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June 5, 12:00 PMSF Art ExaminerMarisa Nakasone

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Adobe Books Backroom Gallery (3166 16th St) : First Exposures 'Zine Release Party 5-7 PM.
1890 Bryant St Studios #208: Photographic Sculptures - Jennifer Stalvey & Peter Sorensen. 6-9 PM.

1AM Gallery (1000 howard st): “Into the Darkness”. Over 60 different artists from all over the world, including US, UK, Japan, Latin America, Canada, etc., will have their custom toy creations governing the gallery. 6-10 PM

Bibliohead Bookstore (334 gough): "Forest Station" - kristin farr + jeff meadows. 6-9 PM.

Definitive Stories Gallery (950 mission st): Bay Area Documentary Association Fragments B.A.D.A. Members first group exhibit between 5th/6th across from sf chronicle. 6-11 PM.

John Pence Gallery (750 post st ): Greg Gandy & Jeremy Mann

Mission 17 (2111 mission st ): 4th fl The Man Behind The Curtain Seth Lower (San Francisco) Société Réaliste (Paris) Goldin + Senneby (Stockholm) with Kate Cooper (filmmaker), K.D. (fictional author), Johan Hjerpe (graphic designer), Richard John Jones (filmmaker) Curated by Laura Mott, Assistant Director/ Curator. 6-9 PM.

Secession Art and Design (3361 mission st ): FuryOne Fury and Anna Simson Simson. 6:30-9:30 PM.

Artist X-Change Gallery (3169 16th): JUNE ART EXHIBIT – NEW WORKS. 7-10 PM.

Silverman Gallery (804 Sutter St): Yuval Pudik "Enduring Patiently. 7-10 PM.

Varnish Fine Art (77 natoma st): The Eminent Domain Awareness Group Show features some of the 200+ artists whom Varnish Fine Art has been proud to exhibit since opening in April 2003. 7 PM.

Culture Skate (214 valencia): Group Show. 8-10 PM.

D-Structure (520 haight st): MACROLECULE Halsey Chait. 8-11 PM.

Johannson Projects (2300 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA): At this June's Art Murmur, in Celebration of our Second Anniversary, Johansson Projects presents The Echo Fields, a debut exhibition featuring the work of Val Britton and Michael Meyers. In the second gallery the internationally acclaimed husband-and-wife team, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, offer an exploration of social roles, stereotypes, typecasting and genres. 5 PM.

Creative Growth Art Center (355 24th St. Oakland): The Home Show. 5-9 PM.

SoFA district San Jose: Kick off summer with SubZERO, a diy, artistically bent, hi/lo-techno-mashup where street meets geek presented by ZER01 and South FIRST FRIDAYS. Anno Domini, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Museum of Quilts + Textiles, and works/san jose.

The Compound Gallery (6604 San Pablo Ave Oakland, CA): ART IN A BOX Launch Party on Friday, June 5, 7-10pm with Music by The Isabellas and the Exuberant Husks starting at 7:30pm



SATURDAY

ARTSFEST Gallery 94124 (Fairfax St. between third and Phelps, Bayview): Tomorrow, Saturday June 6 from 11am–5pm, Fairfax Street between Third and Phelps will come alive with MUSIC, ART, and FUN at the second-annual ARTSFEST, a fun-filled street fair hosted by ART 94124. This year's festivities will feature a great line-up of diverse music, dance performances, a drum corps, artist booths, art-related vendors and other retailers, info tables from various community groups, art activities for children, a silkscreen demonstration, chalk drawing, and food.

City Art Cooperative Gallery (828 Valencia St.): City Art again devotes its back room to a "Queer" show. Member artists have been invited to interpret the theme as broadly as possible. In addition to work by queer-identified artists, we will showcase work that touches on the meanings of "queer" as anything odd, out of the norm, nonconformist, weird, bent, unusual, or alternative. Opening reception on June 5. 7 - 10 PM. Show runs June 3 - 27.

MAPP Red Poppy Art House (2698 folsom st sf ca): Mission Arts and Performance Project Download the program at www.sfmapp.com 1:00 PM - 4 PM The FAMILY MAPP Painting activities, Storytelling, and Music for children and families 7PM-midnight The Evening MAPP multidisciplinary/intercultural community arts event that features as many as 120 artists presenting in up to 18 street-level alternative venues, such as garages, gardens, living rooms, cafes, and street corners, as well as artist galleries and studios. 1 PM.

Art Club SF (2901 Clement st sf ca): GRAND OPENING RECEPTION “What Is Art?” A Reflection of Ourselves

Chandler Art (170 Minna St.): Margaret Fitzgerald: New Paintings. 4-7 PM.

Limn Gallery (292 townsend st ): Jil Weinstock Wear and Worn Debra Greene New Work. 4-6 PM.

Push Studio (864 Folsom): robert venosa - paintings sculpture prints. 6-10 PM.

Soap Gallery (3180 mission st): Featuring New Photography by Karyn Yandow & Susan Scott. 6-9 PM.

Studio 3579 (499 Dolores st): Annie Galvin: In a Golden State. 6-9 PM.

2nd Floor Projects (740 25th st #205 ): Emily Wilson, Charlene Tan. painting, drawing sculpture.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: goes until 3am - if you haven't rsvp'd, admission will be on a space-available basis. free admission. bill of fare-- All Night (9 pm–3 am): Honey Soundsystem; Tattoos by Philip Milic and Andrew Mann; Nick Cave Exhibition 9 pm–midnight: Trash Trailers Fest (Film); Through Future Eyes Exhibition 9 pm: Ex Boyfriends, Exillon 10 pm: Anna Conda and Monistat Drag Cabaret 11 pm: Evan Fraser and T-Bird Luv with Soma Olam; Ra So and the Satya Yuga Collective Midnight: Dwayne Calizo with Erika Shuch Chong; Project Nunway with Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 1 am: Pansy Division 2 am: DJ Dirty Knees.

The Roxie (Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th St.): Event: Sex Worker Movies at the Roxie presented by the 6th Biennial San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival
Date: June 6th, Noon to 2 am. Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/RoxieSWFEST2009.html

Galeria de la Raza (2857 24th Street): Crucero Artero: A bi-monthly arts bazaar in Studio 24. Featuring; Itzpaplotl, Raul Aguilar, Aydasara Ortega, etc. 2 PM.

Super7 (1628 Post St): Thought Processor. Group art show and exhibition of Colorways from Phonetic Control. 7 PM.

Subterranean Arthouse (2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley): Flying Kiteman. For the entire month of June, 2009 there will be the first group art show presented at the Subterranean Art house in Berkeley, curated by Yukako Ezoe Onodera and Ryoji Kajikawa. The show will showcase over 40 local artists from the Bay Area. The main subject of the show will be ‘kites’ hung as installations from the ceiling crafted by many artists. One of the star kite pieces made by Ryoji Kajikawa will have a projection of a film on it. There will also be a variety of mediums presented; photos, paintings, drawings, and video, related to the feeling of kites on the wall.

LGBT Center: Bi-licious returns to the National Queer Arts Festival to showcase
bisexual writers, performers and activists through a playful mix of
serious issues and entertainment. Audience participation is encouraged
during an interactive panel discussion immediately following the show
with the Bi-licious writers, performers and activists.

Cantina SF (580 Sutter St.): Babylon Salon, San Francisco's rollicking reading and performance series, presents poet JOSEPH LEASE.  Additional performances by Victoria A. Hudson, reading from Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq; and emerging Bay Area writers Amy Burkhardt and Lauren Becker. Meet John Peck, editor of the artsy, zany "Beeswax Magazine" and Mary Suddaby, who will read from its pages. 7 PM.

Alphonse Berber Gallery (2546 Bancroft Way, Berkeley): In lieu of our first Saturday reading series, the Alphonse Berber Gallery would like to invite you to the final night of "You, Me, and Everyone We Know" with a performance by composer/musician Alex Margitich and a closing party to follow. Justin Botros DJs with refreshments. 7 PM.

SUNDAY

Backyard Gallery Project (349 south van ness): apt 3 group show - art under $300. 11-8PM.

SomArts Gallery (934 brannan st): Join Queer Cultural Center and over 50 artists for the opening of Threads. Part of the Twelfth Annual National Queer Arts Festival. 3-6 PM.

SFMOMA Family Programs: Discover the landscapes of artists Georgia O’Keeffe, Andre Derain, and Max Beckmann, and create your own landscape masterpiece. Explore the ways colors can affect our perception of what is land, what is water, what is mountain, and what is sky. And last but not least, enjoy a reading of “Through Georgia’s Eyes,” by Rachel Rodriguez and illustrated by Julie Paschkis.  Hands-on art activity 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Family tour at 1 p.m. Special presentation at 2 p.m.