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2008

January

January 7, 2008
Author Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace

January 21, 2008
Gerald Heather, Professor Emeritus
An Overview Of The Upcoming Primary and Election

February

February 11, 2008
Rhoda Curtis, author
Rhoda: The First Ninety Years

February 25, 2008
Hon. Carol Ruth Silver
Master Teachers By Satellite for Afghanistan

March

March 3, 2008
Kay Noyes presents the first dramatic reading of her new play "A Mania of Envy."

March 17, 2008
Diane LeBow presents "Women of Afghanistand and the World"
slides and reading

March 31, 2008
Spiritual Cinema Series - Three Short Films

April

April 7 2008
Poets Katharine Harer and Emmanuel Williams

April 21 2008
“PIAF – Her Story, Her Songs” -- Starring Bay Area Chanteuse Raquel Bitton

May

May 5, 2008
Civil Rights attorney James McWilliams introduces and discusses the documentary "From Swastika to Jim Crow"

May 19, 2008
"Total Brain Fitness (TM)" with Susan K. Diamond, MSW, MS

June

June 23, 2008
Edith E. Hartnett and Ramón Sender Barayón read from their just-published books


2007

January

January 15, 2007
Local Artist and Writer, Marlene Aron "THE ART AND LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH"

January 29, 2007 -
"Voices Emerging from Trauma into Creative Works" -- Susan Parker, author of Tumbling After: Pedaling Like Crazy After Life goes Downhill

February

February 5, 2007
Accomplished Women from 85 to 100 years of age by Amy Gorman and Greg Young

February 19, 2007
author Dick Meister will speak on "The Labor Movement, Past, Present and Future"

March

March 5, 2007
Artist Terry Berlier and Composer Gregory Moore

March 19, 2007
Leonard Pitt, a writer/performer from the East Bay,

April

April 9, 2007
Filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre screen "Maquilapolis."

April 23, 2007
"The Greening of Noe Valley," a roundtable discussion with Peter Gabel, moderator, and
Donna Davis, Anita O'Shea and Richard May

May

May 7, 2007
Three short films from The Spiritual Cinema Series

May 21, 2007
Documentary of conversations with Sonoma County communitarians, produced by Delia Moon

June

June 11, 2007
Stephen Vincent, poet

June 25, 2007
author Leo Litwak

~Summer Break~

August
August 13, 2007
Filmmaker Lily Rivlin presents her film Can You Hear Me?

September
September 17, 2007
Authors Jay Ruben Dayrit and Brian Komei Dempster, Individual Artist Commision Recipients from The San Francisco Arts Commission

October

October 1, 2007
Author-composer-musician Alicia Bay Laurel

October 15, 2007
Author Alexandra Enders will read from her new novel.

October 29, 2007
Composer-performer Luciano Chessa and Filmmaker Bruce Baillie's "On Sundays" and "All My Life"

November

November 5, 2007
Vocalist Julie Dillon and Sound Healer Silvia Nakkach with cellist Michael Knapp

November 19, 2007
Authors Mary Ann Whitten and Lawrence Goodman
"Talking About Turkey"

December

December 3, 2007
Authors Summer Brenner and Joe Sutton

December 17, 2007
Author Leonard Pitt


2006


January
January 9, 2006
Monday Night Movies... Courtesty of The Spiritual Cinema Series
Flight of the Stone
Gregor's Greatest Invention
The Collector of Bedford Street


January 23, 2006
Readings from "Black Women Stirring the Waters"
1.Aileen Hernandez 2.Effie Lee Morris 3.Dorothy Patterson

February
February 13, 2007 - Love Poetry and Songs In Honor of Valentine's Day
Steven Stein, guitar, and Ellen Curr, vocals.
Excerpts from the Documentary Rumi: Poet of the Heart
Author-Teacher Stuart Sovatsky reads from his Spiritual-Erotic Memoir, Your Perfect Lips

February 13, 2006
Love Poetry and Songs In Honor of Valentine's Day
Steven Stein, guitar, and Ellen Curr, vocals.
Excerpts from the Documentary Rumi: Poet of the Heart
Your Perfect Lips -- A Spiritual-Erotic Memoirread by author Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D.

February 27, 2006
Brian Komei Dempster - editor, readings by contributors to
From Our Side of the Fence Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps

March

March 13, 2006
Screenwriter and author Dan Bessie and his wife, therapist and author Jeanne Bessie

March 27, 2006
Movie Night -- Gail Dolgin - Film Producer (with Vicente Franco) of Daughter from Danang

April

April 3, 2006
Nurse and Midwife Margaret Bean -- "One Woman's Guatemala"
Norita Vlach - Guatemalan-American therapist and San Jose State College professor.

April 17, 2006
Kay Noyes, Composer and Playwright, offers a dramatic reading of her play, Sailing Septuagenarians

May

May 1, 2006
"Faithful Fools" Ralph Dranow, Carmen Barsotti and Kay Jorgensen

May 15, 2006 -- short films by Britsh comedian Rowan Atkinson

June

June 5, 2006
Authors of children's books Chiori Santiago, Abby Wasserman and Barbara Meislin

June 19, 2006
Deborah Alvarez, CEO of Goodwill Industries, independent consultant Willa Seldon

~Summer Break~

September

September 11, 2006
"Achieving Inner Peace and Harmony in a post 9/11 World" with
Rev. Keenan Kelsey, Ifthekhar Hai of the Islamic Society and Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller of Temple Sherith Israel,
Souleiman Ghali of The Islamic Society, Rabbi Michael Lerner of The Beyt Tikkun Congregation
Music by members of The Noe Valley Ministry Choir; Compassionate Listening Training by Rachel Eryn Kalish

September 25, 2006
"Community Building and Union Organizing" with Lisa Jaicks, Rachel Laws and Michael Miller

October

Oct. 23, 2006
“The World’s Sacred Spaces” with Anthony Lawlor, architect and Ramón Sender Barayón, author-composer

November

November 13, 2006
“Two Poets From Two Coasts: Margot Farrington (New York) & Kim Shuck (Noe Valley)

November 27, 2006
“An Evening of Short Films” -- selections from The Spiritual Cinema Showcase

December

Monday December 11, 2006
“A Post-Election Review” with Professor Gerald Heather

2005

January

Jan 17, 2005
James McWilliams discusses the film From Swastika to Jim Crow

February

February 7, 2005
Authors Jeanette Ferrary, Margo Perin

February 21, 2005
Julie Soo discusses Wei Lin Discovers America

March

March 7, 2005
Anneliese Korner-Kalman reads from her memoir Across the Street from Adolph Hitler

March 21, 2005
A Spiritual Cinema Evening - selected films from last year's Spiritual Cinema monthly selections.

April

April 11, 2005
"Barbie Meets Trashman" - Susan Stern, filmmaker, and Spain Rodriguez, comics artist

April 25, 2005
Mary Joy Quinn and Sally Calef

May

May 9, 2005
Authors Luis Carrillo Miranda and Gerald Rosen

May 23, 2005
Authors Morris Bassan and.Abby Wassermann

June

June 13, 2005
"In Memory of Marla Ruzicka and Faiz Al Salaam"
Jonathan Dimmock, .Robert Howard, Jan Roosevelt Katten
Rita Maran, Kevin Danaher, Rev. Keenan Kelsey

~Summer Break~

August

August 29, 2005
An Evening of Politics and Human Rights: "San Francisco, Then and Now"
Guitarist Sarah Black, followed by Gimmy Park-Li moderating a discussion with Jane Morrison, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin

September

September 19, 2005
"Sacred Places in India" -- a slide show by Noe Valley Ministry members Jivat Mukhi and Shanti Emerson

October

October 17, 2005
"Palestinian/Jewish dialogue -- Camp Tawonga Revisited," with Elias Botto and Michael Roosevelt Katten
co-sponssored by WIDME (Women In Dialogue On The Middle East)

October 31, 2005
The City Repair project, filk and discussion

November

November 7, 2005
A combined slide show and reading with devorah major, Poet Laureate of San Francisco,
and her mother, artist Helen Gabriel Major

November 21, 2005
"Three Women in Two Acts," preceded by Steve Stein who will play Baroque guitar
Choreographer Sara Templeton, and her artist/businesswoman mother, Irene Asturias Kaufman
Artist Marlene Aron will present slides and poetry from her body of work.

December

December 5, 2005
Portland, OR, City Repair project, film and discussion led by Peter Gabel and
Ramon Sender, members of Noe Valleyans for Community and Social Justice,
with Jane Martin of Plants S.F. who will speak on "The Shotwell Greenway."

December 19, 2005
San Francisco Politics and Human Rights Then and Now City Leaders: Sue Bierman and Agar Jaicks in Conversation

2004

January

January 5, 2004
Ramón Sender Barayón celebrates Perihelion and reads from the new edition of
A Death In Zamora

January 19, 2004 Frank Wiley discusses African-American films with screened excerpts Feb 2, 2004
Odd Mondays Goes EVEN! - The Right Reverend William Swing,
Bishop of the Northern California Episcopal Diocese, will speak about The United Religious Initiative

February 9, 2004

February 23, 2004

March 1, 2004
Author Cyra McFadden of "The Serial" fame will read and talk about her work, including her family memoir, "Rain or Shine."

March 15, 2004
Dan Bessie, writer and filmmaker "Rare Birds and Hard Traveling,"

March 29, 2004
Dorothy Patterson, Human Rights activist and retired Public Health Educator

April

April 5, 2004
Mary Joy Quinn, Director of the Probate Department

April 19, 2004
Ianthe Brautigan will read from her memoir about her father, Richard Brautigan.

May

May 3, 2004
Emily Leider reads from her memoirs on Rudolph Valentino and Mae West

May 17th, 2004
David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle columnist

May 24th, 2004
Meditation teacher Jeff Brooks from Tucson speaking on the topic, "What is Ecstatic Buddhism?" June 7, 2004
Rebecca Araiz-Iverson, Executive Director of Community Boards of San Francisco ~Summer Break~

August

August 23, 2004
Fay Afaf Kanafani: artist and author of Nadia, Captive of Hope

September

September 13, 2004
Manfred Wolf, author of Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion

September 27, 2004
Aileen Clarke Hernandez

October

October 25, 2004
Poetry Evening: Rafaella Del Bourgo, Jean Pumphrey, Leslie Scalapino

November

December

December 13, 2004

2003

January

January 13, 2003

January 27, 2003

February

February 3, 2003
Olivia Boler

March

March 17, 2003
world premieres of Ramon Sender Barayón’s

March 31, 2003
Steve Dibner, bassonist with the San Francisco Symphony

April

April 7, 2003
Phoebe McAfee, weaver, and Richard Van Kooy, MUNI retiree and writer

April 21, 2003
A Palestinian/Jewish Partnership For Peace, Orli Bein and Nora Khoury

May

May 5, 2003 -- Valerie Soe's Film, "Ruth Asawa"

May 19, 2003 – Grace Catherdral Takes a Trip To Israel/Palestine

June

June 9th, 2003
An Evening with Thea Sullivan

June 23, 2003
District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty ~Summer Break~

September

October

December

December 1, 2003
Professor Gerard Heather

December 15, 2003
Carol Field,

2002

January

January 21, 2002
Hoover Liddell

February

February 25, 2002
Louise Nayer

March

March 11, 2002
Author Gerald Rosen

March 25, 2002
Judy and Ramon Sender - "Lines, Whimsical and Other Wise"; "Why Is The Buddha Smiling?"

April

April 1, 2002
Dr. Bryna Siegal -

April 15, 2002
Peter and Mary Farquhar: How to digitally archive your family history

~Summer Break~ October

October 7, 2002
William Vlach

November

November 11, 2002
author Edith Hartnett and Thomas Sears - "The Economics of Spirituality."

2001

November November 3, 2001
Inaugural evening of the Odd Monday Series.

November 17, 2001
Frankenthaler Parents' Circle in Israel -

December

December 17, 2001
Armand Volkas and Mireya Alejo,