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THEATER / COMEDY / MUSIC / MUSEUMS / EVENTS / FILM / TALKS EDITED BY CHRISTINA MUELLER
ARTS & LECTURES
THROUGH JANUARY 3, 2022 The Art of Banksy
Sourced from private collections, works that would otherwise stay hidden in private homes or warehouses are featured and include many of the artist’s most recognizable images, including “Flower Thrower,” “Rude Copper” and “Girl With Balloon,” among others. banksyexhibit.com
THROUGH FEBRUARY 19 Below the Lighthouse
The first solo exhibition in the U.S. of the work of New York-based artists Zakkubalan, aka Neo S. Sora and Albert Tholen, features their 2017 collaboration with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, async – volume - , a 24-channel video installation that serves as a portrait of the composer and his creative process, and new work created in response to San Francisco’s David Ireland House. 500cappstreet.org
THROUGH FEBRUARY 19 Dust Specks on the
Sea Contemporary sculpture from the French Caribbean and Haiti made by 27 different artists represents colonial history and trauma, as well as the artists’ personal relationships to heritage and a desire to look beyond their cultural backgrounds for inspiration and ideas. sfai.edu
JAN 6 Adina
Merenlender The Cooperative Extension Specialist at University of California, Berkeley, and conservation biologist takes readers on a journey to learn how communities can help tackle climate change in her book, Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California. copperfieldsbooks.com
PREMIERES JANUARY 11 Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child Harry, Ron and Hermione are back for another adventure, 19 years after they saved the wizarding world, with a new generation of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry students who are preparing for an epic battle to stop mysterious forces. harrypotterplaysf.com
JAN 13 David Bodanis
The best-selling author begs to differ that nice guys finish last and makes the case for being fair to others in a new book, The Art of Fairness. With insights from across history, Bodanis charts a sustainable approach to cultivating integrity and influence. commonwealthclub.org
Freestyle Love Supreme
JAN 13–FEB 6 Tommy
Re-mounting a show cut short after just one preview performance in March 2020, The Who’s rock opera welcomes back Tyler Marques in the lead role accompanied by Pete Townsend’s music and lyrics to tell the story of “that deaf, dumb and blind boy.” novatotheatercompay.org
JAN 21–FEB 13 Freestyle
Love Supreme The Broadway hit from LinManuel Miranda and Bay Area artist Anthony Veneziale uses audience suggestions to spin fresh beats each night and take the crowd on a freestyle, hip-hop comedy ride. act-sf.org
JAN 27–FEB 20 Pass
Over Everyday profanities turn into poetic and humorous riffs, illuminating the spirit and smack talk of Moses and Kitch, two young men looking for a way out in Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s new play — that is, until a stranger disrupts their plans. marintheatre.org
MUSIC
JAN 16 TOOL L.A.’s multiple Grammywinning rock artists are often classified as metal, but are also known for musical experimentation, visual arts and messages of personal evolution, placing them firmly in the art rock category. chasecenter.com
JAN 16 Itzhak Perlman
The legendary violinist is joined by pianist Rohan De Silva in this multimedia-themed program that interweaves personal storytelling with clips
from the Itzhak documentary and music. sfsymphony.org
JAN 20 mewithoutyou
With a theatrical, progressive post-punk/ hardcore soul, this band from Philadelphia creates a meandering, technicolor vision of a world apocalyptic with layered vocals and intricate fretwork to create a style that some call transcendental. gamh.com
JAN 23 SonoMusette
Interpreting Edith Piaf is the guise of another native Parisian, Mimi Pirard. Her faithful interpretations of classic songs are at the heart of this show that features other iconic French performers of the era. sweetwater musichall.com
JAN 23 Ilya Yakushev
The Russian pianist stops by Mill Valley to play Haydn’s Sonata in D major; Beethoven’s Sonata No 17; “Tempest,” Alexander Scriabin’s Nocturne for the Left Hand; and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 7. chambermusic millvalley.org
FILM
THROUGH 2022
Living Worlds The first planetarium show produced in-house by the Cal Academy of Science’s visualization studio since 2020’s Big Astronomy is an exploration of the ways life has transformed Earth’s surface and atmosphere over billions of years, and a journey through the cosmos in search of life in our solar system and beyond. calacademy.org
JAN 7–8 Back to the
Future Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos leads the San Francisco Symphony in a live accompaniment to the 1980s film that made a star of Michael J. Fox. sfsymphony.org JAN 9 Sherlock, Jr. Live accompaniments by violist Ruth Kahn and violinist Mads Tolling turn a silent Buster Keaton comedy into something else entirely. Mads and Ruth will perform a duet after the movie, as well, including a world premiere suite
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, Marin Theatre Company
by Clint Borzoni and a selection of dances by Béla Bartók. rafaelfilm.cafilm.org JAN 26 Prism Part of the “New Time: The Future is Feminist” series, this film asks whether technology consciously or unconsciously orients itself to depicting white skin as the norm. bampfa.org
MUSEUMS
THROUGH FEBRUARY
27 Sam Vernon A sitespecific installation, Impasse of Desires, and a site-specific installation and solo exhibition of the artist’s work includes a constellation of images in the first-floor hallway and a draping of the lobby and first floor gallery in fabric. moadsf.org
THROUGH MARCH 6 Unstable Presence
Rafael LozanoHemmer’s large-scale, participatory works use little more than air, water, sound and light, plus a smidge of technology, to highlight the relationship between physical presence and the natural and technological spaces we inhabit. sfmoma.org
THROUGH APRIL 17 Jules Tavernier
and the Elem Pomo A focus on the artist’s masterwork “Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake” (1878) is presented alongside historic and contemporary Pomo basketry and regalia from the Elem Pomo Indian Colony, adding a multiplicity of voices and perspectives to the paintings and photographs. deyoung.famsf.org
OPENING JANUARY 21
Seeing Gender Whether fluid or fixed, divine or sensual, subversive or orthodox, gender is the organizing theme that places artworks from disparate cultures and periods side by side to show how it is constructed, performed and depicted in ways both provocative and inspiring. asianart.org
EVENTS
THROUGH JANUARY
15 Nocturne-X A new program from local arts nonprofit Grey Area invites visitors on a multisensory journey through a massive alien forest of extraterrestrial flora that responds to touch, sound and movement, each in its own unique way. nocturne-x.com
JAN 4 Sound Bath Bring your yoga mat or blanket for some cozy fun that celebrates the reopening of the cathedral with an annual theme of healing, immersive light and musical stylings from Bay Area musicians Egemen Sanli, Amber Field, Sam Jackson and others who serve as guides on a deeply meditative sonic journey. gracecathedral.org
MLK TO-DOS
Honor the civil rights achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr., and reflect on the issues facing Black Americans, at these upcoming events.
MoAD
JAN 17 A Day of Service Free admission is planned at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), plus family-oriented activities, including a scavenger hunt, chalk drawing and a performance, that reflect the importance of MLK’s vision for a world of peace, justice, equality and inclusion. moadsf.org
JAN 17 Passion and Perseverance
Long devoted to cultivating new environmental and social- justice leaders while growing a sustainable and just food system in Richmond, Urban Tilth invites everyone to the farm for a day of community gardening. urbantilth.org JAN 17 I Have a Dream Moon Joggers running group invites everyone to a virtual event of their preferred distance — 1M, 5K, 10K, 13.1K and 26.2K — with 15% of entry fees that day donated to the Equal Justice Initiative. virtualrunevents.com
OPENS JAN 21 Wake Me When I’m Free
A new exhibit at the Canvas in L.A. from the estate of former Marin City resident Tupac Shakur, who used his creative platform to speak for the voiceless and oppressed, includes song lyrics and poetry and a room dedicated to his mother, Afeni Shakur, the former Black Panther who inspired the work of her son. axs.com
