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THEATER / COMEDY / MUSIC / MUSEUMS / EVENTS / FILM / TALKS EDITED BY CHRISTINA MUELLER
ARTS & LECTURES
THROUGH NOV 7
Take 3 This virtual event from RAWDance includes two works, Shadow (part 1), a muchdelayed world premiere that explores our ever-expanding digital debris, and The Healer, a meditation on health and wellness dedicated to choreographer Katerina Wong’s late aunt. odc.dance
NOV 5–7 These Are the Ones We Fell Among
Presented in collaboration with Inkboat and artist Ann Carlson, this dance takes inspiration from the movements, myths and metaphors of our endangered animal cousins and looks for humor and grace amid
Wall2Wall Exhibit at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
excrement, entropy and fear. odc.dance
NOV 18–DEC 19 Christmas at Pemberley
The final installment of a trilogy based on the characters of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice follows Mr. Darcy’s younger sister, Georgina, and the youngest Bennet sister, Kitty, as they navigate the arrival of Georgiana’s secret correspondent into the family’s holiday celebrations. marintheatre.org
NOV 19–21 Messalina
The company devoted to resurrecting forgotten operas from the Italian Baroque presents a story of the young wife of Emperor Claudius, staged at Rome’s corrupt imperial court circa 47 CE, complete with furtive meetings, frustrated trysts, kidnappings, betrayals and romantic vicissitudes. arsminerva.org
NOV 21–JAN 3, 2022 The Art of Banksy
Sourced from private collections, works that would otherwise stay hidden in private homes or warehouses are featured in this exhibit that includes many of the artist’s most recognizable images — “Flower Thrower,” “Rude Copper” and “Girl With Balloon,” among others. banksyexhibit.com
NOV 27 Christmas in
Vienna The Vienna Choir Boys raise their crystalline voices to sing favorites like “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”; “Joy to the World”; and their very own rendition of “Stille Nacht,” the original Viennese version of “Silent Night.” calperformances.org
COMEDY
NOV 20 Patton Oswalt
A true polymath, the “Parks and Rec” and “Veep” star, who is as equally well known for his books, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland and Silver Screen Fiend, delivers a new standup routine, “Who’s Ready to Laugh?” thefoxoakland.com
FILM
THROUGH NOV 17 Alternative Visions
The annual showcase of experimental cinema features San Francisco treasure Al Wong presenting his 1977 film Twin Peaks, as well as a film installation of “perceptual riddles” from the same year, Japanese experimental films by women and a visit by collage animator Janie Geiser, among others. bampfa.org
THROUGH FEB 27
Beyond the Sky Curated by Oakland’s Leila Weefur, four short films from contemporary African filmmakers connect cinematic voices across the continent’s diverse regions while reframing traditional African images into a new digital vernacular. moadsf.org
NOV 13 Warren Miller’s Winter Starts Now The inveterate skier jumps a little higher in his 72nd film. marincenter.org
MUSIC
NOV 6–7
Masterworks 1 Pianist Orli Shaham is featured in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, and composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery takes on Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. marinsymphony.org
GLIDE Holiday Jam
NOV 13 Big Brother & the Holding Company
The band that launched Janis Joplin’s career is still at it, singing new material, as well as classics like “Piece of My Heart” and “Ball and Chain” at live shows. sweetwater musichall.com
MUSEUMS
THROUGH NOV 7 Planet Earth Fights Back
Experimental artist Phyllis Thelen defends, protects and celebrates “Our Mother” and only terrestrial home while demonstrating our precarious perch and our power to fight back. marinmoca.org
THROUGH NOV 14 Johan Hagemeyer
A life-changing meeting with American photographer Alfred Stieglitz turned a fruit farmer, who first arrived in the United States in 1900, into a renowned photographer himself. His work was widely influenced by his circle of friends, many of whom have work appearing in this exhibition. bolinasmuseum.org
THROUGH FEB 27, 2022 Soul of Black Folks
Featuring more than 20 works created by Amoako Boafo between 2018 and 2021, this showcase of the artist is an exploration into Boafo’s efforts within his painting practice to capture the essence of the Black figure, including Black subjectivity, Black joy and the Black gaze. moadsf.org
OCT 23–APR 24
Runway of Love A spotlight on the remarkable career and legacy of Black fashion designer Patrick Kelly (1954–1990) includes 80 fully accessorized ensembles presented alongside footage from his fashion shows, revealing both an enduring message of love and an assertion of Black empowerment. deyoung.famsf.com
OCT 30–NOV 20 Wild
Porcelain In keeping with artist Michelle Erickson’s previous political statements, a series of works confronts visitors with issues such as socioeconomic inequality and environmental encroachment and conservation while also drawing inspiration from surrounding permanent-collection objects on view. legionofhonor.famsf.org
FROM NOV 7 Living
Worlds The first planetarium show produced in-house by the Academy’s visualization studio since 2018’s Expedition Reef 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
EVENTS
THROUGH NOV 7 Elements of Nature
A three-series collaboration between Oakland-based SLATE Contemporary and Cornerstone’s onsite SBHG Gallery means a show featuring five local mixed media artists including Robert Buelteman, who utilizes a high-voltage electricity and a fiber-optically delivered light system to cast plants in photographs. cornerstonesonoma.com
NOV 11–DEC 19 Camelot What happens when Guenevere falls in love with a young Lancelot? If it has been on your mind since 1960 when Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe adapted T. H. White’s 1958 novel The Once and Future King into a hyper-successful Broadway musical, you are in luck. In partnership with Ross Valley Players, Mountain Play is reviving the classic that became associated with the Kennedy administration with live performances at The Barn Theater in Ross. Starring San Rafael resident Phillip Percy Williams as Arthur, Krista Joy Serpa as Guenevere and Izaak Heath as Lancelot, the Arthurian legend is explored through song (who could ever forget “The Lusty Month of May”?) as the idealistic Arthur sees his morale tested when Guenevere falls for Lancelot and the fate of the kingdom hangs in the balance. “The last couple of years have felt heavy,” says Williams. “Now my soul feels light, my heart and spirit have been freed to give love and hope through music and theater.” mountainplay.org
THROUGH NOV 28
Botanical Art A juried exhibit of 45 floral works arrives at the Marin Art & Garden Center from artists representing the U.S., France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the U.K., among others, plus a presentation of the second installment of the Mt. Tam Florilegium project. maringarden.org
THROUGH JAN 15
Nocturne-X A new program from local arts nonprofit Grey Area invites visitors into a multisensory journey of a massive alien forest of extraterrestrial flora that responds to touch, sound and movement, each in its own unique way. nocturne-x.com
NOV 10 Bill Plaschke
In an online discussion about Paradise Found: A High School Football Team’s Rise from the Ashes, the columnist for the Los Angeles Times reveals what happens to coach Rick Prinz and the Paradise football team in the aftermath of a fire that ravaged their town in 2018. copperfieldsbooks.com
NOV 16 How the Other
Half Eats Sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh, Ph.D., brings us into the kitchen of dozens of families from various backgrounds to explore how — and why — we eat the way we do at an in-person event in San Francisco. omnivorebooks.com
NOV 18 Still We Rise
Ten-time Grammy winner Bobby McFerrin headlines GLIDE’s annual benefit as it returns to the Masonic Auditorium with NPR Tiny Desk contest winner Fantastic Negrito and Renel Brooks-Moon as MC, also available as a virtual program. glide.org
