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This week in art happenings:

A unique funding opportunity, The Alternative Exposure Grant, has a deadline that  is fast approaching. Learn more about it in the second of three info sessions held by Southern Exposure, this one in the East Bay at Royal Nonesuch Gallery, tomorrow at 6pm.

Art and life will align in a special way this weekend for an art show of prisoner art on the historic island prison Alcatraz. Titled "Images from Inside" and hosted by The National Park Service and We Players in collaboration with Prison Arts Project at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery.

Also, check out the multiple enticing happenings at these spaces Krowswork, The Lab, and the Berkeley Art Museum.

See you out there.

Wednesday:
+ Workshop: "Alternative Exposure Information Session II: East Bay" Hosted by Southern Exposure at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Thursday:
+ Screening: "The Cool School" Art Movie Night At The Compound Gallery at The Compound Gallery

+ Screening: "It Conquered the World" Free Outdoor Screening at Berkeley Art Museum

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Friday:
+ Chris Baird, Claire Nereim, David Benzler, Eric Larson, Jason Kalogiros, Mariah Robertson, Nate Boyce, Randy Lee Sutherland, Taha Belal "All This Happened, More Or Less" curated by Jonathan Runcio at The Popular Workshop

Saturday:

+ "Images from Inside" The National Park Service and We Players in collaboration with Prison Arts Project at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery

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+ Artist Talk: "Conversation with SFMOMA assistant media arts curator Tanya Zimbardo" at Krowswork

+ "OPENeducation by OPENrestaurant" at Berkeley Art Museum

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Sunday:
+ Closing reception: "First-Person Plural" curated by Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im at MacArthur b arthur

Wednesday, August 24

Artist Talk: "Talking Art and Music with Pete Escovedo" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, Free and open to the public, 6pm

"Talking Art and Music with Pete Escovedo" at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Mission District: 2868 Mission Street, $5-$10, 8pm

+ Workshop: "Alternative Exposure Information Session II: East Bay" Hosted by Southern Exposure at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
Oakland: 4231 Telegraph Avenue, Free, 6pm

Thursday, August 25

Artist Talk: Maya Kabat, Ross M. Fink "InSight" at ArtSpan
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street , 5 Claude Lane Gallery, 5 Claude Lane, 6-8pm

"Three Series of Paintings by Pascale Héry" at Alliance Francaise de SF Downtown: 1345 Bush Street, 6:30pm

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Artist Talk: Maya Kabat, Ross M. Fink "InSight" curated by Scott S. Jennings at 5 Claude Lane
Downtown: 5 Claude Lane, floor 1, 6-8pm

+ Screening: "The Cool School" Art Movie Night At The Compound Gallery at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, Free, Doors 8:30pm, Movie at 9pm

+ Screening: "It Conquered the World" Free Outdoor Screening at Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 8:30o

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Friday, August 26

Performance: Erika Tsimbrovsky, Vadim Puyandaev "Rustling Silk" curated by Avy K Productions at CounterPULSE SOMA: 1310 Mission Street, $15-$20, 8pm

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+ Chris Baird, Claire Nereim, David Benzler, Eric Larson, Jason Kalogiros, Mariah Robertson, Nate Boyce, Randy Lee Sutherland, Taha Belal "All This Happened, More Or Less" curated by Jonathan Runcio at The Popular Workshop
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

Closing reception: Kelly Lynn Jones, Lucas Murgida, Mel Day, Miriam Dym, Natasha Wheat, Sasha Petrenko, Scott Hender "Pieces-Of-You-Topia" at The Lab Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 6-9pm

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Lecture: "What is Art? LIVE" Come be part of the live studio audience at Queens Nails Projects
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, 8pm

Akinori Okada, Alfred Hernandez, Cassandra Sechler, Catharsis for Cathedral, Chris King, Daniel Mancina, Ginnetta Correli, H.D. Lange, Jasper Van Es, John Espey, Kristine Eudey, Lira Kay, M. Woods, Maria Niro, Nils Hoover, Nuno OC Madeira, Sarah Castle, Subliminal Twin, Taylor Fitzgerald "Dimensions" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

Performance: "The Spontaneous Underground Presents Laser Fest" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 8pm

Performance: Douglas Katelus, Horaflora, Mauricio Ancalmo "Lazerfest" curated by The Spontaneous Underground at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 8pm

Saturday, August 27

Closing reception: "Farewell Group Exhibition" at Braunstein/Quay Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina Street, 12-5:30pm

Reading: Aideen Barry, Garrett Phelan, Lorraine Burrell, Maud Cotter, Niamh McCann, Seamus Harahan, Tom Molloy "this little bag of dreams..." curated by Josephine Kelliher, Nathan Larramendy at Catharine Clark Gallery
SOMA: 150 Minna Street, 1pm

+ "Images from Inside" The National Park Service and We Players in collaboration with Prison Arts Project at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery Alcatraz: , floor 1, $0-20 Sliding scale donation, RSVP for this hot ticket event, 1-4:30pm

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Adrian Van Allen "Zoologia" at Compound Gallery Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 6-9pm

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+ Artist Talk: "Conversation with SFMOMA assistant media arts curator Tanya Zimbardo" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 7pm

Artist Talk: Tanya Zimbardo "In Coversation" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 7pm

+ "OPENeducation by OPENrestaurant" at Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, Free Event. To get your tickets follow this link, 11am-5pm

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Sunday, August 28

Performance: Bedbug Strategies , Ecomorti , Xdugef "Godwaffle Noise Pancakes" at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, 12-2pm

+ Closing reception: "First-Person Plural" curated by Aaron Harbour, Jackie Im at MacArthur b arthur
Oakland: 4030 Martain Luther King Jr Way, floor 1, 1-5pm

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