@caption:Ballet Folklorico de Stanford performs as part of "Pasaporte a Mexico."
The Spanish Immersion Parents Association of Palo Alto presents "Pasaporte a Mexico," an evening of Mexican music and dance for the whole family, at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at Haymarket Theatre, Palo Alto High School, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. The stars of the show are two of Stanford University's acclaimed performing groups: Mariachi Cardenal de Stanford and Ballet Folklorico de Stanford. Tickets are $5 adults, $4 children 2-12, and free for those under 2. Proceeds from the concert will be used to purchase Spanish-language library books for the Spanish Immersion Program at Escondido School in Palo Alto. For more information, call 322-4187.
Family Service Mid-Peninsula and Gentry Magazine are in final preparations for the fourth annual "Gentry After Hours Gala" to be held from 7:30 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Hotel Sofitel, 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood Shores. The theme for this year's event is "Gentry Goes Hollywood!"
The event salutes some of the Bay Area's finest restaurants, offering guests culinary delights from 25 Bay Area chefs. Headlining are such celebrity chefs as Bradley Ogden from One Market of San Francisco, Lark Creek Inn of Larkspur and San Mateo's Lark Creek Cafe; and Maurizo Mazzon of Il Fornaio Restaurants in San Francisco, Burlingame, Palo Alto and San Jose. The chefs will prepare a variety of specialties for sampling. Complementing the epicurean delights will be a wine tasting provided by Mirassou Vineyards.
Guests can also look forward to a silent auction, music and dancing to the Bay Area's popular Big City Revue and modeling of the "Evening Dress Collection" by models from Bloomingdale's of Palo Alto.
More than 700 guests are expected to attend the event, which benefits Family Service Mid-Peninsula, a Palo Alto-based non-profit agency that provides mental health and family support services to local families and businesses.
Tickets to this gala are $60 per person and may be ordered by calling Ken Weimar at Family Service Mid-Peninsula at 326-6576.
@caption:"Pinwheel Series" (Untitled) by Peter Silten
Two artists have works currently on display at the Center for Integrated Systems building on the Stanford University campus. I Made Moja is exhibiting paintings in Chinese ink and watercolor, which use the age-old tradition of Batuan. Peter Silten is displaying his lithographs, as well as his pen and acrylic paintings. These exhibits are on display through March 19. A reception is planned for 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8. Regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. For more information, call 725-3622.
Etched in history
Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley St., Palo Alto, is currently hosting an exhibit of original prints and etchings from the 16th to 20th century. The exhibit includes prints such as Albrecht Durer's "The Adoration of the Magi" and Gabrielle Clements' "Adeste Fidelis." The exhibit is hung in the church's sanctuary and continues through Sunday, Feb. 15. Hours vary. For more information, call 494-1212.
Stanford Lively Arts completes its ambitious production of the entire Beethoven cycle for string quartets with performances by the Emerson String Quartet on Friday and Sunday, Feb. 6 and 8, at the university's Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
The critically acclaimed Emerson String Quartet consists of violinists Eugene Drucker and Phillip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel. Following performances of earlier Beethoven works by the Stanford and Muir string quartets back in January, the Emerson String Quartet will be tackling the composer's "late" quartets.
The Friday concert will consist of "Quartet in E Major, Op. 127," "Quartet in F Major, Op. 135," and "Quartet in C minor, Op. 131," and will be held at 8 p.m. The Sunday concert will consist of "Quartet in A minor, Op. 132," "Quartet in B Major, Op. 130" and "Op. 133, 'Grosse Fuge,'" and will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $28 and $25 (students $3 off); $14 and $12.50 for youth 15 and under. For more information, call 725-ARTS.
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