Brown Bag: Equality Now Mobilizes to End Injustice to Women
Thursday, November 5, 12:30PM to 1:30PM
Pacific Room at Tides
Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. Thoreau Center and the New Field Foundation will host four Equality Now activists who will highlight their recent successes and talk about Equality Now’s new exciting project. The presenters include Agnes Pareyio, a Maasai activist working to end FGM and early marriage in Kenya, Kadidia Sidibe, a women's rights champion in Mali, West Africa for over three decades, Fanta Camara, and a young Malian FGM survivor-turned-activist Taina Bien-Aimé, ex-oficio, Equality Now Board of Directors (USA).
04 November 2009
Art Opening: "Dog Play" and "Photographs in the Fog"
Art Opening Reception
Thoreau Gallery and The Seed Gallery of Photographic Art
Thoreau Center for Sustainability, SF
Thursday, November 5, 5:00PM to 7:00 PM
Artists: Elizabeth Ennis + Steven Hight
Observing dogs unleashed, painter Elizabeth Ennis captures their fierce joy in their pure state of being in her exhibit Dog Play. Photographer Steven Hight uses vintage effects to engage us in his San Francisco landscapes display Photographs in the Fog.
The exhibits run from November 5 through January 8, 2010.
23 October 2009
Oct 29: Thoreau Center Workshop - Powerful Communication
When: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Where: Pacific Room at Tides
Free Workshop: Powerful Communication
Presenter: Nikki Anderson, Co-founder of ThinkFeelKnow
Join us for this free workshop on powerful communication. This workshop will try to demonstrate how we can more clearly communicate with each other by understanding different communication styles. You will learn specific listening skills and how to choose how to respond. The way we communicate is fundamental as it can make or break our relationships with others. The more we understand our own communication style, the greater chance we have of choosing how we communicate with others and creating connection and understanding.
Nikki Anderson is the CEO, a founding partner and a coach within Think Feel Know, USA. Her specialty is working with women leaders and entrepreneurs within small businesses who are ready to grow to the next level. She is skilled at coaching individuals and groups; facilitating workshops, trainings and meetings to elicit connection, unity and clarity, resulting in forward action and bottom-line results. Nikki has been coaching, counseling, mentoring and consulting for the past decade. She received a Masters in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, a Bachelor's degree from Cal Poly in Nutrition and Psychology and is a certified coach from The Coaches Training Institute. She also served on the board for SF Coaches as the Program Director for over two years and is a current member of The Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. Nikki has run her own business for the past six years - focusing initially on one-to-one coaching and later focusing more specifically on group facilitation and speaking. Concurrent to running her own coaching and consulting practice, she was also the primary life coach for Optimum Health, a preventative healthcare business founded by Western Athletic Health Clubs.
Where: Pacific Room at Tides
Free Workshop: Powerful Communication
Presenter: Nikki Anderson, Co-founder of ThinkFeelKnow
Join us for this free workshop on powerful communication. This workshop will try to demonstrate how we can more clearly communicate with each other by understanding different communication styles. You will learn specific listening skills and how to choose how to respond. The way we communicate is fundamental as it can make or break our relationships with others. The more we understand our own communication style, the greater chance we have of choosing how we communicate with others and creating connection and understanding.
Nikki Anderson is the CEO, a founding partner and a coach within Think Feel Know, USA. Her specialty is working with women leaders and entrepreneurs within small businesses who are ready to grow to the next level. She is skilled at coaching individuals and groups; facilitating workshops, trainings and meetings to elicit connection, unity and clarity, resulting in forward action and bottom-line results. Nikki has been coaching, counseling, mentoring and consulting for the past decade. She received a Masters in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, a Bachelor's degree from Cal Poly in Nutrition and Psychology and is a certified coach from The Coaches Training Institute. She also served on the board for SF Coaches as the Program Director for over two years and is a current member of The Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. Nikki has run her own business for the past six years - focusing initially on one-to-one coaching and later focusing more specifically on group facilitation and speaking. Concurrent to running her own coaching and consulting practice, she was also the primary life coach for Optimum Health, a preventative healthcare business founded by Western Athletic Health Clubs.
16 October 2009
Thoreau Center Film Screening: Amreeka
When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Where: Pacific Room at Tides
The Thoreau Center is hosting a screening of the recently released film Amreeka. This film chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.
By writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home.
National Geographic Entertainment will release Amreeka in September 2009. Amreeka is a First Generation Films-Alcina Pictures-Buffalo Gal Pictures/Eagle Vision Media Group Production, presented by E1 Entertainment in association with Levantine Entertainment, Rotana Studios and Showtime Arabia.
Amreeka made its world premiere in dramatic competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and played as Opening Night of New Directors/New Films, a co-presentation of The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Amreeka made its debut internationally in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
14 October 2009
Book Discussion: A Sand County Almanac
Book Discussion:
A Sand County Almanac
and Sketches Here and There
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
In the library
12:30p to 1:30p
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Come join your friends and co-workers and share your thoughts about Aldo Leopold's classic and influential work of nature writing, A Sand County Almanac. Forester, wildlife ecologist, environmental philosopher, and educator, Leopold articulated ideas in this writing that have come to be at the core of conservation ethics today. A call for a fundamental reform in humankind's relationship to the land, it is a beautifully and forcefully written account of his own encounters with wild nature and a celebration of its richness.
Please let us know at library@thoreau.org if you are interested in attending and/or if you need help finding a copy.
(And yes, since we are doing this at lunch time, you will be allowed to eat in the library - just be careful around the couch)
07 October 2009
Film Screening: Money-Driven Medicine
When: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:30 PM-1:30 PM.
Location: Pacific Room at Tides
Join the center for a film screening of Money-Driven Medicine. This film provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to become knowledgeable participants in healthcare reform.
Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and based on Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, the film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the $2.6 trillion U.S. healthcare system, how it went so terribly wrong and what it will take to fix it.
Banned Books Week
Banned books week is over. Thanks to everybody who stopped by last week to celebrate intellectual freedom and write on our wall. Some pictures:
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