February's Soap Box Lecture: Art Cars and Burning Man: Art Outside The Institution February 3, 2007

Adding to the rich cultural community in the Bernal Heights district of San Francisco, Bernal Bubbles laundrymat has initiated a lecture series called the Soap Box Lectures. On the first Saturday of every month, after all the laundry has been washed, dried, folded, and put away, we will reopen to offer an invited guest a chance to get up on our soapbox and speak.

These informal talks by various artists, art professionals and cultural critics, living in or around Bernal Heights, will be on a range of subjects of artistic, cultural, political, and social issues of significance to the community.

* * * Please join us at our kick off event on Saturday, February 3rd at 10pm * * * for JoAnne Northrup, senior curator, San Jose Museum of Art and Philo Northrup, Founder Art Car Fest. They will be pulling up to The Bubble in their art cars to talk with us about "non-institutional" art experiences in a lecture titled: "Art Cars and Burning Man: Art Outside The Institution"

After the lecture, guests are invited to join us up the street at a new contemporary art gallery called 301 Bocana Gallery. Run by artist Teresa O'Connor, she has graciously offered her space as a place for refreshments and to give lecture participants the opportunity to extend the conversation.

Upcoming Saturday night lectures include:

March 3:
Glen Helfand, critic and curator

April 7:
Ray Beldner: "It's Who You Know: A Personal Genealogy of the Artists of Bernal Heights"

July 7:
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards and Ken Goldberg, new media artist, professor, UC Berkeley: "What Can Spaghetti Teach Us About The Human Condition?"

Sept 1:
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, new media and performance artists:"The Love Art Laboratory Project"

Dec 1:
Leonard Shlain, surgeon and author of "Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light" (1991) and "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" (1998)

"Soap Box" is series of free lectures to be held on the first Saturday of every month at 10pm after the laundromat closes.

FREE.

Official Website: http://bernalbubbles.com