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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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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Film Critics Circle
Monday • April 12 • 7:30 PM
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A W O M A N ‘ S V O I C E
Talks by Women with a Passion
presents
Gabriela Frank
Friday • April 16 • 7:30 PM • $10 / $5 HSC members
In addition to four world premieres in 2009, a Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a residency with the Indianapolis Symphony, the Berkeley Symphony and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Gabriela Frank began 2010 with another world premiere in San Francisco. In addition to the February premiere, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, with violinist Robin Sharp, will premiere her first Violin Concerto in the Spring of 2010. The work is a unique set of forces, with a string orchestra, violin soloist, and flute quartet flanking the soloist to echo both zampoña and toyos styles of panpipe traditions. Additionally, Frank has just completed her second commission for the Silk Road Project. The work is scored for percussion, pipa, violin, and cello. In her new work, Frank has imagined a pre-Incan civilization and what music might have resulted from this “fantasy culture.” The work will be premiered in the Spring.
The Woman’s Voice talk at 7:30 will be followed by refreshments.
With each new piece, Frank becomes a more exciting and necessary voice.
— Los Angeles Times
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H S C C O N C E R T S E R I E S
Sarn Oliver
First Violin — San Francisco Symphony
Composer
Mariko Smiley
First Violin — San Francisco Symphony
Paula & John Gambs Second Century Chair
Saturday • April 17 • 8 PM • $15 / $10 HSC members
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W I N E T A S T I N G
Sauvignon Blanc
Sunday • April 18 • 3 PM
We will be tasting a collection of Sauvignon Blanc. So, for you white wine fans, this tasting is for you! We will be drawing from a wide variety of styles and locales for these wines. As usual, the cost is $20 for members and $25 for non-members. RSVP: wine-rsvp@neophilic.com
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K P F A R A D I O 9 4 . 1 F M presents
Charles Bowden
Murder City:
Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
Tuesday • April 20 • 7:30 PM • $10 advance / $12 door / $6 HSC members
In 2008, 1607 people were murdered in Ciudad Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. In 2009, the murder total was 2660. 2010 will probably be worse. Many are raped and murdered women. How did this once-peaceful border town become such a horror show?
Charles Bowden is the author of eleven books including A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Dog; Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family; Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future; Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America; Desierto: Memories of the Future; Red Line; Blue Desert; and (with Michael Binstein) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions. He is a contributing editor of Esquire, and he writes for other magazines such as Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review. Winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He has been extensively covering Mexico’s drug war. His article in Mother Jones Magazine described a Mexican reporter seeking political asylum in the U.S. to escape threats from the Mexican military, and another in Harper’s Magazine was a profile of a Mexican police commander who worked as a paid assassin for drug cartels.
Bowden reports: “The US government is pretending the Mexican army is some partner in some war against drugs. In fact, what’s going on in Mexico is a war for drugs as the economy collapses. The army has moved in and taken over police departments all over the country. There’s 8000 to 10, 000 federal troops and federal police now in Juarez. Every place they’ve gone they’ve terrified the people … Twelve thousand people have died since December 2006 in this initiative. That’s far more than we’ve lost with our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan…”
“A thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice.” — New York Times Book Review
$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006 or: Pegasus Books, Pendragon, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times. Information: www.kpfa.org/events KPFA benefit
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BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS and THE HILLSIDE CLUB present
Roxana Saberi
Between Two Worlds
My Life and Captivity in Iran
Thursday • April 22 • 7:30 PM • $15 advance/$20 door/HSC halfprice
On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, a brilliant and fearless Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was dragged from her home by four men and secretly arrested. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage— a charge she denied. For eleven days Saberi was cut off from the outside world, forbidden even a phone call. For weeks, neither her family, friends, nor colleagues had any knowledge of her whereabouts.
After a sham trial that made headlines around the world, the 32-year-old reporter was sentenced to eight years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison. But following broad-based international pressure, she was released on appeal on May 11, 2009. Now, Saberi breaks her silence to share the full story of her ordeal.
In this compelling and inspirational true story, she writes movingly of her imprisonment, her trial, her ultimate release, and the faith that helped her through it. Her recollections are interwoven with stories of her fellow prisoners—many of whom were women, student and labor activists, researchers, and academics—many of whom were jailed for their pursuit of human rights, including freedom of speech and religious belief. Between Two Worlds is also a deeply revealing account of this complex nation and the six years Saberi lived there. A citizen of the United States and Iran, Saberi sheds new light on the Iranian regime’s inner political workings and the restrictions to basic freedoms that have intensified since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in 2005.
The recent uprisings in Iran—and the astonishing outbreak of support for Iranian citizens from across the globe—mark a critical turning point as the nation hangs on the precipice between democracy and dictatorship. From her nuanced perspective, Saberi offers a rich, dramatic, and illuminating portrait of the country as it undergoes a striking transformation.
Roxana Saberi was born in Belleville NJ, and raised in Fargo, ND. An “All-American Girl,” she won the “Miss North Dakota” contest in 1997, and was a top 10 finalist in the 1998 Miss America pageant, winning the Scholar Award. She has a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University, and a second master’s degree from Cambridge in International Relations. She has reported for NPR, the BBC, ABC Radio, and Fox News. Saberi moved to Iran in 2003 and later began working on a book about the Iranian people. Following her imprisonment and release she returned to North Dakota, where she currently lives with her parents.
$15 advance (Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006), $20 at the door (Hillside members half price)
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W O R K D A Y
Saturday • April 24 • 9:30 AM
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M A R K E T P L A C E D I N N E R
Sunday • April 25, 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, April 25, 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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Film Critics Circle
Monday • April 26 • 7:30 PM
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B O O K L U S T S A L O N
Tuesday • April 27 • 7:30 PM
See Booklust Salon
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B A H A P R E H O U S E T O U R L E C T U R E
Julia Morgan’s Cohorts
SPEAKER
Inge Horton
Thursday • April 29 • 7:30 • $15
The annual spring house tour is BAHA’s major fundraising event, as well as a vehicle to disseminate information on important Bay Area architects and Berkeley neighborhoods. The exhaustively researched house tour guidebooks provide a permanent record not only of the featured houses but of architecture in their neighborhoods.
Tour guidebooks are available for purchase at the BAHA office, 2318 Durant Avenue, every Thursday between 2:00 and 6:00 pm. For complete information, see the 2010 House Tour page.
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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
Friday • April 30 • Noon–1:30 PM
Cost for the catered lunch from the Bread Workshop and the talk is $15 for club members and $20 for non-club members. Gents also welcome. RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com.
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