The 18-day festival features major comedy stars and the best up-and-coming comedians from around the world!
The San Francisco Flamenco Dance Company presents Volver!
Listen to good music while supporting a good cause!
The 14th Annual Bay Area Flamenco Festival brings you Nazaret Reyes direct from Spain!
A retelling of Yann Martel's best selling novel through the south Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam.
A tribute to Andrés Flores: Featuring Chuchumbé desde México, Los Hijos de José, Tarimba, & special guest Amairani Flores.
An Evening of Dinner & Stand-Up with Betty “La Bella” Pazmiño to benefit Brava! for Women in the Arts.
In word, song, and movement, I, Too, Sing America celebrates the spectrum of human experience authored by American artists of color.
Brava presents Tina D’Elia in the best, queer telenovela of our time!
A night of stand up to soothe the Trumpian blues.
So Soul San Francisco: Black Art Salon Series presents a music salon with OMB.
Noise Pop Festival 2019 is proud to present the inimitable Saul Williams in a special live music performance.
Join Danny and special guests for fun and lively conversation dissecting reader questions about relationships, home, work, and more!
So Soul San Francisco: Black Art Salon Series presents a night of Neo-soul with AhSa-Ti Nu.
Come and enjoy a night of live music, spiritual engagement, and great story telling with two of your favorite podcasters!
Project VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets.
A sizzling concert full of Latin jazz and salsa standards as well as original tunes.
An evening of film, live music and dance!
SOLD OUT
Come be inspired by expressive partner acrobatic performances!
BATCO presents Aidaa Peerzada’s modern reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights.
A fundraiser for MAESTRAPEACE the book, and the Chicana Latina Foundation
A staged reading of Cristina García’s newest play
Dangerous Beauties Dance presents "a mesmerizing concoction of mystery and movement..."
Vissi Productions presents a film by Hannah Gavagan
An evening of drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and dancing to benefit Brava!
A storytelling project created by La Cocina that seeks to share the voices and stories from the cooks and kitchens that are less often heard.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Still from the film Angelique’s Isle.
The American Indian Film Festival is proud to present their 43rd season at the Brava Theater Center - one of the most eclectic and multifaceted arts venues in the Bay Area! The festival is an annual forum, which brings artists, filmmakers, musicians, talent and the general local public together to celebrate, support and experience work produced by native and non-native peoples while advocating for authentic representation of native people in the media. Join them this festival as they honor and celebrate the life’s work of the late Michael Smith, founder and director of American Indian Film Festival®.
For the full list of film showings and activities, visit American Indian Film Festival’s website at aifisf.com.
A FREE community Dia De Los Muertos Celebration
A collaboration between Rhodessa Jones with Women's HIV Program UCSF & The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women
From Slate, Slow Burn is back with Season 2, and now is your chance to experience the hit podcast series live!
SOLD OUT
The first nationally touring play about Micronesians in the U.S.
Robert O'Hara's scathing and hilarious political satire about the creeping return of enslavement in the 21st Century.
Dance films from the Bay Area and around the world.
Join Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, for a discussion on the racist history of housing in the United States, followed by a Q&A and a book signing.
A film about the untold story of Micronesian soldiers fighting for their piece of the "American Dream" and the future of a small island nation.
8va edición del Güegüense ~ Homenaje a Las Voces de Abril. Chavalo presenta: Su octava edición de "EL GÜEGÜENSE".
SOLD OUT
Theatre Flamenco presents El Cruce de Lenguajes/The Crossing of Languages
Brava presents a Soulovely special edition dance party & screening of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer.
Brava hosts two days of films in our Cabaret.
Benefit Concert
Presented by MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet
SEPTEMBER 7 - 9, 2018
With three exciting nights of performances featuring a diverse cadre of internationally renowned and emerging composers, this year's Festival lineup includes a distinctive group of artists from across the field of electronic music ranging from modular synthesis, concrète experimentalism, psychoacoustics, soundscapes, electro-acoustic environments, ambient noise, and improvisation. At Brava Theater Center, SFEMF will present modular synthesis vocalist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Japanese-American artist of the Fluxus movement Yasunao Tone, Paris-based concrète and electro-acoustic experimentalist Kassel Jaeger, New York artist Vanessa Rossetto with a new film, multimedia artist and composer Collin McKelvey, noise artist Attilio Novellino from Italy, electro-acoustic multi-instrumentalist Glochids, evocative soundscape ritualists OMMO, and feedback systems and voice composer Sally Decker.
Friday Sept 7
8pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, San Francisco
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. Sally Decker. Collin McKelvey.
Saturday Sept 8
8pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, San Francisco
Yasunao Tone. Vanessa Rossetto. Glochids.
Sunday Sept 9
8pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, San Francisco
Kassel Jaeger. Attilio Novellino. OMMO.
Special Event
Saturday Sept 8
3pm at Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative (live music at 4pm)
Join SFEMF artists and staff for an Afternoon Reception & Album Release featuring dark-ambient artist Leila Abdul-Rauf.
(Free)
About SFEMF
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival is an artist-run organization founded in 1999 by eight local sound artists and musicians. Since the first festival in 2000, SFEMF has presented works that span the sonic spectra from ambient to rhythmic and atonal to melodic by participants ranging from new and emerging young artists to respected pioneers of the electronic music field. Recent festivals have featured performances by clipping., zoviet france, William Basinski, Dieter Moebius, Christian Marclay, and Maja Ratkje. For more info: sfemf.org.
Ahava presents a showcase of student solo performances created in a specialized belly dance summer series.
Brava presents a evening of Cuban music featuring Bay Area vocal great Bobi Céspedes and the inventive Pellejo Seco.
Celebrate the DEBUT Album, "EPICENTER," of Indigenous Artivist Calina Lawrence.
SOLD OUT
