C H I G O N G
The Technology of Walking
Wednesdays • 9:15—10:15 AM • $15/$12 HSC members
with Jay Shelfer
An ongoing class to re-engineer harmful habits of walking that lead to problems with the knees, feet, and hips. Refine the process of walking by using natural spiraling motion to regain balance, strength, and flexibility in the body. Open to everyone.
Jay Shelfer has taught movement, Tai Chi, and ChiGong to over 6000 people in a school he started in Thailand, led seminars in Spain, Italy and Switzerland, and was teacher-in-residence for many years at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Currently he teaches in Marin.
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W I N E T A S T I N G
Styles of Merlot
Sunday • March 7 • 3 PM
with wine connoisseurs Eric Allman and Kirk McKusick
We will be returning to our usual tasting format where we will be tasting six Merlot (or at least primarily Merlot blend) wines. We will be drawing from a wide variety of styles and locales for these wines. RSVP to wine-rsvp@neophilic.com
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Oscars on the Big Screen
Sunday • March 7 • 5 PM • $10 suggested donation
Watch the Academy Awards at the Hillside Club. We’ll have salad and take orders for pizza. You are welcome to bring munchies, food, and drink.
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Film Critics Circle
Monday • March 8 • 7:30 PM
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A W O M A N ‘ S V O I C E
T A L K S B Y W O M E N W I T H A P A S S I O N
Carol Bier
Plato, Geometry, and Islamic Art
Tuesday • March 9, 2010 • 7:30 PM • $10/$5 HSC
We do not usually associate Plato with his mathematics, nor is it generally known how much Plato’s philosophy influenced the historical development of Islamic thought. Furthermore, when we perceive the extraordinary architectural decoration of the Alhambra, little do we think of mathematics, much less of philosophy. In this illustrated presentation, Carol Bier will share her work of the past several decades, exploring relationships among philosophy and theology, geometry and Islamic art. Rather than just decorative and ornamental, as often perceived in the West, geometric forms of expression in Islamic art are recognized as culturally significant, related both to visual expression and to the history of mathematical thinking and contemporary philosophical discourse, which relied upon the works of Classical antiquity.
Hillside Club member Carol Bier is Research Associate, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, where she served as Curator for Eastern Hemisphere Collections from 1984 until 2001. For more than twenty years, her research in Islamic art has focused on the study of patterns as the intersection of art and mathematics. For many years, she taught courses on Islamic arts and cultures at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Bier now lives in the SF Bay Area and has recently taught at SF State University, Mills College, and the College of Marin. She has published widely, internationally, including several books, and lectures throughout North America and abroad.
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F U N D R A I S E R F O R F I L M ON
Self-Empowered African Women
Bamako Chic:
Women Cloth Dyers of Mali
A film by Maureen Gosling and Maxine Downs
Thursday • March 18 • 7:30 PM • $40 donation
Join us to celebrate and benefit a new film on self-empowered African women, Bamako Chic: Women Cloth Dyers of Mali by Maureen Gosling and Maxine Downs with scenes from Bamako Chic, a Malian musical performance by Mamadou and Vanessa, plus reception. The brilliant fabrics whose creation the film documents are on display now at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, 51 Yerba Buena Lane across from the Jewish Museum at Mission between 3rd and 4th Street until May 2.
Information at 510-843-8724, Charlene@woodynet.net
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ChiGong Intensive
Saturday, March 20 • 9:30—Noon • $35/$30 HSC members
with Jay Shelfer
THE TECHNOLOGY OF WALKING. Refine movements of standing, walking, resting, and stretching to relax, and regain balance, strength, and flexibility in the body plus floor work to stretch the spine. Open to everyone.
Jay Shelfer has taught movement, Tai Chi, and ChiGong to over 6000 people in a school he started in Thailand, led seminars in Spain, Italy and Switzerland, and was teacher-in-residence for many years at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Currently he teaches in Marin.
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Film Critics Circle
Monday • March 22 • 7:30 PM
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Cello and Piano Concert
Oleg Sendetsky—Cello
Mutsuko Dohi—Piano
Tuesday • March 23 • 7:30 PM • $20 suggested donation
The Hillside Club is pleased to welcome Oleg Sendetsky, Principal Cello and Cello group Concertmaster of the acclaimed Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly the Kirov Orchestra) one of the top twenty orchestras of the world, along with Mutsuko Dohi, DMA, pianist from Japan, who recently moved to the Bay area (www.mutsukodohi.com). We are delighted to be able to present this program between The Mariinsky Orchestra’s performances in this country at Carnegie Hall on March 9 and 10 and Davies Hall in San Francisco on March 21 and 22. Program:
Bach Sonata (Cello solo)
Faure Elegie
Liszt-Aliabiev Nightingale (Piano solo)
Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor
Rachmaninoff Sonata for Cello and Piano G Minor, Op. 19
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B O O K L U S T S A L O N
Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea
Tuesday • March 23 • 7:30 PM
The March meeting will be held at a different location. Please call Anne Groves for the address. 510 – 991-7684. See Booklust Salon
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BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS and THE HILLSIDE CLUB present
Harry Kreisler
Political Awakenings:
Conversations with History
Wednesday • March 24 • 7:30 PM • $12 advance/$15 door/HSC $6
As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle’s newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rights Nobelist Shirin Ebadi and her husband signed their own legal contract, attempting to restore equality to their marriage after the Iranian Revolution effectively erased the legal rights of women. Elizabeth Warren set out to expose those frauds declaring bankruptcy and taking advantage of the system—only to discover, in her research, a very different story of hard-working middle-class families facing economic collapse in the absence of a social safety net. While studying at Oxford, a young Tariq Ali made a bet with a friend that he could work the Vietnam War into every single answer on his final exams.
In this rousing, thoughtful, often funny, and always inspiring volume, a diverse and impressive group of thinkers reflect on those formative experiences that shaped their own political commitments. A fascinating new window into the revealing links between the personal and the political, Political Awakenings will engage readers across generations, and will generate good discussion this evening.
As the executive director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, Harry Kreisler has interviewed hundreds of distinguished men and women in politics and the arts over the last twenty-five years. Kreisler is also the executive producer of the online program Connecting Students to the World and the former editor-in-chief of Globetrotter, an acclaimed Web site for global affairs.
$12 advance (Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006), $15 at the door. Hillside members half price.
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L A S T F R I D A Y L A D I E S L U N C H
Claire Schoen
Friday • March 26 • Noon–1:30 PM
Our Last Friday Ladies Lunch March 26, from noon to 1:30, features Claire Schoen, Berkeley-based radio documentary producer and director, who has made more than 20 nationally distributed radio documentaries and garnered numerous awards for her work. She’s going to talk about her latest project, “Sounding the Waters: San Francisco Bay in the Era of Climate Change,” which include an audio multimedia tour for the SF Bay ferries, an hour-long radio documentary, and several web stories. Cost for a catered lunch from the Bread Workshop and the talk is $15 for club members and $20 for non-club members. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com.
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A S S E M B L Y D A N C E
Black and White Ball
Saturday • March 27, 2010 • 6 PM
Rsvp 510-232-0671
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M A R K E T P L A C E D I N N E R
Sunday • March 28, 2010 • 4 PM • $30/$25 HSC
Prepare and share a gourmet vegan dinner
of local, fresh, organic fruits and vegetables
with club member, chef Barry Schenker, and friends
Red Quinoa Risotto with corn, edamame, and shitake mushrooms
Sauteed Broccolini with garlic and chili oil
Tuscan Borlotti Bean Soup
Roasted Fingerling Potatoes
Arugula, Marinated Peaches, and Shaved Fennel Salad
Chef’s choice appetizer bar with Acme Whole Grain Breads
Chocolate and vanilla almond gelato
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Please arrive promptly at 4 PM to begin cooking
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street at Arch
$25 HSC members / $30 guests Limited seating
RSVP by Monday, March 22 to 510-649-0449
or barryschenker@comcast.net
Menu subject to slight modification due to market variables
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B A H A F I L M P R E M I E R E
“Designing with Nature”
SPEAKERS
Robert Judson Clark and Paul Bockhorst
Wednesday • March 31 • 7 PM Reception • 7:30 PM Program
“Designing with Nature: Arts & Crafts Architecture in Northern California” is a new documentary written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award winner Paul Bockhorst in cooperation with the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association.
The film provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the documentary examines the work of several major architects who were influenced by Arts & Crafts ideals, as well as by the reformist ethos of the Progressive Era. These designers sought to create an architecture suited to the landscape, climate, and emerging culture of the region. Rejecting Victorian excess and the artificial separation of art and craft, they strove to create an organic architecture based on unified design and harmony with nature.
Featured architects include Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Ernest Coxhead, Willis Polk, A.C. Schweinfurth, John Galen Howard, Louis Christian Mullgardt, John Hudson Thomas, and Henry Gutterson. The influential Arts & Crafts proponents Joseph Worcester and Charles Keeler are also highlighted. Storytellers include Robert Judson Clark, Richard Longstreth, Kenneth Cardwell, Leslie Freudenheim, Richard Guy Wilson, James Lawrence, and Susan Cerny.
Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door. To order advance tickets see http://berkeleyheritage.com/calendar.html or please send a check made out to BAHA with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: BAHA • “Designing with Nature” • P.O. Box 1137 • Berkeley, CA 94701
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A P R I L F I R E S I D E M E E T I N G
Dr. Doris Sloan
Making the Berkeley Hills
Monday • April 5 • 7:30 PM • $5 / HSC members free
Dr. Doris Sloan wrote the acclaimed book, Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region and teaches geology at UCB.
For club members the social and meeting will take place from 6:30 to 7:30. The talk at 7:30, which is open to the public, will be followed by refreshments.
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