Latest Events in San Francisco(November Updated)

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From mid-November, Pier 39 was filled with a festive atmosphere, with twinkling lights and decorations everywhere, along with various opportunities for festive photos. A magnificent 60-foot-tall real Christmas tree stood in the entrance plaza. From December 5th to January 11th, this Christmas tree will "come alive," performing every half hour from 5 pm to 10 pm. Accompanied by festive music, the tree will transform into a colorful, constantly spinning kaleidoscope, decorated with thousands of special colored lights and ornaments.

Table Manners brings together tableware, flatware, and drinkware from the SFMOMA Architecture + Design collection spanning nearly 100 years. The exhibition celebrates the ways design has shaped our relationship to food, our bodies, and communities, and how dining can be a profound communal and cultural experience. From self-filling wine glasses and teapots made of tea, to crisp modernist spoons and flatware made from discarded CDs, Table Manners explores the performance of dining. The exhibition includes works by Virgil Abloh, Joe Colombo, Zaha Hadid, Roberto Lugo, and many more, accompanied by illustrations and textiles by Lucy Stark.

San Francisco's light festival reaches its peak during the holiday season, when Illuminate SF™ blankets the city in epic outdoor light installations. From the day after Thanksgiving through the end of January, dozens of site-specific artworks by renowned artists from around the world will be displayed across San Francisco's neighborhoods. Some are permanent installations that have become recognizable landmarks of the city. Others are ephemeral, one-off creations that astound visitors with their complexity. Best of all, most of the artworks are free to view. ILLUMINATE SF™ celebrates San Francisco's growing light art scene and its culture of creativity and innovation. Presented by the San Francisco Tourism Association in partnership with local civic and cultural partners, the program showcases San Francisco's public light art installations, many of which are free and accessible via public transportation.

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KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and limited-edition collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations. At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.

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Filled with a revolutionary spirit, Vikrant Bhise’s Archival Historicity series offers a dynamic visual archive of the Dalit Panthers, a group dedicated to seeking freedom from caste, gender, and labor inequities for India’s most oppressed and marginalized peoples. Founded in 1972 in Mumbai and taking inspiration from the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the Dalit Panthers sought to align themselves with their Bay Area counterparts in a global struggle for equality and social change. Bhise’s intimate, postcard-sized works are made up of many layers: painted and printed elements from manifestos and pamphlets interact and overlap with newspaper images, urban monuments, and symbolic cartoons. Installed in a continuous sequence spanning a gallery wall, these selections from the ongoing series “evoke the small, localized experiences that add up to global movements, while underscoring the enduring significance of the Panthers’ call for equality,” says Padma Dorje Maitland, Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent. This exhibition marks their first showing in a major museum.

Chandigarh-based artist Gurjeet Singh’s first show at an American institution offers a moving consideration of the emotional impact of words. Teary Eyes is a soft sculpture stitched together from pieces of dress fabric. Despite a playful, colorful surface, the work conveys a deep vulnerability; this feeling grows deeper as we witness a violent exchange of words in the painting Prickly Words. Portraits of Singh with the figure further personalize the exhibition. “These works explore what it means to be seen, to express yourself, and the power of language to build us up and tear us down,” says exhibition curator Padma Dorje Maitland, Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent. “Even if we accept ourselves and feel confident, the wrong word at the wrong time can deeply impact us. Whether Sikh, South Asian, Queer, soft, or hard, Singh’s work addresses the complex challenges of fashioning how we appear in the world.”

The Golden State Warriors, established in 1946 and based in San Francisco, California, USA, play their home games at Chase Center. The Warriors have won the NBA Championship seven times, including four titles between 2015 and 2022. Current key players include Stephen Curry and Draymond Green. The Oklahoma City Thunder, established in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics and based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, play their home games at Paycom Center. The Thunder have won the NBA Championship once (1979 as the SuperSonics). Current key players include Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.