[2/3] I Am Not Your Negro opens in theaters
[Until 2/9] Mortified Live! “Witness a night of adults telling stories about their lives by sharing their most mortifying childhood artifacts (diaries, letters, lyrics, poems, home movies)… in front of total strangers”
[Until 9/23] Dan Savage’s Hump! Festival
Adelaide, Australia
[3/3-3/19] Adelaide Festival Thanks, Jeff!
[3/10-3/13] WOMADelaide 2017, the World’s Festival Thanks, Jeff!
Akron, Ohio
[2/10-5/7] Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose at Akron Art Museum
Alameda, California
[Every 3rd Friday] TILT, stand-up comedy and storytelling at Pacific Pinball Museum, 6 PM
[1/19] Book Club Van Kleefs’ Artists Reception and Museum Open House at Pacific Pinball Museum, 5 PM to 9 PM
[2/12] Pinball and Pints at Pacific Pinball Museum ANNEX, 1680 Viking St, 3 PM to 8 PM [Tickets]
[2/18] Bubbles after Dark at Rhythmix, 8 PM [Tickets]
Ano Nuevo, California
[Through March] Public Elephant Seal Walk, see a large colony of Northern Elephant Seals as they come to shore to birth and mate [Reservations]
Berkeley, California
[2/12] Eric McFadden Acoustic Featuring Queen delphine & Gabby La La at Revival, 9 PM to 11 PM , no cover
[2/17] Analog Light Show Workshop at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 6 PM to 8 PM [Tickets]
Black Rock City, Nevada
[8/27-9/4] Burning Man 2017: Radical Ritual
Chattanooga, Tennessee
[Until 10/31] Wayne White‘s Wayne-o-Rama at 1800 Rossville Avenue, open Weds-Sun, 11 AM to 6 PM and by special appointment
Denver, Colorado
[4/8-4/9] DINK: Independent Comic Expo, “Urban art with literature, zines, small press publishers, underground comix and cocktails!” Thanks, Mike McDaniel!
Detroit
[4/2017] Allee Willis’ The “D” premieres at the Fisher Building, party to follow
El Segundo, California
[1/27] Tikiyaki 5-0 plus Aloha Screwdriver at the Purple Orchid, 9 PM on
Hermosa Beach, California
[3/11] Corey Feldman & The Angels at Saint Rocke, 9 PM [Tickets]
Las Vegas
[Ongoing] Akhob, an immersive “Ganzfeld effect” experience by artist James Turrell at Louis Vuitton [by appt only: 702-730-3150] HIGHLY recommended!
Los Angeles
:: Iconic diners of L.A.
[Ongoing] Mojo Maps: Venice Land Walking Tour, former Disney Imagineer and team “combine live performance, original music and interactive activities sending you on a journey to another time and place” via
[Every Wednesday] Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap, a “live variety show that features big names in cirque, variety, comedy, magic and music” at Cafe Club Fais Do-Do, 8 PM [Tickets] Thanks, Kyle!
[Until 4/2] Pop Art Design at OCMA
[1/19-1/22] Riot LA Comedy Festival
[1/27-1/29] stARTup Fair LA, “Los Angeles’s contemporary art fair for independent artists”
[1/27-5/17] David Bowie: Among the Mexican Masters at Forest Lawn Museum
[Starts 10/2017] Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Broad
[11/10-11/11] National Beard and Mustache Championship
Malden, Massachusetts
[Ongoing] Boda Borg
Maxwell, California
[6/15-6/18] Camp Tipsy 2017, “an annual rotten boat building contest and campout”
New Orleans
[Now until Fat Tuesday 2/28] Mardi Gras parades
[7/18-7/23] Tales of the Cocktail
New York City
Quirky NYC by Oriana Leckert:
:: “From Bumper Cars to Torah Taxidermy: A Guide to 25 of Brooklyn’s Most Unusual Museums”
:: “From Elevators to Outsider Art: A Guide to 16 Under-the-Radar Museums in Queens”
[Ongoing] Sleep No More at The McKittrick Hotel [Tickets]
[Ongoing] The Ferry Play on the Staten Island Ferry, $1.99
[Ongoing] More NYC events
[Ongoing] Madame Tussauds New York hyper-reality Ghostbusters Experience
[Through 2/2017] Refuge, an “immersive performance and gameplay experience set in a mirrored 2016 reality where coastal cities are going underwater, temperature increases have caused nearly all vegetation to disappear, and natural disasters are wreaking havoc across every continent,” Needs a team of 4 to play [Tickets]
Oakland
[Until 2/17] All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 at OMCA <<–Great exhibit!
[Until 4/2] Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture at OMCA
[1/21] Women’s March Oakland, starts at Madison Park, 9th and Madison, 10 AM to 3 PM [More info] [Register]
[1/21] Kinky Salon: Armagedd it on, 10 PM
[1/29] Oakland Museum’s White Elephant PREVIEW Sale, 10 AM to 5 PM, [Tickets] $15-$20
[2/22-2/23] Mental Illness Happy Hour LIVE at New Parkway, 7 PM
[2/24] Puff, Pass & Paint, BYOC, 7 PM to 9 PM [Tickets]
[3/4-3/5] Oakland Museum’s White Elephant Sale
[3/25] 2017 Oakland Onesie Pub Crawl, 6 PM on
[4/19-4/24] Psychedelic Science 2017 at Oakland Marriott Center [Tickets]
[6/2] East Bay Open Studios at the Abandoned Train Station, hosted by Salle des Artistes. 9 PM to 12 AM.
Current CALL FOR ARTISTS: Looking for traditional artists, as well as short films, installations, projection mapping, and short dance performances. Cutting edge projects welcome. Also: Volunteers, help opportunities.
Oregon
[8/17-8/23] Oregon Eclipse 2017, a “total solar eclipse gathering”
Palm Springs, California
[7/7-7/10] Yes and Yes Yes at the Ace Hotel
Pasadena, California
[Until 1/28] Enchanted: Forest of Light, an interactive, nighttime experience at Descanso Gardens [Tickets]
Plains, Georgia
[Sundays] (Former President) Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School Class
Portland, Oregon
[3/25] 2017 Portland Onesie Pub Crawl
Tulare and Sacramento, California
[Weekends until 1/6] Global Winter Wonderland
Sacramento, California
[6/11-9/17] Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose at Crocker Art Gallery
San Diego
[3/4-3/11] JoCo Cruise 2017, “a whole cruise ship full of music, comedy, and general nerdery”
San Francisco
:: “Best storytelling events in the Bay Area”
:: Upscale vs. Frugal SF
[Ongoing] Elsewhere Philatelic Society, highly recommended!
[Ongoing] More SF events
[Ongoing] Prelinger Library events
{Gallery] Keane Eyes Gallery featuring the art of Margaret Keane, 3040 Larkin Street
[Until 1/29] SF Sketchfest
–[1/25] Bawdy Storytelling with Dixie de la Tour at Punchline Comedy Club [Tickets]
[Until March] LogJam Cafe, part of Tom Sachs’ Space Program: Europa exhibition, a must see!
[Until 1/29] Curious Contraptions featuring cabaret mechanical theatre at the Exploratorium [Tickets]
[Until 1/29] Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection at Legion of Honor Thanks, Whitney!
[Until 4/16] Vintage: Wine, Beer, and Spirits Labels from the Kemble Collections on Western Printing and Publishing at California Historical Society
[Until 4/18] Spirituality X: The San Francisco Documentary Film Series
[1/19] You’re Going To Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes at The Lost Church, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM [Tickets]
[1/20] OhNo!Gural Ball at Verdi Club, 8 PM to 11 PM [Tickets]
[1/20-1/29] Noir City, the “world’s most popular film noir festival” at Castro Theatre
[1/21 & 1/28 & 2/4] The Cakeland Fete Noir: Scott Hove Returns to SF at Heron Arts, 7 Heron Street, 12 PM to 4 PM (and by appointment)
[1/21] The Calling All Choir’s 2017 San Francisco Fall/Winter Finale at Mission Dolores Basilica, 7:30 PM Doors, 8 PM to 10 PM, Ticket donations at door
[1/22] 1st Annual Domain Swap, like a clothing swap but for domain names, at Monument, 7 PM to 9 PM
[1/25] Bikes to Books 2017 Beer Social, 7 PM to 9 PM
[1/26] The Real Numbers, David Brookings, Maya McNeil at Amnesia, 8 PM to 12 AM
[1/26] The Story of Anchor Steam with tasting samples at Presidio Officers Club, 6 PM, Free
[1/27-1/29] Fear is What We Have Learned Here, a “synesthetic immersive experience that explores the use of fear as a social framework for control” Must sign a waiver to participate (!) [Tickets] $50
[1/27] The Sound Healing Symphony at Grace Cathedral, 8 PM to 9:30 PM
[1/27] Mac Sabbath / ArnoCorps at Slim’s, 8 PM [Tickets]
[1/28-1/29] Worlds Fair Nano [Tickets]
[2/2-2/16] 19th Annual SF Indie Film Fest
[2/4] Opening party for An Art Show Tribute to the Films of Hayao Miyazaki at Spoke Art, 6 PM to 9 PM
[2/5] Cuddle Party, 6 PM to 10 PM [Tickets]
[2/10] Decentralized Dance Party SF – Valentine’s Day 2017, Bring a boombox, 7 PM [Tickets]
[2/12] Phenomenauts ~ Mustard Plug ~ Aloha Screwdriver at Bottom of the Hill
[2/15] Chinatown Neon Walking Tour, 4 PM to 6:30 PM [Tickets]
[2/16] ARTandVR: A Futurist Festival at Hackt, 7 PM to 11 PM [Tickets]
[2/18] 7th Annual Hard French Winter Ball at Gray Area’s Grand Theater, 8 PM to 2 AM [Tickets]
[2/20] Opening reception for Meredith Dittmar: New Works at Mirus Gallery, 7 PM to 10 PM
[2/20] The Edwardian Ball World’s Faire 2017 at the Regency Ballroom, 8 PM [Tickets]
[2/23] BUFFY Musical Sing-Along at The Lone Star Saloon, 7 PM to 11:30 PM
[2/28] Gil Stancourt’s Dipped: The Tasting Party at the Homemade Cafe, 7 PM to 9 PM [Tickets]
[3/2] Studies Have Shown, a live concert film event, featuring original music, dance, aerials, video projections, and more presented by Rachel Lark and the Damaged Goods at DNA Lounge [Tickets]
[3/4] Market-Mission-Castro Neon Walking Tour, 5 PM to 7 PM [Tickets]
[3/4] 2017 San Francisco Onesie Pub Crawl, 6 PM to 1 AM
[3/12] Breasts. An Art Exhibit of Form and Function at The Public Works SF, 6 PM
[3/18] Beware the Brides of March 2017 at Bar Fluxus, 2:30 PM to 8:30 PM [More Info]
[3/18] Luminary: Art, Tech, Music – Feat: Shigeto at The Midway, 6 PM to 2 AM [Tickets]
[3/19] Market-Mission-Castro Neon Walking Tour, 5 PM to 7 PM [Tickets]
[4/1] Cow Hollow Neon Walking Tour, 7 PM to 8:30 PM [Tickets]
[4/21] Erika Chong Shuch’s For You at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [Application]
[4/23] Guinness World Record – Longest Chain of Roller Skaters, Kennedy Drive at Golden Gate Park, 2 PM to 5 PM
[5/6] Tender-Nob Neon Walking Tour, 7:30 PM to 9 PM [Tickets]
[6/25] NerdGASM!, Burlesque, gaming, comedy at STUDSF, 8 PM to 11 PM
[7/21-7/23] San Francisco Art Book Fair [accepting submissions in January 2017]
[10/2017] 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
San Jose, California
[1/28] Mac Sabbath at The Ritz, 8 PM to 11 PM [Tickets]
Santa Fe, New Mexico
[Ongoing] Meow Wolf [Read this] [Tickets]
Scottsboro, Alabama
[Ongoing] Unclaimed Baggage Center Thanks, Farrah!
Seattle
“The Obscure, the Charming and the Odd: Mark Pahlow’s Guide to Seattle”
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
[Until 5/29/2017] Hanna-Barbera: The Architects of Saturday Morning at Norman Rockwell Museum via
Sun Valley, Idaho
[3/19-3/22] Dent 2017, a creative retreat for people who want to “put a dent in the universe,” as Steve Jobs once said. Highly recommended!
Vancouver, B.C.
[2/18] Pinata Workshop with Meaghan Kennedy at Blim, 2 PM to 5 PM
Venice, Italy
[5/13-11/26] We are from the Dust is participating in VIVA ARTE VIVA, The Venice Art Biennale: 57th International Art Exhibition
