From a star-studded gospel tour to a scrap-art exhibit and performs about board video games and dragon women, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this weekend and past.
Here’s a partial roundup.
Gospel music greats unite
The gospel music Reunion Tour that’s headed to Oakland Enviornment this weekend encompasses a musical A-list of expertise, together with Yolanda Adams, who has one of many best voices in all of gospel music.
She’s put it to nice use throughout her profession, fashioning a physique of labor that has thrilled listeners and offered greater than 10 million albums throughout the globe. Adams additionally received the first-ever Grammy award for finest gospel tune in 2006 for “Be Blessed” and hit platinum-plus standing with 1999’s “Mountain Excessive… Valley Low.”
Adams is only one of many the explanation why gospel followers will need to end up for Friday’s Reunion Tour. Others embody Fred Hammond, the Clark Sisters, Marvin Sapp and Kirk Franklin, who’s as soon as once more main this tour. The latter is a gospel music icon with a staggering 19 Grammys to his credit score. Sapp has launched a string of No. 1 gospel albums, together with 2007’s “Thirsty” and 2012’s “I Win.” Hammond is thought for his 2009 chart-topper, “Love Unstoppable.” After which there are the Clark Sisters, the legendary vocal group with hits comparable to “I Can Do All Issues By means of Christ That Strengthens Me” and “Jesus Is a Love Tune.”
Particulars: Showtime is 7 p.m. and tickets begin at $53, theoaklandarena.com.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
From scrap to artwork
Plastic baggage, perfume-bottle straws and shoelaces – these usually are not belongings you’d generally affiliate with excessive artwork. However why not? Many hallowed artists within the fashionable canon use lowbrow supplies for his or her inspiration, from Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s sculptures of family garbage and taxidermied animals to Charles Lengthy’s cigarette butts and hen poop salvaged from the L.A. River.
“The Poetics of Dimensions,” a brand new group exhibition in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, celebrates the intelligent reuse of such odd objects. Placed on by Ghanaian-American curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, the present gathers almost a dozen artists working with supplies like scrap leather-based, cosmetics containers and single-use plastic. Anthony Akinbola, a Brooklyn artist who’s exhibited on the Guggenheim, weaves colorfully summary tapestries out of durags, the cheap hair overlaying. Moffat Takadiwa, who lives in Zimbabwe, sources the post-consumer waste that Western nations dump in his nation’s junkyards to make intricate sculptures out of toothpaste tubes, laptop keyboards and spray cans. You may simply stroll away from this one with a brand new hesitation about hucking issues within the trash.
Particulars: The present runs Wednesday-Sunday by way of Feb. 23, on the Institute of Up to date Artwork San Francisco, 345 Montgomery St., San Francisco. Free admission; icasf.org.
— John Metcalfe, Workers
Return of the Dragon Girl
After a profitable and well-received run at Marin Theatre final 12 months, the Dragon Girl is poised to entertain Bay Space audiences anew along with her colourful, humorous and typically poignant solo theater/cabaret present. The Dragon Girl is Sara Porkalob, a Seattle-based singer, actor, storyteller and keeper of a wealthy Filipino American household historical past. Her “Dragon Girl” solo present – now taking part in at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Middle for the Arts, offered by Middle Repertory Firm – blends music, laughs and colourful tales as Porkalob recounts the colourful story of her gangster household’s journey from a Manila nightclub to a Washington state trailer park.
Written and carried out by Porkalob (who’s backed by a dwell band) and directed by Andrew Rusell, “Dragon Girl” is a household memoir that unspools like a high-energy stage musical. As Middle Rep inventive director Matt M. Morrow put it, the present is fueled by “Porkalob’s fearless storytelling, her vibrant portrayal of advanced household dynamics, and her potential to weave humor, coronary heart, and historical past right into a compelling narrative.” “Dragon Girl” is definitely the primary in a three-part collection of solo exhibits devoted to a few completely different matriarchal figures in Porkalob’s household. It facilities 60-year-old Maria Porkalob relaying her origin story to granddaughter Sara. In addition to singing and storytelling, Sara Porkalob portrays a number of completely different characters in her present, which runs on the Lesher Middle by way of Nov. 24.
Particulars: Tickets are $66-$85; www.centerrep.org
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Classical picks: Rating one for the Bates Motel
Up to now, the autumn classical music season has supplied an distinctive vary of latest and seldom-performed works. This week brings an iconic movie with rating by composer Bernard Herrmann, together with occasions that includes Bates, Brahms, and Schoenberg.
Hitchcock instances 2: The most recent installment within the San Francisco Symphony’s Movie with Stay Orchestra collection brings a Halloween-perfect pairing — “Psycho” plus rating. Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful 1960 basic, starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, on the large display at Davies Symphony Corridor, as conductor Scott Terrell leads the orchestra in a dwell efficiency of Bernard Herrmann’s creepily idiosyncratic rating. R rated. 7:30 p.m. tonight, Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco.
Particulars: Tickets are $69-$199; sfsymphony.org.
In the meantime, Hitchcock’s 1927 silent thriller “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog,” starring Marie Ault, Ivor Novello and June Tripp and based mostly on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, involves Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Thought-about by many Hitchcock’s breakthrough movie, “The Lodger” facilities on an odd man at a London boarding home and is loosely based mostly on Jack the Ripper. As if that weren’t cool sufficient, musical accompaniment will likely be equipped by revered organist Dorothy Papadakos, acting on the church’s 7,500 pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ, which was put in in 1934.
Particulars: Offered by SFJAZZ; 8 p.m.; $25-$35; www.sfjazz.org.
Three Bs: The music of award-winning composer Mason Bates — maybe finest recognized for his 2017 “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” successful at San Francisco Opera a couple of seasons again — is simply one of many Bs on the California Symphony program this week. Music director Donato Cabrera leads Bates’ “Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra,” in addition to Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and Britten’s “Younger Particular person’s Information to the Orchestra.” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday on the Lesher Middle, Walnut Creek. Tickets are $25-$50; californiasymphony.org.
Fall Cabaret: The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble returns this weekend with an intimate chamber music setting of twentieth and twenty first century works — with an emphasis on drama and poetry. Hear Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunairé” and music by Tomàs Peire-Serrate and Maria Schneider. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco; additionally 4 p.m. Sunday, Hillside Membership, Berkeley. Tickets are $5-$35; leftcoastensemble.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent, with Bay Space Information Basis
Dramatic hijinks
What occurs when six mysterious visitors assemble at Boddy Manor? For those who’re speaking in regards to the Broadway manufacturing of “Clue,” what ensues is a hilarious — and really dramatic, in fact — night time of homicide. Anticipate knife work within the examine, a wrench within the works and loads of Colonel Mustard and Mrs. Peacock sightings.
The present, offered by Broadway San Jose this weekend, is predicated on the 1985 Paramount Photos film. That flick, in flip, was impressed by the basic midcentury board recreation that launched American youngsters to billiard rooms and conservatories and taught us that candlesticks will be deadly. Enjoyable!
Catch “Clue” on stage on the San Jose Middle for Performing Arts for night and matinee performances by way of Sunday. Tickets begin at $68.50; https://broadwaysanjose.com/.
— Jackie Burrell, Workers
Free post-Halloween enjoyable
Halloween is Oct. 31, in fact, However when you’re nonetheless feeling a little bit Halloweenish on Nov. 2, you’ll discover a free occasion in San Francisco that options among the finest components of Halloween: household enjoyable, leisure and costumes galore. And maybe the most effective a part of Saturday’s Halloween Hoopla occasion is that it stars the fabulously gifted people from Circus Bella. Members of the troupe will likely be performing feats of juggling and foot-juggling, rola bola stunts, clowning and extra. There will likely be dwell music from the Circus Bella All-Star Trio, crafts and different artsy actions organized by Kids’s Creativity Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy and the Mexican Museum, and palm studying from Madam Z (adults: please don’t ask her in regards to the election). Costumes are heartily inspired as a result of the enjoyable concludes with a fancy dress parade.
Particulars: Midday to three p.m.; Kids’s Backyard space at Yerba Buena Gardens, 799 Howard St.; ybgfestival.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Return of the Dragon Girl: After a profitable and well-received run at Marin Theatre final 12 months, the Dragon Girl is poised to entertain Bay Space audiences anew along with her colourful, humorous and typically poignant solo theater/cabaret present. The Dragon Girl is Sara Porkalob, a Seattle-based singer, actor, storyteller and keeper of a wealthy Filipino American household historical past. Her “Dragon Girl” solo present – now taking part in at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Middle for the Arts, offered by Middle Repertory Firm – blends music, laughs and colourful tales as Porkalob recounts the colourful story of her gangster household’s journey from a Manila nightclub to a Washington state trailer park. Written and carried out by Porkalob (who’s backed by a dwell band) and directed by Andrew Rusell, “Dragon Girl” is a household memoir that unspools like a high-energy stage musical. As Middle Rep inventive director Matt M. Morrow put it, the present is fueled by “Porkalob’s fearless storytelling, her vibrant portrayal of advanced household dynamics, and her potential to weave humor, coronary heart, and historical past right into a compelling narrative.” “Dragon Girl” is definitely the primary in a three-part collection of solo exhibits devoted to a few completely different matriarchal figures in Porkalob’s household. It facilities 60-year-old Maria Porkalob relaying her origin story to granddaughter Sara. In addition to singing and storytelling, Sara Porkalob portrays a number of completely different characters in her present, which runs on the Lesher Middle by way of Nov. 24. Tickets are $66-$85; go to www.centerrep.org
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
