Friday Night Street Art Celebration, Live Music & Dance | 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 presents Taking It to the Streets, featuring street artists, mural creations, printmaking stations, live music and dance performances, in-gallery talks and performances, and art-making stations. This evening is co-organized by street artists René Yañez and Rigo 23. The Museums thank the Keith Haring Advisory Committee for co-organizing Friday Nights at the de Young programs celebrating Keith Haring: The Political Line.
Buchanan Court6:00 pmEvery week, Friday Nights at the de Young offers art-making activities to encourage everyone, of all ages, to tap into their creativity.
Kimball Education Gallery6:00 pmLeonard Tebegetu creates a body of sculptural and architectural work influenced by sustainable construction techniques. Working with locally sourced natural materials as well as recycled manmade materials wherever possible, Tebegetu shares an economically feasible process for the average person with no specialized construction skills to create functional and beautiful structures.
Wilsey Court6:00 pmCJ Grossman shares community responses about suicide by teens who have been bullied. Through visual aids and conversation, she educates visitors about ways to help prevent bullying.
Wilsey Court6:00 pmStreet artists René Yañez, Rigo 23, Cuba, and Texta Queen will be creating murals in the de Young’s “town square,” Wilsey Court, while printer Jos Sances and friends create colorful prints with visitors adding their own creative voice to the mix. Strolling musicians will perform while murals and posters unfold throughout the night.
Museum Lobby6:00 pmThe HIV/AIDS pandemic has had an indelible impact on individuals and communities around the world, the effects of which are personified in the life and work of Keith Haring, who died of an AIDS-related illness on February 16, 1990, at the age of 31. Compiled with the assistance of Magnet SF and the SF AIDS Foundation, this participatory HIV/AIDS timeline provides a glimpse into the stories, suffering, and victories of humanity during the past three decades, and invites museum goers to add their own stories, memories, and hopes for the future.
Wilsey Court6:00 pmPrinter Jos Sances and friends create colorful prints with visitors adding their own creative voice to the mix, while street artists René Yañez, Rigo 23, Cuba, and Texta Queen will be creating murals in the de Young’s “town square,” Wilsey Court. Strolling musicians will perform while murals and posters unfold throughout the night.
Koret Auditorium7:00 pmEverybody Everybody tells the story of a young gay man who gets swept up in the excitement, fury, and poignancy of ACT UP, the controversial AIDS activist group, in New York City in the late 1980s–early 90s. ACT UP staged civil disobedience to get media attention and force the government to respond to the AIDS crisis. The novel focuses on a recent historical moment when anger about government inaction sent young people like the narrator and his friends into the streets to fight for their lives. Amid this climate of crisis, they discovered love, sex, friendship, and joy.
Herbst Exhibition Galleries7:00 pmPop-up performances in the Keith Haring: The Political Line exhibition, featuring Marvin K. White and Indira Allegra at 7 and 7:45 pm.
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Cost: FREE*
