Month: August 2019

National Singles Week Celebration Start Date: Sunday 9/15/2019 — End Date: Sunday 9/15/2019 Admission:10 Kickoff National Singles Week, September 15-21, at this fun party! This is the only week of the year that honors America’s 110 million singles. There are more single adults living, working, and yes, still breathing, in the United States than ever before in history. In 2017, the U.S. census reported that’s 45.2 percent of the American adult population is unmarried. Only $10 at the door includes a fun Mixer Game, which makes it EASY to meet people; accompanied by appetizers, served at 4pm, as long as they last. Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress! Sunday, September 15, 2019, 4-6pm. LOCATION: Fattoria e Mare, 1095 Rollins Road, Burlingame CA 94010. From Hwy 101 take Broadway exit. Free parking. SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization and the official sponsor of National Singles Week. Co-sponsored by many singles meetups. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •The Summer Ball at The Fairmont, Aug 24, San Francisco •Russian River Kayak & Canoe, Aug 31, Healdsburg •East Bay Singles Convention, Sep 1, Pleasanton •Singles Pizza Night, Sep 4, Corte Madera •Manthers/Cougars Party, Sep 8, Cupertino •Astrological Matchmaking Party, Sep 28, Silicon Valley •No Rejection Dance, Oct 19, Redwood City •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Mill Valley Location: 1095 Rollins Rd Burlingame Gardens Burlingame Contact: Rich Gosse richgosse@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse Start Date: Friday 11/15/2019 — End Date: Monday 11/23/2020 Admission:0 Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse On view November 15–ongoing The Tower at SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus Opening Reception: Friday, November 15 | 5–8pm The art collective Postcommodity presents The Point of Final Collapse, a sound installation and broadly conceptual work intended as a reprieve from the economic stresses and dangers of a city in the throes of radical social, cultural, architectural, and economic transformation. The collective focuses its indigenous lens on San Francisco’s sinking Millennium Tower as a metaphor for inequitable and irrational socio-economic systems that defy expectations of the land. Even more, the work highlights the cognitive dissonance of San Francisco’s technocracy in relationship to the city’s ongoing spiritual quest for restoration and self-care. The installation uses computational algorithms that parse data representing the movement of the Tower. This movement data is then mapped to healing ASMR audio and soothing binaural beats, transforming the sonification of the sinking and tilting of the Millennium Tower into therapeutic and sacred sounds. Long Range Acoustic Devices, installed in the tower at SFAI’s historic Chestnut Street Campus, will subtly broadcast this indeterminate and generative multichannel sound composition to North Beach and downtown San Francisco for short durational intervals each day, almost imperceptibly encouraging San Franciscans in search of comfort, security, and stability to relax. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Postcommodity is an indigenous art collective composed of SFAI Art + Technology Chair Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist. Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere. The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: 18th Biennale of Sydney in Sydney, AUS; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; documenta14, Athens, GR and Kassel, DE; and their historic land art installation at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SON. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Postcommodity is the recipient of the 2019 Harker Award for Interdisciplinary Studies, that supports artists-in-residence at SFAI. The Harker Award was established through a generous bequest by artist and SFAI faculty member Ann Chamberlain and is administered by the San Francisco Foundation. Past residents include Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Katrin Sigurdardóttir, and Michael Jones McKean. SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs are made possible by the generosity of donors and sponsors, including the Harker Fund of The San Francisco Foundation, Institute of Museums and Library Services, Grants for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Work Fund, Koret Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and Fort Point Beer Company. Ongoing support is provided by the McBean Distinguished Lecture and Residency Fund, The Buck Fund, and the Visiting Artist Fund of the SFAI Endowment. Image: Postcommodity, With Each Incentive, 2019. Image courtesy of Postcommodity. Location: 800 Chestnut Street (between Jones and Leavenworth) San Francisco Contact: exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/exhibitions-public-events/detail/postcommodity-the-point-of-final-collapse

More Than 700 Years: A conversation between curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción and SFAI Faculty Start Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 — End Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 Admission:0 VISITING ARTISTS + SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES More Than 700 Years: A conversation between curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción and SFAI Faculty Members Refreshments available before the talk from 5–6pm, followed by a closing reception from 7:30–9pm. A faculty exhibition, by its very nature, is a model of the teaching community of the institution that produces it and hosts it. More Than 700 Years, the title of the SFAI 2019 Faculty Exhibition, springs from the summation of time invested by each participating faculty member; an amalgam of years of activity both in the studio and in the classroom. In this way, the showcase is an intersection of education, nuanced artistic labor, and dedication. For this Visiting Artist and Scholars lecture, More Than 700 Years curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción will lead a panel discussion with SFAI faculty members to reflect on the role of the teaching artist in the Bay Area. This conversation pulls from the work in the accompanying exhibition while expanding on the individual artist’s experience navigating between these worlds. More Than 700 Years runs from June 4 to September 1, 2019 Closing Reception: Thursday, August 29 | 7:30-9pm at SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus Extended Gallery hours: 11am–9pm ABOUT THE CURATOR Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción (b. 1981, Puerto Rico) is an independent curator and artist based in San Francisco, California, and founder of Cranium Corporation, a platform that promotes the work of artists and exhibitions that prompt critical conversations about environmental, political, and socioeconomic realities of today. In 2015, Vázquez-Concepción obtained a Master’s degree in curatorial practice from the California College of the Arts. In San Francisco and Oakland, he has contributed exhibitions to the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Minnesota Street Project, CTRL+SHFT Collective, the Red Poppy Art House, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, the GLBT History Museum, and ProArts. More Than 700 Years podcast series: Listen to the latest SFAI Faculty interviews with Curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción ? Location: 800 Chestnut Street (between Jones and Leavenworth) San Francisco Contact: exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/more-than-700-years-a-conversation-between-curator-angel-raf

Kick It Outdoor Adventure Winter Camp Start Date: Friday 12/20/2019 — End Date: Friday 1/3/2020 Admission:$260 Stay active all day with fitness and social behavioral skills, eat healthy and delicious fuel sustaining food, participate in games that offer self-defense and martial arts and hike in local, regional and Bay Area parks! Location: 7231 B Healdsburg Ave Sebastopol Contact: Santa Rosa Rec activityguide@srcity.org URL: https://srcity.org/917/Winter-Camps

Gymnastics Winter Camp Start Date: Wednesday 11/27/2019 — End Date: Friday 1/3/2020 Admission:$60 Expect lots of flipping, jumping, swinging and climbing in this exciting camp! Activities include tumbling, movie day, crafts, game day and rock climbing. Location: 2210 Bluebell Drive Santa Rosa Contact: Santa Rosa Rec moconnor@srcity.org URL: https://srcity.org/917/Winter-Camps

Winter Camp Wa-Tam Start Date: Monday 12/30/2019 — End Date: Friday 1/3/2020 Admission:$160 Activities include baking, arts and crafts, games, skits, a field trip and special guest! On Friday, campers prepare their own delicious meal and then perform an awesome theater program for friends and relatives! Location: 630 Summerfield Road Santa Rosa Contact: Santa Rosa Rec activityguide@srcity.org URL: https://srcity.org/917/Winter-Camps

AXA Traveling Art Prize Exhibition Start Date: Friday 9/6/2019 — End Date: Friday 9/6/2019 Admission:0 AXA Traveling Art Prize Exhibition On view: September 6–October 6 Private Reception: Thursday, September 12 | 5–8pm The AXA Art Prize, formerly the XL Catlin Art Prize, shines a spotlight on the re-emergence of figurative art in the contemporary art world. Now in its second year in North America, the prize is founded on a 10-year legacy of a previous prize which was established in the UK and recognized young artists through a prestigious London exhibition and catalogue publication. Over a decade the prize established a strong reputation as an insightful overview of emerging talent and has continued to build on that position of credibility in North America. The AXA Art Prize is comprised of three exhibitions, taking place in San Francisco, Chicago and New York, and a printed catalogue, all designed to showcase the finalists’ work. The contest provides a unique platform for new artistic talent and gives the next generation of figurative artists the perfect forum in which to launch their careers. Congratulations to SFAI student Jusun Jessie Seo, who has been selected as one of our 40 finalists for this year’s competition! The shortlisted artists, nine young men and 31 young women, are enrolled at 30 different schools. The artists hail from 14 different states and three countries. Four schools have multiple shortlisted artists: California College of the Arts and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University both have two, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has three, and the New York Academy of Art has seven finalists. Three artists who made the 2018 shortlist were accepted once again in 2019: Merritt Barnwell of Yale University and Luisiana Mera and Prinston Nnanna of the New York Academy of Art. Submissions for the Prize were first reviewed by regional jurors from the Prize’s Strategic Advisory Board of 34 major art schools and programs in the U.S. The final 40 works in the exhibition, which include paintings, drawings and prints, were chosen by an exhibition jury comprised of regional jurors from across the US and four exhibition jurors from the MET, MoMa, The Whitney, and New Museum. To learn more, please visit www.axaxl.com. Location: 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco Contact: exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/exhibitions-public-events/detail/axa-traveling-art-prize-exhibition

MORE THAN 700 YEARS Start Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 — End Date: Sunday 9/1/2019 Admission:0 More Than 700 Years: SFAI Faculty Exhibition On View: June 7–September 1 Opening Reception: June 7 | 5–8pm at SFAI—Fort Mason Campus Closing Reception: August 29 | 5–9pm at SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus Interviews with curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción. A faculty exhibition, by its very nature, is a model of the teaching community of the institution that produces it and hosts it. More Than 700 Years, the title of the SFAI 2019 Faculty Exhibition, springs from the summation of time invested by each participating faculty member; an amalgam of years of activity both in the studio and in the classroom. In this way, the showcase is an intersection of education, nuanced artistic labor, and dedication. The exhibition is an opening of a window into a contingent space — a convergence of incidents and objects that braid together the practices of the community that imparts knowledge and experience at SFAI. More Than 700 Years — spanning both campuses at Fort Mason Center and Chestnut Street — is also a sweet farewell to the graduating class of 2019, a playful wink to returning students, and a warm welcome to the incoming class of 2020. It is the reboot of a lost tradition of faculty exhibitions at SFAI, and a fresh approach to it as well. As a survey, this exhibition is the product of collaboration between the artists, curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, and the SFAI exhibitions team. Each piece is representative of current investigations in the teaching artist’s studio. More Than 700 Years includes 28 artists: At SFAI—Fort Mason Campus: Johnna Arnold, Elizabeth Bernstein, Timothy Berry, Brad Brown, Luke Butler, James Claussen, Kerry Laitala, Mads Lynnerup, Felicita Norris, Jordan Reznick, Kate Rhoades, and Meredith Tromble. At the Walter and McBean Galleries: Chris Bell, Mark Brest van Kempen, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Linda Connor, Sofía Córdova, John de Fazio, Ivan Iannoli, Tony Labat, Ryan Peter, J. John Priola, Brett Reichman, Kal Spelletich, Leila Weefur, Lindsey White, and Wanxin Zhang. About the Curator: Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción (b. 1981, Puerto Rico) is an independent curator and artist based in San Francisco, California, and founder of Cranium Corporation, a platform that promotes the work of artists and exhibitions that prompt critical conversations about environmental, political, and socioeconomic realities of today. In 2015, Vázquez-Concepción obtained a Master’s degree in curatorial practice from the California College of the Arts. In San Francisco and Oakland, he has contributed exhibitions to the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Minnesota Street Project, CTRL+SHFT Collective, the Red Poppy Art House, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, the GLBT History Museum, and ProArts. Location: 800 Chestnut Street (between Jones and Leavenworth) San Francisco Contact: Walter and McBean Galleries, Main Gallery at Fort Mason exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/exhibitions-public-events/detail/more-than-700-years

VNote Ensemble Start Date: Saturday 10/12/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/12/2019 Admission:$20 advance / $25 day of show Celebrate the release of The VNote Ensemble’s newest album Conexion at Rhythmix Cultural Works. Hailed for their spirited performances and fascinating fusion of Venezuelan folk music with adventurous jazz explorations, the VNote Ensemble gives voice to the hidden treasure of Venezuelan music. Blending original compositions, keen arrangements, and excellent musicianship, VNote delivers a unique musical sound. Conexion features a variety of music styles from waltz to 5/8 merengue, from calypso to swing, from Afro-Venezuelan drumming to Caribbean cha-cha, making the “conexion” between folk-traditional Venezuelan music and jazz with contemporary and urban sounds. VNote Ensemble Members: Jackeline Rago: Venezuelan cuatro, bandola llanera, percussion and vocals Donna Viscuso: flute Michaelle Goerlitz: percussion Dan Feiszli: acoustic and electric bass With Special guest TBA. Doors open at 7:00pm with traditional Venezuelan arepas available for purchase from Miss Arepita. “A taste of Venezuela & Oakland,” Miss Arepita’s arepas are gluten free, handmade grilled corn meal pockets, crunchy outside and moist on the inside, stuffed with delicious accompaniments! Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/vnote-ensemble-2019/

Astrological Matchmaking Party Start Date: Saturday 9/28/2019 — End Date: Saturday 9/28/2019 Admission:15-30 Meet new friends at this fun party! We will let you know with whom you are compatible tonight, and, more importantly, whom to avoid! Dance to your favorite hits with one of our top DJs. Adults of all ages welcome for the Astrological Party and Dance, 8:30pm-Midnight. Dress to impress. Saturday, September 28, 2019. BONUS: Professional astrologers and psychics will provide FREE mini-readings. Please note: Because so many singles will want the readings, they will be brief and first-come, first-serve. There may not be time for everyone. OPTIONAL SPEED DATING for ages 30-55 only, 7-8:30pm. COST: $15/advance (by Sep 27) or $20/door for Party & Dance only, 8:30pm-Midnight. $25/advance (by Sep 27) or $30/door for Party, Dance, and Speed Dating (ages 30-55) only, 7pm-Midnight. LOCATION: Crowne Plaza Hotel Silicon Valley, Sevens Restaurant, 777 Bellew Drive, Milpitas CA 95035. Especially convenient for our East Bay and Silicon Valley singles, because it is located at the junction of Hwy 880 and Hwy 237. Free parking! CO-SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, San Francisco Singles, SF Bay Area Singles Events, Single Professionals Internet Network (SPiN), Singles with Advanced Degrees, Backroads Wine and Nature Adventures, Single n’ Professional, Hidden Backroads Adventures, Your Asian Connection, 40+ Singles, Cougar Events, Lifestyle Parties, Bay Area Singles Travel, Cougar Meetup, Indie Tom’s Hidden Backroads, Bay Area Single Boomers, Palo Alto Ballroom Dancing, Bay Area Asian Women, Backroads Wine Waterfall Adventures, etc. Expect a big crowd! DISCOUNTS and more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Singles Happy Hour, Aug 17, Orinda •The Summer Ball at The Fairmont, Aug 24, San Francisco •Singles Pizza Night, Sep 4, Corte Madera •East Bay Singles Convention, Sep 1, Pleasanton •Manthers/Cougars Party, Sep 8, Cupertino •National Singles Week Kickoff Party, Sep 15, Burlingame •Astrological Matchmaking Party & Dance, Sep 28, Silicon Valley •No Rejection Dance, Oct 19, Redwood City •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Mill Valley Location: 777 Bellew Dr Milpitas Milpitas Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: https://www.thepartyhotline.com