The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee (San Francisco Pride) is a non-profit membership organization founded to produce the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration & Parade. We are dedicated to education, commemoration of LGBT heritage and celebration of LGBT culture and liberation. A world leader in the Pride movement, we are also a grant-giving organization through our Community Partners Program.
anonEvents, SunsetSF and Another Planet Entertainment celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Bay Area’s beloved New Year's Eve celebration of all things artistic. SEA OF DREAMS NYE 2015 : FREQUENSEA Lineup Announcement - Tuesday, September 30 at 10am at www.seaofdreamsnye.com On Sale - Friday, October 3 at 10am at www.seaofdreamsnye.com
Friday, September 16 12-10pm Saturday, September 17 12-10pm Sunday, September 18 12-8pm
8000 Square feet of community space for Leather learning and practice and to be a safe place for the LGBTQ and pan community to learn and simply enjoy. We provide classes both week nights and week end. Come and join us.
BIRTHDAYS - PRIVATE EVENTS - CUSTOM TASTINGS - PRIVATE HOME THEATER ROOM - WINE CLUB - FRIDAY NIGHT CHAMPAGNE NIGHTS.
Follow our dusty little vardo down to Baxtalo Drom, San Francisco's cozy night of vaudevillian entertainment inspired by all things Balkan and bein' on the road... Let us entertain you! discount tickets at baxtalodrom.brownpapertickets.com As always... we'll be having intimate performances all night long. So come early and stay late. Dress tight and get loose. And try your luck at The Lucky Road Show... where fortunes are told and made! Every fourth Friday of the month Beatbox 314 11th Street, San Francisco 10pm - 2am $15 Twitter: @theluckyroad Instagram: @baxtalodrom Check back for special East Bay shows!
SFGFF is the city's leading movement for films & conversations about people and the planet. We use the power of film to inspire, inform, and motivate audiences to find their environmental passion and make a difference. In addition to the annual Green Film Fest each Spring, we present year-round community events in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more info on what we're about, please visit our website at http://greenfilmfest.org
Fireside is a monthly storytelling series, taking place the second Wednesday of each month in San Francisco. Six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme, without the aid of notes or a script, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
Almost every restaurant and bar serves craft beer these days - When you’re out at a bar or restaurant, How do you choose the right craft beer? Craft beer bars typically offer a dizzying array of uniquely named beers that change regularly, Selections and variety are wonderful things, but they can make the ordering process a bit intimidating and daunting, Because You do not want to order 16oz of something that is not to your taste. Whether you are a beer aficionado a seasoned drinker with a wealth of beer knowledge, or someone who is new to the craft beer scene; Hand Crafted Tasting Co.’s Craft Beer Festivals mission is to give you the opportunity to taste a large number craft beer selections, many seasonal, in one place at one time. No matter your beer knowledge you will leave knowing more Than When you arrived! Discover what ingredients you like best in your beer at the sense lab which is one of the Learning initiatives in a Craft Concierge Center staffed by industry experts and informative seminars. All tailored towards helping you discover which brands and/or which specific beers appeal most to you, youl also get the chance to taste some beers that are hard to find and not at every local craft beer bar because With 150 craft beer’s from 75 breweries, Discovering what styles of beer you like, or if you already know, tasting the latest offerings from our represented breweries.
Activate McCoppin is a month-long project that is transforming the McCoppin Hub from an underutilized lot to a beautiful community space. The project empowers individuals in the community to re-claim spaces in their neighborhood, and to take a role in curating events by allowing anyone to host an event free of charge. Inviting the community to participate in a large range of events (from drawing, to pop-up markets and movie nights) has brought together a diverse range of people and given individuals an opportunity to have an impact on their neighborhood.
Staffed by independent advocates whose expertise, high quality work and integrity have earned the respect of government, industry and academic leaders, ee have built principled and cooperative relationships with these institutions to address the greatest scientific and public policy challenges in the epidemic.
We aim to support, promote, and connect artists with their community through creative expression as a means to inspire, transform, and contribute. OUR VISION: An enriched society that values, supports, and weaves creativity and the arts in the fabric of daily life - promoting civic engagement, encouraging collective problem-solving and connecting diverse communities. MORSF strives to showcase individual and collaborative projects and encourages collaboration among individuals and organizations. MORSF embodies the belief that art empowers and transforms and recognized as a model for artistic community development through diverse arts programming and education, collaboration with artists, organizations, and the community to encourage creation, education and understanding of the arts as well as provide reflection, actualization, and advancement in personal development. In fulfilling our mission and vision, we take actions that reflect our core values. We strive to operate with honesty, authenticity, empathy, and compassion.
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Worldreader believes in a world where everyone can be a reader. With low-cost technology, culturally-relevant digital books, and a network of corporate and nonprofit partners, Worldreader helps millions of children and families in the developing world read throughout their lives. Browse our library on your mobile phone: http://read.worldreader.org
Folsom Street Events is most well known for the huge, diverse, and infamous Folsom Street Fair. With hundreds of thousands of fetish enthusiasts, live entertainment, massive dance areas, and hundreds of vendors selling the best in fetish gear and adult toys, it's the most entertaining experience that a kinkster can have. Join us! Folsom Street Events Social Media Comment and Posting Policy We welcome your enthusiastic participation and comments on the various Folsom Street Events (FSE) social media outlets. In addition to the FSE social media profiles being governed by general rules of respectful civil discourse, here are some additional rules that we follow and that we ask commenters to follow when interacting with FSE: While FSE does not discriminate against any view, FSE may monitor any user-generated content, as it chooses, and reserves the right to remove content for any reason whatever, without consent from or verifying the identity of commenters. In order to protect all parties involved, FSE will do its best to only allow comments from commenters over 18 years of age to stand on its various social media outlets. Commenters are fully responsible for everything that they post. The allowing of a comment to stand on any FSE social media outlet in no way shall be construed as an endorsement or approval of said comment. FSE will remove comments that contain abusive, vulgar, offensive, threatening or harassing language, personal attacks of any kind, or offensive terms that target specific individuals or groups. FSE may remove comments that contain personal information (whether that of the commenter or a third party), including, but not limited to home or business address address, home, business, or cell phone number, or personal or business e-mail address, in order to protect privacy. Any comment that advertises or promotes services or products, or that is an overtly favorable acknowledgement or endorsement of third-party products and services, or that at all involves political campaigning or lobbying is not permitted and will be removed by FSE. FSE will remove comments that it deems to be spam; including, but not limited to comments that are clearly off-topic or include gratuitous links to third-party sites. While FSE will not vet comments that may contain media for copyright infringment, FSE will take down any and all posts that are found to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) or that a copyright owner brings to the attention of FSE to be in violation of the DMCA. Communications made to FSE through social media platforms via posts, e-mail, messaging systems, etc. shall in no way constitute a legal or official notice or comment to FSE or any FSE employee or official associated person of the FSE Board of Directors for any purpose. Communications made by FSE through social media platforms via posts, e-mail, messaging systems, etc. shall in no way constitute a legal or official notice or comment from FSE or any FSE employee or official associated person of the FSE Board of Directors for any purpose. FSE is under no obligation to respond to either public, non-publicly or privately posted or shared commentary to its various social media outlets. The contents of all comments to FSE's social media outlets are released into the public domain, unless the commenter clearly states otherwise. FSE is under no obligation to inform commenters who violate this policy of when or why their post or comment was deleted. FSE reserves the right to ban or block interaction with any commenter without notice, explanation, or appeal. Thank you for joining the conversation and see you at our events!
Artistic Director: Alex Ketley is an independent choreographer and the director of The Foundry. Formally a classical dancer with the San Francisco Ballet (1994-1998), he performed a wide range of classical and contemporary repertory including the work of William Forsythe, James Kudelka, and George Balanchine in San Francisco and on tour throughout the world. In 1998 he left the San Francisco Ballet to co-found The Foundry in order to explore his deepening interests in choreography, improvisation, mixed media work, and collaborative process. With The Foundry he has been an artist-in-residence at many leading art institutions including Headlands Center for the Arts (2001 and 2007), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002), The Yard (2003), the Santa Fe Art Institute (2004 and 2006), the Taipei Artist Village (2005), ODC Theater (2006), the Ucross Foundation (2007), and the Vermont Performance Lab (2014). The Foundry has produced fifteen full evening length works that have received extensive support from the public, funders, and the press, as well as a number of single-channel video pieces that have screened at international video festivals. As a choreographer independent of his work with The Foundry, Alex Ketley has been commissioned to create original pieces for companies and universities throughout the United States and Europe. For this work he has received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition (2001), the International Choreographic Competition of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Saveaur (2004), the National Choo-San Goh Award (2005), the inaugural Princess Grace Award for Choreography (2005), the BNC National Choreographic Competition (2008), three CHIME Fellowships (2007, 2008, and 2012), three Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Residencies (2007,2009 and 2014), the Gerbode-Hewlett Choreographer Commissioning Award (2009), and the National Eben Demarest Award (2012). His pieces and collaborations have also been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards in the categories of Outstanding Achievement by an Ensemble (2009), Outstanding Achievement in Choreography (2011), and Outstanding Achievement by a Company (2011 & 2012). For 2011, in addition to commissions from Ballet Leipzig and the Juilliard School, his AXIS Dance Company work “To Color Me Different” was presented on national television through an invitation from the show So You Think You Can Dance. With The Foundry in 2012, he was deeply engaged in a new project entitled “No Hero” which explored what dance means and how it is experienced by people throughout more rural parts of the American West. The video projection Alex created for No Hero was nominated for a 2012 Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design. In early 2013, he was a visiting professor and artist at Florida State University and in the fall began an appointment as a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), Division of Dance. He was also awarded the first Princess Grace Foundation Choreography Mentorship Co-Commission Award (CMCC) and a MANCC Media Fellowship, which he is using to work on a collaborative project with Miguel Guiterrez exploring rural communities throughout the Deep South. Along with his direction of The Foundry and his various independent projects, he helped Summer Lee Rhatigan create The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance in 2004, an organization where he still serves as an advisor, teacher, and the Resident Choreographer. Stemming from a classical foundation, the school is deeply invested in advanced students learning and growing though the engagement of contemporary choreography.
Twenty years ago, Melissa Chittick and Stephen Salmons had a magnificent idea. They wanted to share their love of early cinema with the world and they knew that presenting silent films as they are meant to be seen—in beautiful prints on a big screen with live musical accompaniment—could thrill modern audiences. Today, their creation has outstripped their wildest dreams and grown into the largest and most prestigious silent film festival outside of Pordenone, Italy. Over the years, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has become an internationally renowned destination for filmmakers, scholars, and movie lovers. Every year enthralled audiences partake of new discoveries and old favorites accompanied by the likes of the Matti Bye Ensemble, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Alloy Orchestra, Stephen Horne, Donald Sosin, and Dennis James on the Castro Theatre’s world-famous Mighty Wurlitzer organ. In the last 20 years, the festival has presented more than 150 rare and classic silent films, all with live music performed by the most accomplished composers and musicians in the field. We have published over 140 original essays by local writers and key figures in silent-film history, preservation, and music, and we have supported film preservation efforts by exhibiting major restorations, as well as by direct funding and a fellowship for emerging archivists. The Festival has commissioned new scores that have set a new standard for excellence in film accompaniment. Every summer—and during special events throughout the year—the Festival brings authors, archivists, and filmmakers to the stage to help audiences appreciate the history, preservation, and continuing influence and importance of these early works of cinema art.
SFGFF is the city's leading movement for films & conversations about people and the planet. We use the power of film to inspire, inform, and motivate audiences to find their environmental passion and make a difference. In addition to the annual Green Film Fest each Spring, we present year-round community events in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more info on what we're about, please visit our website at http://greenfilmfest.org
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The Harbor Light Center, providing comprehensive chemical dependency treatment for men, women, and families, has been successfully serving the San Francisco bay area for over 70 years. Drug and alcohol addiction are a real part of our social structure and affects many people, their friends, and their families. There is hope. Through a program of progressive care, education, workforce development, and personal development, people's lives are transformed. For Program & In-take information: (415) 503-3054 For Volunteer Information or Opportunities: (415) 503-3045 For Information on How to Make a Donation or Other Questions: (415) 503-3003
BCEF was founded in 2001 by AIDS Emergency Fund (AEF). Together, BCEF & AEF partner to maintain a very low administrative overhead. BCEF does not receive federal or public funding. We rely on the dedication of an extensive volunteer network and the generosity of many individuals, corporations and foundations. Our signature fundraising event, This Old Bag: The Power of the Purse raises one-quarter of BCEF's annual budget.
Over one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty; the majority of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa and eke out a living as small-scale farmers. Many live on small plots of land and plant crops during the one or two rainy seasons hoping to grow enough to get them through the long dry and hungry season. Most grow the same rain-fed crops, harvest them at same time and sell them into the same markets, making just enough money to survive, but not enough to escape poverty. With irrigation, we know that farmers can safeguard their crops against drought and climatic emergencies, create sustainable, thriving small businesses by growing more and selling their crops at a profit, and effectively lift themselves and their families out of poverty.