Calendar

2008.06.05 - 2008.07.17
Temescal Street Cinema
A free outdoor summer movie series, featuring an AMAZING selection of films by Bay Area artists, including many featured at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. Fun, special events planned by local merchants, restaurants and galleries on movie nights. ...
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2008.02.17 - 2008.07.27
@60.art.israel.world
The Magnes presents @60.art.israel.world, a survey of recent work by over 20 contemporary Israeli artists, including Barry Frydlender, Ori Gersht, Sigalit Landau, Adi Nes, Michal Rovner, and Yehudit Sasportas. On loan from important private Bay Area collections, the paintings, photographs, ...
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2008.04.14 - 2008.07.31
Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed
This exhibition in Gallery 4 seeks to bring an understanding of Asian culture, religion and demographic range through art. It explores scholarly pursuits in China and Japan, Chinese tomb culture, ideals of beauty in India, Tibetan Buddhist rituals and the ...
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2008.04.14 - 2008.07.06
REVISIONS Shahrokh Yadegari: Priestly Benediction
Former Whitney Museum curator and educator Lawrence Rinder stages a computer-assisted sound installation incorporating a new Shahrokh Yadegari composition based on the Priestly Benediction. Hebrew, Farsi and English singing mix with classical Persian and electronic music. Persian vocalist Siamak Shajarian ...
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2008.04.14 - 2008.07.27
The Art of Israel
May 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel. As part of an international celebration, the Magnes Museum has organized @60.art.israel.world, an exhibit curated by Alla Efimova and featuring more than 20 contemporary Israeli ...
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2008.04.21 - 2008.08.15
Youth Summer Camp Expanded to Three Sessions -- Enrollment Now Open!
Build confidence, explore creativity and learn responsibility in age-appropriate classes structured for students 8-11 and 12-18. Choose from morning and afternoon sessions for a full-day or a half-day of hands-on fun welding, blacksmithing, woodworking, jewelry, glass, and more at ...
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2008.05.02 - 2008.07.19
Roots of My Heart
For over 20 years, internationally renowned mural artist Daniel Camacho has devoted his life to public art, capturing people’s experiences and creating images that empower them in their work for social change. Roots of My Heart is his first solo ...
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2008.05.03 - 2008.09.01
Art Show
Art show theme is "Stolen" Regeneration and local artists interpret "Stolen". Opening reception is free and open to the public and will be held on May 3rd from 7pm to 10pm. Location is Regeneration 238 E. 15th St. Oakland, CA ...
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2008.05.05 - 2008.08.17
A Cool Summer
Local artists and community organizations have added their own hip, new and modern perspective on the Oakland Museum of California’s Birth of the Cool exhibit currently on display. Curators Evelyn Orantes and Christine Lashaw invited artists from the East Bay ...
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2008.05.05 - 2008.08.29
Still in Oakland
Major League Baseball has been in Oakland for 40 years and the Oakland public library is celebrating that fact with items collected from the Oakland History Room, including rare photographs, monographs, newspaper clippings and team publications. On display during regular ...
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