What’s Happening : Lectures / Seminars / Conferences

Pacific Orchid Exposition

The SF Orchid Society invites you to celebrate the magic of 1000s of orchids at the show, "A Salute to the Golden Gate"

Feb 23rd through Feb 26th
Festival Pavilion

SF FLEA

SF FLEA is a two-day market featuring San Francisco Bay Area artists, designers, artisanal food & beverage purveyors & local merchants

Feb 25th through Feb 26th
Herbst Pavilion

Blue Bear School of Music: Winter 2012

Private & group instruction in rock, jazz, blues & other popular musical styles. Instrument & voice, all ages & levels, day & evening programs

Jan 9th through Mar 24th
Blue Bear School of Music, Bldg D

dasHAUS: German Sustainability Technology Showcase

A showcase for German sustainability technologies, dasHAUS is open for guided tours, lectures & events. Highlights are the Grand Opening as well as a Green Building & Energy Efficiency Conference

Feb 17th through Feb 26th
Fort Mason Center

Great San Francisco Crystal Fair

Celebrate 25 years of the Crystal Fair with more than 40 vendors offering brilliant gemstones & shamanic wisdom

Feb 25th through Feb 26th
Conference Center, Bldg A

Museo ItaloAmericano Leonardo da Vinci Society Lecture: Fibonacci -- The Man who Brought Arithmetic to the Western World

Stanford Professor Keith Devlin discusses the genius of Fibonacci

Feb 14th
Museo ItaloAmericano, Bldg C

James Van Praagh Spirit Circle

A special, intimate evening of connecting to the spiritual realms with renowned medium & best-selling author James Van Praagh

Feb 24th
Conference Center, Golden Gate Room, Bldg A

Museo ItaloAmericano Discover Italy Sunday: Abruzzo

Illustrated lecture by Michael Moyle followed by regional food & wine tasting

Feb 19th
Museo ItaloAmericano, Bldg C

Long Now Seminar -- Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-Year Legacy of Food

Photojournalist Jim Richardson has been covering the agricultural beat for National Geographic since 1984. His spectacular photographs & the stories he tells with them, are renowned

Feb 22nd
Cowell Theater

On the Commons: IGNITE

Ignite builds political ambition in young women

Feb 9th
Bldg B, Room B-301

California Lawyers For the Arts: Relax With Tax

Half-day seminar on the essentials of income tax for individual artists of all disciplines, including a comprehensive tax workbook, The Art of Deduction, with paid admission

Feb 18th
California Lawyers for the Arts, Bldg C

Visual Thinking Strategies

Please join Oren Slozberg, the National Director of Visual Thinking Strategies for a discussion about this Innovative method that changes how educators teach, how we learn & how we might interact with the world

Feb 29th
Bldg B, Room B-301

Thursdays at Readers Poetry Series

Thursday February 23 features Jewell Gomez and Stephen Kessler

Feb 23rd
Readers Cafe, Bldg C

The Cruise of the Shenandoah

Trace the Shenandoah's 27,000-mile Pacific rampage as part of the observation of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War

Feb 28th
SF Maritime National Historical Park / J. Porter Shaw Library, Bldg E