Oscars Singles Party

Oscars Singles Party Start Date: Sunday 2/24/2019 — End Date: Sunday 2/24/2019 Admission:10 Meet new friends at a lovely hotel! Only $10 at the door includes a FUN Academy Awards Mixer Game, with prizes; accompanied by light appetizers, served at 3pm, as long as they last. Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. Sunday, February 24, 2019, 3-5pm. BONUS: Stay after our party and view the Academy Awards live on TV, beginning at 5pm, with new friends you meet at the party! Dinner available at additional cost. LOCATION: Hyatt Place, 5700 Bay St, Emeryville CA. Conveniently located just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, at the junction of Hwy 80 and Hwy 880 and near Hwy 24. Free parking. CO-SPONSORED by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and by many singles meetups. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •The Valentine Ball, Feb 8, Mill Valley •Commonwealth Club Singles Party, Feb 13, San Francisco •Valentines Day Celebration, Feb 14, San Anselmo •Silicon Valley Party with Icebreakers, Feb 16 •Hidden Boulder Falls Adventure & Wine Tasting, Feb 16, St Helena •Presidents Holiday Weekend Party, Feb 17, Castro Valley •SF Peninsula Single Mingle, March 3, San Carlos •The Winter Ball at The Fairmont, March 9, San Francisc •Wildside South Africa Safari, May 1-9 Location: 5700 Bay Street Emeryville CA Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

Blues is a Woman

Blues is a Woman Start Date: Saturday 3/23/2019 — End Date: Saturday 3/23/2019 Admission:$25/Advance, $30/Day of Show Pamela Rose’s BLUES IS A WOMAN is a new theatrical concert with multi-media, celebrating the powerful contribution women in early Blues gave to American culture. These stories and songs, culled from this country’s most disenfranchised group, black women in the early part of the 1900’s, literally gave voice to the feminist movement and popularized our most enduring art form – the Blues. BLUES IS A WOMAN is also an ensemble piece, featuring outstanding Bay Area women blues musicians who sing and tell stories. Their collective voices onstage will represent the myriad unheard voices of the past. This is a theatrical concert in which storytelling by the women musicians onstage is woven around the music, augmenting the powerful, truth-telling, original songs written and popularized by early Blues Women (Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sophie Tucker). Without ever feeling like a lecture, or sacrificing the improvisational magic of a great Blues concert, this work aims to create a narrative presence as authentic as the music itself. In addition, archival film footage of these ladies in concert will act as counterpoint to the stage performances and ambient photo projections, to transport the audience to the makeshift stages and tent shows from which these powerful songs and women sprang. Location: 2513 Blanding Ave Alameda Contact: Tina Blaine info@rhythmix.org URL: https://www.rhythmix.org/events/blues-is-a-woman

Funk Festival Featuring EQ and 1st Ave Revue

Funk Festival Featuring EQ and 1st Ave Revue Start Date: Saturday 3/16/2019 — End Date: Saturday 3/16/2019 Admission:$26-$36 The Funkiest place on Earth is the California Theatre March 23, 2019. Yes, he’s taking you beautiful funksters on a ride – a funk tour for your ear hole from the Mothership to the SpaceShip! Don’t miss this ride! Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: Carolyn August info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www/pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com

Luck of the Irish Casino Night

Luck of the Irish Casino Night Start Date: Saturday 3/16/2019 — End Date: Saturday 3/16/2019 Admission:$50 This highly anticipated fundraiser is back! Test your luck and join us for food, entertainment and casino play! Cost includes buffet dinner and gaming chips. The Pittsburg Arts and Community Foundation’s fundraisers support projects that include the Railroad Book Depot, After-School Theater Program, The Art Shack Classes, and Pittsburg Summer Reads Literacy Program. Location: Senior Community Center 300 Presidio Lane Pittsburg, CA 94565 Location: 300 Presidio Lane Pittsburg Contact: Carolyn August info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www/pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com

Kour Pour: Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape

Kour Pour: Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape Start Date: Saturday 3/2/2019 — End Date: Saturday 5/4/2019 Admission:Free Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2, 5-8pm. Ever Gold [Projects] presents Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape, a solo exhibition of new work by Kour Pour. The exhibition includes paintings from a number of different series that Pour has developed over the past several years. Occupying both of the gallery’s exhibition spaces, this group of works illustrates the variety of subjects and techniques explored by the artist. Primarily working with painting and printmaking, Pour’s works encompass diverse subject matter and culturally specific references, ranging from Persian carpets to Ukiyo-e prints, and Western Abstraction to Eastern landscape painting. These references are used as starting points for his paintings, in which a source image is often cropped, abstracted, or adjusted in palette to create vivid, intricate, and layered painting surfaces. For Pour, any given process is not only a means to achieving a desired surface, but also a connection to specific art making traditions. This methodology can be seen in the block print paintings that stem from the artist’s investigation into Japonisme, the Japanese influence on Western art and culture. These works combine techniques and imagery used in Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaking to create large scale paintings on canvas that resonate with Modernist art traditions of the West. Kour’s synthesis of image and process often connects different art histories in an attempt to highlight the cultural exchanges that lead to artistic innovation and disrupt the notion of singular originality. Treating the history of painting as a framework to explore the products of cultural exchange and the possibilities for creativity and hybridization within the medium, Pour often inserts non-Western, ornamental, and craft practices back into Western traditions of painting which have eradicated or ignored such conventions in the past. In this regard, his paintings evoke the sensibilities of the Pattern and Decoration artists of the 1970s and ’80s. Manzareh/Keshiki/Landscape is the first overview exhibition of the artist’s work and includes paintings that roughly fit into three categories: figuration, landscape, and image/abstraction. Part a product of the artist’s multicultural biography, and part product of his interest in broader histories of migration concerning people, objects, and images, Pour’s work shares a vibrant energy through the use of rich colors, dynamic compositions, and various processes. A forthcoming catalogue with Skira also explores these notions and will be published later in 2019. All inquiries: please contact info@evergoldprojects.com. Kour Pour (b. 1987, Exeter, England) is an artist based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Abrash at Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago, 2018); Polypainting at GNYP Gallery, (Berlin, 2016); Polypainting at Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, 2018); Grinding at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2017); Earthquakes And The Mid Winter Burning Sun (with Kazuo Shiraga) at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2017); Labyrinth(s) at Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, 2016); Onnagata at GNYP Gallery, (Berlin, 2016); Onnagata at Feuer/Mesler (New York, 2016); and Samsara at Depart Foundation (Los Angeles, 2015). Pour was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30: Art And Style list in 2015 and 2017. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2019), and The Club Tokyo (Tokyo, 2019). Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/kour-pour-solo-exhibition-march-2-may-11/

“Incubator” Art Kiosk Installation Comes to Redw

“Incubator” Art Kiosk Installation Comes to Redwood City’s Courthouse Square Start Date: Saturday 3/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 4/6/2019 Admission:Free The Redwood City Improvement Associations welcomes the community to enjoy the new public art exhibit titled “Incubator” in one of the Courthouse Square kiosks in Downtown Redwood City. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, March 9 at 4 p.m. and the show will continue until April 6. The installation will be presented by Kate Dodd, an artist and Berkeley native, in support of Women’s History Month in March. “Incubator” will display thousands of books based on her personal trips to the Redwood City Library and beyond. A tower of books will be connected through hand-cut paper messages and supported by a foundation of books, aimed to celebrate women using books as a tool to develop their voices in fiction and non-fiction. In partnership with Fung Collaboratives, this is the third display of ten Art Kiosk Installations that will rotate throughout 2019 to showcase new top local and international artists and their unique exhibits. Location: 2200 Broadway St. Redwood City, CA Contact: n/a info@visitRWC.org URL: http://visitrwc.org/

“Seeking Life” Art Kiosk Installation Comes to R

“Seeking Life” Art Kiosk Installation Comes to Redwood City’s Courthouse Square Start Date: Thursday 2/7/2019 — End Date: Saturday 3/2/2019 Admission:Free The Redwood City Improvement Associations welcomes the community to take a peek inside the new public art installation titled “Seeking Life” in one of the Courthouse Square kiosks in Downtown Redwood City. The installation is presented by Santa Fe based mother-daughter duo, Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse. Witness geese in flight, moving through braided strands of colorful, repurposed plastic to represent a bird’s migration. Watch as some geese carry bundles of human personal objects; things that can be exchanged, left behind or held onto while traveling. “Seeking Life” is a celebration of the incredible spirit behind movement and journey. In partnership with Fung Collaboratives, this is the second display of ten Art Kiosk Installations that will rotate throughout 2019 to showcase new top local and international artists and their unique exhibits. Location: 2200 Broadway St. Redwood City, CA Contact: n/a event-coordinator@example.com URL: http://visitrwc.org/

Fundraiser Plant Sale

Fundraiser Plant Sale Start Date: Saturday 2/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 2/9/2019 Admission:Free Admission Join us for the first Fundraiser Plant Sale* of 2019 on Saturday, February 9th from 9:30am-1:30pm. W H A T: We have lots of beauties for you to enjoy! Everything from indoor and outdoor plants, trees, succulents, mulch, log edging, garden decor, tools, and more. Inventory changes daily. 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/february-plant-sale/

Finding Your Happily Ever After

Finding Your Happily Ever After Start Date: Wednesday 2/13/2019 — End Date: Wednesday 2/13/2019 Admission:free Join Relationship Expert, Dr. Wendy Lyon, for a transformative Free Webinar: Finding Your Happily Ever After! Find out how you score on the Conscious Dating Quiz, Learn the Ten Principles of Conscious Dating and Discover the 3 Essential Steps to True Love. This webinar is for you if you are single and want a great partner, if you are tired of relationship disappointment, or if you are confused and discouraged about dating. Location: webinar on your computer or phone anywhere Contact: Dr. Wendy Lyon Wendy@DrWendyLyon.com URL: https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=0013yYWxIr3lUFZ1djTmlfPBizz_L8AZjWE5NTaJ8IrJv

Gardening 101

Gardening 101 Start Date: Saturday 2/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 2/9/2019 Admission:$10 in advance or $12 at the door GARDENING 101 Saturday, February 9th from 2-4pm 4500 Lincoln Avenue Tickets $10 in advance or $12 at the door Learn how easy and fun gardening can be! Join Lori Caldwell and learn the basics to be a successful first time gardener. Topics will include: *Deciphering the terminology *Plants 101 *Healthy soil building *Transplanting and plant choice by season *Seeds vs. starts *Non-toxic pest control *Reuse in the garden and tips and tricks This class is taught by Lori Caldwell, Owner/Operator of CompostGal: Consulting, Landscaping & Education. Her mission: “To connect people to the soil and all that it provides”. She offers sustainable gardening classes for beginning and intermediate level gardeners. Topics include: composting, growing edibles, drought-tolerant gardening, Hugelkulture, natives and non-toxic pest control. In addition to garden maintenance projects, Lori also provides lawn conversion services using the permaculture technique known as sheet mulching. Location: 4500 Lincoln Avenue Oakland Contact: Odette Pollar connect@theplantexchange.com URL: http://theplantexchange.com/sustainable-urban-gardening-speaker-series/