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When: Sat, Aug 28th, 4:00 PM (Music 3:30) Where: South Field, Mitchell Park, 600 East Meadow Drive, Palo Alto Cost: Free. Donations accepted.
The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe opens its 51st season.
Quoting their web page:
“A small U.S. factory is shutting down. All of the workers are losing their jobs, and to add insult to injury, they have also lost their last two weeks of pay and retirement funds, which were raided over the years to pay stock dividends. On the final day of work, a pregnant employee, suddenly overtaken with labor pains, sits down on the job. Interpreting this as an act of defiance, The Boss calls security. The situation escalates and before anyone has a chance to think, the Workers have accidentally occupied the Factory!
“During the negotiation process, The Boss tries intimidation, patriotism, and Red Scare tactics, while the Workers just try to figure out what the heck they're doing. Some say wreck the place. Tea Baggers say it's all the government's fault. Others blame the Union. One Worker, an Argentine ex-pat, says they should consider running the Factory themselves and is immediately labeled a Commie. At night, as the occupying Workers entertain themselves with songs and stories, the Argentine comes forward again and tells the tale of a similar strike back home. As more of the Argentine's story unfolds, the parallel plights of the American and Argentine Workers play out side by side. While the Americans struggle to keep their factory occupation from becoming politicized, the Argentine strike is deeply political. In the end, both the American and Argentine Workers are victorious, but which resolution will ultimately keep the power in the Workers' hands?”
For more information, call 415-285-1717 or visit
http://www.sfmt.org/
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What: Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo When: Saturday, September 18, 10 am Where: 1451 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Meet: museum entrance Cost: Free. A $3 donation per person is appreciated.
The Palo Alto Zoo has recently reopened the bobcat habitat after a $450,000 renovation project. The Bat Cave has also been renovated and now includes include Egyptian Fruit bats along with the African Straw bats.
The Zoo is home to more than 50 species of animals—about 200 specimens in all—many of which are brought into classrooms as part of the Junior Museum & Zoo’s science outreach program with local schools. In addition to the bobcats and bats mentioned above, some of the animals include raccoons, hedgehogs, ferrets, snakes, fresh and salt water fish and invertebrates, a red tail hawk, and other birds.
For more information, call (650) 329-2111 or visit
http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/jmz
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What: Ohlone Day at Deer Hollow Farm When: Saturday, October 16, 1 pm Where: (see directions) Deer Hollow Farm is located in
the Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, nestled in the foothills of Los Altos. Cost: Admission: $5.00. Kids under 2: Free
Ohlone Day at Deer Hollow Farm provides an opportunity for the general public to enter the Farm’s replica Ohlone village and learn about the Bay Area’s original inhabitants, the Ohlone, who lived here for 10,000 years.
Enjoy hands-on activities and demonstrations of Ohlone daily life, such as fire starting, acorn grinding, shell drilling, tool making, and much more!
Throughout the rest of the year, this village is used throughout for classes for third and fourth graders on field trips and is closed to the public.
Deer Hollow Farm is an educational center where the public, school classes, and community groups can observe and participate in a historic working farm. The 150-year-old Farm stands as a reminder of Santa Clara County’s agricultural history. In the tradition of a working homestead, Deer Hollow Farm continues to produce food on-site.
Directions:
For more information, call (650) 903-6430 or visit
http://www.fodhf.org/
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Thu, Jul 15, 7 pm: Living Roofs / Native Plants Slideshow, Saratoga | 2010 (Jan- Jun) |
Sat, Jun 26, 10 am: Shoreline Interpretive Center, Hayward Sat, May 15, 10 am: Elizabeth Gamble Garden, Palo Alto Thu, Apr 15, 6 pm: GREENLIGHT Earth Day Film Festival, Palo Alto Sat, Mar 27, 10 am: Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito Sat, Feb 20, 3 pm: Bird photography, Don Edwards S. F. Bay Nat’l Wildlife Refuge Sat, Jan 16, noon: Scaled Miniatures, Los Altos |
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| 2009 |
Sat, Dec 5, 10:00 am: Soapmaking and shopping, Palo Alto Sat, Nov 7, noon: NASA Ames Exploration Center, Mountain View Sat, Oct 17, 11 am: "New Forms of 36 Ghosts" art exhibit, Stanford Sat, Sep 5, 12:30 pm: Nike Missile Site museum, GGNRA, Marin Co. Wed, Aug 5, 7 pm: Too Big to Fail by San Francisco Mime Troupe, Palo Alto Sun, Jul 12, 2 pm: Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum, Sunnyvale Sat, Jun 27, 11:30: "Happy Birds" show, Cambrian Library, San Jose Fri, May 29, 8 pm: Stargazing and Constellation Talk, Alviso Thu, Apr 16, 6 pm: GREENLIGHT Earth Day Film Festival, Palo Alto Sat, Mar 21, noon: Historic Tour of the Johnston House, Half Moon Bay Sat, Feb 21, 11 am: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Sat, Jan 17, noon: Takara’s Sake Museum and Tasting Room, Berkeley | 2008 |
Sat, Dec 6, 12:45 pm: Computer History Museum, Mountain View Sat, Nov 1, 10 am: Holiday Tour of the Johnston House, Half Moon Bay Sat, Oct 18, 1 pm: Robot Exhibit, San José Museum of Art Sat, Sep 20, 1 pm: San José/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant, Alviso Tue, Aug 5, 7 pm: Red State by San Francisco Mime Troupe, Palo Alto Sat, Jul 19, 10 am: San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles Sat, Jun 7, noon: Lucile and David Packard Exhibit, Los Altos Sat, May 17, 10 am: Overfelt Gardens and Chinese Cultural Garden, San José Thu, Apr 17, 6 pm: GREENLIGHT Earth Day Film Festival, Palo Alto Sun, Mar 2, 2 pm: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Santa Clara Sat, Feb 2, noon: The Perfumer’s Apprentice, Santa Cruz Sat, Jan 5, noon: Museum of Railroad History, Santa Clara |
| 2007 |
Sat, Dec 1, noon: Ainsley House Tour, Campbell Sat, Nov 10, 11 am: San José State University Historical Campus Tour Sat, Oct 27, noon: Shark Day at Don Edwards S. F. Bay Nat’l Wildlife Refuge Sat, Sep 15, 10 am: Bark in the Park, San José Sun, Aug 5, 5 pm: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Mitchell Park, Palo Alto Sat, Jul 28, 1 pm: Cool Waters Exhibit, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomond Sat, Jun 16, noon: 29th Annual Highland Games & Celtic Gathering, Campbell Sun, May 6, 2 pm: Rotary Art Show, Saratoga Sat, Apr 28, 10 am: Filoli tour, Woodside Sat, Mar 3, 10 am: Coffee tasting, Santa Clara Sun, Feb 11, 2:30 pm: Chocolate tasting and trivia, Mountain View Sun, Jan 21, 2 pm: Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto | 2006 |
Sat, Dec 16, 10 am: Artopia (giftmaking), Cupertino Sat, Nov 18, 11 am: Sunnyvale Lace Museum Sat, Oct 14, 6 pm: bad sci-fi DVD, Mountain View Sat, Sep 16, 11 am: 10th Anniversary ArtCar Fest, San José Sun, Aug 19, 4:30 pm: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Mitchell Park, Palo Alto Sun, Jul 9, 2 pm: Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival, Palo Alto Sun, Jun 4, 3 pm: Rodin Collection, Cantor Museum, Stanford Sat, May 20, noon: The Innocents, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Sat, Apr 22, noon: Los Altos Hist. Museum & Smith House Sat, Mar 25, noon: Peralta Adobe & Fallon House, San José Sat, Feb 4, 10 am: Petroglyph ceramics, San José Sat, Jan 7, noon: dinosaurs at Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley |
| 2005 |
Sat, Dec 3, 10 am: Victorian Holiday, Ardenwood Farm, Fremont Sun, Nov 13, 2:30 pm: Tour of the Rengstorff (Victorian) House, Mountain View Sat, Oct 8, 10 am: Samhain Tour of the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland Sat, Sep 17, 10 am: Annual Silicon Valley of Moon Festival, Stevens Creek Sat, Aug 20, evening: Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland Sun, Jul 17, 4:30 pm: San Francisco Mime Troupe at Mitchell Park, Palo Alto Sat, Jun 25, 7:45 pm: Silent Film Festival, Fremont Sat, May 7, 9:45 am: Elkhorn Slough Reserve, Monterey Bay Sun, Apr 17, 1:45 pm: Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto Sat, Mar 5, 7 pm: Games Night, Saratoga Sat, Feb 19, 12:45 pm: Computer History Museum, Mountain View Sat, Jan 15, 2:30 pm: Año Nuevo State Reserve | 2004 |
Sat, Dec 11, 2 pm: Ceramics workshop, Linda’s Ceramics, Fremont Sat, Nov 13, 1:45 pm: Blackhawk Museum, Danville Sat, Oct 23, 3:45 pm: Corn Maze, Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont Fri, Sep 10, 8 pm: The White House Murder Case, Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto Sun, Aug 22, 3:15 pm: Silent film Zorro, San José Sun, Jul 11, 2:15 pm: The Tech Museum of Innovation, San José Sun, Jun 6, 1:45 pm: kite flying, Shoreline Park, Mountain View Sun, May 23, 2:15 pm: Japanese Friendship Garden, San José Sat, Apr 17, 11:30 am: Mars exhibit, NASA Ames Visitor Center, Mountain View Sat, Mar 20, 2 pm: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San José Sat, Feb 21, 2:30 pm: Año Nuevo State Reserve . . . (Jan: none) |
| 2003 |
Sat, Dec 6, 2 pm: Solstice Tree (Xmas in the Park), downtown San José Sat, Nov 22, 1 pm: Intel Museum, Santa Clara Sat, Oct 18, 10 am: Wilder Ranch, Santa Cruz ‹inaugural› |