The immanent Labor Day weekend is resulting in a two phase start the fall art season. Catch a quieter First Friday Oakland Art Murmur, which sounds appealing. Several other interesting shows and talks are scattered through Sunday, but the real action will begin next week.

Check out the review of Oakland's Sight School current show on our national art blog, Artcards Review.

See you out there!

New on Artcards Reveiw:
Set for and Altered State by Aaron Harbor

Tuesday:
+ "Transcultural Circumstances: Expressions of art through an interwoven culture" at San Francisco Art Institute

Thursday:

+ Terry Allen "Ghost Ship Rodez" Works from "The Momo Chronicles" at Gallery Paule Anglim

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+ Performance: "After Dark: Parag Chordia" at Exploratorium

Friday:

+ Book Signing: "Opposition/Composition" at Creative Growth

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+ Artist Talk: "Bay Area Currents 2011" Artists' Talk and Screening at Pro Arts Gallery

+ Artist Talk: Amy Ho, Cathy Lu, Chris E. Vargas, Dana Hemenway, Emily Hoyt, Fiamma Montezemolo, Francesca Pastine, Gregory Ito, Jeanne Lorenz, Julie Henson, Linda Trunzo, Lisa Rybovich Cralle, Maggie Preston , Matthew Cella, Pablo Cristi, Sunaura Taylor, Surabhi Saraf, Suzy Poling "Bay Area Currents 2011" curated by Julio Cesar Morales at Pro Arts Gallery

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Tuesday, August 30

Artist Talk: "Lesser But Vital Practices: A Happy Hour & Artist Talk" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 5:30-7pm

Screening: "Summer movie series: Pruitt-Igoe Myth" at SPUR Urban Center
Downtown: 654 Mission Street, floor 1, $20 (free for members), 6pm

+ "Transcultural Circumstances: Expressions of art through an interwoven culture" at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 5-7pm

Wednesday, August 31

Panel Discussion: Deborah O'Grady, G, Janet Delaney, Kirk Crippens , Luis Delgado, Niniane Kelley, Philipp Striebe, Rachel Phillips "ReGeneration: Eight Contemporary Photographers Defy the Generation Gap" at a.Muse Gallery Mission District: 614 Alabama Street, 6pm

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Thursday, September 1

+ Terry Allen "Ghost Ship Rodez" Works from "The Momo Chronicles" at Gallery Paule Anglim Downtown: 14 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

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Owen Takabayashi "Owen Takabayashi" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-10pm

Gus Heinze, Kim Cogan, Patricia Chidlaw, Winni Wintermeyer "Cityscapes" at Hespe Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 4, 5:30-7:30pm

Guy Diehl at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Guy Diehl at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Downtown: 210 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Phillip Hua "Entwined Excess" at Hang Art
Downtown: 567 Sutter Street, 6-8pm

Charmaine Olivia, Craww, Handiedan, Tatiana Suarez "Group Show" at Spoke Art
Tenderloin: 816 Sutter St., 5:30-7:30pm

+ Performance: "After Dark: Parag Chordia" at Exploratorium
Marina District: 3601 Lyon Street, Included with price of admission (18 years+), 6-10pm

Friday, September 2

"The CSC archive show" at Center for Sex and Culture
SOMA: 1519 Mission Street, 6-9pm

Samantha Fried "Nature & Nurture" at Arata Fine Art Gallery & Studios
North Beach: 450 Columbus Ave., 6-9pm

Andrew Romanoff, Betty Woolfolk, Candace Loheed, Dorothy Nissen, Eric Engstrom, Geraldine LiaBraaten, Madeline Nieto Hope, Marj Burgstahler Stone, Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Mimi Abers, Suzanne Parker, Tim Graveson, Vickisa, Will Thoms, Zea Morvitz "Avatars, Aliases, Alter-Egos" at Gallery 1044
Downtown: 1044 Larkin Street, at Sutter St., floor 1, 7-10pm

Barb Oplinger, F. Joseph Butler, Julie Jaycox, Mel Solomon, Miriam Owen, Richard Zimmerman, Timothy Armstrong "Nature" at Canessa Gallery
Downtown: 708 Montgomery Street, 6-9pm

David Gregory Wallace, Jason Hanasik "This Means War Is Personal" at Krowswork
Oakland: 480 23rd Street, at Telegraph Avenue, Side Entrance, 5-9pm

+ Book Signing: "Opposition/Composition" at Creative Growth Oakland: 355 24th Street , 5-8pm

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+ Artist Talk: "Bay Area Currents 2011" Artists' Talk and Screening at Pro Arts Gallery
Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, 6pm

+ Artist Talk: Amy Ho, Cathy Lu, Chris E. Vargas, Dana Hemenway, Emily Hoyt, Fiamma Montezemolo, Francesca Pastine, Gregory Ito, Jeanne Lorenz, Julie Henson, Linda Trunzo, Lisa Rybovich Cralle, Maggie Preston , Matthew Cella, Pablo Cristi, Sunaura Taylor, Surabhi Saraf, Suzy Poling "Bay Area Currents 2011" curated by Julio Cesar Morales at Pro Arts Gallery Oakland: 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza , entrance on Kahn's Alley, 6-8pm

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Elizabeth Williams "Reinterpreting Reality" at Slate Gallery Oakland: 4770 Telegraph Avenue, at 48th Street, 6-9pm

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Brice Bischoff, Ellen Black, Tabitha Soren "Bischoff Soren Black" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 5-8pm

Brice Bischoff, Ellen Black, Tabitha Soren curated by Kimberly Johansson, Matthew Draving at Johansson Projects Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, 5-8pm

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Performance: Kamau Patton "L@te" at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 6:30

"Anything Goes" at LightRoom Gallery Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 6-8pm

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Saturday, September 3

James Seevers, Jamie Nelson , Kelly Correll Brown, Manuel Angeja "Reflection Seen" at Fivepoints Arthouse SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-10pm

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Cari Hernandez "Solo Exhibition" at Market Street Gallery
Civic Center: 1554 Market Street, 6-8pm

Susan Wu "Solo Show" at Gallery Heist
Tenderloin: 679 Geary Street, at Jones Street , floor 1, 7-11pm

Jessica Hess "It Finds You" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 1, 7-11pm

Pedro Matos "Ephemera" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-11pm

Beau Stanton "Sanguine Machine" at Gallery Hijinks
Mission District: 2309 Bryant Street, at 21st Street, floor 1, 6-10pm

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