From two well timed stage exhibits to an fashionable rock icon and enjoyable with dinosaurs, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this weekend and past. Here’s a partial rundown.
Riffing on the headlines
The Marsh efficiency venue in Berkeley is presenting two solo exhibits that might not be extra well timed.
Jinho “Piper” Ferreira’s “Black Men Everywhere!” marks the author and performer’s return to The Marsh after presenting “Cops and Robbers” there for a number of runs starting in 2014. “Black Men,” described as a hard-hitting satire, is about throughout a presidential election that has triggered a bitter political battle between progressives and the far proper (sound acquainted?) and is made much more tense by a collection of assaults being waged by an unknown assailant towards law enforcement officials. Ferreira, who can be a hip-hop artist, beforehand labored for eight years as a police officer. Right here, he performs a bunch of characters on this take a look at America’s polarized political system and the scapegoating of African People.
In the meantime, comic, actor and musician Alicia Dattner returns to The Marsh together with her wild and wide-ranging “post-post-feminist” comedy present “Are You Dressed for the Apocalypse?” The efficiency, which was a success at he Marsh in 2022, touches on all the pieces from local weather change, Instagram influencers and non secular appropriation, to self-love, the large bang, and “ants carrying Cheetos.”
Particulars: “Apocalypse,” 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays by way of Oct. 21; “Black Men” runs 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays by way of Oct. 12 (no performers Oct. 4-5); $20-$100 every present; themarsh.org.
— Randy McMullen, Employees
Fashionable rock icon again in Bay Space
Peter Hook was in not only one, however two bands that deserve severe consideration for the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.
The primary was the mighty Pleasure Division, the seminal English post-punk band that shaped in 1976 and went on to launch two of the perfect albums of all time — the landmark debut “Unknown Pleasures” from 1979 and the sensible follow-up “Closer” from 1980. Hook’s highly effective bass enjoying was a key a part of the band’s moody, atmospheric sound, which, for our cash, actually marked the start of contemporary rock as we all know it.
Then, after Pleasure Division lead singer Ian Curtis died in 1980, Hook and the 2 different bandmates — guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris — went on to type the vastly influential synth-pop act New Order and launch a powerful string of hits, together with the long-lasting “Blue Monday.”
The wonderful bassist and his present band — dubbed Peter Hook and The Mild — will have a good time the legacies of each of these legendary acts when he visits The Warfield on Saturday. It needs to be a vastly pleasing, and diversely interesting, night of music.
Particulars: 8 p.m.; tickets begin at $54; axs.com.
— Jim Harrington, Employees
A brand new take a look at dinosaurs
Received a child who loves dinosaurs (and what warm-blooded little one doesn’t)? Right here’s an opportunity to see them up-close and private, on the “Land of Fire and Ice” exhibit on the Youngsters’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Opening on Saturday, the present attracts on new analysis to color a recent image of what dino life was like within the Cretaceous Interval. It seems these outsized lizards didn’t simply roam the tropical jungles and plains. Fossil information present that many species, together with the dubiously named Troodon and Edmontosaurus, spent a part of their time in what’s in the present day’s frigid Arctic.
Youngsters ages 3-10 will get pleasure from unraveling the mysteries of dinosaur habitats with hands-on actions like fossil digging and rubbings and exploring a volcano with reasonable lava. There’s a swampy-bog surroundings to slog by way of, a frozen river to cross, insect costumes to put on and a rocky prominence that culminates in a enjoyable ice slide.
So get able to see a brand new facet of T-Rex — and plant the seeds on your future paleontologist (or climatologist?), and have enjoyable outing all on the similar time.
Particulars: Museum is open 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays by way of Fridays and 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; 180 Woz Method, San Jose; $18; cdm.org.
— John Metcalfe, Employees
Classical picks: ‘Requiem,’ Beethoven’s Ninth; ‘Magic Flute’
Large works are on the calendar this week, with performances that includes the music of Verdi, Beethoven and Mozart, amongst others, highlighting the classical music scene. Listed below are three occasions you gained’t wish to miss.
“Requiem” at S.F. Symphony: Music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will take the rostrum when the San Francisco Symphony and Refrain open the 2024-25 Orchestra Sequence with Verdi’s monumental “Requiem.” The vocal soloists are soprano Karen Cargill, tenor Mario Chang, and bass Peixin Chen; choral works by composer Gordon Getty open what guarantees to be a night to recollect.
Particulars: 7:30 in the present day by way of Saturday; Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $49-$205; sfsymphony.org.
Large Beethoven: Talking of powerhouse works, California Symphony will launch its season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Music director Donato Cabrera conducts two performances that includes soprano Laquita Mitchell, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, tenor Nicholas Phan, and baritone Sidney Outlaw, and Eric Choate directs the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Refrain. An overture by French composer Louise Farrenc begins this system.
Particulars: 7:30 Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday; Lesher Heart for the Arts, Walnut Creek; $25-$50; californiasymphony.org.
It’s “Magic”: Right here’s an opera for all ages: Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” opening this weekend at Opera San Jose below the route of composer-conductor Alma Deutscher, who led the corporate’s current much-loved manufacturing of “Cinderella”; this family-friendly “Flute” incorporates a forged led by Ricardo José Rivera as Papageno, Woo Younger Yoon as Tamino, and Melissa Sondhi as Pamina.
Particulars: Saturday by way of Sept. 29, California Theatre, San Jose; $62.50-$222.50; operasj.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
Freebie of the week
You already know that any band that places a interval in the midst of its title goes to be one thing particular, and Portugal. The Man is all that. And the band might be enjoying a particular live performance on Saturday that gained’t value you a penny. The band is primarily recognized for the 2017 single “Feel It Still,” a catchy, quirky pop/rock quantity that borrows sufficient from the 1961 Marvelettes hit “Please Mr. Postman” that famed Motown songwriter/producer Brian Holland, one of many principal writers of “Postman,” will get partial songwriting credit score on “Feel It Still.”
However Portugal. The Man is something however a one-hit surprise hanging on past its expiration date. The outfit acquired its begin 20 years in the past in Wasalia, Alaska, and headed to Portland, Oregon. There have been quite a few personnel adjustments however singer/guitarist/frontman John Gourley and bassist Zachary Carothers have been constants. So has the band’s activism, with members supporting causes starting from conservation to anti-censorship to Native American rights to the endangered Sumatran tiger. The band’s wide-ranging sound is constructed on a basis of neo-psychedelic indie rock that has loads of room for thrives of hip-hop, R&B, dance pop and extra. With 9 albums to its credit score and lengthy historical past of touring and enjoying festivals, Portugal. The Man (the title was lifted from the title of a ebook that Gourley had deliberate to put in writing about his father) is the antithesis of a one-hit surprise. These musicians have earned their cred.
Portugal. The Man is enjoying a free present at 6 p.m. Sept. 20 at Civic Heart Plaza in San Francisco. The Philadelphia soul/funk/alt-rock band Snacktime opens. The free live performance reportedly happened as an settlement between live performance promoters One other Planet Leisure and town of San Francisco: APE needed to stage one other Golden Gate Park present one week after its Exterior Lands fest, with town agreeing to the proposal if APE agreed to stage a free present within the metropolis.
Particulars: For tickets and extra data, go to apeconcerts.com.
Extra free tunes headed our method
There are a selection of events working to perk up San Francisco’s downtown exercise and power, and free music is certainly one technique to go about it. Therefore SF Stay, a six-month free live performance collection placed on by arts and music producers Illuminate, the S.F. Parks Alliance, the Noise Pop live performance promoters and the Union Sq. Alliance. One of many free concert events takes place this weekend within the metropolis’s Union Sq.. The all-ages present is headlined by the digital dance pop duo often known as GoldFish, consisting of Dominic Peters and David Poole. The 2 musicians met in Cape City, South Africa and found their love for home music with jazz, pop and Afro-pop leanings. Now situated in San Diego, GoldFish has 9 albums in its catalog and a fame for high-energy, irresistible reside exhibits which have made the duo a serious attraction on the competition circuit, with appearances at such occasions as Coachellla, Glastonbury and lots of extra. Additionally on the invoice are Australian digital dance-pop duo the Bag Raider; and musician and efficiency artist Mykki Blanco. In case you haven’t famous the trajectory right here – this meant to be a enjoyable, family-friendly dance-pop celebration. Scowl at your personal threat.
Particulars: 2 to six p.m. Sept. 21; extra data is at sflivefest.com.
Cornets and tubas and tenor horns, oh my! Based mostly in San Jose, however calling itself the San Francisco Brass Band, this award-winning ensemble greater than two dozen gamers robust, was based in 2019 to signify the Bay Space, California and the West Coast in North American British Band competitors. (British bass bands, historically shaped by employees in coal-mining cities courting again two centuries, have a particular lineup of brass devices with percussion). San Jose’s model, which superior from second division to the harder first this yr and nonetheless managed to emerge triumphant within the North American trials in April, might be tooting their very own horns, you need to pardon the expression, at a “Brass in Concert” efficiency at Trinity Lutheran Church in Pleasanton at 4 p.m. Sunday. On this system are Eric Ball’s “Resurgam,” the Celtic commonplace “Gaelforce,” the compellingly rhythmic “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” a brand new work by Naomi Types referred to as “Pandora’s Dance” and “Clear Skies,” that includes cornet soloist Michael Marmarou.
Particulars: Advance tickets bought on-line at sfband.org are $22 for basic admission, $17 for seniors and $8 for college kids. They’re additionally accessible on the door at 1225 Hopyard Street for 2 or three {dollars} extra. Youngsters are admitted free.
Initially Revealed: September 18, 2024 at 2:13 p.m.
