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Wed Aug 13 - Tue Aug 19, 2008
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Wed Aug 13 - Thu Aug 14
at CounterPULSE (7pm)

For two months this summer, CounterPULSE will provide an artistic home for teenage girls exploring strength, independence and advocacy through the practice of aerial dance. Flying newspapers and an oversized scale of justice take on special political meaning as girls from San Francisco's Oasis for Girls Summer Arts Apprenticeship team up in a unique collaboration with CounterPULSE and Jo Kreiter's Flyaway Productions.
Fri Aug 15
at D.A. Arts (7pm - 10pm)

This visually overwhelming installation is set to a black room filled with painted words and phrases in old english style, various portraits, and infamous masked figures from floor to ceiling, wall to wall...
Fri Aug 15
at Apartment 24 (9pm)

Featuring new Lady Noir and Alpha Male designs along with the latest from Rockband. Complimentary Snow Queen vodka drinks until 10:30pm. Gourmet bites by Top Chef contestant, Ryan Scott...
Fri Aug 15
at Intersection for the Arts (8pm)

An intersection and interplay with the audience, sonic objects, motion sensors, sonic visualizations and dance. N_DREW will create a real-time audio/visual ecosystem with invented objects, sampling sounds and teasing interactions with the audience. Kinesthetech Sense creates interactive self-sensing sound and video with the body and movement. N_DREW will discuss his A/V interactive sensor work and Kinesthetic Sense will discuss their dance and sensor work following performances.
Sat Aug 16
at Oakland Museum of California (11am - 5pm)

Some of the Bay Area's deadliest wordsmiths are women. Youth Speaks brings them together for an intergenerational head-to-head spoken-word battle. DJs, graffiti artists, Youth Uprising's turf dancers, and filmmakers from Youth Uprising and East Bay Asian Cultural Center show their stuff.
Sat Aug 16
at Southern Exposure (2pm - 5pm)

Southern Exposure invites the community to celebrate the opening of the INsight OUT, an exhibition of work created during Mission Voices Summer 2008, that reveals layers of the self, from looking inside out, and outside in. Youth artists tackle the issues of stereotypes and individuality through photography, installation, silk screening, sculpture, drawing, mapping, model-making, painting, collage, and sound engineering.
Sun Aug 17
at Julia Morgan Center for the Arts (5pm)

A class of tender aged dancers known as Gotipuas began performing Odissi for the masses to convey the spiritual stories, while the Maharis (temple dancers) continued the tradition within the temples. Odissi is an expressive and sophisticated art form, which features poetic nuance and fanciful storytelling...
Gallery Openings
Wednesday, Aug 13
Humanscape
at The Lab (6pm - 9pm)
Wednesday, Aug 13
Lapdancer
at The Lab (6pm - 9pm)
Wednesday, Aug 13
Yet To Be Determined
at The Lab (6pm - 9pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Constructed
at Creative Growth (5pm - 8pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Tasty
at Creativity Explored (7pm - 9pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Timeless
at Reaves Gallery (5pm - 8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Oro Universal
at Space Gallery (8pm - late)
Friday, Aug 15
Chaos A.D.
at D.A. Arts (7pm - 10pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Paper Pushers
at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight (7pm - 10pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Triangulation
at San Francisco City Hall (5:30pm - 8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Current State Of Affairs
at Market Street Gallery (6pm - 8pm)
Friday, Aug 15 Cont.
Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship
at SF Center For the Book (6pm - 8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Laureano Faedi
at 20 GOTO 10 (7pm - 10pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Jesse Nicholson
at Atlas Café (7pm - 10pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
Ian Johnson
at Park Life (7pm - 10pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
Jab
at Patricia Sweetow Gallery (2am - 4pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
Japanese Wolf
at The Shooting Gallery (7pm - 11pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
INsight OUT
at Southern Exposure (2pm - 5pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
2-D/3-D Show
at Neon Monster (3pm - 7pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
2-D/3-D Show
at Fabric 8 (5pm - 9pm)
Sunday, Aug 17
Show and Tell
at Climate Theater (7pm)
Theater/Dance
Wednesday, Aug 13
Truth Tellers
at CounterPULSE (7pm)
Wednesday, Aug 13
2008 Bay Area Tap Festival
at San Francisco Dance Center (9am - 6pm)
Wednesday, Aug 13
Donald Lacy's Color Struck
at The Marsh (7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
I Feel A Thong Coming On
at New Conservatory Theatre (8pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
at Oracle Arena & McAfee Coliseum (7:30pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Sharon Mashihi, Jaimie Venci, Susan Kanga & Observational Science
at The Garage, 975 Howard (8pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Beers! and BBoys!
at Element Lounge (9pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
RAWdance Happy Hour Party
at El Rio (6pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
My Strange Nation
at Dragon Theatre (8pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Madhouse Rhythm
at Climate Theater (8pm)
Thursday, Aug 14
Laugh Orgy w/ Chris Garcia in North Beach SF
at Grant & Green (9pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Friends Are Forever
at New Conservatory Theatre (8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
The 2008 Bay Area Rhythm Exchange
at Herbst Theatre (8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
What They Seem: A Fantasy Opera
at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Subterranean Comedy V
at The Dark Room Theatre (8pm)
Friday, Aug 15
The Listener
at The Ashby Stage (8pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
The August 2008 Gaskell Ball
at Scottish Rite Center (8:30pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
"1968"
at The Marsh (2pm & 7pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
The Hitler Roast
at Eureka Theatre (10pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
Julie Goldman's Offensive Woman
at 142 Throckmorton Theatre (8pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
Things We Made
at The Dark Room Theatre (8pm)
Saturday, Aug 16
Freedomland
at Theatre in the Woods (1pm)
Sunday, Aug 17
Devi Mystic Goddess, Classical Indian Odissi Dance
at Julia Morgan Center for the Arts (5pm)
Sunday, Aug 17
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad
at Red Devil Lounge (8pm)
Sunday, Aug 17
Lewis Black
at The Mountain Winery (7:30pm)
Monday, Aug 18
Giovanna Capone and Jan Steckel
at Priya Indian Cuisine (7pm)
Tuesday, Aug 19
The 8-Legged Monster
at Climate Theater (8pm)
Tuesday, Aug 19
Pink Slip: A Drag Cabaret Experiment
at The Stud (11pm)
Literary Arts
Thursday, Aug 14
Queer And Catholic
at San Francisco Public Library (6pm)
Friday, Aug 15
Gustav Niebuhr: Beyond Tolerance
at Grace Cathedral (7pm)
Friday, Aug 15
An Evening with Joyce Goldstein
at Rakestraw Books (7pm)
Sunday, Aug 17
Wordplay: Publishing Demystified
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (10am-2pm)
Monday, Aug 18
Giovanna Capone and Jan Steckel
at Priya Indian Cuisine (7pm)
Monday, Aug 18
Silhouettes: Writers Explore the Boundaries Between Light and Shadow
at Mama Buzz (7:30pm)
Monday, Aug 18
Glenna Matthews
at San Jose Repertory Theatre (6pm)
Tuesday, Aug 19
Tommy Chong for Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Biography
at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza (7pm)
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