• Suburban Birthday Party by Ann Taylor
• Euripides' Ion by Ann Taylor
• Warhol Live by Ann Taylor

• Bookstock Festival 2009!
• Asian Art Museum
• Beach Blanket Babylon

Thu Jun 4 - Sat Jun 27

Like some fantastical LSD nightmare, the art of skinner is a full bore visual assault that maintains a vicious stranglehold on one's senses. Rivers of blood cut valleys out of crystal mountains that cradle the battleground of the war for evermore. From the ashes and dust rises one warrior, a very strange warrior, on a mission to destroy preconceptions of visual art and paradigm all the while maintaining a very very dark sense of humor.

Thu Jun 4

Rob Reger has grown Emily the Strange from an image on a few skateboards and T-shirts to an international fashion brand and publishing phenomenon. He lives in the Bay Area. A former high school English teacher, Jessica Gruner owns a clothing boutique in San Francisco. She lives in the Bay Area.

Fri Jun 5

San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants invite you to Opera at the Ballpark, a free, live simulcast of Puccini's "Tosca". Through state-of-the-art technology, the performance will be transmitted in high definition, live from the War Memorial Opera House stage to AT&T Park's 3200-square-foot scoreboard. Baseball fans and opera fans will experience this event with seating both on the field and in the stands.

Sat Jun 6

A summer celebration of art for the whole family, with partial proceeds benefiting the Giants Community Fund. Join us for an exceptional evening of art, music, entertainment, great food and plenty of children's activities all on the field at AT&T Park.

Sat Jun 6

On the evening of this benefit party, the gallery and studio will be transformed once again into a glittering dance hall to celebrate the creative spirit of the Creativity Explored artists who flourish in this historic venue. The evening features music, dancing, dance lessons, and ticketed taxi dances by Nathan Dias and the Swing or Nothing Dancers; an appearance by The Devil-Ettes, San Francisco's go-go sweethearts; and food and drink served all night long...

Sat Jun 6 - Sun Jun 28

During its rich history, the Festival has celebrated and fostered appreciation for the diverse cultural communities in the Bay Area and Northern California, through an annual performance season of dance styles that have included traditional classical dance, sacred dance genres, vernacular dance forms, social dance and folk dance presentations...

Sun Jun 7

In its 33rd year, The Union Street Festival is one of San Francisco's largest free annual events. In 2008 we added an eco-zone to the event where we reserved two blocks of the six block Festival for green exhibitors, businesses and educational displays.

Live + Direct Skinner In The City Exposed Beacon- A Collection Of Outsider Art Fool's Gold Cutter Photozine Release Party Late Nights And City Lights Ersatz Group Exhibition Requiem Yuval Pudik Enduring Patiently Artist-Xchange June Group Show Toy Vinyl Show Benefit Night and Sangria Soiree

Risky Business: Old Surfers of the Second Wave InGroup A Night of Enchantment Chateau en Suede Rex Navarrete Uptown, Downtown, Motown Madness! Stateless Paul Mecurio with Conor Kellicutt & Brendan Lynch Now and at the Hour Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo Brain Dead Alive Comedy for the (un)Employed Cafe Flamenco at the Verdi Club

T.J. Stiles Michael Thomas Ford Deborah Madison David Ebershoff discusses 19th Wife Peter Conners discusses Growing Up Dead Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner And Buzz Parker Madeleine. Albright's Memo to the President Eric Bogosian discusses Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll Christi Phillips- The Devlin Diary Lunch and Conversation with Deborah Madison Children's Picture Book Writing Workshop Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid Gerald Sindell: The Genius Machine Bookstock 2009 Sisters in Crime Spring Soiree Rudy Rucker