a5 ice-breaker, Japantown, SM, pollution, etc.

FREEDOMSEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., mostly in the San Franhattan Bare Area,
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
with help from Larry-bob (of HolyTitClamps + SmackDab),
SFBG.com, ebar.com, sfbaytimes.com, SFGate.com, et alii );
mainly for nakist, queer, bohemian & cultural-creative communities, especially at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfbarea/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveFreedom/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakity/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/franhattan/

http://www.indybay.org/lgbtqi/
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For many more "queer things to do"

please visit Larry-bob:

[ http://www.sfqueer.com/ ]

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Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.

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5 April:
SF, 1st Wednesdays:
free admission to Calif. Academy of Sciences ( aquarium, etc.; temporarily downtown)
[ http://calacademy.org ];
Fort Mason galleries;
San Francisco Zoo.
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SF: Wednesday, April 5

Cool symposium

See where art meets science.
San Francisco's Magic Theater puts global-warming issues
on center stage with a symposium titled
"The Ice-Breaker Panel on Climatology,"
which brings leading scientists together with the arts.
The evening is part of a series of plays the theater has commissioned on science and technology
and, in particular, the current run of The Ice-Breaker, by David Rambo.
4 p.m.
Magic Theater
Building D, Fort Mason Center
Marina at Laguna, SF
FREE
(415) 441-8822
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5 April,
Wednesday:
SF lit event:
25th Annual Northern California Book Awards
SF Main Library
5 pm - 8 pm
This year’s Fred Cody Award goes to Beat poet Diane di Prima.
This year’s award-winning authors will read.
FREE.
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Thursday,
April 6, 2006
[ series on Cinematic San Francisco ]
Main Library
Koret Auditorium
12 NOON
Time After Time
(1979, 112 min.)
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th century
when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
Starring Malcolm McDowell.
FREE
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Oakland:
Thursday, April 6
Silencing soldiers
Sir, No Sir,
a film that explores the suppressed GI voice in the movement to end the war in Vietnam.
Sponsored by Global Exchange, the event also features
Iraq war resister Pablo Paredes, music, and poetry.
All proceeds go to Iraq Veterans Against War.
7 p.m.
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand, Oakl.
$10
(415) 255-7296
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SF:
15-16 April;
22-23 April:
CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL:
Japantown Peace Plaza: (look for pagoda):

http://www.nccbf.org


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SF:.... thru April 22:
... April 07 + 08 ( Fri, Sat);
April 14 + 15 ( Fri, Sat);
April 21 + 22 ( Fri, Sat);
at 10pm:

SEX DIARIES:

What would your diary look like
on a dark stage in a dark theatre?
Come take a peek at some of San Francisco's hottest freaks
as they show you .....
$13.
http://www.darkroomsf.com/techslave
415. 401.7987
Dark Room Theater, 2263 Mission St.
between 19th and 18th streets, SF
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April 8, SF: Saturday nyte:
Writers With Drinks turns 5
with Daniel Handler,
Ryan Harty,
Kate Braverman,
Chris Kraus,
W. Kamau Bell
and Tina D'Elia.
We've been rehearsing non-stop...for the Writers With Drinks
5th anniversary spectacular!
Daniel Handler [ Lemony Snicket ] almost has his cues memorized for the big dance number at the end,
but he keeps dropping Kate Braverman during the triple-axle toss.
And Chris Kraus *still* hasn't mastered her wooden-leg splits.
But have no worries -- it'll all come together on Saturday night.
Also, we'll be offering free spleen readings [...].

Saturday, 8 April 2006, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7.
The Make Out Room, 3225 -- 22nd. St.
between Mission and Valencia,
in the Mission district of San Francisco
$3 to $5 sliding scale.
Charlie Anders MCs and vamps

charlie [at] othermag.org

http://www.writerswithdrinks.com

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SF: Saturday, April 8
Families stand ground
Join working families as they convene at City Hall
and call on Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors to support a $10 million budget agenda for affordable housing, child care, job training, and violence prevention.
10 a.m.–1 p.m.
City Hall
SF
(415) 239-0161
http://www.colemanadvocates.org
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April 9,
Palm Sunday:
CAL-SF: toy faire:
buy or sell at BIZARRE FLEA
(SM Community Exchange),
2pm to 5pm:
942 Mission St.,
between 5th & 6th Streets;
$5 admission to fleamarket.
2006 April 9,
August 13,
December 10.
....
Lady Thorn's SMCE:
POB 16284, SF, CA 94116
(415).753.0703

( Fandango may follow? )

Celebrate PALM Sunday
by caning a friend with a palm frond?

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Berkeley:
Monday, April 10
Death penalty lecture
Learn about current social policy and ethics regarding the death penalty
at the McCoy Memorial Lecture given by Judith Kay,
the director of UC Berkeley's Death Penalty Clinic,
and Elizabeth Semel, a professor of religious and social ethics at the University of Puget Sound.
4:30 p.m.
Flora Lamson Hewlett Library
2400 Ridge Rd., Berk.
FREE,
RSVP appreciated
(510) 649-2420
jburrows [at] gtu.edu
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SF: Tuesday, April 11
Shut down the plant
Join community members and Greenaction to protest PG&E's inability to shut down the Hunters Point power plant on the April 10 date it originally set.
Protect community health by demanding that this plant, which is not necessary to the Bay Area electrical grid, be closed immediately.
Noon
PG&E Hunters Point Plant
Evans at Middlepoint, SF
FREE
(415) 248-5010
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circa April 11:
TRUDELL
[ American Indian activist becomes
spoken-word performer ]
KPBS-TV:
"Independent Lens" series of documentaries:
for details and exact time/date
please see
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens
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13 April, Thursday (passover):
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
[ http://www.projecthomelessconnect.com/ ]
in downtown San Francisco,
Bill Graham Auditorium,
Civic Center
( near BART/Muni Civic Center Station).

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14A: Good Friday.
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15A: Good Saturday.
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16A: Easter Sunday.
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+ NEWS links, etc:


SF 1906 quake anniversary events in 2006:

http://www.sfgate.com/listings/macroevent.php?events,m161

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SEX ADDICT: (film):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/03/DDGK5I1KUD1.DTL

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THE CITY in 2028:
occidented Trendyloin quipsters, et alii:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/franhattan/message/31

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Apr 9: Will SF Unitarian-Universalists elect queer pastor?

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1812904.php
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GREEN DAY tries to energize young voters:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/01/MNGTRI1V2A1.DTL
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Nudophobes (and others) freak over
nude sculpture of
BRITNEY giving birth:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/03/28/entertainment/e124102S85.DTL

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Cutting INFANT FORMULA from Medi-Cal: (commentary):

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1811946.php
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Texas:
the PUBLIC GENITALS Project:

http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/pgp/
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Film explains INDIA's NUDE YOGIS:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/02/DDGJUG0QSG1.DTL&type=movies

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news

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NUDE BEACHES, northern California, 2005:

http://www.sfbg.com/nudebeaches/index.html


     

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