The aptly titled renegade bookstore Owl Cave makes an appearance at 667Shotwell; gamelan fills the cement fortress of the Berkeley Art Museum; and Swarm Gallery interrogates the idea of land use, which is a good excuse to highlight a favorite organization of mine -- The Center for Land Use Interpretation.
 
Meanwhile, Joshue Ott is this week's featured artist on Artcards Review.

Thursday:

+ Bill Mattick, Chris Sicat, Reenie Charrière "LAND USE" curated by Svea Lin Soll at Swarm Gallery

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+ Artist Talk: "Sean McFarland and Genevieve Quick" Kala Fellowship Artists Talk at Kala Art Institute

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Friday:
+ Performance: "Gamelan Sekar Jaya" part of David Wilson's Gatherings/Matrix 233 at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:

+ Neet and Brian Moran "Owl Cave Book Store & 667" at 667Shotwell

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Monday:
+ Workshop: "Alternative Exposure 2010 - Information Session" at Southern Exposure

Tuesday, July 27

Lecture: "Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse" The Long Now Foundation and YBCA present at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 7:30-9pm

Wednesday, July 28

"(Por)trait Revealed" A juried exhibition of portrait photography at RayKo Photo Center (Liberty Park)
SOMA: 400 3rd Street, at Harrison Street, 6-8pm

Thursday, July 29

"DAVID CHOE Book Signing" at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Museum Atrium, 6:30pm

"Text'o-&-Figura" curated by Rolando Castellon at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 6-9pm

Isabelle Sorrell "Latitudes|Longitude" at Meridian Gallery
Downtown: 535 Powell Street, 6-9pm

Benefit: Eyal Perry, Lital Dotan "Fundraiser for Israeli Performances" Benefit their 'Glasshouse' exhibition in San Francisco at Marina Abramovic Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, $20, 7-9pm

Book launch: "Michael Wertz’s Dog Dreams" at San Francisco Center for the Book
Potrero Hill: 300 De Haro Street, 6-9pm

Yukako Ezoe , Naoki Onodera at Lake Gallery
Hayes Valley: 661 Divisadero Street, 7-9:30pm

+ Bill Mattick, Chris Sicat, Reenie Charrière "LAND USE" curated by Svea Lin Soll at Swarm Gallery Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 6-8pm

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Ben Carpenter, Billy Hiebert, Bonnie Heras, Carla Hall, Crystal Allen, Janet Hiebert, Jay Bridgland, Joey Gottbrath, Jonathan Hyman, Kathleen Watson, Lee Granberg, Mimi Dean, Rob Nehring, Tachina Rudman-Young "Flux" Group show featuring works by The Crucible's faculty and staff at The Crucible (Cathedral Building Gallery)
Oakland: 1615 Broadway Avenue, FREE, 6-9pm

+ Artist Talk: "Sean McFarland and Genevieve Quick" Kala Fellowship Artists Talk at Kala Art Institute Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Free, 7-9pm

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Friday, July 30

Performance: AmbientBlack, Jay Kreimer, Paul Rudy & Peter Rand "Earth Stories in the Illuminated Forest" Soundwave Festival ((4)) GREEN SOUND at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, Free, 8pm

Book Signing: David Choe at GRSF (Giant Robot)
Haight Ashbury: 618 Shrader Street , 6-8pm

Leah Rosenberg "The Magic Hour" at The Spare Room Project
Bernal Heights: 270 Anderson Street, 7-10pm

Closing reception: Jeanine Briggs "Transfigurations" July Artist-in-Residence at de Young (Golden Gate Park)
Bernal Heights: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Kimball Education Gallery, 6-8pm

Anja Ulfeldt, Erica Sheets, Erik T. Groff "Inside Edition" at Basement Gallery Oakland
Oakland: 1027 3rd Street, floor 1, 7-10pm

+ Performance: "Gamelan Sekar Jaya" part of David Wilson's Gatherings/Matrix 233 at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, $5, 6-9pm

Saturday, July 31

"We Haven't Felt This Way In Years II" curated by Ryan De La Hoz at Gallery Heist
Tenderloin: 679 Geary Street, at Jones Street , floor 1, 7-11pm

Performance: Cheryl Leonard, Elin Oyen Vister, Elise Baldwin "Animosities in the Illuminated Forest" Soundwave Festival ((4)) GREEN SOUND at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, Free, 8pm

+ Neet and Brian Moran "Owl Cave Book Store & 667" at 667Shotwell Mission District: 667 Shotwell Street, 6-8pm

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Screening: "Cut and Run: Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Michael Louis Young "Everything is Everything" at Rowan Morrison Gallery
Oakland: 330 40th Street, 7-10pm

"We're Moving!" Join us for our last day in our Berkeley space at Alphonse Berber Gallery
Berkeley: 2546 Bancroft Way, RSVP appreciated, though not necessary: info@alphonseberber.com, 6-9pm

Monday, August 2

+ Workshop: "Alternative Exposure 2010 - Information Session" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 6-8pm

Workshop: "Zinescapes!" Beginner level workshop focused on collaborative zine making at Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Oakland: 2278 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, $5 donation, 6pm

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