International Women’s Day is this week! Check out the official site for events near and far.

COMING UP THIS WEEK:

Xuxa Santamaria / Cafecito y Cabilete / DJ Sessy Papi Chula
Southern Exposure presents a night of music, games, interactive art and shared spaces: “Check out The Tallest Part of the Arch, drink a coffee and play a game of Cuban dice with Amy Vázquez’s Cafecito y Cubilete cart, dance to the tunes of DJ Sessy Papi Chula (Fíera Morena) and enjoy a live performance by XUXA SANTAMARIA, the experimental dance music duo of Sofía Córdova + Matt Gonzalez Kirkland with roots in Puerto Rico + Nueva York + Oakland.”
THU MAR 7: 7PM; Southern Exposure Gallery, 3030 20th St, SF; Free

Craig Wedren: My 90’s, an exhibition of Craig’s Polaroids + Book
Even if you remember the 1990s-era Washington DC art punk band Shudder To Think, who were labelmates of Fugazi, you probably don’t know that Craig Wedren was the band’s founder and leader. But I bet you’ve heard his music more recently. He’s made quite a career writing music for films like School of Rock, Wet Hot American Summer, and TV shows from Reno 911! to Dawson’s Creek to Bones. I continue to like his strange, arty solo work, but he’s in SF this week showing off some actual art. 20th century Polaroids from his punk rock road travels featuring members of Fugazi, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, and the comedy group The State (he wrote music for them, too). Wedren’s going to make some music tonight, too, at 9pm.
THU MAR 7: 6 PM (music at 9PM); The Loin, 914 Larkin, SF; Free

à la prochaine: last show at Jules Maeght Gallery
5 years ago the Jules Maeght Gallery arrives with a multimedia show showcase that intermingled emerging Bay Area artists and legendary artists, drawn from the Maeght families collection as top French gallerists dating to the days that Modernism was contemporary. It was cool. Both sides benefited as happens any time the canonized and the rebel youth have a mixer. The gallery is calling it un jour, and closing their Hayes Valley location in the Rube Goldberg building with a forward face: 30 living artists from the US and Europe (including a few from that first show). The exhibition opens this Friday, and will be up until March 23.
FRI MAR 8: 6PM; Jules Maeght Gallery, 149 Gough St, SF; Free

Matt Haimovitz & Vijay Iyer (cello & piano) and more at The Herbst
The Herbst Theater is probably my favorite place to see live music; great sound and not a bad seat in the house. But I rarely go there since the Jazz Fest got it’s own venue and they had a 2-year renovation closure. But that’s going to change now. The San Francisco Performances series, now in its 4th decade, has some amazing small ensemble and solo performances coming up; I’m not an expert on classical music, but I know enough to see that there’s some interesting contemporary stuff here. This Saturday, I’ll be there for cellist Haimovitz’s duo with pianist Vijay Iyer. I remember Iyer playing tiny Bay Area jazz corners in the late 90s. Now he’s a world-renowned, chart-topping composer based at Harvard. Another reminder that our little venues today also probably hold bits of the future. They’ll play Iyer’s music and work by Zakir Hussein, J.S. Bach, Ravi Shankar, and Billy Strayhorn. Yum. Your mileage may vary, but it’s worth browsing all the City Box Office listings for not only music but dance, City Arts & Lectures, Lamplighters Music Theatre, and more. I bet you’ll find something to didn’t know was happening that you really want to go to.
SAT MAR 9: 7:30 PM; The Herbst Theater, Civic Center SF; $45

TifFAUXny Snails – A Tale of Gold and Glass
An artistic walking tour that skirts the 19th century crossroads of Bay Area gold rush escargot and the Tiffany artistic dynasty. History crawls slowly and wears a brightly painted shell… “TifFAUXny Snails – A Tale of Gold and Glass is a story about creation, failure, and change as told through these two divergent events. Comprised of a gallery show, light tea, and walking tour”
SAT-SUN MAR 9 & 10: (check site for additional dates in March) various times; 360 5th St, SF; $15

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
The July 4, 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival sits between Woodstock and Jimi’s death just 2 months later. This film combines 16mm multi-camera concert footage of Hendrix with a new documentary explicating an historical moment of civil rights unrest, rock star fame and self-destruction, the arc of the Vietnam War and some great fucking music. Here’s the trailer, so you can check it out.
SUN MAR 10: 8:15 PM; The Roxie in the Mission, SF; $13

Sung Kim – animations and invented instruments
Experimental film and sound: remember to check in grass roots of today, as well as the already world famous. “Sung Kim is a sound artist, sculptor and instrument builder. Through his invented instruments, he explores variations on techniques, tonalities and sympathetic resonance, often in collaboration with other musicians in an improvisational context. In the fall of 2018, Kim temporarily lost the use of his dominant hand to a tablesaw accident. As a result, Kim focused his creative energies to explore stop-motion filmmaking.” Kim and friends create a live, improvised soundtrack to accompany his films.
SUN MAR 10: 7:30 PM; Temescal Art Center, Oakland; Free