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Ten Year Anniversary Community Free Day

Sunday, Jun 10, 2018 | 11am–5pm

ADMISSION: Free (Please bring your CJM membership card for entry to the Member Lounge)

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2018-06-10 11:00:00 UTC2018-06-10 17:00:00 UTC America/Los_AngelesThe CJM - 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CATen Year Anniversary Community Free DayThe CJM turns 10 on Jessie Square! Join us as we celebrate community with live music, gallery performances, art-making, and more. Activities all day!

The CJM turns 10 on Jessie Square! Join us as we celebrate community with live music, gallery performances, art-making, and more. Activities all day!

CJM Members, join us and enjoy priority entrance into The CJM, along with a Member Lounge filled with treats and activities including Mah Jongg drop-in play.

Hands-on interactive fun throughout The Museum with lots of keepsakes that help build connections to family, friends, and heritage, plus pop-up programs celebrating The CJM’s architecture and exhibitions with music, film, dance, mini-tours, poets, and more.

JUST FOR MEMBERS

11am–3pm

Private Member Lounge + Complimentary Refreshments in the Yud Gallery

11:30am–2pm

Drop-in Mah Jongg Play
Drop-in and try your hand in a game of Mah Jongg—one of our most popular CJM events—with Mahj Club maven Sara Levy Linden. Linden will be introducing American-style Mah Jongg to anyone who wants to learn. Or bring your Mahj group and mahj sets to play at a table. Join us for a game and a nosh in the Member Lounge!

Activities and events

MAKE, WRITE, OR RELAX

11am–4pm

Add threads to the Collaborative Family Journeys Globes as you enter The Museum, Illuminate your Family Tree in the Blue Cube (a keepsake), letterpress three-color Conversation Journals in the Art Studio, create Letters to Loved Ones at the typewriter station in the Koret Taube Grand Lobby, and more.

Activities in collaboration with Blick Arts, SF Center For the Book, and artist C.K. Itamura.

The Calming Corner

Relax, read, or play in a quiet and less-crowded space anytime throughout the day.

Music and Dance PERFORMANCES

Musicians and Dancers bring The CJM's architecture to life!

11:30am–1:30pm

Benny Brussel on violin.

12:30–12:45pm

AXIS Dance Performance—In Defense Of Regret (2015, Duet Excerpt), performed by Lani Dickinson and Dwayne Scheuneman.

12:45–1:15pm 

Architecture Dance Jam—join AXIS Dancers in a fun interactive dance jam for all.

2–3:30pm

Angus Martin plays the accordion.

READINGS, TALKS, AND TOURS

Mini Tours and PoetRY in the galleries throughout the day

 

Tours

Long-time CJM docents share pop-up mini tours with insights into their favorite works of art or architectural elements, from 11:30am–1:30pm.

11:30–11:45am

Barbara Bibel on Wave II by Annabeth Rosen.

12–12:15pm

Judy Leash on Rube Goldberg’s cover for Forbes Magazine.

12:45–1pm

Paula Taylor on Rube Goldberg’s political cartoons.

1–1:15pm

Deborah Kohn on The Museum’s exterior architectural elements.

1:15–1:30pm

Sigal Kletter on the Pardes wall in the Koret Taube Grand Lobby.

PoetRY

2:30–4pm

Poets share their work in conversation with the art on view. Poets include:

  • Brandon Brown
  • Jen Siraganian
  • Maw Shein Win
  • Gail Newman
  • CJM Chief Curator Renny Pritikin
  • James Cagney
accessibility

Sign language interpretation and CART real-time captioning can be requested for all programs with at least two weeks notice by emailing access@thecjm.org or by calling 415.655.7856 (relay calls welcome). FM assistive listening devices for sound enhancement are available for all talks and tours. Visit our Accessibility page to learn more.

community partners

AXIS Dance Company
Blick Art Materials
C.K. Itamura of Peach Farm Studio
SF Center for the Book

supporters

Ten Year Anniversary Community Free Day is made possible with Grand Sponsor support from the Koret Foundation. Lead Corporate Sponsor support is provided by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Presenting Sponsor support is provided by 706 Mission Co. Premier Sponsor support is provided by Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, and the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District.