This week’s Curator: Annalee Newitz of Our Opinions Are Correct and Ars Technica Live.
We’re in the craziest time of summer, when people are on vacation for real or just in their hearts. It’s time to try something weird and new. This week you can slow-dance with a stranger, visit a nanotech lab, learn about the history of the Women’s Building mural, or get tipsy with fans of San Francisco public transit. Then finish it off by exploring musical instruments for aliens.
COMING UP THIS WEEK:
Dancehall of Beautiful Radiant Things
If you want to make a new friend tonight, this event is the perfect way to do it. It’s a participatory slow-dance performance where you fill up your dance card with the names of friends or strangers and then…dance! No dance skills needed, and no expectations. Just spend a few minutes dancing with someone and enjoy the beauty of what the organizers call a “song-length social vignette.” The event benefits FIGMENT Oakland 2018, a participatory arts fair.
July 18 – WEDS. 7:30-11:30 Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco. $20–$35 donor levels on Eventbrite and $20 at the door.
The History, Legacy, and Continued Impact of the Mujeres Muralists
The Mujeres Muralistas were an all-woman collaborative of Chicana artists based out of San Francisco’s Mission District in the 1970s. The Mujeres Muralistas created landmark murals such as Latinoamerica (on Mission Street between 25th & 26th streets), MaestraPeace (San Francisco Women’s Building), and 500 Years of Native Survival (Balmy Alley). This is an incredible chance to hear from three members of the Mujeres Muralistas— Patricia Rodriguez, Ester Hernandez, and Irene Perez, in conversation with Terezita Romo, Lecturer and Affiliate Faculty in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis.
July 19 – THURS. 6:00PM. California Historical Society, 678 Mission St., $10. This event may sell out, so it’s best to reserve your tickets.
SF Transit Pub Crawl: Celebrate Enhancements on the 9R San Bruno!
I love public transit. You love public transit. And the SF Transit Riders are here to justify our love by celebrating all the giant new busses of the 9R San Bruno by riding it to three pubs on its route: Willows, Almanac, and Ferment.Drink.Repeat. You can join SFPR, or just hang out with them and drink to better transit for all.
July 19 – THURS. 5:30-8:30. Check Facebook page for times to arrive at each bar, and live updates based on shifts in bus times. Pay your own bus fare.
Berkeley Lab Public Tour
Home to some of the most sophisticated science experiments in the world, the Berkeley Lab opens its doors to the public for a one-of-a-kind tour of the Molecular Foundry, the Advanced Light Source, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Translation: nanotech, lasers, and giant computers. Yes, you need to do this. The tour begins and ends at the lab shuttle stop in downtown Berkeley.
July 20 – FRI. 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM. Downtown Berkeley Lab Shuttle Stop, 2117 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. You’ll need a photo ID to get on the shuttle. FREE
SF Book Art Fair
Publishers of art books are coming from all over California and elsewhere to show off their beautiful, weird, delightful, and unusual wares. Come to browse and discover something new.
July 20-22 – FRI-SUN. 1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA. FREE.
Wildflower Walk in the Presidio
Spend a lovely Saturday morning with Presidio naturalist Marion Anthonisen, learning about the wildflowers that thrive in San Francisco’s sand dune habitats. The hike will be 1 mile, with many stops to admire the flowers.
July 21 – SAT. 10 AM-12 PM. Meet at Wherry Corridor/Presidio Hills (map)
Intergalactic Omniphonics: A Jonathon Keats Show
Jonathon Keats is a mad scientist artist who organizes ballet for bees, brokers deals between humans and other animals, and serves hand-crafted sunlight to plants. Now he’s back with a new conceptual art project, Intergalactic Omniphonics, a startup that makes musical instruments to facilitate “jam sessions with aliens.” According to Keats, these instruments, which he’ll demonstrate at an event at Modernism Gallery, don’t privilege ordinary human hearing. The whole spectrum is supported – from infra- to ultrasound – as are other modes of musical expression that may be accessible to beings that haven’t evolved ears. Stimuli include light waves and gamma rays from the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as exotic gravitational waves like those emitted by black holes. Expect something truly delightful and strange.
July 24 – TUES Launch event from 5:30-8pm, Modernism Gallery, 724 Ellis Street; FREE
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