Time to stroll out into the warm evenings - even in San Francisco it's possible - for the best time of year in the Bay Area.  The earth is shifting on its axis and the middle space between summer and winter is not only great for outdoor fun but brilliant for art.

Don't forget to read to the bottom of the Artcards newsletter, so you don't miss all the earth tilting brilliance in art every week.

These are few shows of particular interest:
Wednesday, September 14th
"Sergio Navarro-Durran" at Project One
Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 7pm-late

Thursday, September 15th
Performance: Donald Robinson, Larry Ochs at Berkeley Arts Festival
Berkeley: 2133 University Avenue, floor 1, suggested donation $10-$20, 8pm

Friday, September 16th
David Huffman, Elizabeth Axtman, Travis Somerville "Shift: Three Projects Constructing a New Dialogue About Race in America" curated by Meg Shiffler at SF Arts Commission Gallery Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 6-8pm

Saturday, September 17th
Artist Talk: Barbara Shapiro, Dr. Mary Ruth Smith "Artist Talk and Demonstration" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, $5 admission to the gallery, 2pm

See you out there.

Friday:
+ David Huffman, Elizabeth Axtman, Travis Somerville "Shift: Three Projects Constructing a New Dialogue About Race in America" curated by Meg Shiffler at SF Arts Commission Gallery

Saturday:
+ Artist Talk: Barbara Shapiro, Dr. Mary Ruth Smith "Artist Talk and Demonstration" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art

Monday:
+ Lecture: Shannon Jackson "Social Art Works: Social Turns and Reciprocal Systems" at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)

Wednesday, September 14

"Sergio Navarro-Durran" at Project One
Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 7pm-late

Thursday, September 15

"Party for John Delois" at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
SOMA: 525 2nd Street, 5:30-8pm

"BAN6 Student SLIDESLAM" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, 7-9pm

Gordon Cook "Form & Figure" at George Krevsky Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Ed Handelman "Untitled" at Nieto Fine Art
Tenderloin: 565 Sutter St., 6-8pm

Emily Huffman, Patricia Mera "Life, Objects and Why Not?" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 7-10pm

"15th Anniversary Exhibition Opening" at San Francisco Center for the Book
Potrero Hill: 300 De Haro Street, 6-8pm

John Sun "Colors" at San Francisco Women Artists
Richmond District: 3489 Sacramento St., 5:30-7:30pm

Performance: Donald Robinson, Larry Ochs at Berkeley Arts Festival
Berkeley: 2133 University Avenue, floor 1, suggested donation $10-$20, 8pm

Friday, September 16

Closing reception: "Closing reception for Frontrunners" The San Francisco Foundation 2011 Murphy & Cadogan Awards Exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6:30-9:30pm

Jamie Bollenbach "The amplitude of time" at NOMA Gallery
SOMA: 80 Maiden Lane, floor 3, 6-8pm

Performance: Big Art Group "The People: San Francisco" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103, $10 regular; free for YBCA Members, 8pm

Linda Karshan "Measure Without Measure - New Drawings" at Cain Schulte Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Sandra Enterline "Pretty Crude and Niki Ulehla: Toys + Jewelry" at Velvet da Vinci
Russian Hill: 2015 Polk Street, 6-8pm

+ David Huffman, Elizabeth Axtman, Travis Somerville "Shift: Three Projects Constructing a New Dialogue About Race in America" curated by Meg Shiffler at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 6-8pm

"Opening Party and Art Opening" at 18 Reasons Gallery
Mission District: 3674 18th St., 6-9pm

Alexis Arnold, Ali Liebegott, Amanda Boe, Anna Bihari, Art for a Democratic Society, Atsuko Morita, Chris Thorson, Christian Oittinen, Daughter of Kong Center for Research, Fred Nocella, I, Ida Rödén, Jeanne Lorenz, Jeremy Roberts, Jesse Kauppila, Joanna Kidd, Johanna Friedman, Johnna Arnold, Jon Gourley, Joshua Band, Joshua Kim, Kate Nartker, Kelly Falzone Inouye, Kimberly Cook, Leah Rosenberg, Lorna Stevens, Matthew Pawlowski, Mendoza Dio, Michelle Ramin, Neil Rivas, Niana Liu, Nicole Hayden, Nosfe, Phillip Maisel, Rachel Dawson, Rachel E Foster, Rachelle Reichert, Robert Larkin, Ruth Tabancay, Ryan Wylie, Sandra Osborne, Sara Diamond, Some Guy, Summer Mei Ling Lee, Sunaura Taylor, Susan Chen, Thomas Wing, Ulrika Andersson "Proof" Southern Exposure's entry-fee free Juried exhibition at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , 6-9pm

Pamela Jorden at Romer Young Gallery Mission District: 1240 22nd Street, 6-9pm

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Todd Bura "Romance" at Triple Base Gallery Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

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"Passage: capturing movement" at 60SIX
Mission District: 66 Elgin Park, floor 1, 6-9pm

Screening: "Mission Eye & Ear" curated by Lisa Mezzacappa at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $8-$10, 8pm

"Move Me" at Big Umbrella Studios
Hayes Valley: 906 Divisadero Street, 7pm

Todd T. Brown "Inheritance" Exploring a contemporary interweave of human histories and the identification of self at de Young (Golden Gate Park)
Bernal Heights: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Free, 6-9pm

Lecture: Doug Rickard at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, 11am

Saturday, September 17

Amanda Miller, Amy Harrity, Clare Kuo, Jaisen Glogowski, Jim Gleeson, John Haag, Jonathan David Baker, Julie Marsh, Katalina Caliendo, Katerina Connearney, Kelly Koehler, Leslie Morgan, Liza Quinones, Meridith Harding, Micah Crandall-Bear, Rebecca Fox "Semi-Annual Fall Art Reception" at Barber Lounge
SOMA: 854 folsom street, san francisco ca 94107, 7-10pm

Performance: Big Art Group "The People: San Francisco" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103, $10 regular; free for YBCA Members, 8pm

+ Artist Talk: Barbara Shapiro, Dr. Mary Ruth Smith "Artist Talk and Demonstration" at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
SOMA: 51 Yerba Buena Lane, $5 admission to the gallery, 2pm

Sara Bright "New Paintings" at George Lawson Gallery: Room for Painting Room for Paper Downtown: 49 Geary Street, at Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

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Artist Talk: Linda Karshan "Measure Without Measure - New Drawings" at Cain Schulte Gallery
Downtown: 251 Post Street, floor 2, 2pm

Calcagno Cullen "My Heart is a Telephone" at Million Fishes Gallery
Mission District: 2501 Bryant Street, 7-10pm

ADAM CAHOON "ADAM CAHOON: Portraits of an Absurd Nature" curated by Steven Lopez at ArtZone 461 Gallery Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, Free, 5-8pm

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Sunday, September 18

Screening: Lucy Walker "WASTE LAND" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SOMA: 701 Misssion Street, at Third Street, YBCA Screening Room, $8 regular; $6 students, seniors, teachers & YBCA members, 2pm

Screening: "Small Press Traffic" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6-$10, 5pm

Monday, September 19

+ Lecture: Shannon Jackson "Social Art Works: Social Turns and Reciprocal Systems" at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Berkeley: Near Hearst Street, 3rd Floor , Sutardja Dai Hall, Free, 7:30-9pm

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