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    Visual Arts Art - Galleries

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    Nigger/Queer/Cunt (N/Q/C): An Exhibition About Difficult Words

    The owners of the slave called Gordon whipped him so badly that his back was crisscrossed with welts that resembled molten lava. The 1863 photo of Gordon, with his back arched to the camera, is one of the most harrowing of the Civil War. San Francisco artist Rodney Ewing incorporates that image into his work in "Nigger/Queer/Cunt (N/Q/C)," an art exhibit at ASC Projects that delves into three words with complex histories. In decades and centuries past, the words were used to demean and demonize people, but new generations have reappropriated them. In "Nigger/Queer/Cunt (N/Q/C)," Ewing is joined by other artists, including painter Geri Montano and performance artist Anthony Julius Williams, who have something new to say about still-incendiary language. Williams performs tonight in a reception that will turn the small gallery into a large forum for an exploration of words' ongoing evolution. "Nigger/Queer/Cunt (N/Q/C)" runs through Nov. 21 with an artists' reception at 7-9 p.m. at ASC Projects, 3150 18th St., S.F. More
    Oct. 28
    ASC Projects
    Jonathan Curiel
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    Calendar Dance - Performances

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    Muisi-kongo Malonga: Kimpa Vita!

    The world has never been kind to women who spoke too loudly or claimed to have visions, leading them more often to the stake than to the pulpit. Mama Kimpa Vita, a 17th-century noblewoman in the Kongo Empire, was executed by fire at age 22 for claiming she was inhabited by the spirit of St. Anthony of Padua and that Jesus Christ and his followers were originally from Kongo. Antonianism, the religious movement she founded, continued after her death and became a form of Congolese spiritual resistance. Muisi-kongo Malonga, director of the Bay Area performing arts troupe Fua Dia Congo, brings Vita's story to life in Kimpa Vita! A Solo ChoreOpera, a one-woman show that sets dance, movement, poetry, and theater to a combination of African-American spirituals and traditional Congolese songs and percussion. The show is part of CounterPULSE's Performing Diaspora series. More
    Nov. 7
    CounterPULSE
    Irene Hsiao
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    Visual Arts Film Events & Repertory

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    The French Had a Name for It: French Film Noir 1946-1964

    When we say "film noir," we think of American movies. What we don't remember is that the French didn't just coin the term, they also ran with it. Unseen in America for decades, a dozen French films at the Roxie this weekend should recalibrate our understanding. A joint venture between longtime Roxie programmer Elliot Lavine, a noir aficionado, and Midcentury Productions' Executive Director Don Malcolm, The French Had a Name for It unearths midcentury noir gems. The series shrewdly opens with a pair of early works by pitiless thrill-master and eventual Hitchcock peer Henri-Georges Clouzot, starting with Manon, his modern update of an infamous 18th-century novel about a nobleman who runs away from his high-bred family with a lower-class, luxury-loving young woman. The next film in the queue is Clouzot's La Verité, a perfect introduction to Brigitte Bardot. As Malcolm adds, "The French bring a fully adult dimension to their conception of the femme fatale." We need to see this. More
    Nov. 14
    Roxie Theater
    Jonathan Kiefer
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    Food Food & Drink

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    Off the Grid

    More than 32 food trucks will pull up to Fort Mason for Friday night’s Off the Grid Food Truck Party. Off the Grid is sort of like a food court for nomads, gatherings of extreme culinary variety, with live music and full bars. If you get there early enough, you’ll be able to snack on treats from the Koja Kitchen, the Fat Face truck, Curry Up Now, and many more. There is also a Prix Fixe option, which costs $40 per person and must be reserved beforehand. The event is BYOB, meaning Bring Your Own Blanket More
    Jul. 19
    Fort Mason
    Emilie Mutert
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