Month: March 2019

Live Music Singles Party Start Date: Sunday 3/31/2019 — End Date: Sunday 3/31/2019 Admission:10 Meet new friends at this fun party! Only $10 at the door includes a FUN Mixer Game, which makes it easy to meet people; accompanied by complimentary light appetizers, served at 4pm, as long as they last. Dress to impress. Adults of all ages welcome. Sunday, March 4, 2018, 4-6pm. BONUS: Live music by The Darlyn Pearl Duo, who will play a wide range of music, from jazz to blues to bossa nova to country, and also requests! LOCATION: Faz at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 5121 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton CA 94588. Conveniently located near the intersection of Highways 580 and 680 (Hopyard exit off Hwy 580). Located in the Hacienda Business Park, 2 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. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •SF Peninsula Single Mingle, March 3, San Carlos •The Winter Ball at The Fairmont, March 9, San Francisco •St Patrick’s Eve Dance, March 16, San Jose •Boulder Falls Hike & Wine Tasting, March 16, St Helena •Spring Mixer, March 21, Sausalito •Singles Charity Ball, May 4, San Francisco Location: 5121 Hopyard Road Pleasanton Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

JENNY ODELL: OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE Start Date: Friday 3/8/2019 — End Date: Friday 3/8/2019 Admission:0 GRADUATE LECTURE SERIES Jenny Odell: Open Source Intelligence Taking a cue from “open source intelligence” (OSINT, a term that refers to the collection of publicly available data for intelligence purposes), this lecture will focus on the role of the artist as researcher and interloper into other disciplines. Odell will discuss past projects involving collection and analysis, as well as her recent piece for the New York Times, which utilized publicly available websites and archives to expose a bizarre ring of e-commerce dealings on Amazon. Jenny Odell is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. She has been an artist in residence at YBCA, the Internet Archive, Facebook, Recology SF, the San Francisco Planning Department, and the New York Public Library. Her writing has been published in the New York Times and Sierra Magazine. Her book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is forthcoming from Melville House. Odell teaches at Stanford University. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: SFAI exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/jenny-odell-open-source-intelligence

JENNY ODELL: OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE Start Date: Friday 3/8/2019 — End Date: Friday 3/8/2019 Admission:0 GRADUATE LECTURE SERIES Jenny Odell: Open Source Intelligence Taking a cue from “open source intelligence” (OSINT, a term that refers to the collection of publicly available data for intelligence purposes), this lecture will focus on the role of the artist as researcher and interloper into other disciplines. Odell will discuss past projects involving collection and analysis, as well as her recent piece for the New York Times, which utilized publicly available websites and archives to expose a bizarre ring of e-commerce dealings on Amazon. Jenny Odell is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. She has been an artist in residence at YBCA, the Internet Archive, Facebook, Recology SF, the San Francisco Planning Department, and the New York Public Library. Her writing has been published in the New York Times and Sierra Magazine. Her book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is forthcoming from Melville House. Odell teaches at Stanford University. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: SFAI exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/jenny-odell-open-source-intelligence

BRADFORD NORDEEN: CURATING DIRTY LOOKS AND PRESENTING THE QUEER CINEMATIC AVANT-GARDE Start Date: Wednesday 4/24/2019 — End Date: Wednesday 4/24/2019 Admission:Free VISITING ARTISTS + SCHOLARS SERIES Bradford Nordeen: Curating Dirty Looks and presenting the Queer Cinematic Avant-Garde In this lively lecture, Nordeen traces a decade of working across genres in curating, publishing, and positioning performance within the museum as well as alternative spaces, from the experimental platform Dirty Looks, a platform for queer film, video, and performance, to international festivals. Featuring clips and slides from screenings and site-specific interventions, topics discussed include working with artists, maintaining authorial intent in alternative media, site specificity, and queer urban cultures, and preserving the art and archives of a generation lost in the AIDS crisis. Based in Los Angeles, Nordeen is a writer, curator, and founder of Dirty Looks. His publications include Check Your Vernacular, Dirty Looks at MoMA, Fever Pitch, and the Dirty Looks Volume series (editor). He has written for Frieze, Art in America, Afterimage, Huffington Post, indieWIRE and Butt Magazine, and received the 2018 Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for the podcast Analog Tendencies. He was Platinum Programmer for Outfest Los Angeles, and guest curator for The Broad Museum. He curated exhibitions and screenings at ONE Gay and Lesbian National Archives, RISD, MoMA, The Kitchen, SFMoMA, The Hammer Museum, and New York Live Arts. He holds a BFA from CalArts and an MA in Contemporary Cinema Cultures from King’s College London. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: SFAI exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/bradford-nordeen-curating-dirty-looks-and-presenting-the

RASHAAD NEWSOME: MELANGE Start Date: Tuesday 4/23/2019 — End Date: Tuesday 4/23/2019 Admission:FREE VISITING ARTISTS + SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES Rashaad Newsome: Melange Newsome’s work is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power. He draws attention to the contributions that marginalized communities, whose culture is often absorbed and co-opted by mainstream advertising platforms, have made to Pop culture and society in general. During his talk, Newsome will discuss his use of the diasporic tradition of improvisation and collage as a tool to achieve abstraction. At the heart of his practice is the tenacity and resilience of marginalized communities to create globally celebrated cultural productions, despite living within what scholar bells hooks names the capitalist, imperialist, white supremacist, patriarchy. His work speaks to the power of the human spirit to reinvent and transform itself as evidenced in the Black and Queer cultural practices referenced and abstracted throughout the work. Based in New York City, Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including collage, sculpture, film, music, computer programming, and performance, to form an altogether new field. He has exhibited and performed in numerous galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world including: The Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), The National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), MoMAPS1 (NYC), SFMOMA (CA), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). Newsome’s work is in numerous public collections worldwide. His many honors and awards include a 2018 William Penn Foundation Grant, the 2018/2019 Live Feed Creative Residency at New York Live Arts, a 2017/2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a 2017 Rush Arts Gold Rush Award. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: SFAI exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/rashaad-newsome-melange

CONSTANCE HOCKADAY: PREPARE TO BE UNPREPARED Start Date: Tuesday 4/9/2019 — End Date: Tuesday 4/9/2019 Admission:FREE VISITING ARTISTS + SCHOLARS SERIES Constance Hockaday: Prepare to be Unprepared Prepare to be Unprepared is a cinematic and performative lecture by artist Constance Hockaday. The performance includes a stream of associations exploring how sandy beach survival strategies, homemade boats, linguistic investigations of the word “hope,” normalcy bias, and her own personal anecdotes come together to illustrate the terrifying and liberating ways we make sense of our lives in the age of disaster. Constance Hockaday is a Chilean American who grew up on the Gulf of Mexico. She has created outsider maritime projects since 2006. At age 19, she joined the Floating Neutrinos, a family of wanderers, who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. In 2011, she began creating solo work on the water. From a floating boat hotel off the shores of New York City to a floating peeshow in the San Francisco Bay, her work explores issues of public space, political voice, and belonging. Image: You Make A Better Wall Than A Window, Constance Hockaday, 2016; Multimedia public installation and performance; dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/constance-hockaday-prepare-to-be-unprepared

BLACKLIST EXILES IN MEXICO Start Date: Tuesday 4/2/2019 — End Date: Tuesday 4/2/2019 Admission:FREE The panel focuses on first-hand accounts of US cold war repression from survivors of the internationalist exile community in Mexico, parallels to today’s political climate, lessons learned and survival and circumvention tips. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE admissions@sfai.edu URL: https://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/panel-discussion-blacklist-exiles-in-mexico

The Little Giants (1958, Los Pequeños Gigantes) Start Date: Monday 4/1/2019 — End Date: Monday 4/1/2019 Admission:0 The Little Giants (1958, Los Pequeños Gigantes) 987 minutes; Blu-ray courtesy of the Academy of Motion Pictures The Little Giants is the true story of how a Little League baseball team from Monterrey, Mexico, with limited resources—some of its members were barefoot street-children recruits—managed to travel to the United States beating impossible odds, win the 1957 World Series with the only perfect game in Little League championship history. Here, director and co-screenwriter Hugo Butler (Hugo Mozo) with co-screenwriter Edward Huebsch (alias Eduardo Bueno) perfect the revolutionary docufiction style, combining elements of documentary and narrative fiction. All of the players from the Monterrey team, including pitcher Ángel Macías, play themselves in the film recreating actual events and borrowing from cinema vérité, improvising their lines. Like Crusoe, the film, produced by George Pepper (alias George P. Werker) is a commentary on colonialism and entitlement. It has become popularized in Mexico, probably because of its metaphoric associations to David and Goliath; the colonized facing off with their imperialist masters. It is also a metaphor for the blacklisted artists vs. their McCarthyite censors. The team’s victory and ensuing fame—partially owing to the Olmec Productions film—changed the course of Monterrey, Mexico. The team became legendary throughout Mexico, boosting its town’s economy. Most of the players went onto successful careers that enabled them to raise two generations of professionals. Location: 800 Chestnut San Francisco Contact: Katie exhibitions@sfai.edu URL: https://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/the-little-giants-1958

GINA SIEPEL: CYCLE OF SELF-DETERMINATION TUESDAY, MAR 12, 2019, 7:00PM Start Date: Tuesday 3/12/2019 — End Date: Tuesday 3/12/2019 Admission:0 Gina Siepel began her life on a farm in a rural community in the rust-belt region of Western New York. Her interdisciplinary, craft-informed practice engages the deeply personal, political, and sometimes absurd complexity of how her cultural background meets her gender-non-conforming Queer self in the 21st century. She will discuss her recent work, which encompasses sculpture, installation, performance, video, and woodworking, and is inspired by research into U.S. cultural ideologies of self-determination, labor, and craft. Gina Siepel is based in western Massachusetts, and has exhibited extensively in the northeastern US, including at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Colby College Museum of Art, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and Flux Factory. Gina has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan, Sculpture Space, Mildred’s Lane, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. Gina holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and currently teaches at Mount Holyoke College. Location: 800 Chestnut San Francisco Contact: Katie exhibitions@sfai.edu URL: https://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/gina-siepel-cycle-of-self-determination

Gardening 101 – Speaker Series Start Date: Saturday 3/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 3/9/2019 Admission:$10 in advance or $12 at the door The Plant Exchange Presents Sustainable Urban Gardening Speaker Series Gardening 101 Saturday, March 9th, 2-4pm Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door – available at www.ThePlantExchange.Org Learn how easy and fun gardening can be! Join Lori Caldwell and learn the basics to be a successful first time gardener. Topics will include: *Deciphering the terminology *Plants 101 *Healthy soil building *Transplanting and plant choice by season *Seeds vs. starts *Non-toxic pest control *Reuse in the garden and tips and tricks This class is taught by Lori Caldwell, Owner/Operator of CompostGal: Consulting, Landscaping & Education. Her mission: “To connect people to the soil and all that it provides”. She offers sustainable gardening classes for beginning and intermediate level gardeners. Topics include: composting, growing edibles, drought-tolerant gardening, Hugelkulture, natives and non-toxic pest control. In addition to garden maintenance projects, Lori also provides lawn conversion services using the permaculture technique known as sheet mulching. Location: 4500 Lincoln Avenue Oakland Contact: Odette Pollar connect@theplantexchange.com URL: http://theplantexchange.com/sustainable-urban-gardening-speaker-series/