This January, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the sea lions’ arrival to PIER 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989.
Published: January, 2015
25th Years of Sea Lions at PIER 39
This January, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the sea lions’ arrival to PIER 39. The boisterous barking pinnipeds began arriving in droves shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in October 1989. With a protected environment and plentiful supply of food from the Bay, the sea lions quickly decided to make PIER 39’s K-Dock their new home. Join PIER 39 to celebrate these playful mammals with sea lion encounter walking tours, refreshments, special discounts and more from January 16-19. Visit www.pier39.com for more information.
Truffles Galore!
The American Truffle Company returns to Napa with the fifth annual Napa Truffle Festival on January 16-19. This event brings together two complementary aspects of European truffles: the best chefs in the world known for their truffle cuisine, and the best truffle experts/scientists in the world recognized for their expertise and data on truffle cultivation. Gourmands and aspiring truffle growers alike will find a bounty of activities throughout the festival weekend to satisfy their appetite and curiosity for the flavor and knowledge of one of the world’s most prized and delectable foods. Napa Valley will again serve as the host for the festival weekend, partnering with The Westin Verasa Napa as “truffle central” for check-in and programs. They also extend exclusive, special room rates for festival guests. Unique to this festival is the Michelin star team of chefs led by Ken Frank of La Toque presenting culinary demonstrations and showcasing their extraordinary skills and talents in a tour de force truffles and wine dinner on Saturday evening.There will also be truffle experts and scientists, a master truffle dog trainer, wild mushroom foragers and, everyone’s favorite, Rico the truffle dog. The festival concludes on Monday with a lively Napa Truffle Festival Marketplace at Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa showcasing local artisan vendors and their specialty food products, plus cooking demos, fresh truffles for sale and a chance to win a real black truffle! For more information on the festival, visit ww.napatrufflefestival.com. The marketplace is free to the public to browse and purchase truffle menu items à la carte.
Group Collage Exhibit
A group collage exhibition by four Bay Area collage artists will be on display at a.Muse Gallery from January 12 to March 8. The group exhibition titled Hybrid highlights the work of Ken Graves, John Hundt, Catie O’Leary and Vanessa Woods, combining disparate elements to create new visual systems. Using original paper ephemera and found material, each artist in the show reconfigures the human body in some way to generate new narratives that explore identity, surrealism and the subconscious. The title Hybrid refers to the ways that heterogeneous images can be combined into fluid entities. The title also refers to the medium of collage, which in of itself is a hybrid—made by layering found images and their fragments to form a seamless whole. In the show, each artist’s work is distinctive but shares a common theme. All exploit and distort the use of symbols and the human body to appropriate and reassign meaning. Thirty-six collages made from 1988-2014 will be included in the exhibit. The a.Muse Gallery is located at 614 Alabama Street in San Francisco.
Fresh Crab Feed My
Two Petaluma icons team up on Tuesday, January 13 at 5:30 p.m. for another great event when Lagunitas Brewing Company hosts the third annual Fresh Crab Feed for Cinnabar Theater. Enter the beer garden, step into a heated tent and enjoy loads of freshly caught Dungeness crab along with cole slaw, pasta salad, bread and dessert. Get your claws on some delicious crab and crack a cold one at a feast that benefits Sonoma County’s beloved professional theater. Tickets for the Fresh Crab Feed are $55. To purchase a ticket, or for more information, call (707) 763-8920 or visit cinnabartheater.org. Lagunitas Brewing Company is located at 1280 North McDowell Boulevard in Petaluma. Reservations are required by 4 p.m. on January 9 to guarantee that the crab is fresh.
Living Black
The Richmond Art Center has announced its winter exhibitions, which will include the Bay Area’s only exhibition of works by artists of African-American descent. The Art of Living Black exhibition will feature over 50 local artists in a wide variety of media—sculpture, photography, painting, jewelry and ceramics—including work by the 2014 Jan Hart-Schuyers Award winners Asual Aswad, Yolanda Holley, Atiba Sylvia Thomas and Lawrence Buford. Three exhibitions will open on Saturday, January 10 at 10 a.m. The Art of Living Black was founded 19 years ago by the late sculptor Jan Hart-Schuyers and late painter Rae Louise Hayward after their realization that black artists were not being represented by galleries in any significant way. This year’s exhibition will showcase a broad range of works by dozens of artists from throughout the Bay Area. The exhibit runs from January 10 to February 27 with artist talks on Saturdays from noon to 1:30 p.m. The Richmond Art Center is located at 2540 Barrett Avenue in Richmond and the gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. The cost is free and the art center’s other galleries will feature paintings by Yisrael Feldsott and the works by the art center’s professional artist instructors who teach over 200 classes each year. Visit richmondartcenter.org for more information.
Print is Not Dead
Celebrate the written or printed word at the 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair from Friday, February 6 through Sunday, February 8 at the Oakland Marriott City Center. The three-day event is the world’s largest antiquarian book fair with more than 200 booksellers from the United States and around the globe. The annual book fair features a rich selection of books, manuscripts, maps and other printed materials, including incunabula; literature from all centuries and nationalities; fine bindings; children’s and illustrated books; ephemera; and antiquarian books on dozens of topics. For more information, visit www.cabookfair.com or call (415) 962-2500.
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