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Maze Daiko: Japanese Taiko and Beyond Start Date: Saturday 11/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 11/9/2019 Admission:Adults: $20 advance / $25 day of show, Kid (12 & u Maze Daiko is an Alameda-based ensemble that is inspired to fuse culturally diverse sonic textures and melodies with the physical elegance and discipline of taiko. Maze combines Japanese taiko with East African Shona marimba, West African djembe, Persian santur, Brazilian zabumba, Middle Eastern doumbek, and European violin to create a unique and innovative sound. Seiichi Tanka, the father of North American taiko, has described Maze as “pioneers” of the art form. The evening will include guest artists, Brenda Wong Aoki, the first Asian Pacific Storyteller to receive the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network accompanied by Emmy winning Asian American Jazz musician Mark Izu. And as a special feature, Maze Daiko and Ed Holmes (SF Mime Troupe) will premier an excerpt from Island City Waterways 2020. Maze Daiko: Japanese Taiko and Beyond is presented as part of Rhythmix Island Arts Concert Series honoring island traditions from around the world, on the island of Alameda. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/maze-daiko-japanese-taiko

Writers With Drinks featuring Yangsze Choo and Evan Ramzipoor Start Date: Saturday 9/14/2019 — End Date: Saturday 9/14/2019 Admission:$5 to $20 September's Writers With Drinks features Yangsze Choo, author of The Night Tiger, and Evan Ramzipoor, author of the debut historical novel The Ventriloquists. Shelly Oria reads from her new #MeToo-themed anthology, Indelible in the Hippocampus. Also featuring Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga and the Exo series. Plus Molly Tanzer (Creatures of Want and Ruin) and Pete Bailey (Trans Homo…Gasp! Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love). Charlie Jane Anders hosts. Location: 3225 22nd St Mission District San Francisco Contact: Charlie Jane Anders charlieanders2@gmail.com URL: http://www.writerswithdrinks.com

Café Flamenco Start Date: Sunday 10/27/2019 — End Date: Sunday 10/27/2019 Admission:Adults: $20 advance / $25 day of show, Kid (12 & u Voted “Best Flamenco” Show in Alameda Magazine’s Best of Alameda 2017 Café Flamenco returns to Rhythmix with a fiery fiesta of world-class flamenco dance and music presented by Caminos Flamencos. Intense, yet passionate, Emmy Award-winning dancer/choreographer Yaelisa presents her spirited troupe of internationally renowned flamenco artists, including Music Director Jason McGuire “El Rubio” and special guests. Join us for this fun and exciting evening of family-friendly world-class flamenco in the intimate peña-style setting of Rhythmix Cultural Works’ theater along with tasty paella and delicious sangria! Olé! Doors open early at 6 pm. Savory Spanish paella freshly prepared by Paul’s Paella with seafood and vegetarian options are available and come served with a side salad for $10 per plate. Refreshing beverages and other items are also available for purchase. Advance tickets are recommended. This show will sell out. All ages are welcome. Kids and families encouraged. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/cafe-flamenco-2019/

Live Organ & A Movie: Silent Films Start Date: Thursday 9/19/2019 — End Date: Thursday 9/19/2019 Admission:$6.50 Join us for our Live Organ & A Movie series. Hosted by Matias Bombal and music played by Dave Moreno. This series combines live organ music, raffles, and a classic movie all rolled into one. A selection of silent short comedies from the 1920’s. Habieas Corpus (1928) Laurel & Hardy Cops (1922) Buster Keaton One A.M. (1916) Charlie Chaplin Bumping Into Broadway (1919) Harold Lloyd Bonus – Little Rascals Silent Short Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: Janis Glover info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

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