The free event will begin with a mini food bazaar at 4 p.m. that will include hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as udon and teriyaki. The “bon odori,” a dance traditionally performed during the festival, will take place at 7:30 p.m. The temple is at 2325 Pacific Ave. For information, visit www. btoa.org. The trail would run parallel to and south of the parkway for about one mile between Webster and Main streets through an abandoned railroad right-of-way. It would be by walkers, cyclists and joggers.

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Five thing not to miss in in ‘The Summer of Love Experience’— The 1967 message board from the Psychedelic Shop, including a notice about hippie volunteers cleaning Haight Street Saturday mornings.— Victor Moscoso’s posters that are animated under black light.— Birgitta Bjerke’s crocheted wool and glass-bead bedspread, commissioned by Frankie Azzara, girlfriend of Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir.— Jerry Garcia’s red-and-white striped “CaptainTrips” top-hat.— The “Girls say yes to boys who say NO” anti-draft poster.

“What’s special about our Nutcracker is that we’re the only one in East County that does the full story and the full Tchaikovsky score,” said Sharon Sobel Idul, artistic director and choreographer, “We audition local students and this year we have 40 student performers coming from Benicia all the way to Discovery Bay and Brentwood.”, Special effects are another company distinction and this year’s production will keep the magic going with falling snow, a large sleigh that carries Clara to ballet necklace ballerina necklace ballerina jewelry dance jewelry dance necklace ballet gifts dancer charm dance lover gift bal the Land of Sweets and a giant clock for the Rat Queen’s entrances and exits..

The premieres are individual works by Smuin choreographer in residence Amy Seiwert, as well as Val Caniparoli, principal character dancer with San Francisco Ballet and an internationally acclaimed choreographer. Caniparoli’s piece, “Tutto Eccetto il Lavandino” (“Everything But the Kitchen Sink”) marries Vivaldi music with his trademark high-energy moves. In “But Now I Must Rest,” meanwhile, Seiwart celebrates the late soulful singer Cesária Évora, the “Barefoot Diva” from Cape Verde who in reality was anything but a prima donna.