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Singles Day in the Silicon Valley Start Date: Sunday 5/19/2019 — End Date: Sunday 5/19/2019 Admission:10 Celebrate being single at one of three parties at a boutique hotel! Only $10 at the door per party includes our FUN Mixer Game, that makes it EASY to meet new friends; accompanied by light appetizers, served at the beginning of each party, as long as they last. Dress to impress! Sunday, May 19, 2019. 2-4pm – Baby Boomers Bash 4-6pm – 40+ Mixer 6-8pm – Young Single Professionals Party BONUS: The hotel is offering us special Happy Hour pricing for all 3 parties, including $5 cocktails, wine, and beer, plus discounted ‘small bites’! LOCATION: Juniper by Hilton Hotel, Parkview Kitchen & Spirits, 10050 S DeAnza Blvd, Cupertino CA 95014. From Hwy 280 take N DeAnza exit. Free parking. CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and by many other singles organizations and meetups. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Wine Tasting Party, April 20, Livermore •Eco Waterfall Trek & Wine Tasting, April 20, Freestone •Easter Party in a Mansion, April 21, Fremont •Singles Night in Marin, April 23, San Rafael •Lady in Red Dance, April 27, Burlingame •Singles Charity Ball, May 4, San Francisco •Advanced Degrees Mixer, May 11, Alamo •Marin Singles Convention, May 31, Mill Valley Location: 10050 S De Anza Blvd Cupertino Cupertino Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

Advanced Degrees Singles Party Start Date: Saturday 5/11/2019 — End Date: Saturday 5/11/2019 Admission:10 Meet new single friends with a Doctorate or Masters Degree! Only $10 at the door includes light appetizers, served at 4pm, as long as they last; plus a FUN Mixer Game, with prizes. Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. Saturday, May 11, 2019, 4-6pm. LOCATION: Forli’s at Stone Valley Shopping Center, 3160 Danville Blvd, corner of Stone Valley Road, Alamo CA. From Hwy 680 take Stone Valley Road exit. Free parking! CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and many singles meetups. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Wine Tasting Party, April 20, Livermore •Eco Waterfall Trek & Wine Tasting, April 20, Freestone •Easter Party in a Mansion, April 21, Fremont •Singles Night in Marin, April 23, San Rafael •Lady in Red Dance, April 27, Burlingame •Singles Charity Ball, May 4, San Francisco •Singles Day in the Silicon Valley, May 19, San Jose •Marin Singles Convention, May 31, Mill Valley Location: 3160 Danville Blvd Alamo Alamo Contact: Rich Gosse richgosse@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

Uscale Estate Easter Singles Party Start Date: Sunday 4/21/2019 — End Date: Sunday 4/21/2019 Admission:15-30 Celebrate Easter with new single friends at a 12 acre private estate, with upscale mansion, manicured gardens, and a beautiful balustrade overlooking the Bay! Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. 4:30-6:30pm – Poolside Barbecue, including: •Wine Tasting •Easter Egg Hunt •Swimming & Hot Tub •Ping pong •Card Match Game •Prizes to 10 best Spring dresses 6:30-9pm – Indoor-Outdoor Party. COST: $25/advance (by 11am) or $30/door for BBQ and Party, 4:30-9pm. $15/advance (by 11am) or $20/door for Party only, 6:30-9pm. LOCATION: Private Estate, 45089 Cougar Terrace, Fremont CA 94539. Ample free parking. CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; San Francisco Singles, Singles Events & Travel, SF Bay Area Singles Events, Your Asian Connection, South Bay Outdoor Adventure, Single Professionals Internet Network (SPIN), Lifestyle Parties & Hiking, Single & Professional, Cougar Parties, Singles over 40 and Fun, Bay Area Asian Women, and many other singles organizations. DISCOUNTS & more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Sunday Afternoon Delight, April 14, San Carlos •Wine Tasting Party, April 20, Livermore •Eco Waterfall Trek & Wine Tasting, April 20, Freestone •Singles Night in Marin, April 23, San Rafael •Lady in Red Dance, April 27, Burlingame •Singles Charity Ball, May 4, San Francisco •Advanced Degrees Mixer, May 11, Alamo •Singles Day in the Silicon Valley, May 19, San Jose •Marin Singles Convention, May 31, Mill Valley Location: 45089 Cougar Terrace Vineyards – Avalon Fremont Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

A Bollywood Dance Party for the Family Start Date: Sunday 4/28/2019 — End Date: Sunday 4/28/2019 Admission:$10 The Bumblebee Kids Series @ the Osher Marin JCC presents: A Bollywood Dance Party for the Family Sunday April 28, 2019 @ 11:00am A fun, engaging morning immersed in the culture of India. The dance, music and stories of India burst in a cavalcade of color as Dholrhythm Dance Company lead the program with the beautiful costumes teaching bhangra dance steps to the rhythm of the Dhol drums in the Hoytt Theater. Come join in the fun as we whisk your family away to India without leaving San Rafael and learn more about this beautiful joyful dance and culture. Seating includes cozy couches and small round tables. Plenty of room for wiggling as needed and dancing! The morning begins at 11:00am with a pre-show hands-on arts activities to offer the opportunity to get creative and connect with friends. The show begins at 11:30 am, and lasts approx. 1-hour. A lovely opportunity for family to come together for a friendly, interactive, incredibly fun, inspiring, morning of music & dance with friends and family. WHAT: Fun, family friendly, interactive dance, music and stories with a Bollywood dance party, art activity and snacks available for purchase. TIMING: 10:30 am: Will Call/Box Office 11:00 am: Theater Doors Open / Hands-on Art Activities / 11:30 am: Show begins FOOD/DRINK: Healthy snacks, Peet’s Coffee, Numi Tea, & Hot Cocoa avail for purchase SEATING: General Admission. TICKETS: $10 – More Info marinjcc.org/arts PARKING: Ample FREE parking | The Osher Marin JCC is easily accessible – 1/2 mile E off 101. MORE: Recommended for children 4-8. Siblings welcome! Location: 200 N San Pedro Rd San Rafael Contact: Heidi Paul Hpaul@marinjcc.org URL: http//www.marinjcc.org/arts

Tony Lindsay with Santana Tribute Band Start Date: Saturday 5/4/2019 — End Date: Saturday 5/4/2019 Admission:$26-$36 You know the Voice… Tony Lindsay, lead vocalist for Santana for 25 years, and 11-time Grammy Award winner, is coming to Pittsburg with an awesome Santana tribute band to sing the favorites we know and love. Tony Lindsay is also a songwriter with an impressive curriculum vitae that includes: “Don’t Be Late For Love” (The Whispers), “Look What We’d Have If You Were Mine” (Tevin Campbell) and “Can’t Get Over Your Love” (Howard Hewitt). You may have also heard Tony singing background vocals on “Everyday People” (Aretha Franklin), “Emotionally Yours” (O’Jays) and “Glad To Be Alive” (Teddy Pendegrass) and this list goes on forever! In 2015, Carlos Santana decided to change personnel in his band and set the wheels in motion for Tony to start on his 5th and current solo CD “Something Beautiful” and guess who also gets to hear selections from that project? We do! Get your tickets NOW! This one should sell out! Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: California Theatre California Theatre info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com

Politico’s Anna Palmer & Jake Sherman – Authors of “The Hill to Die On” Start Date: Thursday 5/2/2019 — End Date: Thursday 5/2/2019 Admission:$15 – $55 Politico’s Palmer and Sherman offer a startling look at President Trump’s first two years in office and all the power struggles happening in Washington DC. Taking us behind the scenes to some of the most defining moments of our era, they highlight the gamesmanship, impulsiveness, fighting, backstabbing, and dealmaking happening amongst our political leaders. More importantly they share what’s really at stake for our country and the lasting impact it will have on the American people. Location: 4000 Middlefield Road Palo Alto Contact: Georgette Gehue ggehue@commonwealthclub.org URL: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2019-05-02/politicos-anna-palmer-and-jake-sherman-power-and-

Femprovisor Fest Start Date: Thursday 4/25/2019 — End Date: Sunday 4/28/2019 Admission:$15 Femprovisor Fest. Together we break the glass ceiling. We put womxn where they belong… center stage! Enjoy improv, sketch, and solo performance with a feminist flair. Featured performers include NYC based hip-hop improv group, “DMXX,” an “I Love Lucy’ inspired improvised musical from B.A. Improv (Portland) and local sketch comedy super team, “Granny Cart Gangstas.” 6th Annual Femprovisor Fest is presented by Leela, a SF improvisational theatre company and training center. Tickets: $15 at Exit Theatre. April 25-28. femprovisorfest.com Location: 156 Eddy St Tenderloin San Francisco Contact: Leela femprovfest@gmail.com URL: http://www.femprovisorfest.com

Marin Singles Convention Start Date: Friday 5/31/2019 — End Date: Friday 5/31/2019 Admission:15-20 MARIN SINGLES CONVENTION Friday, May 31, 2019 7:30pm – Entertaining Keynote Address: Love the Second Time Around, with author Patricia Fuqua. 8:30pm-12 – Dance Party, featuring your favorite Top 40 hits. Adults of all ages welcome. Dressy attire requested. LOCATION: The Club at Harbor Point, Lighthouse Grill, 475 E Strawberry Dr., Mill Valley. This is an exclusive waterfront location. Come early to enjoy the beautiful view before sunset! Free parking. CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; Singles2Couples; Dr. Wendy Lyon; and many other singles organizations and meetups. DISCOUNTS & more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Hidden Boulder Falls Adventure & Wine Tasting, April 13, St Helena •Sunday Afternoon Delight, April 14, San Carlos •Wine Tasting Party, April 20, Livermore •Singles Night in Marin, April 23, San Rafael •Lady in Red Dance, April 27, Burlingame •Singles Charity Ball, May 4, San Francisco Location: 475 E Strawberry Drive Mill Valley Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

Mario Ayala’ Give a Dog a Bad Name and Hang Him Start Date: Saturday 5/11/2019 — End Date: Saturday 6/22/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to present Give a Dog a Bad Name and Hang Him, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Mario Ayala. Featuring airbrushed paintings on canvas, works on paper, sculptures, and a video installation, this new body of work employs a type of figurative language in which elements coordinate and contradict themselves narratively and spatially. Ayala applies this figurative language to social histories, exploring representations of brownness and Latinx identity within the field of painting, and in the way visual representations are able to echo a discursive reality. Ayala’s paintings combine sensibilities, connecting disparate images and aesthetic gestures. Ayala credits his father as his primary influence, as he grew up watching him work on cars and motorcycles, and receiving ballpoint pen drawings from him as gifts when he returned home from work as a truck driver. Attending car shows and swap meets in Los Angeles, Ayala was exposed to a variety of painting techniques that are distinct from traditional art world methods: car painting and airbrushing are the artist’s earliest and most poignant references for creative expression. Ayala utilizes these familiar techniques and images in ways that are distinct from their original applications—as a simplified example, Ayala utilizes auto-body painting techniques designed to emphasize or reinforce the physical structure of a car in ways that distort and transform his subjects, or applies the techniques to objects that do not typically garner this kind of elevating treatment. Although arguably not breaking news, it seems reasonable to reinforce here: Latinx creative endeavors—in music, visual art, tattooing, car culture, and many other areas—permeate popular culture in the U.S. more and more thoroughly, both autonomously and through widespread cultural appropriation. Ayala’s work can be seen as a kind of reclamation with twists, as it embraces iconic images and stylistic gestures while suggesting that these structures are much larger and more dynamic than a common pop cultural representation might convey. Ayala is similarly interested in visual representations of translation and the slippages that can occur with language. In a painting titled Insurance Claim, a sad old dog is seen busting through a steering wheel with text reading “GUYCO” instead of “GEICO,” making reference to the complexity of translation and to Los Angeles’s particular bootleg culture in which counterfeit items attain validation in their own right, both as reasonable stand-ins for authentic items and as mashups that harness the impact of high end branding in the creation of new hybrid forms. In the gallery’s back room, Ayala presents a video installation titled Casa Padre, which references the name of the shelter for unaccompanied and separated immigrant minors in custody of the U.S. Office of Refugee and Resettlement in Brownsville, Texas. Casa Padre consists of an instructional video on how to put together a fence on your property accompanied by a Riz Ortolani-composed piece made for Paolo Cavara’s film Mondo Cane (translates to “Dog World”), punctuated with propagandistic interjections of strategies to demolish the constructs indicated by the instructional video. The room is transformed to mimic the appearance of the detention center, and sculptures serve as functional seating for viewers of Ayala’s video work. The painted sculptures are modelled after “time out chairs”—furniture designed for misbehaving children, often painted with characters or phrases—but Ayala has built them to a larger scale and ornamented their surfaces in a similar manner to the paintings on view. Ayala deconstructs and expands common perceptions of his chosen categories of images and aesthetics, offering enough of the original material to represent the traditions from which these forms originate while recasting images and techniques in new roles. Hybridizing images and uniting the incongruous, Ayala builds a visual language capable of mirroring the physical and social transformations of the landscape; Ayala’s compositions are only as strange and layered as the world we live in. In his new video installation and sculptural works, Ayala continues to develop this visual language in new terrain. Please contact info@evergoldprojects.com with any inquiries. Mario Ayala (b. 1991, Los Angeles, California) is an artist, working primarily in painting but also in sculpture. Ayala graduated from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2014, where he received the Yale Norfolk fellowship in 2012. He was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Gold Standard at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2019); AUT Of Body at Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (solo, 2018); Sun Sprawl at Club Pro Los Angeles (2018); Pen Pal at Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco (solo, 2017); Seasoned And Embarrassed Like A Wet Dog at SADE, Los Angeles (solo, 2017); Welcome To The Left Coast at The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2016); Summer Group Show at Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco (2016); The House Of Special Purpose at 99¢ Plus Gallery, Brooklyn (2016); Something Completely Different at City Limits, Oakland (2014); 5 Year Anniversary at Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco (2014); Locals Only at RVSF, San Francisco (2014); and Give + Take at Adobe Books, San Francisco (2013). Ayala lives and works in Los Angeles. Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/mario-ayala-solo-exhibiton-november-10-december-20/

Compost + The Carbon Farming Connection Start Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 — End Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 Admission:$10 in advance and $12 at the door The Plant Exchange presents ‘Compost + The Carbon Farming Connection – Sustainable Urban Gardening Speaker Series’ on Saturday, April 13th from 2pm-4pm at 4500 Lincoln Avenue. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Visit http://theplantexchange.com/sustainable-urban-gardening-speaker-series/ to purchase tickets. Tommy Fenster, from StopWaste, will speak on how to use compost along with other gardening practices to turn gardens into bay friendly landscapes and mini-carbon farms. Topics to include: *Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration *What is Carbon Farming/Climate Smart Gardening *The Five Principles of Climate Smart Gardening *Climate Smart Gardens = More Resilient Landscapes *Climate Smart Gardening and Biodiversity *How to Turn Your Lawn into a Climate Smart Garden *Questions and Discussion Tommy Fenster is a staff member of StopWaste. StopWaste is a public agency whose mission is to reduce the waste stream, create markets for recycled products and increase energy efficiency in Alameda County by providing tools at home, at work and at school. Tommy has been working at StopWaste since 2013. At StopWaste, Tommy works to educate Alameda County residents on ways to use compost and mulch (recycled products!) along with other management practices to create climate resilient, bay friendly landscapes. In addition to his work at StopWaste, Tommy is a graduate student in Biology at Cal State East Bay working on quantifying the differences between conventional and regenerative agricultural systems. For more information or to volunteer email us at connect@theplantexchange.com. Location: 4500 Lincoln Avenue Oakland Contact: Odette Pollar connect@theplantexchange.com URL: http://theplantexchange.com/sustainable-urban-gardening-speaker-series/