Month: October 2019

Thursday Night Singles Start Date: Thursday 11/21/2019 — End Date: Thursday 11/21/2019 Admission:$10 at the door Don’t wait until the weekend to have fun and meet new friends. Come to our extremely rare Thursday night dance party at an upscale hotel! Only $10 at the door includes dancing to your favorite hits with the house DJ. Dress to impress. Adults of all ages welcome. Thursday, Nov 21, 2019, 8-11pm. LOCATION: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Bistro 880, 39900 Ballentine Drive, Newark CA 94560. Conveniently located just off Hwy 880, at the Stevenson exit. Free parking! CO-SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and many singles meetups. This is a fundraiser for The Seva Foundation, www.seva.org, to restore sight to the blind. Every $50 we raise finances a cataract surgery for a blind person in one of the poor countries of the world. Please let all your single friends know. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Silicon Valley •Halloween Party, Oct 26, Mill Valley •Haunted Cemetery Hike, Oct 26, Sonoma •Single in the City Mixer, Nov 3, San Francisco •Peninsula Speed Dating, Nov 10, Burlingame •Wine Tasting Party, Nov 16, Larkspur •East Bay Speed Dating, Nov 16, Fremont/Union City •The Thanksgiving Ball at The Fairmont, Nov 30, San Francisco •SF Holiday Mixer, Dec 14, San Francisco Location: 39900 Balentine Dr Newark Newark Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: https://www.thepartyhotline.com

Collisions – SF Opening Night with Filmmaker In Person Start Date: Friday 11/8/2019 — End Date: Friday 11/8/2019 Admission:$13 GA/$9 Senior 65+ w/ ID ** Director Richard Levien in person for Q&A Friday, November 8 at 7pm and Saturday, November 9 at 4pm (run continues nightly thru Thurs Nov 14)** Written and directed by Bay Area filmmaker Richard Levien, and featuring an esteemed cast which includes Ana de la Reguera (Narcos, Nacho Libre), Izabella Alvarez (Westworld) and Jesse Garcia (Quinceañera), COLLISIONS is a moving drama that reveals the devastating impact of U.S. immigration policy on one family when the mother is detained by ICE. COLLISIONS has earned thirteen film festival awards (including the Audience Award at the 2018 Mill Valley Film Festival). In English (and in Spanish with English subtitles). Not rated. Location: 3117 16th Street at Valencia San Francisco Contact: Roxie Cinema membership@roxie.com URL: https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/collisions/?instance_id=37190

Luxurious Napa Hotel Singles Mixer Start Date: Saturday 11/23/2019 — End Date: Saturday 11/23/2019 Admission:10 We’ve been neglecting the beautiful Napa Valley for too long! This fun party in Napa’s newest luxurious boutique hotel has spectacular 360 degree views. Only $10 at the door includes a FUN Mixer Game, with prizes; accompanied by light appetizers, served at 3pm, as long as they last. Dress to impress. Adults of all ages welcome. Saturday, Nov 23, 2019, 3-5pm. LOCATION: Archer Hotel, 1230 First Street, Napa CA 94559. Lots of free parking on the street and nearby garages. CO-SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; and many singles meetups. This is a fundraiser for The Seva Foundation, www.seva.org, to restore sight to the blind. Every $50 we raise finances a cataract surgery for a blind person in one of the poor countries of the world. Please let all your single friends know. MORE PARTIES at www.thepartyhotline.com. •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Silicon Valley •Halloween Party, Oct 26, Mill Valley •Haunted Cemetery Hike, Oct 26, Sonoma •Single in the City Mixer, Nov 3, San Francisco •Peninsula Speed Dating, Nov 10, Burlingame •Wine Tasting Party, Nov 16, Larkspur •East Bay Speed Dating, Nov 16, Fremont/Union City •The Thanksgiving Ball at The Fairmont, Nov 30, San Francisco •SF Holiday Mixer, Dec 14, San Francisco Location: 1230 1st St Napa Napa Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: https://www.thepartyhotline.com

In The Wings Staged Reading: The River Start Date: Monday 11/11/2019 — End Date: Monday 11/11/2019 Admission:$10 Town Hall Theatre’s first IN THE WINGS staged reading of the 2019-20 Season is a one-night only performance of THE RIVER, a lyrical and mysterious new play about a man and a woman (or women, possibly), and fishing, by Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth. THE RIVER will have one performance on Monday, November 11, 2019, at Town Hall Theatre Company, 3535 School Street, in Lafayette, CA. Tickets are $10 general admission and free to subscribers, and are available through the Box Office at (925) 283-1557 or online at www.TownHallTheatre.com. “ … a magnetically eerie, luminously beautiful psychodrama.” – Time Out (London) In his subtly crafted play, THE RIVER, playwright Jez Butterworth sets the story in a remote cabin on the cliffs beside a river. The Man has invited The Woman there, and he longs to share with her the ecstatic excitement of fishing for trout that night, a once-a-year moonless night. Darkness, the sound of the rushing river and lights come up on the Man calling the police about a woman who has gone missing while fishing. He is interrupted by a door banging and The Other Woman enters, seemingly having exchanged places. Are we witnessing some kind of ritual enfold? Are we watching a ghost story, a thriller or an elegy? “A wonderful play, glinting and elusive as a fish.” – Financial Times THE RIVER is directed by Matthew Travisano and features three Bay Area talents: Erin Gould as The Man, Sarah Ruby as The Woman and Cynthia Lagodzinski as The Other Woman. Performance History Town Hall’s reading is the first time THE RIVER has been heard in the Bay Area. First produced by the Royal Court, London, in 2012, THE RIVER received its North American premiere at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York in 2014 starring Hugh Jackman, Cush Jumbo and Laura Donnelly. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Jez Butterworth is a playwright and screenwriter, actor and film director. His stage plays include Mojo (1995); The Night Heron (2002) and Winterling (2006), both of which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre; Parlour Song (2008), which opened in New York in 2008; the multi-award-winning comedy, Jerusalem (2009; Broadway 2011), which starred Mark Rylance; The River (2012); and The Ferryman (2017; Broadway, 2019 Tony Award Winner for Best Play). Among other awards, he has received two Olivier Awards, three Evening Standard Awards, four Writers’ Guild Awards, and three Critics Circle Awards. Screenwriting credits include Night of the Golden Brain and Christmas (both written with his brother Tom Butterworth); Birthday Girl (2001), which starred Nicole Kidman; The Last Legion (2007); Fair Game; Get On Up (2014); Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Black Mass (2015); and the James Bond film Spectre (2015). Location: 3535 School Street Lafayette Contact: Susan Evans boxoffice@TownHallTheatre.com URL: https://www.townhalltheatre.com/in-the-wings-staged-readings

East Bay Speed Dating Convention Start Date: Saturday 11/16/2019 — End Date: Saturday 11/16/2019 Admission:25-30 Meet new single friends, 5 minutes at a time, at a classy East Bay hotel! 3 different sessions: 1. 3:30-5pm – Asian Singles Speed Dating, ages 25-45. 2. 5:30-7pm – 45+ Speed Dating – all ethnic groups, ages 45-60 3. 7:30-9pm – Young Single Professionals Speed Dating, all ethnic groups, ages 30-45 LOCATION: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 32083 Alvarado-Niles Road, Union City CA 94539. Free parking in hotel lot or in the neighborhood. COST: $25/advance (by Nov 15) or $30/door, if space permits, per session. We recommend you prepay, as some sections are likely to sell out. Food and drinks available at additional cost. Dress to impress! Saturday, November 16, 2019. CO-SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, San Francisco Singles, SF Bay Area Singles Events, Single Professionals Internet Network (SPiN), Singles with Advanced Degrees, Backroads Wine and Nature Adventures, Single n’ Professional, Hidden Backroads Adventures, Your Asian Connection, 40+ Singles, Cougar Events, Lifestyle Parties, Bay Area Singles Travel, Cougar Meetup, Indie Tom’s Hidden Backroads, Bay Area Single Boomers, Palo Alto Ballroom Dancing, Bay Area Asian Women, Backroads Wine Waterfall Adventures, etc. This is a fundraiser for The Seva Foundation, www.seva.org, to restore sight to the blind. Every $50 we raise at the party finances a cataract surgery for one blind person in one of the poor countries of the world! So please invite all of your single friends! DISCOUNTS and more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •No Rejection Dance, Oct 19, Redwood City •Silicon Valley Speed Dating, Oct 20, San Jose •Hidden Rain Forest & Wild Cats Experience, Oct 20, Freestone •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Silicon Valley •Halloween Party, Oct 26, Mill Valley •Single in the City Mixer, Nov 3, San Francisco •Peninsula Speed Dating, Nov 10, Burlingame •Wine Tasting Party, Nov 16, Larkspur •The Thanksgiving Ball at The Fairmont, Nov 30, San Francisco •SF Holiday Mixer, Dec 14, San Francisco Location: 32083 Alvarado-Niles Rd Union City Union City Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: http://www.thepartyhotline.com

Ariane Vielmetter: The Rose Garden Start Date: Saturday 11/9/2019 — End Date: Saturday 12/7/2019 Admission:Free Ever Gold [Projects] presents The Rose Garden, a solo exhibition by Ariane Vielmetter. In new paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Vielmetter explores representations of the female body in relation to fruits and flowers, and the ways these visual metaphors relate to lived experience. The female body, as a vessel for new life, is a natural structure for this kind of projection, and Vielmetter is particularly interested in the way this kind of imagery relates to the experiences of pregnant women. In a culture overloaded with information about best health practices, and a political climate that is very unpredictable with regards to women’s rights, the pregnant body has become an increasingly political site. The visual conflation of the botanical and the anatomical has both a long history and a strong contemporary presence. In an artist book Vielmetter will release in conjunction with her exhibition, she notes an example of this: an iPhone app that informs pregnant women of the approximate size of their developing babies in relation to fruits and vegetables. A baby, according to the app, might grow from the size of a mango at week 19, to a banana at week 20, to a cantaloupe at week 26. In her exhibition, as in her book, the artist weaves the personal, historical, and political together in a manner that is both organic and associative. She moves seamlessly from images and anecdotes from her garden, to paintings by Paula Modersohn Becker and writings by Joan Didion, and back again. At the heart of it all, however, is a contemplation about the potential for things to be at their prime the moment before they begin to fall apart.¬ Whether it is considered through the meticulous rendering of a persimmon, a fruit that is practically inedible until it is on the cusp of rotting, or in the context of having a child in the face of irreversible climate change, this potential is The Rose Garden’s central meditation. Ariane Vielmetter (b. 1987, Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Los Angeles. Vielmetter’s work uses the conventions of still life and trompe l’oeil painting as a way to explore the image-making process and realism’s ability to convey both plausible fictions and uncanny truths. She draws from a variety of source materials, ranging from re-purposed studio scraps and unfinished drawings, to specimens collected from her compost pile and garden, anthropological illustrations, and works by artists and writers who have been historically overlooked or underestimated. She often creates limited edition artist books to accompany each body of work. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (BA, 2008) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 2012). Her work has been featured by Fabrik Magazine, Artnet, LA Weekly, and The Art Book Review, and has been shown in recent solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles) and Hey There Projects (Joshua Tree). Recent group exhibitions include Arrangements in Undertone at Pomona College (Claremont, 2017); The Furies at Visitor Welcome Center (Los Angeles, 2016); Modern Arts and Crafts at Eastside International (Los Angeles, 2016); and Demolition Woman at Chapman University (Orange, 2013). PREVIOUS POST Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 105 San Francisco Contact: Andrew McClintock info@evergoldprojects.com URL: https://evergoldprojects.com/exhibition/ariane-vielmetter-the-rose-garden-november-9-december-7/

Peninsula Speed Dating Convention Start Date: Sunday 11/10/2019 — End Date: Sunday 11/10/2019 Admission:25-30 Meet new single friends, 5 minutes at a time, at a fun restaurant! Sunday, November 10, 2019. 3 different sessions: 3:30-5pm – Asian Singles Speed Dating, ages 25-45. 5:30-7pm – 45+ Speed Dating – all ethnic groups, ages 45-60 7:30-9pm – Young Single Professionals Speed Dating, all ethnic groups, ages 30-45 LOCATION: Fattoria e Mare, 1095 Rollins Road, Burlingame CA 94010. From Hwy 101 take Broadway exit. Free parking. COST: $25/advance (by Nov 9) or $30/door, if space permits, per session. We recommend you prepay, as some sections are likely to sell out. Food and drinks available at additional cost. Dress to impress! CO-SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, San Francisco Singles, SF Bay Area Singles Events, Single Professionals Internet Network (SPiN), Singles with Advanced Degrees, Backroads Wine and Nature Adventures, Single n’ Professional, Hidden Backroads Adventures, Your Asian Connection, 40+ Singles, Cougar Events, Lifestyle Parties, Bay Area Singles Travel, Cougar Meetup, Indie Tom’s Hidden Backroads, Bay Area Single Boomers, Palo Alto Ballroom Dancing, Bay Area Asian Women, Backroads Wine Waterfall Adventures, etc. This is a fundraiser for The Seva Foundation, www.seva.org, to restore sight to the blind. Every $50 we raise at the party finances a cataract surgery for one blind person in one of the poor countries of the world! So please invite all of your single friends! DISCOUNTS and more parties at www.thepartyhotline.com. •No Rejection Dance, Oct 19, Redwood City •Silicon Valley Speed Dating, Oct 20, San Jose •Hidden Rain Forest & Wild Cats Experience, Oct 20, Freestone •Halloween Party, Oct 25, Silicon Valley •Halloween Party, Oct 26, Mill Valley •Single in the City Mixer, Nov 3, San Francisco •Wine Tasting Party, Nov 16, Larkspur •East Bay Speed Dating, Nov 16, Fremont/Union City •The Thanksgiving Ball at The Fairmont, Nov 30, San Francisco •SF Holiday Mixer, Dec 14, San Francisco Location: 1095 Rollins Rd Burlingame Gardens Burlingame Contact: Rich Gosse rich@richgosse.com URL: https://www.thepartyhotline.com

20th Annual Potrero Hill History Night Start Date: Saturday 11/2/2019 — End Date: Saturday 11/2/2019 Admission:Free Potrero Hill History Night returns for its 20th year on Saturday November 2nd at SF International High School. Kicking off the event at 5:30pm will be food and drinks, followed by a free program at 7pm till 9pm. This event showcases the amazing history of Potrero Hill told by people who lived it. Come experience Philip De Andrade as MC for the night and hear from Rose Marie Sicoli Ostler and Mat Callahan. Rose Marie will be talking about life in the ‘40s and ‘50s and Mat Callahan, a member of The Looters, will be talking about music and politics on the hill in the ‘60s and ‘70s. To end the night, there will be an update on the documentary made by Ken Fisher and Mariangela Mistrella, “Building Resilience in the Community” which is about the ongoing effort involved with rebuilding public housing on Potrero Hill. Location: 655 De Haro St Potrero Hill San Francisco Contact: Potrero Hill Archives Project ppotrero@pacbell.net URL: https://potreroarchives.com/Archives/History_Night.html

Live Organ & A Movie: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Start Date: Thursday 11/14/2019 — End Date: Thursday 11/14/2019 Admission:$6.50 Join us for our Live Organ & A Movie series. Hosted by Matias Bombal and music played by Dave Moreno. This series combines live organ music, raffles, and a classic movie all rolled into one. We begin with Dave Moreno playing the theater’s historic Robert Morton Organ with a selection of themed musical pieces. This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio’s costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with scientist Paul Lukas and diver Peter Lorre, Douglas sets sail to investigate–and is promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo (James Mason), who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine. This film won 2 Academy Awards for Best Film Direction and Best Special Effects. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: California Theatre info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/

Annie Start Date: Saturday 11/9/2019 — End Date: Sunday 11/24/2019 Admission:$16-$27 A plucky orphan is on a mission to find her parents in 1930s New York City. Abandoned on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes and experiences adventure in The Big Apple beyond her wildest dreams. Filled with great songs (including the now iconic “Tomorrow”), this Tony award-winning musical has been entertaining families for more than 40 years. Location: 351 Railroad Ave Pittsburg Contact: California Theatre info@pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com URL: http://www.pittsburgcaliforniatheatre.com/upcoming-events/