Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the days to go out this week. With openings at Romer Young, Triple Base, Adobe Backroom, SF Art Commision's "Passport 2011" experience in the Castro, and the WE Players host an Arts and Social Justice festival that will take over Alcatraz, there is something for everyone.  Check the editor's picks below to pick the night you want to go out.

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Wednesday:
+ Screening: "Renzo Martens' Enjoy Poverty" Hosted by Robert C. Jones in conversation with Laura Hubbard at Kadist Art Foundation

Thursday:
+ Bella Feldman "Anxious Objects" at Nieto Fine Art
+ Performance: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery

Friday:
+ Hughen/Starkweather "Approach, Transition, Touchdown: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Project" at Electric Works
+ Eric Fischer, Flora Kao, JD Beltran, Jenny Odell, Lordy Rodriguez , Matthew Picton, Scott Minneman, Tucker Nichols, Val Britton , Wendy MacNaughton "Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination" at Intersection for the Arts (Intersection 5M)
+ Kirk Stoller "I Hope I Don't Fall Down" at Romer Young Gallery
+ Rachel Kaye "Cut Out" at Triple Base Gallery
+ Performance: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery

Saturday:
+ Joe Roberts, Michelle Guintu "Keep It Cherried" curated by Daniella Fernandez Murphy at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
+ Panel Discussion: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery
+ Léonie Guyer "Drawings and Paintings" at littlebigspace

Sunday:
+ Tour: Alison Pebworth, Chris Duncan, Dan Nicoletta, Elisheva Biernoff, Jaime Cortez, James Gobel, Jennifer Wofford, Margaret Tedesco, Michelle Pred, Michelle Tea, Monica Canilo, Pablo Guardiola, Tiffany Bozic "Passport 2011, 3rd Annual DIY Art Collecting Event Comes to the Castro" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
+ Panel Discussion: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery

Wednesday, October 19

+ Screening: "Renzo Martens' Enjoy Poverty" Hosted by Robert C. Jones in conversation with Laura Hubbard at Kadist Art Foundation
Mission District: 2401 Folsom Street, at 20th Street, floor 1, Free, Cocktails at 6pm, program at 7pm sharp

"6th ATA Film & Video Festival" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, free, 7pm

Thursday, October 20

Benefit: "8th Annual Benefit Art for the San Francisco Children’s Art Center" at 111 Minna Gallery
SOMA: 111 Minna Street, , 6-9:30pm

"Thirty artists" curated by Frederic Crum at Gallery 1044
Downtown: 1044 Larkin Street, at Sutter St., floor 1, 6-10pm

Jonathon Keats "The First Copernican Art Manifesto" at Modernism Gallery
Downtown: 685 Market Street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Bella Feldman "Anxious Objects" at Nieto Fine Art
Tenderloin: 565 Sutter St., 6-8pm

Benefit: "10th Annual Art Auction" at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, $65-80, 6:30-10pm

+ Performance: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery
Alcatraz: , floor 1, 5-9pm

Friday, October 21

+ Hughen/Starkweather "Approach, Transition, Touchdown: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Project" at Electric Works
SOMA: 130 8th Street, 6-8pm

Book launch: "Arthur Pollock Book Launch & Exhibition" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 5-9pm

+ Eric Fischer, Flora Kao, JD Beltran, Jenny Odell, Lordy Rodriguez , Matthew Picton, Scott Minneman, Tucker Nichols, Val Britton , Wendy MacNaughton "Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination" at Intersection for the Arts (Intersection 5M)
SOMA: 901 Mission Street, at 5th Street, floor 1, 7-9pm

George Condo, Leo Valledor at Togonon Gallery
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, 5-7pm

+ Kirk Stoller "I Hope I Don't Fall Down" at Romer Young Gallery
Mission District: 1240 22nd Street, 6-9pm

+ Rachel Kaye "Cut Out" at Triple Base Gallery
Mission District: 3041 24th Street , at Treat Avenue, 7-10pm

Keegan Luttrell, Susanna Corcoran "Like Ravens" curated by Roula Seikaly at Triple Base Gallery (Ellipses Space)
Mission District: 3041 24th Street, behind Triple Base, 7-10pm

SCUBA "Move In With Me" at Lake Gallery
Hayes Valley: 661 Divisadero Street, at Grove Street, 7-9:30pm

+ Performance: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery
Alcatraz: , floor 1, 3-9pm

Saturday, October 22

Closing reception: "Keeping an Eye on Surveillance" curated by Hanna Regev at Performance Art Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, Free, 2:30pm-6pm

+ Joe Roberts, Michelle Guintu "Keep It Cherried" curated by Daniella Fernandez Murphy at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 7-10pm

Ada Sadler, Dan Lydersen, Gordon Cook, Guy Diehl, Heidi McDowell, Jane Fisher, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Jeong Im Yi, Keith Gaspari, Michael Beck, Randy Becklheimer, Robert Bechtle, Terry Thompson, Vonn Sumner "THE REALISTS" New Recent and Historical Works at ArtZone 461 Gallery Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, 5-8pm

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William Wolff "Persons and Portraits" at ArtZone 461 Gallery Mission District: 461 Valencia Street, 5-8pm

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+ Panel Discussion: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery
Alcatraz: , floor 1, 10am-5pm

Mike Meyers, Yvette Molina "Circlesaints" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, Free, 3-5pm

+ Léonie Guyer "Drawings and Paintings" at littlebigspace
Albany: 1341 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, floor 1, 3-6pm

Sunday, October 23

+ Tour: Alison Pebworth, Chris Duncan, Dan Nicoletta, Elisheva Biernoff, Jaime Cortez, James Gobel, Jennifer Wofford, Margaret Tedesco, Michelle Pred, Michelle Tea, Monica Canilo, Pablo Guardiola, Tiffany Bozic "Passport 2011, 3rd Annual DIY Art Collecting Event Comes to the Castro" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, Free event, Passports are $25 THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE CASTRO DISTRICT, 12-4pm

+ Panel Discussion: "Symposium on Justice and Freedom" The National Park Service and WE Players Celebrate WE Players’ HISTORIC ARTISTIC RESIDENCY on ALCATRAZ ISLAND at Alcatraz Cell House Gallery
Alcatraz: , floor 1, 12-5pm

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