From a cool double-bill of basic Nineteen Eighties bands to probably the greatest classical quartets within the enterprise, there are lots of nice exhibits and concert events to catch this weekend within the Bay Space.
Right here’s a partial rundown.
Catch 2 basic ’80s rock acts
ABC, probably the greatest of the U.Okay. new wave acts of the ’80s, is hopping over the pond for a run of dates within the U.S. And fortuitously for Bay Space followers, that live performance tour kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight at San Francisco’s Masonic. It’s your probability to see ultra-charismatic entrance man Martin Fry and firm carry out such terrific tunes as “Poison Arrow,” “The Look of Love,” “How to be a Millionaire,” “Be Near Me” “Vanity Kills,” “When Smokey Sings” and, better of all, “All of My Heart.”
We’ve caught the band performing a couple of instances lately, and every event has been terrific. Fry stays probably the greatest within the enterprise, boasting a robust voice that also intently recollects what one heard on the basic ’80s outings “The Lexicon of Love” and “How to be a Zillionaire” — the dual highlights of a catalog that has amassed some 20 million in album gross sales over the many years. (He additionally just lately launched his autobiography — the splendidly titled “A Lexicon of Life” — which chronicles his childhood in Manchester and continues by way of his chart-topping days with ABC.)
ABC is co-headlining this tour with fellow U.Okay. new wave icon Howard Jones, who is understood for such ’80s hits as “Things Can Only Get Better,” “What Is Love?” and “No One Is to Blame.” SiriusXM “First Wave” DJ Richard Blade opens the present with a DJ set.
Particulars: Tickets begin at $64; livenation.com.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
An artsy White Elephant
Does your own home appear unusually uncluttered? Do you get pleasure from looking for antiques, or planning your Halloween costume months beforehand? In the event you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then you definitely’ll get pleasure from visiting the White Elephant Sale, the oldest and largest rummage sale in all of Northern California.
Placed on by the Oakland Museum Girls’s Board, the warehouse-spanning extravaganza — a 60-year custom — has raised greater than $30 million for the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibitions and academic packages. It’s managed by a whole lot of volunteers who will fortunately speak your ear off about no matter discount merchandise you’ve unearthed, whether or not it’s an previous phonograph, a glitzy promenade costume, property furnishings or porkpie hat of mysterious origin. Or possibly some delicate China, jewellery and pretend fur, an acoustic guitar or a basic Schwinn bike in want of some TLC. That’s the fantastic thing about the White Elephant Sale – you by no means know what treasure you’ll discover.
The occasion entails 17 departments and greater than 90,000 sq. toes of procuring house, so convey your comfiest footwear and a bottle of water. However don’t convey money, as solely main credit score and debit playing cards and Apple Pay are accepted for entry and purchases.
Particulars: The sale runs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday by way of Feb. 15, plus Feb. 17 (Presidents Day) and Feb. 20-22 at 333 Lancaster St. in Oakland. Clearance weekend (with free entry) runs 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 1-2. Make reservations and purchase admission tickets ($7) at www.whiteelephantsale.org.
— John Metcalfe, Workers
Classical picks: Finckel & Han; Alexander Quartet
Chamber music takes middle stage this week, with packages by two adventuresome quartets and an look by Music@Menlo founders and perennial efficiency favorites David Finckel and Wu Han. These performances convey such a pleasant menu of works, music lovers will need to attend all three.
Alexander Quartet, instances three: The San Francisco-based Alexander Quartet has carried out on 5 continents, however Bay Space followers can hear them in three native venues this week. Offered by the Berkeley Chamber Performances, their program consists of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” Haydn’s Quartet Op. 77, No. 1 in G Main, and Kian Ravaei’s “The Little Things.” Particulars: 7 p.m. Feb. 7, Crowden Faculty, Berkeley; 10 a.m. Feb. 8 at SF Performances’ Saturday Morning Sequence; and seven:30 p.m. Feb. 8 on the Lafayette Library; $40 normal, $20 college students; ASQ4.com.
Euclid in Livermore: Fashioned in Ohio in 1999, the Euclid Quartet takes its title from Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue, house to many cultural establishments. Since then, the foursome has been awarded the esteemed “American Masterpieces” grant from the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts. This week, the Euclid gamers come to Livermore, with a program that features Astor Piazzola’s “Four for Tango.” Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8, Bankhead Theater, Livermore; $35-$57 normal, $16-$20 college students; livermorearts.org.
Trio works in Berkeley: Chamber music masters pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, founders and guiding lights of the annual Music at Menlo summer time pageant, come to Berkeley’s Cal Performances this weekend. Joined by violinist Arnaud Sussmann in U.C. Berkeley’s intimate Hertz Corridor, they’ll play a recital of piano trio masterworks by Haydn, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Particulars: 3 p.m. Feb. 9, Hertz Corridor, UC Berkeley campus; $81-$86; calperformances.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
Worthy freebie at SFMOMA
Free First Thursday on the San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork is all the time deal, however this week it’s additionally an excellent reminder that you’re working out of time to catch the enjoyable and family-friendly exhibit there titled “Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture.” Billed as a “collection of stories that show how sports impacts our culture and our psyches,” the exhibit options some 150 works and sights that contact on the whole lot from distance swimmer Diana Nyad, the primary particular person to swim from Cuba to Florida and not using a protecting shark cage; to Billie Jean King’s triumphant “Battles of the Sexes” match in opposition to Bobby Riggs; to the profession and pop-culture legacy of NBA famous person Kobe Bryant. Included within the assortment are such interactive treats as Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s foosball desk created for 22 gamers and Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco’s ping-pong desk with a fishpond as a substitute of a web.
You’ll additionally discover an authentic pair of the long-lasting Air Jordans sneakers and works from Ernie Barnes, the professional soccer participant who went on to develop into an acclaimed profession as a painter identified for his distinctive model depicting elongated figures and motion. Additionally included is Hank Willis Thomas’ “Guernica,” a re-creation of Picasso’s famed portray of the identical title, created from recycled sports activities jerseys. You may catch all these enjoyable and compelling sights without cost from midday to eight p.m. Thursday. In any other case, the exhibit runs by way of Feb. 18. You’ll discover it on Flooring 7 of the museum, which is on third Road, between Mission and Howard streets.
Particulars: Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday and noon-8 p.m. Thursday (closed Wednesday). Regular admission is $23-$30. Go to ww.sfmoma.org.
‘Great Gatsby’ en pointe
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” with its tragic story of doomed love set among the many flamboyance of the Jazz Age, would appear to lend itself properly to ballet. The Bay Space is about to search out out if that is the case, because the newly created “The Great Gatsby Ballet” arrives within the Bay Space this weekend for 2 performances. The work, on a world-premiere-tour of the U.S., was choreographed by acclaimed Russian dance-maker Ilya Jivoy, who has been primarily based in Los Angeles since he and Ukrainian spouse fled Russia at first of the Ukrainian conflict. The rating is by Anna Drubich, who’s primarily a movie/TV composer making her ballet debut with this work. “Gatsby” is being carried out by the World Ballet Firm, which relies in Los Angeles however seemingly lives as much as its title with a relentless touring schedule that has introduced the troupe to some 300 cities around the globe, together with areas during which ballet performances are few and much between. Count on an emotion-packed manufacturing – as is reportedly Jivoy’s calling card – with lavish surroundings from the two-hour manufacturing, which performs on the Heritage Theater in Campbell at 7 p.m. Saturday ($50.50-$106) and 6 p.m. Sunday on the Curran Theatre in San Francisco ($67-$88).
Particulars: Tickets and extra data are at worldballetcompany.com.
Sobelle’s ‘Food’ for thought
The final time theater-maker Geoff Sobelle introduced a present to the Bay Space, we actually and figuratively received to look at a home get constructed onstage. That was in “Home,” a play offered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre that explored the idea of what a house is and why we outline it in that vogue, whereas weaving in such bigger points as migration, gentrification and homelessness. That’s sort of Sobelle’s energy and calling card — bringing collectively individuals for a meaty and significant have a look at points that have an effect on us all. And now he’s again with a brand new work that has a equally large attain, titled “Food.” Reportedly offered to an viewers that joins Sobelle at a big banquet desk, “Food” explores such points as what we eat, how we eat it and who actually pays for all of it. Organizers describe it as absurdist and immersive theater that’s “at once common and strange, human and surreal, universal and personal.” “Food” performs at Stanford College’s Memorial Auditorium this week, with performances scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday by way of Friday and 1:30 and seven:30 p.m. Saturday.
Particulars: Tickets are $38-$75; go to dwell.stanford.edu.
SF Symphony is slithering into 2025
The San Francisco Symphony celebrates the Lunar New Yr, because it has yearly since 2001, with a preconcert celebration in Davies Corridor at 4 p.m. Saturday with all method of treats and festivities honoring the Yr of the Snake. Then at 5 p.m., conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong picks up the baton to steer the orchestra by way of An-Lun Huang’s “Saibei Dance” from the “Saibei” Suite No. 2, Tian Zhou’s “Indigo” from the Grammy-nominated Concerto for Orchestra and the world premiere of an S.F. Symphony-commissioned piece from composer Shuying Li. Additionally on this system is assistant principal cellist Amos Yang serving because the soloist for picks from Chen Gang and He Zhanhao’s “The Butterfly Lovers,” impressed by an historical story about two lovers who needed to rework into the winged creatures with the intention to keep collectively. Famend pipa participant Wu Man brings her plucked instrument to the stage to carry out Zhao Jipng’s Pipa Concerto No. 2, and the live performance concludes with Huan-Zhi Li’s “Spring Festival” Overture.
Particulars: Discover tickets, $99-$199, at sfsymphony.org.
