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Fall 2005 Arts Guide: [ Movies | Music | Stage | Classical | Performing Arts | Visual Art ] Clutch Players: Stanford Lively Arts hosts Tango Flamenco on Oct. 7 at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. World-Class Series Groves of Academia Stanford Lively Arts Memorial Auditorium, Memorial Church and Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University; 650.725.ARTS Eroica Trio—Oct. 2 at 2;30pm at Dinkelspiel Tango Flamenco with Compania Talent Danza Ballet Español—Oct. 7 at 8pm at Memorial Auditorium St. Lawrence String Quartet, with pianist Jeremy Denk—Oct. 16 at 2:30pm Aygre, a new work by Osvaldo Golijov, based on 15th-century Spanish folk tunes, with Dawn Upshaw and Eighth Blackbird—Oct. 23 at 2:30pm at Memorial Auditorium Choir of Westminster Abbey—Oct. 26 at 8pm at Memorial Church Van Cliburn Gold Medal winner on piano—Oct. 30 at 2:30pm at Dinkelspiel Fado with Dulce Pontes—Nov. 4 at 8pm at Dinkelspiel The Ying Quartet with Mike Seeger— Nov. 30 at 8pm at Dinkelspiel What Makes It Great? an evening with Rob Kapilow and Michael Winther—Dec. 7 at 8pm at Dinkelspiel A Chanticleer Christmas—Dec. 13-14 at 8pm at Memorial Church 2006 Highlight: Martha Graham Dance Company—Jan. 25 at 8pm at Memorial Auditorium Santa Clara University Various campus locations; 408.554.4015 Hans Boepple, classical pianist—Oct. 1 at 8pm at Recital Hall A Fall Evening of Chamber Music—Oct. 14 at 8pm at the Recital Hall Fall Dance Festival—Oct. 15 at 1 and 8pm, Oct. 16 at 2pm at Fess Parker Theatre An Evening of German Song—Oct. 29 at 8pm at the Recital Hall Fall Orchestra Concert, conducted by Emily Ray—Nov. 11 at 8pm at the Mission Church Faculty Recital, organ and soprano—Nov. 13 at 2pm at the Mission Church Festival of Lights with SCU Choral Ensembles—Dec. 2-3 at 8pm at the Mission Church Cal Performances At various venues at UC-Berkeley; see www.calpers.berkeley.edu for complete schedule; 510.642.9988 National Ballet of China—Sept. 16-18 at Zellerbach Mark Morris Dance Group—Sept. 22-24, Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Zellerbach Bulgarian Be-Bop—Oct. 14 at Wheeler Auditorium Anne Sofie von Otter—Oct. 19 at Zellerbach Arlo Guthrie—Oct. 30 at Zellerbach Ira Glass and Chris Ware—Nov. 12 at Zellerbach UC-Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures Various Santa Cruz locations; 831.459.2159 Llan de Cube!—Sept. 22 at 8pm at UCSC Recital Hall Christopher O'Riley, Shostakovich preludes and Radiohead transcriptions—Sept. 25 at 7pm at UCSC Recital Hall Talich Quartet—Oct. 14 at 8pm at UCSC Recital Hall So Percussion—Nov. 10 at 8pm at UCSC Recital Hall Tandy Beal's Mixed Nutz!—Dec 2-4 at Henry J. Mello Center in Watsonville Artful Moves Evenings of Cultural Arts Sunnyvale Parks & Recreation; Saturdays at 8pm; Sunnyvale Theatre; $20/$25; 408.733.6611 Wesla Whitfield—Sept. 10 Songs in Spanish with Lichi Fuentes— Oct. 22 Holiday Jazz with Michael Wolff and Impure Thoughts—Dec. 3 Montalvo Arts Montalvo Arts Center, Saratagoa, and Fox Theatre Redwood City; see www.montalvoarts.org for complete schedule The Tommy Castro Band—Oct. 7 at 8pm at the Carriage House SF Comedy Competition—Oct. 8 at 2pm at the Fox Blues Guitar Extravaganza with Rene Solis, Laura Chavez, JC Smith and John Wedemeyer—Oct. 28 at 8pm at the Carriage House Darol Anger's Republic of Strings— Oct. 30 at 7:30pm at the Carriage House Judy Collins—Nov. 4 at 7 and 9:30pm at Carriage House Peter Yarrow—Nov. 6 at 6 and 8:30pm at Carriage House Guitar Night with Brian Gore, Peppino D'Agostino and Jake Shimabukuro—Nov. 11 at 8pm at the Carriage House Bill Cosby—Nov. 13 at 3 and 7pm at the Fox Orion String Quartet—Nov. 13 at 2pm at the Carriage House Richard Thompson—Nov. 29-30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30pm at the Carriage House Joan Baez—Dec. 3 at 8pm at the Fox South Bay Guitar Society Guest artists from around the world; Le Petit Trianon and other venues; $15-$25; 408.292.0704 Outdoor Classical Guitar Stage, part of Tapestry Arts Festival—Sept. 3-5, 11am-5pm, at Park Avenue and Almaden Boulevard, San Jose Berta Rojas, from Paraguay—Sept. 17 at 8pm at Le Petit Trianon Ana Vidovic, from Croatia—Oct. 15 at 8pm at Le Petit Trianon 2006 Highlight: SBGS Guitar Festival, with middle and high school students of the guitar presenting recitals, plus lectures and demonstrations—March 11 at the Historic Hoover Theatre Word Up California Writers Club Lookout Bar and Grill, 605 Macara Ave, Sunnyvale; 408.979.1209 Firoozhe Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi—Sept. 14, 6-9pm, $15/$18 Center for Literary Arts Various locations; some events co-sponsored by Poetry Center San Jose; 408.924.4600 Nahid Nozaffari and Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak—Sept. 8 at Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose, free Wajahat Ali, presenting a play about Muslim Pakistani-Americans—Sept. 10 at 8pm and Sept. 11 at 2pm at University Theater Ma Jian—Oct. 12 at 7:30pm at a location tba. Father Ernestro Cardenal—Oct. 25-26 at various locations Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran—Nov. 9-10 at SJSU Daniel Mason, author of The Piano Tuner, with performance by Gwendolyn Mok, Kay Stern Liz Runnicles and Thalia Moore—Nov. 15 at 12:30pm at College of Music and Dance Recital Hall, free. 2006 Highlight: James D. Houston—spring Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley A regular series of guest speakers at various locations; see www.commonwealthclub.org/sv.html for details Bud Selig talks about Inside Baseball—Sept. 7 at 7pm at the San Jose Convention Center John O'Conner, the man who outed Deep Throat, speaks—Sept. 7 at 7pm at Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose Strange Times, My Dear, Nahid Mozaffari and Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak—Sept. 8 at 3pm at King Library Chocolate and beer tasting with Pete Slosberg—Sept. 15 at Bella Mia Restaurant, San Jose The Minutemen, the controversy of citizen border patrols, a panel with Art Torees and Chris Simcox—Sept. 16 at noon at the Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater Jennifer Miller, author of Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East—Sept. 20 at 1pm at King Library Caroline Kennedy—Sept. 22 at 7pm at Fourth Street Summit Center, San Jose Tom Campbell talks about Schwarzenegger's agenda—Oct. 3 at noon at Altera Corp. Headquarters, Building 3, 101 Innovation Dr., San Jose James Dalessandro, local author and screenwriter, talks about the 1906 earthquake—Oct. 6 at 7pm at King Library Khaled Abou El Fadl, author of The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam From the Extremists—Oct. 14 at 2pm at King Library Bill Press—Nov. 1, call for location Barbara Boxer—Nov. 4, call for location Montalvo Literary Series Montalvo, Saratoga; $15-$50; montalvoarts.org Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights—Oct. 21 at 8pm at Carriage House Sarah Vowell, of This American Life— Oct. 28 at 8pm at Fox Theater Tellebration! A storytelling event— Nov. 5 at 7pm at Carriage House, $15 Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency— Nov. 6 at 7pm at the Fox, $20-$50 MACLA The Latino arts center presents open-mic sessions and featured performances by local poets and visiting artist, 510 s. first st, San Jose; 408.938.3594 The Delivery Room, open mic and readings—Second Sunday of every month at 7pm, $3 Kate Rigg in Birth of an Asian, comedy—Oct. 16 Paul Flores in The Rain—Oct. 29 Sexile, book reading and discussion with Jamie Cortez and Adela Vazquez—Nov. 10 Luis Irrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter—Dec. 2 Lourdes Portillo screens 'El Diablo Nunca Duerme'—Dec. 14 Poetry Center San Jose A fall season of readings and workshops at various locations; 408.292.3254 Opal Palmer Adisa—Sept. 19 at 7:30pm at Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Rooms 225 and 229 in San Jose Rafael Jesús González—Oct. 1 at 4pm at King Library, workshop on Oct. 2, 10am-5pm, $75/$100 Galway Kinell—Nov. 3 at 7pm at Le Petit Trianon, $10 Nils Peterson and Sally Ashton, workshop—Nov. 12 and 19 at History Park San Jose, $150/$120 Plan Ahead Cirque du Soleil The famed art circus returns, and tickets will probably go fast; call 1.866.6-CIRQUE for details. Corteo—Opens Jan. 19 at the Taylor Street Bridge, San Jose. Send a letter to the editor about this story to letters@metronews.com. [ Silicon Valley | Metroactive Home | Archives ]