Interest: Cultural
On or after: Sunday 03 June 2012
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San Mateo / San Mateo Library
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives - and a small Mississippi town - upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.
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Tiburon / Belvedere-Tiburon Library, Founders Room
Selections are alternated monthly from two books published by The Great Books Foundation: Great Conversations 4 and The 7 Deadly Sins.
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Mountain View / Books, Inc.
Anita Amirrezvani shares her gorgeous and exciting novel of 16th Century Iran, Equal of the Sun.
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Oakland / Oakland Public Library, Main
Kathy Sloane, Oakland-based photographer and author of Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club, will share her photographs of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Alameda / Rhythmix Cultural Works
Get out your magic carpet and fly over to Rhythmix to join Mr. Entertainment and the dancing Yay girls for a lively evening of Arabian nights Bingo.
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Berkeley / La Peña Cultural Center
Ch'ulel (Jorge Creuheras Orozco, Mexico, 2011, 71min.) A beautifully filmed journey to Chiapas, Mexico, the essence of the place and the soulful and spiritual connection several communities have to this place.
Preceded by the short Ascend (Jacqueline Medina Argote, USA, 2011, 1min.)
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Berkeley / La Peña Cultural Center
The Tijuana Project (John Sheedy, USA, 2009, 61min.) An uplifting story following the lives of six children of poverty who live, work and play on the Tijuana, Mexico Municipal Garbage Dump and how, with the help of others, they improve their lives.
Preceded by the short Secretos para Cocinar una Relación Saludable (Secrets on how to cook a Healthy Relationship). A self-help short film (Daniel Martin Rodriguez, Peru, 2011, 14min.)
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Sunnyvale / Pure Lounge
A Hawaiian themed singles event.
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Berkeley / La Peña Cultural Center
Named after the Hawaiian word for "family", OHANA! strives to build a continuous string of variety performances to showcase the very best Asian American musicians, spoken word artists, dancers, video and multidisciplinary artists, and visual artists from in and around the Bay.
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Albany / Gathering Tribes
Exquisite pottery from the over 300 potters that live in the Mata Ortiz village in northern Mexico.
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