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 San Jose Woman's Club
Gingerbread Decorating Party
Sunday, November 27, 2:00 p.m. to 5 p.m.
SJWC Clubhouse, 75 S. 11th St., San Jose
$15 with Gingerbread House Kit,
$5 if you bring your own
Pay at the door (cash or check)
Please join new Clubmember Cici Green as she inaugurates a new holiday event for children and adults at the San Jose Woman's Club. It's not a new event for Cici - she has hosted a Gingerbread Decorating Party in her home the last eight years!
You provide:
- Creativity, laughter, and decorating skills
- If you have a favorite candy item you want for your house, please bring it.
- Perhaps bring an apron if you tend to get exuberant.
We provide:
- Pre-mixed colored frosting
- Sorted candy decorations
- Gingerbread cookies to decorate and eat
- Light refreshments (feel l free to bring something if you want to share)
- Goofy Christmas music
- A location to mess up rather than yours ;-)
YWCA Silicon Valley Presents: Music that Inspires
Hosted by the San Jose Woman's Club
Sunday, November 20, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Landmark Ballroom, SJWC Clubhouse
75 S. 11th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
Free street parking
$5 per person includes dinner and entertainment
Youth performances, local bands, and staff will entertain you at "Music That
Inspires" a Fundraiser accompanied by Music, Performance, Food and Community.
The goal of this event is to utilize the youth's interest in music and performance in a way that is meaningful and consistent with the YWCA's Mission Statement,
and to promote social awareness while giving students a creative outlet to express and empower themselves.
The goal of the Project Inspire After school Program is to improve academic achievement and provide students with the opportunity to earn credit recovery while providing a wide-range of services and activities to students enrolled within
the East Side Union High School District in order to build developmental assets. Project Inspire currently serves Overfelt High School, James Lick High School, Yerba Buena High School, and Andrew Hill High School.
For more information, email Borca.Projectinspire@gmail.com or call
408-482-7670.
Download the Event Flyer (pdf, 444kb) or the Event Program ( pdf, 1258 pdf)
San Jose Woman's Club Vocal Scholarship Concert
Sunday, October 16, 3:00 p.m.
Landmark Ballroom, SJWC Clubhouse, 75 S. 11th St., San Jose
Free and Open to All!
Don't miss this chance to hear our two San Jose Woman's Club 2010-2011 Vocal Scholarship winners, First Place Winner Jose Mendiola, Bass/Baritone, and Second Place Winner Jennifer Mitchell, Soprano in the fabulous Landmark Ballroom at the San Jose Woman's Club. The program will include familiar operatic arias and lyrical art songs. A reception will follow.
Mr. Mendiola has been a Youth Vocal Teacher and President of the ACDA San Jose State University American Choral Directors Assoc. a Member of the Chamber Singers under Dr. Archibeque, and solo appearances with several musical groups.
Ms. Mitchell has an extensive list of operatic roles she has performed as well as light opera leading roles, including the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at Wellesley College Opera Workshop, Josephine in H.M.S Pinafore at Peninsula Teen Opera, Marenka in The Bartered Bride, Maria in West Side Story, with Peninsula Youth Theatre, a performer at Max's Opera Cafe in Palo Alto and many other performances.
Free street parking - 75 S. 11th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
For more information, contact Alma Taylor at concert@sjwomansclub.org or call 408-294-6919
An Evening with the Beats
~ A Cinematic Ode to the Beat Era
Friday, September 30, 7:00 p.m.
Landmark Ballroom, SJWC Clubhouse, 75 S. 11th St., San Jose
Free and Open to All!
The San Jose Woman's Club,
in conjunction with the
Academic Film Archive of North
America
and your hosts
Geoff Alexander and John Mitchell, presents
three short films that celebrate the Beat era. The films include a rarely screened film that
chronicles the live performance of several poets in the Beat genre,including Allen
Ginsburg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a rare jazz
film from the era, and another goodie that while not exactly "beat,"
reflects much of the same joie de vivre.
This show provides a unique opportunity to view films that are high on
creativity and almost never shown. And some
beat-era folks will be joining us for the show, too.
Free street parking - 75 S. 11th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
For more information, contact John Mitchell at beats@sjwomansclub.org or call 408-294-6919
About 'beat:'
Interest for this show as kindled by the discovery that Beat
icon Neal Cassady lived down the street from the Women's Club, on Santa
Clara Street . Carolyn Cassady raised a family in Monte Sereno, and Johnnie
Cassady had a band called the Feltones, so family roots run deep here in the
San Jose area. The Beat era had a spawning ground in the Bay Area, and
influenced the Psychedelic Era and free jazz, music and poetry.
Geoff Alexander is Director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, www.afana.org,
a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
On the show:
'Wholly Communion' (1965) 35 m, dir. Peter Whitehead. The best poetry film
we've ever seen... let's take the way back machine to London 's Royal Albert
Hall in June, 1965, for a poetry convention (The International Poetry
Incarnation) featuring Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Adrian Mitchell, and our personal favorite Ernst Jandl (whose wordless
poetry brings down the house in a pandemonious riot). About halfway through
the film, poet Harry Fainlight gets testy when heckled by an audience
member, and the event threatens to break down into a great anarchic mess.
The film was shot with a single, zoom-lens camera, and the camerawork could
be described as being as anarchistic as the poets themselves. A lovely film
and a great document of the transitionary era between "beat" and "hip".
'Shelly Manne' (1959?) 15m, uncredited director. Beat and Jazz were two
themes constantly intertwined in the era, and a classic west coast jazz spot
at the time was Shelley's Manne Hole in L.A. Drummer Manne created some of
the more progressive music emanating from the LA post-bop jazz scene in the
1950s. Here, we witness Manne's landmark group, performing in an uncredited
television show which I suspect was called "Take Another Look". The real
star here is the under appreciated tenor man Richie Kamuca, whose forceful
solos highlight the cool, bop, and post-bop tunes in this short film. Other
musicians include tpt. Conte Candoli, p. Russ Freeman, and b. Monty Budwig.
'Frank Film' (1973) 9m, dir. Frank Mouris. In a dizzying array of 11,592
collage shots, Mouris utilizes multiple voices to summarize his life, an
amazing film that challenges the visual and auditory senses to the extreme.
He made this film while teaching at Harvard, on a production schedule that
involved seven consecutive 10 hour days. Nominated for an Academy Award in
the best animated short category, 1973, the film is a free-flowing mash of
images that combines the angst of the Beat era with the psychedelic
creativity that followed it.
Sunday, August 21, 2-4 p.m.
San Jose Woman's Club Fourth Annual Ice Cream Social
Build your own sundae while listening to live music
Tour the building and see our latest improvements
Meet California's historic suffragettes celebrating winning the vote in 1911
The San Jose Woman's Club invites you to join us for an ice cream party celebrating the neighbors, contractors and members who have worked to preserve the San Jose Woman's Club historic Clubhouse.
Free street parking - 75 S. 11th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
For more information, contact Patt Curia at info@sjwomansclub.org or call 408-294-6919
Download the event flyer (pdf- 169 kb)
SJWC's Annual Scholarship Fundraiser:
Opera With the Stars Luncheon
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
San Jose Woman's Club, 75 S. 11th St, San Jose
Hospitality: 11:30 a.m. -
Luncheon: Noon - Concert: 1:00 p.m.
In concert, exceptional Resident Artists from Opera San Jose:
Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste, Soprano
Betany Coffland, Mezzo-Soprano
Michael Dailey, Tenor
Torlef Borsting, Baritone
Silas Elash, Bass
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San Jose Woman's Club presents
A Free Musical Recital
Thursday, April 21,
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
San Jose Woman's Club, 75 S. 11th St, San Jose
Please join us for the 2011 San Jose Woman’s Club Vocal Scholarship auditions. Promising vocal students from San Jose State University will perform musical selections for our judges, who will announce the scholarship winner at the end of the evening.
Our judges are
Susan Gundunas, Special Guest Judge,
Alma Taylor, Chair
Chloe Leinwand,
Jeanne McCann and
Vernie Mast, alternate.
Special Guest Judge Susan Gundunas is a former Principal Resident Artist at Opera San Jose who teaches voice at UC-Berkeley and runs a busy voice studio in San Francisco. The remaining four judges are all members of the San Jose Woman's Club with active interests and experience in various aspects of opera and choral performance.
Please click here to download the event flyer (PDF, 88 kb, 8.5x11") and share it with your friends.
For more information, contact events@sjwomansclub.org.
 San Jose Woman's Club invites you to
our March General Meeting:
An Irish Pub Party featuring
The Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
San Jose Woman's Club, 75 S. 11th St, San Jose
Free street parking on most streets after 6:00 p.m.
$20.00 Dinner and Show
$5.00 Show Only
Buy before Saturday, March 5
For more information, see March General Meeting.
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