Poetry & Literature
| Event |
Organization |
Dates |
City |
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| A New Earth - Book Study Group |
Divine Science Community Center |
07/09/08 -
09/17/08 |
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| Julie Compton and Edward Wright - Tell No Lies and Damnation Falls |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/06/08 |
San Mateo |
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| Kimberly Ford - Hump: True Tales of Sex After Kids |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/09/08 |
Menlo Park |
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| Author David Harris |
Books Inc. |
09/09/08 |
Palo Alto |
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| Poetry with Peter Carroll - Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/10/08 |
Menlo Park |
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| Aaron Greenspan |
Books Inc. |
09/10/08 |
Mountain View |
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| Inked Books: The Graphic Novel Book Club |
Books Inc. |
09/10/08 |
Palo Alto |
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| Sally Ashton Poetry Reading & Open Mic |
Poetry Center San Jose |
09/11/08 |
San Jose |
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| Barry Broad - Eve of Destruction |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/11/08 |
San Mateo |
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| Brian Greene - Icarus at the Edge of Time |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/11/08 |
Menlo Park |
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| Neal Stephenson - Anathem (Drop-by Signing Only) |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/12/08 |
San Mateo |
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| Neal Stephenson - Anathem |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/12/08 |
Menlo Park |
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| Pamela Ronald - Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming Genetics, and the Future of Food |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/13/08 |
San Mateo |
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| Brunonia Barry - The Lace Reader |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/13/08 |
San Mateo |
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| Poets At Play |
Poetry Center San Jose |
09/14/08 |
San Jose |
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| Brunonia Barry - The Lace Reader: Human Evolution and the Environment |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/14/08 |
Menlo Park |
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| Paul Aster - Man In The Dark (Drop-by Signing Only) |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/15/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Judy Estrin - Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/15/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| The Distinctive City with Dr. Ann Markusen |
Commonwealth Club - Silicon Valley |
09/15/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Discover MBA Admissions Secrets |
Books Inc. |
09/16/08 |
Mountain View |
|
| Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein - Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/16/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Writer's Forum Open Mic Night |
San Francisco/Peninsula Writers |
09/17/08 -
12/17/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Asha Sharma |
Books Inc. |
09/17/08 |
Mountain View |
|
| Jonathan Mahler - The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/17/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Jennet Conant - The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/18/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Thursday Gig |
Stone Griffin Art Gallery |
09/18/08 |
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| Somaly Mam - The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/18/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Selden Edwards - The Little Book |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/19/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Junot Diaz Reading and Book Signing |
MACLA |
09/20/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Crime Writer Don Winslow Reads from Dawn Patrol |
San Jose Public Library System |
09/20/08 |
San Jose |
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| Irvine Welsh - Crime (Drop-by Signing Only) |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/20/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Daryl Wimberley - Kaleidoscope |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/20/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Stephen Elliott - Where To Invade Next |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/22/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Diane Ackerman - The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/23/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
Books Inc. |
09/23/08 |
Mountain View |
|
| Ron Hansen Book Talk |
Santa Clara Central Park Library |
09/24/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Larry Beinhart - Salvation Boulevard |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/24/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Rick Wartzman - Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/24/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Bill Damon - The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/25/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Brad Meltzer - The Book Of Lies (Drop-by Signing Only) |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/25/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Frank Wilczek - The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/26/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Alan Jacobson - The 7th Victim |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/27/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) - Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/29/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Gail Konop Baker - Cancer Is a Bitch (Or, I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis) |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
09/30/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Paul Charles - The Beautiful Sound Of Silence |
M is for Mystery Bookstore |
09/30/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Paul R. Ehrlich - The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/01/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Dave Eggers in Conversation with Michael Krasny |
San Mateo Reads 2008 |
10/01/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Sleep Is for the Weak: The Best of the Mommybloggers Including Amalah, Finslippy, Fussy, Woulda Coulda Shoulda, Mom-101, and More! |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/02/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Kathleen Norris - Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/04/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Robert Martensen - A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/06/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/07/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Diane Johnson - Lulu in Marrakech |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/08/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/14/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Rabih Alameddine |
San Jose Public Library System |
10/15/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Randall Stross - Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/15/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Christopher Kimball - Cook's Country Cookbook and America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/16/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| African Folktales |
East Palo Alto Library |
10/16/08 |
East Palo Alto |
|
| Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/17/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| The Art of the Memoir - David Henry Sterry, Alan Black, and Beth Lisick |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/20/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Keith Devlin - The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/21/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Kay Ryan Poet Laureate |
Poetry Center San Jose |
10/23/08 |
Saratoga |
|
| Anne Rice - Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/25/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Marc Kielburger - Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/27/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Kirsten Menger-Anderson - Dr. Olaf van Schuler's Brain |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
10/30/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Where Art Originates - Artists and the Creative Process: Writer Karen-King Aribisala |
Djerassi Resident Artists Program |
10/30/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| Therese Poletti - Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/05/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Go Green: Laura Stec & Dr. Eugene Cordero - Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/06/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Project Runway Finalist Daniel Vosovic - Fashion Inside Out: Daniel V's Guide to How Style Happens From Inspiration to Runway and Beyond |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/07/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies: A Novel |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/10/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Katherine Neville - The Fire: A Novel |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/11/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| H.W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/12/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Wendy Northcutt - The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/13/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Dr. Irene Pepperberg - Alex & Me |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/18/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Karan Mahajan - Family Planning: A Novel |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/19/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| R.J. Ruppenthal - Fresh Food from Small Spaces |
Kepler\'s Bookstore |
11/20/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
Visual Art & Museums
| Event |
Organization |
Dates |
City |
|
| Downtown Campbell ArtWalk |
Downtown Campbell Business Association |
09/21/07 -
06/19/09 |
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|
| Andy Warhol Prints |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
04/16/08 -
11/30/08 |
Stanford |
|
| Third Saturday Art Walk |
SoCo Gallery |
04/19/08 -
12/20/08 |
Half Moon Bay |
|
| A Breath of Plein Air |
History San Jose |
05/02/08 -
09/21/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Rotunda Exhibition IV by Arabella Decker and Ruth von Jahnke Waters |
Peninsula Arts Council |
05/07/08 -
10/31/08 |
Redwood City |
|
| Spared from the Storm - Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
06/04/08 -
10/05/08 |
Stanford |
|
| Art On The Square |
City of Redwood City |
06/20/08 -
09/20/08 |
Redwood City |
|
| Timothy Berry: More Missing Magic |
Palo Alto Art Center |
06/22/08 -
09/07/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| Nathan Oliveira: The Painter's Bronzes |
Palo Alto Art Center |
06/22/08 -
09/07/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| Rydell Visual Arts Fellows |
Sanchez Art Center |
07/18/08 -
09/06/08 |
Pacifica |
|
| Different Colors III |
Art Reach Studios and The Arc of San Francisco |
07/18/08 -
09/06/08 |
Pacifica |
|
| Apolitical, Be Political |
Art Guild of Pacifica |
07/18/08 -
09/06/08 |
Pacifica |
|
| Richard Diebenkorn - Abstraction on Paper |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
07/23/08 -
11/09/08 |
Stanford |
|
| Richard Diebenkorn, Artist & Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Collection |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
07/23/08 -
10/26/08 |
Stanford |
|
| Dr. Seuss for President Art Exhibition |
Peabody Fine Art Gallery |
07/24/08 -
11/05/08 |
Los Gatos |
|
| Marc Demian & Jeff Owen |
Bay Area Glass Institute |
08/01/08 -
11/30/08 |
San Jose |
|
| META by Bruno 9Li at Anno Domini |
Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design |
08/01/08 -
09/20/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Rock, Paper, Scissors - Birthday Show |
The Main Gallery |
08/06/08 -
09/07/08 |
Redwood City |
|
| Students of 1870 Art Center Artists |
1870 Art Center |
08/07/08 -
09/14/08 |
Belmont |
|
| Timothy Horn: Medusa |
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art |
08/15/08 -
09/27/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Four Facets of Abstraction |
Gallery House - Palo Alto |
08/26/08 -
09/20/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| Stanford Art Spaces at Stanford University |
Stanford Art Spaces - Stanford University |
08/29/08 -
10/23/08 |
Stanford |
|
| Buddha On My Dashboard by Nicolai Larsen |
Peninsula Arts Council |
09/01/08 -
10/31/08 |
Redwood City |
|
| Barnyard Portraits by Karen Barone |
Portola Art Gallery |
09/01/08 -
09/30/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| The Bikes are Back |
Viewpoints Gallery |
09/01/08 -
10/03/08 |
Los Altos |
|
| Growing Up Asian in America 2008 Exhibit |
San Jose Public Library System |
09/01/08 -
09/30/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Time, Space & Hope |
Aegis Gallery of Fine Art |
09/02/08 -
09/28/08 |
Saratoga |
|
| 10th Annual Membership Art Exhibition |
Triton Museum of Art |
09/06/08 -
10/04/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Charles Savoie |
Bay Area Glass Institute |
09/07/08 |
San Jose |
|
| Mike Narciso: Walk the Island |
Triton Museum of Art |
09/08/08 -
11/16/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| A Symphony of Color |
Community School of Music and Arts |
09/08/08 -
09/22/08 |
Mountain View |
|
| New Works - Paintings and Giclee Prints by Jude Pittman |
Peninsula Library System |
09/08/08 -
10/30/08 |
San Mateo |
|
| Docent Talk - Frida Kahlo at the MOMA |
San Mateo County Library |
09/09/08 |
Belmont |
|
| Creative Arts Day - Free Mini-Workshops |
Allied Arts Guild |
09/11/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| On The Edge |
Coastal Arts League Gallery & Museum |
09/12/08 -
09/30/08 |
Half Moon Bay |
|
| Ann Weber: Wonderland |
Triton Museum of Art |
09/13/08 -
11/23/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Plein Air Event - Paint Allied Arts |
Portola Art Gallery |
09/13/08 |
Menlo Park |
|
| Docent Talk - Frida Kahlo at the MOMA |
San Mateo County Library |
09/15/08 |
Foster City |
|
| Expanding |
The Department of Art & Art History at Stanford Un |
09/16/08 -
10/19/08 |
Stanford |
|
| Through a Glass, Darkly by Silke Henkel-Wallace |
1870 Art Center |
09/18/08 -
11/02/08 |
Belmont |
|
| 4th Annual Atherton Artist Exhibit and Reception |
Atherton Arts Committee |
09/19/08 |
Atherton |
|
| Misch Kohn - Conscience and Vision Exhibit |
Wiegand Gallery |
09/19/08 -
10/25/08 |
Belmont |
|
| Spirit & Form |
Triton Museum of Art |
09/20/08 -
11/23/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Docent Talk - Frida Kahlo at the MOMA |
San Mateo County Library |
09/22/08 |
San Carlos |
|
| Docent Talk - Frida Kahlo at the MOMA |
San Mateo County Library |
09/26/08 |
Half Moon Bay |
|
| Just Pretend Everything is OK - Evri Kwong |
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University |
09/27/08 -
12/13/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi: Winter in America |
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University |
09/27/08 -
12/13/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Obsessions |
Peninsula Museum of Art |
09/27/08 -
12/31/08 |
Belmont |
|
| In the Bigger Picture: Richard Misrach |
Palo Alto Art Center |
09/28/08 -
12/21/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf |
Palo Alto Art Center |
09/28/08 -
12/21/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| Come In - Paintings by Athena Lorente |
Heart of Chaos |
09/29/08 -
10/05/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| The 13th Annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch |
Palo Alto Art Center |
09/30/08 -
10/05/08 |
Palo Alto |
|
| New paintings by Kay Duffy |
Aegis Gallery of Fine Art |
10/01/08 -
10/26/08 |
Saratoga |
|
| 1870 Art Center Open Studios |
1870 Art Center |
11/06/08 -
12/07/08 |
Belmont |
|
| Meditation Into Action: Three Perspectives on Art, Social Justice & Spirituality |
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University |
11/11/08 |
Santa Clara |
|
| Durer to Picasso |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
11/12/08 -
02/15/09 |
Stanford |
|
| A General Art Show |
South San Francisco Cultural Arts Commission |
11/14/08 -
11/15/08 |
South San Francisco |
|
| Holiday Bazaar |
San Carlos Fine Arts Association |
11/14/08 -
11/15/08 |
|
|
| Timbuktu to CapeTown |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
12/03/08 -
03/22/09 |
Stanford |
|
| Hendrick Goltzius: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Long Collection |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
12/17/08 -
03/29/09 |
Stanford |
|
| Pop to Present |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
03/18/09 -
08/16/09 |
Stanford |
|
| Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr. |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
03/18/09 -
06/21/09 |
Stanford |
|
| Appellations from Antiquity |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
04/15/09 -
07/26/09 |
Stanford |
|
| From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
07/29/09 -
10/18/09 |
Stanford |
|
| Explore Outdoor Sculpture |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
02/20/05 -
Ongoing |
Stanford |
|
| Tour: Introducing the Cantor Arts Center |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
10/31/06 -
Ongoing |
Stanford |
|
| Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
11/19/06 -
Ongoing |
Stanford |
|
| Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
04/18/07 -
Ongoing |
Stanford |
|
| Contemporary Glass |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
08/01/08 -
Ongoing |
Stanford |
|
| Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection |
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford |
02/18/09 -
Ongoing |
Stanford |
|