23rd Annual Dancin’ on the Avenue: Free Admission


Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 2 – 8 pm

Lincoln Avenue between Minnesota and Willow,
San Jose, CA


The quaint and cozy San Jose neighborhood of Willow Glen celebrates the annual “Dancin’ on the Avenue” a neighborhood-wide block party with lots of live entertainment, food, kids activities and more.

·         Three music stages – will feature an eclectic mix of live music and entertainment.
·         The Community Stage will present performances by local dance groups
·         The Kids’ Court area will have lots of games and crafts for the family-friendliest part of the festival

Cost: Free

http://www.willowglen.org/dancin_on_the_avenue

The 64th Annual North Beach Festival: Free Admission


June 16 -17, 2018 (Saturday – Sunday)

North Beach District,
San Francisco, CA


Considered one of the country’s original outdoor festivals, the North Beach Festival celebrates its 64th anniversary in historic North Beach.

The festival site includes numerous quaint streets in the heart of the district including Grant Avenue, Green Street, Vallejo Street and Columbus Avenue.

The 2018 event will feature over 125 arts and crafts booths, gourmet food booths, two stages of live entertainment, Italian street painting, beverage gardens, a kids’ chalk art area and a blessing of the animals.

§  Kids’ Chalk Art Area: Let your kids creativity shine in North Beach and buy a square and street chalk at the kids chalk art area on Vallejo St. between Grant Ave. and Columbus from 10 am to 6 pm on both days.
§  Blessing of the Animals: The animal blessing at The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi (610 Vallejo St) will take place from 2–3 pm both days during the festival.

2018 ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE

Saturday, June 16, 2018
Main Stage- Broadway & Columbus        
12:00-1:30pm     S.M.F
2:00 – 3:30pm    Radical Times
4:00 – 6:00pm    Bautista
                 
Green Street Stage (parking lot)
10:00 – 11:30am  Terry Savastano
12:00 – 1:30pm Whiskey Pills Fiasco
2:00 – 3:30pm    Lilan Kane
4:00 – 6:00pm    Shantytown
                 
Filbert Entertainment Area at Grant        
12:00-1:00 pm   The Seismics
1:00-1:45 (20 min segments)      Poets: Teague Kernan, Kim Shuck, Michael Koch
2:00 – 3:00          Clarion
3:00 – 3:45 (20 min segments)   Poets: Cara Vida, Ronald F. Sauer, Robert Ambian
4:00 – 6:00          Ryan Swaffer Trio
                 
Entertainment Area at Vallejo   
1:30pm & 3:30pm            Circus Bella
     
Sunday, June 17, 2018   
                 
Main Stage- Broadway & Columbus        
12:00-1:30pm     Donny B Faire
2:00 – 3:30pm    The Grand Nationals
4:00 – 5:30pm    David M’ore
                 
Green Street Stage (parking lot)
12:00 – 1:30pm Coutilicious
2:00 – 3:30pm    Jinx Jones and the Kingtones
4:00 – 6:00pm    Marshall Law
                 
Filbert Entertainment Area at Grant        
12:00-1:00 pm   Brian Keeney and Rick Lee
1:00-1:45 (20 min segments)      Poets: Rosemary Manno, Jack Hirschman, Agneta Falk
2:00 – 3:00          Ed Ivery Trio
3:00 – 3:45 (20 min segments)   Poets: Jessica Loos, Tongo Eisen Martin, Andrena Zawinski
4:00 – 6:00          Jose Simione and Friends
                 
Entertainment Area at Vallejo   
1:30pm & 3:30pm            Circus Bella

Cost: Free

http://www.sresproductions.com/events/north-beach-festival/

Camp Tipsy 2018


June 21 -24, 2018 (Thursday – Sunday)

East Park Reservoir
4415 Sites Lodoga Road
Stonyford, CA 95979


Camp Tipsy is an annual rotten boat building contest and camp-out held at East Park Reservoir in Colusa County, California organized by the San Francisco Institute of Possibility.

Now in its 12th year, Camp Tipsy is a fun and family-friendly event. Participants build “boats” out of junk and enjoy boating and floating in the reservoir (or as we call it, Lake Lodoga). On Saturday at 2pm your wonderful, whimsical, stupid boats compete for valueless prizes in The Boat Contest.

Besides the boats, each night features musical entertainment under the stars!

This year’s extra amazing lineup will be:
Thursday:
Goth Camping Night (whatever that is) where you'll find:
+ Conspiracy of Beards: 30 person all male choir singing Leonard Cohen
+ Baby Dee: Sitting at a grand piano- behold the majesty!
+ DJ Berlin Logosi: Undead, but still kicking

Friday
+ Trio Paz does 2 sets: one with dancers and vocals and another set just for dancing. Flamenco music makes perfect sense by a campfire

Saturday
A variety showcase featuring
+ Kate Willett, our Host!
+ Snatch Adamz
+ Zoli
+ Jason Webley
plus more performers to be announced…

Sunday Morning at Dawn
+ Rare Birds!!!! This can't even be described. You'll just have to see for yourself. Bring Binoculars!

Cost: $180

http://camptipsy.com/

The Yoga of Romance: A Spiritual Approach to Lighting Up Your Love Life


Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PDT

Mission District
San Francisco, CA


Please join Erwan and Alicia Davon for this special once-a-month evening open to the public!

Each session begins with guided meditation, then turns to a weekly theme. Topics cover spirituality, psychology, romance, sexuality, and more. Erwan and Alicia take time to follow each group member’s progress and offer individual attention.

This is an opportunity for a committed couple to turn their romance into an “eternal date,” or for a single person to learn dating and flirting tips that will help turn that first date into a second and third. Every session is built around discussion, a question-and-answer segment, individual attention on personal goals, yoga, meditation, and experiential exercises. It’s a way to truly experience the Erwan Davon Teachings community and make close friends while becoming familiar with yourself and expanding your own love and sex life.

Cost: $15

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-yoga-of-romance-a-spiritual-approach-to-lighting-up-your-love-life-tickets-46095838895

Palo Alto World Music Day


Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 3 pm – 7:30 pm

University Ave,
Palo Alto, CA


Palo Alto World Music Day is a music festival that takes place every year on Father's Day.  It will be celebrated for the 10th time in Palo Alto on Sunday June 17, 2018 from 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm, on University Avenue (CLOSED to traffic). 

The event is presented this year by our major sponsor, the Stanford Federal Credit Union link.  All performances are FREE and open to the public.  50 professional and amateur musical groups will perform a variety of genres on street corners and plazas: jazz, blues, classical, pop, rock, klezmer, Greek, Balkan, Indian, World Music, choral, dance, etc.  This is a fun and unique family event not to be missed!

Cost: Free

http://www.pamusicday.org/

Burning Man Precompression 2018: Bayview SPARC Edition!


Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 3 PM - 12 AM

1439 Egbert Ave,
San Francisco, CA


It’s time for our community call to participate in this year’s Precompression: an evening of art, inventions, and imaginative community. This will be a creative collaboration of artistically epic proportions - from big art, theme camps and mutant vehicles to fanciful and fiery artists, performers and participants of every variety.

We are pleased to host Burning Man Precompression 2018 in collaboration with Bayview SPARC, including Imprint City, Flaming Lotus Girls, Sextant, and so many more. This Precompression will feature a block-long street closure of indoor and outdoor spaces, brimming with art and imagination!


Cost: $25 - $40

https://eventstickets.burningman.org/purchase/event/1687524

SoulFlow Ecstatic Dance


Friday, June 15, 2018 at 8 PM - 11 PM

Our Sacred Space - Wellness Center in Willow Glen
2075 Lincoln Ave Ste B & C,
San Jose, California 95125



Ecstatic Dance that is intended to Release and Renew whatever is in your soul that no longer serves you. Whatever that might be for you let it go and let it flow out into the earth to be recycled. We are creating a safe place to express yourself however your soul best moves to release.

SoulFul music curated my DJ Lokesh Rai.

#SuperWater and nutritional food provided by Conscious Kitchen SJ.

Cost: Suggested Contribution is $15 Or Bring a yummy dish to share

https://www.facebook.com/events/188282601816237/

Tantra Speed Date San Francisco! More than Dating


Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT

The Center SF
548 Fillmore St
San Francisco, CA 94117


Now in 12 cities, this Tantra Yoga-inspired workshop is more than dating, it’s “Yoga for your Love Life!” Combination relationship skills class + speed date, you’ll share a moment of guided connection with up to 24 dates in a traditional Puja circle. Exercises are fun, PG-rated (think light partner yoga, actor’s improv, eye-gazing, dance), and are infused with positive relating skills. You’ll walk away not only with matches, but with a refreshing perspective on what relationships can be!

Cost: $60

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tantra-speed-date-san-francisco-more-than-dating-tickets-45622394811

Guided Chakra Meditation


Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 7:30 PM - 9 PM

Verde Touch
745 Distel Drive, Suite 109 (downstairs),
Los Altos, CA


Brian will guide you on a journey through the chakras with a "shamanic sonic massage" from Zorg's didjeridoo, for each chakra in turn. No previous experience with Kundalini meditation is necessary, as Brian will give an introduction to each chakra as the journey progresses.

Please bring mats, pillows/blankets and whatever else you might need to be comfortable lying down for an hour. This is primarily an individual, eyes-closed meditation focused on expanding the awareness of Kundalini energy. The didgeridoo will provide energetic support, but unlike some "sound healings", there will be no physical contact with participants - the sound will be ambient throughout the room.

Please join us to deepen your experience of the chakras!

Facilitators:

Brian teaches healers worldwide in the tradition of craniosacral bodywork. He received his PhD in Somatic Psychology at Meridian university, where he studied and practiced Imaginal Process: a sophisticated way of working with images to heal mind and body. The doctoral work helped Brian to Integrate his experience as a hypnotherapist, bodyworker, yoga teacher, and transformational dance educator. Brian is also trained as a Kriya Yoga and breathwork facilitator. His body psychotherapy as a postdoctoral intern integrates these experiences and offers a deeply healing foray into imagination, spirit, body, and mind.

Zorg spent seven years as a full-time Sanskritist while an undergraduate and postgraduate at Oxford University. His doctoral thesis is on Kashmir Shaivism, a school of non-dualist Tantra from the 10th Century. Having also been playing didj for over ten years, he discovered a strong connection between some ways of playing the didj and the energies of particular chakras. Zorg is very happy to be collaborating with Brian in offering a new kind of experience of Kundalini meditation!

Cost: $20

https://www.facebook.com/events/197501570886495/

Sound Healing Yoga Retreat at Green Gulch


Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT

Green Gulch Farm Zen Center
1601 Shoreline Highway
Muir Beach, CA 94965


Join Saraswati Clere and Melissa Felsenstein for a restorative day at the beautiful Green Gulch center, next to Muir Beach. Come and experience a deep sound healing immersion in nature with the practices of yoga, restorative, and meditation.

Melissa, founder of Inner Sounds Yoga, will use metal gongs, chimes and crystal bowls to create an immersive experience of sound and vibration experienced for deep relaxation and to restore the nervous system.

The tonal properties of these instruments promote healing of the nervous system, digestive and metabolic systems, and of physical body as the brainwaves slow down to meditative and deeply restful states through a scientific process called entrainment. This process can help heal depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and insomnia, and to deepen meditation and spark creativity.

You will experience the powerful benefits of these meditative tools and deepen your yoga practice through stillness and desired rest. Take your body on a vacation from stress and tension and leave feeling refreshed, focused, and clear.

Cost: $145 - $155

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sound-healing-yoga-retreat-at-green-gulch-tickets-45009790495


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