by Juliana Birnbaum Fox
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in concert
Gustavo Dudamel en Concierto en The Candy Store on Oct. 28
The acclaimed young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, recently appointed music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, leads his Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra (SBYO) in concert Sunday, November 4 at 7 p.m. at Davies Symphony Hall as part of the San Francisco Symphony’s Great Performers series. The Orchestra is the crown jewel of Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras (El Sistema), a national musical and social organization that is changing the lives of young people by giving them musical training and the opportunity to play and perform orchestral music.
El Sistema now reaches 250,000 young people in music schools and has spawned 125 youth orchestras across Venezuela. Tickets are $25-$81, available through SFS Ticket Services at (415) 864-6000 or online via the SFS Web site at www.sfsymphony.org.
City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees open meetings
The Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Community College District will hold its regular monthly meetings on November 8 and 20. Its study session will be on Thursday, November 8 at 5pm, its action meeting on Tuesday, November 20 at 6pm, both in the Auditorium at the College’s 33 Gough Street facility. The public is invited to attend both meetings. For further information, visit the City College of San Francisco website at www.ccsf.edu.
International Latino Film Festival
The 11th International Latino Film Festival comes to the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts this weekend, November 3rd and 4th, featuring the best features, documentaries and shorts from Latin America, Spain, and U.S. Latinos. This weekend will feature Upa! An Argentine Film, and many more. $5 Admission includes panel conversations and discussions with filmmakers. See www.latinofilmfestival.org for details.
Free workshop on street art as resistance
Join local artists from around San Francisco and Oakland for this hands-on workshop on low cost and low skill methods for making street art. What can you do when rich people squeeze you out of your neighborhood seemingly with the full support of City Hall?
Reclaim public space! Artists will instruct in simple and cheap technique, while providing information on and images of the rich history of art as resistance from around the world and back to the Mission.
On Saturday, facilitators will go over the history as well as inexpensive methods for screenprinting. Sunday’s workshop will focus on the history and production of stenciling. These workshops are intended for long-time Mission residents and other folks fi ghting displacement.
On Saturday and Sunday, November 10 – 11. Workshops will be led in Spanish as well as English at the Modern Times Bookstore on Mission Street, for more information go to www.moderntimesbookstore.com.
