The first of three Focus-on-Locus shows in fact addresses our own situation here in the Bay Area, with a special section devoted to dear departed Scott Williams, long-time denizen of 20th St. in the Inner Mission. One of the greatest stencil artists of our times, Scott passed away in June, leaving behind a true Mission School legacy of obsessively worked paintings--in books, on buildings, in frames, and on the streets. Russell (Stencil Nation) Howze situates Scott's oeuvre within the energized NorCal art-scene of the last half-century, sharing clips from Nick Gorski's Spray Paint and Carla Leshne's Carmanic Convergence.

ALSO Arlin Golden is in the house with his hilarious Backyard, to anchor a set of short docs on our Fair City: the Fillingers' Interchange, Attell's Fun House, and Oakland's Down to Earth, on sustainable collective living. AND speaking of utopian projects in the East Bay, tonight's real revelation is a 10-min. prime cut from a larger W-i-P by consummate film artist Ken Paul Rosenthal. PLUS Emeryville MudFlats, William Wiley's billboard art, and free postcards! $12