This Week’s Mission: 05.24.09
It was a cold and windy day but we hope folks still had fun at the annual Carnaval parade. Here’s a look at some of what’s happening next week. Tomorrow night, why not celebrate the holiday by going to...
View ArticleATA: Independent and Underground Film and Video
Artists’ Television Access celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with the 4th ATA Film & Video Festival on October 21, 22 & 23, 2009. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — On...
View ArticleStop Making Sense: Experimental Film
“What’s your favorite color: concrete, feathers, plastic, or grass?” says the host of an unnamed talk show in Sam Barnett’s short film, “Tommy Boy.” The interview subject, a fictitious rapper/actor of...
View ArticleThe Party Continues
Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t dress up all crazy, knock back a few cocktails and enjoy some art. Freak out this weekend at Soap Gallery, get zooted on free coffee with a fresh...
View ArticleBlock Parties, Affordable Art, and Little Wonders
If you think only rich people can afford to buy art for the holidays, you’re wrong. Mission dwellers–even the broke ones–can too. That’s because this district has more artists than anywhere else in the...
View ArticleSex Ed, Music, and Docs
En Español For F***’s Sake An erotic education art show takes place this Friday at Sub-Mission Gallery. This event will include more than 25 visual artists, performers, writers, sex educators, sexy...
View ArticleOur To Do List for V-Day Weekend: Canadians, The Dude, and the Blues
O Canada! Alternorthern opens this weekend at The Lab. Friday’s opening reception will include a brief curator talk and artist Q & A, as well as a screening of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. The...
View ArticleWeekender: Low Lives, Youth, and The Photons
Here’s a quick lineup of this weekend’s events. Low Lives 2 “Galeria de la Raza is excited to partner with ATA Gallery and New York City based artist and curator, Jorge Rojas, for the second annual...
View ArticleATA and I
En Español For years I’ve walked by ATA at 992 Valencia Street, admiring the window displays and being slightly intimidated by the gaggle of 20- and 30-year-olds who stand outside, sharing cigarettes...
View ArticleVideo Renegade Becomes a Financially Precarious Institution
One step inside Artists’ Television Access, a complex smell of incense, must and cedar awakens the nose. Underfoot, hardwood floors creak, and just through a small hallway, red movie theater-style...
View ArticleMission Filmmaker’s Second Home is the de Young
Filmmaker Lise Swenson has made a career out of asking questions — to make “Mission Movie” in 2004 and in her two residencies at the de Young Museum. In Swenson’s current run as the de Young’s...
View ArticleFree Tickets to Tejido Conectivo Film Performance
ATA is giving away two free tickets to a film performance on Friday, March 30. Two lucky Mission Loc@l readers will receive tickets to Tejido Conectivo, in which Luis Macias and Adriana Vila will...
View ArticleArtists’ Television Access Celebrates 30 Years
Artists’ Television Access turns 30 this month and is throwing a marathon of a party to celebrate. The festivities kick off at 1 p.m. today with the start of a 30-hour film screening session, which...
View ArticleCereal-powered Show At ATA
Dream-inspired movement takes the (window) stage at ATA tonight, when Laurie Buenafe and Bob Webb perform “Husk” from 6to 8 p.m. at Artist’s Television Access. The piece is described as a “harvest...
View ArticleQuirky SF Mission Alt-Film Space ATA Lives On
ATA, or Artists’ Television Access, signed a renewed lease on November 13, securing its space at 992 Valencia Street for another five years. The announcement comes after a tense few weeks, during which...
View ArticleATA Screenings, Fundraisers Not to Miss
Our friends at ATA have several events coming up to help raise money for their rent: This Friday (April 29) there is a night of short films made by queer filmmakers who have been raised here in SF and...
View ArticleWaiting for the Barbarians on Valencia
One of the enduring non-profits on Valencia Street is ATA, Artist Television Access, a place started in the early 1980s when galleries excluded video art. Throughout the year, the windows fill with...
View Article“Queers Hate Techies”: Gay Shame’s controversial ATA exhibit
All month, the phrase “Queers Hate Techies” has taken up residence in the window gallery at Artists’ Television Access (ATA) on Valencia and 21st. The words are printed on balloons, inscribed on a...
View Article‘Trippy’ doc illustrates ATA’s 30 years in the Mission
As Valencia Street in the Mission is increasingly burnished to a shine, Artists’ Television Access — flying a black-and-white sign like a pirate flag — stands out as a rough spot in a sea of diamonds....
View Article‘Street View’ clay exhibit recreates life in San Francisco
Bret Woodard was walking through his neighborhood in the Mission one afternoon two years ago when he noticed two older gentlemen sitting on a bench during lunch time. They were on their phones as a...
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