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Talks, Lectures & Courses in the Bay Area
Talks, lectures, tours and short courses in San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, the South Bay and the North Bay, each checked against the venue’s own listing.
32 talks and courses in the Bay Area
SUN, OCT 25The Forum with Arlie Russell Hochschild: Stolen Pride
Grace Cathedral · SF Downtown & Waterfront · 1 h
One-time
Free · registration recommended
SUN, OCT 25Special Guest Gallery Chat with Traditional Medicine Practitioner Batul True Heart
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland & East Bay · 1 h
One-time
$10 Festival access
SUN, OCT 25Final Reading for Dispatches from the City of Awe
San Francisco Main Library · SF Downtown & Waterfront · 2 h
One-time
Drop-in · no price listed
WED, OCT 28Voice from the Fire: A Community Reading
San Francisco Center for the Book · SF Mission & South · 2 h
One-time
RSVP required · no price listed
THU, OCT 29Works on Paper Book Club: Eat the Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza
SFMOMA · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
Free with RSVP
THU, OCT 29An Evening with Doug Aitken
SFMOMA · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
Free (RSVP) · $10 general · $20 / $30 support tiers
SUN, NOV 1The Forum with Anna Lembke: Dopamine Nation
Grace Cathedral · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
No price listed · registration recommended
SUN, NOV 1SACHI Annual Event: Calm and Chaos of Vishnu's Cosmic Ocean
Asian Art Museum · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
Free (Free First Sunday)
1ST SUNDAY · 1 PMOMCA Architecture Walk and Talk
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland & East Bay
Recurring
Free · no reservations required
THU, NOV 5Curator's Tour: Anthony Graham on Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) · Oakland & East Bay
One-time
Price not printed on listing
THU, NOV 5Caribbean Cocktails: Migration, Memory, and Making Across the Diaspora
Museum of the African Diaspora · SF Downtown & Waterfront · 2 h
One-time
Free
THU, NOV 5CHM Live: Data Are Made, Not Found with danah boyd
Computer History Museum · South Bay
One-time
Price not published on listing
SAT, NOV 7Numina Artists Talk
Art Works Downtown · Marin & North Bay · 1 h
One-time
See listing
SAT, NOV 7Special Guest Gallery Chat: Exploring BeHere / 1942 with Margaret Yee
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland & East Bay · 1 h
One-time
Admission ticket required (price not printed on listing)
SUN, NOV 8The Forum with Rosanna Xia: California Against the Sea
Grace Cathedral · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
No price listed · registration recommended
SUN, NOV 8Artist Talk: William Kentridge
SFMOMA · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
$15 general · $10 members
THU, NOV 12Curatorial Guidance in the Art Market Workshop
Sebastopol Center for the Arts · Marin & North Bay · 2 h
One-time
$0.00 · free and open to the public, donations accepted
THU, NOV 12CHM Live: SRI at 80
Computer History Museum · South Bay
One-time
Registration required · price not published
SAT, NOV 14Artists' Conversation: Emory Douglas and William Rhodes
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) · Oakland & East Bay
One-time
Tickets required · includes gallery admission
SAT, NOV 14A Closer Look: The Mysteries of a 17th-Century Carved Limewood Panel
Legion of Honor · SF West Side
One-time
Free program · first come, first served
SAT, NOV 14Artist Talk: Bamboo Art Prizewinner Ōki Toshie
Asian Art Museum · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
Free with admission
SUN, NOV 15The Forum with Frish Brandt: Unfinished Business
Grace Cathedral · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
No price listed · registration recommended
SUN, NOV 15Real Artists Wear Black with the Jealous Curator
SFMOMA · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
Free · RSVP encouraged
SUN, NOV 15Spotlight Sundays: Japanese American Legacies of Resistance
Oakland Museum of California · Oakland & East Bay · 2.5 h
One-time
$10 All-Inclusive Ticket
SUN, NOV 15Finding Home: An Intimate Fireside Chat with Denise Nicholas
Museum of the African Diaspora · SF Downtown & Waterfront · 2 h
One-time
Free with museum admission · registration
SUN, NOV 15Art in the Age of AI: A Conversation Between Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
SFMOMA · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
$0 free RSVP · $10 general · $20 / $30 support tiers
SUN, NOV 15Communal Land Care with TERREMOTO and Test Plot
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) · Oakland & East Bay
One-time
Price not printed on listing
WED, NOV 18Progressive Art Studio Models: A Lecture by Cléa Massiani
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
No price listed
THU, NOV 19Works on Paper Book Club: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
SFMOMA · SF Downtown & Waterfront
One-time
Free with RSVP
SAT, NOV 21A Conversation on Azzedine Alaïa
Legion of Honor · SF West Side
One-time
Free program · tickets handed out from 9:30 am
SAT, NOV 21Panel on Hassinger's Moving Image Work
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) · Oakland & East Bay · 1.5 h
One-time
Price not printed on listing
TUE, NOV 24Develop Collector Relationships Discussion Panel
Sebastopol Center for the Arts · Marin & North Bay · 2 h
One-time
$0.00 · free and open to the public, donations accepted