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Viento de Agua (David Sánchez, Miguel Zenon – Los Pleneros de la 21), Tito Matus, direct From Puerto Rico! Bring panderetas & güiros and learn from one of the greatest living exponents of Puerto Rico’s beautiful percussive traditions!
This is a super rare opportunity. Can’t go to Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico has come to us! ¡Que viva la Plena Puertorriqueña!
Monday, Aug. 11, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. (at 25th), San Francisco. For more info call 510-295-7685. Only $15.
Music therapy for alzheimer’s and dementia patients
The City of Redwood City, in collaboration with the Fox Theatre and SNS FiReFilms, invites the community to a special screening of the award-winning film, Alive Inside.
This film reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough in the care of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, which has already transformed lives. Fostered by non-profit Music & Memory, the initiative is led by social worker Dan Cohen and is captured on camera over the course of three years by filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett. The film documents how songs from Alzheimer’s and dementia patients’ past can awaken memories and emotions that have been asleep for years, sometimes decades.
This film screening is open to the entire community as a way to raise awareness of this methodology for enriching the lives of the senior population, and celebrate the possibilities this brings for opening long-closed doors in the minds of those who suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The free film screening takes place on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014.
Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City, Doors open at at 6 p.m., screening begins at 6:30 p.m.
East Side Story and
Chicano Soul: Lowrider photo exhibit and more
In conjunction with the Lowriding season MCCLA is thrilled to present featured artists: Yolanda López, Art Meza, Adolfo Arias, and Fern Balladares whose art work represent lowrider culture past and present. Join us at the opening reception to meet the artists, hear excerpts of Meza’s Lowriting book, view screening of Why I Ride a documentary on 80’s lowrider car scene in San Francisco, walk along the display of lowrider cars parked in front of the center, and listen to oldies by DJ Soulera. Be a part of reclaiming public space. Don’t miss out.
Opening Reception on Aug. 9, from 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m. $5 admission fee/ Galleries. Film screening Aug. 9: Why I Ride written by Vero Majano & Debra Koffler 7 p.m. Exhibit opens from Aug. 9-Sept 12, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco.
Unveiling of 90 by 25 foot mural and cultural performances
The youth of 67 Sueños and Allen Temple Baptist Church will unveil a new 90 by 25 foot mural celebrating Black-Brown Unity. Titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in honor of the late Dr. Maya Angelou, the mural highlights the history of African-Americans and Latinos, the current social struggles facing both groups, including mass incarceration / immigrant detention.
At 8501 International Blvd., Oakland, California – Mural @ NE corner of 86th Ave., on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2 p.m.
