So much to do and see. Have a ball this week! Go Niners!
San Francisco 49ers vs Pittsburgh Steelers, Monday Night Football
What more do you need to say? Use our contact info, we can help you find tickets.It’s an amazing matchup and sold out.
Candlestick Park, 5:30pm, Monday December 19th, 2011
Multicultural Holiday Celebration and Finale Bash
Thursday, December 15th from 11AM–4PM, UN Plaza, Civic Center, San Francisco
Price: Free
SF Arts Market will host an incredible afternoon of multicultural sound and movement in UN Plaza. The day will commemorate SF Arts Market 2011 season and welcome the holidays with tremendous music and dance performances. To represent the cultural diversity surrounding United Nations Plaza and celebrate all participants and supporters of this year’s Market, an afternoon of diverse and powerful music and dance is the plan for the day, so come join the fun — All this excitement will be an addition to the usual scheduled tasty lunch options from Off the Grid trucks and fab local artists with their handmade arts and crafts for sale! Source: ArtsMarketsSF.org
LinkedIn Downtown SF Holiday Party
Thursday, December 15th from from 12–1:30PM, Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California Street, 15th Floor, Price: $10
Join us as we kick off the holiday season with an unforgettable professional networking event, featuring a business card raffle, “Secret Santa” gift, and countless introductions/referrals. There will be a lunch buffet and hosted wine bar.
Source: LIDownTownSFHoliday.Eventbrite.com
Bazaar Bizarre NightLife
Thursday, December 15th from 6–10PM, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Price: $12, Adults 21+ with valid ID
Last-minute holiday shoppers, fear not! Bazaar Bizarre has recruited 40 independent artists and craftspeople to turn NightLife into your one-stop dream solution. Expect to find the crème de la crème of indie goods: handbags, pottery, silk-screened t-shirts, and much more, even a DIY craft station. Shop your way through the Academy’s winter wonderland, and along the way, don’t miss the live reindeer, indoor snow flurries, and aromatic spice forest that are part of the Academy’s ‘Tis the Season for Science exhibit. Meanwhile, “Peaches Claus” not your average mall Santa—will be in the Piazza bestowing holiday wishes, posing for photos, and delivering a healthy dose of humor to all those who stop by. Music by Slayers Club. Source: CalAcademy.org
Carte Blanche in Asia Show Reception
Thursday, December 15th from 6–9PM, 973 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Price: Free, Must RSVP
Our inaugural show features the work of 4 photographers from the permanent collection and presents four distinct visions of Asian lives and landscapes. From Tim Franco’s Urban Shift in Shanghai to Shinya Arimoto’s Portraits of Tibet, from Pierfrancesco Celada’s i wish i knew your name, japan to Wang Yuanling’s River Basins in China, each photographer explores a different angle of this fascinating and fast-changing continent.
Source: CarteBlanche.Eventbrite.com GalleryCarteBlanche.com
The 2nd Annual Cacophony Christmas
Thursday, December 15th from 7:30–9PM, Gather at Duboce Park, near Playground, San Francisco
Price: Free
Hey Folks! IT’s time for the cacophony Christmas! Last year we stormed the Tenderloin, Walgreens, Macy’s, etc. and made our way into the SF Chronicle! This year we need as many instruments, out of tune voices, ugly sweaters, and garbage pickin’ hobos as we can muster. Print out your songbook and meet us there, spreading our cheer throughout the city. Old fashioned caroling at it’s finest! Source: TheScoutPress.com Yelp.com
The Jewish Nutcracker, A Maccabee Celebration
December 15th–18th at 2PM & 6PM, ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco
Price: $20 General, $17 Students, Seniors
The story of the Nutcracker becomes the triumph of the Maccabees – the true miracle of Hanukkah. The original Tchaikovsky score is re-imagined as never before with traditional cultural dance. Showcasing the multi-genre choreography of Katy Alaniz Rous, the production seamlessly blends dance forms such as Flamenco, Chinese, Persian, Kathak, Afro-Hatian and Capoeira to illustrate the world Jewish community. This colorful celebration of world culture includes the historic Maccabee fight for freedom and the Temple re-dedication. Hanukkah teaches that with faith and hard work, you can overcome anything. It is important to tell this story, not just to children of Jewish descent, but also to all. Source: ODCTheater.org
Holiday Lights and Sights Boat Parade
Friday, December 16th from 6–8PM, Aquatic Park & Pier 39, San Francisco
Price: Free
The Fisherman’s Wharf Community Benefit District and the St. Francis Yacht Club will join once again to present the oldest and largest lighted holiday boat parade on San Francisco Bay. More than 60 boats, each festooned with lights and holiday decorations, will parade along the waterfront. The parade route will begin just off of PIER 39, proceeding west past Fisherman’s Wharf, Fort Mason and the St. Francis Yacht Club, and will turn around off of Crissy Field to return along the waterfront. Spectators can enjoy wonderful views from Aquatic Park, PIER 39, the Marina Green, and Crissy Field. In addition to offering a fantastic vantage point, restaurants along the Wharf will be featuring traditional holiday menus. Source: VisitFishermansWharf.com
Adam Carolla Hates The Holidays
Friday, December 16th from 8–10PM, Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco
Price: $34.50–$49.50
The Adam Carolla Show remains the internet’s most downloaded daily broadband show since its debut in March of 2009… #1 on iTunes with over 150,000 daily listeners, Adam Carolla is the only star in Hollywood who puts out fresh comedy everyday on his own website AdamCarolla.com… Guests have included Alec Baldwin, Danny DeVito, Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno, Jay Mohr and scores of the funniest comedians working today…. Starting in 2010, The Adam Carolla Show has been playing to sold out audiences on stages all around the country. The show features Adam performing his trademark comedy bits such as “What Can’t Adam Complain About” and “Why I hate LA” together with a hilarious presentation featuring pictures and video of all the great stories fans have come to love about Adam and his buddies growing up in North Hollywood. Celebrities often join the show as well to be interviewed by Adam via Skype from locations all over the world. Source: AdamCarolla.com
Dream Circle Holiday Concert
Saturday, December 17th from 11:30AM–12:15PM and 1:00–1:45PM
Discovery Theater, Bay Area Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Road, Sausalito
Price: $16 General
Join us for a delightful and uplifting seasonal celebration featuring songs for a wide range of winter holidays, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year. Dream Circle is indeed a dream lineup of Marin’s best loved children’s entertainers. Share in the true meaning of the holidays at this heart filled performance and then spend a wonderful day at the Museum. Source: BayKidsMuseum.org
3rd Annual Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Market
December 17th–18th from 11AM-6PM, Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth Street, San Francisco
Price: Free
Always free-to-attend, holiday shopping has never been more fun than with the work of over 250 of today’s finest makers of handmade goods to peruse and several hands-on crafting activities to get involved with! Food, beverages and libations will also be available! At the Renegade Craft Fair you can expect to find only the best indie-craft and DIY artisans! Featuring both local and national talent, shoppers can anticipate a vast array of independently designed jewelry, clothing, paper goods, home + garden goods, posters, artwork, plush objects, bath + body products, and so much more!! Source: RenegadeCraft.com/Holiday-SF
2011 San Francisco One-Minute Play Festival
December 17th–18th, Thick House, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco
Price: $18–$35
35+ Playwrights. 30+ Actors. 6 directors. 3 performances. 2 days. 1 Minute.
The One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) is an NYC-based theatre company, founded by director/dramaturg Dominic D’Andrea, working in partnership with institutional theatres and collectives across the country who share playwright or community-specific missions. OMPF creates local playwright-focused community events, using a specific playmaking process, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion by representing the culture of playwrights of different age, gender, race culture, and points of career. OMPF attempts to reflect the theatrical landscape of local artistic communities by creating a dialogue between the collective conscious and the individual voice.
Source: playwrightsfoundation.org
Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance
December 17–January 26, 934 Brannan Street, between 8th & 9th Street, San Francisco
Price: Free
SOMArts Cultural Center will present a centennial birthday celebration of art icon John Cage. Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance, curated by Justin Hoover and Hanna Regev, provides a multimedia and multidimensional look at a vast array of fine art practices investigating the implications of chance operation in the arts and across cultural beliefs, values and practices. New works and site-specific installations created by 29 exhibiting artists hinge upon human interaction, explore varying levels of control in production, and experiment with structured randomness. Get Lucky includes works which conflate Wiccan-based Tarot practice and corporate culture, I-Ching with installation art, and the aesthetics of Zen pottery with Western abstract painting. Source: SOMArts.org
I Like Ludwig
Friday, December 30 from 8–10PM, Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
Price: Free
Benjamin Simon, conductor Robin Sharp, violin
I like Ludwig—don’t you? Join us as we ring in the New Year with music of Ludwig van Beethoven. His Second Symphony shocked contemporary audiences in 1802; one critic called it “a hideously writhing, wounded dragon that refuses to die.” Nor was Beethoven’s Violin Concerto popular at first, but these two youthful compositions were groundbreaking works of incredible genius. Robin Sharp, the SFCO’s brilliant concertmaster, is our featured soloist.
Source: SFCOMain2SF.Eventbrite.com
