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NEW Art Kiosk Installation by Katharine Umsted Comes to Downtown Redwood City Start Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 — End Date: Sunday 5/12/2019 Admission:Free The Redwood City Improvement Association invites the community to experience the new Art Kiosk Installation titled “Long View” by Katharine Umsted opening on Saturday, April 13th at 4 p.m. in one of Downtown Redwood City’s Courthouse Square Kiosks. The opening reception will unveil the latest interactive art exhibit that the community can engage with as part of the rotating art installation project. “Long View” will transform the Art Kiosk into a visual representation of Redwood City’s ever-evolving commitment to preserving the nature that surrounds the city – symbolizing the community’s robust activities that allow residents and visitors to experience light and nature outdoors. “Long View” will be on display through May 12. In partnership with Fung Collaboratives, the rotating Art Kiosk Installations will continue throughout 2019 with different featured artists in an effort to enhance the community’s fine art scene for residents and visitors. Location: 2200 Broadway St. 94063 Redwood City Contact: Redwood City Improvement Association info@visitRWC.com URL: http://visitrwc.org/

College of Marin Presents ‘Symbiotic Earth’ Movie Screening Start Date: Friday 4/26/2019 — End Date: Friday 4/26/2019 Admission:Free Hello from the Environmental Action Club at College of Marin! We are so excited to be showing an extremely inspiring movie called ‘Symbiotic Earth’ to all who would like to come. We will be providing free food and drink from Marin Pizza, raffling sustainable products from our proud sponsors, and having a discussion with UC Berkeley Professor and film contributor Fritjof Capra. We hope to have people from the community and students joining together at the college for this week as we celebrate our planet. Entry is free with your RSVP! If you have any questions please email us at EACCOM415@gmail.com. Location: 835 College Ave. Kentfield Contact: Lily Cohen estar400@gmail.com URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symbiotic-earth-screening-tickets-59615069277

April Fundraiser Plant Sale Start Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 — End Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 Admission:Free Admission Join us for our next Fundraiser Plant Sale* on Saturday, April 13th from 9:30am-1:30pm. W H A T: Indoor and outdoor plants and trees, succulents, gardening tools, mulch, and more. Inventory changes daily. Check back for more details. W H E R E: 4500 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602 Have questions? Interested in volunteering? Email us at connect@theplantexchange.com. *All proceeds benefit our mission to promote sustainability, resource sharing, and community building. Location: 4500 Lincoln Avenue Oakland Contact: Odette Pollar connect@theplantexchange.com URL: http://theplantexchange.com/april-plant-sale/

MAYA STOVALL: UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP (GENERAL THEORY OF HISTORICAL MATERIALIST CRITIQUE REMIX) Start Date: Friday 4/5/2019 — End Date: Friday 4/5/2019 Admission:0 In this performance lecture with a live audio score by Todd Stovall, Maya Stovall considers the distinct works on view in Under New Ownership. Demonstrating how and where a research method and an artistic practice can meet, the artists show together how knowledge can be produced via the studio, the street, the interview, and the encounter. Writing too figures here as a central tool, and so Stovall punctuates the event with passages from her forthcoming Liquor Store Theatre book, as well as from a book project co-authored with her brother Josef Cadwell. Cadwell’s meditations range widely across theory and practice, including Stovall’s own, and reference an inside view of the U.S. prison system. Maya Stovall’s Under New Ownership is on view through May 05. Stovall works across the disciplines of performance and dance, moving and still image, installation, and text. She explores the big questions of human existence, creating works that “vividly juxtapose art and life” (The New York Times). Equally an artist and an anthropologist, she holds a Ph.D. in anthropology; a book based on her dissertation, Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art in Detroit, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in spring 2020. This performance lecture occurs as part of SFAI’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series (VAS), a public forum for engagement and dialogue with major figures in international contemporary art and culture. Through lectures, screenings, and performances, the series creates intimate connections between SFAI, artists, and the public. Location: 2 Marina Blvd San Francisco Contact: Kat Trataris ktrataris@sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/maya-stovall-under-new-ownership-general-theory-of-historica

EMORY DOUGLAS + THE POSTER SYNDICATE Start Date: Thursday 4/4/2019 — End Date: Thursday 4/4/2019 Admission:0 Emory Douglas + The Poster Syndicate 11am–12pm Talk by Emory Douglas 12–1pm Printing by The Poster Syndicate Emory Douglas was born May 24th, 1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been a resident of the San Francisco California Bay Area since 1951. Douglas attended City College of San Francisco where he majored in commercial art. He was politically involved as Revolutionary Artist and then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther party, from February, 1967 until the Early 1980’s. Douglas’s art and design concepts were always seen on the front and back pages of the Black Panther Newspaper, reflecting the politics of the Black Panther Party and the concerns of the community. The San Francisco Poster Syndicate grew out of the crisis around higher education. We create and screen print original images, continuing the rich history of posters as a form of political messaging. We print the posters “live” at political actions, exhibitions, and on the street, giving away the work for free in order to target a variety of current social and economic justice issues. The Poster Syndicate is here to bring art and design to many different people’s movements in hopes that their message can be heard and seen more loudly. Location: 800 chestnut street San Francisco Contact: Kat Trataris ktrataris@sfai.edu URL: https://sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/emory-douglas-the-poster-syndicate

Los Altos Rotary Fine Art in the Park Start Date: Saturday 5/18/2019 — End Date: Sunday 5/19/2019 Admission:FREE Join us for the 44th Annual Rotary Club of Los Altos “Fine Art in the Park’ May 18-19. Located under the Redwoods of Lincoln Park, downtown Los Altos (Foothill Exp & Main St.) Art show starts immediately after the Kiwanis Pet Parade on Saturday and continues till Sunday 5:30pm. Fine Art in the Park is considered one of the most prestigious and beautiful open-air art shows in California. Enjoy quality craftwork from 150+ onsite artists. Festivities include live music: jazz, blues, rock, along with a variety of food, beer, wine and fun! All proceeds go to our local community. Free shuttled parking at Los Altos High School and Gardner-Bullis. Location: 199 University Avenue Los Altos Contact: Kendra Gjerseth losaltosrotary@gmail.com URL: http://rotaryartshow.com

Mercury Soul Presents: Jazz Mafia Start Date: Friday 4/26/2019 — End Date: Saturday 4/27/2019 Admission:$20-30 Mercury Soul returns to San Francisco’s DNA Lounge for Mercury Soul Presents:Jazz Mafia on April 26th at 9pm for a kinetic fusion of DJing, live electronic and classical music, this time with a jazz-flavored twist. In the DJ booth will be DJ/trumpeter Will Magid, DJ Masonic (Mason Bates) and Chicago Native Justin Reed spinning jazz inflected house music alongside performances that span the spectrum of well-known pieces by jazz greats, classical-jazz crossover pieces, and original works. Headlining the show is the Oakland-based collective, Jazz Mafia, presenting two of their groups, both of which play mostly original music: Cosa Nostra Strings brings classical elements into what they do, while Heaviest Feather defies genre with a delicious soup with bits of jazz, rock, funk, and hip-hop. Diablo Jazz Company is bringing a jazz combo who will perform works by some of the great American jazz legends such as Duke Ellington and others, paying homage to composers who started it all. And finally the Mercury Soul Orchestra brings to the table some of Mercury Soul’s signature sound presenting works that are two takes on jazz by classical composers: Ebony Concerto by Igor Stravinsky, and Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein. All of this music is tied together with DJ sets through electro-acoustic interludes composed specifically for the show by Grammy-winning Bay Area composer/DJ and Mercury Soul Artistic Director, Mason Bates. Location: 375 11th St SoMa San Francisco Contact: Justin Reed msoulstaff@gmail.com URL: http://www.mercurysoul.com/events

Lady in Red Singles Dance Party Start Date: Saturday 4/27/2019 — End Date: Saturday 4/27/2019 Admission:15-20 Our annual Lady in Red Dance is always well-attended. Tonight we have a hotel ballroom that can accommodate 300. Please help us fill it. Bay Area bachelors are invited to meet that very special Lady in Red at this fun party! Gifts for the best-dressed ladies in red. $15/advance (by April 26) or $20/door includes dancing to your favorite hits. Dressy attire requested. Adults of all ages welcome. Saturday, April 27, 2019, 8pm-Midnight. LOCATION: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 835 Airport Blvd, corner of Anza Blvd., Burlingame CA 94010. From Hwy 101 headed north take Anza exit. From Hwy 101 headed south take Broadway exit; go across fwy; right on Old Bayshore; L on Airport Blvd. Free parking in parking lot in back of hotel, up the hill, last driveway on Anza Blvd before going onto Hwy 101. The parking lot arm will be up when you leave the party, so you don’t have to pay for parking! CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; Bay Area Singles Events & Travel, SF Bay Area Singles Events, Your Asian Connection, and many other singles organizations and meetups. DISCOUNTS & more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Redwood Forest Trek & Wine Tasting, March 30, Russian Rver •Live Music Mixer, March 31, Pleasanton •Silicon Valley Singles Convention, April 6, Santa Clara •Sunday Afternoon Delight, April 14, San Carlos •Wine Tasting Party, April 20, Livermore •Singles Night in Marin, April 23, San Rafael •Singles Charity Ball, May 4, San Francisco Location: 835 Airport Blvd Burlingame Burlingame Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

21st Annual Glen Park Festival Start Date: Sunday 4/28/2019 — End Date: Sunday 4/28/2019 Admission:FREE The Glen Park Festival is a neighborhood tradition to support the community. All proceeds go to benefit kids’ programs for schools and community organizations in and around Glen Park. The family-friendly festival features live music, a children’s arts and activity area, booths for local artists and craftsmen, ice cold drinks including beer and wine, and food truck/booths. The festival is a non-smoking event; smoking is not permitted within the festival boundaries. Location: Diamond Street between Bosworth and Chenery San Francisco Contact: Stephanie Alston inquiries@glenparkfestival.com URL: http://glenparkfestival.com

Writers With Drinks featuring Mike Chen, Peng Shepherd and Arkady Martine! Start Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 — End Date: Saturday 4/13/2019 Admission:$5 to $20 San Francisco's longest-running spoken word night features punk rock icon Michelle Cruz Gonzales. Plus three acclaimed speculative fiction authors: Mike Chen (Here and Now and Then), Peng Shepherd (The Book of M) and Arkady Martine (A Memory of Empire). Also featuring Saskia Vogel (Persuasion) and Susannah Breslin (Forbes Vices). Hosted by Charlie Jane Anders. Location: 3225 22nd St Mission District San Francisco Contact: Charlie Jane Anders charlieanders2@gmail.com URL: http://www.writerswithdrinks.com