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| The Dragon Theatre |
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| Dragon Productions is pleased to present A Girl's Guide to Chaos written by Cynthia Heimel.
If you are a fan of Fran Lebowitz, Bridget Jones’ Diary or Sex and the City, you certainly won’t want to miss this sassy comic venture into the romantic & sexual escapades of the urban female in 1980’s Los Angeles.
Directed by Bill Starr, and featuring Denise Berumen, Magenta Brooks, Lorie Goulart, Kim Saunders, Noel Wood
Playing at the Dragon Theatre (535 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301) |
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| UM LOWE ART MUSEUM’S ART LAB OFFERS STUDENTS
A CHANCE TO WORK BEHIND THE SCENES
WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION EXAMINE
PERSPECTIVES ON ISLAMIC ART |
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| The Lowe Art Museum, in partnership with the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami, presents Women, Windows and the Word: Diverging Perspectives on Islamic Art, the third exhibition in the ArtLab @ The Lowe series, on view in the Richard and Shelley Bermont Focus Gallery through April 22, 2012. The Lowe’s innovative ArtLab program provides UM faculty and students the opportunity to organize an annual exhibition drawn from the Lowe’s permanent collection. The students work directly with objects from the museum’s collection of nearly 18,000 works of art, producing original research and curating a thematic exhibition that will be on display for a full calendar year.
For the Spring 2011 semester, Dr. Karen R. Mathews, Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences, and her museum studies students explored the complex theme of Islamic art, concentrating on three distinct but intertwining themes: the role of Muslim women as creators and subjects of art, Western views of the Islamic world, and the importance of decoration and the written word. As a group, the seven students who enrolled in ArtLab @ The Lowe (ARH 511) selected the themes for the exhibition, determined the works of art that best represented the topics examined, researched objects and wrote didactic materials, and designed the exhibition space from selecting paint colors to determining object placement within the gallery. |
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| Delightful Dim Sum Weekends |
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| Uphold the weekend tradition of a leisurely afternoon with your family or loved ones and enjoy the new Dim Sum Buffet at Jade. Intricately prepared to perfection, Master Chef Leong Chee Yeng and his award-winning culinary team presents a total of 23 varieties of delicate dim sum dishes for the insatiable palate. |
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| Full Moon Madness! |
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| Full Moon Madness!
On or around Full Moons - lodging offered as low as $140.00. A huge savings!
When the moon shines its brightest at Safari West, something special is definitely in the air - and it's not just moon dust! It's our special package - Full Moon Madness. We invite you to enjoy this extraordinary adventure at an exceptional 50% savings. We only go this mad a few days of the year!
Included: One night lodging and continental breakfast. (Based on Double Occupancy). Tours, meals and or other activities may be booked for an additional cost. |
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| Edible Expeditions |
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| Surprises abound about the treats we eat in a new exhibition called Edible Expeditions. It¹s a chance to see food in the wild as visitors take a discovery journey of edible plants from around the world. Arranged in lush demonstration gardens, Edible Expeditions highlights the many delicious products that we enjoy from tropical countries like chocolate, vanilla, coffee, rice and spices galore. Interactive demonstrations help visitors understand how their food goes from vine to dine. And families will enjoy the many hands on Edibilicious activities that allow children to explore tropical roots, fruits, leaves and seeds with their senses. |
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| Mix |
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| MIX is a lively social event at the Cantor Arts Center for young professionals, offering art, cocktails, music, and conversation in an inspiring setting. |
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| Dragon Productions presents -The Memory of Water |
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| The Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
It’s remembering which helps three sisters survive the despair of
losing their mother and come to terms with their own lives. From start to finish
The Memory of Water is a whirl-wind of emotions, bouncing from hilarious hysterics
to twisting sorrow and pain. In the end, it’s very simple: sometimes a good laugh,
a good cry and a good hug are the best therapy.
Directed by: Ana-Catrina Buchser
Stage Manager: JoHanna Ruefli
Set Designer: Ron Gasparinetti
Master Carpenter: Charles MacKeithan
Lighting Designer: Gerald 'rover' Spotts
Sound Designer: Gerald 'rover' Spotts
Costume Design: Magenta Brooks
Props Master: Aileen Menkin
Box Office Administrator: Mary Lou Torre
Graphic Design: Bobby Buchser
Featuring:
Vi: Lessa Bouchard
Mary: Meredith Hagedorn*
Teresa: Laura Jane Bailey*
Catherine: Karin McKie
Mike: Patrick Borella
Frank: Noel Wood
*Member of Actors' Equity Association
This is an Equity Approved Project
Dates: August 21st – September 13th
Thursday – Saturdays 8pm & Sundays at 2pm
Pay-What-You-Can Preview, Thursday, Aug. 20th
Talk-Back with cast, Sunday, Sept. 6th |
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| GLOBAL LENS: ''Those Three'' |
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| GLOBAL LENS
In collaboration with The Global Film Initiative
The Global Lens film series was launched in 2003 to support the distribution of unique and critically acclaimed cinematic works from around the world. Each film is selected (with the consultation of the Initiative’s Film Board of Directors such as Pedro Almodovar-Spain, Christopher Doyle-China, Mira Nair-India, Carlos Reygades-Mexico, Béla Tarr-Hungary, Lars von Trier-Denmark, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul-Thailand) for its authentic voice, strong cinematics and unique perspective.
Miami Theatrical Premiere! |
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| Open Source Embroidery: |
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| Open Source Embroidery includes workshops and exhibitions that investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition at MOCFA brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment withinterdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies. |
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| About BETWEEN HERE AND THERE: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection |
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| BETWEEN HERE AND THERE focuses on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim the Americas, Europe and Africa from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Included within this broader framework will be the work of a number of artists residing in South Florida, many of whom are paradigms of this intercultural dialogue.
BETWEEN HERE AND THERE opened a remarkable installation by Tom's Saraceno, the Argentine representative to this year's Venice Biennale. Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, Like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider's Web, 2008, is the prototype for Saraceno's Venice installation; it was purchased last year by MAM's Collectors Council and is being displayed at Miami Art Museum for the first time. The installation will be the initial offering in the Anchor Gallery, a space that will feature regularly changing presentations of large-scale works from the collection. |
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| The 22st Annual Fiesta on the Hill |
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| The 22nd Annual Fiesta on the Hill
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Cortland Avenue ~ Bocana Avenue to Folsom Street
Bernal Heights ~ San Francisco, CA
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
What is Fiesta?
Fiesta on the Hill is a community based, high-profile and energetic Festival with an attendance of over 20,000 friends and neighbors from San Francisco‘s Bernal Heights area, neighboring communities and the greater Bay Area. The event is in its 22nd year and continues to grow.
The Festival benefits the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center whose mission it is to preserve and enhance the ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity of the Bernal Heights District of San Francisco and surrounding neighborhoods. |
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| Everyone Else |
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| A newly in-love German couple slowly
realizes that their relationship may not
survive a holiday in Sardinia. Maren Ade’s
brilliant sophomore effort should be placed
alongside Scenes from a Marriage for
its piercingly intelligent examination of a
relationship hovering in the netherworld
between commitment and dissolution.
DIR: Maren Ade (Germany 2009, 119 min) |
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| MIX |
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| MIX is a lively social event at the Cantor Arts Center for young professionals, offering art, cocktails, music, and conversation in an inspiring setting. |
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| Chocolate Factory Tours |
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| Learn About Chocolate and Chocolate Making
We offer programs daily to learn about chocolate and how we make it. These hour-long programs are free and open to the public.
The first part of the program includes a presentation about the history of cacao, how and where cacao is grown and processed, the history of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, and a tasting of Scharffen Berger chocolates. There is plenty of time for questions and answers.
The second part of the program is a brief walking tour of our factory. |
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| A Midsummer nights DREAM |
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| Introduction by Tim Supple
This production was created in India in 2005/6. The performers, designers and stage management are all Indian and Sri Lankan. They come from a wide variety of regions, backgrounds and theatre traditions across the sub-continent. The company speaks many languages - seven of which are on stage in this show: English, Hindi, Tamil, Malyalam, Marathi, Bengali and Sanskrit. The text has been carefully and faithfully translated from the original. It is with great joy that we come to San Francisco after playing to audiences in India, Stratford-upon-Avon, London, Verona and across the UK and Australia. |
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| SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE THE SONGS OF LEIBER AND STOLLER Music and lyrics by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller |
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| Tap your toes and snap your fingers to pop standards from rock ‘n’ roll to rhythm and blues!
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller virtually invented rock 'n' roll and this 1995 Broadway hit celebrates their pivotal role in launching a golden age of American culture. The classic themes of love won, lost and imagined dovetail with humorous set pieces and slice-of life cameos. Featuring such unforgettable standards as ‘On Broadway,’ ‘Love Potion #9,’ ‘Spanish Harlem,’ ‘Fools Fall In Love,’ and nearly 40 other classic rock ‘n’ roll hits, Smokey Joe’s Café isn’t just great pop music – it’s compelling musical theatre! |
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