Meatpaper and Blue Bottle Coffee are joining forces to open SFMOMA’s third Thursday springtime event series, SFMOMA: Now Playing.

What is "Now Playing," you ask? Well, it's when SFMOMA "invites artists to animate the museum in unexpected ways—and audiences to come play and see the museum in a new light." It's a time when the patients take control of the sanatorium, if you will, while "guests can roam the galleries, take in live performances and talks, and unwind with cocktails and food while experiencing the atrium as a projection chamber, a hidden annex as a lounge, and artists playing the architecture."

So, before Thursday's screening of films from Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection (7pm) and a performance by LA-based My Barbarian (9pm), Meatpaper and Blue Bottle Coffee, two local gastronomic ingenues plucked from obscurity and made famous over the last year, will put together "an evening of coffee-inspired charcuterie, meat-inspired desserts, and Blue Bottle coffee," featuring meat by Morgan Maki of Bi-Rite, Chris Kronner of Bar Tartine, and Staffan Terje of Perbacco and Barbacco. (Meat and coffee = dieting secret of the stars!) Complimentary wine will also be served. (Food will be served at 6pm sharp.)

What: SFMOMA: Now Playing
Where: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (151 3rd Street at Howard)
When: Thursday, March 18
Cost: Rooftop event is free with half-price museum entry. (Free for SFMOMA members.) Tasting plates $5. Visit SFMOMA for more details.