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MOSHE QUINN
Sites Unseen
 My visual questions hover around space, distance, unknowing, and substance, usually in the context of mass collectivity – the City.
The city is people’s dreaming. The uncertain state of the present is spoken through shifting forms of silence. Silence can be visual. It’s amplified by what is seen. Photography is always a kind of silence. It is absence & presence both. It arises from the tension between these two poles. Through images I try to listen to blanks, gaps and nothings, to see what they have to say.
“Sites Unseen” will investigate topographical silences of the SOMA and Tenderloin districts. These areas are especially intriguing because they are in many ways overlooked. They are liminal spaces of the city, neither here nor there. And as with all public spaces, life and death pass through them continuously – a matrix of personal histories that remains unknowable.
Through a video installation with projections of light and suspended screens, I will attend to the blankness and banality of this topography that is both known and unknown to us. In emptying these sites out and giving them a good stare, I hope to see something of the human histories that always lie invisibly embedded.
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 http://garyclemenceau.com/
His amazing portfolio of lightboxed energy recordings, "Lenticular Series," have been illuminating our lobby for the past year! Gary Clemenceau is an artist, author, designer, screenwriter and recovering musician, and adores being referred to in the third-person. Gary's most recent portfolio of naked Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) recordings of highly charged magnetic fields, called "City of Glass," enjoyed simultaneous openings in San Francisco (at Micaela Gallery) and the art hub known as NEWARK (Rupert Ravens Contemporary).
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Climate Theater is located at 285 9th Street. At the corner of 9th and Folsom in San Francisco
Current Programs
the place to HEAR the music EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT! www.musicboxseries.com
Jeb Brady Band
WEDNESDAY, July 1 at 8PM $7-$15 sliding at the door
 R&B & Blues. Jeb Brady has played blues and roots music for thirty years. Jeb did his first recordings in New York at the historic Brill Building, and worked in New York appearing at the “Players Tavern” and “City Limits” in Greenwich Village. Later, Jeb became a regular at Mark Naftalin’s “Blue Monday Party” in Fairfax, playing with the blues greats Sonny Rhodes, Percy Mayfield and Buddy Ace. In The 1990’s Jeb teamed up with slide guitar ace Dale Miller and performed on KQED’s “West Coast Weekend”, Larry Kelbs “Sing Out" and Tom Mazzolini’s “Blues By The Bay”. Jeb has worked as a solo artist and fronted the “Jeb Brady Blues Band” playing venues including the Maritime Hall and the Starlight Room in San Francisco, The Westport Blues Festival and Berkeley’s Freight And Salvage.
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Clown Cabaret
Monday, July 6 at 7PM & 9PM
 One of the only, if not THE only place to see new clowning on a regular basis.
This July, come celebrate your independence with The Clown Cabaret! Featuring Peter Pitofsky from Teatro ZinZanni, John Gilkey & We are Nudes, Bronkar Lee, Cock Fight, Drew Letchworth Pi & much much more!
In collaboration with the Clown Conservatory and Pi, the physical comedy troupe. Check out students, faculty, special guests and much much more! We are always accepting submissions for acts- please contact pi.clowns@gmail.com for more information.
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Tuesday, July 7 at 8PM $5
Crisis Hopkins Improv Soapbox
 An open stage for actors, improvisers, and players. Games and longform in an improv jam setting. Designed for maximum play, for all skill levels, and hosted by Crisis Hopkins.
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Thursday July 9- Saturday July 11 at 8PM $10
Show No Show with We Are Nudes
 Spankin’ new alternative comedy from the demented mind of Cirque Du Soleil performer/creator John Gilkey. John and his fellow Nudes, Donny Divanian and Alec Jones-Trujillo team up to deliver a show that ought never to be allowed on stage. These guys are dangerous, absurd and subversive. And complete idiots. Praise for Gilkey’s previous contributions to Cirque Du Soleil: “Brilliant” LA Times; “Extremely funny, yet a little bit creepy” Washington Times; “Fierce” Chicago Sun Times; “Extraordinary” Rocky Mountain News; “Inspired” SF Chronicle; “Astonishing” Dallas Morning News; “Explosive” Houston Chronicle.
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Monday, July 13 8PM $7-$15 sliding
Max Gabriel with All in All
 We're catching him mid-tour and out from NYC- lucky us! Come see Bay Area native Max Gabriel back on his home turf, while you can still afford it. www.maxgabriel.com
GABRIEL, nee Gabriel Judet-Weinshel, is also a filmmaker and juggler—and a native of the Bay Area. As a child, he street performed at Fisherman's Warf and Sprawl Plaza in Berkeley—both playing the violin and juggling knives (but never at the same time). Gabriel recently created a viral, partly apocryphal video about the origins of Max Gabriel, a folk-troubadour with a mysterious and dubious background. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=claMzFtGwNQ
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Back by Popular Demand for 1 weekend only!
Thursday - Saturday July 16-18 at 8PM $20
FAUX REAL with Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique
 'A real woman who is a drag queen? I don't get it. 'Does she just feel that way?'
Get ready for high heel stunts, hero worship, makeup secrets, ballerina fantasies, '20 albums that made me gay,' and the fact that in live theater, sometimes people get kicked in the face. For those of you who never made it out to see Fauxnique at midnight on a Tuesday, make believe you're in a nightclub and enjoy, for those of you who have, here's a chance to see some old favorites in a new context before they get packed away for a while.
Performance artist/dancer Monique Jenkinson brings her drag queen alter-ego Fauxnique back to the Climate after her soldout run in May.
Part transplanted nightclub act, part meditation on artifice and authenticity, part dress-up play date, Faux Real revels in the tension between the glamour of performance and the intimacy of its living, breathing moment. Between drag performance pieces that draw heavily on the both the rigor and the sensual pleasure of dance, the audience gets to witness Fauxnique warm up, get into makeup, and break it down.
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Thursday, July 30 8PM $3-$5
Memoir Spool: an evening of Storytelling
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The Stand-Up Psychic Show with Becky Walsh
Friday, July 31 & Saturday, August 1 at 8PM $15
 Some people go to see a Psychic and take their advice and words very seriously. Some skeptical people see Psychics as a joke, tonight… for once, both the skeptic and the believer are right.
Becky Walsh will give a demonstration of the humorous aspect of being a psychic. This will involve live readings, amazing demonstrations. Bringing back the Psychic side show. Whatever you come seeking; you're likely to get more than you were expecting.
Becky has performed this sell out show in the Westend theatres in London, where she is known for having had her own radio show. Author of two books 'Advanced Psychic Development' and 'Haunted Westend Theatres' she also writes for two magazines and is often seen in the UK media.
"Becky Walsh is a natural comic. Her joie-de-vivre is contagious, this is a quick witted show, at a great fast pace. A mixture of jaw dropping accurate readings, spiritual content, and humorous life facts."
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Red Hots Burlesque- School of Shimmy
July 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 27th. August 2nd, 7th, 9th, 10th, 17th, 23rd, 31st
all classes $30
 You've heard about a burlesque revival. You've seen snippets of this sensation in the press and on T.V. Now it's time for you to get in on the action! Calling all divas, cool cats, harlots, dames hot mamas and daddy-o's, if you have always dreamed of being a burlesque star or just want to learn what all this fun is all about you too can be Red Hot!
www.redhotsburlesque.com
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Climate Theater is currently looking for volunteers in marketing, house management, and artistic. Come be a part of our crazy family! Email jessica@climatetheater.com.
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