Monday, June 1st, 7:30 PM (Note the half-hour later start time)
Ramon and Judith Sender and the Noe Valley Ministry presents
our co-sponsors, invite you to a screening of the film:
"A Separate Cinema: A History of Black Cast Films - 1910-1930s"
Featuring film producer Oscar Micheaux and screening clips from a few of his Black Cast films.
FREE ADMISSION
During the film industry’s infancy, pioneering African American film companies, such as Lincoln Motion
Picture Company and Micheaux Film Corporation, proved the need for and viability of black cinema.
These “race movies” offered African Americans starring roles in westerns, comedies, musicals, mysteries,
melodramas, and crime films. They conveyed messages of racial uplift, and let black audiences see
themselves woven into popular American mythology. The films were a welcome reaction to the negative
racial stereotypes permeating mainstream film at the time.
Monday, June 15th, 7:30 PM (Note the half-hour later start time)
Ramon and Judith Sender and the Noe Valley Ministry, our co-sponsor,
invite you to a reading and book-signing by Noe Valley mystery writer
Cara Black and her latest release Murder In The Latin Quarter
More information at www.carablack.com/
FREE ADMISSION
Front doors open at 7 P.M.
"If the cobblestones of the old Marais district of Paris could only talk, they might tell
a tale as haunting as the one Cara Black spins..." -- NY Times Book Review on "Murder in the Marais"
Cara Black needs no introduction to mystery lovers. She frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track.
A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police and private detectives. She lives in San Francisco
with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris
Sociéte Historique in the Marais.Her nationally bestselling and award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has
been translated into five languages. She's included in the GREAT WOMEN MYSTERY WRITERS by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd
edition published in the UK. Her first three novels in the series MURDER IN THE MARAIS, MURDER IN BELLEVILE, and MURDER
IN THE SENTIER - nominated for an Anthony Award as Best Novel - will be published in the UK in 2008. Several of her books
have been chosen as BookSense Picks by the Amerian Association of Independent Bookstores.
She is currently working on the next book in the Aimée Leduc series.
Monday, June 29th, 7:30 PM (Note the half-hour later start time)
Ramon and Judith Sender and the Noe Valley Ministry, our co-sponsor,
invite you to our final program of our current season, a presentation by Shrawan Nepali titled
The San Francisco 'Curry Without Worry'
Free Food Program and Our Nepal Orphanage
More information at http://www.currywithoutworry.org/
FREE ADMISSION
Guitarist-Vocalist Julie Dillon Will Open The Program
Julie needs no introduction to Odd Mondays' regulars. She has regaled us with her songs on a number of previous programs.
Front doors open at 7 P.M.
Shrawan Nepali grew up at Paropakar Orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal from age 8 till 16 after losing his grandma, YogaMaya Shrestha.
After finishing high school, he worked as a supervisor to take care of a 50-boy orphanage while attending part-time college at The
Public Youth College, Kathmandu. He also worked at the International Buddhist Library in Swayembhunath. In 1985 he received an
opportunity to pursue his higher education in the United States when his long time Peace Corp Volunteer brother, John Paul, sponsored
his education at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina. After receiving his BA in Business Administration 1989, he moved
to be closer to another long time Peace Corp Volunteer brother, Dave Fulton, from San Francisco, who served in his village in Pyuthan,
Western Nepal, during the late 1960s.
While working part-time at Tri-Valley Growers Corporation in San Francisco as an accountant, he ended up getting his MBA in
International Business from Lincoln University in 1993, and kept serving corporate America for 8 years. At Selective Media, San
Francisco, he worked as a controller from 1995-1999. At Alternative Telecom, Berkeley, he worked as a controller from 1999-2001.
To give back to his native country Nepal, he left the corporate world in 2001 to start a home to provide a lasting home and education
for some of the most underprivileged children of Nepal, and founded The Ama Foundation. (www.ama-foundation.org)
With his love of cooking and to bring friends together from the East and the West in what he calls the "human fireplace", in 2006 he
founded "Curry Without Worry" free lunches at the Civic Center every Tuesday with music and singing -- and the help of friends from both parts of the world.
Shrawan travels around the world to promote these two organizations and also leads his friends from the West in spiritual and adventurous
journeys to Nepal twice a year.
Join Shrawan, Julie and series producers Judith and Ramon Sender at 6:00 (note later time) PM
for a no-host pizza (or other entré) supper at the Noe Valley Pizza on the northeast
corner of Sanchez and 24th Streets before the evening's event (five minutes walk from the restaurant).
