calendar / apr 08

EXHIBITIONS

  • Modern Iraqi Painting BEGINNING THU, JANUARY 24
    Moments From 20th Century Iraqi Art

  • No image for this event BEGINNING TUE, MARCH 4
    Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Exhibition

    On March 5th, 2007, more than 30 people were killed when a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street, an old and established street for book-selling in the heart of Baghdad's literary and intellectual community. To protest the bombing, the Mutanabbi Street Coalition, a group started by San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil, invited letterpress printers to produce broadsides, which will be on ...

EVENTS

  • Youth Action Coalition TUESDAY APRIL 1, 2008 4 P.M.
    Youth Action Coalition with Adobe Youth Voices

    Tagged : learn
  • Young Artist Painting TUESDAY APRIL 1, 2008 4 P.M.
    After School Art Explorations with Susie Heeter

    Tagged : learn
  • Box Art Class THURSDAY APRIL 3, 2008 6:30 P.M.
    Drawing Montalvo's Botanicals with Edward Rooks

    Tagged : learn
  • Jessie Benthien FRIDAY APRIL 4, 2008 1:15 P.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Master Class: Culinary Fellow Jessie Benthien

    Tagged : learn, residency, school and teacher
  • Robert Greenberg SUNDAY APRIL 6, 2008 2 P.M.
    Greenberg Lecture Series: Dmitri Shostakovich: Strange Bedfellows

    Our third session finds that World War II has greatly lightened Stalin’s artistic repressions, as any expressionistic art and negative content, including Shostakovich’s very dark work of 1941-45, is directly attributed to the Nazi invasion. Post-war, the terror returns and Shostakovich is again purged in 1948, and slowly rehabilitated until Stalin’s death in 1953.For over 20 years, Robert Greenberg has presented ...

    Tagged : classical, programs
  • Youth Action Coalition TUESDAY APRIL 8, 2008 4 P.M.
    Youth Action Coalition with Adobe Youth Voices

    Tagged : learn
  • Cypress String Quartet THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008 8:27 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Master Class: Cypress String Quartet

    As part of Montalvo's master class series and based on Montalvo's Salon Series, the Cypress String Quartet explores the intricate process of creativity and inspiration with Lincoln High School's orchestra program. The April 10 master class leads up to the April 17 concert at which Cypress String Quartet will premier the newest quartet by brilliant young San Francisco composer Kurt Rohde. Rohde ...

    Tagged : classical, concerts, programs
  • Cypress String Quartet THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008 11 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    MASTER CLASS: CYPRESS STRING QUARTET

    As part of Montalvo's master class series and based on Montalvo's Salon Series, the Cypress String Quartet explores the intricate process of creativity and inspiration with Monta Vista High School's orchestra program. The April 10 master class leads up to the April 17 concert at which Cypress String Quartet will premier the newest quartet by brilliant young San Francisco composer Kurt Rohde ...

    Tagged : classical, learn, programs
  • Brian Turner THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008 NOON
    Member Book Club: Here, Bullet By Brian Turner

    Member Book Club discusses Here, Bullet by Brian Turner. For information on joining the Book Club, please visit the Membership page here.

    Tagged : book club, programs
  • Box Art Class THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2008 6:30 P.M.
    Drawing Montalvo's Botanicals with Edward Rooks

    Tagged : learn
  • Brian Turner FRIDAY APRIL 11, 2008 7:30 P.M.
    Soldier/Poet Brian Turner

    Iraq war veteran, Brian Turner, writes powerfully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. His debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, was awarded the 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry among others. The poems reflect Turner's experiences as a soldier with penetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence, while deploring the violence and acknowledging the grief and terror of war ...

    Tagged : c
  • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2008 11 A.M.
    Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! -- SOLD OUT!

    The friendly bus driver leaves us with one simple instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" However, the Pigeon is clever and whines, bribes, pleads and even sings a song to get his own way…BUT WILL YOU LET HIM DRIVE? Mo Willems’ beloved story comes alive in this original musical adaptation of the book. The performance is full of fun, feathers, laughter ...

    Tagged : learn, theatre
  • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2008 1 P.M.
    Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! -- SOLD OUT!

    The friendly bus driver leaves us with one simple instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" However, the Pigeon is clever and whines, bribes, pleads and even sings a song to get his own way…BUT WILL YOU LET HIM DRIVE? Mo Willems’ beloved story comes alive in this original musical adaptation of the book. The performance is full of fun, feathers, laughter ...

    Tagged : learn, theatre
  • Antares SATURDAY APRIL 12, 2008 8 P.M.
    Antares

    The Cincinnati Post said, “ [Antares] inhabits the music in an extraordinary way, achieving their expressive ends through superb individual and corporate means and the most scrupulous ensemble precision.” Antares has performed Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” for nearly a decade and they are considered to be one of its foremost advocates. Renowned for their electrifying repertoire of chamber masterworks and contemporary composition ...

    Tagged : classical, concerts, programs
  • Chris Brown SUNDAY APRIL 13, 2008 3 P.M.
    RESCHEDULED: Composers Series Part Two: Cristina Valdes, Chris Brown with Joan Jeanrenaud and William Winant

    This event has been rescheduled for Spring 2009. Please check back for more details. Day two of the Composers Series features Cristina Valdes, a captivating pianist who has played Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center; and Chris Brown with Joan Jeanrenaud and William Winant. Brown is a composer, electronic musician and instrument-builder whose pursuit of new sonic experiences drives the trajectories of his ...

    Tagged : clasical, concerts, programs
  • The Wailin' Jennys SUNDAY APRIL 13, 2008 7:30 P.M.
    The Wailin' Jennys -- SOLD OUT!

    Recognized across musical genres, this contemporary-folk trio captivates audiences and critics alike with luminous songwriting and vocal and instrumental performances that The Independent (UK) calls "almost too good to be true.” Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Heather Masse’s “fresh, rootsy songs” and “goose bump-inducing three-part harmonies” (The Washington Times) have propelled this group’s recent album, Firecracker, to the top 20 on four Billboard ...

    Tagged : concerts, folk, programs
  • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! MONDAY APRIL 14, 2008 9:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! -- SOLD OUT

    Recommended for grades: K-3 Curriculum Connections: English-Language Arts; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre The friendly bus driver leaves us with one simple instruction: “Don’t let the Pigeon drive the bus!” However, the Pigeon is very clever and whines, bribes, pleads and even sings a song to get his own way…but will you let him drive? Recently awarded the Caldecott Honor for children’s literature ...

    Tagged : learn, theatre
  • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! MONDAY APRIL 14, 2008 11:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! -- SOLD OUT

    Recommended for grades: K-3 Curriculum Connections: English-Language Arts; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre The friendly bus driver leaves us with one simple instruction: “Don’t let the Pigeon drive the bus!” However, the Pigeon is very clever and whines, bribes, pleads and even sings a song to get his own way…but will you let him drive? Recently awarded the Caldecott Honor for children’s literature ...

    Tagged : learn, theatre
  • Youth Action Coalition TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2008 4 P.M.
    Youth Action Coalition with Adobe Youth Voices

    Tagged : learn
  • Young Artist Painting TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2008 4 P.M.
    After School Art Explorations with Susie Heeter

    Tagged : learn
  • No image for this event TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2008 5 P.M.
    bulbo Artists Talk

    bulbo explores the possibilities of exchange and collaboration while using broadcast media with constructive aims. Each of the collective’s projects lets people, who in their daily lives do not pursue an art practice, take part in the creative process. For bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border, bulbo will be exploring how the ever-strengthening, do-it-yourself trend in media broadcasting might play out ...

    Tagged : conversations, media art, programs
  • Box Art Class THURSDAY APRIL 17, 2008 6:30 P.M.
    Drawing Montalvo's Botanicals with Edward Rooks

    Tagged : learn
  • Cypress String Quartet THURSDAY APRIL 17, 2008 7:30 P.M.
    Cypress String Quartet: Call & Response: Kurt Rohde's Gravities

    Kurt Rohde Call & ResponseThis final concert in the “From the Artists Studio” series with the charismatic Cypress String Quartet features the South Bay premiere of a brand new quartet called Gravities from brilliant young San Francisco composer Kurt Rohde. Rohde, whose music has been described as “filled with exhilaration and dread,” has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for his innovative compositions, including ...

    Tagged : classical, concerts, programs
  • Villa & Lawn SUNDAY APRIL 20, 2008 1 P.M.
    Villa & Grounds Tour

    Tagged : history, programs, tour
  • SUNDAY APRIL 20, 2008 2 P.M.
    Mutanabbi Street Broadsides :: Poetry Reading & Panel Discussion

    Join us at the Saratoga Library as panelists discuss their experiences in responding to the conflict in Iraq and the Mutanabbi Street bombing through creative practices, including printmaking and poetry. Panelists include poet Zaid Saleh, Saratoga High School representative Arjun Shenoy, Mutanabbi Street Broadsides organizer Kathleen Walkup, and Mutanabbi Street Coalition founder Beau Beausoleil, as well as Combat Paper organizers Drew Mattot and Phil Aliff ...

    Tagged : iraqreframe, learn, poetry, programs
  • No image for this event SUNDAY APRIL 20, 2008 5 P.M.
    The Reader: A work-in-progress reading

    The ReaderA play by Chris DolanBased on the novel byBernhard SchlinkCastStewart W. CalhounChristian LebanoAllegra FultonRhett NadolnyAnn StockingDirected byJean-Louis RodrigueAssistant DirectorBrian MorriMontalvo Arts Center has embarked upon an exciting new venture—commissioning the development of the U.S. premiere of the play, The Reader, based on the award-winning novel by German writer Bernhard Schlink. Published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States (translated by ...

    Tagged : learn, programs
  • Youth Action Coalition TUESDAY APRIL 22, 2008 4 P.M.
    Youth Action Coalition with Adobe Youth Voices

    Tagged : learn
  • Young Artist Painting TUESDAY APRIL 22, 2008 4 P.M.
    After School Art Explorations with Susie Heeter

    Tagged : learn
  • Debashish Bhattacharya FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2008 8 P.M.
    Debashish Bhattacharya

    Winner of a 2007 BBC Radio Award for World Music, Debashish Bhattacharya is hailed as "one of the world's greatest slide guitarists." A prodigy who sang before he spoke, Bhattacharya discovered the Hawai'ian guitar at the age of three. Now a master, he has created three distinct guitars and a three-fingered playing style. His rich, multi-toned glides reflect his vocal roots, as "one ...

    Tagged : classical, concerts, india, programs
  • Youth Action Coalition SATURDAY APRIL 26, 2008 10 A.M.
    Youth Action Coalition with Adobe Youth Voices

    Tagged : learn
  • Youth Action Coalition TUESDAY APRIL 29, 2008 4 P.M.
    Youth Action Coalition with Adobe Youth Voices

    Tagged : learn
  • Young Artist Painting TUESDAY APRIL 29, 2008 4 P.M.
    After School Art Explorations with Susie Heeter

    Tagged : learn