5 options for stay-at-home fun in SF: Thursday, May 28
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Image: Via SF Neon
The Bay Area's shelter-in-place order has brought countless events usually held as in-person gatherings online. We're aiming to support local businesses in San Francisco and Oakland by highlighting five of these events each day.
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Here's your SF event calendar for Thursday, May 28. Learn how ants look for "love", take a virtual tour of San Francisco's vintage neon signs or hear from artists how shelter-in-place and the rise in anti-Asian racism impacted their practices — all from the comfort of your couch.
Uncanny Valley: Janna Keegan and artist Stephanie Dinkins
Join Janna Keegan from the de Young Museum as she interviews Stephanie Dinkins, one of the artists featured in the museum's new exhibition "Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI."
This discussion will expand on Dinkin's piece, "Conversations with Bina48", which is featured in the exhibition. It questions how value systems are built into AI and the construction of identity. A live Q&A from the audience will follow the interview.
When: Thursday, May 28, 2:30 p.m.
How to join: Via Facebook Live
Price: Free
Acting, Healing, Learning: Artist Talk
Listen in on a conversation hosted by Abby Chen, head of contemporary art with the Asian Art Museum, with artists Jas Charanjiva, Chanel Miller, and Jenifer K Wofford, who share how COVID-19 and the rise in anti-Asian racism have impacted their practices.
The trio will also offer insights into how creativity can nurture positive social change and self-transformation.
When: Thursday, May 28, 4 p.m.
How to join: Via Eventbrite
Price: $0 – $25
Trans Voices! Virtual Performances by Trans Artists
Virtual Trans Voices brings poets, comedians, drag and music to your home. Trans Voices was created in collaboration with Castro-based community center Strut by Julien Shenelman and Kay Nilsson back in 2015. Strut has hosted shows focused on the trans community ever since.
When: Thursday, May 28, 6:30 p.m.
How to join: Check the Facebook event to see how to join
Price: Free
Virtual NightLife, Vol. 5
Follow the California Academy of Sciences for a short (virtual) trip to Miami with Coral Morphologic, on a tour of the art and science duo’s Coral City Camera, an underwater webcam streaming live from an urban coral reef along PortMiami. Then, find out how ants look for “love” with the Academy’s curator of entomology, Dr. Brian Fisher, also known as the "ant guy."
Also hear from a five-week Antarctic expedition, learn some practical (and tasty) camping hacks and imagine yourself at the beach during an acoustic set played on the ukulele.
When: Thursday, May 28, 7 p.m.
How to join: Via YouTube
Price: Free
TenderNob Neon Tour
Join the Tenderloin Museum for an online journey through the historic corridors of Jones, Eddy, O'Farrell, Geary, Post, Sutter, and Bush streets.
You’ll see vintage neon signs and learn some city history about this iconic San Francisco neighborhood. The one-hour virtual tour features photography, video clips, and historic research by hosts Al Barna and Randall Ann Homan, authors and photographers of the book "San Francisco Neon: Survivors and Lost Icons."
Expect to get some architectural and graphic design insights to San Francisco's unique legacy of surviving neon signs.
When: Thursday, May 28, 7:45 p.m.
How to join: Via Eventbrite
Price: Suggested donation of $10
