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2024 Eureka Fellow Dana Hemenway has a new exhibition called Endless opening this Friday at the Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco. It runs March 22 - May 4, 2024. The opening reception is this Friday, March 22 at 5pm. The closing reception and performance is May 4 at 5pm. Congratulations @dana_t_h. IMAGE: Untitled (Frame #1 – Hook Rug), 2023; Ceramics, LED tube light, custom wiring, cotton rope, heat shrink. 3/19/24 #eurekafellowship

Coming to the Presidio Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 28th, 6:30PM: Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066. A film Jon Osaki. ALTERNATIVE FACTS sheds light on the people and politics that influenced the signing of the infamous Executive Order 9066, which authorized the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. The film will expose the lies used to justify the decision and the cover-up that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. ALTERNATIVE FACTS will also examine the parallels to the current climate of fear, attitudes towards immigrant communities, and similar attempts to abuse the powers of the government. A not to miss screening at the Presidio Theatre which sits not far from the 35 Keyes Avenue building where the executive order was implemented. There will be a panel discussion following the screening including the filmmaker, producer, involved civil rights lawyer Don Tamaki, and activist Karen Korematsu. This event is sponsored by the Bay School of San Francisco and the Presidio Trust, and the film was supported in part by the Fleishhacker Foundation. #activismfilm #documentary #filmmakers #supportthearts #alternativefacts

50 weekends a year, the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench, an attempt to perform 30 bite-sized plays in a frantic race against the clock, in an order determined by you, the audience. Each week, the ensemble offers up new plays, from the personal, to the political, to the profound, all truthful and inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. For February, San Francisco Neo-Futurists will be performing The Infinite Wrench at the ECLECTIC BOX, a new venue at 446 Valencia in the Mission. See the show there every Friday & Saturday. Shows at Eclectic Box will begin 10:00 PM. ❤️ For the weekend of Feb 9–10 there is a special Valentine’s Day show, Heart Wrench! Tickets are available for purchase online @sfneofuturists and at the door for $13 + the roll of a 6-sided die. 🎲

In its ninth iteration, YBCA’s signature triennial exhibition highlights 30 compelling artists working throughout the Bay Area’s nine counties. This year features four recent Eureka Fellows, listed below. Check @ybca for end of year special hours. Kudos to all of the artists and YBCA! Image 1: Indira Allegra’s collective digital tapestry image projected on YBCA. Image 2: Craig Calderwood’s mixed media Summoners, 2020. Image 3: Arleene Correa Valencia’s installation which includes textiles woven by Jacobo Mendoza with texts taken from steel doors and benches from an ICE detention center in Portland, OR which the artist gained access to and transported for the show. Image 4: Heesoo Kwon’s lenticular lightbox Premolt #8, 2023. #bayareanow9 #eurekafellowship #bayareaartists

This weekend, Nov.10-12! GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay, created by Antoine Hunter/Urban Jazz Dance Company, is a raw and compelling work about what it means to be “Houseless in the Bay.” The work presents true stories pulling from interviews with Deaf and Disabled folks experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area. Intended for both Hearing and Deaf audiences. To learn more about California’s only Black Deaf-led professional dance company, or to purchase your sliding scale tickets, go to www.realurbanjazzdance.com. 🎟️ Congratulations Antoine and #urbanjazzdancecompany! #intersectionalityaccessarts

SFBATCO (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company) is back with the 3rd Annual New Roots Theatre Festival. Pick your performances now for the Nov. 10-12 weekend. 🎟️ The 2023 festival features 2 SF BATCO original projects and 4 projects by Bay Area Legacy companies Zaccho Dance Theatre, Campo Santo, Magic Theatre, Afrosolo, and SF Recovery Theatre. 1 weekend, 15 performances, 50 Bay Area Artists. See you there!

⁣Mill Valley Film Festival is upon us! The Fleishhacker Foundation was pleased to support the following films by local filmmakers and we are excited to see them on the big screen:⠀ ⠀ "The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane"⠀ Maureen Gosling celebrates the life of singer Barbara Dane, a woman whose stellar voice supported justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond for decades, garnering an impressive FBI file along the way. Produced by Jed Riffe.⠀ ⠀ "Skin of Glass"⠀ Bay Area filmmaker Denise Zmekhol explores her architect father Roger’s crowning achievement, a soaring São Paulo skyscraper, once a symbol of Brazil’s bright future that has since become a rotting, vertical dilapidated eyesore.⠀ ⠀ "Water for Life"⠀ Award-winning Marin County documentarian Will Parrinello travels to Central and South America to focus on the risks activists take in their fight against the corporations that would privatize that basic human need, water.⠀ ⠀ We encourage you to see these films and more, as well as Lynn Hershman Leeson's (Eureka Fellow 2011) premiere of Cyborgian Rhapsody – Immortality on Sunday, Oct. 8, where she will also receive a lifetime achievement "mind-the-gap" award. Congratulations to @lynn.l.leeson.⠀ ⠀ For film times and more information, go to @millvalleyfilmfest.⠀ #millvalleyfilmfestival #waterforlife #skinofglass #the9livesofbarbaradane #lynnhershmanleeson

The de Young Open is back! This Sat, Sept 30 / 11am - 4pm will be the all-day, free event including live performances by local musicians, food trucks, pop-ups, and film screenings. Building on the tremendous success of the inaugural The de Young Open in 2020, the second triennial of this juried community art exhibition will feature submissions by artists from the nine Bay Area counties. Curated this year by Xiaoze Xie, and Eureka Fellows Clare Rojas (2005), Stephanie Syjuco (2001), Sunny A. Smith (2021). From the de Young: "Artworks will be hung salon style, installed nearly edge to edge and floor to ceiling, maximizing the number of works displayed. Designed to celebrate and support our local arts communities, this exhibition allows artists to offer their works for sale and retain the proceeds. As in 2020, we will also acquire a selection of exhibition artworks for our permanent collection." Don't miss this "Joyous explosion of local art." -Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED 9/25/23 Photo by Gary Sexton

Opening Thursday! Joe Goode Performance group’s world premiere of As We Go - an immersive experience incorporating dance, text, music, and visual effects. This 75-minute performance takes small audience groups through the various spaces of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, including the Forum, Gallery, and the more intimate spaces like offices, stairwells, and hallways, curated to provide viewers unique experiences with each iteration. As We Go asks us to reconsider the wonderous complexities of the body- it’s durability and beauty, allthewhile living, aging, and dying. Go to joegoode.org to reserve your tickets, shows are Thursday thru Sunday, Aug 3-13th. See you there! Pictured: Damara Vita-Ganley & Felipe Barrueto-Cabello, by RJ Muna. 8/31/23

There is exciting energy around the Bay Area with many performances and exhibitions opening up at the end of this month. Be sure to check out the Juana Alicia (Eureka Fellow 2021) solo exhibition at The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery opening this Friday, July 28th from 6-8PM. Me Llaman Calle: The Monumental Art of Juana Alicia, showcases Alicia’s renowned mural works around the San Francisco Bay Area as well as a new body of work on the story of La X’tabay, a Yucatec Mayan myth. In conjunction with the exhibition there will be mural walking tours and a two day symposium celebrating the important contributions made by Juana Alicia. For details go to sfartscommision.org. Congratulations @juana_alicia !