Coming cultural events:
JANUARY 2008
Music: Hans Tutschku, January 11 (Stanford CCRMA) Works for laptops and cell phones
Music: Cypress String Quartet, january 13 (Villa Montalvo) Beethoven, Opus 132 in A minor
Music: Mirage Ensemble, january 10 (Old First Church) A program of both classical and avantgarde music
Music: Stanford Percussion Ensemble, January 16 (Stanford CCRMA) Avantgarde works for percussion instruments
Music: Mario Mora, January 18 (Stanford CCRMA) Electroacoustic Works for guitar, saxophone, flute, piano, and electronics
FEBRUARY 2008
Art: Art, Technology and Culture colloquium with Greg Lynn , Feb 4 (U.C. Berkeley) Architect, UCLA & Angewandte, Los Angeles/Vienna
Music: Eos Ensemble, feb 15 (Old First Church) From Fandango to Tango
Dance: Ea Sola, February 6-8 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) The Vietnamese choreographer presents her piece "Drought and Rain" from 1995 with dancers from Hanoi Opera Ballet, live music composed by Nguyen Xuan Son played on traditional instruments and performed by two opera singers and four musicians
Music: Bang On A Can, February 9 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) The musical group performs a six-hour marathon of avantgarde music
Science: Neil DeGrasse Tyson, February 19 (Herbst Theater) The director of the Hyden Planetarium will discuss the origin of the universe
History: Daniel Waugh et al, February 22-23 (Herbst Theater) The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan
MARCH 2008
Music: Robert Rich, March 6 (Camerawork Gallery) Electronic composer Robert Rich will improvise some borderline cacophonous harmonic distortion-drone music with three simultaneous projections of films by Paul Clipson.
APRIL 2008
Politics: Jeffrey Sachs, April 9 (Herbst Theater) The director of the Earth Institute advocates combining economic development with environmental sustainability, warning of the imminence of global economic collapse.
Science: Yuri's Night, April 12 (NASA Ames) A celebration of Yuri Gagarin's first space trip
Dance: Inkboat, April 24-26 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) Founded by Shinichi Iova-Koga (aka: Momo), inkBoat is a performance company built by and with the collaborative efforts of choreographers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, directors and actors. Working in fractured, filmic, delicate and decayed environments, inkBoat's performance style is a hybrid of traditional and experimental dance and theater forms weaved with Physical Theater and Japanese Butoh Dance. All collaborators are independent visionaries that assemble according to project parameters. Living in San Francisco, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and Seattle, the group has performed in various constellations ranging from 2 to 12 member ensembles in Europe, Japan and North America at dance festivals, street festivals, ocean-sides and theatres since 1998.
MAY 2008
Music: Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival, may 1-4 (Stanford University) Several Asian musicians
Music: Cypress String Quartet, may 4 (Villa Montalvo) Beethoven, Opus 130 in Bb Major
Music: Stanford Laptop Orchestra, May 15 and 24 (Stanford CCRMA) Ge Wang's Chamber Laptop Orchestra performs works from a variety of composers
Theater: Ilkhom Theater, May 15-17 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) The Ilkhom Theatre of Uzbekistan, founded in 1976 as a renegade theater under the Soviet occupation, perform "Ecstasy with the Pomegranate", a dance theater work inspired by the "Bacha Boys" paintings of the 1930s by Alexandr "Mumin" Nikolayev.
History: Josiah Ober et al, May 22-23 (Herbst Theater) Athens In The Time Of Pericles
JUNE 2008
Art: Frida Kahlo, Jun 14 - Sep 28 (Museum of Modern Art) Exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth
Art: Dale Chihuly, Jun 14 (De Young Museum) Dale Chihuly is the most famous glass artist living today and the subject of many popular exhibitions. Chihuly's counterculture roots manifest themselves in a school that's more akin to a commune than an institution of higher learning. Other pivotal points of artistic inspiration are Chihuly's personal collections. The exhibition will include drawings and installations from his Macchia, Venetian, Persian, Ikebana, Nijima Float, Chandelier, and Mille Fiori series. The full exhibition is at the de Young Museum from June 14-September 28, 2008, but two site-specific works will be installed outside of both the de Young and the Legion of Honor starting in April. At the de Young, a Saffron Neon Tower will be installed in the Pool of Enchantment on the building's east side. A 15-foot diameter yellow orb called Yellow Sun will be installed at the Legion of Honor in the Court of Honor.
Literature: Salman Rushdie, Jun 18 (Herbst Theater) Will talk about his forthcoming novel, The Enchantress of Florence, about a bewitching Moghul princess and her Florentine exploits with such historical characters as Machiavelli
Science: Paul Ehrlich, Jun 27 (Fort Mason) Stanford entomologist Paul Ehrlich discusses human evolution and the environment, part of Long Now's seminars on "long term thinking". Everything living evolves, but humans evolve culturally as well as biologically. The question that Ehrlich explores is whether cultural evolution shows patterns that would yield predictive theory.
JULY 2008
Art and Science: Leonardo Art Science Evening, Jul 14 (San Francisco State University) Four presentations by artists and scientists, and socializing
Science: Edward Burtynsky , Jul 23 (Fort Mason) "The 10,000-year Gallery"
Music: Festival of Chariots, july 27 (Golden Gate Park) Festival of India
AUGUST 2008
Music: San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Celtic harper Diana Rowan and bansuri master Deepak Ram, aug 2 (Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church) A fusion performance combining Hildegard von Bingen's medieval plainchant with traditional instrumental music and dance of India.
Science: Daniel Suarez , Aug 8 (Fort Mason) "Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality"
Music: San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Celtic harper Diana Rowan and bansuri master Deepak Ram, aug 9 (Old First Church) A fusion performance combining Hildegard von Bingen's medieval plainchant with traditional instrumental music and dance of India.
Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira , Aug 9 - Sep 28 (Pacific Film Archives) A retrospective of Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira
Music: San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Celtic harper Diana Rowan and bansuri master Deepak Ram, aug 16 (All Saints' Episcopal Church) A fusion performance combining Hildegard von Bingen's medieval plainchant with traditional instrumental music and dance of India.
Music: Arjun Verma and Javad Butah , Aug 16 (Ali Akbar College) Concert for sarod, sitar and tabla
Music: San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Celtic harper Diana Rowan and bansuri master Deepak Ram, aug 17 (St John's Presbyterian Church) A fusion performance combining Hildegard von Bingen's medieval plainchant with traditional instrumental music and dance of India.
SEPTEMBER 2008
Art: Frida Kahlo, Jun 14 - Sep 28 (Museum of Modern Art) Exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth
Cinema: Jean-Luc Godard, Sep 5 - Oct 17 (Pacific Film Archives) Eight films by Jean-Luc Godard, one of the leaders of the French "nouvelle vague" of the 1960s.
Art and Science: Leonardo Art Science Evening, Sep 8 (San Francisco State University) Four presentations by artists and scientists, and socializing
Cinema: Jia Zhangke, Sep 12 - Oct 17 (Pacific Film Archives) A retrospective of Chinese film-maker Jia Zhangke
Science: Peter Diamandis , Sep 12 (Fort Mason) "Long-term X-Prizes"
Music: Monterey Jazz Festival, Sep 19-21 (Monterey Fairgrounds) 51st edition
Dance: Pandit Chitresh Das, Sep 27-28 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) Performs a dance solo
OCTOBER 2008
Music: San Francisco Jazz Festival, Oct 3 - Nov 9 (Herbst Theater, Palace of Fine Arts, etc) Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Haden
Music: Vasundhara, Oct 4 (St John's Presbyterian Church) World premiere of an Ode to Mother Earth
Cinema: Jean Eustache, Oct 4 - Oct 22 (Pacific Film Archives) A retrospective of French film-maker Jean Eustache
Science: Huey Johnson , Oct 3 (Fort Mason) "Green Long-term Planning"
Music: Philip Glass, Oct 9 (Memorial Auditorium, Stanford) Philip Glass' "Book of Longing" is based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen
Cinema: Russia's cinema of the 20th century , Oct 10 - Oct 30 (Pacific Film Archives) Classics by masters from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky
Art: Hasan Elahi , Oct 13 ( Berkeley Center for New Media) " Tracking Transience - The Orwell Project "
Performance: Laurie Anderson , Oct 25 ( Berkeley Center for New Media) " New Media, Performance, and Democracy "
NOVEMBER 2008
Science: Wonderfest, November 1-2 (Stanford Univ) Presentations include: Is Cultural Diversity Like Biological Diversity? Will New Drugs Help or Hurt Patients? Humans vs. Microbes: Who Will Win? The Promise of 21st-Century Science. Have We Passed the Tipping Point on Climate Change? Will the Universe Have a Happy Ending? Are We Wired To Be Kind?
Art and Science: Leonardo Art Science Evening, Nov 10 (San Francisco State University) Four presentations by artists and scientists, and socializing
Science: Drew Endy and Jim Thomas , Nov 17 (Fort Mason) "Synthetic Biology Debate"
Art: Anne Pasternak , Nov 24 ( Berkeley Center for New Media) " Public Art and Media - From Spectacle to Political "
DECEMBER 2008
Science: Rick Prelinger , Dec 19 (Fort Mason) "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco"
JANUARY 2009
FEBRUARY 2009
Art: Joseph DeLappe , Feb 9 ( Berkeley Center for New Media) "You'll Never Walk Alone - Protest, Memory and Reenactment"
MARCH 2009
Art: Ray Beldner , Mar 2 ( Berkeley Center for New Media) " Flickr, Flarfing and Babelfish - The Internet and Art Practice "
Art: Marcia Tanner , Mar 30 ( Berkeley Center for New Media) " Where the Girls Are - Women Artists, Science and Technology "
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