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MUSIC

JUN 16 Soul Ska With a full horn section, three singers, ample percussion and guest appearances, a show from Marin group Soul Ska is a must for those looking to dance till they drop. The Mystic (Petaluma). soulskamusic.com

THEATER

THRU JUN 9 Two Minds

Playwright Lynne Kaufman tells the true-life story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, the pair of brilliant Israeli psychologists and friends who garnered a MacArthur Genius Award and a Nobel Prize — but also had a troubled friendship. The Marsh (SF). 415.282.3055, themarsh.org

THRU JUN 10 The

Tin Woman A woman reevaluates her life after a heart transplant and explores loss, family bonds and what it means to be given new life in this new production from the Ross Valley Players. MAGC (Ross). 415.456.9555, rossvalleyplayers.com

THRU JUL 8 Hamlet

Murder, madness and ghostly visitations plague the Prince of Denmark in the famed Shakespeare tragedy, presented alfresco. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre (San Rafael). 415.499.4488, marinshakespeare.org

JUN 14–JUL 8 Straight

White Men Ed and three adult sons confront questions of identity and privilege during Christmas. Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley). 415.388.5208, marintheatre.org

DANCE

JUN 1–2 Wonder

Women The Don’t Quit Your Day Job Dancers present a show of movement centering on identity and choices. Showcase Theatre (San Rafael). 415.254.4250, stagedor.com

JUN 3 Passport to

Dance The students of Splitz Dance Academy take audiences on a performative journey to prove that the joy of dance and movement pervails around the world. Showcase Theater (San Rafael). 415.598.7732, splitzdance.com

JUN 7–23 ODC Resident Artist Commissions

Don’t miss this series of performances from inhouse artists, including world premieres from Embodiment Project (Music of the Actualized Child, under the direction of Nicole Klaymoon) and Tinypistol’s Kosmos. ODC Theater (SF). 415.863.9834, odc.dance

JUN 8–10 SFDanceworks’ Season

Three An extremely varied schedule of performances make up this program from SFDanceworks: enjoy a classic from Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato, world premieres from Danielle Rowe and James Sofranko and more. Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture (SF). 415.345.7575, sfdanceworks.org

MUSIC

JUN 1–10 Healdsburg

Jazz Festival Local guitarist Julian Lage and the genre-spanning Bill Frisell kick off 10 days of great jazz selected for the wine country festival’s 20th anniversary. Various locations (Healdsburg). 707.433.4644, healdsburgjazz.org

JUN 2–3 Union Street

Music Festival Get your groove on in the city streets at this free live music festival featuring varied stylings on four themed stages — jazz, blues, country and indie — along with crafts booths, food and beer. Union Street (SF). 800.310.6563, sres productions.com

JUN 3 Clint Borzoni:

Song Cycle Seven poems by Wendell Berry are set to voice and string quartet music composed by Clint Borzoni, performed with special guest GermanAmerican operatic bass Malte Roesner. Sea Cliff (SF). musicamarin.org JUN 4 The Kooks This four-man English band brings its irreverent, danceable brand of indie rock stateside. The Warfield (SF). 415.345.0900, the warfieldtheatre.com

JUN 5 Anderson and Roe Chamber Music San Francisco launches its new summer series with performances

by the dynamic piano duo Anderson and Roe. Herbst Theatre (SF). 415.392.4400, chambermusicsf.org JUN 12–JUL 1 Ring San Francisco Opera presents Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) — one of the most ambitious works of the genre ever conceived. War Memorial Opera House (SF). 415.864.3330, sfopera.com

JUN 16 Mill Valley

Music All-Stars The band, including Austin de Lone, Mikaele Tate, Mari Mack and more, celebrate Mill Valley Music’s 10th anniversary by performing Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley). 415.383.9600, throck mortontheatre.org

JUN 22–23 Zepperella

If you like Led Zeppelin and feminism, head downtown for two evenings of performances by Zepperella, the allfemale group whose mission is to replicate the nuanced improvisational concerts for which Led Zeppelin was known. Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley). 415.388.3850, sweetwater musichall.com

JUN 22–23 Unbreakable

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus concludes its 40th anniversary with a groundbreaking musical journey through the gay experience in America over the last 12 decades. Nourse Theater (SF). 415.392.4400, sfgmc.org

JUN 29 Fleetwood

Mask Can’t make it to the Fleetwood Mac reunion tour? A show from Fleetwood Mask, the Bay Area’s Fleetwood Mac tribute band, is the next best thing. Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley). 415.388.3850, sweetwater musichall.com

MUSEUMS

MARIN

Bay Area Discovery

Museum Sid the Science Kid: The Super-Duper Exhibit! Children are given the chance to step into Sid’s world, which features fie environments designed to prove that science, technology, engineering, math and learning happen everywhere, through September (Sausalito). 415.339.3900, bayareadiscovery museum.org Bolinas Museum Focus: Patsy Krebs Meditative abstract paintings by the Inverness artist, through June 10 (Bolinas). 415.868.0330, bolinasmuseum.org

Marin History Museum

Numerous collections containing historic articles, documents, artifacts and photographs celebrating the traditions, innovation and creativity of Marin County (Novato). 415.382.1182, marinhistory.org

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art

Make Your Mark In this national juried exhibition, artists use the loose concept of marks to create form, line and texture, June 16–July 29 (Novato). 415.506.0137, marinmoca.org

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What’s Hot in June 1 2 3 4 Broadway Under the Stars opens its season with Stairway to Paradise, an evening of song Join some of wine country’s best restaurants and sip on some rosé while fundraising for breast cancer research at the Napa Valley RoséFest. June 9, Sterling Vineyards (Calistoga). naparosefest.com One of Marin’s unique art events, Italian Street Painting Marin this year has House of RoCo: 25 Years of Home Help RoCo Dance celebrate its anniversary with this premier piece of and dance performed the theme of Wonders of choreography center- alfresco. June 15–July Space and Time. It explores ing on what makes a 1, Jack London State the past, present and future house a home. June Historic Park (Glen Ellen). of the universe. June 23–24, 1–2, Veterans’ Memorial transcendencetheatre.org downtown (San Rafael). Auditorium (San Rafael). italianstreetpaintingmarin.org rocodance.com

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Marin County Fair: All for One and Fun for All Celebrate summertime at the annual county fair, featuring games, rides, a global marketplace, live music and a general sense of fun. June 30–July 4, Marin County Fairgrounds (San Rafael). marinfair.org

BAY AREA

Asian Art Museum

Divine Bodies Historical art from Hindu and Buddhist traditions converge with contemporary photo-based work, inviting viewers to ponder the possibility of transcendence, through July 29 (SF). 415.581.3711, asianart.org

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film

Archive UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition Catch a glimpse of the work of new graduates from the MFA program at Cal, through June 17 (Berkeley). 510.642.0808, bampfa.org

California Academy of

Sciences Twilight Zone: Deep Reefs Revealed Explore unknown expanses of coral reefs alongside scientists who show off new and rare species found there; many have never been displayed in a public aquarium (SF). 415.379.8000, calacademy.org

Contemporary Jewish

Museum The Art of Rube Goldberg The only California exhibition of this collection, which includes original drawings of his beloved machines, photographs, toys, film, newspaper clippings and other artifacts, through July 8 (SF). 415.655.7800, thecjm.org de Young Weapons of Mass Seduction: The Art of Propaganda Today’s version of propaganda may come in a single tweet or online headline, but past information spreading was a bit more complicated, a concept explored in this exhibit through a selection of World War I and II–era posters shown alongside film, ephemera and more from the 1910s and 1940s, through October 7 (SF). 415.750.3600, deyoung.famsf.org Legion of Honor Truth and Beauty: The PreRaphaelites and the Old Masters Peruse the firt major exhibition to examine art by the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood — an artistic alliance aspiring to rebel against the contemporary Victorian art world — with works that inspired its members, June 30–September 30 (SF). 415.750.3600, legionof honor.famsf.org

Museum of Craft and

Design Raw Design An exhibition that explores innovative new mediums, as if discovered for the firt time, June 2–October 28 (SF). 415.773.0303, sfmcd.org

Oakland Museum of

California Respect: HipHop Style and Wisdom Discover how hip-hop changed the world with rap, break dancing, street art and more, along with firt-person accounts from artists and experts about how the medium provides a platform for activism and creative expression, through August 12 (Oakland). 510.318.8400, museumca.org SFMOMA The Train: RFK’s Last Journey This unique exhibit follows the journey of Robert F. Kennedy’s body — carried by funeral train from New York City to Washington, D.C., on June 8, 1968 — for burial at Arlington National Cemetery, via imagery of mourners and more, through June 10 (SF). 415.357.4000, sfmoma.org

Sonoma Valley Museum

of Art Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo An exhibition that explores the full spectrum of creative life aboard the S.S. Vallejo — a decommissioned ferryboat that became an important cultural crossroads in the history of California and America — with works by Onslow Ford, J.B. Blunk and others, through June 10 (Sonoma). svma.org

The Walt Disney Family

Museum Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane An exhibition of works by renowned Disney animator Glen Keane, responsible for the creation of Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel in Tangled and Pocahontas in Pocahontas, through September 3 (SF). 415.345.6800, waltdisney.org

Yerba Buena Center

for the Arts The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form A group of design experiments by Bay Area design-research studio the Open Workshop that test how architecture can empower the diverse voices of the communities in which it exists, through July 29 (SF). 415.978.2787, ybca.org

EVENTS

JUN 2 Altered Book Exhibit Closing Party and Live Auction

MarinMOCA presents a live auction — a companion to the silent auction in play throughout the exhibit — of the altered book artworks featured in the museum’s annual exhibit, each piece donated by the artist. Marin MOCA (Novato). 415.506.0137, marinmoca.org

JUN 3 Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food

Tasting Raise money for the Mill Valley chamber of commerce and Kiddo!, while sampling the best of local food and drink in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais. The Depot Plaza (Mill Valley). 415.388.9700, enjoymillvalley.org

JUN 6 Headlands Center for the Arts’

Art Auction Help support this well-loved art center at its annual auction event. The event includes cocktails and tasty snacks, contemporary art experiences, immersive installations and live and silent auctions. Headlands’ Center for the Arts (Sausalito). 415.331.2787, headlands.org

JUN 10 The French

Market Peruse this outdoor antique market in search of art, books, textiles, vintage and estate jewelry, furniture, prints and much more, all accompanied by French music and crepes. Marin Civic Center (San Rafael). 415.383.2252, golden gateshows.com

JUN 15 Slide Ranch Farm-to-Table

Experience Enjoy a farm-to-table experience with a five-course meal served by chef Gabriel Powers, along with an opportunity to visit the ranch’s many animals. Slide Ranch (Muir Beach). 415.717.7410, slideranch.org

JUN 16–17 North

Beach Festival This free outdoor festival in San Francisco’s own Little Italy features more than 125 arts and crafts booths, food and drink, live music and performances by the single ring of Circus Bella. North Beach (SF). 800.310.6563, sres productions.com

JUN 17 For the Love of

Cheese and Beer Ring in Father’s Day with an afternoon of artisan cheese and microbrews, along with a tour of the farmhouse and the pastures — which offer scenic views of Tomales Bay. Straus Home Ranch (Marshall). 415.663.1158, malt.org

JUN 21–24 MarinScapes’ 30th

Pearl Jubilee Celebrate MarinScapes and the county’s premier landscape artists at this multiday art event benefiting Buckelew Programs’ mental health and addiction services. Escalle Winery (Larkspur). 415.491.5705, buckelew.org

SPOTLIGHT Clusterfest

A three-day laugh fest comes to San Francisco.

Cluster ... what? Now in its second year, Clusterfest is all about bringing the LOLs. A comedy and pop culture spectacle unlike any other, it’s an immersive weekend featuring comedians, bands and surprises. We had a chance to talk to two of the people behind the event, Steve Raizes (Comedy Central) and Jonathan Mayers (Superfly). Here’s what they had to say. June 1–3, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and Civic Center Plaza. clusterfest.com

The name — who thought of it and was it a hard

decision to go with Clusterfest? Jonathan: It was a collaboration between us and Comedy Central. We wanted to come up with something that was fun and catchy. Steve: We were going to go with the name Fire Fest but that one was already taken. Everything we do we try to do through the lens of comedy.

How did Clusterfest attract so many big personalities for the second year? What was your talent

selection process like? Jonathan: We did a lot of explaining, talking about what the first year was like. It was actually easier for us in the second year because we had advocates like Jerry Seinfeld, who told Jon Stewart about the festival.

Why San Francisco? Steve: We looked at four to five different cities where there was a good comedy audience and a smart, educated crowd. Having an indoor/outdoor space was also important. Jonathan: Superfly is a founder of Outside Lands and we have offices and staff here, which is helpful, too.

Are there any up-and-comers we should be

looking out for? Steve: All of them. We pride ourselves at Comedy Central on the talent that we bring in. In three to five years you’ll be like, “I saw so-and-so at Clusterfest!”

Who are you most excited to see? Jonathan: Nathan Fielder, and Bridget Everett and the Tender Moments. Steve: Desus and Mero, and the Live Reads.

Have you heard Andy Samberg sing? Should we?

Steve: Yes I have, and I think he has the voice of an angel. I cry when I hear him.