Treasure Island Pre-party NightLife

Enjoy special live performances by Jens Lekman and Geoffrey O'Connor in celebration of Treasure Island Music Festival presented by Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment.  Plus, check out some innovative applications of Microsoft technologies, including Kinect, their latest mobile devices, and WorldWide Telescope--software that brings imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes right to your home computer, or the 75-foot wide screen of Morrison Planetarium. Additional music by Miles the DJ in the coral reef.

Event Schedule

6-8pm Rainforests of the World (Last entry at 7:30pm)

6-10pm Miles the DJ/ Coral Reef

6-10pm The "Pirate's Pardon" Cocktail Tour/ Locations Below

6:30 & 7:30pm Sharing the Universe: World Wide Telescope/ Planetarium

6:30-9pm Microsoft Innovation – Kinect, Mobile, & World Wide Telescope/ African Hall

6:30-9pm Meet the folks from Facebook/ Swamp

7:15pm Geoffrey O’Connor/ East Garden

7-9pm Sea Otter Awareness Week/ Project Lab

8:30pm Life: A Cosmic Story/ Planetarium

8:30pm Jens Lekman/ East Garden

8:45, 9:05, & 9:25pm Alien Worlds/ Planetarium Lobby

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Jens Lekman

8:30pm East Garden

"Jens Lekman, born and reared in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a songwriter, adventurer and retired bingo hall employee. Traveling our globe as a wide open receptor of all it has to offer, Lekman repurposes for his own oeuvre the world’s great, lost pop hooks of past and present. He breathes into them his droll senses of humor, romance and melody and gives them a newfound buoyancy. Since his 2004 trifecta of EPs (Maples Leaves, Rocky Dennis in Heaven, You Are the Light) and right on through his acclaimed 2007 full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedala, Lekman has made hopeless romantics of us all. In a musical language that has roots in the work of Arthur Russell, The Magnetic Fields, Calvin Johnson and Modern Lovers, Lekman’s songs serve as a reminder to look closer at the world around us, to appreciate the beauty when it’s both in and out of context; at its most heartbreaking, its most loving, and its most absurd."

Photograph by Julien Bourgeois

Geoffrey O'Connor

7:15pm East Garden

Geoffrey O’Connor, frontman for Australian euphoric pop sprites Crayon Fields, is stepping out from behind his previous solo moniker Sly Hats to stand exposed to the world as a solo artist under his own name.

Since returning to Australia and dropping the Sly Hats moniker, Geoffrey has played solo shows with the likes of School Of Seven Bells and First Aid Kit. His first album as Geoffrey O’Connor, entitled Vanity Is Forever, is both more elaborate and more personal than anything he has done previously. Another stylistic shift, the album moves between seductive high-production dance hits, suave funk joyrides and modern synthetic power balladry.

Miles the DJ

6-10pm Coral Reef

Miles Anzaldo is an on-air DJ on LIVE105 radio here in San Francisco, as well as being popular at club nights and events throughout the Bay Area.  Besides being a resident at perennial local favorite Popscene, he has spun tunes with such popular bands as The Killers, Death Cab For Cutie, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Cut Copy, and The Presets, and guested at such local clubs as PopRoxx, Gossip, Temptation, and Barracuda @ 111 Minna. Expect to hear a variety of genres; Miles song selection boasts a unique mix of Soul, Indie Rock , Electro, 80s music, and beyond.  NightLife is thrilled to have him bring his song-drive style to the Academy.

Microsoft Innovation - Kinect, Mobile & World Wide Telescope

6:30-9pm African Hall

Jon Britton and Tosh Chiang, from the Audio-Visual & Electrical Engineering department at the Academy will be on hand showing guests how to drive through the Universe using World Wide Telescope and how body movement and gestures can operate a robot through the catalyst of Kinect.

Many thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring this night's event!

The"Pirate's Pardon" Cocktail Tour

6-10pm

You have been a bad pirate!  Be a swashbuckler and get pardoned by tasting each cocktail from the menu below. This is your chance to preview the Treasure Island Music Festival Pirate's Pardon cocktail menu.  Don't get captured without a drink in the Swamp... ye shall have to walk the plank above our friend Claude, the albino alligator!
 
LOBBY BAR
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Featuring Brugal White Rum, Brugal Anejo Rum, Coconut Water, Pineapple Juice & a Splash of Yerba Mate Tea
 
THE SWAMP BAR (THE PLANK)
DREAD PIRATE MCKNIGHT'S FAMOUS PISCO PUNCH
Featuring ORO Pisco, Royal Combier Liqueur, Pineapple Gomme, Fresh Lemon & Lime Juice & House Bitters
.....DON'T LET "PIRATE SHANE" CATCH YOU EMPTY-HANDED IN THE SWAMP!
 
DJ/PLANETARIUM BAR
RUM & HONEY
Featuring Brugal Anejo Rum, Local Honey & House Bitters  
 
AQUARIUM BAR
TREASURE ISLAND ICED TEA
Featuring Skyy Ginger Vodka, Organic Yerba Mate Tea, Fresh Lemon Juice, Local Honey & Rhubarb Bitters
 
3rd FLOOR /VIP BAR  
THE 2ND WIND
Featuring Skyy Vodka, Coconut Water, Fresh Lemon & Red Bull

Sea Otter Awareness Week

7-9pm Project Lab

The California Academy of Sciences is home to the world’s largest collection of skulls, skeletons, and other preserved samples of the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis).  September 25 - October 1, 2011 is Sea Otter Awareness Week. To help commemorate Sea Otter Awareness week Moe Flannery, Ornithology and Mammalogy Collection Manager will be on hand from 7pm to 9pm along with select specimens on display. In the project lab, researchers will be prepping sea otter pelts to be used as research specimens in the Academy collections.

Planetarium

Enjoy the following planetarium shows this week at NightLife:

Science Tonight: LIVE @ 6:30pm

Sharing the Universe: World Wide Telescope

World Wide Telescope allows you to navigate the night sky—and the three-dimensional cosmos—on your laptop.  But it also fills the dome of the Morrison Planetarium!  Take a guided tour through astronomical objects that you can replicate from home.

6:30 & 7:30pm

Life: A Cosmic Story

8:30pm

Alien Worlds

Inspired by our main Planetarium presentation, “Life: A Cosmic Story,” these ten-minute featurettes on the curved screen of Hoefeld Hall explores environments within our own solar system that scientists think might provide the most likely places for life to exist beyond Earth.  Find out what Mars looks like up close, what it was like to land on Saturn’s moon, Titan, and more! Presented by Josh Roberts

8:45, 9:05, & 9:25pm 

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NightLife VIP Tour

Want an entirely different NightLife experience? Join us on our NightLife VIP Tour. Tickets include admission to NightLife, a one-hour behind-the-scenes tour with a private viewing of the Academy's renowned gem and mineral collection and interaction with Academy researchers in the lab, express entry into the building, an open bar in a reserved cocktail area prior to the tour, VIP access to the Rainforest, and a reserved pass for the 8:30 Planetarium show.

$59.00/person – limited tickets available each week

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (building closes at 10:00 pm)

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NightLife Private Lounge

Looking for a great space to celebrate landing that big account, throw a birthday party, or just gather with all your old friends, all while enjoying San Francisco’s most exciting Thursday night event?  Rent out the NightLife Private Lounge. You’ll get early access to a premium private room with catering and bar service and access to our Thursday NightLife event. For more booking information contact Dan Kalin at (415) 379-5837 or dkalin@calacademy.org.