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Fantastic Fungi Screening Start Date: Thursday 10/10/2019 — End Date: Thursday 10/10/2019 Admission:25$ for Balcony The visually stunning and groundbreaking documentary FANTASTIC FUNGI comes to San Francisco on October 10th at 7pm and will debut at The Castro Theatre. This film showcases the amazing world beneath our feet and how mushrooms can offer solutions to some of our most pressing issues today. Narrated by Brie Larson, FANTASTIC FUNGI takes us on a journey to discover an often overlooked area in nature through the work of experts like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others. Following the film, there will be a inspirational conversation with the director and mycologist, Paul Stamets. FANTASTIC FUNGI is sure to captivate your attention and impact the way you think about mushrooms. Location: 429 Castro St Eureka Valley San Francisco Contact: Moving Art team@movingart.com URL: https://fantasticfungi.com

Mieke Marple: Bad Feminist Start Date: Saturday 11/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 12/21/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold [Projects] presents Bad Feminist, a solo exhibition by Mieke Marple. Bad Feminist reflects on the ancient Greek myth of Medusa in the era of #MeToo. Taking its title from Roxane Gay’s book Bad Feminist: Essays (2014), in which the author describes a sexual assault she experienced as a child, Marple reflects on historical depictions of women and rape in light of today’s changing understanding of the power dynamics at play within society at large. While the details of the myth of Medusa have evolved overtime, in Ovid’s canonical telling, Medusa, the most beautiful of her three Gorgon sisters, is raped by Poseidon, god of the Sea, in the Temple of his wife, Athena. Enraged, Athena, god of Wisdom and War, punishes the mortal Medusa, instead of her husband, turning Medusa into a half woman-half serpent with snakes for hair and eyes that turn anyone she looks at to stone. In Ovid’s telling, Athena is justified in her punishment and it is Medusa’s beauty, not Poseidon’s lust or cruelty, that is blamed for both the rape and the subsequent violence acted against her. Marple’s paintings of Medusa are based on three canonical Italian sculptures. The first is Benvenuto Cellini’s “Perseus with Head of Medusa” (1550), which features the Greek hero holding up Medusa’s decapitated head as a sign of victory. The second is Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s “Medusa” (1640), considered conceptually avant-garde for its time in rendering the moment Medusa is turned into a monster with pathos and humanity. The third is Antonio Canova’s “Perseus with Head of Medusa” (1804), thematically similar to Cellini’s though less gruesome in its details. In Marple’s paintings, images of Medusa’s head are layered upon backgrounds of delicate lace, floral wallpaper, and luxury brand logos in garish colors. These signifiers highlight the status of these works as decorative objects and allude to the metamorphosis of Medusa into a symbol of luxury and excess with the adoption of her severed head as the logo for the fashion house Versace. This conflation of contemporary and classical narratives serves to reinforce the importance of the myth of Medusa as an allegory still relevant today, though greatly in need of #MeToo revision. Please inquire for more information: info@evergoldprojects.com Mieke Marple (b. 1986, Mountain View, CA) received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. She was co-owner of Night Gallery, Los Angeles, from 2011 until 2016, and has been written about by The New York Times and W Magazine, among other publications. In 2012, Marple produced the web series Feast of Burden, directed by filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko and distributed by MOCAtv. In 2014, she also co-founded the “Sexy Beast Benefit for Planned Parenthood LA,” and remains on the organization’s advisory board. Recent exhibitions include [On Approval] Beta Launch at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2019); God is an Audiobook at 1301PE (Los Angeles, 2019); Gold Standard at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2019); The Internet Archive’s 2018 Artist In Residence Exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco); and Relocation Tarot (2018) at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco). A solo exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects] is forthcoming (Fall 2019). Marple lives and works in San Francisco. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/mieke-marple-bad-feminist-november-9-december-21/

SF Dance Film Fest Opening Night – Queen + Béjart: Ballet For Life Start Date: Saturday 11/2/2019 — End Date: Saturday 11/2/2019 Admission:$21 – $75 Queen + Béjart: Ballet For Life The SF Dance Film Festival invites you to join us in celebrating the North American premiere of Queen + Béjart: Ballet For Life by Lynne Wake and Simon Lupton, which tells the story of the creation and subsequent success of Ballet for Life, the unique collaboration between three huge cultural brands: Queen, Versace, and the visionary choreographer Maurice Béjart. At its heart is the loss of two legendary performers, Freddie Mercury and dancer Jorge Donn, both of whom died of AIDS in the early 1990s. This film marks the ultimate fusion of Queen’s sweeping emotional melodies and the timeless ethereal grace and movement of ballet. It is the first and only time a full-length ballet has been paired to rock music albeit peppered with some equally well-known pieces from Mozart. Featuring: Brian May and Roger Taylor, and Adam Lambert, Wayne Sleep and Arlene Philips, and of course incredible archive footage of Freddie Mercury, Maurice Béjart, Queen, and Gianni Versace. Location: 1110 Gorgas Ave Presidio of San Francisco San Francisco Contact: SF Dance Film Festival info@sfdancefilmfest.org URL: https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/festival-films/2019-program/queen-bejart/

The Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show Start Date: Sunday 12/29/2019 — End Date: Sunday 12/29/2019 Admission:$28 Advance / $35 Day of Show Pucker up and kiss 2019 goodbye on Sunday, December 29th, when political satirist Will Durst brings his irreverent tribe of merry pranksters back to the Rhythmix stage. Bay area favorite Johnny Steele along with Debi Durst, Michael Bossier, Mari Magaloni, and Arthur Gaus join Will for a hilarious evening of stand-up comedy, improvisation, and sketches riffing through the major news stories of 2019. The troupe vows to lampoon, satirize, mock, scoff, scorn, taunt, tease, rib and ridicule the people and events of the past year and do it with a modicum of taste. Presenting “comedy for people who read, or know someone who does,” Will makes a point of puncturing the pomposity of sacred cows on both sides of the aisle. A five-time Emmy nominee and a regular commentator for audible.com, CNN, and NPR, Will is as current as today’s headlines, as accurate as a sharpshooter, and in the words of the New York Times, “quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today.” The annual Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show features an uproarious collection of riotous skits, songs, sketches, and stand- up, all based on the wacky events that made up 2019. Some calendars are less conducive as subjects of humourosity, but this one gave us Megyn Kelly, Brexit, the Zika virus and bad hombres grabbing nasty women. Lush like a tropical rain forest… Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/big-fat-year-end-comedy-2019-2/

The Amazing Bubble Show (11AM) Start Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 Admission:$15/Adult; $10/Kid (12 and under) Thrilling audiences around the world for nearly 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man (a.k.a. Louis Pearl) explores the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles. Combining comedy and artistry with audience participation and enough spellbinding bubble tricks to keep both kids and adults alike mesmerized, this show is fun for all ages. From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, and people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/bubble-show-dec-2019/

The Amazing Bubble Show (1:30PM) Start Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 Admission:$15/Adult; $10/Kid (12 and under) Thrilling audiences around the world for nearly 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man (a.k.a. Louis Pearl) explores the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles. Combining comedy and artistry with audience participation and enough spellbinding bubble tricks to keep both kids and adults alike mesmerized, this show is fun for all ages. From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, and people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/bubble-show-dec-2019-2/

The Amazing Bubble Show (11AM) Start Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 Admission:$15/Adult; $10/Kid (12 and under) Thrilling audiences around the world for nearly 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man (a.k.a. Louis Pearl) explores the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles. Combining comedy and artistry with audience participation and enough spellbinding bubble tricks to keep both kids and adults alike mesmerized, this show is fun for all ages. From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, and people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/bubble-show-dec-2019-2/

Singles Wine Tasting Party Start Date: Saturday 11/16/2019 — End Date: Saturday 11/16/2019 Admission:10 Meet new friends who appreciate fine wines! For the first time we offer two wine tasting parties at the same location on the same day: 1-3pm and 7-9pm. Only $10 at the door, per party, includes 3 free tastes. Dress to impress. Adults of all ages welcome. Saturday, November 16, 2019. LOCATION: Gather Wine, 1110 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur CA 94939. Free parking. CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; Singles2Couples; and many other singles organizations and meetups. This is a fundraiser for The Seva Foundation, www.seva.org, to restore sight to the blind. Every $50 we raise at the party finances a cataract surgery for one blind person in one of the poor countries of Asia or Africa. MORE SINGLES PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Astrological Matchmaking Party, Sep 28, Silicon Valley •80s Live Band Dance, Oct 5, Walnut Creek •Saturday Afternoon Delight, Oct 12, Alamo •No Rejection Dance, Oct 19, Redwood City •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Silicon Valley •Halloween Party, Oct 26, Mill Valley •Single, Straight & Breathing, Nov 3, San Francisco •The Thanksgiving Ball at The Fairmont, Nov 30, San Francisco Location: 1110 Magnolia Ave Larkspur Larkspur Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: https://www.thepartyhotline.com

Marc Horowitz: The Qualitative Validation Principle Start Date: Saturday 11/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 12/21/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold [Projects] presents The Qualitative Validation Principle, Marc Horowitz’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The paintings and drawings on view extend the forensic system Horowitz began developing after visiting the Roman ruins in Milreau, Portugal, which inspired him to restage previously abandoned works using archeological motifs. Within Horowitz’s oeuvre, TQVP constitutes a dark chapter that explores the color palette he has used since his days as a Bay Area performance artist in the early 2000s. Long veering between various comedic roles, Horowitz has settled on something mute like Harpo Marx, deadpan in the way only an image could be: a dissected tableaux vivant where the lifelike turns against the abstract and serialized, where the counterpoint between organic and artificial forms becomes unsettled. Large, blackened canvases are spread throughout the exhibition space while towering monochromatic paintings cut them into a 3-dimensional grid. Ashen figures, burned into the black canvases, suggest skeletal impressions, the arboreal and humanoid remnants of an in-progress experiment. Testing the range of his impulses, Horowitz questions the degree of change, discordance, and ambiguity a body of work can withstand. How, for example, can improvisation and performativity rest within a system in which color and format, material and size are predetermined? TQVP is at times a painterly Rorschach test that asks the viewer to inhabit decisions made by the artist to expose the detritus of his own jokes, but it also seems like something or someone decided to go off script along the way. Or, that an off-color joke, though aborted, continues to make appearances, to refer to a glyph or key which would unlock deeper meanings if it were available. The whiteboards Horowitz has stationed in the gallery speak to the consequence of acknowledging such a key. Alas, some mysteries remain precisely within the surface on which they were inscribed, alluding to and denying their secret in the same gesture. Please contact info@evergoldprojects.com with any inquiries. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/marc-horowitz-the-qualitative-validation-principle-november-

MaheshKale" The Alchemist" concerts by Mahesh Kale on 20th Oct in the Bay Area Start Date: Sunday 10/20/2019 — End Date: Sunday 10/20/2019 Admission:Level I: $45 ($39 early bird before Sep 30) Level Hi everyone! Let’s rewind the clock about four years… to the cusp of the musical phenomenon that was about to sweep audiences off their feet and create a new wave of appreciation for Indian classical music. That phenomenon was the 2015 musical film “Katyar Kaljat Ghusli” and you have all been a part of the exhilarating musical movement that has followed. Now some of you may know that the movie is actually a revival of the 1960’s hit musical with the same title. It’s hard to believe that much of the film’s music — that today plays from our iPhones and bluetooth speakers — was actually composed and first popular over 60 years ago! But what is it about this music that is so enchanting, so timeless, and so inspiring that it has attracted people from all walks of life and especially the younger generation? Who was it that seeded this inspiration? ICMA Foundation is very excited to bring to you our humble tribute to the original creator of this music, and to one of the most prolific Indian classical musicians of all time, in a very special concert presented by his youngest disciple and ICMA’s very own Mahesh Kale: “The Alchemist: Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki – The Maestro with a Golden Touch” with narration in English, and in Marathi. Alchemy is an ancient belief, whose practitioners sought purity and perfection…it is believed that they could turn ordinary metals into gold. Padmashree Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki, known fondly as Abhishekibua, was such an alchemist of music, widely acclaimed for his deep perfection of Indian classical music and for his Midas touch that moved audiences beyond words. What is not as commonly known was the sheer magnitude of music that he conceived and created…from rare ragas to film songs to abhangs to the mid-20th century revival of Marathi natya sangeet, Abhishekibua is credited with hundreds of musical marvels. National Award-winner Mahesh Kale is Abhishekibua’s youngest disciple, and has dedicated his life to carrying forward his guru’s musical legacy and philosophies, and to spreading the joy of music. On October 20th, in this very special concert, Mahesh Kale will not only take us through the depth and breadth of Abhishekibua’s music, but will share glimpses of the guru who inspired him. Joining him will be an ensemble of stellar traditional instrumentalists from India – Nikhil Phatak (tabla), Rajiv Tambe (harmonium), Prasad Joshi (pakhawaj), and Kedar Gulavani (violin). This event is brought to you in collaboration with our community partner Maharashtra Mandal Bay Area (MMBA). Location: 5001 Great America Pkwy Santa Clara Contact: Purva purvagujar@gmail.com URL: http://www.icmafoundation.org.