September 2011

Private Curator Tour of "The Mourners"

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Mon, Oct 3 2011 - 3:00pm

Private Tour of "The Mourners" with SF Curator, Dr. Lynn Orr
The 2011 winner of the Association of Art Museum Curators award for excellence in the category of outstanding small exhibitions, "The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy," is on view at the Legion of Honor. The exhibition features 37 exceptional devotional figures that recreate the mourners in a royal funeral procession. Read more »

Longevity Planning: Practical Approaches to Managing Life Transitions (Part One)

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Wed, Sep 21 2011 - 5:15pm

Longevity Planning: Practical Approaches to Managing Life Transitions (Part One)
Denise Michaud, Long Term Care SpecialistMary Radu, MS, MSW, CPCC, Certified Professional Coach and Philanthropy ConsultantBen Yohanan, President, Hatch Retirement Services
For a healthy 65-year-old couple, there is a 50 percent chance that at least one will live beyond the age of 92, and a 25 percent chance at least one will live to age 97. Read more »

Karen McCall: You and Your Money - A Relationship Built to Last?

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Thu, Oct 6 2011 - 6:00pm

You and Your Money: A Relationship Built to Last?
This program is cancelled
Karen McCall, Founder, Financial Recovery Institute; Author, Financial Recovery
It’s no secret that we’re headed down a bumpy financial road. The question is: Will your relationship with money make that road easier or more treacherous? Read more »

Green Walking Tour of Downtown Berkeley

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Thu, Sep 22 2011 - 9:00am

Green Walking Tour of Downtown Berkeley 
This program is cancelled
Lower your carbon footprint on an engaging and lively tour of one of the nation’s environmental epicenters. Go behind the scenes and visit local pioneering, high-impact, immediate models of sustainability. Read more »

Montalvo Villa Walking Tour

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Sat, Sep 17 2011 - 10:00am

Historic Villa Montalvo Tour
This program is sold out
Nestled in the Saratoga foothills, the Montalvo Arts Center was once the country home of California Senator James Duval Pehlan. Learn more about the historic grounds, filled with gardens and sculpture, and Pehlan’s incredible life on a two-hour guided walking tour. Read more »

Misha Glenny: Cybercrime

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Tue, Oct 25 2011 - 12:00pm

Misha Glenny: Cybercrime
Author; Journalist; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars a year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible and very smart new breed of criminal. Intrepid investigative reporter Glenny gives an edge-of-your-seat account of a new form of crime spawned by the digital world. He has traveled the world speaking with members of military and intelligence communities, police, politicians, lawyers and with the hackers themselves and their victims. Read more »

Public-Private Partnerships: Boosting America's Jobs, Education and Economic Development

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Tue, Sep 20 2011 - 6:00pm

Public-Private Partnerships: Boosting America’s Jobs, Education and Economic Development Read more »

"Meet the Artists" Reception for "One Room, Many Voices"

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Mon, Sep 26 2011 - 5:00pm

Meet-the-Artists Reception for “One Room, Many Voices”
Printmakers Sherry Smith Bell, Ruth Gendler, Elizabeth Jameson and Sasha Miyamoto will be available to personally answer your questions about their art, their inspiration and their process. Do you understand what printmaking entails? Could you identify the following from their exhibition: a monotype, a monoprint, a collograph or a giclee? Join us and learn. Tools of the trade will be on display, and a short video of the artists in action will be played at intervals throughout the evening. Read more »

US Senator Jeff Merkley

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Wed, Oct 26 2011 - 12:00pm

US Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
America should wean itself from foreign oil and invest in clean energy technologies and infrastructure. Join us for a broad conversation about what Congress could do to promote electric cars, create jobs and spur development of biofuels from forests and agricultural lands.
Location: SF Club Office Time: 11:30 am check in, noon program Cost: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students (with valid ID)

John Renesch: Conscious Leadership - Call for a New Paradigm

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Tue, Nov 15 2011 - 6:00pm

Conscious Leadership: Call for a New Paradigm
John Renesch, Founder, Renesch Advisory Services; Author, The Great Growing Up: Being Responsible for Humanity’s Future
There is an opening for a new breed of leader in our institutions -- locally, nationally and globally. Many people are fed up with dysfunctional systems and the so-called leaders that populate them. Global futurist Renesch addresses this issue by describing a new breed of leader and describing our responsibility in bringing about drastic changes in our society. Read more »