{"id":275502,"date":"2026-04-19T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275502\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:05:13","slug":"sf-things-to-do-ballet-orchestra-film-screenings-and-more-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275502\/","title":{"rendered":"SF things to do: ballet, orchestra, film screenings and more | Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco\u2019s seven-day forecast calls for changing weather conditions, but good times will remain a constant on the calendar.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the top events to check out this week in The City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Major League\u2019 on VHS (Monday)<\/p>\n

The Balboa Theater in the Richmond district will host a special screening of David S. Ward\u2019s 1989 sports comedy film starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen and Corbin Bernsen. The film revolves around a baseball team whose owner looking to move it from Ohio to Florida by compiling a losing season record.<\/p>\n

An evening with Sir Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby (Monday)<\/p>\n

Journalist Emily Chang will visit the Sydney Goldstein Theater for a conversation with Nobel laureate Hassabis, who is the co-founder and CEO of\u00a0artificial-intelligence company\u00a0Google DeepMind, and writer Mallaby,\u00a0the author of several books, including \u201cThe Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Hadestown\u2019 opening night (Tuesday)<\/p>\n

This Tony-winning musical is heading back to the Orpheum Theatre for a one-week limited engagement. The musical tells the love story of the Greek mythological figures Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as those of Hades and his wife, Persephone.<\/p>\n

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The Tony-winning musical \u201cHadestown\u201d relates the love story of the Greek mythological figures Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as that of Hades and his wife, Persephone.<\/p>\n

Courtes Evan Zimmerman<\/p>\n

Well-Crafted (Tuesday)<\/p>\n

As part of this workshop hosted by Market Street Arts, participants will grab leather-working tools and make their own bag charms. The event will take place at Rise Over Run, the Timbri Hotel\u2019s rooftop bar, allowing guests to grab beverages and socialize with others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rebecca Thompson in conversation with Dafna Lohr (Tuesday)<\/p>\n

Physician and author Rebecca Thompson will visit Book Passage\u2019s Ferry Building location for a conversation with colleague Dafna Lohr about \u201cHeld Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love.\u201d Released last year, the book contains essays on the challenges and obstacles women face around motherhood.<\/p>\n

\u2018Conjuring Power\u2019 film screenings (Wednesday)<\/p>\n

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will show short films related to the current exhibition \u201cConjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements.\u201d Works will be presented by filmmakers TT Takemoto, Tina Valentin Aguirre, Augie Robles and Crystal Mason. A film produced by the Oakland Museum of California will also be screened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018No Place To Grow Old\u2019 (Wednesday)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Internet Archive is teaming up with the League of Women Voters to screen the 2024 documentary about homelessness among senior citizens in Portland, Ore. Following the presentation, the San Francisco Public Press will moderate a discussion with local advocates about the ways in which The City is working to address housing insecurity among older adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guests can RSVP online<\/a> for the event, which takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. The Internet Archive is located at 300 Funston Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Reprise\u2019 (Wednesday)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Golden, a multidisciplinary artist from Virginia, will present poetry and photography from \u201cReprise,\u201d a collection that touches on safety, home, self-liberation, antitrans violence, grief and survival in the United States. Following the performance, Golden will have a conversation with audience members about the pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The admission-free event takes place at the Main Library\u2019s Steve Silver Music Center on the fourth floor. It starts at 6 p.m. at 100 Larkin St.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Anatomy of a Ballet\u2019 (Wednesday)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Smuin Contemporary Ballet Artistic Director Amy Seiwert will chat with audience members about how productions start as thoughts inside choreographers\u2019\u00a0minds and turn into full-fledged onstage productions. Seiwert\u2019s talk will include live performance excerpts performed by the company.<\/p>\n

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Smuin Contemporary Ballet dancers will perform live excerpts Wednesday as part of artistic director Amy Seiwert\u2019s talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Courtesy Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture<\/p>\n

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Before the Oscar-winning film, the play was the thing.<\/p>\n

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The state senator, a former SF supervisor, said his proven ability to deliver in Sacramento qualifies him to represent The City in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

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A child under 12 months old contracted the disease after traveling internationally, the San Francisco Department of Public Health reported Wednesday<\/p>\n

Guests can RSVP online<\/a> for the event, which runs from 7 to 8 pm. at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The Continuing Story of Life on Earth: 25 Years of Hamburger Eyes\u2019 (Thursday)<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Public Library\u2019s newest exhibition in the Main Branch\u2019s Jewett Gallery will celebrate the first zine dedicated to black-and-white photography. The exhibition includes large-format photos from over 80 photographers, as well as every issue of \u201cHamburger Eyes.\u201d There will also be related zines, ephemera and books by other well-known photographers.<\/p>\n

The opening reception takes place at 5 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Kinks and Quirks\u2019 (Thursday)<\/p>\n

The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale will visit Herbst Theatre for a night in which musicians play famous compositions on period instruments from the era of Beethoven and his contemporaries. In addition to Beethoven, composers Bach and Mendelssohn will be highlighted in the program.<\/p>\n

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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will play period instruments as part of its upcoming performance, in which it will be joined by the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale.<\/p>\n

Courtesy Kristen Loken<\/p>\n

Gush Dance Festival (Thursday-Sunday)<\/p>\n

The Joe Goode Performance Group stages the fourth edition of a festival that brings together artistic collaborators who have worked with the group throughout its 40-year history. Works will be shown by company members Marit Brook-Kothlow, Melecio Estrella, Damara Vita Ganley, Mo Katzman, Wailana Simcock, Jessica Swanson and Patricia West. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Tickets are available online<\/a>\u00a0and range from $24 to $40. Shows take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday\u2019s performance is at 3 p.m. The venue is located at 401 Alabama St.<\/p>\n

\u2018Burden of Proof\u2019 (Friday-Sunday)<\/p>\n

Artist Alleluia \u201cManai\u201d Panis will present the world premiere of a dance piece inspired by two Filipina nurses who were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for the 1975 deaths of patients at a Veterans Administration Hospital in Michigan. The score will include text from the diary of Leonora Perez, one of the nurses, and her son Jason, who was the 2024 San Diego poet laureate.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available online<\/a> for $30.30. Performances on Friday and Saturday take place at 7 p.m., with Sunday\u2019s show starting at 3 p.m. The theater is located at 185 6th St.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rachmaninoff and Shchetynsky\u2019 (Friday-Saturday)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Choral Society will present Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff\u2019s \u201cAll Night Vigil\u201d and a world premiere of \u201cSigns of Grace\u201d by Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shchetynsky. Performances will be conducted by Robert Geary and take place at St. Ignatius Church on the University of San Francisco campus.<\/p>\n

Dutch King\u2019s Day (Saturday)<\/p>\n

The area around Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park will be filled with a flea market, a beer garden, food trucks, live music and a toy exchange as part of the annual event celebrating King Willem-Alexander\u2019s birthday. There will also be a bounce house for children and hands-on art projects and crafts.<\/p>\n

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King\u2019s Day, an annual celebration of Dutch King Willem-Alexander\u2019s birthday, will be observed Saturday in the area around Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n

Courtesy San Francisco Oranje Comite<\/p>\n

Pickin\u2019 on the Polk (Saturday)<\/p>\n

Polk Street from Broadway to Pacific Avenue will be filled with live music, local artists, food and drink vendors, and games as part of this family-friendly celebration. When the sun goes down, Polk Street from California to Clay streets will turn into an after-hours destination, complete with a night market, DJ sets and other offerings.<\/p>\n

Guests can RSVP online<\/a> for the admission-free festival, which runs from noon to 6 p.m. The night market will operate from 6 to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Golden Gate Park Band (Sunday)<\/p>\n

San Francisco\u2019s oldest musical organization will return to the Golden Gate Bandshell for another season of free weekly concerts in the park. For its first performance of the season, more than 30 musicians will peform \u201cThe Soul of the City Since 1882,\u201d an overture consisting of patriotic tunes, beloved classics and other tunes that showcase the band\u2019s prowess.<\/p>\n

The admission-free concert runs from 1 to 2:30 p.m. along Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive.<\/p>\n

\u2018Authors in Conversation\u2019 (Sunday)<\/p>\n

Author and activist Deborah Santana will visit the Museum of the African Diaspora to chat with novelist Natalie Baszile about Santana\u2019s memoir, \u201cLoving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom.\u201d The novel touches on her upbringing by parents Jo Frances and Saunders King, her marriage to musician Carlos Santana and her work with institutions such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.<\/p>\n

Guests can register online for the event, which will have copies of Santan\u2019s memoir available for sales and subsequent autographs. The event runs from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at 685 Mission St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s seven-day forecast calls for changing weather conditions, but good times will remain a constant on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[75675,2980,1912,12461,30526,12345,101,103,102,25373,104,106,105,93132],"class_list":{"0":"post-275502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-balboa-theatre","9":"tag-ferry-building","10":"tag-fort-mason","11":"tag-internet-archive","12":"tag-main-library","13":"tag-museum-of-the-african-diaspora","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","16":"tag-san-francisco-news","17":"tag-san-francisco-public-library","18":"tag-sf","19":"tag-sf-headlines","20":"tag-sf-news","21":"tag-yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}