This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene. Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes!
Monday 4/19: Get smart! Head over to Atlas Cafe where Ransom Stephens (The God Patent) will use a bunch of straws and a wicked sense of humor to explain 20th century mathematician, Emmy Noether’s, theorems of physics and other such scientific stuff. Free, 7pm @ 3049 20th Street.
Tuesday 4/20: Stop by 111 Minna for Sketch Tuesday. Why this particular Tuesday? Because it’s also the closing reception of the Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Art Show, celebrating four decades of lowbrow art from the underground publisher. Free, 21+, 6pm @ 111 Minna Street.
Wednesday 4/21: Kick off this Earth Day with cocktails and composition at In Response To That, Green Zebra’s reception for multimedia artist, Amy Seidman. The exhibit of photography and music documents the Great LA Clean Up with donations benefiting the Encanto Project, an educational film project focused on sustainability practices in Costa Rica. Free, 5pm @ 50 Post Street (inside the Crocker Galleria).
Thursday 4/22: Two of the things dearest to my heart (cartoons and classrooms) come together at the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s evening lecture, Comics and Commentary: Animating Jewish Education for the Next Generation. Artist, Sarah Lefton, will discuss her cartoon Torah commentaries, currently on display at the museum, and how education must adapt in order to appeal to the new media generation. The lecture is free with museum admission, which is only $5 after 5pm on Thursdays! 7pm @ 736 Mission Street.
Friday 4/23: Celebrate National Poetry Month by supporting PoemDome at their last fundraiser before next week’s City Hall open mic. Head down to the Mission’s Kaleidoscope and chip in a mere $5 to hear poetry from Jennifer Barone, Daniel Heffez, Richard Loranger, Pablo Rosales Sarah Fran Wisby, Clara Hsu, Bill Mercer, Juris Ahn, The Secret Secretaries, Potholder and the Lid, and Raska (sponsored by the WORD party and Diamond Dave Whitaker). 8pm, 3109 24th Street (@ Folsom).
Saturday 4/24: Bike, scoot, or bus down to the Mission/Potrero area for Mission Artists United’s Spring Open Studios. Check out the work of multiple local artists in the neighborhood with the city’s highest concentration of arts/crafts/awesomeness! 11am-6pm, check MAU’s website for a full list of participating studios and messages from individual artists.
Sunday 4/25: Virgie Tovar, author of Fatties of the World Unite!, comes to Good Vibrations on Valencia for Hot.Fat.Femmes!, an evening of voluptuous women and the people who appreciate them. Toval will read from her new book, along with an “intellectual panel of voluptuous vixens” and the unveiling of a naughty new photography exhibit. Free, 18+, 7pm @ 603 Valencia Street (@ 17th Street).
