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• Honk! On the Road to a Car Museum

  • When
    August 24, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    2200 Front Street, Sacramento, CA 95818
  • Spaces left
    19

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  To register, we prefer you pay online via the black "REGISTER" button. For other options, contact O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  Come join a docent-led tour of the California Automobile Museum, housing a collection of over 150 classic cars, race cars, muscle cars and early models. Displays range from a 1900 Locomobile Steam Car up to today’s electric cars. Be sure to check out the Glamour Road exhibit (August 5th to late October) highlighting color, fashion, style and the mid-century automobile.

  Located in downtown Sacramento, the museum’s mission is to educate and entertain while preserving and promoting the automobile and its influence on our lives.

  After the tour, visit Old Sacramento on the historic waterfront less than a mile upriver from the museum, with restaurants and cafes and other shopping and entertainment.

  When: Saturday, August 24 at 11am

  Location: 2200 Front Street, Sacramento, CA 95818

  Cost: Members and guests $25 ($15 for scholarships)

  Non-members and guests $40 ($30 for scholarships)

  Group Size: 20

  If on the day of the event you find you can't make it, call O'Neil Dillon at 510-207-8761. Simply not paying or not replying prevents us from allowing someone else to attend. No-shows do NOT receive a refund!
  

  If you register, then later decide not to attend this event, there may be others on the waiting list who will be able to take your place, so please cancel (click HERE, or on "Already registered" if you are on the event page) or by contacting  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  If you are on the waitlist and wish to be removed without being registered, please contact  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

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• Past, Present, and Future of Treasure Island

  • When
    September 28, 2024
  •  
    10:30 AM
  • Location
    Treasure Island Museum, 1 Ave of the Palms #111
  • Spaces left
    0

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  To register, we prefer you pay online via the black "REGISTER" button. For other options, contact O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  This will be a docent led 1-hour tour of the Treasure Island Museum, housed in the historic Art Moderne Golden Gate International Exposition Administration

  Building, which was also the air terminal for the Pan American Clipper Ships. The second hour will be a 3-mile walking tour of the island with sun and wind exposure, but is easy walking.

  Gourmet snacks, a bar and restaurants are close by for those wanting to stay for lunch.

  We will learn of the past, present and future of Treasure Island.

  If this event is overprescribed, a second tour will be offered, so use the waiting list.

  Group max: 15

  When: Saturday, September 28th. 10:30 AM

  Where: Treasure Island Museum, 1 Ave of the Palms #111

  Cost: Members and guests $30 ($10 for Scholarships), Non-members and guests $45 ($25 for scholarships)

  Length: 2 hours

  Parking in front of the Museum

  
  

  PBKNCA rep- O’Neil Dillon

  If on the day of the event you find you can't make it, call O'Neil Dillon at 510-207-8761. Simply not paying or not replying prevents us from allowing someone else to attend. No-shows do NOT receive a refund!
  

  If you register, then later decide not to attend this event, there may be others on the waiting list who will be able to take your place, so please cancel (click HERE, or on "Already registered" if you are on the event page) or by contacting  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  If you are on the waitlist and wish to be removed without being registered, please contact  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

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• Dogpatch Art Walk - The Minnesota St Project

  • When
    October 05, 2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco
  • Spaces left
    0

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  To register, we prefer you pay online via the black "REGISTER" button. For other options, contact O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761 
  

  This exclusive, guided tour of contemporary art will begin at the Minnesota Street Project, a three warehouse complex dedicated to educating the public through exhibitions, galleries and programs. Led by collector, traveler and art historian, Rhoda Becker, participants will have access to galleries, meet owners and collectors, speak with artists and get an insider’s perspective on this vibrant contemporary art community. Our guide will have previewed the most current exhibits and created a varied itinerary showcasing current artists and works. They recommend allowing three hours to view all galleries and visit with creatives.

  Nearby cafes are available for lunch and refreshments or bring your own and eat in the nearby park.
  
  The Minnesota Street Project is in Dogpatch which is the new epicenter of innovation, craft and artistic expression. The Museum of Craft and Design, California College of the Arts, San Francisco Center for the Book, entrepreneurial ventures and various art spaces make this an internationally recognized art destination. After the tour, people may want to explore this vibrant area.

  Group size: 20
  Cost: members and guests  $40 ($15 for scholarships), Non-members and guests $50 ($25 for scholarships)
  Parking: Ample street parking
  PBKNCA rep:  Tina Hittenberger

  If on the day of the event you find you can't make it, call O'Neil Dillon at 510-207-8761. Simply not paying or not replying prevents us from allowing someone else to attend. No-shows do NOT receive a refund!
  

  If you register, then later decide not to attend this event, there may be others on the waiting list who will be able to take your place, so please cancel (click HERE, or on "Already registered" if you are on the event page) or by contacting  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  If you are on the waitlist and wish to be removed without being registered, please contact  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

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• Mary Cassatt, An American In Paris - at the Legion of Honor

  • When
    November 15, 2024
  •  
    10:30 AM
  • Location
    Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue (at Clement Street), San Francisco
  • Spaces left
    9

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  To register, we prefer you pay online via the black "REGISTER" button. For other options, contact O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  Join  Claire and David Cunningham for the museum visit, lunch and discussion.
  

  See the work of this unique American artist who spent much of her life in France and was a close friend and artistic colleague of Edgar Degas.  Cassatt was both an artist of some merit in France and a promoter of French art in the US.
  

  Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was in fact a modernist pioneer.  Her paintings, pastels, and prints are characterized by restless experimentation and change.  Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’ invitation in 1879, and quickly emerged as a key member of the movement.  Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, Cassatt produced many images of “women’s work”—knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants.  These images suggest parallels between the work of art-making and the work of care-giving.  The exhibition calls attention to the artist’s own processes of making— how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create radical art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.    
  

  After viewing the art, we will join together for lunch at the Legion Cafe where we will seek to sit together and discuss what we have just seen.

  Date:  Friday November 15th
  Time:  10:30 AM
  Place:  The Legion of Honor, San Francisco.  Meet in the museum lobby behind the check-in counters (look for the PBK placard),  then  at 12:00 Noon  in the museum cafe.
  Parking:  At the museum
  PBKNCA leaders:  David and Claire Cunningham
  

  Limit 18

  
  

  Fees:

  1/ PBK Registration fee:  $10 (for scholarships)

  
  

  2/ The Museum entrance fee on the day of the  event is  $20 regular, $17 seniors. To pay the entrance fee in advance, go to:

  https://www.famsf.org/visit/legion-tickets-hours

  
  

   Museum members do not have to pay an entrance fee.
  
  

  3/ There may be an additional fee for the Cassatt show.

  
  

  4/ Optional $8 for Audio tour headset

  If on the day of the event you find you can't make it, call O'Neil Dillon at 510-207-8761. Simply not paying or not replying prevents us from allowing someone else to attend. No-shows do NOT receive a refund!
  

  If you register, then later decide not to attend this event, there may be others on the waiting list who will be able to take your place, so please cancel (click HERE, or on "Already registered" if you are on the event page) or by contacting  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

  If you are on the waitlist and wish to be removed without being registered, please contact  O'Neil Dillon at oneilsdillon@gmail.com or 510-207-8761

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• 38th Asilomar Conference - Feb 14-17, 2025

  • Start
    February 14, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • End
    February 17, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Asilomar, 800 Asilomar Ave, Pacific Grove, CA

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  What a great weekend we had! You can register now for 2025 now!  

  To register, we prefer you pay online via the black "REGISTER" button. But you may mail the coupon and a check by snail mail.  After you register you will receive information about reserving room and meals with the PBK group. For registration or logistics matters, please contact Barry Haskell at bghaskell@comcast.net. Registration is $150 (member and guests rate), which goes in part to scholarships.  (Remember, to be part of the PBKNCA package, do not reserve directly with the facility - wait for the information from Barry.) 

  The goal of liberal education is to understand the world in all its complexities, to challenge us and yes…  to make us uncomfortable from time to time. – Fred Lawrence, General Secretary, PBK Society

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