Fauxnique and Friends
Nicole Schach
Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Orkestar Sali, Fauxnique and Friends, and Belle de jour
Lectures and Symposia | Artist Studio | For Children and Families | Friday Nights at the de Young | Music at the de Young
5:00 PM - 8:45 PM
February 6, 2009
Koret Auditorium, Wilsey Court, Piazzoni Murals Room and Kimball Education Gallery
On Friday nights the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art-making activities for everyone.
Please note that all programs are subject to change.
Wilsey Court
6:30–8:30 p.m.
A Night of Gypsy Music: Orkestar Sali, featuring Rumen “Sali” Shopov (tambura, bouzouki, dumbek, tupan, drum set). Rumen "Sali" Shopov hails from the Turkish Romani (Gypsy) mahala (neighborhood) of Gotse Delchev, a crossroads town in Southwest Bulgaria's Pirin mountain range. He began his musical career at the age of ten and later toured Europe, the Near East, and Canada for more than 20 years as an ambassador of Bulgarian culture with the Nevrokopski Ensemble. Rumen also led several of the Pirin region's hottest bands, Biljana, Shturo Make, and Orkestar Orbita. Now residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is the leader of Orkestar Sali, a band that captures and showcases the musical tradition of Rumen's native Turkish-Romani/Bulgarian region. He also performs regularly as a percussionist with Anoush and Edessa, and as an accompanist to the vocal ensemble Kitka.
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art-making fun for everyone led by “art diva” Kim Erickson: Create your own dramatic YSL-inspired headdress.
Piazzoni Murals Room
7:15–7:45 p.m.
Parlor Game
Charades, musical chairs and the “Proust Questionnaire”—the dances and scenes of festive social gatherings inspire Parlor Game. A few of San Francisco's most talented and chicest performers join performer/choreographer Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) for an amusing peep at the kind of world—at once elegant, rarefied, sensual, and light—rendered by Yves Saint Laurent.
Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Film Screening: Belle de jour (1967, 102 min., rated R). Directed by Luis Buñuel, with Catherine Deneuve and Jean Sorel. Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage. Severine works at her obsessive profession only afternoons from two to five, the mystery of her matinée schedule causing her to be christened Belle de Jour.
Fee Information
Programs are free except where indicated. Museum admission is always free to members; regular admission fees apply for non-members to visit the galleries: A $10 surcharge applies for non-members to visit the special exhibition Yves Saint Laurent.
Partner, Donor, Sponsor Credits
Friday Nights at the de Young is supported by the Koret Foundation. Friday Nights at the de Young is part of the Fine Arts Museums’ Cultural Encounters initiative, generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Columbia Foundation, and the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation.
