The Free List

Free Events for Wednesday, December 8, 1999


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This page lists free events taking place in San Francisco. It is broken down into several categories. You can receive a weekly e-mail listing of free events as well. You can also have your event listed for free.


Museums

California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park, 34th Ave. and Clement
The Legion of Honor displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
10:00am - 04:45pm [Web Page] (415) 750-3600


Concerts, Plays and Films

The Grouprojection -- Open Reel night at Yakety Yak
679 Sutter Street (between Mason & Taylor)
The Grouprojection is a casual setting for exposure, connections, and maybe a hoot or two. Link up with local artists and show your shine or watch another's. Yakety Yak is a hub for the creative and the observers of your talent. Come and see the light of San Francisco's artists projected on Yakety Yak every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Film/Video artists: Bring your original work to be screened on VHS, 16mm or Super 8.
07:00pm [E-Mail] (415) 351-2090

New Music Ensemble Concert
SF Conservatory of Music, 19th Ave. and Ortega
Nicole Paiement, conductor. Britten, Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, with Gary Ruschman, tenor, winner of the Conservatory Concerto Competition; works by student composers
08:00pm [Web Page] (415) 759-3477

The Flying Calamari Brothers
Anza Branch Library, 550 37th Ave.
Amazing Magic With The Flying Calamari Brothers for All Ages.
07:15pm [Web Page] (415) 666-7160

The Flying Calamari Brothers
Mission Branch Library, 2601 Mission St., 5th Floor
Amazing Magic With The Flying Calamari Brothers for All Ages.
04:30pm [Web Page] (415) 695-5090


Readings and Lectures

Mary Bartnikowski: Everyday Naked
Stacey's Bookstore, 581 Market St.
Local author and photographer Mary Bartnikowski is someone everyone can relate to -- a working wife and full-time mom who wants to do it all and have it all. Her book Everyday Naked is an eclectic collection of essays dealing with the trials and tribulations of life, marriage, love-handles, preteens and meddlesome inlaws.
12:30pm [Web Page] (415) 421-4687

Barbara Kent Lawrence: Bitter Ice
Clean Well-Lighted, 601 Van Ness Avenue
Told with all the grace and power of a novel, Barbara Kent Lawrence's memoir Bitter Ice is a chronicle of her husband's life-threatening eating disorder - his obsessive exercising, masochistic starvation methods and addiction to saunas, laxatives and ice baths -- and her complicity in his illness.
07:30pm [Web Page] (415) 441-6670


Clubs and Hobbies

Spanish Conversation
Bernal Heights Branch Library, 500 Cortland Ave.
Works from different Latin American authors are read (a chapter each time) the week before and will be discussed the following week.
07:30pm [Web Page] (415) 695-5160


Games and Sports

Chess and Checkers Club
Ingleside Branch Library, 387 Ashton Ave.
For children of all ages.
03:30pm [Web Page] (415) 337-4745

Family Game Night
Bernal Heights Branch Library, 500 Cortland Ave.
Come play Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble (English or Spanish,) Yahtzee, Boggle, and more.
06:00pm - 08:30pm [Web Page] (415) 695-5160


Festivals/Social Events

Fun at the Food Bank
San Francisco Food Bank, 900 Pennsylvania at 23rd St.
Help Community Impact and the SF Food Bank salvage and sort all kinds of canned and packaged foods for use by social agencies throughout the city. Volunteers attend to food that would otherwise go to waste - and there's always something different and fun to do at this new, modern facility. Come join the fun. Please call or e-mail in advance to sign-up so they know how many people to expect.
06:00pm - 08:00pm [Web Page] (650) 965-0242

A Festival of Lights
Glen Park Branch Library, 653 Chenery St.
A celebration of light in Diwali, Winter Solstice, Chanukah, Kwanza, and Christmas with music, theatre and comedy for children ages 3 and older.
06:45pm [Web Page] (415) 337-4740

A Festival of Lights
Western Addition Branch Library, 1550 Scott St.
A celebration of light in Diwali, Winter Solstice, Chanukah, Kwanza, and Christmas with music, theatre and comedy for children ages 3 and older.
11:00am [Web Page] (415) 292-2160


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