Dinner and evening program with speaker and author Marty Brounstein will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 30, at Congregation B’nai Tikvah, 25 Hillcroft Way in Walnut Creek. Congregation B’nai Tikvah, The Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County, St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Shell Ridge Community Church are hosting the talk by Brounstein, author of “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust.”. He tells the true interfaith story of a Christian couple in the Netherlands who, despite risk and danger, saved the lives of more than two dozen Jews during the Holocaust and World War II. The author has a meaningful personal connection to the story, which he reveals in his presentation.
She is the founder and artistic director of the Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance in Berkeley, where she teaches hula as well as Tahitian dance, and is an advocate for cultural understanding, Uchiyama speaks the Hawaiian language fluently, and has been a language instructor at Stanford University, and language terms are used throughout this book, She has led numerous performance tours to Tahiti, New Zealand, and the ballet flats,tabi shoes, leather slippers,barefoot shoes, glove shoes,travel shoes,earthing shoes Hawaiian islands, and has taught workshops throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada..
Senior Nutrition Program: Hot meals served along with camaraderie. Must be 55 years or older and a resident of Santa Clara County. Monday-Friday; live dance music at 9:30 a.m.; lunch at 11 a.m. First United Methodist Church, 535 Old San Francisco Road, Sunnyvale. sunnyvaleumc.org/mission/seniornutrition.html. Look in a Book: The Music School presents an original children’s musical written by Jill Denny and Mary Spagnol, in which characters escape from classic books and bedlam ensues. April 25, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; April 26, 2:30 p.m. Mountain View High School, 3535 Truman Ave. Mountain View. $2-$12. bit.ly/musicschooltix.
What are some of the things that might challenge the audience with Shakespearean thought bubbles after the show? Was Ophelia’s biological clock the real problem in Denmark? Which play featured the character Haggis Head? Were Antony and Cleopatra secretly inspired by interpretive dance? Did King Lear and Richard the Second wear crowns on the gridiron? Did Romeo and Juliet have bad hair days every day? Did Hamlet scream like a girl? Do Gertrude and Claudius Denmark shop for clothes at the same outlet? Is everyone aware of the ballet flats,tabi shoes, leather slippers,barefoot shoes, glove shoes,travel shoes,earthing shoes Ides of March? Why did Julius Caesar think that Norman Bates was good company? Would Shakespeare mind that his tragedies were slaughtered?..
Michelle Howard wrote that Howard has hit her several times and threatened to throw her from a hotel balcony in South Africa last year. She included a text message she said he sent to her on Thursday in which he begged her not to pursue the divorce and threaten his career, ending the missive, “I can’t promise how I will respond.”. One of these days people will realize that, not only is everything they do subject to someone whipping out a phone and taping it, but anything in writing will likely stay in writing.