MAY 13th IS MOTHER’S DAY!

Bring mom in for a free coffee drink of her choice

May Events

Thursday, May 3rd - Live music – Abel Mouton & Friends. Farley 's presents a very special evening of original song. RALPH SPIGHT, principal songwriter of Bay Area punk legends, Victims Family, opens the evening performing acoustic arrangements of his new material. Expect members of his current project, The Freak Accident, to chip in a note or two. Next, ABEL MOUTON performs selections from his two semi-releases "Singled Out" and "Deadpan Rambler". Joining him will be Deadweight's BEN BARNES on violin, Glasstown and The Size Queens' MICHAEL MULLEN on keyboards and vocals, and Angel 's Camp's MATT SIELING on guitar, accordion, harmonica, and vocals. SIELING and MULLEN also contribute original compositions to the set list. Finally, if there's time, MICHAEL MULLEN will then preview material from his current release "Pocket Shelley: Small Illuminations in a Darkening Sky,” 8pm.

Sunday, May 6th – Live music: Sunday afternoon concert series featuring “Darktet” performing jazz tunes, 5pm.

Sunday, May 13th – Mothers Day: Farley's annual tradition of honoring all moms continues; bring mom in for a free coffee drink of her choice.

Sunday, May 13th – Live music: Sunday afternoon concert series features “Presidents Breakfast” and a special Mothers day concert dedicated to all moms everywhere, 5pm.

Thursday, May 17th - Art Reception: Photographer Henrik Kam, a working photographer from Potrero Hill, features a selection of his work, 7pm.

Saturday, May 26th - Live music: Matt Lax and Potrero Hill bass player, Rob Gardner, play tunes, 4pm.

Monday, May 28th – Memorial Day hours, 8am -10pm.

Artist of the Month - Henrik Kam

Born and raised in Copenhagen and now a resident of San Francisco, Henrik is a working photographer whose career has included shoots on his knees in alleys, upside down on soundstages, hanging from helicopters and feet firmly planted on roofs of rental cars! An eye-opening, year-long trek around the world in 1995 recharged his creative batteries and steered his work away from the studio and into the environment, with projects ranging from the local San Francisco bayfront to the Fascist architecture of early 20th century Rome. www.henrikkam.com

Reception: Thursday May 17, 7pm

Window Display of the Month

By popular demand, the phones stay for another month! A local antique collector will present a display of antique telephones and telephone signs from the roaring 20’s through the groovy 60’s. Styles will include art deco Bakelite phones, candlestick phones, and more. Remember those old rotary dial phones with funny numbers like Farley’s 1-2345? This exhibit will take you back to the days when phones were phones and you could slam the receiver down, talk to a live operator, and never have to worry about call waiting or your battery running out! For more information about antique telephones and telephone collecting, visit www.telephonearchive.com. For more information about this exhibit, send email to dave@dmworkshop.com

News

Bean Ball

“Bean Ball” is back! Purchase one pound of any coffee beans at Farley’s and you are eligible to enter the drawing for two free SF Giants tickets. The first drawing features your SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS vs. Colorado Rockies on Friday, May 25th at 7:15PM.  We will contact you if you are the lucky winner.

Call for Entries Third Annual Community Photography Show at Farley’s: “Kids (and Young People) Shoot the Hill”

This year for our Farley’s community photography show we seek a different perspective and ask all of those budding or accomplished young photographers out there to bring us images of what they see in our neighborhood.  We would love to see and show photographic images of Potrero Hill and environs printed any size, framed or unframed in this non-juried show. The only limitations are that the images must be created by a young person up to age 16 and taken in or around Potrero Hill. 

Kids, young people—it’s your turn.  Show us what you love or hate about the Hill.  Show us the things that older photographers are too busy, too tall, too tired or just too un-cool to notice.  Where is the beauty on the Hill?  Where are the things we’d rather not look at?  What makes you proud of your neighborhood and what makes you wish you lived somewhere else?

Parents, grandparents, teachers, aunts and uncles, should encourage any young person with a good eye and a camera that they can put in their hands to contribute to this show.  Teachers—this could be a great class project!

We will hang the show on June 2 at Farley’s Café on 18th Street on Potrero Hill and the show will run for the month of June.  The idea here is to include as many photos from as many young photographers as possible and we are not going to select specific photos to show as before.