Arts
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SF Station's event picks this week
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Through Sun Sep 14
The 17th Annual
A night of lascivious and scintillating readings, screenings and performances at the Center for Sex and Culture Featuring hot local stars and sexy imported babes.
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Through Sun Sep 21
Come see ‘Pericles’ Shakespeare’s heroic tale of adventure, featuring a live soundtrack played by the cast. Bring your family, friends, a blanket and a picnic to enjoy professional theater at no charge!
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Thu Sep 11 - Wed Oct 15
"A rapturous, pulsating, decades-spanning tale of Prague's rock revolution, Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll follows the passions and politics of a wily Marxist professor in Cambridge and his Rolling Stones - obsessed protege fighting for freedom in Soviet-dominated Prague - all to the beat of the Stones, Pink Floyd, and Syd Barrett, Floyd's disturbed genius, whose reclusive life becomes a haunting motif of the play."
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Thu Sep 11 - Sat Sep 13
The program, “pinpoint”, will also include an epic work by the same name. This piece is a complex commentary using movement metaphor to define or “pinpoint” pivotal moments that determine the cementing or unraveling of personal relationships. Through the manipulation of light, spoken narrative imposed over music, and choreographic choices governed by the unusual depth of the Artaud venue, a tapestry of love and loss, will and surrender, is carefully woven.
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Through Sat Sep 27
Renewal
Imagine yourself standing at the edge of a swimming pool; it is nighttime, and lights from beneath the surface illuminate the water, causing ripples and small waves to dance in front of you, teasing and taunting you. You inhale, take a deep breath, and let go. As your body quickly cuts through the surface, you feel as though you have entered a different world...
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Through Sat Sep 20
Intentionally Unintentional, is a group show featuring new works by Jeff Loehman, Jessica Martin, and Heather Patterson, with guest artists. Intentionally Unintentional is a group show that presents artists whose artwork forces the viewer to explore the boundaries that separate intent and happenstance.
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Thu Aug 28 - Fri Sep 26
at Art 94124 Gallery (see listing for times) Galleries
Art 94124 Gallery welcomes artists from the non-profit San Francisco glass school Public Glass. This group exhibition, Heat & Light, highlights photograms from Bayview photographer Ron Moultrie Saunders alongside glass objects from Public Glass artists.
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Sat Aug 30 - Sat Oct 4
Seth Armstrong produces narrative paintings. Exactly what these narratives entail, however, is not definitive, but included is the drama, mystery, and humor that accentuate the theatrical and fictitious characteristics that he believes are apparent in everyday life.
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Sat Aug 30 - Sat Sep 27
Julie Heffernan & Adam Chapman
Julie Heffernan’s paintings reveal her preoccupation with Baroque sensibilities—the interior spaces of her compositions often refer to grand ballrooms and ornate drawing rooms, while the figures are weighted by fantastical costumes overwrought with flora and fauna...
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Through - Sun Mar 1, 2009
The Islamic cultures of Asia are varied, rich and complex. This exhibition of approximately sixty paintings, manuscripts, ceramics, textiles, metal wares, historic photographs, and even puppets highlights their superb artistic traditions. The artworks shown come from Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, and the Philippines, and range in date from the tenth to the twenty-first century.
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Through - Sun Nov 2
An exhibition that highlights masterpieces of Shaker furniture, and includes objects broadly representing Shaker life and Shaker style. Simply Shaker features nearly 75 objects comprised of furniture, household objects, tools and equipment, textiles, and graphics that embody Shaker simplicity and purity of design. America's oldest experiment in utopian, communal living, the United Society of Believers (Shakers) movement was founded by Ann Lee in the eighteenth century...
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