San Francisco Community Events - August 2008
See also: San Francisco Main Event Calendar
Festivals, museum exhibits, etc
Each month, this section of the San Francisco calendar will list a set of diverse events -- selected to cover a broad range of interests. The calendar is not comprehensive. It's intended to showcase interesting exhibits, performances and events around town.
If you have a community event you'd like to post to About San Francisco, please use the Event Boards in the forum. See Event Submission Guidelines.
Link to Live Music Club calendars to get info on upcoming music acts.
JULY 2008 COMMUNITY EVENTS - BY DATE
TUE - JULY 8
TALK: Poets Picking Poets
7p - Rock-It Room
FREE - Green Apple Books presents a McSweeney's event featuring Jane Hirshfeld, Dean Young, and Jack Brandon
BOOKS: Meet the Editor of The Daily Candy Lexicon
7:30p - Books, Inc on Chestnut Street
Celebrate the launch of The Daily Candy Lexicon: Words that Don't Exist But Should
PARKS: Bird Watching at the Western Tributary
12p to 1p - Presidio - Meet Docent at Officers Club
Follow the ravine of the Tennessee Hollow tributary and bring binoculars for bird watching
WED - JULY 9
Ask a Scientist Lecture Series
7p at Axis Cafe (1201 8th Street at 16th - Potrero Hill)
Topic: Native American Science with Isabel Hawkins (Research Astronomer at UC Berkeley), Rose von Thater Braan (co-founder of Native American Academy)
THU - JULY 10
FILM: Les Bicyclettes: Celebrating the 2008 Tour de France
Also on July 17, July 24, and July 31
12p to 2p - San Francisco Public Library Main - Koret Auditorium
Featuring We Are Traffic (a look at the early years of Critical Mass)
TALK: Mahvish Khan: My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
6p - Commonwealth Club
$15 - American lawyer Kahn offered her help to the detainees at Guantanamo and has written a diary providing insights into their lives
SHOP: Stacey's Semi-Annual License to Save
July 10 to 12 - Stacey's Books
20 percent off for members (excluding periodicals) - Free memberships available at the Mezzanine Service Desk
PARKS: Owl Wars
7p to 10p - Muir Woods
$3 materials fee requested - Strenuous four-mile dusk hike to look and listen for Muir Woods owls
TUNES: James Hunter at Amoeba
6p - Amoeba Music in San Francisco
FREE - Performance by R&B and Grammy-nominated artist Hunter - http://www.myspace.com/jameshuntermusic
FRI - JULY 11
ART: Narrating Identity, (Dis)locating Bodies
Opening Reception on July 11 at 7:30p
Dates: July 11 to August 8, 2008
Galeria de la Raza (Mission District - 2857 24th Street)
Part of the 10th Annual Queer Latino Arts Festival
TUNES: The Nice Guy Trio
July 11 at Red Poppy Art House
Darren Johnston on trumpet, Rob Reich on accordion, and Daniel Fabricant -- performing a diverse collection of original compositions and songs from folk traditions across the globe
SAT - JULY 12
EVENT: San Francisco 49ers National Anthem Auditions
July 12 - 1p to 4p
Pier 39 - Entrance Plaza
Aspirants compete to sing National Anthem at a game
ART: Insider/Outsider
Opening Reception July 12 - 7p to 10p (Exhibit July 9 to 29)
Root Division Gallery
16 Bay Area artists representing 13 ancestries. The purpose of this exhibition is to draw together a broad range of artists, all of whom are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants to the US, working on themes of identity, ethnicity, migration, and place.
ART: The Sentient Painting
July 12 to 14
Live Worms Gallery
For 48 hours this upcoming July, three female artists will live with and create a sentient painting. The large painting, sensitive to environmental conditions as well as the varied temperaments and personalities of the artists,will become a recording of its own creation
SAT - JULY 12
FILM: Midnight Mass w/Peaches Christ
Midnight at the Bridge Theatre
Barbarella -- with stage show. Other July shows: July 19 (Pee Wee's Big Adventure), July 26 (Starrbooty)
COMEDY: Naked Comedy
9p on Saturdays - $12
at The Clubhouse (414 Mason)
Standup comedy throughout the week, BYOB for 21+
CULTURE: San Francisco General Strike Walk
10am - Meet at Harry Bridges Plaza, in front of Ferry Building
Free walk and history talk with labor historian Louis Prisco - Part of Labor Fest 2008
Read more about Bloody Thursday & the General Strike
TALK: Writers With Drinks
7:30p - The Make Out Room (3225 22nd at Mission)
$3-5 sliding scale - Readers/Performers: Ishmael Reed, Mistress Morgana, Marta Randall, Ray Molina
SUN - JULY 13
PARKS: Battery Townsley Open House
12p to 4p - Marin Headlands
San Francisco's most secret World War II military fortification, open the 2nd Sunday of each month
See Photo of Battery Townsley
FAMILY: Wheat Harvesting at Ardenwood Historic Farm
July 13, 20 and 27 - Ardenwood Farm in Fremont
Help thresh and mill wheat into stone-ground flour, see a turn-of-the-century mechanical threshing machine in action, sample fresh-baked treats
EVENT: DiscDoGG Frisbee Competition
10:00a - Greer Park in Palo Alto
$10 per dog, $5 each additional - next DiscDoGG is in Fremont on August 9
San Francisco Mime Troupe
July 13 at Yerba Buena Gardens
1:30p - Now Showing: Red State - about a small town at the forefront of an election fight
See website for additional performances around the Bay Area
FILM: Bad Movie Night
8p at The Dark Room
Movie with sardonic commentary every Sunday night - July 13: Reign of Fire
MON - JULY 14
TALK: Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder and the New Russia
6p - Commonwealth Club
$18 - Levine says that Russia is stained by a "culture of death" from assassinations of state critics to possible Kremlin indifference in hostage crises.
Talk Show SF - 1st Anniversary Show
July 14 at 8p
at 330 Ritch
Host Kurt Bodden interviews the most interesting people in town in front of a live audience
TUE - JULY 15
TUNES: Tuesday Open Mic at Rockit Room
Also on July 22 and July 29
7:30p (sign up at 7p) - All singer/songwriters/instrumentalists welcome