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Bay Choral Guild's November concert is a delightful collection of Baroque Masterworks, beginning with Handel's lively Dixit Dominus, a favorite with choirs and audiences worldwide. Next, celebrating the feast day of the patron saint of music, is the renowned Messa di Santa Cecilia of Alessandro Scarlatti, and finally the luminous Beatus vir, a dramatic setting of Psalm 112 by Claudio Monteverdi. S...

Accompanists: Javad Butah - tabla, Ben Kunin - sarode

Kathak, the North Indian classical dance form, is a way of life based on four main elements: Tayari or Readiness. Layakari or Rhythm. Khoobsurti or Beauty. Nazaakat or Elegance. It demonstrates power, dynamism, and purity through complex technique of footwork, pirouhettes, and rhythm while displaying the elegance and beauty through mov...

Featuring DJ SYD GRIS (Opulent Temple, Opel Productions) Get ready for San Francisco’s Sexiest Theme party… This unique and spectacular event incorporates an innocent to deviant sexy theme combined with a packed line-up of Superstar deejays, talented erotic performers, fashion shows and an array of interactive entertainment THE DRESSCODE IS STRONGLY SUGGESTED (meaning if you do adhere to the Dre...

SATURDAY - SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21st - NOVEMBER 22nd 10pm Saturday - Noon Sunday THE END UP (401 6th St.) Sense SF, Nicole Presents, Green Gorilla, Pacific Sound,&The Endup bring you 14 Hours of non-stop bangin' music! The Late Show: 10pm - 6am ..:: FULLY LOADED ::.. M3&ANTHONY MANSFIELD (Green gorilla) GALEN&SOLAR (Pacific Sound) Opening set by: ACE&GUNZ (Bassyx, Habit Forming) The Early Show: ...

Non Stop Bhangra 52- Ending the Bhangra year with a Bang! Non Stop Bhangra celebrates the last NSB of 2009 with a rock solid DJ exclusive night of music. This month on the turntables is an extended set by NSB founder Jimmy Love and resident Rav-E who will be reaching into their bags of classic dance floor Bhangra beats. Joining the boys is DJ Sep of Dub Mission fame. She is one of NSB's favorite ...

LoveTech Saturday 11/21 9pm-2am
LoveTech @ Il Pirata
2007 16th St (@ Utah St)
$7
LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSICIANSHIP Collaborative Music Technology Party and Interactive Art Salon!

10pm: Chelsea Faith - skillfully sequencing sexy beats - http://www.myspace.com/chelcfaithmusic
11PM: Moldover - triumphantly returning from his East Coast tour - http://moldover.com
12AM: Outersect - crafting compelling ethnofusion dance music worth listening to - http://www.outersect.net
01AM: Ribotto [Symbiosis/LowPro] - digital funk technician of The Flying Skulls - http://www.ribotto.com

Get there early for our discussion oriented Presentation!
09PM: Mad Zach: 'Building Your Own Controller and the Fattest Waveform Ever Created'

Interactive Art Salon:

Persistence of Vision Poi Empath.. and Beyond! curated by Jean Rintoul

All night VJ Mashup! with Larry Sheradon (http://lemonary.com/rivers) MZO (http://www.myspace.com/mzo) Mediapathic (http://vimeo.com/mediapathic) TikiTV(http://tikitv.net)

Jesse Hammons and Samuel Stoller are the authors of TikiTV, a free VJ tool for OSX that simultaneously mixes 6 DVD-quality video streams at 60fps. They will be demonstrating their tool at this month's LoveTech! http://tikitv.net

Digital Jam Lounge by Rich DDT - Sign Up Here and Bring Your Instruments!: http://bit.ly/3HujVA

LoveTech is not only an awesome party with visionary pioneers of live electronic musicianship - We create an engaging community building experience with a discussion oriented workshop, interactive art installations, and a Digital Jam Lounge for putting new instruments directly into your hands. We invite you to witness and discover the future of music performance and innovative multimedia technology!...

A daring episode in San Francisco history that turned the country upside down: the occupation of Alcatraz Island by “Indians of All Tribes.” In the opening half, shorts by Ohlone makers, first-ever viewing of slides from the Alcatraz Newsletter, and films about ancient villages, sacred sites, and endangered species. After intermission, director James Fortier introduces his inspirational 'Alcatraz ...

A striking fusion of Great American Songbook style original material, boy-girl harmony vocals and virtuoso guitar and violin solos with Gypsy style instrumentation, the George Cole Quintet’s style is a mix of Dave Matthews band, Dan Hicks, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Louis Prima and Keely Smith. With the fiery guitar and lush vocals of George Cole at its center, this smokin' Bay Area Quintet invit...

Galería's annual art auction is just around the corner. This year, we're celebrating 39 years of supporting Latino art and community. It's time to show us your fabulous patronage while adding an extra luster to your art collection. So come out in your celebratory regalia to have a toast with the folks you love most, bid on a stunning selection of works, and help us keep on trekking over the hill i...

New Century Chamber Orchestra Program: William Bolcom: Serenata Notturna Laura Griffiths, solo oboe William Bolcom: Three Rags for Strings Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings Tickets $32-$54 Half-price for patrons 30 and under

The 9th installment of the monthly improvised performance series features vocalists Amy X Neuburg and Mark Briggs, dancer Mary Armentrout, percussionist Shawn King, projection artists Tim Thompson and Andrew Juris, air- synthesists Craig Latta and Micah Ball, cellist Doug Carroll, and ringmaster Herb Heinz.

Join us for an all improvised gathering of unique Bay Area talents and stay for the final...

Galería's annual art auction is just around the corner. This year, we're celebrating 39 years of supporting Latino art and community. It's time to show us your fabulous patronage while adding an extra luster to your art collection. So come out in your celebratory regalia to have a toast with the folks you love most, bid on a stunning selection of works, and help us keep on trekking over the hill i...

Galería's annual art auction is just around the corner. This year, we're celebrating 39 years of supporting Latino art and community. It's time to show us your fabulous patronage while adding an extra luster to your art collection. So come out in your celebratory regalia to have a toast with the folks you love most, bid on a stunning selection of works, and help us keep on trekking over the hill i...

Do sentient machines dwell on the existential circuit that leads to the spiritual 404 error?

Does being a machine mean just being a device: literarily, artistically and literally?

Or does everything just boil down to everyone’s deep-seated need to crush all humans and plot eventual total world domination?

Find out at Automatic! November 19, 20, 21, 2009 Exhibit Thursday: 5pm-8pm GRAND OPENING A...

On November 21, 2009, the San Francisco Center for the Book will present Five Treasures: The 2009 SFCB Peer Recognition Event honoring five individuals who have made innovative contributions to the art of the book. For our inaugural event, over fifty individuals representing the five areas of recognition for 2009 (Book Design, Fine Printing, Publishing, Bookbinding, Creative Writing) were asked...

Johansson Projects presents Earth Engines, where nature is not a passive backdrop to be preserved but a bustling creature of generation itself. The agency of the organic takes shape in staged photographs and sound sculptures in which technology channels the earth’s electric complexity. Oliver DiCicco's indefinable organisms don't simply emulate the humming of nature's underbelly but directly acces...

Sandra Lee Gallery Presents: Exploration&Celebration Finale: Artist Talk Featuring artists: Dong Phan, Wonju Shin, David Jang Exhibition Date: November 1st - November 28th, 2009 Artist Talk November 21st, 4:00pm - 6:00pm www.sandraleegallery.com On Saturday, November 21st the Sandra Lee Gallery will host, An Afternoon with the Artists, David Jang, Dong Phan, and Wonju Shin, featuring ...

Fox stopped making photographs thirty years ago when he was legally blinded and disabled by MS. Since the mid-70s the negatives in this exhibition were haphazardly stored in the writer’s studio until a photographer came to work with Fox as a caregiver. The photographs have an unreal quality: horses inside houses, children at play by the sea, in the desert, apparently on the moon. There is energy i...

My Name is Rachel Corrie Directed by Ciara Murphy Starring Amanda Gelender The Stanford Department of Drama and the Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP) are proud to announce a staged reading - the San Francisco Bay Area premiere - of the thought-provoking play, My Name is Rachel Corrie. This show follows one girl’s true story of struggle through adolescence, self-discovery, and ...

Punch Line is performed in an environment that simulates the ups and downs of the battles we wage upon ourselves while struggling to achieve a goal. In this work, the environment is a boxing ring, in which the right-handed performer wages a fight with his alter ego, a left-handed boxing glove. Each performance follows the time frame of a boxing match; three, three-minute rounds, with a one-minute ...

THREAD will feature a holiday shopping event in San Francisco just in time for gift-giving. The event, which has typically been only one day, will expand to a full weekend, November 21 and 22, at Fort Mason Center. The event will present 100-plus independent designers and artisans selling their wares. And in addition, free style tips from designers; custom orders available from many designers; ca...

Houdini Magic Weekend #2 November 21 and November 21 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Back by popular demand, Playland-Not-at-the-Beach presents another weekend of magic and mystery. Come to see a bevy of famous northern California magicians perform, take a class in magic, and watch recordings of the great masters in the history of the art of magic and illusion. The special events of the Houdini Magic Weekend a...

Oakland Premiere! Midnight show. Sponsored by Linden Street Brewery. Co-presented by Thrillville. Will 'The Thrill' Viharo and Monica the Tiki Goddess. Classic Blaxploitation DVD giveaway and 70 cinema trivia. BLACK DYNAMITE is destined for cult film status. This action-packed comedy is meticulously and lovingly rooted in the great traditions of American Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films. A fres...

Year 2009 commemorates the 140-year anniversary of the birth of Komitas, the founder of the Armenian classical music. The Seemorgh Ensemble will honor this occasion by bringing to life some rarely performed sacred and secular choral masterpieces by Komitas and his renowned student, Barsegh Kanachian. Program features Komitas' two unseen jewels, Lord's Prayer and Song for Night-Time Vigil, along wi...

Bay Choral Guild's November concert is a delightful collection of Baroque Masterworks, beginning with Handel's lively Dixit Dominus, a favorite with choirs and audiences worldwide. Next, celebrating the feast day of the patron saint of music, is the renowned Messa di Santa Cecilia of Alessandro Scarlatti, and finally the luminous Beatus vir, a dramatic setting of Psalm 112 by Claudio Monteverdi. S...