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One Grass Two Grass + Grateful Bluegrass Boys Start Date: Friday 8/16/2019 — End Date: Saturday 8/17/2019 Admission:$10/$12 ONE GRASS TWO GRASS (Bay Area) One Grass Two Grass delivers high energy, hard driving, fun-loving, old-timey, new-timey, good-timey, rockin’ California string band music. One Grass Two Grass forges its own style of folk meets old-time, meets rock, meets bluegrass. Cushioned by a bed of old mountain tunes and a dash of stomping rock and roll, they bring strings to the times and their music is sure to have you swaying with your lover, stomping with your brother, smiling with your mother, and having just a plain old good time with one another. http://www.onegrasstwograss.com/ GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS (Bay Area) This hot string band plays traditional bluegrass versions of classic rock favorites from bands such as the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, The Eagles, Rolling Stones and more. These songs, combined with classic bluegrass and country tunes, consistently have audiences singing and dancing along the whole show. The band is a whos who of Bay Area pickers and singers, featuring member of Hot Buttered Rum, David Thom Band, Vintage Grass, David Grisman, Dusty Green Bones Band, the Cherry Pickers, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Achilles Wheel, Rusty Stringfield, and Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys. https://gratefulbluegrass.com Location: 860 San Pablo Ave Albany Contact: Shelby shelby@shelbyashpresents.net URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/375384606657276/

Diaspora Voiced: Opening Reception Start Date: Saturday 9/14/2019 — End Date: Saturday 9/14/2019 Admission:free Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14th, 4–6:30pm Exhibition Dates: September 9 – November 1, 2019 Rhythmix Cultural Works and K Gallery, in collaboration with curator Michelle Nye, present DIASPORA VOICED – A Bay Area Juried Art Exhibition, showcasing 19 diverse Bay Area artists. The entire exhibition runs September 9th – November 1st with an opening reception on Saturday, September 14th from 4:00-6:30pm. The Tate defines diaspora as “a term used to describe movements in population from one country to another and is often cited in discussions about identity.” The melting pot of the Bay Area offers opportunities for individuals and communities to cross, merge, and hybridize. Each person constructs a unique identity much like a collage artist composes a cohesive whole out of varied and juxtaposed parts. Touching on these themes, the selected artists energize the space with a range of personal and collective explorations, creating an exhibition mirroring the ways peoples migrate, settle, and thrive: from reflections on ancestral traditions, to depictions of the journey of refugees, to abstracted memories of native landscapes and missed family members, to celebrations of personal freedoms. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/diaspora-voiced/

Alex Jimenez / Matt Jaffe / Terese Taylor / Thunderegg Start Date: Saturday 8/31/2019 — End Date: Saturday 8/31/2019 Admission:10 January 2019 saw the release of Alex Jimenez’ new EP ‘Inside’. The album is a personal journey. one that has its roots with the death of his childhood friend in 2012. It was an event that would inspire the title track of the new EP. ‘Inside’ is notable for it’s sound. Gone are Alex’ acoustic guitar undertones replaced with layers of electric guitar, breathing new life into old tunes like ‘Elana’ and ‘Voices, and transforming others. Riff Magazine describes ‘Thingamahoo’, the first single, as a song that ‘tells a story of distant past and joyful memories, [which] really stands out when the guitars come out heavy and full. Jimenez’ style of 90’s power pop has never sounded better.’ Alex will be joined by his full band. Lindy LaFontaine, whose help with arrangement is always invaluable, will join on keyboards and harmonies, Reese Douglas on guitar, and André Custodio on drums. Oakland Riviera is the former Freeway Recording Studio, and has a rich Oakland music history. Artists who rehearsed and recorded there include Tower of Power, Sly Stone, the Escovedos, B. B. King, Irma Thomas, Eddie Money, and Tony! Toni! Tone!. It is now the musical home of jazz bassist Dan Keller and Survivor Sound. Oakland Riviera is a smallish venue, with a comfortable capacity of 50. We are asking for a $10-20 donation. 100% tickets sales are going directly to the artists. Info & RSVP at acoustic.noize@gmail.com. There is no bar, so this is a BYOB event. There will be water and some other things, but please bring drink and food to share. Alex is VERY stoked and honored to be sharing this evening with 3 rocking local artists, Matt Jaffe, Terese Taylor, and Thunderegg! August is also Alex’ birthday month, so we are set for a fantastic evening of rock! Hope you can join us. —- Alex Jimenez http://alexjimenezmusic.com/ A product of the early San Francisco indie music scene, Alex Jimenez has spent the majority of his life creating music to share with his fellow musicians and community. An avid guitar player and singer, Alex is currently focusing on his solo work, a blend of 90’s power pop meets gritty blues. He made the transition from bass player in the 90’s to songwriter in 2001, when he wrote his first 5 songs back to back. He subsequently formed the acoustic duo Ms.Quito with artist/performer Allison Hennessey. In 2012, he released his first album ‘The Acoustik Projekt’, with songwriter/conga player Mark Edgar. That same year, his 2 year, fifteen show odyssey, The Usual Suspects Songwriter Showcase, became a critical favorite, showcasing some of the Bay Area’s finest talent. He has also been seen moonlighting as Thunderegg’s full time rocking bass player. Alex’ new EP, ‘Inside’, was produced and engineered by Ryan Clark, and mixed by Paul Miner at Buzzbomb Studios. He is currently writing songs for his next full length album. Matt Jaffe http://www.mattjaffemusic.com/ Matt Jaffe is a singer/songwriter from San Francisco. Cutting his teeth on open mics around the Bay Area, Matt started taking music (a little bit) more seriously when Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads offered to produce his first record. Since then, Matt has churned out more songs than he can remember the words to, oversaturated the market with gigs (opening for the likes of Mavis Staples and Jackie Greene), and collaborated with the likes of Chuck Prophet and Tom Higgenson of the Plain White T’s. Having toured the country playing places like The Fillmore and your local hipster’s basement, Matt is back in the studio with his band, readying his fourth record and preparing to bring the guitar gospel back to the masses. Terese Taylor https://www.teresetaylor.com/ Terese Taylor’s music describes a personal world – or maybe series of worlds – that is dark, stark and cynical. Or perhaps, she is simply laying reality out in front of us as she sees it and letting us interpret her images through our own lens. Or maybe both at once. That is the genius of Terese Taylor, a songwriter and musical artist who uses her lyrics to paint sharp, steel cut images of life that upon closer inspection can be ambiguous. The same goes for her music. Is it rock, folk, country, or punk… or something that is simply Terese Taylor, best enjoyed without analysis? Thunderegg https://thunderegg.org/ Half San Francisco, half Oakland, all rock, Thunderegg has recorded nearly 20 albums since 1994. Influenced by bands including Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Teenage Fanclub, and the Boo Radleys, the Egg takes simple, melodic tunes with sharp lyrics and swirls them up with layers of guitars. Thunderegg is the band and longtime recording project of Will Georgantas, based for many years in Brooklyn, now operating out of San Francisco/ Oakland. There have been 20 Thunderegg albums since 1994, some recorded with a full band, some recorded solo to four-track cassette, but the latest, May 2018’s ‘Cosmos’, is the first one to be released on vinyl. Produced by Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Magnolia Electric Co.) ‘Cosmos’ is the Egg’s deepest plunge yet into space, blending the usual clever lyrics, sweet melodies, and ragged rocking with a layered roar that begs to be blasted. Location: 2248 International Blvd Oakland Contact: Alex Jimenez acoustic.noize@gmail.com URL: https://www.bandsintown.com/e/101375815

East Bay Singles Convention Start Date: Sunday 9/1/2019 — End Date: Sunday 9/1/2019 Admission:15-20 EAST BAY SINGLES CONVENTION Labor Day Sunday, September 1, 2019 Our largest East Bay party of 2019 is on the Sunday before Labor Day, so no one has to worry about going to work Monday morning! Most singles do NOT go out of town over the holiday weekend and are looking for something fun to do. This is it! $15/advance (by Aug 31) or $20/door. Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. Sunday, September 1, 2019. 7:30pm – The East Bay Singles Scene, featuring representatives of the leading local singles organizations and meetups revealing all the fun ways to meet new single friends! 8-11:30pm – Dance to your favorite hits with one of our top DJs! LOCATION: Faz at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 5121 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton CA. Conveniently located near the junction of Hwy 580 and Hwy 680 (Hopyard exit off 580) in the Hacienda Business Park, two miles from BART. Free parking! CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and by many singles meetups. DISCOUNTS and more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Singles TGIF, Aug 9, San Rafael •Vichy Springs Waterfall & Forest, Aug 10, Ukiah •Singles Happy Hour, Aug 17, Orinda •The Summer Ball at The Fairmont, Aug 24, San Francisco Location: 5121 Hopyard Rd Pleasanton Pleasanton Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

OPENING RECEPTION: MIKE HENDERSON: HONEST TO GOODNESS Start Date: Friday 9/20/2019 — End Date: Sunday 11/17/2019 Admission:0 Friday, September 20 | 5–8pm Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus Please join us in celebration of Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness in the Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute’s Chestnut Street Campus—free and open to the public! The exhibition will be on view September 13–November 17, 2019. Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness celebrates the work of pioneering African American artist Mike Henderson (b.1944, Marshall, Mis­souri; lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area), bringing together a selection of key works from a dynamic practice that spans more than fifty years. In 1965, Henderson left behind a rural farming community in the Midwest to attend San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 1969, MFA 1970), where he found a vibrant community of artists and friends that would nourish his creativity for decades to come. Galvanized by a new atmosphere of protest and possibility, the young artist set to work producing a breakthrough series of large-scale, figurative paintings—some overtly political, others joyfully depicting his San Francisco scene. Remarkably, as Henderson was completing his education, works from this series were included in two important exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art: Human Concern / Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art (1969, traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum, 1970) and Contemporary Black Artists in America (1971). These shows brought Henderson’s early works into dialogue with a range of artists concerned with social justice. Henderson received his MFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 1970, a year that marked a dramatic change in the form and content of his work. Like many African American artists searching for new modes of expression following the tumult of the previous decade—Joe Overstreet, Frank Bowling, and Raymond Saunders among them—Henderson left behind his figurative style and turned his artistic vision towards abstraction. In following decades, he developed a set of creative inquiries that continue to fuel his practice to this day. With their lushly built-up surfaces and striking palettes, the more recent paintings included in Honest to Goodness will offer viewers an opportunity to view Henderson’s evolution as he explores the tension between gestural and geometric abstraction. In addition to painting, Henderson is an accomplished blues guitarist and filmmaker. His experimental short films, made from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, have been screened at venues around the world, including recent presentations at the New York Film Festival (Lincoln Center); the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago); and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). A selection of Henderson’s films will be screened at SFAI in conjunction with Honest to Goodness (schedule to follow). Mike Henderson has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973) and two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grants (1989, 1978). His paintings and films have been exhibited in such distinguished institutions as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. The artist will be the subject of a large-scale solo exhibition at the Shrem Manetti Museum, Davis, CA in 2022. Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness is held in tandem with the Tate Modern’s groundbreaking traveling exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, which will be on view at the de Young Museum from November 9, 2019 to March 15, 2020. The San Francisco presentation of Soul of a Nation will feature an important early painting of Henderson’s Non-Violence (1968), which the artist created during his time at SFAI. All works are courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 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: Mike Henderson, Me and the Band, c. 1968, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery. Location: 800 Chestnut St Russian Hill San Francisco Contact: Kat exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-of-mike-henderson-honest-to-goodness-tickets-67536287855

Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Music of Bali Start Date: Saturday 9/21/2019 — End Date: Saturday 9/21/2019 Admission:Adults: $20 advance / $25 day of show, Kid (12 & u Gamelan Sekar Jaya is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. Founded in 1979, this internationally acclaimed group has presented more than four hundred concerts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Indonesia, in venues ranging from New York’s Symphony Space to remote village squares in Bali. The group’s success arises from its devotion to traditional repertoire and its passion for innovation with more than sixty major new works for Gamelan and dance. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/gamelan-sekar-jaya/

Mark Flood: Paintings from the Postwar Era Start Date: Saturday 9/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/26/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold is pleased to present Paintings from the Postwar Era, Mark Flood’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Paintings from the Postwar Era features selections from the Heath series and the Monster series. Mark Flood has been described as irreverent, a prankster, and a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. Some people seem to think that he is criticizing society, or maybe just the art world. Google him. He makes paintings, sculptures, films, videos, and music. The Heath paintings are comprised of collections of internet images jumbled together on printed canvases—funny paintings for a world that has lost its since of humor. They are funny but safe, because no one can really say what they mean. The Monster paintings are hand-paintings on canvas of monsters—monsters of violence. These are paintings about violence in its most abstract form, for a world that is angry and bloodthirsty—paintings for those want justice, revenge, violence and war but are unwilling to expose their own values, lest they end up on the guillotine. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/mark-flood-3/

Downtown San Leandro’s Last “Truth Thursdays” of the Summer! Start Date: Thursday 8/22/2019 — End Date: Thursday 8/22/2019 Admission:Free Downtown San Leandro’s “Truth Thursdays” holds its final event of the summer on Thursday, August 22 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. surrounding the iconic 55-foot Truth is Beauty statue at the San Leandro Tech Campus. The community is invited to celebrate this summer’s last hoorah with an evening of live entertainment, rotating food trucks, beer, wine, recreational games and live music. The theme of the final “Season Bookend” event is to be announced! The “Truth Thursdays” summer event is hosted by Downtown San Leandro and is a series of community-driven events that take place the fourth Thursday of each month until this August. Location: 1600 Alvarado St San Leandro Contact: Davia davia@olivecreativestrategies.com URL: http://downtownsanleandro.com/

Live Organ & A Movie: Dial M For Murder Start Date: Sunday 8/25/2019 — End Date: Sunday 8/25/2019 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. We begin with Dave Moreno playing the theater’s historic Robert Morton Organ with a selection of themed musical pieces. Academy Award winners Grace Kelly and Ray Milland star with Robert Cummings in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers–Dial M for Murder. When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice discovers his rich wife, Margot is having an affair a with handsome American Mark Hallidy, he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected, deadly twist, Tony improvises–implicating Margot for first degree murder in this classic spellbinder. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: Carolyn August info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

Shaina McCoy: A Family Affair Start Date: Saturday 9/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/26/2019 Admission:Free Shaina McCoy A Family Affair September 7 – October 26, 2019 Opening reception: September 7, 5-8 pm Regular hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5 pm Ever Gold [Projects] presents A Family Affair, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Minneapolis-based artist Shaina McCoy. The exhibition features McCoy’s newest series of portrait paintings, which offer a constellation of tenderness and reverence based on the photographic archive of a black American family. Within this collection, she traces her own family heritage using a signature style of thick, glossy brush strokes and almost featureless faces. Each painting is based on a photograph from the McCoy family album and is rendered with bold and affectionate gestures. McCoy’s technique, through firmly influenced by the traditions of Impressionism, has a unique capacity to hover over the precipice of familiarity and anonymity; she gives her audience just enough information for a spark of recognition, be it a face, a shirt, or a room, while also withholding the bristling realism that we are so accustomed to in our increasingly high-definition world. Her images function more like memories or afterimages than documentation. The usual requisite sentimentality of such personal work is reserved, even concealed, by the lack of recognizable facial features, which are perhaps only hinted at with a particular swoosh this way or that. McCoy’s style of portraiture, at once gooey and flat, rejects a paradigm of artificial facial recognition, one in which our cherished images of loved ones are played back as automated, premade slideshow templates set to generic stock music. Instead, what she offers is both an honest record of a specific family and a relatable surface for the memories of others—a placeholder where one can project their own faded, idealized, or troubled visions of relatives posing, eating, and gathering across generations. In the current moment, the threshold between private and public identity is blurrier than ever and our relationship to the preservation and ownership of our own images is constantly being contested. If social media platforms capitalize on our archival impulses and our use of image-making for the construction of social identities, then it is a precarious contract between the needs of the user and those of the corporations who manage, distribute, and ultimately control their circulation. In A Family Affair, McCoy has taken up the task of rerouting the power dynamic of this situation and has taken the act of photographic remembrance and identification into her own hands. What she has unearthed is a map for finding our way back to ourselves. Shaina McCoy (b. 1993, Minneapolis, MN) began painting while studying at the Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, MN) in 2012. She attended Normandale Community College from 2013-2014, and graduated with an Associate of Arts from Minneapolis Community and Technical College in 2018. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, CA), Gildar Gallery (Denver, CO), Art4Shelter (Minneapolis, MN), PLOT (Minneapolis, MN), and City Wide Artists Gallery (Minneapolis, MN). McCoy lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/shaina-mccoy-a-family-affair-september-7-october-26/