A yearbook showing all the free events offered to Bay Area students in the 2019-2020 season of San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers

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SF Art & Film for Teenagers 2019-2020 Yearbook
Friday nights mean Cine Club film screenings at SFAI.
Above, Ronald Chase introduces our first film, Blade Runner.
Below, he leads the group discussion followig the film.
Art Saturdays bring students to museums and art galleries.
Here, SFMOMA curator Jennifer Fletcher introduces students
to their Far Out show on art and design in space exploration.
From Friday night Cine Club film screenings and
Art Saturday museum tours to seats at the city’s
top cultural venues, last year Art & Film made 80
free events available to Bay Area students. Though
COVID-19 brought an early end to our in-person
events, we continued to offer free arts programming
and our Film Workshop classes online through the
end of June.
AUGUST 2019
17 SF Choral Society: Orff’s CARMINA BURANA
SEPTEMBER
6 Cine Club: Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER
7 SF Opera: Britten’s BILLY BUDD
12 SF Symphony: Mahler’s Symphony No.6
13 Cine Club: Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
14 Art Saturday: Downtown art galleries
14 SF Symphony: Mahler’s Symphony No.6
18 Word for Word: RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
20 Cine Club: Cuarón’s CHILDREN OF MEN
21 SF Symphony: John Adams and Rachmaninoff
24 SF Opera: Massenet’s ROMEO AND JULIET
26 SF Symphony: Stravinsky and Haydn
27 Cine Club: Renoir’s THE GRAND ILLUSION
28 Art Saturday: SFMOMA: FAR OUT design & space
28 SF Symphony: All Stravinsky
OCTOBER
2 Cutting Ball Theater: Megan Cohen’s FREE FOR ALL
4 Cine Club: Miloš Forman’s AMADEUS
5 Art Saturday: Michael Jang at McEvoy Foundation
5 SF Symphony: María Dueñas plays Mozart
6 Film Workshop: Orientation & POV film shoot
11 Cine Club: John Schlesinger’s DARLING
13 Film Workshop: Chris Marker’s LA JETEE
17 SF Symphony: Schoenberg & Mussorgsky
18 Cine Club: Hirschbiegel’s DOWNFALL
19 Bard Music West: The music of GRASYNA BACEWICZ
20 Film Workshop: Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE
24 SF Symphony: Shostakovich & Prokofiev
25 Cine Club: Ramsey’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
26 Art Saturday: Mission District Open Studios
26 SF Symphony: Shostakovich & Prokofiev
Cine Club .
Art Saturday at SFMOMA .

2. Below, Film Workshop students help decorate the traditional
Twelfth Night tree. At right, founding director Ronald Chase
entertains a group of alumni at his studio over winter break.
NOVEMBER
1 Cine Club: Hanson’s LA CONFIDENTIAL
3 Film Workshop: Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE
8 Cine Club: Carol Reed’s THE THIRD MAN
9 Art Saturday: Potrero Hill art galleries
9 SF Symphony: Bach & Haydn
9 3rd i festival: Gitanjali Rao’s BOMBAY ROSE
10 Film Workshop: Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST
13 Nancy Quinn benefit evening
14 ACT: Wedekind’s SPRING AWAKENING
15 Cine Club: Amma Asante’s BELLE
16 SF Symphony: Act One of Wagner’s DIEWALKÜRE
17 FW: Eisenstein’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
20 SF Opera: Puccini’s MANON LESCAUT
22 Cine Club: Inarritu’s AMORES PERROS
23 Art Sat: Exploratorium’s Curious Contraptions
23 SF Symphony: Mozart and Bruckner
24 FW: Resnais’ LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
DECEMBER
1 Film Workshop: Cocteau’s BLOOD OF A POET
2 SF Opera: Humperdink’s HANSEL & GRETEL
6 Cine Club: Fellini’s AMARCORD
7 SF Silent Film Festival: the films of Alice
Guy-Blaché and THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE
8 Film Workshop: group film shoots
13 Cine Club: Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS
14 Seniority student lunch and ART GAME
15 Film Workshop: Jan Svankmajer’s ALICE
15 ACT theater: Jaclyn Backhaus’ MEN IN BOATS
21 Art Saturday: YBCA’s The Body Electric
28 Alumni Lunch at Ronald Chase’s studio
Annual Alumni Lunch .
An Art Saturday picnic lunch .
The San Francisco Opera .
Art Saturday Open Studios .
At left, students dress up for opening night of Puccini’s
Manon Lescaut at the Opera. Next, students visit the studio
of local artist Rebeka Frank during an Art Saturday tour of
Mission district Open Studios. On another Art Saturday
outing, students gather with director Isaiah Dufort for a
picnic lunch in Yerba Buena Gardens after touring YBCA’s fall
show, The Body Electric.
Decorating for Twelfth Night .

3. JANUARY 2020
5 Annual Twelfth Night Party
10 Cine Club: Rorhwatcher’s HAPPY AS LAZARRO
11 Art Saturday: Downtown art galleries
12 SF Symphony: Julia Wolfe, Beethoven & Berg
13 Film Workshop: Jancsó’s THE RED AND THE WHITE
17 Cine Club: Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING
18 SF Symphony: Julia Wolfe, Beethoven & Berg
19 Film Workshop: Olmi’s TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS
23 SF Performances: Mahan Esfahani
24 Cine Club: Tarkovsky’s ANDREI RUBLEV
25 Art Saturday: Man Ray films and SFMOMA
26 Film Workshop: Ray’s PATHER PANCHALI
26 SF Performances: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
28 A.C.T. Will Eno’s WAKEY, WAKEY
30 SF Symphony: Brahms’ SYMPHONY NO. 3
31 Cine Club: Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE
FEBRUARY
2 SFMOMA: Nicole Miller’s TO THE STARS
7 Cine Club: Agnieszka Holland EUROPA, EUROPA
8 SF Symphony Beethoven’s 4th & Brahms’ 4th
9 Film Workshop: Kalatozov’s I AM CUBA
14 Cine Club: Sofia Coppola’s THE BEGUILED
15 Art Saturday: Orlando at the McEvoy Foundation
15 SF Ballet: Liang’s THE INFINITE OCEAN
15 SF Symphony: Dukas and Saint-Seans
16 Film Workshop: Wong’s CHUNKING EXPRESS
19 SF PERFORMANCES: Paul Taylor Dance Company
21 Cine Club: Oldroyd’s LADY MACBETH
22 SF Ballet: Mark Morris and Stanton Welch
22 SF Symphony: Essa-Peka Salonen & Julia Bullock
23 Film Workshop: Fellini’s LA DOLCE VITA
27 SF Performances: Wendy Whelan’s THE DAY
28 Cine Club: Kathryn Bigelow’s THE HURT LOCKER
29 Art Saturday: Exploratorium: Aperture Lucida
29 SF Symphony: Salonen conducts Beethoven
MARCH
6 Cine Club: Resnais’ HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR
7 Seniority student lunch and THE ART GAME
Above, students spend a day at the Explortatorium with a special
screening of short films and a talk with an arts curator. Below,
SF Art & Film supporters came together for an evening of food
and music hosted by longtime supporter Nancy Quinn.
A benefit evening at the home of Nancy Quinn .
San Francisco Ballet . San Francisco Symphony .
Throughout the year, Art & Film arranges for free seats to the
symphony, opera, theater and dance performances. At left,
students attend the SF Ballet. Above Ronald introduces Brahms’
Symphony no. 3.
Art & Science at The Exploratorium.

4. APRIL
19 Film Workshop: Renoir’s THE RULES OF THE GAME
26 Film Workshop: Hitchcock’s THE 39 STEPS
MAY
3 Film Workshop: Godard’s BREATHLESS
10 Film Workshop: Danny Boyles’ FRANKENSTEIN
17 Film Workshop: Ronald Chase’s short films
24 Tarkovsky Award prize ceremony
29 Film Workshop: Kurosawa’s RASHOMON
JUNE
7 Film Workshop: Richardson’s A TASTE OF HONEY
28 Film Workshop: Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW
JULY
8-16 SUMMER FILM INTENSIVE
Above, workshop students start the year with a study of
composition. Below, Lauren and mentor Huntly Gordon give
a demonic performance as Viv records sound for a film shoot.
This year 10 students participated in our Summer Film Intensive,
spending 9 days studying great films and learning how to
produce their own. For more info, visit filmworkshopsf.org
For 28 years now, San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers
has been working to make the arts an integral part of
life for Bay Area youth by creating opportunity and
access to some of the best work our city has to offer.
Any interested parent or student can join by adding
themselves to our mailing list at artandfilm.org.
We wish to thank the mentors, donors and institutional
partners who supported us this year and made all these
events possible. Please continue to spread the word
about SF Art & Film to make sure that all students are
able to take advantage of this great program!
San Francisco Art & Film is supported in part by
California Arts Council
Lasky-Barajas Family Fund
Robert Walker and Ernest Phinney
Matt Paige and Katie Schwab Paige
JM Kaplan Fund
Guerrino De Luca
Gary W. Ross Trust
Our partners include
The San Francisco Art Institute
The Exploratorium
The San Francisco Symphony
The San Francisco Opera
The San Francisco Ballet
Cutting Ball Theater
American Conservatory Theater
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
San Francisco Art & Filmfor Teenagers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
To learn more about the program, make a donation or
join our mailing list please visit artandfilm.org
Summer Film Intensive .
Film Workshop .
On set with the Film Intensive .
Film Workshop group film shoot .