Holiday style art festivities continue, but galleries, now back from Miami (as well as those that never left) are hosting openings for their December shows. Here is the rundown of noteworthy openings (in an easy-to-absorb format for our overworked brains):
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Thursday:  Fecal Face Dot Com Gallery, Ever Gold, and Kala Art Institute.

Friday:  Silverman Gallery, Adobe Backroom Gallery, ATA, Soap Gallery and CCA's Oakland Campus hosts a great kinetic art festival called Interface.

Saturday:  Hosfelt Gallery and Marx & Zavattero.

Meanwhile, the New York and San Francisco Artcards Editors are meeting in LA, plotting improvements and better ways to bring you to art.

Tuesday:
+ Screening: "Artists' Films Series: Omer Fast, Harun Farocki, Brian Conley, and Bessma Khalaf" at California College for the Arts (CCA)

Thursday:
+ Performance: "Sound Culture with Mills College: Ugnayan and Radio Diffusion Sound Art" at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Friday:
+ Toban Nichols "Opprobrium" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
+ Screening: "ATA 25th Anniversary Celebration Weekend" at A.T.A.
+ "Matchbox Show" at Soap Gallery
+ Art Fair: "Interface Exhibition" Interactive, kinetic, robotic, generative, and computer-based artworks at California College for the Arts (CCA)
+ John Colle Rogers "QUIRK" at Cricket Engine Project Space

Saturday:
+ Arngunnur Yr, Nelleke Beltjens at Hosfelt Gallery
+ Book launch: Brion Nuda Rosch at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
+ Taravat Talepasand "Situation Critical" at Marx & Zavattero

Sunday:
+ Performance: "ATA 25th Anniversary Celebration Weekend" at A.T.A.

Tuesday, December 8

Dan Max , Jeffrey Grobart, Nancy Klein Green "New Work" at 871 Fine Arts
SOMA: 20 Hawthorne Street, Lower level, 5:30-7:30pm

Mikal Hameed "Urban Audio Manifesto #2" at Medicine Agency
Downtown: 1262 Mason Street, 8pm

+ Screening: "Artists' Films Series: Omer Fast, Harun Farocki, Brian Conley, and Bessma Khalaf" at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Potrero Hill: 1111 Eighth Street , 7:30-9:30pm

Alex Benedict , Case Conover, Freddy Chandra, Jeffrey Hantman "On View: New Work from Kala" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 5-7pm

Wednesday, December 9

? Holly Boruck, Jacob Tillman "FA LA LA (ma non troppo)" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Mission District: 2747 19th Street, at York St., floor 1, A, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Book Signing: "Book Tour and Signing: Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan" at GRSF (Giant Robot)
Haight Ashbury: 618 Shrader Street , 6-8pm

Thursday, December 10

+ Performance: "Sound Culture with Mills College: Ugnayan and Radio Diffusion Sound Art" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $0-5, 7-9pm

"Rome - San Francisco" From the Colosseum to the Golden Gate Bridge at Italian Cultural Institute
North Beach: 425 Washington Street, floor 2, 6:30pm

"Swipple and Gold" at Ever Gold
Downtown: 441 O'Farrell Street, 6-9pm

"Side 2 Side" at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
Civic Center: 66 Gough Street, at Market Street, 6-9pm

Herbert Baglione "A collection of new works" at FIFTY24SF Gallery
Hayes Valley: 248 Fillmore Street, 7:30-9pm

Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison "Green House Britain" at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley: 2990 San Pablo Avenue, 6-8pm

Friday, December 11

"AFFORDABLE ART SHOW" at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery
SOMA: 63 Bluxome Street , 7-11pm

"Invisible Homes" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, 6-9pm

"AESTHETIC ANARCHY" at Fivepoints Arthouse
SOMA: 72 Tehama Street, at 2nd Street, 7-11pm

Closing reception: Perry Hallinan in collaboration with Ledoh "Suicide Barrier" secure in our illusion at Luggage Store Gallery (Luggage Store Annex)
Downtown: 509 Ellis Street, 6-9pm

Anthony Malzone "The Art of Prince" at San Francisco Art Exchange
Downtown: 458 Geary Street, 5-8pm

"A Holiday Celebration of Form and Color" at Art Space 712
Downtown: 712 Sansome Street , floor 2, 6-9pm

"Paper Pushers" at Gallery 1988
Downtown: 1173 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

Conrad Ruiz "Cold, Hard and Wet" at Silverman Gallery
Downtown: 804 Sutter Street, 7-10pm

+ Toban Nichols "Opprobrium" at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Mission District: 3166 16th Street, 7-9pm

+ Screening: "ATA 25th Anniversary Celebration Weekend" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, Free, 7:30pm

+ "Matchbox Show" at Soap Gallery
Bernal Heights: 3180 Mission Street, 6-9pm

"SHOP/SHOW" at Swarm Gallery
Oakland: 560 2nd Street, 6-9pm

+ Art Fair: "Interface Exhibition" Interactive, kinetic, robotic, generative, and computer-based artworks at California College for the Arts (CCA)
Oakland: 5212 Broadway Avenue, at College Avenue, 7-10pm

+ John Colle Rogers "QUIRK" at Cricket Engine Project Space
Oakland: 499 Embarcadero Avenue, Building #3, 6-10pm

"Made with the Power of the Sun" at Fitness Center for the Arts
Oakland: 2515 Magnolia Street, 4-9pm

Kurtis Rykovich "Delicate" at Eclectix Gallery
El Cerrito: 10082 San Pablo Avenue, 7-10pm

Saturday, December 12

Screening: Catherine Galasso "Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $18, $16.50 for seniors, 8pm

+ Arngunnur Yr, Nelleke Beltjens at Hosfelt Gallery
SOMA: 430 Clementina street, b/w Howard & Folsom, 4-6pm

+ Book launch: Brion Nuda Rosch at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
SOMA: 172 Minna Street, 1-4pm

Screening: "Super 8 Hanukkah Festival" at Contemporary Jewish Museum
SOMA: 736 Mission Street, Third Street, $10-15, 7-10pm

+ Taravat Talepasand "Situation Critical" at Marx & Zavattero
Downtown: 77 Geary Street, floor 2, 5-7pm

Tour: Emily Dippo "Water Walk" Join us for a walk beginning at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, heading north and concluding at Aquatic Park, using handmade viewfinders. at SF Arts Commission Gallery
Civic Center: 401 Van Ness Avenue , at McAllister Street, 11:30am

Travis Louie "Lifetime Companions" at Shooting Gallery
Tenderloin: 839 Larkin Street, 7-10pm

Fanee "Sweatin' to tha Oldies" at Shooting Gallery (Gallery Three)
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, floor 2, Gallery 3, 7-10pm

"Winter Group Show" at White Walls
Tenderloin: 835 Larkin Street, 7-10pm

Art Fair: "ONE NIGHT ONLY" The Under 100 'H' Sale at Root Division
Mission District: 3175 17th Street, South Van Ness, 7-10pm

Art Fair: Ajay Reed, Amy Mosley, Bruk Dunbar, Chris Treggiari, Chris Vogel, Hilary Williams, Lori Lockhart, Luke Judd, Michael Steffen, Roman Muradov, Tina Dillman, Will Barclift "Stocking Stuffers" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, Free, 11am-4pm

Open Studio: "Mills College Fall Open Studios" at Mills College Art Museum
Oakland: 5000 Macarthur Boulvard, Graduate Art Studios, 12-5pm

Performance: "Oliver DiCicco’s Mobius Operandi" at Johansson Projects
Oakland: 2300 Telegraph Avenue, at 23rd Street, FREE, 6pm

Sunday, December 13

Screening: Catherine Galasso "Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice" at SOMArts Cultural Center
SOMA: 934 Brannan Street, $18, $16.50 for seniors, 8pm

+ Performance: "ATA 25th Anniversary Celebration Weekend" at A.T.A.
Mission District: 992 Valencia Street, Free, 11am-2pm

Screening: Brigid McCaffrey, Erika Anderson, K.C. Bull, Luke Judd, Molly Snyder-Fink "Silver Screen: Take 1" at WE artspace
Oakland: 768 40th Street, $2 donation, 6-8pm

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