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East Bay Singles Convention Start Date: Sunday 9/1/2019 — End Date: Sunday 9/1/2019 Admission:15-20 EAST BAY SINGLES CONVENTION Labor Day Sunday, September 1, 2019 Our largest East Bay party of 2019 is on the Sunday before Labor Day, so no one has to worry about going to work Monday morning! Most singles do NOT go out of town over the holiday weekend and are looking for something fun to do. This is it! $15/advance (by Aug 31) or $20/door. Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. Sunday, September 1, 2019. 7:30pm – The East Bay Singles Scene, featuring representatives of the leading local singles organizations and meetups revealing all the fun ways to meet new single friends! 8-11:30pm – Dance to your favorite hits with one of our top DJs! LOCATION: Faz at Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 5121 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton CA. Conveniently located near the junction of Hwy 580 and Hwy 680 (Hopyard exit off 580) in the Hacienda Business Park, two miles from BART. Free parking! CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and by many singles meetups. DISCOUNTS and more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Singles TGIF, Aug 9, San Rafael •Vichy Springs Waterfall & Forest, Aug 10, Ukiah •Singles Happy Hour, Aug 17, Orinda •The Summer Ball at The Fairmont, Aug 24, San Francisco Location: 5121 Hopyard Rd Pleasanton Pleasanton Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

OPENING RECEPTION: MIKE HENDERSON: HONEST TO GOODNESS Start Date: Friday 9/20/2019 — End Date: Sunday 11/17/2019 Admission:0 Friday, September 20 | 5–8pm Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus Please join us in celebration of Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness in the Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute’s Chestnut Street Campus—free and open to the public! The exhibition will be on view September 13–November 17, 2019. Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness celebrates the work of pioneering African American artist Mike Henderson (b.1944, Marshall, Mis­souri; lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area), bringing together a selection of key works from a dynamic practice that spans more than fifty years. In 1965, Henderson left behind a rural farming community in the Midwest to attend San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 1969, MFA 1970), where he found a vibrant community of artists and friends that would nourish his creativity for decades to come. Galvanized by a new atmosphere of protest and possibility, the young artist set to work producing a breakthrough series of large-scale, figurative paintings—some overtly political, others joyfully depicting his San Francisco scene. Remarkably, as Henderson was completing his education, works from this series were included in two important exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art: Human Concern / Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art (1969, traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum, 1970) and Contemporary Black Artists in America (1971). These shows brought Henderson’s early works into dialogue with a range of artists concerned with social justice. Henderson received his MFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 1970, a year that marked a dramatic change in the form and content of his work. Like many African American artists searching for new modes of expression following the tumult of the previous decade—Joe Overstreet, Frank Bowling, and Raymond Saunders among them—Henderson left behind his figurative style and turned his artistic vision towards abstraction. In following decades, he developed a set of creative inquiries that continue to fuel his practice to this day. With their lushly built-up surfaces and striking palettes, the more recent paintings included in Honest to Goodness will offer viewers an opportunity to view Henderson’s evolution as he explores the tension between gestural and geometric abstraction. In addition to painting, Henderson is an accomplished blues guitarist and filmmaker. His experimental short films, made from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, have been screened at venues around the world, including recent presentations at the New York Film Festival (Lincoln Center); the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago); and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris). A selection of Henderson’s films will be screened at SFAI in conjunction with Honest to Goodness (schedule to follow). Mike Henderson has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973) and two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grants (1989, 1978). His paintings and films have been exhibited in such distinguished institutions as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. The artist will be the subject of a large-scale solo exhibition at the Shrem Manetti Museum, Davis, CA in 2022. Mike Henderson: Honest to Goodness is held in tandem with the Tate Modern’s groundbreaking traveling exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, which will be on view at the de Young Museum from November 9, 2019 to March 15, 2020. The San Francisco presentation of Soul of a Nation will feature an important early painting of Henderson’s Non-Violence (1968), which the artist created during his time at SFAI. All works are courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs are made possible by the generosity of donors and sponsors, including the Harker Fund of The San Francisco Foundation, Institute of Museums and Library Services, Grants for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Work Fund, Koret Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and Fort Point Beer Company. Ongoing support is provided by the McBean Distinguished Lecture and Residency Fund, The Buck Fund, and the Visiting Artist Fund of the SFAI Endowment. Image: Mike Henderson, Me and the Band, c. 1968, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery. Location: 800 Chestnut St Russian Hill San Francisco Contact: Kat exhibitions@artists.sfai.edu URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-of-mike-henderson-honest-to-goodness-tickets-67536287855

Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Music of Bali Start Date: Saturday 9/21/2019 — End Date: Saturday 9/21/2019 Admission:Adults: $20 advance / $25 day of show, Kid (12 & u Gamelan Sekar Jaya is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. Founded in 1979, this internationally acclaimed group has presented more than four hundred concerts throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Indonesia, in venues ranging from New York’s Symphony Space to remote village squares in Bali. The group’s success arises from its devotion to traditional repertoire and its passion for innovation with more than sixty major new works for Gamelan and dance. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/gamelan-sekar-jaya/

Mark Flood: Paintings from the Postwar Era Start Date: Saturday 9/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/26/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold is pleased to present Paintings from the Postwar Era, Mark Flood’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Paintings from the Postwar Era features selections from the Heath series and the Monster series. Mark Flood has been described as irreverent, a prankster, and a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. Some people seem to think that he is criticizing society, or maybe just the art world. Google him. He makes paintings, sculptures, films, videos, and music. The Heath paintings are comprised of collections of internet images jumbled together on printed canvases—funny paintings for a world that has lost its since of humor. They are funny but safe, because no one can really say what they mean. The Monster paintings are hand-paintings on canvas of monsters—monsters of violence. These are paintings about violence in its most abstract form, for a world that is angry and bloodthirsty—paintings for those want justice, revenge, violence and war but are unwilling to expose their own values, lest they end up on the guillotine. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/mark-flood-3/

Downtown San Leandro’s Last “Truth Thursdays” of the Summer! Start Date: Thursday 8/22/2019 — End Date: Thursday 8/22/2019 Admission:Free Downtown San Leandro’s “Truth Thursdays” holds its final event of the summer on Thursday, August 22 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. surrounding the iconic 55-foot Truth is Beauty statue at the San Leandro Tech Campus. The community is invited to celebrate this summer’s last hoorah with an evening of live entertainment, rotating food trucks, beer, wine, recreational games and live music. The theme of the final “Season Bookend” event is to be announced! The “Truth Thursdays” summer event is hosted by Downtown San Leandro and is a series of community-driven events that take place the fourth Thursday of each month until this August. Location: 1600 Alvarado St San Leandro Contact: Davia davia@olivecreativestrategies.com URL: http://downtownsanleandro.com/

Live Organ & A Movie: Dial M For Murder Start Date: Sunday 8/25/2019 — End Date: Sunday 8/25/2019 Admission:$6.50 Join us for our Live Organ & A Movie series. Hosted by Matias Bombal and music played by Dave Moreno. This series combines live organ music, raffles, and a classic movie all rolled into one. We begin with Dave Moreno playing the theater’s historic Robert Morton Organ with a selection of themed musical pieces. Academy Award winners Grace Kelly and Ray Milland star with Robert Cummings in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers–Dial M for Murder. When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice discovers his rich wife, Margot is having an affair a with handsome American Mark Hallidy, he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected, deadly twist, Tony improvises–implicating Margot for first degree murder in this classic spellbinder. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: Carolyn August info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

Shaina McCoy: A Family Affair Start Date: Saturday 9/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 10/26/2019 Admission:Free Shaina McCoy A Family Affair September 7 – October 26, 2019 Opening reception: September 7, 5-8 pm Regular hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5 pm Ever Gold [Projects] presents A Family Affair, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Minneapolis-based artist Shaina McCoy. The exhibition features McCoy’s newest series of portrait paintings, which offer a constellation of tenderness and reverence based on the photographic archive of a black American family. Within this collection, she traces her own family heritage using a signature style of thick, glossy brush strokes and almost featureless faces. Each painting is based on a photograph from the McCoy family album and is rendered with bold and affectionate gestures. McCoy’s technique, through firmly influenced by the traditions of Impressionism, has a unique capacity to hover over the precipice of familiarity and anonymity; she gives her audience just enough information for a spark of recognition, be it a face, a shirt, or a room, while also withholding the bristling realism that we are so accustomed to in our increasingly high-definition world. Her images function more like memories or afterimages than documentation. The usual requisite sentimentality of such personal work is reserved, even concealed, by the lack of recognizable facial features, which are perhaps only hinted at with a particular swoosh this way or that. McCoy’s style of portraiture, at once gooey and flat, rejects a paradigm of artificial facial recognition, one in which our cherished images of loved ones are played back as automated, premade slideshow templates set to generic stock music. Instead, what she offers is both an honest record of a specific family and a relatable surface for the memories of others—a placeholder where one can project their own faded, idealized, or troubled visions of relatives posing, eating, and gathering across generations. In the current moment, the threshold between private and public identity is blurrier than ever and our relationship to the preservation and ownership of our own images is constantly being contested. If social media platforms capitalize on our archival impulses and our use of image-making for the construction of social identities, then it is a precarious contract between the needs of the user and those of the corporations who manage, distribute, and ultimately control their circulation. In A Family Affair, McCoy has taken up the task of rerouting the power dynamic of this situation and has taken the act of photographic remembrance and identification into her own hands. What she has unearthed is a map for finding our way back to ourselves. Shaina McCoy (b. 1993, Minneapolis, MN) began painting while studying at the Perpich Center for Arts Education (Golden Valley, MN) in 2012. She attended Normandale Community College from 2013-2014, and graduated with an Associate of Arts from Minneapolis Community and Technical College in 2018. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, CA), Gildar Gallery (Denver, CO), Art4Shelter (Minneapolis, MN), PLOT (Minneapolis, MN), and City Wide Artists Gallery (Minneapolis, MN). McCoy lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/shaina-mccoy-a-family-affair-september-7-october-26/

Live Organ & A Movie: Dial M For Murder Start Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 — End Date: Thursday 8/29/2019 Admission:$6.50 Join us for our Live Organ & A Movie series. Hosted by Matias Bombal and music played by Dave Moreno. This series combines live organ music, raffles, and a classic movie all rolled into one. We begin with Dave Moreno playing the theater’s historic Robert Morton Organ with a selection of themed musical pieces. Academy Award winners Grace Kelly and Ray Milland star with Robert Cummings in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers–Dial M for Murder. When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice discovers his rich wife, Margot is having an affair a with handsome American Mark Hallidy, he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected, deadly twist, Tony improvises–implicating Margot for first degree murder in this classic spellbinder. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Old Town Pittsburg Contact: caroline info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

Aggregate Animated Shorts | Special Screening I Start Date: Friday 8/2/2019 — End Date: Saturday 8/31/2019 Admission:$10 Aggregate Animated Shorts Third Annual International Short Film Festival 2 August – 31 August 2019 In our ongoing effort to present unique and challenging art experiences to the public, Aggregate Space Gallery is proud to launch this celebration of non-commercial and experimental animation. Animation, as a subset within video art, is unique in its versatility as a communicative form and its ability to place viewers inside adjacent realities. It is a medium without rules or restrictions, and its content can address ideas as simple or as complex as the animator intends. The exhibition will culminate in an award ceremony hosted by artist, animator, and Congratulations Pine Tree co-host, Kate Rhoades. We will be screening the top two films from each category, as well as a viewer’s choice award from each category. Viewer’s Choice categories will be rated by visitors to the gallery and our special screenings, so come by and judge these films by September 4 at Roxie! The event will also include a film by each of our exhibition jurors: Zeina Barakeh, Laneya Billingsley, Ryan D Lewis, Sarah Paulsen. Featuring shorts by: Melanie Clemmons, Jacob Docksey, Celia Eid and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Tess Elliot, Amy Fang, Gwendolyn Foster, Erinn Hagerty and Adam Savje, Santiago Insignares, Lacey Johnson, Shon Kim, Carey Lin and Gabriel Gilder, Tess Martin, Kathleen Quillian, Fu Yang Opening Reception 2 August 6-10pm Location: 5221 Central Ave Richmond Contact: Aggregate Space Gallery info@aggregatespacegallery.org URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/699959637122183/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aggregate-animated-sho

Aggregate Animated Shorts | Special Screening l Start Date: Sunday 8/11/2019 — End Date: Sunday 8/11/2019 Admission:$5 Third Annual International Short Film Festival 2 August – 31 August 2019 In our ongoing effort to present unique and challenging art experiences to the public, Aggregate Space Gallery is proud to launch this celebration of non-commercial and experimental animation. Animation, as a subset within video art, is unique in its versatility as a communicative form and its ability to place viewers inside adjacent realities. It is a medium without rules or restrictions, and its content can address ideas as simple or as complex as the animator intends. The exhibition will culminate in an award ceremony hosted by artist, animator, and Congratulations Pine Tree co-host, Kate Rhoades. We will be screening the top two films from each category, as well as a viewer’s choice award from each category. Viewer’s Choice categories will be rated by visitors to the gallery, so come by and judge these films by September 4 at Roxie! The event will also include a film by each of our exhibition jurors: Zeina Barakeh, Laneya Billingsley, Ryan D Lewis, Sarah Paulsen. Featuring shorts by: Melanie Clemmons, Jacob Docksey, Celia Eid and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, Tess Elliot, Amy Fang, Gwendolyn Foster, Erin Hagerty and Adam Savje, Santiago Insignares, Lacey Johnson, Shon Kim, Carey Lin, Tess Martin, Kathleen Quillian, Fu Yang Opening Reception 2 August 6-10pm Location: 474 24th St Oakland Contact: Aggregate Space Gallery info@aggregatespacegallery.org URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/2308916272478028/