The big gallery walk days are upon us this first week of April with San Francisco's First Thursday and Oakland's First Friday.

If the hustle and bustle of these opening blowouts are not your style, there are some great openings independent of these bonanzas, including: Gaby Wolodarski at Hatch Gallery, J.B. Blunk Residency Group Show at Triple Base, and The Final Show at Jack Hanley (he is moving all operations to New York).

If you are planning to plunge into these gallery walks, try building your own personalized list of shows using the gray arrows on the artcards.cc website, when you use the "print" function the list is supplied with a map of your choices!

Wednesday:
+ Vito Acconci "Words/ Action/ Architecture" Presented by the Technology and Society Lecture Series at Mills College at Mills College Art Museum

+ Artist Talk: "Kala Fellowship Talk: Chris Duncan and Laura Paulini" at Kala Art Institute

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Thursday:
+ Emily Wardill at Altman Siegel
+ Thomas Campbell "YAR" at Gregory Lind Gallery

+ Nnenna Okore "Recovered Energies" at Bekris Gallery

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+ Helen Frankenthaler "Paintings 1961-1973" at John Berggruen Gallery
+ Nnenna Okore "Recovered Energies" curated by Cynthia Plevin at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Derek Albeck, Marco Zamora "The Fool" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery

Friday:
+ "J.B. Blunk Residency Group Show" at Triple Base Gallery

+ Closing reception: Lauren Frances Adams "Bitter Harvest" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

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Saturday:
+ "AMP! When Teenagers Attack" at The Lab
+ Ajit Chauhan, Alicia Mccarthy, Carter, Chris Johanson, Ed Loftus, Kal Spelletich, Leslie Shows, Shaun O’Dell, Tauba Auerbach "Final Show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco" at Jack Hanley Gallery

Monday:
+ Lecture: Adriaan Geuze "The Architecture Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
+ Lecture: Anne Walsh, Chris Kubick "Concatenating, Condensing, Conflating, Confounding, Considering, Contaminating, Contemplating, Conversing, and Conjuring: 7 Years of Collaboration" at UC Berkeley (University of California)

Wednesday, March 31

+ Vito Acconci "Words/ Action/ Architecture" Presented by the Technology and Society Lecture Series at Mills College at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Littlefield Concert Hall, Free and open to the public, 7:30pm

"Faux Real" an immersive, interactive enviromment created by students in Brody Reiman's Installation class at Worth Ryder Art Gallery (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley: 0 Kroeber Hall, corner of Bancroft Way and College Avenue, 4-7pm

+ Artist Talk: "Kala Fellowship Talk: Chris Duncan and Laura Paulini" at Kala Art Institute Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Free, 7pm

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Thursday, April 1

? Gioi Tran, Adam Kurtzman, Andrea Arroyo, Carolyn Meyer , Marc Lambrechts, Maxine Solomon, Serena Bocchino "On The Surface" at ArtHaus
SOMA: 411 Brannan Street , (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Art Hazelwood, Roberta Loach, Anthony Ryan, David Avery, Imin Yeh, Jos Sances, Patrick Piazza, Rik Olson, Shane Weare "In These Great Times" curated by Art Hazelwood at Back to the Picture
SOMA: 1110 Howard Street, 6-9pm

Performance: Jose Navarrete, Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, Violeta Luna "Winter 2010 Artists in Residence" at CounterPULSE
SOMA: 1310 Mission Street, $15-20 (Members $10-15), 8pm

Judith Foosaner, Roger Herman at George Lawson Gallery: Room for Painting Room for Paper
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, at Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Emily Wardill at Altman Siegel
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Thomas Campbell "YAR" at Gregory Lind Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Nnenna Okore "Recovered Energies" at Bekris Gallery Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

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Claire Burbridge, Matthew Picton "Untitled" at Toomey Tourell Fine Art
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Lucy Gaylord-Lindholm at Jack Fisher Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 4, 6-7:30pm

+ Helen Frankenthaler "Paintings 1961-1973" at John Berggruen Gallery
Downtown: 228 Grant Avenue, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Jason Grabowski , Ryan Coffey "American Cinema" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

? Eric Zener, Melissa Hutton at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Goli Mahallati at Art People Gallery (Crocker Galleria)
Downtown: 50 Post Street, #41, 4-7pm

Evri Kwong "No Fooling" at Sandra Lee Fine Art Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 3, 5:30-7:30pm

John Di Paolo "New Paintings" at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

DGPH "Journey to Molestown" at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

Piero Spadaro, Sukey Bryan "Uphill and Downstream" at Hang Art (HANG ART )
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

James Wolanin at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Downtown: 341 Sutter Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Nnenna Okore "Recovered Energies" curated by Cynthia Plevin at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Derek Albeck, Marco Zamora "The Fool" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Civic Center: 66 Gough Street, at Market Street, 6-9pm

Elliott Erwitt "New York" at Robert Koch Gallery
Bernal Heights: 0 49 Geary Street, Grant St., floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, April 2

Davide Coltro "[Living Shrouds]" curated by Silvia Girardi at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 6-8:30pm

"Characters Welcome" at Artist-Xchange Gallery
Mission District: 3169 16th St, 7-10pm

Andy Ristaino "Escape from Dullsvile" at Mission: Comics & Arts Mission District: 3520 20th Street, Suite B, 7-11pm

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+ "J.B. Blunk Residency Group Show" at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

"The Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project" at San Francisco Zen Center
Hayes Valley: 300 Page Street, at Laguna Street, 7:30-9:30pm

Ian Johnson "Of The Living Sky" at Park Life
Richmond District: 220 Clement Street, 7-10pm

Kana Tanaka "Kagami" at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Closing reception: Lauren Frances Adams "Bitter Harvest" at Royal NoneSuch Gallery Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 7-9pm

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Christina Corfield, Keer Tanchak "The Velveteen Order" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 5-8pm

Saturday, April 3

Rebecca Goldfarb "Implied" at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 4-7pm

Performance: "Big Idea Night pARTy: Under the Influence" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 9pm-2am

Lecture: Claire Daigle, Ian McDonald, Nicole Archer, Nnenna Okore "Symposium on the Work of Nnenna Okore" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, 10:30am-12:30pm

Christy Langer , Kris Kuksi "Meticulous Engagements" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Akira, Cheryl Molnar, Henry Gunderson, Mark Warren Jacques, Robert Burden "New Territory" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

+ "AMP! When Teenagers Attack" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $7, 7pm

+ Ajit Chauhan, Alicia Mccarthy, Carter, Chris Johanson, Ed Loftus, Kal Spelletich, Leslie Shows, Shaun O’Dell, Tauba Auerbach "Final Show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco" at Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission District: 395 Valencia Street, 6-9pm

Sunday, April 4

"21 projects x 21 days x 21 hours" Share. Gather. Learn. Teach. Present. at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, 5:30-7:30pm

Monday, April 5

+ Lecture: Adriaan Geuze "The Architecture Lecture Series" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, 7pm

+ Lecture: Anne Walsh, Chris Kubick "Concatenating, Condensing, Conflating, Confounding, Considering, Contaminating, Contemplating, Conversing, and Conjuring: 7 Years of Collaboration" at UC Berkeley (University of California)
Berkeley: Kroeber Hall, Free, 7:30pm

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