Dec
29
7:00 PM19:00
Dec
14
to Dec 15
Acrobatic Storytelling Presents: Fantasy
Come be inspired by expressive partner acrobatic performances!
Dec
7
to Dec 22
One Googol and One
BATCO presents Aidaa Peerzada’s modern reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights.
Nov
30
7:00 PM19:00
Voices from the Resistance: Angela Davis in Conversation with Olga Talamante
A fundraiser for MAESTRAPEACE the book, and the Chicana Latina Foundation
Nov
18
1:00 PM13:00
Nov
17
8:00 PM20:00
SIN - Saints...or Sinners?
Dangerous Beauties Dance presents "a mesmerizing concoction of mystery and movement..."
Nov
16
7:00 PM19:00
Nov
16
5:00 PM17:00
Lights, Camera, (silent) Auction!
An evening of drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and dancing to benefit Brava!
Nov
8
6:00 PM18:00
Voices from the Kitchen
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.
Nov
7
to Nov 11
43rd Annual American Indian Film Festival
43rd Annual American Indian Film Festival
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.
sizzle reel for AIFF43
Nov
2
6:00 PM18:00
Oct
25
to Nov 4
When Did Your Hands Become a Weapon?
A collaboration between Rhodessa Jones with Women's HIV Program UCSF & The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women
Oct
23
7:30 PM19:30
Slow Burn Live in San Francisco
From Slate, Slow Burn is back with Season 2, and now is your chance to experience the hit podcast series live!
SOLD OUT
Oct
19
to Oct 20
Masters of the Currents
The first nationally touring play about Micronesians in the U.S.
Oct
18
to Nov 11
An American Ma(u)l
Robert O'Hara's scathing and hilarious political satire about the creeping return of enslavement in the 21st Century.
Oct
11
to Oct 14
Oct
10
6:30 PM18:30
The Color of Law with Richard Rothstein: Discussion & Book Signing
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.
Oct
7
3:00 PM15:00
Island Soldier
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.
Oct
6
6:00 PM18:00
8va El Güegüense ~ Homenaje a las Voces de Abril
8va edición del Güegüense ~ Homenaje a Las Voces de Abril. Chavalo presenta: Su octava edición de "EL GÜEGÜENSE".
SOLD OUT
Sep
29
to Sep 30
El Cruce de Lenguajes/The crossing of languages
Theatre Flamenco presents El Cruce de Lenguajes/The Crossing of Languages
Sep
22
7:00 PM19:00
Dirty Computer
Brava presents a Soulovely special edition dance party & screening of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer.
Sep
22
to Sep 23
10th Anniversary of the San Francisco Latino Film Festival
Brava hosts two days of films in our Cabaret.
Sep
21
6:00 PM18:00
Sep
13
to Sep 15
Sep
7
to Sep 9
19th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
19th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
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.
Aug
25
7:00 PM19:00
Summer of Expression Student Showcase
Ahava presents a showcase of student solo performances created in a specialized belly dance summer series.
Aug
18
8:00 PM20:00
Bobi Céspedes Band in Concert
Brava presents a evening of Cuban music featuring Bay Area vocal great Bobi Céspedes and the inventive Pellejo Seco.
Aug
11
6:00 PM18:00
Calina Lawrence Album Release Dinner Party
Celebrate the DEBUT Album, "EPICENTER," of Indigenous Artivist Calina Lawrence.
SOLD OUT
Aug
10
6:00 PM18:00
CRATEFULL Heart-Soul-Bars
Cratefull: Heart- Soul - Bars is a sample based. youth-led hip hop album that uses jazz, gospel, and soul as the project’s musical foundation.
RSVP on Horizon's Facebook Event Page
Aug
7
to Aug 23
On Behalf of All Muslims
Brava for Women in the Arts! in association with Golden Thread Productions present a work-in-progress by Zahra Noorbakhsh.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT