Cynthia Glinka
Photo by Nicole Schach
Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young Celebrates Warhol Live and Discarded to Divine
Lectures and Symposia | For Children and Families | Friday Nights at the de Young | Music at the de Young
5:00 PM - 8:45 PM
April 17, 2009
Kimball Education Gallery, Koret Auditorium
Friday Nights are back! 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. Friday Night Programming is FREE unless otherwise noted.
Wilsey Court
6:00–6:30 p.m.
Back by popular demand! Dance coach and choreographer Cynthia Glinka instructs, entertains, and inspires. With her dance tips and tricks, you won't miss a beat! Join us on the dance floor and learn some new moves.
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Live Music by the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. Don Neely and his 10-piece orchestra, with vocalist Carla Normand, are renowned for authentically capturing the exciting sound of big-band swing, hot syncopated jazz, the blues, and the music of the Cotton Club. Songs by George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, and Cole Porter join tunes from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, vaudeville, and the silver screen.
5:30–8:45 p.m.
St. Vincent de Paul’s Fourth Annual Discarded to Divine.
Recycled fashions, renewed lives. Donated clothes are transformed into one-of-a-kind couture creations by students from local design schools and independent designers, drawing inspiration from the de Young’s various works and exhibitions, including Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, Yves Saint Laurent, and Warhol Live. Discarded to Divine helps to support the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in San Francisco.
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Art Comes to Life. See the live creation of a painting by performers portraying Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, organized by father-and-son duo Rene and Rio Yañez. See the magic happen in Wilsey Court as the painting evolves over the night. Performers include: Jef Valentine, Paul Knowles, Paul Sutfin, Mary Beth Peterson, Andrea Maffalski, Winston Tong, and Factory Girl Andy Major.
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on Art-making for Everyone led by “art diva” Kim Erickson. Use discarded items to make a divine “silver” art creation inspired by Warhol’s Silver Factory.
Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
Film: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friends and Intersections (1982, 36 minutes) This extraordinary diary by avant-garde film legend Jonas Mekas chronicles Warhol's everyday life and work and the social and cultural milieu that swirled around him. The film includes footage from the first public performance of the Velvet Underground at Delmonico’s Hotel on January 13, 1966. Tracing an arc that veers from frenetic to reflective, the film opens with a segment taped at the Dom with Nico, and concludes with the Mass for Warhol at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1990.
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 Warhol Live.
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.
