Worlds AIDS Day is Friday November 30. Support the ongoing fight while remembering all those we have lost during a candlelight vigil at SF City Hall.
This week’s Curator: Kishore Hari of Big Screen Science
Clark Griswold would be proud as we have light celebrations galore. Candle lights, christmas lights, projection mapping, the flicker of an old theater projector, and full visual art overload. And that doesn’t even account for the images dancing atop Salesforce Tower. I guess its good that a days are getting shorter, because SF is going to be lit AF this week.
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COMING UP THIS WEEK:
I’m a big fan of scientific talks in bars. I think the alcohol helps my brain translate all the scientifc terms better. Eh…who am I kidding, its seeing a bar packed with other science nerds that I truly enjoy. And there are three options just on Wednesday 11/28!
taste of science: Brain Health and Diabetes
Hear from two local scientists on blood tests that can find biomarkers predictive of your neurodegenerative disease and how big data is used to predict the success of different diabetes treatments.
WED NOV 28: 7PM Scotty’s Bar and Grill, Palo Alto; $5/$7 door
Astronomy on Tap – San Jose
Professional astronomers will be talking about stellar and planetary formation in different environments, technology advancements for studying hidden stellar nurseries, and star life cycles.
WED NOV 28: 730PM Uproar Brewing Co, San Jose; Free
Nerd Nite SF #102 – Animal Encounters, Albany Bulb, & Cosmic Elements
Look into the urban-wildland interface with a journalist who knows when to run and when to play dead; an urbanist-curator will help us not be dim bulbs about Albany’s dumpy-arty treasure-park; and an astrophysics superstar will mine a vein of cosmic gold.
WED NOV 28: 5PM Rickshaw Stop, SF; $8
Transmissions from the Seismic Stations
Mix electricity with a a bit of sound and way too many visuals, you get the Recombinant Festival at Gray Area. It is complete sensory overload with dynamic visual installations to overwhelming VR landscapes. And don’t miss the CineChamber – a massive 10 screen wrap around experience. Oh and there are a ton of musical acts as well.
NOV 26 – DEC 2: Gray Area, SF; Festival pass $125. Individual days $20 and up.
Dance Hack SF
Teams of Dancers and developers collaborate over the course of the day, combining their expertise to create unique performance experiences. It all culminates Sunday in an amazing, bizarre showcase.
SAT DEC 1 – SUN DEC 2: CounterPulse, SF; $0-40
Intro to Water Marbling
There are no shortage of artistic opportunities in the Bay Area. My favorite experience are the intimate DIY workshop style events, where you learn a new technique. Meet water marbling! You lightly applying pigments onto the surface of thickened water in order to create beautiful, swirling designs that may be transferred onto a range of different surfaces such as paper, leather, fabric, and more.
SUN DEC 2: Workshop, SF; $48
Night Bloom at Conservatory of Flowers
Workin’ on those night blooms. Light up the season with a five-week light and sound exhibition. The entire Conservatory of Flowers bursts with interactive light displays throughout. Clark Griswold would be proud.
Begins SUN DEC 2: Conservatory , SF; $27 and up. Kids under 8 Free.
Mixtape: Fury Road
<Read in the voice of that trailer guy>In the first concert since the end of the world, apocalypse survivors gather at the only remaining venue for a night of live music and micro-plays staged around the PianoFight bar.</end> They had me at the end of the world.
MON DEC 3: PianoFight , SF; $20 suggested donation.
The 13th Annual Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes
There are certain can’t miss annual events in SF. Hardly Strictly. B2B. Enjoying beer gardens while everyone is away at Burning Man. Next on that list is Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes – a tour de force of local history through the lens of archival footage. New footage this year includes the dune-dotted blocks of the Outer Richmond in the 1920s; Native activists riding to the Alcatraz occupation; family life in the Crocker-Amazon district; unseen images of the wartime Port; men walking cables on the unfinished Bay Bridge and so much more.
TUE DEC 4 – WED DEC 5: Castro Theater, SF; $25 and up.