The Art Deco Society of California presents
the 24th Annual
Art Deco Preservation Ball
“La Fiesta Grande”
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
at the historic Berkeley City Club
7:00 to Midnight
Celebrating Art Deco, Old California & Spanish style
in Julia Morgan’s “Little Hearst Castle”
Dancing to Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
Also, the Art Deco Preservation Awards,
The Decobelles, and special themed entertainment!
Sara & Swingtime presents an all-'Latin' show, featuring Los Aguilars in the Members' Lounge, 6:30 - 8 pm.
Come by for fabulous music and a cocktail before dinner or the Preservation Award Winners Reception, or stop in after your early dinner!
Limited dining is available at the Berkeley City Club by advance reservation. Invitations have been mailed to ADSC members.
\To request an invitation, call 415-982-DECO
or email zelda1927@artdecosociety.org
Dates are set for 2009
Yosemite Heritage Holidays at The Ahwahnee Plan for next year! There will be TWO sessions of Heritage Holidays in 2009: March 1-3, and March 4-5. Look for flyers at this year’s event, and remember – the earlier you order, the less expensive the price – AND the more likely you’ll get in! The 2007 event sold out in November, so don't hesitate.
For more event information, see the official Yosemite site: www.yosemitepark.com/heritage
(The latest Program Schedule is on the Yosemite site.).
The Fresno Bee was at the Ahwahnee for the Grand Ball on March 4. Full story (three pages with pix!) on their website:
http://www.fresnobee.com/entertainment/story/449184.html
ART DECO WALKING TOURS
Walking tours are back! Check out our spring schedule.
SUNDAY APRIL 13: MARINA DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO
MARINA DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO
Meet at 11 a.m. at Marina Middle School, at the corner of Chestnut and Fillmore. (90 minutes, flat terrain)
SUNDAY APRIL 19: DOWNTOWN ALAMEDA
DOWNTOWN ALAMEDA
Meet at 11 a.m. at the Alameda Theatre (90 minutes, flat terrain)
SUNDAY MAY 11: DOWNTOWN BERKELEY
DOWNTOWN BERKELEY
Meet at 11 a.m. at the United Artist Theatre (90 minutes, flat terrain)
SUNDAY MAY 17: DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
Meet at 11 a.m. at 450 Sutter Medical Building to tour the fabulous financial district and its Deco masterpieces. (90 minutes, flat terrain)
SUNDAY JUNE 7: DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
Meet at 11 a.m. at 450 Sutter to tour the fabulous financial district and its Deco masterpieces. (90 minutes, flat terrain)
SUNDAY JUNE 8: SAN FRANCISCO MARINA DISTRICT
MARINA DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO
Meet at 11 a.m. at Marina Middle School, at the corner of Chestnut and Fillmore. (90 minutes, flat terrain)
OTHER TOURS GIVEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR:
- SOUTH OF MARKET, SAN FRANCISCO
Meet at 11 a.m. at the SF Merchandise Mart, 1355 Market Street, San Francisco.
Flat walking, about 90 minutes.
- PACIFIC HEIGHTS, SAN FRANCISCO
- DOWNTOWN OAKLAND
Meet at 11 a.m. 427 13th St at Broadway (90 minutes, flat terrain, free on-street parking)
- UPTOWN OAKLAND
Meet at 11:30 a.m. in front of the Oakland Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, for a tour of Uptown Oakland deco buildings, including the Floral Depot, Fox Theatre, I Magnin, Breuners, and more.
NOTE: A tour inside the Paramount is normally given on the first and third Saturdays, and costs $5. This tour starts at 10:00 at the Box Office entrance on 21st St. near Broadway. More about the Paramount Tour here.
Tours are $10 general, free to ADSC members or those who join on the spot. Tours are cancelled in inclement weather. Call 415-982-DECO day of tour for latest advisory. For more information or questions, email ADSC or call 415/982-DECO (415/982-3326).
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DECO-ERA EVENTS IN THE BAY AREA top
These events are not sponsored by ADSC but may be of interest to our members.
Please contact the venue for further information.
SPECIAL EVENTS :: CABARET :: DANCES :: FILM :: VISUAL ARTS
SPECIAL EVENTS
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Immortalize yourself in your 1920s costumes in a documentary
Berkeley,
Tuesday, April 15 |
Special to ADSC: "I am making a documentary on gay and lesbian participation in the Harlem Renaissance. Part of that documentary will be a “reenactment” of the famous drag balls that were a yearly event at Rockland Palace, a Harlem ballroom, during the late 20s and early 30s. I want to shoot YOU in costume and in silhouette (that finesses the race issue and insures your anonymity) making gestures to the accompanying voice-over dialogue. No acting experience required. All you need to do is show up in a costume (preferably 2) that would look good in silhouette. (I know this will be harder for the men than for the women, but I’m sure there are some cool hats out there.) Also, I’d like to have a couple or two couples that can do some dances of the period.
"The first shoot will take place in a studio at Berkeley City College in downtown Berkeley. I have the studio scheduled from 12:00 to 5:00 on Tuesday, April 15. I know this is a work day, and if you can’t make the date, I’ll do a second shoot for those of you who want to participate at another time.
"I need however many men and women as are willing to participate. Please call me, Robert Philipson, at 510-531-0512. Leave a message if I don’t answer, and I will call you back. Or you can write me at rmphilipson@yahoo.com. No money, naturally, as this is a no-budget project, but you will get fed (that’s part of the rules of film production on any shoot), and it should be fun! Particularly interesting if you’ve never participated in a film shoot." |
Sunday, April 20th
Dance at the Ashkenaz
5:00 to 8:00 PM
The Ashkenaz
1317 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
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Don Neely's 10-piece Royal Society Jazz Orchestra, with Carla Normand and Frederick Hodges, will be providing lively dance music for another wonderful dance at The Ashkenaz, Berkeley's legendary dance hall. Ashkenaz has a friendly and relaxing ambience with a great dance floor and excellent sound system. They serve tasty snacks, wine, beer, coffee and more. We'll be delighted to see you, and you'll be happy you came.
Admission $20.
For additional information please see web site:
http://www.ashkenaz.com
or call 510-525-5054 |
42nd Street Moon Presents
Andrea Marcovicci
as
"COCO"
APRIL 24 - MAY 11
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Cabaret and concert star Andrea Marcovicci brings her captivating high style to the role of the magnificent and mercurial fashion doyenne Coco Chanel!
This is the first production of Coco since the early 1970s. Lerner and Previn’s musical memory play focuses on the Divine Coco’s amazing 1950s renaissance as a fashion force, as well as her battles with a jealous rival designer and the boyfriend of her protégé. Songs include Always Mademoiselle, Let’s Go Home, When Your Lover Says Goodbye, Fiasco, and Coco.
Low-Priced Previews: Thur & Fri, April 24 & 25 @ 8pm
Regular Performances: Thur & Fri at 8pm; Sat at 6pm; Sun at 3pm
Eureka Theatre
215 Jackson Street (betw. Battery & Front),
San Francisco, CA
Come visit www.42ndstmoon.org today to see what else is waiting for you.
Playing through April 13: Like a Romberg operetta crossed with a zany Marx Brothers farce, The Student Gypsy is Rick Besoyan’s 1963 follow-up to his smash-hit operetta-spoof, Little Mary Sunshine. The NY Daily News hailed it as “fresh, delightfully tuneful, and achingly funny!”
In turn-of-the-century Singspielia, charmingly myopic Merry May Glockenspiel is abducted by a band of gypsies. The gypsy queen, Zampa, harbors a mysterious secret involving the true identity of the Prince of neighboring Liederkranz. The songs include Romance, Gypsy of Love, and the daffy bell-ringing number Ting-a-Ling Dearie. |
Summer Day Cruises on the
SS Jeremiah O'Brien |
The Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien offers a number of day cruises over the course of the summer and fall, some with a live big band on board for dancing on the deck. They also go out for Fleet Week and there is a Meet the Tall Ships
sailing again this year.
List of sail dates is here: http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/cruises.html |
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Cabaret and Deco Dancing: Ongoing Venues
TIP: Always telephone the restaurant to confirm the band is on! Schedules change, and private parties often take over the space for an evening.
THE MARTINI BROTHERS
Thursdays
at Le Colonial Restaurant
20 Cosmo Place between Post and Sutter off Taylor
San Francisco
7:00-10:00
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Call Le Colonial at 415-931-3600 to make dinner reservations and confirm that the Brothers are playing.
Le Colonial was originally built in 1930 and was originally an artsy restaurant called "the Colony" (as in Artists Colony)...and then spent 50 years as the home of Trader Vics and San Francisco's great nightspot. If one enters from the Post Street side, it's possible to view the very first recipient of an Art Deco Preservation Award. The Hing Hing Coffee Shop (now called Thai Noodles) is a gem of a tiny deco restaurant that has been remodeled over the years but still retains much deco style.
Email Laurie Gordon for details about upcoming appearances. |
TUESDAY NIGHT JUMP!
Tuesdays at the Verdi Club in San Francisco
Lessons begin at 7PM,
band at 9:30 PM.
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A jamboree of swingin' roots music drives this dance party. Join a melting pot of young and old: Loungers, Hipsters, Kittens, Boppers and Hoppers from Sacramento to Santa Cruz. Jumpin' since 1999. Free parking, full bar, large dance floor, all ages welcome.
The Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa at Potrero, SF
Visit: www.tuesdaynightjump.com |
TOP OF THE MARK
Wednesdays
Lavay Smith
Thursdays
Stompy Jones
Hotel Mark Hopkins,
Nob Hill,
San Francisco
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Lavay Smith
Wednesdays, 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
($10 cover charge applies 7:30pm onwards)
Stompy Jones
Thursdays, 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
($10 cover charge applies 7:30pm ovwards)
For more information, please call the Top Of The Mark at 415-616-6916 or visit www.topofthemark.com
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Swing Fever, the Bay Area's small swing band with the classic Big Band sound, performs every Tuesday in the dining room of the charming Panama Hotel. Each Tuesday, Swing Fever pays tribute to various jazz artists and composers, playing selections from its roster of over 1,000 tunes.
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Live music of the Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside setting. Call 415-362-5125 or visit the cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com for details. Featuring the new piano -- a splendid 1909 vintage Crown art-case upright piano with four pedals! Visit www.frederickhodges.com for more gigs and a sample of his music. |
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DJ Slimm Buick spinning vintage vinyl 10pm to close. Dinner nightly from 5:30pm. (415) 931-3600. "Nestled between the idioms of old time jazz, blues, and western swing, the Tin Cup Serenade croon, thump, and blow a sound that is loose, free, and fun to dance to."
For more: http://www.tincupserenade.com/
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FIRST TUESDAY SWING DANCES in ALAMEDA
8:00 to 10:30 p.m.
Temple Israel, 3183 Mecartney Road, Alameda
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Come and dance to the swing hits of the 1930s -1950s (plus waltzes, rhumbas, etc.) as played by Dave’s Swingtime Big Band, featuring vocalist Janese Powell. A $5 donation gets you over two hours of dancing to great live music. Temple Israel located in the Harbor Bay Landing Shopping Center on Bay Farm Isle. Call Dave Altschuler at 510-521-3219. |
VINTAGE DANCE PARTY
3rd Sundays
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The Varsity Dance Club's monthly dance party features live music by the 10-piece Paul Price's Society Orchestra performing music from 1900 to 1935, in a beautifully restored dance hall at the Masonic Center in downtown Palo Alto. Great for dancing or listening. Dance lesson and light refreshments included!
$15 per person. Discount memberships available. For questions, call 650-279-3598. Prepaid memberships are available! Plenty of free parking nearby!
Feb 17: Charleston; Mar 16: Tango Beginners Lesson at 3:30; Apr 20: Quake Day with Ann Gibson, One-Step; May 18: Ostende-Schottische; Jun 15: Waltz - Beginners Lesson at 3:30
Palo Alto Masonic Center, 461 Florence (at University)
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STARLIGHT DANCE
Held Quarterly
Next Dance May 3
Strawberry Rec Center
118 East Strawberry Drive
Mill Valley
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STARLIGHT DANCE SCHEDULE FOR 2008
The quarterly Starlight Dances continue in 2008 on the first Saturdays of February, May, August, and November. Please mark the following dates in your calendar for 2008:
FEBRUARY 2 - MAY 3 - AUGUST 2 - NOVEMBER 2
Join us for another delightful year of great hot and sweet jazz and ballroom music from the 1920s and 1930s.
Group dance instruction by Cynthia Glinka, the Bay Area's Premiere Dance Hostess, will begin at 7:00 PM to recorded music. For information about Cynthia Glinka and her dance instruction please visit: http://www.cynthiaglinka.com
Dancing to the live 14-piece San Francisco Starlight Orchestra will begin at 8:00 PM and end at 11:00 PM.
For complete information please visit our website at http://www.sanfranciscostarlightorchestra.com or call our orchestra manager, Jim Brennan, at 707-973-6107.
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DECO FILM NEWS -- More on our new Bay Area Cinema page
SAT APRIL 12
JAZZ + SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
at the Castro Theater
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A Bay Area cultural institution, the Club Foot Orchestra was born in San Francisco 25years ago—the creation of composer-performer-instrument builder Richard Marriott. The band made its live silent film debut in 1987 at the Mill Valley Film Festival, performing Marriott's original score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Since then the group has defined the modern arts of scoring and live accompaniment of silent films.
For the day-long Jazz + Silent Film Festival, Club Foot performs original scores to three classic films:
3p: Sherlock Jr.
Time Magazine’ named Sherlock, Jr. (1924) one if its “All-Time Top 100 Movies,” calling the Buster Keaton classic “a great example of American minimalism—simple objects and movement manipulated in casually complex ways to generate a steadily rising gale of laughter. The whole thing is only 45 minutes long, not a second of which is wasted.”
7p: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
A major influence on early horror films and film noir, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is one of the landmarks of German Expressionist cinema. “It was and remains a very frightening movie,” writes TV Guide, “from the aghast faces in the very first shot to the final chilling irony. Nothing is more horrifying than insanity, and virtually every major character in the film is insane.”
9p: Nosferatu
“To watch F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) is to see the vampire movie before it had really seen itself,” writes Roger Ebert. “Here is the story of Dracula before it was buried alive in clichés, jokes, TV skits, cartoons and more than 30other films. The film is in awe of its material. It seems to really believe in vampires.”
Tickets for all shows available at sfjazz.org or at 866-920-JAZZ. |
Nick Langdon presents An Evening with John Barrymore
"20th Century"
Friday April 18th
7pm $10
Towe Auto Museum
2200 Front St
Sacramento, CA
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1934 Classic Film: John Barrymore in "20th Century", Towe Auto
Museum, Sacramento, Friday April 18, 2008 7pm $10
http://www.toweautomuseum.org/html/classic_movies.html
John Barrymore was mostly known for his great dramatic roles and his
famous profile, but on rare occasions he was given the chance to do
comedy. In TWENTIETH CENTURY Barrymore shines as hammy stage director
Oscar Jaffe, guiding the career of one Mildred Plotka (Carole
Lombard) whom he's plucked from the ranks to be a star. Trouble
ensues when Plotka changes her name to Lily Garland and bolts to
Hollywood to make movies. The two meet by accident on the Twentieth
Century Limited and Jaffe pulls out all the stops to lure the former
Mildred Plotka back to the stage! Directed by Howard Hawks, this 1934
Columbia picture is one of the earliest of the "Screwball" comedy
genre.
Hear Dave Moreno on the mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, followed by a
prologue featuring Producer/Host Nick Langdon and Rebecca Kane. |
SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Upcoming
13th annual summer festival
on July 11-13, 2008!
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The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
833 Market Street, Suite 812
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel 415-777-4908; fax 415-777-4904
http://www.silentfilm.org/home.htm |
Pacific Film Archive
UC Berkeley
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The Magnificent Orson Welles
March 7, 2008 - April 13, 2008
For more information please visit the Pacific Film Archive website. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ |
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Edison Theatre
37395 Niles Blvd., Fremont
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Edison Theatre offers Saturday Night at the Movies--admission only $5.00! A remarkable archive of silent films on 16mm showing every week. Live music.
For more information please visit the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum website. www.nilesfilmmuseum.org |
The Stanford Theatre
221 University Ave,
Palo Alto
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April and May feature Bette Davis The Complete early films: 1931 - 1938. Their website also lists silent films playing at the California Theatre in San Jose. (650) 324-3700 www.stanfordtheatre.org |
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American Masters Series Showing on KQED, KQET, KCSM, KTEH, and more
Check schedule at PBS.ORG for times in your area. |
Programs of deco era interest:
- American Masters: "You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story". Profiling Cole Porter using TV and movie clips.American Masters: "Orozco: Man of Fire"
A profile of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949).
- American Masters: "Rivera in America"
A portrait of artist Diego Rivera. Featuring the SF City Club and Art Institute, and Treasure Island/City College murals. A must for anyone who's enjoyed ADSC Mural Tours.
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Last revised:
4/2/08
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