Norton and Francis Wong, woodwinds; Wayne Wallace, trombone; Melody Takata, taiko; and Deszon Claiborne, percussion. This work memorializes the friendship that developed between Wong’s parents, immigrants from China, and John Miyoshi, a Japanese American World War II veteran in post–World War II–era San Francisco. In addition to Miyoshi Sketches the ensemble will perform two previous compositions by Wong, La Chine Africaine (for my mother) and Dream.
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*
