There are many interesting shows and events to choose from this week. Some highlights include: the fascinating artist Walid Raad speaking at CCA on Friday, Kala's economically themed juried show and/or an art movie night at the Compound Gallery this Thursday, and finally Important Project's new projects on Saturday. If you have an upcoming art event, we encourage submissions through our website: http://artcards.cc/submit/.

See you out there!

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New on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Artist: Oliver Warden" by Amanda Schmitt
- "Black Mountain College and Its Legacy @ Loretta Howard Gallery" by Gabriella Radujko
- "Andrew Guenther Talking to a Fish and Paraphernalia" by Carissa Pelleteri

Wednesday:

+ Performance: Claire Fontaine, Jim Fairchild, Natasha Wheat "Corrected Slogans" curated by Hosted by Julian Myers at Kadist Art Foundation

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+ Artist Talk: "Martha Wilson: Staging The Self (transformations, Invasions, And Pushing Boundaries)" Artist Lecture And Book Launch at Mills College Art Museum

Thursday:
+ Performance: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Jina Valentine, Steffani Jemison "Les Mots et Les Choses (The Words and The Things)" at Southern Exposure
+ Screening: "Lumière and After" at A.T.A.
+ Screening: "Who Gets to Call it Art?" Art Movie Night At The Compound Gallery curated by Theo Auer at Compound Gallery
+ Amy Susan Keefer, Art for a Democratic Society, Bert Bergen, David Arthur Hamlow, Geral, Jessica Eastburn, Kathryn Clark, Kathryn Kenworth, Kelly Lynn Jones, Lacey Haslam, Lauren DiCioccio, Luis Guillermo Hernandez, Sarah B Hirneisen, Stephen Chalmers, Torreya Cummings "Cashing Out" curated by Julio Cesar Morales at Kala Art Institute

Friday:

+ Walid Raad " 2011 Fall Photography Lecture Series" Pier 24 Photography presented in collaboration with California College of the Arts and SFMOMA at California College for the Arts (CCA)

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+ "The Blob: A Shapeless Spectacle" With Brale.co and Curtis Tamm curated by Steve Seid at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:

+ Paul Mullins "For Here Or To Go" at Marx & Zavattero

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+ Mira Schor "Painting in The Space Where Painting Used to Be" at Some Walls

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Sunday:
+ Peter Glantz, The Imaginary Company "Being Impossible" at Southern Exposure

Tuesday, October 25

Book launch: "Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 7-9pm

Wednesday, October 26

+ Performance: Claire Fontaine, Jim Fairchild, Natasha Wheat "Corrected Slogans" curated by Hosted by Julian Myers at Kadist Art Foundation Mission District: 2401 Folsom Street, at 20th Street, floor 1, Cocktails at 6pm, program at 7pm sharp

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+ Artist Talk: "Martha Wilson: Staging The Self (transformations, Invasions, And Pushing Boundaries)" Artist Lecture And Book Launch at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, LISSER THEATER, 7pm

Thursday, October 27

+ Performance: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Jina Valentine, Steffani Jemison "Les Mots et Les Choses (The Words and The Things)" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

+ Screening: "Lumière and After" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $5 for members, $10 for non-members, 7:30pm

+ Screening: "Who Gets to Call it Art?" Art Movie Night At The Compound Gallery curated by Theo Auer at Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th st., Oakland, CA 94608, Ground floor, 9pm

+ Amy Susan Keefer, Art for a Democratic Society, Bert Bergen, David Arthur Hamlow, Geral, Jessica Eastburn, Kathryn Clark, Kathryn Kenworth, Kelly Lynn Jones, Lacey Haslam, Lauren DiCioccio, Luis Guillermo Hernandez, Sarah B Hirneisen, Stephen Chalmers, Torreya Cummings "Cashing Out" curated by Julio Cesar Morales at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 6-8pm

Friday, October 28

Geof Oppenheimer "Inside us all there is a part that would like to burn down our own house" at Ratio 3 Mission District: 1447 Stevenson Street, 6-8pm

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+ Walid Raad " 2011 Fall Photography Lecture Series" Pier 24 Photography presented in collaboration with California College of the Arts and SFMOMA at California College for the Arts (CCA) Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free and open to the public Seating is limited; admission is on a first-come, first-served basis , 7-9pm

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Closing reception: Nidhi Chanani "Closing Reception for Unraveled and This Friends of Mine" at Rare Device Hayes Valley: 1845 Market Street, 6-8pm

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+ "The Blob: A Shapeless Spectacle" With Brale.co and Curtis Tamm curated by Steve Seid at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 5-9pm

Ron Wigginton "Daughtering" at LightRoom Gallery
Berkeley: 2263 Fifth Street, 6-9pm

Saturday, October 29

+ Paul Mullins "For Here Or To Go" at Marx & Zavattero Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7pm

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Performance: "Hot glass - Cold Beer" Michael Fox Conducting His Glass Orchestra at Public Glass
Hunters Point: 1750 Armstrong Street, 6-10pm

Workshop: "Day with Ray" Full day workshop with Artist Ray Beldner at Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek)
East Bay: 1601 Civic Drive, floor 1, $80, 10am-4pm

+ Mira Schor "Painting in The Space Where Painting Used to Be" at Some Walls Oakland: 4660 Dolores Avenue, floor 1, By appintment, info@somewalls.com

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Sunday, October 30

Performance: Andrew M Mezvinsky, Jerome Oremland, Peter Brandenhoff, Shinji Eshima, Yuri Possokhov "Il Fazzoletto (The Handkerchief)" at Performance Art Institute
Downtown: 575 Sutter Street, $25 for general seating $50 for premium seating, which includes an invitation to the VIP Reception following the performance, 2pm

+ Peter Glantz, The Imaginary Company "Being Impossible" at Southern Exposure
Mission District: 3030 20th Street , FREE, 7-9pm

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