The Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) and the Ferry Building Center celebrate Food Day with a harvest festival and seasonal cooking demo at the historic San Francisco Ferry Building on Saturday, October 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, October 23 from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s time to eat real, America!
Hughen/Starkweather, Original Bridge (detail), archival pigment print, 60 x 120 inches, 2011
Published: October, 2011
SF Ferry Building Celebrates Food Day
The Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) and the Ferry Building Center celebrate Food Day with a harvest festival and seasonal cooking demo at the historic San Francisco Ferry Building on Saturday, October 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, October 23 from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s time to eat real, America! Come learn about your food system and enjoy unique harvest-themed activities. On Saturday there will be a cooking demo and cookbook signing with Sam Mogannam, the mastermind behind the popular Bi-Rite Market and author of Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food: A Grocer’s Guide to Shopping, Cooking & Creating Community through Food (Ten Speed Press, 2011). There will also be apple cider pressing and seasonal recipes with Sprouts Cooking Club; make-your-own pickle with Urban Kitchen SF; weaving/wool spinning demonstration with Spindles & Flyers Spinning Guild as well as education and action opportunities. Sunday will feature harvest-themed specials and samples throughout the building including pumpkin bread from Acme Bakery, olio nuevo tastings at McEvoy Ranch Olive Oil and Stonehouse California Olive Oil, pumpkins at Farm Fresh to You. For more info visit www.cuesa.org or call (415) 291-3276.
Ethnic Dance Festival Performs for Free at Rotunda
San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival presents a free performance at San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda on Friday, October 7 from noon to 2 p.m. The free public performance by some of San Francisco’s most innovative, fun and entertaining performing artists will mark the 50th anniversary of the City’s Grants for the Arts program of the Hotel Tax Fund, which uses tourism tax dollars to promote San Francisco as a top visitor destination, boosts local economy and enhances quality of life. The performance will feature Theatre Flamenco, Patrick Makuakane’s Hawaiian dance company N Lei Hulu I Ka Wkiu and a special appearance by a member of the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon. The performance will be followed by a free public reception in the North Light Court with food and beverages contributed by San Francisco hotels in celebration of the role arts and culture play in making the City immensely popular with visitors from around the world.
Bay Bridge Inspires Art Exhibit
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Electric Works presents Approach, Transition, Touchdown: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Project by Hughen/Starkweather. The reception is Friday, October 21 from 6-8 p.m. at Electric Works, 130 8th Street, San Francisco and is free and open to the public. Hughen/Starkweather create collaborative artworks that explore the layers, complexities and patterns that comprise a specific place using both current and historic information — photographs, maps and data - to research a location. The resulting artworks map unique forms and patterns derived from built systems and natural movements of a place. This exhibit is a new series of prints and drawings focusing on the historic and current construction of the Bay Bridge. Over the course of two years, the artists were given access to architectural and engineering drawings, maps and diagrams, photographs of ongoing construction, as well as on-site visits by boat and on foot during various phases of construction.
Yerba Buena’s Bright Lights, Little City Celebration
Yerba Buena Community Benefit District presents Yerba Buena Night on Saturday, October 15 from 4 p.m. to midnight. Yerba Buena Lane and Mission, Third and Minna Streets come alive as part of Yerba Buena’s Bright Lights, Little City celebration. Enjoy a Gallery Walk at over a dozen renowned Yerba Buena galleries from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Trip the light fantastic and raise money for Make a Wish and other nonprofits at a Dance Marathon from 4 p.m. to midnight at Jillian’s Billiards. Have fun under the stars from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. enjoying live performances on two stages, a New Media Lounge, street performances, and art installations. Gallery admission will be free to all and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be open additional hours from noon-10 p.m. As home to 24 galleries and museums, Yerba Buena has the richest concentration of cultural institutions in San Francisco, as well as offering an enormous selection of food, drink, and entertainment. And it’s easy to get there. Take BART, MUNI, SamTrans or Caltrain to their front door. If you’re driving, City Park and the Hearst Corporation are offering a special $5 flat fee at the Hearst Parking Center at 45 Third Street. Learn more about Yerba Buena Night at www.visityerbabuena.org.
Monster Bash on the USS Hornet
Is the USS Hornet Haunted? Bring the whole family and find out. The USS Hornet Museum will hold its annual Monster Bash from 7:30 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, October 29 onboard the historic ship located at 707 W. Hornet Ave., Pier 3 in Alameda. Visitors will get a good fright throughout the evening if they dare to visit the Haunted Hospital packed with evil doctors doing weird experiments that might go wrong or ride the flight simulator through a Virtual Time Warp.
There will be prizes awarded in several categories from spookiest to most creative. Kids can even get into the act with haunted tours, costume contests and other treats. This year’s featured band, the Cocktail Monkeys, will be returning for a repeat performance bringing exciting music and fun to the USS Hornet as they lead guests through a fantasy evening covering the most popular songs from the 60s through current favorites. Happy hour, tours and children’s activities start at 7:30 p.m. with the band performing from 8 p.m. to midnight. To purchase tickets, call (510) 521-8448 ext. 282. Tickets are $20 for adults ($25 at the door) and $10 for kids. Cash bars and food concessions are available. For more information, visit www.hornetevents.com.
BayWood Artists Make a Splash
A Benefit for Save The Bay opens October 21 with a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and runs through November 12 in the Bay Model Exhibition Gallery, Marinship Park, Sausalito. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. BayWood Artists is a group of ten distinguished Bay Area plein air painters dedicated to preserving the environment for future generations to enjoy. They produce an annual exhibition and sale of paintings at the Bay Model to raise both funds and awareness of Bay Area environmental causes. Each year they donate fifty percent of proceeds from painting sales to an organization that protects the land and environment. BayWood Artists chose to partner with Save the Bay in celebration of their 50th Anniversary of making waves! They will produce a major art exhibition of over 100 paintings to benefit Save The Bay. The funds raised from sales at this exhibition will benefit preservation and restoration projects. Special events are planned for Saturday, October 22. Please visit www.BayWoodArtists.org for up-to-date information and images for the current partnership show.
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