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San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) is pleased to announce that, in tandem with the COVID-19 re-opening plans of the City & County of San Francisco, the organization will present a weekend of discrete outdoor concerts featuring performances by local artists.

On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7:30pm PT, the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) presents a livestream concert on the Faculty Artists Series at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where the ensemble is quartet-in-residence.

SFJAZZ, in collaboration with San Francisco's Opera Parallèle, will present a special online-only broadcast of the 2016 production of Champion - An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 6:00pm PDT.

This year the BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! Eligibility is for productions which opened between 2011 and September 30th, 2020.

In response to injustice of the recent election in Belarus, and the subsequent violence against protesters, The Forum Collective will produce a live reading of Insulted.

On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 4pm PT, the Stenberg|Cahill Duo is presented by Old First Concerts in a livestream concert.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will encourage its audiences to a?oeget out the votea?? and stand up for racial justice as it launches a new online initiative entitled Voices of Democracy.

The Napa Valley Museum Yountville announces the launch of a new series of virtual exhibitions: a?oeReal/Time: Art of the Moment,a?? and the first exhibition in the series: a?oeTested by Fire, photographs and videos of Napa and Sonoma County wildfires by Napa Valley photographer Tim Carl.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is pleased to announce it will broadcast Constellation, a collaboration between renowned choreographer Alonzo King, visual electronic artist Jim Campbell, and mezzo-soprano Maya Layhani, bringing the artistry of LINES Ballet to homes around the world.

Theatre Rhinoceros presents a FREE Zoom/Facebook Live presentation: GOOD KNIGHT, BAD KNIGHT, Bobby Knight in Three Scenes, Conceived and Performed by John Fisher, October 1, 2020 at 8pm FREE!

Baritone Lucas Meachem and his wife, pianist Irina Meachem, sang an aria-filled recital on to open the Merola Opera Program Recital Series September 27, 2020.

Despite a severely truncated theater season, the San Francisco North Bay-based Marquee Theater Journalists Association has decide to move forward with its 2020 awards program and has released its list of nominees for the 5th Annual MTJA Awards.

The Marsh announces the line-up for its first-ever digital global festival, MarshStream International Solo Fest, presenting performers aged 16 to 79 from across the nation and around the world, including Russia, Scotland, Israel, Canada, and Australia, as well as some of The Marsh's fan-favorites in

San Francisco Playhouse announced a re-imagining of its 2020/21 Season, re-focusing their programming on digital formats to serve their community through the coronavirus pandemic.

ODC/Dance will present Fall for Art, a virtual event to benefit ODC on Sunday, October 11 at 11am PST.

For the first time in its 44-year history, American Conservatory Theater's (A.

Bay Area based EnActe Arts will present a virtual adaptation of Letters to a Daughter from Prison, a play by Lavonne Mueller based on the letters between Jawaharlal Nehru and his adolescent daughter Indira, written between 1930 and 1942, before he became Indiaa??s first Prime Minister.

For the second year in a row, Transcendence Theatre Company will offer a Mobile Unit Arts Curriculum program to participating community partners in Sonoma County.

Pear Theatre's 2020-21 season continues with the classic Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comedy about women enacting a sex strike to convince their husbands to end war (translation/adaptation written by Carolyn Balducci).

Members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra will take a 50% pay cut for the fall season.

On Tuesday, October 13 a radio production of Sinclair Lewisa?? novel It Cana??t Happen Here will broadcast at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT via YouTube.

Today, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) announced that it will present The Muse Hour, a four-part virtual event series, from October 17a?'December 12, 2020.

He may not drive an Aston Martin or work for British Secret Service, but Artistic Director Tim Bond knows a good adventure when he sees one.

MoonSchool at 42nd Street Moon, the education side of 42nd Street Moon kicked off its third season of virtual programming this fall.

42nd Street Moon, San Franciscoa??s venerable theatre company dedicated to celebrating and preserving the art of the American musical, is about to launch a paid virtual subscription series called MoonBeams.