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Artwork by Christina Empedocles
Wed Aug 5 - Tue Aug 11, 2009
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SF Jewish Film Festival
Editorial Event Features
Wed Aug 5
at Madrone (9pm)

An evening of sensual & sensational burlesque, comedy, tap, & cocktails! Your favorites, plus some all new tantalizing treats. Featuring: Master of Ceremonies- Chris Libby- Ladies of the Night: Alayna Stroud, Ana Hyatt, Amanda Bassolino, Deb Arana, & Julianne Harper!
Thu Aug 6 - Sun Aug 16
at Intersection for the Arts (8pm)

Back by popular demand after a critically acclaimed East Bay run, and two sold-out weeks in San Francisco, Joe Orrach's solo show -- with direction by Michael Davis -- returns to Intersection for the Arts.
Thu Aug 6
at Fifty 24SF Gallery (7pm)

His artwork combines classic art themes and techniques with inspiration from Mexican and Chicano culture of the Southwest, pin-up art, and religious imagery. Mac perceives his own work as "the result of a life devoted to art."...
Sat Aug 8
at The Shooting Gallery (7pm)

Combining his passions for art, travel and tattoos, Shawn Barber has spent the last 4 years touring with tattoo conventions, parlors and renegade artists throughout the US. The ongoing series of "Tattoo Portraits" documents the art of tattoo; the process, the history, the application, the artist and their bodies...
Sat Aug 8 - Sun Aug 9
at Yerba Buena Gardens (11am - 5pm)

The 16th annual Pistahan features seven interactive cultural pavilions and two stages highlighting music, dance, art, crafts, cuisine, artifacts, health and a trade expo featuring products unique to the Philippines: mother of pearl, bamboo, coconut, Philippine mahogany, pineapple fiber, Philippine pearls and more...
Gallery Openings
Wednesday, Aug 5
Free Day!
at Exploratorium (10am - 5pm)
Wednesday, Aug 5
Word: A Group Exhibition
at Andrea Schwartz Gallery (5:30pm - 7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
"Faces Of Life" New Works By El Mac
at Fifty 24SF Gallery (7pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Werkstatte: First Thursdays
at Otis Lounge (5pm - 9pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
"In the In Between"
at Hang Art (6pm - 8pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Control: 79 California Women (only) Artists
at SomArts Cultural Center (6pm - 8pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Oy Vey! Thursday
at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (5pm - 8pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Project T.H.E.R.E.
at W San Francisco XYZ Lounge (4:30pm - 7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film
at (YBCA) Screening Room (7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
New Frequencies
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (6pm)
Friday, Aug 7
City Art's August Exhibition
at City Art Cooperative Gallery (7pm - 10pm)
Friday, Aug 7 Cont.
"It's Still Life"
at RayKo Photo Center (6pm - 8pm)
Friday, Aug 7
Artist-Xchange August Group
at Artist-Xchange (7pm - 10pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
Suicide Machine
at Gallery Three (7pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
New Works By Shawn Barber
at The Shooting Gallery (7pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
Flotsam's Wonder Tonic
at Soap Gallery (6pm - 9pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
3-Minute Film Festival and Black Tie Gala
at Root Division (7pm - 11pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
Art Deco Hat Making Workshop
at Private studio, Location TBA after registration (noon - 4pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
"Egoless"
at Femina Potens (7:30pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
Street and Sky
at mina dresden (6pm - 8pm)
Tuesday, Aug 11
Transitioning Careers & Industries
at Varnish Fine Art (6:30pm)
Tuesday, Aug 11
"Promotion"
at North of Market Tenderloin CBD Center (7pm - 9pm)
Theater/Dance
Wednesday, Aug 5
South Pathetic
at New Conservatory Theatre (8pm)
Wednesday, Aug 5
Cirque Noir
at Madrone (9pm - late)
Wednesday, Aug 5
What's Your Answer!?
at Chez Poulet Gallery (8pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
In My Corner
at Intersection for the Arts (8pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Let's Go Dance
at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (6pm - 7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
Caro Diallo, master dancer
at Dance Mission Theatre (7pm - 8:30pm)
Friday, Aug 7
Raas for a Cause
at 111 Minna Gallery (9pm - 1:30am)
Friday, Aug 7
Deano's Rat Pak Tribute
at JLaChic Theatre39 (8pm)
Friday, Aug 7 Cont.
Fundraiser for "Default: The Student Loan Documentary"
at Shelton Theater (10pm)
Friday, Aug 7
Zhukov Dance Theatre's Second Season
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (8pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
Naked Comedy!
at The Clubhouse (9pm)
Saturday, Aug 8
Shy Men and the Women Who Love Them
at Hyatt Regency (7:30pm - midnight)
Sunday, Aug 9
2nd Sunday - August
at Mission Rock Cafˇ (noon - 10pm)
Sunday, Aug 9
Groovin
at Roccapulco (2pm - 7pm)
Sunday, Aug 9
Hello, Folly! Revue
at Amnesia (8pm - 1am)
Sunday, Aug 9
Tango Harmony
at Community Music Center (7pm)
Literary Arts
Wednesday, Aug 5
Alia Yunis: The Night Counter
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
ArtXX Magazine Sub-Mission Art/Music Benefit
at Sub-Mission Art Space (9pm)
Thursday, Aug 6
William T. Vollmann: Imperial
at The Booksmith (7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 6 Cont.
Adrienne Kane
at Book Passage (6pm)
Friday, Aug 7
Cherry Bleeds Literary Happy Hour
at The Knockout (6:30pm - 9:30pm)
Monday, Aug 10
The August Monthly Rumpus
at Make-Out Room (7pm - 10pm)
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