An evening with the Catalyst Quartet and Nikola Printz (Tuesday)<\/p>\n
The Grammy-winning musical quartet will by be joined by singer Nikola Printz and pianist Terrence Wilson for a performance at Herbst Theatre. Their program will highlight composers Edward Elgar, Antonin Dvorak, Libby Larsen and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.<\/p>\n
\u2018Meow Meow\u2019 (Wednesday)<\/p>\n
Australian-born performer Melissa Madden Gray is bringing her cabaret act to the Presidio Theatre. Audiences will be treated to a show that combines theater and original music with audience interaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Melissa Madden Gray\u2019s cabaret act \u201cMeow Meow\u201d combines theater and original music with audience interaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Courtesy Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center<\/p>\n
Bay\u2019s Stage Arts Soiree (Wednesday)<\/p>\n
Bay Area arts organizations are taking over Local Edition for an evening that will celebrate local talents with live performances. The second annual event will bring jazz, opera, ballet, and live theatre, among other acts, to the Financial District bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tickets are available online<\/a>\u00a0from $80 to $125. The event starts at 5 p.m. with a reception featuring food and drinks from Michael Mina\u2019s Bourbon Steak and Stephen Curry\u2019s The Eighth Rule, with performances beginning an hour later.<\/p>\n Cubacaribe Festival of Dance and Music opening night (Wednesday)\u00a0<\/p>\n The City\u2019s 20th annual celebration of Caribbean and Afro-Cuban arts will kick off with a multimedia presentation by Grammy-nominated artist and historian John Santos. Across two hours, Santos will explore the musical traditions that have shaped Cuba and Puerto Rico during times of colonization, slavery and other turbulent parts of the countries\u2019 histories.\u00a0<\/p>\n Grammy-nominated artist and historian John Santos will appear this week at the Museum of the African Diaspora.<\/p>\n Courtesy RAWdance<\/p>\n \u2018Hello World\u2019: A concert by Beret Roots (Thursday)<\/p>\n The San Francisco singer-songwriter and producer will swing by Chinatown\u2019s Clarion Performing Arts Center to perform original alternative-pop and pop-rock songs. Song selections will come from \u201c20\/20,\u201d her forthcoming debut album.\u00a0<\/p>\n Guests can RSVP online<\/a> for the admission-free event, which runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The show will take place at 2 Waverly Place.<\/p>\n \u2018Return to Oz\u2019 40th anniversary screening (Thursday)\u00a0<\/p>\n Curator Jesse Hawthorne Ficks will celebrate the 1985 Walt Disney film\u2019s 40th anniversary with a 35-millimeter film screening at Castro Theater. Academy-winning writer and director Walter Murch will chat about the film and his career as part of a post-screening conversation hosted by Ficks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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More than a month after the Oakland-based payment-processing company announced it was cutting 4,000 workers, details on how many are local still aren\u2019t public<\/p>\n \u2018Women Laughing\u2019\u00a0screening, Q&A, and reception (Thursday)<\/p>\n The Cartoon Art Museum will host a screening of the documentary film made by Liza Donnelly and Kathleen Hughes about The New Yorker magazine\u2019s female cartoonists. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Donnelly featuring colleagues Polly Lou Adams, Kate Isenberg and Amy Kurzweil.<\/p>\n Labadie Conducts Bach\u2019s \u2018Easter\u00a0Oratorio\u2019 (Thursday-Sunday)<\/p>\n Canadian maestro Bernard Labadie will come to Davies Symphony Hall to conduct the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s first-ever performances of a composition\u00a0organizers said was written to celebrate Jesus Christ\u2019s resurrection. Performers will also play Bach\u2019s \u201cMagnificat\u201d in D major and \u201cSinfonia to Wir danken dir, Gott.\u201d<\/p>\n Movies at Mechanics\u2019 Presents (Friday)<\/p>\n This installment in a film series hosted by the Mechanics\u2019 Institute library will screen the 1961 version of \u201cWest Side Story\u201d directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Writer and author Lara Gabrielle will host a post-screening discussion of the film, which stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer.<\/p>\n Tickets are available online for $12.51. The event, which runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m., will be held at 57 Post St.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Concept Series: 34 (Friday-Saturday)\u00a0<\/p>\n Market Street\u2019s RAWdance company will invite five Bay Area choreographers to an event showcasing works in progress and pieces that have been scaled down for intimate viewing settings. The choreographers taking part in this edition are A(laj)a Badalich, the Pearl Street Dance Collective, Monique Jenkinson, Natalya Janay Shoaf and the Straw Dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hosted by RAWdance, the Concept Series invites Bay Area choreographers to showcase works in progress and pieces that have been scaled down for intimate viewing settings.<\/p>\n Courtesy Amal Bisharat<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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