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January
January 9, 2012
January
January 17, 2011
January 31, 2011
February
February 7, 2011
February 21, 2011
March
March 7, 2011
March 21, 2011
April
April 11, 2011
April 25, 2011
May
May 9, 2011
May 23, 2011
June
June 13, 2011
June 27, 2011
August
August 29, 2011
September
September 19, 2011
Octber
October 17, 2011
November
November 21, 2011
December
December 19, 2011
January
January 11, 2010
January 25, 2010
February
February 1, 2010
February 15, 2010
March
March 1, 2010
March 15, 2010
March 29, 2010
April
April 5, 2010
April 19, 2010
May
May 3, 2010
May 17, 2010
May 31, 2010
June
June 7th - "Empress Hotel" film by Irving Saraf, Allie Light and Roberta Goodman
August
Poets Robert Chrisman and Jeanne Powell - Martin Luther King's Legacy
An Evening with comedian S.f. Chronicle cartoonist Michael Capozzola
Classicist and Storyteller Joan Sutton - "The Goddess Artemis"
Two Authors Explore Their Hungarian Roots
Agatha Hoff and Agnes Rothblatt
Abby Wasserman "The Artist-Activist: Mary Tuthill Lindheim"
Peter Esmonde and Two Recent Films: "Trimpin" and "Five Variation on a Long String" (composer Ellen Fullman)
Poet-Novelist Edith Hartnett presents her memoir "When I Was Alive: in the fulness of time"
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
Carolyn Power, actress, in a monologue
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
Author Sherril Jaffee reads from her new novel Expiration Date
Author Joe Sutton reading from his new book The Year the Giants Won the Series
“Entré Into Theater” with Mark Jackson and Beth Wilmurt
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
“Esther & Me” - A film by Lisa Geduldig -- Not Shown Due to Technical Difficulties
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
August 15, 2011
Two Authors With Hungarian Roots” - Miriam Keleman Solis (Goldie's Story) and Alice Elizabeth Rogoff (Mural)
Psychotherapist Ginny Pizzardi discusses her book Lessons in Loss
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
September 5, 2011
A Labor Day Forum with Ken Tray, Kathy Lipscomb, Gerry and Dick Meister
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
Noe Valley author Cara Black reads and signs from her new Paris mystery
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
October 3, 2011
Noe Valley author-journalist Alison Hoover Bartlett- "The Man Who Love Books Too Much"
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
Novelist-journalist Vendela Vida Reads, Discusses and Signs her new novel The Lovers.
November 7, 2011
Noe Valley author-counselor Janell Moon- Salt & Paper: 65 Candles
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
Novelist-journalist David Perlstein, Discusses and Signs his new novel SLICK!.
December 5, 2011
San Francisco Commissioners Meet the Public .Emily Murase Commissioner on the Status of Women, Commissioner Alicia Gamez, and Immigration Commissioner Vera Haile.
Guitarist-singer Julie Dillon Opens
Novelist Alvin Orloff Reads and Signs his new novel Why Aren't You Smiling?!.
Author Leonard Pitt presents slides from his book "Paris Postcards: The Golden Age"
Authors Lyzette Wanzer and Jeanne Powell
Author Trina Robbins - "Forbidden City - The Golden Age of Chinese Nighclubs"
Sara Segal and Julia Hansen "How to Be a Watchdog" -- Serving on The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury
Hazel Reitz, Author of "Winds of Darfur"
A Jack Kerouac Birthday Celebration hosted by Gerald Nicosia,
Biographer and editor of “Jan Kerouac: A Life In Memory”
with Contributors Carl Macki, Brenda Knight, Dan McKenzie, and Lynn Kushel
Film reviewer Dennis Willis discusses "Flix," his book of reviews of recent films
“Papers: The Movie
Stories of Immigrant Youth"
followed by a panel discussion
Novelist Vincent L. Carrella reads and signs from his novel
"Serpent Box"
Poet Margaret Kaufman reads and also introduces Poets from The Sixteen Rivers Press anthology
The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
Dr. Paul Linde reads and signs his book "Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist."
Peter Berg: Conversation and Reading from his new book "Envisioning Sustainability."
The film "Back to the Garden: Flower Power Comes Full Circle" by Director Kevin Tomlinson and Producer Judy Meryl Kaplan
Great Freedom/Balanced View Teachers Suji Yoder and Sudha Mars present a video and discussion
January
January 5, 2009
January 19, 2009
February
February 9, 2009
February 23, 2009
March
March 9, 2009
March 23, 2009
April 2009
May 2009
Annie Hershey presents her film "Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Acton"
June 2009
June 15, 2009
June 29, 2009
August 2009
September 2009
September 21, 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
January
January 7, 2008
February
February 11, 2008
February 25, 2008
March
March 3, 2008
March 17, 2008
March 31, 2008
April
April 7 2008
April 21 2008
May
May 5, 2008
May 19, 2008
June
June 23, 2008
September 15, 2008
October 13, 2008
November 3, 2008
November 17, 2008
December 1, 2008, 7:30 PM NOTE HALF-HOUR TIME CHANGE
December 15, 2008, 7:30 PM NOTE HALF-HOUR TIME CHANGE
January
January 15, 2007
January 29, 2007 -
February
February 5, 2007
February 19, 2007
March
March 5, 2007
March 19, 2007
April
April 9, 2007
April 23, 2007
May
May 7, 2007
May 21, 2007
June
June 11, 2007
June 25, 2007
~Summer Break~ August
September
October
October 1, 2007
October 15, 2007
October 29, 2007
November
November 5, 2007
November 19, 2007
December
December 3, 2007
December 17, 2007
February
February 13, 2006
February 27, 2006
March 13, 2006
March 27, 2006
April 3, 2006
April 17, 2006
May 1, 2006
May 15, 2006
June 5, 2006
June 19, 2006
~Summer Break~
September 11, 2006
September 25, 2006
Oct. 23, 2006
November 13, 2006
November 27, 2006
Monday December 11, 2006
January
Jan 17, 2005
February 7, 2005
February 21, 2005
March 7, 2005
March 21, 2005
April 11, 2005
April 25, 2005
May 9, 2005
May 23, 2005
June 13, 2005
~Summer Break~ August 29, 2005
September 19, 2005
October 17, 2005
October 31, 2005
November 7, 2005
November 21, 2005
December 5, 2005
December 19, 2005
January 5, 2004
January 19, 2004
Frank Wiley discusses African-American films with screened excerpts
February 9, 2004
February 23, 2004
March 1, 2004
March 15, 2004
March 29, 2004
April 5, 2004
April 19, 2004
May 3, 2004
May 17th, 2004
May 24th, 2004
August 23, 2004
September 13, 2004
September 27, 2004
October 25, 2004
December 13, 2004
January
January 13, 2003
January 27, 2003
February 3, 2003
March 17, 2003
March 31, 2003
April 7, 2003
April 21, 2003
May 5, 2003 -- Valerie Soe's Film, "Ruth Asawa"
May 19, 2003 – Grace Catherdral Takes a Trip To Israel/Palestine
June 9th, 2003
June 23, 2003
December 1, 2003
December 15, 2003
January
January 21, 2002
February 25, 2002
March 11, 2002
March 25, 2002
April 1, 2002
April 15, 2002
~Summer Break~
October
October 7, 2002
November 11, 2002
November 25, 2002
December
November
November 3, 2001
November 17, 2001
December 17, 2001
Documentary "Abel Raises Cain" - Alan Abel, Professional Hoaxer
Documentary "Senator Obama Goes To Africa" (2003)
Berkeley Professor Michael Nagler, Director of Peace and Conflict Mediation Studies
"Making Peace Possible From Here To The Middle East"
"The Farmers Market as a Vehicle for Sustainability"
screening Rich Hildreth's film "HOMEGROWN: Do It Yourself Grocery in San Francisco."
An evening with children's book Author Rachel Rodríguez with her two titles, Through Georgia's Eyes
about the artist Georgia O'Keefe and Building on Nature: The Life of Antonio Gaudí.
“An evening with Al & Laura Goldbaum (father & daughter) and their respective art (tempera and photography)
April 13, 2009
Susan Edwards, Noe Valley Parents Coop Nursery School Director, creator of The Explorers' Club Summer Day
Camp
April 27, 2009
Beat Era (and on) Poets Joanna McClure and David Meltzer read
May 11, 2009
Professors/authors Maurice Bassan and Manfred Wolf
May 25, 2009
June 1, 2009
Multimedia expert and film historian Frank Wiley presents "Black Cinema of the 1920s and 30s"
Mystery writer Cara Black reads and signs from her newest release Murder In The Latin Quarter
Shrawan Nepali discusses his Free Lunch Program, "Curry Without Worry," and "Our Nepal Orphanage"
August 31, 2009
Artist Lin Wei returns to continue with her adventures in the USA with a PowerPoint presentation.
Ramón Sender Barayón closes his one-person art exhibit with a PowerPoint presentation.
September 7, 2009
Rabbi Leo Abrami reads from two volumes of his memoirs, and signs.
Novelist Li Miao Lovett and actor/author Lisa Carlson read
October 5, 2009
Poet/media producer Nina Serrano and author/activist Elizabeth (Betita) Martínez
October 19, 2009
Janet Winans, Poet
November 9, 2009
Kathleen McClung, author and teacher, and Joan Sutton, Classicist
November 23, 2009
Susan Griffin and Mike Miller, authors and activists
December 7, 2009
Author-Poets Peter Weltner and Bill Mayer
December 21, 2009
Chi Jang Yin, Filmmaker and Performance Artist
Author Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
How Everyday Products Make People Sick:
Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
Rhoda Curtis, author
Rhoda: The First Ninety Years
Hon. Carol Ruth Silver
Master Teachers By Satellite for Afghanistan
Kay Noyes presents the first dramatic reading of her new play "A Mania of Envy."
Diane LeBow presents "Women of Afghanistan and the World"
slides and reading
Spiritual Cinema Series - Three Short Films
Poets Katharine Harer and Emmanuel Williams
“PIAF – Her Story, Her Songs” -- Starring Bay Area Chanteuse Raquel Bitton
Civil Rights attorney James McWilliams introduces and discusses the documentary "From Swastika to Jim Crow"
"Total Brain Fitness (TM)" with Susan K. Diamond, MSW, MS
Edith E. Hartnett and Ramón Sender Barayón read from their just-published books
Poet Peter Neal Carroll and food writer Jeannette Ferrary read and sign
Poets Nina Serrano and Neeli Chercovski read and sign
National Elections Evening - No Event - YAY OBAMA!
Prof. Emeritus Gerard Heather discusses implications of Obama's victory
Always Free Admission
The Odd Mondays Series presents
Travel Writer Diane LeBow and Photographer John Montgomery
in a talk and slide show "Images and Tales from On and Off the Beaten Track: Our Shared Humanity."
Always Free Admission
The Odd Mondays Series presents
Lois Hoskins “How Our Family With 8 Kids Made It Through The Great Depression”
&
Prof. Barry Schutz: “National Security from Bush to Obama”
Local Artist and Writer, Marlene Aron "THE ART AND LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH"
"Voices Emerging from Trauma into Creative Works" -- Susan Parker, author of
Tumbling After: Pedaling Like Crazy After Life goes Downhill
Accomplished Women from 85 to 100 years of age by Amy Gorman and Greg Young
author Dick Meister will speak on "The Labor Movement, Past, Present and Future"
Artist Terry Berlier and Composer Gregory Moore
Leonard Pitt, a writer/performer from the East Bay,
Filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre screen "Maquilapolis."
"The Greening of Noe Valley," a roundtable discussion with Peter Gabel, moderator, and
Donna Davis, Anita O'Shea and Richard May
Three short films from The Spiritual Cinema Series
Documentary of conversations with Sonoma County communitarians, produced by Delia Moon
Stephen Vincent, poet
author Leo Litwak
August 13, 2007
Filmmaker Lily Rivlin presents her film Can You Hear Me?
September 17, 2007
Authors Jay Ruben Dayrit and Brian Komei Dempster, Individual Artist Commision Recipients from The San Francisco Arts Commission
Author-composer-musician Alicia Bay Laurel
Author Alexandra Enders will read from her new novel.
Composer-performer Luciano Chessa and Filmmaker Bruce Baillie's "On Sundays" and "All My Life"
Vocalist Julie Dillon and Sound Healer Silvia Nakkach with cellist Michael Knapp
Authors Mary Ann Whitten and Lawrence Goodman
"Talking About Turkey"
Authors Summer Brenner and Joe Sutton
Author Leonard Pitt
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 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
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.
Brian Komei Dempster - editor, readings by contributors to
From Our Side of the Fence Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps
Screenwriter and author Dan Bessie and his wife, therapist and author Jeanne Bessie
Movie Night -- Gail Dolgin - Film Producer (with Vicente Franco) of Daughter from Danang
Nurse and Midwife Margaret Bean -- "One Woman's Guatemala"
Norita Vlach - Guatemalan-American therapist and San Jose State College professor.
Kay Noyes, Composer and Playwright, offers a dramatic reading of her play,
Sailing Septuagenarians
"Faithful Fools" Ralph Dranow, Carmen Barsotti and Kay Jorgensen
Authors of children's books Chiori Santiago, Abby Wasserman and Barbara Meislin
Deborah Alvarez, CEO of Goodwill Industries, independent consultant Willa Seldon
"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
"Community Building and Union Organizing" with Lisa Jaicks, Rachel Laws and Michael Miller
“The World’s Sacred Spaces” with Anthony Lawlor, architect and Ramón Sender Barayón, author-composer
“Two Poets From Two Coasts: Margot Farrington (New York) & Kim Shuck (Noe Valley)
“An Evening of Short Films” -- selections from The Spiritual Cinema Showcase
“A Post-Election Review” with Professor Gerald Heather
James McWilliams discusses the film From Swastika to Jim Crow
Authors Jeanette Ferrary, Margo Perin
Julie Soo discusses Wei Lin Discovers America
Anneliese Korner-Kalman reads from her memoir Across the Street from Adolph Hitler
A Spiritual Cinema Evening - selected films from last year's Spiritual Cinema monthly selections.
"Barbie Meets Trashman" - Susan Stern, filmmaker, and Spain Rodriguez, comics artist
Mary Joy Quinn and Sally Calef
Authors Luis Carrillo Miranda and Gerald Rosen
Authors Morris Bassan and.Abby Wassermann
"In Memory of Marla Ruzicka and Faiz Al Salaam"
Jonathan Dimmock, .Robert Howard, Jan Roosevelt Katten
Rita Maran, Kevin Danaher, Rev. Keenan Kelsey
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
"Sacred Places in India" -- a slide show by Noe Valley Ministry members Jivat Mukhi and Shanti Emerson
"Palestinian/Jewish dialogue -- Camp Tawonga Revisited," with Elias Botto and Michael Roosevelt Katten
co-sponssored by WIDME (Women In Dialogue On The Middle East)
The City Repair project, filk and discussion
A combined slide show and reading with devorah major, Poet Laureate of San Francisco,
and her mother, artist Helen Gabriel Major
"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.
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."
San Francisco Politics and Human Rights Then and Now
City Leaders: Sue Bierman and Agar Jaicks in Conversation
January
Ramón Sender Barayón celebrates Perihelion and reads from the new edition of
A Death In Zamora
Odd Mondays Goes EVEN! - The Right Reverend William Swing,
Bishop of the Northern California Episcopal Diocese, will speak about The United Religious Initiative
Author Cyra McFadden of "The Serial" fame will read and
talk about her work, including her family memoir, "Rain or Shine."
Dan Bessie, writer and filmmaker "Rare Birds and Hard Traveling,"
Dorothy Patterson, Human Rights activist and retired Public Health
Educator
Mary Joy Quinn, Director of the Probate Department
Ianthe Brautigan will read from her memoir about her father, Richard Brautigan.
Emily Leider reads from her memoirs on Rudolph Valentino and Mae West
David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle columnist
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~
Fay Afaf Kanafani: artist and author of Nadia, Captive of Hope
Manfred Wolf, author of Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Aileen Clarke Hernandez
Poetry Evening: Rafaella Del Bourgo, Jean Pumphrey, Leslie Scalapino
Olivia Boler
world premieres of Ramon Sender Barayón’s
Steve Dibner, bassonist with the San Francisco Symphony
Phoebe McAfee, weaver, and Richard Van Kooy, MUNI retiree and writer
A Palestinian/Jewish Partnership For Peace, Orli Bein and Nora Khoury
An Evening with Thea Sullivan
District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty
~Summer Break~
Professor Gerard Heather
Carol Field,
Hoover Liddell
Louise Nayer
Author Gerald Rosen
Judy and Ramon Sender - "Lines, Whimsical and Other Wise"; "Why Is The Buddha Smiling?"
Dr. Bryna Siegal -
Peter and Mary Farquhar: How to digitally archive your family history
William Vlach
author Edith Hartnett and Thomas Sears - "The Economics of Spirituality."
Summer Travels to Poland, Siberia and Russia - Nina Youkelson, Bill & Lois Hoskins
San Francsico author Joe Sutton reads from Morning Pages and signs.
Inaugural evening of the Odd Monday Series.
Frankenthaler Parents' Circle in Israel -
Armand Volkas and Mireya Alejo,