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THEATER / COMEDY / MUSIC / MUSEUMS / EVENTS / FILM / TALKS EDITED BY CHRISTINA MUELLER
Tikkun
ARTS & LECTURES
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
THROUGH FEBRUARY 27 Swept Away
Featuring a book by Tony Award-winning stage and screen writer John Logan (Red, Broadway’s Moulin Rouge!, Skyfall, Gladiator), a story of a whaling ship struck by a violent storm off he coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts finds four survivors each facing a reckoning: How far will I go to stay alive? And can I live with the consequences? berkeleyrep.org
JAN 21–FEB 13 Freestyle Love Supreme
Before Hamilton, LinManuel Miranda wrote an improvisational hiphop comedy that takes inspiration from audience suggestions and spins them into riffs and full-length musical numbers. act-sf.org FEB 1 Wajahat Ali The author of Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American sits down with Dave Eggers to share stories of his experiences as a Muslim PakistaniAmerican and inspire a new vision of America’s multicultural identity. cityarts.net
FEB 25–26 Memphis
Jookin’: The Show Lil Buck’s dance improvisation with Yo-Yo Ma turned him into a YouTube sensation, but he has become a star for his agile, fluid dance moves and impossiblelooking footwork, as demonstrated in a show dedicated to a style that emerged in a Southern city in the 1990s. calperformances.org
MUSIC
FEB 5, 8 Björk The multidisciplinary artist known for outlandish costumes and jangly vocals returns to the Chase Center with “Cornucopia,” said to be her most elaborate and theatrical stage concert to date. chasecenter.com
FEB 24–27 Rosanne
Cash The daughter of Johnny and singular performer takes the stage at SFJAZZ with her partner and musical collaborator, John Leventhal, to play music from across Cash’s career, including songs from her latest Blue Note release, “She Remembers Everything.” sfjazz.org
FILM
FEB 3–13 San Francisco
Film Festival Twentyfive feature films and 65 short films, including Josef Kubota’s “Catch the Fair One” and “Cat Daddies” by Mye Hoang, are shown at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater and in virtual formats. sfindie.com
FEB 19 Hearts of
Darkness Part of a months-long series that examines the work of Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope, a documentary from Eleanor Coppola’s home movies digs into her husband’s time in the Philippines filming “Apocalypse Now.” bampfa.org
MUSEUMS
OPENS JAN 14 Wander Woods The California Academy of Sciences
Lunar New Year Festival & Parade
opens an immersive outdoor multisensory discovery and learning area dedicated to crawling, climbing and other imaginative play activities, a space to foster a deep connection with nature ideal for children under 12. calacademy.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) are 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
FEB 3–JUNE 5 Tikkun
Artists from around the Bay Area interpreted the Hebrew word for “to repair”; the exhibit can more broadly be seen as a tool to help guide us through change and build resilience for the hard work ahead. thecjm.org
EVENTS
ONGOING The Art of
the Brick Walk beside a 20-foot-long T-Rex dinosaur skeleton, come face-to-face with a giant skull or marvel at a sculpture of a man ripping his chest open with thousands of yellow – you guessed it – LEGO bricks cascading from his chest in an all-things LEGO exhibition from contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya. artofthebrickexhibit.com
THROUGH FEB 19 Below the Lighthouse
The first solo exhibition in the United States 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 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 APR 27 Bauhaus Typography
at 100 The inaugural exhibition from the Letterform Archive, which opened in November in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, features the work of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and other typographic contributors and explores the school’s unique legacy in graphic design. letterformarchive.org
FEB 4–5 Edwardian Ball
A fully immersive party devoted to the delights and attire of another era celebrates with a Revival theme, ballroom dancing, stage shows and absinthe cocktails for the adults in the crowd. edwardianball.com
FEB 6 Faith Kramer The author of 52 Shabbats sits down with food writer Dianne Jacob to discuss her book and the pleasures of food as part of a modern Jewish weekly ritual. omnivorebooks. myshopify.com
FEB 9–13, 23–27
Dream Big Disney on Ice returns to SAP Center in San Jose and Oakland Arena with favorite Disney friends such as Mickey, Minnie, Miguel, Moana, Elsa, Belle, Genie, and others highlighting Disney tales told through figure skating. disneyonice.com
FEB 17–MAY 28 The
Healing Project From composer and artist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes comes an exhibition that is part digital archive and music album, part exhibition exploring the daily realities of violence, incarceration, detention, policing and healing in communities across the United States. ybca.org
FEB 19 Lunar New Year Festival & Parade
After a year’s absence, the dragon-snapping, firecracker-cracking San Francisco parade and festival are back with a month of events, including a street fair, Miss Chinatown pageant, basketball jamboree and more to honor the Year of the Tiger. chineseparade.com
FEB 21–27 Noise Pop
Independent films, art shows, happy hours and concerts around the Bay Area includes Tipling Rock at San Francisco’s DNA Lounge and Nate Smith with Kinfolk at The New Parish in Oakland. noisepopfest.com
FEB 24–26 Sophia’s
Forest With music by Lembit Beecher and libretto by Hannah Moscovitch, a one-act opera at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral relates the story of a young girl who survives a civil war in her home country and immigration to the United States, showing the power of a child’s imagination to deal with trauma. operaparallele.org
JAN 29–OCT 30 Edith Heath The founder and designer of Sausalito’s Heath Ceramics, which transformed the ceramics industry, is the focus of a new show and retrospective, “A Life in Clay,” at Oakland Museum of California. Known for rejecting traditional white clay in favor of locally sourced, and definitely not white, California clays, Heath developed a new style of ceramics that helped define a California aesthetic for tableware and long-lasting products for the home. “What began as a rebellion against imported white clay more than 50 years ago is now a modern-day classic,” said guest curator Jennifer Volland. The exhibition includes more than 50 hand-thrown and early production pieces, architectural tiles, clay and mineral materials, intimate photographs, documentary video, personal memorabilia, a biographical and historical timeline, touchable objects and more. Cathy Bailey, coowner of Heath Ceramics, perhaps put it best: “Edith Heath’s visionary thinking coupled with the fascinating journey of her design and craft explorations are showcased in this wonderful new exhibit. Edith should inspire us all to create beauty and think holistically.” museumca.org
