After November 25, Friday Nights will be on hiatus until March 30, 2012. Please don’t miss the grand opening party in celebration of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk on opening night of Season 8. Thank you for your continued support in making it a fantastic Season 7 of Friday Nights at the de Young! Stay up to date with new programming at the de Young and Legion of Honor museums online through our calendar and our Facebook page: Cultural Encounters at the de Young.

de Young / Legion of Honor

PubLiCProgrAMSvisit our calendar at www.famsf.orgNovember 2011

All programs are free after museum admission.

11/11 Special Veterans Day Program Florence gould Theater 2:00 p.m. Film Screening: Art in the Face of War, directed by David Baugnon (2006, 76 min.)

Lower Level See The Book of Gold, a commemorative book created by museum founder Alma Spreckels containing the names and hometowns of all Californian soldiers, sailors, and marines killed in the First World War, on display throughout November.

gallery 10 4:00–5:00 p.m. Organists play patriotic music in honor of all those who have served and are currently serving in the US military.

11/19 Florence gould Theater 2:00 p.m. Lecture: “Figures in a Landscape: The Beauty of Pissarro’s People,” James Housefield. This illustrated lecture examines how Pissarro’s ideal of “beauty” embraced the human transformation of the land.

11/20 Special lecture and music performance by early-music duo Asteria in conjunction with The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy

1:00 p.m. Lecture: “In Search of the Lost Song—Bringing Medieval Chansons to Life”

3:00 p.m. Concert: “Music for a Rash Prince: Medieval Love Songs from the Court of Charles of Burgundy”

Asteria, specialists in music of the late Middle Ages, recreate the luxurious and passionate atmosphere of court life in medieval Burgundy through the words and music of the time, along with illustrative stories and historical anecdotes for those not fluent in old French.Education programs held in conjunction with The Mourners are part of the FRAME Annenberg Education Project. Support for the FRAME Annenberg Education Project is provided by the Annenberg Foundation through FRAME, the French Regional and American Museum Exchange.

Every Saturday and Sunday gallery 10 4:00–5:00 pm organ Concerts: Organists play a varied repertory of classical music and popular songs.

LA bELLE ViE at the Legion of Honor

November 17, 18, 19 7 p.m. (reception at 6:00 p.m.) de Young: Koret Auditorium

Created and performed by Campo Santo with Felonious.Presented with our collaborating partner, Intersection for the Arts

Block by Block incorporates dance, mixed-media, and live music (mixing beatboxing, spoken-word movement, battles, and more), along with projected visuals creating an incredibly rich tapestry of performance that’s not to be missed!

Featured performances by members of Campo Santo and Felonious including Brian Rivera, Carlos Aguirre, Keith Pinto, Tommy Shepherd and Dan Wolf; Susie Lundy and Crew; Nicole Klaymoon and the Embodiment Project; DJ Wonway (Juan Amador); and the Campo Santo Street Team actors Ricky Saenz, Christine Jamlig, and Kelly Strickland; framed by the visual artworks of Evan Bissell, Favianna Rodriguez, and Ricardo Richey and Campo Santo designers Alejandro Acosta and Tanya Orellana.

For more information, visit the Artist Fellows website and blog at deyoung.famsf.org and click on Upcoming Artist Fellows Events.

Ticket information Members of the Fine Arts Museums or Intersection for the Arts receive a $10 discount! Pre-sale tickets are $20/general and $10/members. Tickets are $25 at the door. Purchase in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com.

For more information: Andrea Martin, 415-750-3531 or amartin@famsf.org

Artist-in-residence John Wehrle Kimball Artist Studio • November 2–27 Muralist John Wehrle presents Rising Tide: A Pre-Cautionary Tale, a work in progressJohn Wehrle invites visitors to participate in a visual scenario of the near future in a location very close to home. There are opportunities for visitors to paint, draw, and design this New World on scales both small and large, using a grid system on canvas. Ark optional! Help create your own ecological niche: We all do our best to adapt to new realities. Can’t you evolve just a little faster? C’mon, adapt already!

Every month the museum invites artists to install work and demonstrate their artistic process for the de Young’s Artist-in-Residence program. This interactive program enables visitors to meet artists working with various media. Artists are on site Wednesdays–Sundays, 1:00–5:00 p.m. (until 8:45 p.m. on Fridays through November).

November 25 6:30 p.m. & 7:15 p.m.; Q&A at 7:45 p.m. de Young: Koret Auditorium

Film by Kevin Epps Presented with our collaborating partner African American Art and Culture Complex

Fam Bam is a short documentary that provides a critical look into the structure of the black family in America. It delves into the many layers of how this construct helped assuage the influences of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the crack era. Epps documents the beautifully unique nature of this complex family structure in a manner designed to heal the community, celebrate diversity, and teach others about its depths. The story will be told through the use of video, archival footage, still photos, audio, text, animation, and sculptures.

Community activist and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Epps developed his skills through public access shows and classes at the Film Arts Foundation into a film career with the acclaimed documentaries Straight Outta Hunters Point and The Black Rock. Epps has collaborated on projects with Google, Yahoo, Discovery Channel, Current TV, and a host of other media partners. His passion for advocacy of underserved communities has led him to give back by working with various community art spaces as well as serving on the boards of two local nonprofit organizations. Epps currently has several projects in the works, including his first feature film.

Block by Block Fam Bam

www.deyoungmuseum.org/artistfellows This project has been generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation’s Innovation Fund.

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Calendar of Events

publiCprogramsvisit our calendar at www.famsf.org

November11/4 DY Friday Nights at the de Young

in conjunction with Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna6:30–8:30 p.m. Wilsey Court Quartet San Francisco celebrates the San Francisco Symphony’s 100th Birthday7:00 p.m. Koret auditorium Film: Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion6:00–8:30 p.m. Kimball artist studio Muralist John Wehrle presents an interactive community mural with Rising Tide: A Post-Cautionary Tale, a work in progress

11/11 DY Friday Nights at the de Young

in conjunction with Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna6:30–8:30 p.m. Wilsey Court Live performance of contemporary opera by Ensemble Parallèle6:00–8:30 p.m. Kimball artist studio Muralist John Wehrle presents an interactive community mural with Rising Tide: A Post-Cautionary Tale, a work in progress7:00 p.m. Koret auditorium Film: Dangerous Beauty (1998)

11/11 lH special Veterans Day programs

2:00 p.m. Florence gould Theater Film: Art in the Face of War, directed by David Baugnon (2006, 76 min.)4:00–5:00 pm gallery 10 Robert Gurney plays patriotic music in honor of all those who have served and are currently serving in the US military. Lower level: The Book of Gold on display all month.

11/18 DY Friday Nights at the de Young

7:00 p.m. Koret auditorium World premiere of Block by Block, presented by Campo Santo with Felonious. Tickets required. Reception at 6 p.m.6:00–8:30 p.m. Kimball artist studio Muralist John Wehrle presents an interactive community mural with Rising Tide: A Post-Cautionary Tale, a work in progress6:30–8:30 p.m. Wilsey Court Opera performances by tenor Claudio Santome and soprano Litz Plummer

DY = de Young lH = legion of Honor

11/19 lH la belle Vie

in conjunction with Pissarro’s People 2:00 p.m. Florence gould Theater “Figures in a Landscape: The Beauty of Pissarro’s People,” lecture by James Housefield

11/20 lH la belle Vie

in conjunction with The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy 1:00 p.m. Florence gould Theater Lecture: “In Search of the Lost Song—Bringing Medieval Chansons to Life” by early-music duo Asteria 3:00 p.m. gallery 10 Concert: “Music for a Rash Prince: Medieval Love Songs from the Court of Charles of Burgundy” by Asteria

11/25 DY last Friday Night at the de Young of season 7

6:00–8:30 p.m. Kimball artist studio Muralist John Wehrle presents an interactive community mural with Rising Tide: A Post-Cautionary Tale, a work in progress. Closing reception at 6:00 p.m.6:30–8:30 p.m. Wilsey Court Live music by Pure Ecstasy, performing classics from “My Girl” to “Brick House”—it’s a family affair! Video and audio installation by spacekraft, DJ music with Davey D, and make your own family tree with Nannette Harris.6:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Koret auditorium World premiere screening of Fam Bam by de Young Artist Fellow Kevin Epps, with Q & A at 7:45 p.m.

Pissarro’s People, lH Art in the Face of War 11/11

presented by the de Young artist Fellows Todd T. brown, Kevin Epps, and Campo santo

Masters of Venice, DY

For more information about events or to receive our e-newsletter, go online to www.famsf.org, call 415-750-7694, or e-mail publicprograms@famsf.org.

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Cultural Encounters at the de Young is a series of interconnected programs developed in collaboration with community arts organizations and performing and visual artists. These programs are designed to attract new and diverse audiences to the museum while creating exciting educational and artistic possibilities from the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. Friday Nights at the de Young is part of the Fine Arts Museums’ Cultural Encounters initiative, generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation. Thanks to our media sponsor the San Francisco Bay Guardian and in-kind donor Aveleda wines.

Director of public programs, Cultural Encounters initiative Renee Baldocchi 415-750-7634, rbaldocchi@famsf.org

artist-in-residence, College programs Cynthia Inaba 415-750-3528, publicprograms@famsf.org

artist Fellows, la belle Vie at the legion Andrea Martin 415-750-3531, amartin@famsf.org

Friday Nights at the de Young, poetry, and symposia Gregory Stock 415-750-7694, gstock@famsf.org

public programs at the Fine arts museums of san Francisco

Ensemble parallèle 11/4

Every Friday night, all ages enjoy hands-on art making with de Young art educators. Programs are free unless otherwise noted. There are no reservations, and all events are first-come, first-seated. Times are subject to change. Please check our website for the most up-to-date times and locations. www.famsf.org

Block by Block presented on 11/17, 11/18, 11/19 at 7:00 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium

Season 8 of Friday Nights at the de Young opens March 30, 2012.