For the those who want more explanation with their art experience, this is your week. Leslie Shows talks at Mills about her work, Marc Horowitz talks at UC Berkeley, and The Otolith Group at CCA. The alternative spaces of the East Bay and San Francisco host an array of openings from Adobe Backroom Gallery to new kid on the block Zughaus Gallery.

See you out there!

Tuesday:
+ Screening: "Reclaim Market Street!: Screening of William H. Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" in partnership with Studio For Urban Projects at SPUR Urban Center

+ Performance: "Dynasty Handbag With Special Guests Tara Jepsen And Beth Lisick" at The Lab

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Wednesday:
+ Evvy Eisen "Oyster Farm" at California Historical Society

+ Lecture: "Jens Hoffmann & Larry Rinder In conversation" Discussing the periodical "The Exhibitionist" at Kadist Art Foundation

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+ Lecture: "Lecture by Cuny Janssen" 2011 Fall Photography Lecture Series presented in collaboration with California College of the Arts and SFMOMA at California College for the Arts (CCA)

+ Lecture: "How Music Looks: The Printed Page a talk by composer and scholar Charles Boone " at Arion Press

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+ Artist Talk: Leslie Shows at Mills College Art Museum

Thursday:
+ Screening: "Beautiful Moving Images" curated by Charles Boone at A.T.A.

Friday:
+ Screening: David Cox, Kelly Sears "Once It Started It Could Not End: Cut-Ups and Collage by Sears, Cox, Kennedy and Rosentrater" at A.T.A.
+ Performance: Erika Chong Shuch "Sitting In A Circle" at Intersection for the Arts

+ Lecture: The Otolith Group "Headlands Artists in Residence Lecture Series at CCA" at California College for the Arts (CCA)

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+ David B. Smith, Kelly Lynn Jones, Maysha Mohamedi, Nick Almquist "Something Something" curated by Carey Lin, Sarah Hotchkiss at Zughaus Gallery
+ Performance: Ellen Fullman with Fred Frith, Gino Robair, Jason "Tracings" curated by Sarah Cahill at Berkeley Art Museum

Saturday:

+ Performance: "1+1 = Jon Raskin + Phillip Greenlief in concert" at Electric Works

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+ "In Brief: A Private Study" curated by Sabina Nieto of Mauve? at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

+ Amy Casey, Cynthia Ona Innis, Jane Fine, Justin Amrhein, Kara Maria, Leslie Murray, Lisa Congdon, Megan Whitmarsh "Seduction: the Second Annual Biennial" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery

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+ Performance: Erika Chong Shuch "Sitting In A Circle" at Intersection for the Arts

Monday:
+ Artist Talk: Marc Horowitz "Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape" Center for New Media and the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Present at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)

Tuesday, November 15

+ Screening: "Reclaim Market Street!: Screening of William H. Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" in partnership with Studio For Urban Projects at SPUR Urban Center
Downtown: 654 Mission Street, floor 1, Free, 6pm

+ Performance: "Dynasty Handbag With Special Guests Tara Jepsen And Beth Lisick" at The Lab Mission District: 2948 16th Street, $8-12, 8:30pm

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Wednesday, November 16

+ Evvy Eisen "Oyster Farm" at California Historical Society
Downtown: 678 Mission Street, Free, RSVP to 415.357.1848, ext. 229 or rsvp@calhist.org, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Lecture: "Jens Hoffmann & Larry Rinder In conversation" Discussing the periodical "The Exhibitionist" 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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Ashley Thayer "Aequum" at Tartine
Mission District: 600 Guerrero Street , 8-10pm

Blake Gibson, Brooke Westfall, Christopher Reiger, Jeremiah Barber, Johanna Villamil, Julie Sutherland, Kate Stirr "Art and Wine" at Heart
Mission District: 1270 Valencia St, 7-10pm

Screening: Chris Vargas & Greg Youmans "Periwinkle Queer Cinema: Food!" Adults Only, “Falling in Love with Chris & Greg” at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

+ Lecture: "Lecture by Cuny Janssen" 2011 Fall Photography Lecture Series 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, 6-8pm

+ Lecture: "How Music Looks: The Printed Page a talk by composer and scholar Charles Boone " at Arion Press Marina District: 1802 Hays Street, Presidio, floor 1, Free, 5-7pm

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+ Artist Talk: Leslie Shows at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, DANFORTH LECTURE HALL, 7pm

Thursday, November 17

"Sharing a Vision: The Colby College Museum of Art and Crown Point Press" at Crown Point Press
SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street, 6-8pm

Book Signing: Blake Little "The Company ofmen" at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Brett Kaufman "Life and Times: Photographic Works and Assemblages" curated by Leila Seppa, Mary Ellen Durka at 5 Claude Lane
Downtown: 5 Claude Lane, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ Screening: "Beautiful Moving Images" curated by Charles Boone at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $6, 8pm

"Rene Garcia Holiday Solow Show" at Project One Potrero Hill: 251 Rhode Island Street, 7pm-late

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Friday, November 18

Stephen Stout "The Nothing Box (an Immersive Illusion in Space- this piece invited you to lose yourself and in doing so find another...)" curated by Aline Dargie at Make Hang
North Beach: 450 Green Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Fernando Orellana "Slideways" curated by Valerie Leavy at Satellite66
Tenderloin: 66 6th Street, 6-9pm

+ Screening: David Cox, Kelly Sears "Once It Started It Could Not End: Cut-Ups and Collage by Sears, Cox, Kennedy and Rosentrater" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $5 for members, $10 for non-members, 7:30pm

+ Performance: Erika Chong Shuch "Sitting In A Circle" at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, $15-25, 8-9:30pm

+ Lecture: The Otolith Group "Headlands Artists in Residence Lecture Series at CCA" at California College for the Arts (CCA) Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , FREE, 7-9pm

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Jason Kalogiros, Jessica Skloven, Maggie Preston "Quasar" curated by Lori Gordon at Ampersand International Arts
Potrero Hill: 1001 Tennessee Street, 6-8:30 pm

+ David B. Smith, Kelly Lynn Jones, Maysha Mohamedi, Nick Almquist "Something Something" curated by Carey Lin, Sarah Hotchkiss at Zughaus Gallery
Berkeley: 1306 3rd Street, floor 2, 7-10pm

+ Performance: Ellen Fullman with Fred Frith, Gino Robair, Jason "Tracings" curated by Sarah Cahill at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, 5-9pm, performance 7:30pm

Saturday, November 19

+ Performance: "1+1 = Jon Raskin + Phillip Greenlief in concert" at Electric Works SOMA: 130 8th Street, 8pm

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Liz Mamorsky "A 50-Year Retrospective" at Driftwood Salon
SOMA: 39 Isis St., 6-9pm

Blek Le Rat "60/30, New Work from Blek le Rat" at 941 Gallery
Tenderloin: 941 Geary Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

+ "In Brief: A Private Study" curated by Sabina Nieto of Mauve? at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 7-9pm

Benefit: Adrienne Pao, Ali Dadgar, Alicia Mccarthy, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Amanda Lopez, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Angelica Muro, Antonio Castro, Boyd Richard, Calixto Robles, Carlos Julio Gonzalez, Carlos Perez, City Lights Books, Cristina Velazquez, Crystal Gonzalez, Efren Alvarez, Einar, Elizabeth Gomez, Emael, Ester Hernandez, Favianna Rodriguez, Fiamma Montezomolo, Geraldine Lozano, Geri Montano, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jaime Cortez, Jamex De La Torre, Jason Jagel , Jeremiah Jenkins, Johanna Poethig, John Leaños, Josue Rojas, Juan R. Fuentes, Juana Alicia, Julio Cesar Morales, Lawrence Colacion, Liz Lerma, Lou Dematteis, Luis Pinedo, Marylene Camacho, Melanie Cervantes, Michele Muennig, Mitsy Avila Ovalles, Monica Canilao, Monica Marcela Sanchez, Monique Lopez, Neil Rivas, Paul Valadez, Paz de la Calzada, Raul Aguilar, Rene Yañez, Rhode Montijo, Rio Yanez, Roberto Gomez, Rudy Cuellar, Rupert Garcia, Samuel Rodriguez, Santos Shelton, Silvia Poloto, Stella Lai, Tim Keefe, Tirso Gonzalez, Tony Labat, Txutxo Perez, Victor Cartagena, Viva Paredes "Pachanga 2011" 10th Annual Art Auction & Benefit at Galeria de la Raza
Mission District: 2857 24th Street , $20-$50 sliding scale, 7-9pm

+ Amy Casey, Cynthia Ona Innis, Jane Fine, Justin Amrhein, Kara Maria, Leslie Murray, Lisa Congdon, Megan Whitmarsh "Seduction: the Second Annual Biennial" at Michael Rosenthal Gallery Mission District: 365 Valencia street, 6-9pm

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+ Performance: Erika Chong Shuch "Sitting In A Circle" at Intersection for the Arts
Mission District: 446 Valencia Street, $15-25, 8-9:30pm

Sunday, November 20

"Melissa Wyman: Backwards Beasts" part of "You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, 6pm

Monday, November 21

+ Artist Talk: Marc Horowitz "Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape" Center for New Media and the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Present at UC Berkeley (Main Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall)
Berkeley: Near Hearst Street, 3rd Floor , Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, Free, 7-9:30pm

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