Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Wednesday morning Qi Gong

Land of Medicine Buddha11:30-12:30pm

Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese healing art that has been used for centuries to balance ones internal body energy and to promote good health.…

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Figuration/Abstraction: Highlights from the Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

One of the questions posed by "Figuration/Abstraction" is this: "Isn’t all art an abstraction of what it represents, to a greater or lesser…

Edward Hopper: New York Corner

Cantor Arts Center11AM-5PM, closed Tuesdays

Edward Hopper pioneered an American impressionism that captured the essence of streetside life in New York City during the early 20th century.…

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Into the Forest: Landscape as Subject and Studio in 19th-Century France

Cantor Arts Center11am-5pm Wed-Mon, Thurs until 8pm. CLOSED TUESDAY

This installation of prints, drawings, and photographs explores how French artists depicted the landscape in the modern age and approached making…

Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition presents the sketchbooks of celebrated 20th-century painter Richard Diebenkorn—Stanford’s most accomplished and recognized…

Showing Off: Identity and Display in Asian Costume

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Fashion is a form of language. What we wear broadcasts critical information about us and serves as a visible indicator of social rank, profession,…

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Tabaimo: Her Room

San Jose Museum of Art11am-5pm

Imagine these ever-changing environments: Apartment buildings open to reveal the very private and sometimes strange lives of their occupants;…

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San Francisco's Mission District Food Tour

The Women's Building11am

Our Mission District Food Tour showcases the innovation and trendy restaurants of the San Francisco culinary world - the best in the city! Stroll…

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Multiplicity: Portraiture in the Cantor's Photography Collection

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thurs until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

Using multi-image formats to represent the mutability of psychological states, social status, and public personae, the photographic works in…

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Spring in Plaza de Cesar Chavez

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Come to beautiful Cesar Chavez Park to grab a bite to eat from local food trucks and enjoy lunch or dinner at a table and chair in the park,…

Intimate Frontiers: The Male Gaze in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

Cantor Arts Center11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY

"Intimate Frontiers" is a new exhibition that explores the social and domestic world of women through the eyes of prominent male artists in…

Dealing Dreams

City Lights Theater Company7:30 p.m.

Developmental workshop: "Dealing Dreams" by Jeffrey Lo directed by Lee Ann Payne Wed., April 20, at 7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., April 21-23, at…

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Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers

Poor House Bistro9pm - 12am

Poor House Bistro presents.... A very special evening with Jimmy Thackery and The Drivers Inside the Poor House Studio! Wednesday, April 20th From…

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$2 Brews & Blues featuring Ron Thompson and Sid Morris

Poor House Bistro6pm - 9pm

Our $2 Brews & Blues event features local blues artists along with a variety of brew from a different brewery each week. This week's brew:…

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Beyond the Frame: Curating in Context

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

This self-guided, walking exhibition encourages viewers to think actively about the settings in which they experience particular works of art…

Blood in the Sugar Bowl

Cantor Arts CenterWed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thurs until 8pm, CLOSED TUESDAY

This exhibition focuses on sugar plantation slavery during the peak of the sugar trade, the late 18th–mid-19th century. On display are sugar…

Line Dancing at Little House

Peninsula VolunteersWednesdays — 10:00 a.m.— 11:00 a.m.April 6th — May 25th

Line dancing needs no partners! All kinds of music are used: country, rock and roll, pop, Latin, big band, and maybe a tiny bit of rap! It’s…

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"The dark midnight, fearful waves, and the tempestuous whirlpool"

Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)9am-7pm

Ala Ebtekar’s artwork is influenced by his Persian heritage. Through this body of work, he envisions what the present could look like if it…

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The Wonder of Everyday Life: Dutch Golden Age Prints

Cantor Arts CenterOpen Wed-Mon 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED TUESDAY.

While the Dutch Republic experienced unprecedented economic prosperity in the 17th century, printmakers were exceptionally sensitive—and sometimes…

Boeing Boeing

San Jose Stage CompanyWed & Thu, 7:30pm; Fri & Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm

The French handle three things better than the rest of the world: coffee, bread and atypical relationship arrangements. In this 1960s farce,…