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Sam McKinniss, Ameriquest Field in Arlington, TX, Sept 3 2006, 2022; courtesy the Labora and Hartland Mackie Family Collection
Special Event

Free Community Day: Get in the Game

Related Exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture

Sunday, Oct 20, 2024

10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Free events and free museum admission all day. RSVP encouraged.

Add your voice to the roar of the crowd and get ready to play on this free community (game)day. In celebration of the exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, we invite you to be a spectator to a slice of the Bay Area’s unique and vibrant sports-adjacent culture. Cheer on as turf dancers battle it out, create a zine on a bicycle-powered zine machine, find inspiration in short films about sports and athletes, and much more! Be one of the first to experience Get in the Game and six sports-related companion exhibitions that span over 15,000 square feet of the museum and explore how athleticism, competition, and play shape culture and influence contemporary art and design.

Event Schedule

8:30–10 a.m. | Run to the Arts 5k with Track and Feels
Yerba Buena Gardens, East Garden

At 8:30 a.m. pre-registered runners will gather in Yerba Buena Gardens’ East Garden to embark on a 5k “Run to the Arts.” The run will conclude at SFMOMA, where it will transition into a 5k gallery walk.

Please note: This run does not start at SFMOMA and occurs prior to SFMOMA’s opening. Participation requires advanced registration through Track & Feels Run Club.

 
10 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, and 1 p.m. | San Francisco Pride Band
Various locations

Get into the sporty spirit with stadium standards and arena favorites played by the San Francisco Pride Band.

 
11 a.m.–2 p.m. | Artcade: Meet the Artists
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

Step into SFMOMA’s community-designed Artcade to meet the artists behind Super Ultra Racing Xtreme, Annalivia Martin-Straw and Tyler Knowlton, and Pongalong, Jared Pettitt and Celeste Clark Jewett.

Please note: Artcade games have limited capacity

 
11 a.m.–3 p.m. | Zine-Making with Artivate
Floor 2, Schwab Hall

Create your own zine on a unique bicycle-powered mobile zine-making studio.

 
11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. | Dance Party with DJ Umami
Floor 5, Sculpture Garden

Join DJ Umami, the current resident DJ for the San Francisco Giants and former resident DJ for the Golden State Warriors (2012–21) for a rooftop dance party.

 
Noon, 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. | Short Films: Exercising Expression
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
Q + A with select filmmakers after the noon and 3 p.m. screenings.

In this collection of short documentaries, encounter people who found personal transformation and deep-rooted communities through sports.

The High Five (Mike Jacobs, 2016, 10 minutes)
Elladj (Mike Schwartz, 2023, 5 minutes)
The Trails Before Us (Fritz Bitsoie, 2022, 13 minutes)
Strong Grandma (Winslow Crane Murdoch, 2023, 15 minutes)

 
1:30–3:30 p.m. | TURFinc Dance Battle
Floor 4, Gina and Stuart Peterson White Box

Watch and cheer as sixteen dancers go head-to-head in a Turf Battle organized by TURFinc. The dancers will be joined by battling DJs and MCs and don’t miss a half-time workshop where you can learn some steps.

Please note: Capacity in the White Box is limited and first-come, first-served. If we reach capacity, there will be a standby line.

 
2 p.m. | Gallery Talk: Jenifer K Wofford on Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves
Floor 3

Join artist Jenifer K Wofford for a pop-up dialogue in front of her Bay Area Walls mural, VMD, which pictures Bay Area-native Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves, a Filipina American diver who became the first Asian American gold medalist at the London 1948 Summer Olympic Games. A limited number of related take away prints will be available.

Learn more about the programs and partners

Track and Feels

What do running and art have in common? Feelings. So, what better way to spend your morning than by immersing yourself in those feelings? Join Track and Feels, a run club at the intersection of slow running and slow music that embodies a unique blend of soundtrack and running track.

San Francisco Pride Band

Named “The Official Band of the City and County of San Francisco” via city ordinance, the San Francisco Pride Band was the first openly gay musical organization upon their founding in 1978. Over the last forty years, the volunteer-run organization and band have been appearing throughout the Bay Area to promote LGBTQ+ visibility and understanding across communities.

Artcade

For SFMOMA’s Artcade, three proposals were selected from an open call, and the winning teams spent the summer designing and building their game. Presented alongside Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, the selected games reflect on the expansive nature of play, spectatorship, and the close relationship between competition and collaboration.

Artivate

The Artivate program works to bring activism and art to youth in the Bay Area while bridging communities through public art projects. Artivate artists Chris Treggiari and Amy Berk will be onsite and have packed their mobile studio with all the tools and materials needed to create your own zine and designed a selection of prompts and pre-designed pages inspired by artists and artworks on view in Get in the Game.

DJ Umami

DJ Umami was born, raised, and is based in the Bay Area. While R&B, soul, and hip-hop are foundational to her musical taste, it’s Umami’s ability to read the energy of a crowd and belief in music as healing that allows her to serve an eclectic menu of sounds. As a Filipina American, she hopes to bring more visibility to the craft, and inspire the next generation of women DJs.

Short Films: Exercising Expression

The High Five (Mike Jacobs, 2016, 10 minutes) | It’s likely you have given or received a high five; however, do you know the fascinating story behind the gesture and its creator, Glenn Burke?

Elladj (Mike Schwartz, 2023, 5 minutes) | Follow the remarkable journey of Elladj Balde, a Canadian figure skater who found a new voice and calling through wild ice skating.

The Trails Before Us (Fritz Bitsoie, 2022, 13 minutes) | Nigel James, a seventeen-year-old Diné mountain biker, hosts the first enduro race in the Navajo Nation and shares the way he is driven by his dual love of the sport and connection to his community’s land and culture.

Strong Grandma (Winslow Crane Murdoch, 2023, 15 minutes) | World record powerlifter Catherine Kuehn, age ninety-five, finds herself reflecting on the love and the loss that brought her to the sport in her eighties and the community and identity she found through sport.

TURFinc

TURFinc was founded by Johnny Anthony Lopez in 2012 and utilizes its platform as a positive force, sharing dance as a mechanism to heal trauma and encourage body positivity. Originating in Oakland in the 1990s, Turfing — short for “taking up room on the floor” — is a form of street dance that integrates several hip-hop-rooted dance styles into a wholly new form. Each dancer puts their own unique spin on the form, offering space for deep personal expression.

Jenifer K Wofford's VMD

Jenifer K Wofford’s painted mural pictures Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves, the first Asian American Olympic gold medalist, suspended in a pike in a vast gradient of color. Born and raised in San Francisco’s South of Market district, the Filipina American diver was also the first woman awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard competitions at the London 1948 Olympic Games. For VMD, Wofford was compelled by imagining a “soft inward focus combined with the mannered tension in her body’s position, both completely on display and totally inside herself.” Wofford’s mural is part of SFMOMA’s Bay Area Walls, a series of commissions and other site-responsive wall projects by local artists that actively engage with pressing issues of our time.

 

Significant support for Free Community Day: Get in the Game is provided by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund in honor of Elise S. Haas.