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DAVE GURSOM
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Come see me play at a winery! 7-9pm Friday the 10th. Friendly folks, delicious wine, free tunes, and I'll be done in time for you to make it to your other plans that night! It's a really nice little spot if you aren't yet familiar.
This map is helpful: http://www.irishmonkey.net/imc110-map.htm

Irish Monkey Winery
http://www.irishmonkey.net/

Sat & Sun, Sep 18 & 19, 9am - 6pm both days

Join like minded women for one weekend to break through disempowerment and focus on your sense of self as you move through what blocks you from being YOU and achieving your goals.

This seminar is highly interactive and experiential. Attendees will be moving around, getting to know one another and engaging in Susan's unique life coaching activities such as, "The Book Balance", "The River Rock Toss", and her "Little You Baggage Activity."

This program is most effective for women ages 30 - 55, from all walks of life and with varying backgrounds. If fact, the diverse groups of women that typically come together for the Women's Group Seminar is part of the fun and contributes to a greater depth of learning and understanding about ourselves and one another.

Saturday, September 18, Focus Topics

* Define your empowering goal
* Break free from your Cycle of Disempowerment
* Say goodbye to the fear of judgement

Sunday, September 19, Focus Topics

* Embody an attitude of gratitude
* Define your Take Action Plan
* Create your Cycle of Empowerment

You will...
* Choose a goal to focus on for the seminar.
* Use your goal to discover powerful information about yourself: your fears and your strengths.
* Develop a firm understanding of what disempowerment looks like, feels like and acts like for you.
* Develop a firm understanding of what EMPOWERMENT looks like, feels like and acts like for you.
* Learn strategies to overcome fear to stay on target with your goal.
* Discover how to stay motivated each day and to feel more alive in your life.
* Learn life skills and tools that will empower you for the rest of their life, in all life areas.

For more information, please contact:
Colleen Corliss,
Office: 415-655-7248; Mobile: 202-415-6101
Email: ccorliss@stp-sf.org

Career Fair for Bay Area Military Veterans

Swords to Plowshares, a local veteran service agency, is hosting its third annual Veteran Career Fair. The Career Fair is free and open to any veteran who would like to learn more about training programs and job opportunities in the Bay Area.

"Veterans often have a difficult time transitioning the skills they learned while serving in the military into civilian jobs. At Swords to Plowshares we help veterans pursue job training programs, develop career goals and link them with local employers," said Dave Lopez, Director of Employment and Training at Swords to Plowshares.

In addition to job placement, Swords to Plowshares offers a variety of job training programs throughout the Bay Area at no cost to veterans. Recently, the community-based group was awarded more than one million dollars in funding to expand its employment and training programs to local veterans. Career Fair attendees can learn more about pursuing specialized job training programs in high-growth, high-wage industries, such as the clean energy sector.

WHO:
* Swords to Plowshares and dozens of Bay Area companies
* Bay Area veterans seeking employment and job training opportunities

WHAT: A free Career Fair specifically designed for military veterans and service members.

WHERE/WHEN:
San Francisco Veterans War Memorial Building, Green Room
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 / 10 AM - 2 PM

Learn more about the work of Swords to Plowshares, and ways in which you can help, by visiting our website at www.stp-sf.org

“What’s your sign?” won’t just be a pickup line at tonight’s fun party! You will find out with whom you are COMPATIBLE and, more importantly, whom to AVOID, based on astrological theory! Adults of all ages welcome. Dressy nightclub attire recommended. Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 7pm.

Only $10 at the door includes all this:
•Appetizers, served at 7pm, as long as they last
•Karaoke (you can be a star or just sit back and be entertained!)
•Dance Party, featuring the greatest hits of all time
•Free mini-readings for earlybirds, with Psychic Kathleen, Una White, and others. (Please note that there will NOT be time for everyone)

LOCATION: Flamingo Resort Hotel, 2777 Fourth St, corner of Farmers Lane, Santa Rosa CA 95405. From Hwy 101 take Hwy 12 east; left on Farmers. Free parking.

CO-SPONSORED by Society of Single Professionals, the worlds largest non-profit singles organization; Its Just Lunch, the largest matchmaking and dating service for singles; and Singles2Couples, a non-profit.

MORE PARTIES at http://www.thepartyhotline.com

MORE INFO ABOUT ITS JUST LUNCH at http://www.itsjustlunchsanfrancisco.com

TRAVEL with http://www.singlestravelcompany.com

LISTEN FREE TO EXPERTS ON DATING at http://www.singlespodcastingnetwork.com

Hello Filoli Jazz lovers! Once again we bring you six delightful Sunday afternoon jazz concerts held outdoors on the beautiful grounds of Filoli. Tables and chairs are set up on the tennis court surrounded by graceful oak trees. Parking is free, as well as snacks and drinks, including beer and white wine. Boxed lunches are available for purchase in advance. As always, we feature an incredibly strong line-up of world-class jazz musicians. This season features a great many new faces, and highlights a jazzy balance of three strong male and three strong female entertainers. Let us pamper you with Filoli hospitality and great entertainment!

Favorite vendors like pesticide-free fruit farmer J & J Farms continue to sell at the market along with new vendors. Prepared food will soon be available. Cooking demonstrations and recipes based on fresh produce are also new additions to the weekly market.

September 11th at 8pm join Femina Potens for a unique and intimate erotic adventure. A Taste of Rope invites you and your submissive to join us for an erotic wine tasting. While dominants taste of their delicious crisp wines out of goblets and glassware, submissives will be privy to tasting the nuances of an assortment of wine from their dog bowls. But not only will there be wine for tasting but some of the finest rope from around the world including rope made in Japan, the Netherlands, Seattle, and San Francisco. Experience the intricate differences in the ropes bite, toothy or sleek quality, the smell, the taste, its ability to make your submissive squeals or moan in deep pleasure. Femina Potens will provide 1 blindfold per couple so that your submissive can thoroughly experience the sensations of each strand of rope. Please let us know if you will be requiring a pillow or chair for your submissives seat. Submissives are defaulted to floor seating on a pillow unless a chair is requested. Please email me at feminapotens@gmail.com for further requests so we can accommodate to you and your submissives needs. We will be able to take orders for rope that you enjoy at the event. Dress is fetish, formal, lingerie, or nudity. Feel free to fully express yourself and your kink. This tasting will be limited to 15 couples or 30 persons and tickets will only be available through presale so make sure to purchase your tickets early.

Basic Couples Ticket $50 ( This ticket includes admission, wine tasting for you and your submissive, and rope tasting)
Deluxe Couples Ticket $75 (This ticket includes all of the above in addition to going home with your own souvenir dog bowl and blindfold)
Singles Ticket Basic - $50 (This ticket includes wine tasting and rope tasting for you)
Single Ticket Deluxe - $75 - (Purchasing a Deluxe Ticket entitles you to a submissive that will be provided for you for the evening as a rope demo bottom and attendant)

Reserve your ticket today: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/114068

Printmaking show
Opening Reception: Fri, September 3, 2010, 7 pm to 10 pm
Exhibit ends Sept 30th

Venue: Artist-Xchange
3169 16th Street (btw Guerrero & Valencia)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. no.: 415-864-1490
http://www.artist-xchange.com

Join us for the month of September as we display work based on Printmaking. The gallery will display artwork representative or symbolic of the following techniques of printmaking including (Woodcut, Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Drypoint, Lithography, Screen-printing, Digital prints, "Giclée" prints, Foil imaging).

Exhibiting artists: Brian Schuck, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Orlando Lacro, Moo, Maki Kayano, Shani Krevsky, Joseph S. Kohls, Rea Solis, Hilary Williams, Gary Comoglio, Jasper Thomas, John Kraft, Diana Blackwell, Idell Weiss, Paul Kirley, Allison Kreft, Anthony Ryan.

Live art demonstration by Hilary Williams.
At this months reception Hilary Williams will be performing a demonstration in the printmaking technique of screen printing. The demonstrations will be taking place at 7:45pm and 8:45pm during the opening reception. She will be creating a small neighborhood print that will then be available for sale at the opening. Hilary Williams learned to screen print a decade ago and has worked in the medium ever since. She has been showing her screen prints, mostly of the San Francisco landscape around the SF Bay Area and at Artist-Xchange for the last 5 years.

Music By: DJ Yoko
We will have Dj Yoko (I&I SOUND) With true love of music brings positive vibes from Reggae 45s:Roots and Culture,Lovers Rock, Classic/ New Dancehall. Yoko has been djing for two years in Bay area's bar&lounge and clubs. Loving to share Irie vibes with music lovers, her reggae spirits vibes up all nicely.

Free admission, hors d'oeuvres and drinks.

Featured art by Gary Comoglio
“Woman with Calla Lilies”, 2010
20" wide x 28" tall
woodcut, monoprint
hand printed on japanese mulberry paper

September 6th, Monday: 7pm Beginner Class, 8:30 Intermediate, 9:30 Open Dancing

Salsa Crazy Birthday Party, And You Are Invited.

You are invited to Learn to Salsa Dance on SalsaCrazy Monday .

http://www.SalsaMonday.com

This is our GRAND OPENING for 2 Floors of Dancing
The Single Most Fun, Most Social, and of course, Best Attended Salsa Night in the Bay Area (and yes, it's on a Monday ...) Now, with a 2nd Floor!

Great Crowds, Great Music, and So Much Fun ...
You HAVE TO LEARN TO SALSA .

The RockIt room has become a staple for dance classes and lesson in the SF Bay Area. An excellent class for beginners to take their very first steps in dancing. Afterwards the night becomes an exceptional latin dance party.

Each Monday the capacity crowd fills the venue to near bursting which prompted us to add a second dance floor for the entire night!

The Salsa Dance Classes are the most popular in the city and have always been at capacity. With the new dance floor comes new dance classes which will allow us to teach even more people how to dance salsa.

http://www.SalsaMonday.com

Grand Opening of SalsaCrazy Mondays with TWO Floors
of Classes, Music and Dancing

Lessons Available starting at 7:00 for Beginners and 8:30 for Intermediates.
Open Dancing begins around 9:30

Open Dancing only $5 for Guys (Ladies and DanceSF.com Students are FREE!)

Join us EVERY Monday at The RockIt Room, 406 Clement Street, SF.

Go to http://www.DanceSF.com to sign up!

Mondays September 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th; 7pm Beginners 8:30 Intermediates

SALSA LESSONS - BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE - LEARN TO SALSA!

Learn to dance Salsa! Sexy, fun and social, come for the best beginner class in the Bay! If you have zero experience there is no better place to learn Salsa and there are intermediate classes available for students whom know the basics.

FREE Dancing after the Beginner and Intermediate classes at 9:30 with Salsa Crazy Drink Specials! Where else do you have to be on a Monday? Dance the night away until close! Bring a partner or just show up and Dance with all of the sexy men and women staying to dance after the Beginner and Intermediate Salsa Classes.

http://www.DanceSF.com

Group Beginning and Intermediate salsa dance classes take place on Mondays and start monthly. There are also other classes other days of the week held at locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area! Each session is four weeks long, and they are progressive classes that meet once a week. No partner and no experience are necessary! Drop-ins are accepted ($15 drop-in fee). Register On-line, and save money!

Anyone can learn how to dance - absolutely anyone. We invite you to try one of our classes and find out what you've been missing. It will change your life! Our four week progressive series on Mondays are designed to get you out into the clubs. You will learn a skill that will last you a lifetime!

http://www.DanceSF.com

Learn to Salsa Dance with SalsaCrazy.Com and have a fantastic San Francisco Salsa Class. Remember, there's no partner and no experience necessary. These are very fun and social salsa lessons and dance classes that provide you a skill that will last a lifetime. We make it so fun, and easy to learn how to dance, so you WILL get it. Come out and Dance today...

These are the hottest classes in town - geared towards everyone, no one get's left behind, and everyone Learns how to dance.

Sign up now! Get information and Register:
http://www.DanceSF.com

Isn't it time you learned how to dance?

The San Francisco Folk Music Club, in association with The City of El Cerrito Arts and Culture Commission and Windrush School, present the annual El Cerrito Free Folk Festival on Saturday, October 9, 2010 from 12 p.m. to 10 pm.

Open to the public, the daylong arts and music festival is free and will be held at the historic Windrush School located at 1800 Elm Street in El Cerrito, California.

This exciting event will feature performances and workshops by world renowned and local musicians alike, with open microphone and jam sessions, and much, much more. Bands performing include Patrick Landeza, Euphonia, Larry Hanks and Deborah Robins, The Courtney Janes, Misner and Smith, Emily Bonn and the Vivants and Don Burnham and The Bolos.

For more information visit www.elcerritofolkfest.org

Like to laugh? Curious about improv? Want to try something new? This two-hour workshop is a great place to start. Gain some insight into how improv works, learn some improv games, and have lots of fun. No experience needed. Shy people welcome! Ages 18 and up, please.
($5+ donation to Dragon Productions appreciated but not required)

Act 1: Jem Finer's Longplayer is a 1,000 year long composition that's been playing in one form or another since the beginning of the millennium. For 1,000 minutes this October 16th, it takes the form of 18 musicians playing hundreds of singing bowls on a 60 foot-wide custom-built instrument in YBCA's Forum.

Act 2: Longplayer will be presented with the Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds.

Act 3: Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time will be a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.

Tickets are good for all events; the 6 hour Long Conversation, performance by Sosolimited and the 16.6 hour Longplayer performance.

7:00 am to 11:40 pm
* Longplayer will be performed from 7:00 am to 11:40 pm.
* Long Conversation & Sosolimited will take place from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

Members of partner organizations receive one free ticket:
* The Long Now Foundation
* Contemporary Jewish Museum
* Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Bad Movie Night is based on the premise of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Dark Room's hosts riff on the terrible movie & you can yell out your own comments. Help yourself to the free popcorn.

Meet Pierre, Howard, Ocio and the rest of the African Penguin colony. Academy marine biologists will field visitor questions while feeding and caring for them.

Escape the work week and start your weekend off right with Escape Fridays at Infusion Lounge featuring DJ Cams and DJ Cobra. Come party with us and win a free trip to Las Vegas!

Favorite vendors like pesticide-free fruit farmer J & J Farms continue to sell at the market along with new vendors. Prepared food will soon be available. Cooking demonstrations and recipes based on fresh produce are also new additions to the weekly market.

The experience of meditation can take us beyond the usual mental stress and emotional agitation to a calm centered place. We explore the delicate art of quietening the mind !

Please note this session is open for people with any or no experience of meditation or breathing exercises.

Session Contents
1. Light body stretching.
2. Relaxing breathing techniques.
3. Guided Meditation.
4. Take Home practices for daily use.

Benefits Reported:
1. Reduced Stress & Increased Productivity.
2. Increased Joy & Happiness.
3. Enhanced Focus & Concentration
4. Improved Relationships.

When : Aug 29th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Where : Art of Living Foundation Center, 2370A Walsh Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051 . Directions.
Admission: FREE (Please RSVP as limited seating is available.)
RSVP here: http://secure.artofliving.org/event_details.aspx?event_id=6263
Contact : Madhavi @ 408-431-1191 or email santaclara@us.artofliving.org or madhavi.ganti@gmail.com

South FIRST FRIDAYS presents STREET MRKT

September 3, 2010 from 7-11pm
Free and Open to the Public
South 1st St. in SoFA District, San Jose

ON THE STAGE:

7:40-8:25 PM Jhameel
8:45-9:30 PM Lisa Dewey & The Lotus Life
10:00-11:00 PM Sean Hayes

with STREET MRKT’s Emcee “Mighty” Mike McGee

* SEAN HAYES



On Run Wolves Run (released 2010), Sean Hayes expands his sound and produces some of the most emotional music he’s ever made. It’s a raw, gritty excursion into all the dark and light places that make a human heart. Drummer Andrew Borger (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Smokey Hormel) and bass player Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers, Xiu Xiu, Carla Bozulich) help push the music in unexpected directions, giving Hayes the opportunity to pour raw emotion into every note he sings.

http://www.seanhayesmusic.com

* LISA DEWEY & THE LOTUS LIFE



Dreamy, multi-layered, atmospheric and gorgeous pop with favorable comparisons to the Cocteau Twins and Everything But the Girl.
-Hiya Swanhuyser (SF Chronicle)

http://www.lisadewey.com/

* JHAMEEL



At live performances, Jhameel utilizes violin, trumpet, glockenspiel, percussion, guitar, and vocals to create intricate arrangements. In order to perform multiple instruments at once, he records musical phrases on-stage using a loop station. He then adds more layers to the songs by playing over himself, creating a surprisingly full sounding ensemble.

http://www.jhameel.com/

ARTISTS/VENDORS:

Ai & Ai, Beadworker, Mike Borja, Keith Bunnell, John Cloud, DonBon, EAZ1 & Jodi Macarenas, Eddie Dobson, el Peepshow, Emo, Folded Inc, Michael Foley, Force 129, Karinna Gomez, Shayne Herrera, Gretchen Kisler, Korrupt Clothing, Christina Martin, David Mejia, Radius Art, Joe Nance, Joshua Quinonez, Gianfranco Paolozzi, Park Bench Peoples, Pellet, Al Preciado, Right Brain Halo, Rock n the Trend, Khris Rodriguez, Kurtis Rykovich, Corrine Salge, Skully Boom, Slave Labor Graphics, Teashack Project, The Usuals, Michelle Waters, Ysmay, Barefoot Coffee, MoGo BBQ, QuickDog, StreetBot and TreatBot

STREET MRKT is free and open to the public.
(Street Mrkt is a seasonal event taking place on the First Fridays of August, and September since the Summer of 2006)

Influential Mission District institution and community arts space Galería de la Raza is pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary Season. To commemorate this pivotal milestone, the Galería has created a robust itinerary of events that will take place this Fall.  The celebratory programming is comprised of four events; the Retrospective Anniversary Exhibition, an interactive Family Day, a Latin Jazz concert at Yerba Buena Gardens and an exclusive finale ceremony at Brava Theatre Center featuring Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Sandra Cisneros.

A Family Day, created in appreciation of Galería’s cherished community, is intended to invite neighbors and new individuals to discover Galería’s curriculum.  The day will offer a fun and informative programming for all ages.  Children will be able to participate in the hands-on art-making activities with local artists and craftsmen. Guests will also experience a diverse sampling of the Galería’s programs as well enjoy specialty music, art and performance. 

Family Day at Galería will be held on October 2, from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm and is free and open to the public.