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#199 in an ongoing series about the history of the Hillside Club

#198 in an ongoing series about the history of the Hillside Club

Berkeley Documentary Film Series at the Hillside Club presents a documentary about mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes directed and written by Jason Cohn.  Noyes designed programs and logos for some of America's most powerful corporations, including IBM, during the period of postwar economic expansion and culminates in the backlash against Noyes and his generation during the upheavals of the Vietnam era. ​ Cohn will be present after the screening to answer question

As we enter what we hope will be a season of celebration, we willbe tasting a collection of sparkling wines from around the world.These wines will come from Italy, Spain, California, and theChampagne region of France.The cost will be our usual $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Members get a preferential right to sign up for this tasting through Monday November 24th. After that it will be opened to non-members. We do allow up to four non-members sign up during the membe

Wed., April 9, 7 p.m., the Berkeley Documentary Film Series features Skin of Glass, a film by Denise Zmekhol, an Arab-Brazilian, award-winning director whose documentary Children of the Amazon was broadcast on PBS. This new documentary starts with the discovery by the filmmaker that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of Sao Paulo, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families. Admission is $15 online or at

Thursday July 18th, 2024 - 7:30PM - Southern Rhone Tasting Our next tasting will be 7:30PM on Monday July 18th and will feature red wines from the Rhone Valley.  The Rhone Valley in Southern France is a long valley and really two distinct sub-regions. The Northern Rhone is in a narrow valley with very steep walls and only one red grape: Syrah, and just a few white grapes (Viognier, Marsanne, and Roussanne). ​ The Southern Rhone Valley is much wider, has a more Provencal clima

February 6th, 2023 at the Hillside Club - 7:30pm Dr. Mo Budak may be retired from his 44 years of his cosmetic and restorative dentistry practice in Sunnyvale, teaching on the faculty of the UCLA School of Dentistry, and serving as president of the Northern California Academy of Dental Research, but in the past four years his intensive research into forensic odontology (the identification and analysis of human teeth and other oral structures in a legal context) and the histor

Friday, April 28th, 2023 - 12pm Arlene Blum not only led the first American and all-woman ascent of Annapurna I – one of the world's most difficult and dangerous mountains – in 1978, she is now leading environmental health policy work to eliminate "forever chemicals," thousands of harmful PFAS that can contaminate our water, food, and everyday products. A Reed College alum (that's where we met), with a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from UC Berkeley, Arlene leads the Green Sc

Karen Folger Jacobs , Berkeley filmmaker and Third World Film educator, will talk about the making of Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 , a book reissued in 2008 that Karen coauthored with renowned photographer Mary Ellen Mark in 1975, about the making of Milos Forman's film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", shot on location at the Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution. While on set, Mary Ellen and Karen met the women of Ward 81, the only locked hospital security ward for women

Our next tasting will be 7:30PM on Thursday March 2nd. The plan is to identify six red wine varietals. Unlike our usual tasting format where we taste the wines and the reveal them, we will hand out the tasting list at the start of the event and everyone will try to match the numbered bottles to the six wines listed in the tasting notes. As usual, there will be no test at the end. The cost for this tasting will be $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Members get a preferen

Monday April 10th, 2023 - 7:30PM - Zinfandel Tasting Our next tasting will be at 7:30PM on Monday April 10th. The theme will be Zinfandel, a wine that is grown primarily in California though it is also grown in Italy (under the name Primitivo), South Africa, Australia, and Croatia (under the name Crljenak Ka�telanski). Unless we can find some Zinfandel from these other countries, we plan to highlight wines from different regions of California and with a variety of ages. The c

A second version of the popular June 2023 wine tasting featuring white wines of France.

April 3rd, 2023 at the Hillside Club - 7:30pm This event is happening in person at the Club but will also be livestreamed on Zoom. If you want to want it live from home please register in advance: April Fireside - Remembering Charles Keeler Apr 3, 2023 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuChrTsuGdQxCoPmpe6RepFYsJQOk8Id

Our next tasting will be at 7:30PM on Monday October 10th. The theme will be Cabernet Franc, a varietal that we have only previously featured once, nine years ago. Cabernet Franc is typically found as a major component of Bordeaux wines. It is one of the top three grapes in Bordeaux reds (together with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon), and interestingly enough is a mother grape to both Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It is also grown in the Loire region of France, Italy, Hunga

Our next tasting will be at 7:30PM on Tuesday December 6th and following our December tradition we will be tasting a collection of sparkling wines from around the world. Some of these wines will come from California and the Champagne region of France. We hope that you will be able to join our merry group as get warmed up to celebrate the New Year. ​ Members get a preferential right to sign up for this tasting through Monday November 21st. After that it will be opened to non

Julia Morgan: A Very Personal View Victoria Kastner will reveal the inspiring story of Julia Morgan's private life, as gleaned from the letters Julia exchanged with her family and friends, as well as from the observations she wrote in her private diaries. In this presentation, customized for the Hillside Club, Kastner will provide an especially in-depth and intimate view of this famous architect. Ms. Kastner will be calling on the materials she researched for her just-releas

Many thanks to all who helped make the HSC Spring Dinner a success. First and foremost, the members and friends who came to the dinner. We reached full capacity (80 for this dinner) and appreciate the financial support of those who had to cancel coming to the dinner. Our costs were also defrayed by a generous donation of wine from the HSC Dance Committee. ​ There is a lot that goes into putting together a dinner: coordinating entertainment and catering, printing and sendin