by the El Reporter staff
The Gail Dobson Latin Jazz Ensemble
Sunday Streets, events hosted by the City to get San Franciscans out of their homes to participate in fun group activities that promote health and community will feature its final event of 2011, titled Sunday Streets in the Mission on Sunday, Oct 23, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Most activities will be around the Mission and 24th streets area, so people living in the Mission District are especially encouraged to come and participate.
Among the fun filled happenings will include: low-rider bicycles, Salsa bands, DJs, Afro-Caribbean dance performances; and dental, health and vision screenings. For info: www.SundayStreetsSF.com or sundaystreets@gmail.com or call 415.344.0489
Best of Roots Plays Art House Gallery
The production, The Best of Roots, featuring Marcus Cohen and the Congress, a reggae band noted for their unique new music blend, a mixture of funk, jazz, Latin-jazz, R&B and soul will star at the Urban Music venue this Friday night.
This concert is but the first in a lineup of similar ones scheduled to show on Fridays and Saturdays October through December at the Art House Gallery on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, with appearances by: the Best of Roots Music and the Groove and Voodoo Ville band in October; in November, its the Musical Art Quintet, and in December its Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge and The Gail Dobson Latin Jazz Ensemble.
For more info, contact: the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, at 2905 Shattuck Ave, in Berkeley, at 510-472-3170 or go to stephanie@urbanmusicpresents.com.
United Nations Film Festival
The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) theme for the 14th UNAFF “Education Is a Human Right,” which has become even timelier in the past several months given recent developments in school budget cuts, tuition hikes, and rising dropout rates, which have led to state and federal-level debates about educational reform.
A number of films this year will address barriers to education not only in the U.S., but across the world as well. Extending beyond the main theme, UNAFF will also cover a wide range of topics including child labor, human trafficking, public health, and freedom of the press.
UNAFF will feature 70 documentaries presenting stories from 70 countries.
Founded in 1998 by Jasmina Bojic, film critic and educator, UNAFF is an international documentary film festival originally established to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As one of the oldest solely documentary film festivals in the US, UNAFF prides itself in providing a forum for discovery and dialogue about different cultures and solutions.
UNAFF will have this year more than 20 PREMIERES – World, the US and the West Coast and 40 filmmakers from all over the world. We would love to have your coverage. To be held between Oct. 21 – 30 in in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco. The theme for this year is EDUCATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT. For more info visit http://www.unaff.org/2011.
