Full week is putting it lightly. There are many exciting choices this week and my picks are as follows: Aesthletics at the Lab; curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev talks at CCA; Jacqueline Gordon at Queen's Nails; all the SF Arts Commission's events (Bayview Opera House Fall Open Studios, Passport 2009, and Art in Storefronts); and finally ATA Film & Video Festival 2009 which is presenting hot line-ups this Thursday and Friday (among the artists are Martha Colburn with her unforgettable Myth Labs).

Oh, most importantly, you can catch great video artist Omar Fast talking about his new MATRIX piece at The Berkley Art Museum.

Good luck!

Tuesday:
+ "Aesthletics" Improvisational sports residency at The Lab at The Lab
+ Artist Talk: Donna Haraway Graduate Studies Lecture Series at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Wednesday:
+ Lecture: "Global Art in the Downturn" Panel discussion: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Jens Hoffmann, Hou Hanru, and Dominic Willsdon at San Francisco Art Institute
+ Artist Talk: Michael Cooper "Discussions from the Lodi Madman"" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
+ Lecture: "AIR talk with Nick Hurd and Harold Lohner" at Kala Art Institute

Thursday:
+ Artist Talk: Candice Breitz, Ken Goldberg "More About Pictures, or Appropriation Now" SFMOMA Panel curated by Anne Wagner, Rudolf Frieling at SF MOMA
+ "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev" Graduate Studies Lecture Series at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Friday:
+ Christina McPhee "Tesserae of Venus" at Silverman Gallery
+ "Art in Storefronts" Central Market and Tenderloin Launch Celebration at SF Arts Commission Gallery (Art in Storefronts: Central Market and Tenderloin)
+ Jacqueline Gordon "Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine" at Queens Nails Projects
+ Screening: "Stories We Tell Ourselves" at A.T.A.
+ Claire Alexander, Eric Larson, JoeSam., Larry Fowler, Malik Seneferu, Ron Saunders, Shanju, Sharif Jenkins, William Rhodes "Fall Open Studios" at Bayview Opera House

Saturday:
+ Andrea Higgins, Gerhard Mayer, Ruth Marten at Hosfelt Gallery
+ Tour: "Passport 2009! Mission District Stroll and Kick Off Party" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
+ Open Studio: Claire Alexander, Eric Larson, JoeSam., Larry Fowler, Malik Seneferu, Ron Saunders, Shanju, Sharif Jenkins, William Rhodes "Fall Open Studios" at Bayview Opera House
+ Christopher Romer "3AM: Under The Full Moon" at The Compound Gallery

Sunday:
+ Open Studio: Claire Alexander, Eric Larson, JoeSam., Larry Fowler, Malik Seneferu, Ron Saunders, Shanju, Sharif Jenkins, William Rhodes "Fall Open Studios" at Bayview Opera House
+ Artist Talk: Omar Fast "Nostalgia" MATRIX 230 at Berkeley Art Museum
+ Omar Fast "Nostalgia" MATRIX 230 at Berkeley Art Museum

Tuesday, October 20

Screening: "NIGHT TIDE" Portola Festival at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, $5, 6:30pm

+ "Aesthletics" Improvisational sports residency at The Lab at The Lab
Mission District: 2948 16th Street, See Link for more events!, 2pm

+ Artist Talk: Donna Haraway Graduate Studies Lecture Series at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

"Serenity Fall 09" at UCSF Center of Excellence In Women's Health
Western Addition: 2356 Sutter Street, Floors 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5-7:30pm

Wednesday, October 21

+ Lecture: "Global Art in the Downturn" Panel discussion: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Jens Hoffmann, Hou Hanru, and Dominic Willsdon at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, Lecture Hall, 7:30pm

+ Artist Talk: Michael Cooper "Discussions from the Lodi Madman"" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

+ Lecture: "AIR talk with Nick Hurd and Harold Lohner" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 7-9pm

Thursday, October 22

Screening: "Film Screening" kino21 presents Jenni Olson's 575 Castro Street, Nathaniel Dorsky's 17 Reasons Why, & Roger Jacoby's How to be Homosexual. at SF Camerawork
SOMA: 657 Mission Street, floor 2, Free, 7pm

+ Artist Talk: Candice Breitz, Ken Goldberg "More About Pictures, or Appropriation Now" SFMOMA Panel curated by Anne Wagner, Rudolf Frieling at SF MOMA
SOMA: 151 Third Street, Mission Street, Phyllis Wattis Theater, FREE w/ Museum Admission, Panel 7pm (Preceded by Artist talk at 6:30pm)

"Retablo: Behind The Altar" A Collection Of Paul LeBaron Thiebaud at Colonial Arts
North Beach: 1028 Kearny Street, 6-9pm

Katya Bonnenfant, Kota Ezawa at Haines Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Jud Bergeron "Quietly I Will Wait" at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Downtown: 1 Sutter Street, floor 3, 6-8:30pm

Reading: "How One Man Fell to Pieces: A Night of Live Literature and Music" at Space Gallery
Civic Center: 1141 Polk Street, $5 suggested donation, 7pm

Screening: "Adventure, Poseidon, The (the unsinking of my ship) by Anne McGuire" Presented as a part of NIGHT TIDE, The Portola Festival at Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission District: 395 Valencia Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Screening: "Specters & Machines" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $7-10, 7:30pm

Petrina Cooper "Transparencies" at Blush! Wine Bar
Castro: 476 Castro Street, 7-Midnight

"Familial Ghosts" Artistic representations of old family stories at lowerdeck
Potrero Hill: 2295 3rd Street, at 20th Street, 4-7pm

+ "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev" Graduate Studies Lecture Series at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , Timken Lecture Hall, Free, 7pm

Friday, October 23

"Dark Nouveau Rock Art Poster Show" at Varnish Fine Art
Downtown: 77 Natoma Street, at First Street, 7-11pm

+ Christina McPhee "Tesserae of Venus" at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

Lecture: Silvia Kolbowski "After Hiroshima Mon Amour" Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action Lecture at San Francisco Art Institute
Russian Hill: 800 Chesnut Street, 5pm

+ "Art in Storefronts" Central Market and Tenderloin Launch Celebration at SF Arts Commission Gallery (Art in Storefronts: Central Market and Tenderloin)
Tenderloin: 989 Market Street, Near 6th, 5-7pm

+ Jacqueline Gordon "Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine" at Queens Nails Projects
Mission District: 3191 Mission Street, 8-10pm

+ Screening: "Stories We Tell Ourselves" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, $7-10, 7:30pm

Jason Kalogiros, Maggie Preston "Duplicate Location" at The Spare Room Project
Bernal Heights: 270 Anderson Street, 7-10pm

+ Claire Alexander, Eric Larson, JoeSam., Larry Fowler, Malik Seneferu, Ron Saunders, Shanju, Sharif Jenkins, William Rhodes "Fall Open Studios" at Bayview Opera House
Hunters Point: 4705 Third Street, 6:30-9pm

Saturday, October 24

Open Studio: Carlos Arrieta, Kira Sugarman-Shemano, Mia Nakano "RayKo Open Studio" at RayKo Photo Center (Liberty Park)
SOMA: 400 3rd Street, at Harrison Street, Check Gallery for times

+ Andrea Higgins, Gerhard Mayer, Ruth Marten at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

Performance: "Monster Dance Performance" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $20-25, 8pm-9:30pm

Closing reception: "In Bloom" Biennial Show at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 2-11pm

Tour: "Yerba Buena Fall Gallery Walk" at Yerba Buena Gallery Alliance
SOMA: Various Locations, 12-5pm

Michael Arcega "The Collapse" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7:30pm

Jacqueline Walters "It's All About the Journey" at Corden Potts Gallery
Downtown: 49 Geary Street, floor 2, 2-5pm

+ Tour: "Passport 2009! Mission District Stroll and Kick Off Party" at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, Mission Playground, Valencia between 19th & 20th, Noon-4pm

Robert Minervini "A Means to an End" at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery
Mission District: 1295 Alabama Street, at 25th Street, 7-10pm

+ Open Studio: Claire Alexander, Eric Larson, JoeSam., Larry Fowler, Malik Seneferu, Ron Saunders, Shanju, Sharif Jenkins, William Rhodes "Fall Open Studios" at Bayview Opera House
Hunters Point: 4705 Third Street, 11am-6pm

+ Christopher Romer "3AM: Under The Full Moon" at The Compound Gallery
Oakland: 1167 65th Street, floor 1, 6-9pm

Daniel Healey, Michael Hall "This is Not My Beautiful Life" at Blankspace
Oakland: 6608 San Pablo Avenue, 6-9pm

Sunday, October 25

Performance: "Monster Dance Performance" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $20-25, 8pm-9:30pm

Workshop: "The Art and Mystical Meaning of the Letter: Hebrew Calligraphy" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $30 general/$25 members. Includes materials and museum admission prior to class., 3-5pm

+ Open Studio: Claire Alexander, Eric Larson, JoeSam., Larry Fowler, Malik Seneferu, Ron Saunders, Shanju, Sharif Jenkins, William Rhodes "Fall Open Studios" at Bayview Opera House
Hunters Point: 4705 Third Street, 11am-6pm

+ Artist Talk: Omar Fast "Nostalgia" MATRIX 230 at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 3pm

+ Omar Fast "Nostalgia" MATRIX 230 at Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley: 2626 Bancroft Way, at College Avenue, FREE w/ Museum Admission, 3-4pm

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