Worth a Look Worth a Look (June 10, 2005)

Music

Ragtime

Menlo Park pianist Nan Bostick performs "Ragtime for Families" with special guest artists on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Menlo Park, 1100 Middle Ave., Menlo Park.

Tickets are $15, free for youth. Proceeds benefit the First Baptist Church youth group's Mexico Outreach trip and Music for Families scholarship fund. For more information call Carol Maslin at (650) 323-8544 or visit www.firstbaptist.com.

Micro-Orchestra

The Baroque Micro-Orchestra will perform Friday at 8 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church, 600 Homer Ave. in Palo Alto. The program will feature selections from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and Bach's "Musical Offering," as well as techni-color concertos by Telemann and Rameau.

Tickets are $25 general, $20 seniors/students; $50 for a family at the door. For more information please visit www.albanyconsort.com or call (408) 773 0375.

Theater

Shakespeare Festival

The Mid-Peninsula Shakespeare Festival will take place Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., featuring Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Moliere's "That Rascal Scapin" will be presented on Sunday at 8 p.m.

The performances will take place at Mid-Peninsula High School, 1340 Willow Road in Menlo Park. Admission is free. For more information please call (650) 322-3261.

Art

Wallace Stegner

"Wallace Stegner: Throwing a Long Shadow" will run through Sunday at the Los Altos History Museum. The retrospective covers the life and influence of Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, teacher, environmentalist and Peninsula treasure.

Regular viewing hours are Friday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. The museum is located at 51 South San Antonio Road in Los Altos. For more information, please call (650) 948-9427 or visit www.losaltoshistory.org.

Vanishing Worlds

"Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia" will be on display through Aug. 21 at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center
"Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia" will be on display through Aug. 21 at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center. Organized by the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the exhibition features 150 art objects from the ceremonies and daily life of indigenous peoples of the Amazon River basin.

Tours of the exhibition will take place on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. The Center is located at Lomita Drive at Museum Way and is open Wednesday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Thursday until 8 p.m. Admission is free. For more information please call (650) 723-4177 or visit www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva.

Philippine Art

Stanford Art Spaces presents a "Philippine Art Exhibit" through June 23. The exhibition features works by 14 Philippine artists. The Center for Integrated Systems Art Spaces is located on the Stanford University campus. Admission is free. The center is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information please call (650) 725-3622 or visit http://cis.stanford.edu/~marigros.

Film

Short Documentaries

Stanford University's Documentary Film and Video MA students will present a collection of eight short documentary films Saturday at 3 p.m. at Cubberley Auditorium. Located in the School of Education, the auditorium is at 485 Lasuen Mall on the Stanford campus.

Each thesis film is approximately 15 minutes long. Admission is free. An informal reception will immediately follow the screening. For more information about the screening, please contact Mark Urbanek at (650) 725-3030 or urbanek@stanford.edu.

Ann Arbor Film Festival

The 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival will take place Saturday from 7 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 6 to 10 p.m. at Foothill College's Appreciation Hall, Room 1500, 12345 El Monte Road in Los Altos Hills.

The festival will feature experimental films and documentaries. Admission is $5-$10 on a sliding scale. Proceeds will benefit KFJC. Parking is $2 (quarters are preferable). For more information please call (650) 949-7260 or visit http://kfjc.org.

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