Gilroy
– Adults ages 55 and up can participate in a free class/film
series through the Gavilan College Department of Noncredit
Instruction. Humanities 767,
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Film Classics,
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is designed to study the facts, fantasy, history and trivia of
classic and modern films.
Free Film Series for Adults
Gilroy – Adults ages 55 and up can participate in a free class/film series through the Gavilan College Department of Noncredit Instruction. Humanities 767, “Film Classics,” is designed to study the facts, fantasy, history and trivia of classic and modern films. The background and history of each film and its performance will be compared and contrasted. This class is “open entry,” so that participants do not have to attend all class sessions.
Instructor Grant Richards is a graduate of Gilroy High School and Gavilan College and teaches film history and film production at Gavilan College.
Upcoming films are: Today – “Annie Hall,” April 25 – “The Goodbye Girl,” May 2 – “Kramer vs. Kramer,” May 9 – “On Golden Pond,” May 16 – “Driving Miss Daisy” and May 23 – “The Usual Suspects.”
All films will be screened at the Morgan Hill Community Playhouse on Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 5pm, now through June 6.
Students may register in class, or may call in advance to 848-4859.
‘The Ghost’ Visits Downtown
Gilroy – World-champion boxer Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will appear in person from 6 to 9pm Friday, at Harvest Time Restaurant, at the intersection of Sixth and Monterey streets, for a fundraiser for the Gilroy High “Champions” Memorial Parade Shirts.
A $20 donation includes a buffet dinner, raffle prizes, silent auction, and a viewing of the Feb. 24 match against Danish boxer Spend Abazi.
Details: 591-4472, or e-mail gi*******@*ol.com.
Wine and Cheese Fund-raiser
Gilroy – Enjoy a night of great wine paired with cheeses from around the world, (OK from Costco). Enjoy good friends, live entertainment and music to soothe the soul. Bid on the silent auction, win raffle prizes, taste delicious truffles made by the Generous Dane’s Kitchen.
This event is being held to help raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and Team In Training. The event takes place from 6 to 8pm Friday, at Fortino Winery, 4525 Hecker Pass Highway. The cost is $20 per person.
Details: 857-4794 or 857-4795.
Food Fest for MH Schools
Morgan Hill – Pamper your palate at the 9th Annual South Valley Wine Auction & Food Fest, Friday at the Morgan Hill Community & Cultural Center, 17000 S. Monterey Road. The host for the evening is 94.5 KBAY Radio’s Jona Denz-Hamilton. Sample delicacies from local restaurants and award-winning wineries. Auction items include artwork, golf outings, salon treatments and wonderful wines. Proceeds benefit cross country and track-and-field programs at Live Oak and Sobrato high schools and Murphy and Britton middle schools. (Morgan Hill Elementary Schools also benefit.) Tickets are $50 in advance from BookSmart in Morgan Hill, online, or by $60 at the door.
Details: visit www.southvalleywineauction.org or call Wendy Campos at (408) 778-9501.
Agency Helps College Happen
Gilroy – South County Cal-SOAP invites eighth through 10th-grade students and their parents to the third annual “College: Making It Happen!” workshop, to be held from 9am to noon, Saturday, at Gavilan College in Room LS101.
Cal-SOAP will offer three workshops: “How to succeed in high school,” “The Four College Systems (UC, CSU, CC, and private universities),” and “How to Pay for College” following a motivational speaker and ending with lunch and an iPod raffle drawing for all participants.
“This is one of the ways Cal-SOAP can reach students and parents in the four different districts that participate in the South County Cal-SOAP Consortium, and it’s the same day as GavFest, so there is more fun to be had on the Gavilan College campus after the event,” said Erin C. Gemar, Project Director for the SCCC. “It’s never too early to start planning for your child’s education. We sincerely appreciate parent participation, as you, moms and dads, are the No. 1 reason that students are deciding to go to college.”
Details: South County Cal-SOAP Office at (408) 846-7504.
Choir is ‘Back to Broadway’
Hollister – The Oriana Chorale will present “Back To Broadway” at 7:30pm, Friday, April 27, and at 2pm, Sunday, April 29 at The First Hollister Presbyterian Church, 2066 Cienaga Road. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Adults are $15, teens $10.
Details: Jan Hille at 207-2134.
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