Progressive Democrat Issue 106: CALIFORNIA DARWIN DAY (Feb. 12th) EVENTS
February 12th is Darwin Day and it's coming up. People around the world mark the day with celebrations of science and humanity. For other states there aren't so many Darwin Day events, but California is big. So rather than clutter up the Events section, I am putting a list of Darwin Day events for California in this separate section.
Title: Darwin Day Bagel Brunch ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-11 10:12:00
Event Website: http://www.kolhadash.org
Activities:
Join our Bagel Brunch to celebrate Darwin Day with a talk given by Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the NCSE--National Center for Science Education. He'll address the present day challenges to evolution by the Creationists and "Intelligent Design" crowd. Suggested Donation: $5
Address:
Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue
Albany, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Kol Hadash, (S.F. Bay Area) Community for Humanistic Judaism
Contact: Basha Goddard or Bernie Rosen, programs@kolhadash.org, 510-848-6137
Title: Darwin Day at Cal ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-10 09:00:00
Event Website: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/museum/events/shortcourse2007/index
Activities:
Saturday symposium: "The Implications of Evolution: Evidence & Applications". A series of presentations and discussions covering research in evolutionary biology, including behavior and defense, primate evolution, and coevolution and its impact on biodiversity; followed by Eugenie Scott discussing current antievolution strategies, the intelligent design movement, and recent legal decisions concerning the teaching of evolution.
Sunday: Flock of Dodos starting at 2:00 pm hosted by the Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
Address:
2050 Valley Life Sciences Building,
Berkeley, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: University of California Museum of Paleontology
Contact: Judy Scotchmoor, jscotch@berkeley.edu, 510-642-1821
Title: Evolve! Darwin Day at Revolution Books ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-13 19:00:00
Event Website: http://www.revolutionbooks.org
Activities:
Celebrating the momentous breakthrough of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Discussion of the attacks on Evolution today, featuring the book "Science of Evolution and The Myth of Creationism" by Ardea Skybreak.
Talks - movie clips - discussion.
This FREE event is wheelchair accessible.
Address:
2425 Channing Way in Berkeley, ½ block west of Telegraph, under the Sather Gate P-lot
Berkeley, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Revolution Books
Contact: Reiko Redmonde, revbooks_event@yahoo.com, 510-848-1196
Title: "Sacramento's Darwin Day Educational Gala" ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-11 14:00:00
Event Website: http://
Activities:
Presentation, literature tables, exhibitors, camaraderie, cake (Happy Birthday, Charlie!)and refreshments -- Tickets $10 (students $5).
Main Presentation: "How Evolution Shapes History: Shells as a Window on an Evolving World".
Guest speaker: Geerat Vermeij, Professor of Marine Ecology & Paleoecology at University of California-Davis, formerly editor of EVOLUTION journal and a MacArthur Fellow . You can read Dr. Vermeij's bio at http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/explorations/bio_vermeij.html
Address:
La Sierra Community Center (John Smith Hall), 5325 Engle Road
Carmichael, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Several community orgs. (educational, civic, & freethought)
Contact: Mynga Futrell, ckprofessional@aol.com, 916-447-3589
Title: Darwin Birthday at UCSD School of Medicine ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-10 19:30:00
Event Website: www.scientificgospel.com
Activities:
In a series of festive songs, Dr. Stephen Baird and the Opossums of Truth will perform a tribute to Darwin, evolution and rational thought, but because of the upcoming Valentine’s Day, scientific love songs will complement the evening concert.
Address:
UCSD School of Medicine - Liebow Auditorium, 2nd floor, Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Scientific Gospel Productions
Contact: Carol Baird, carol@scientificgospel.com, 858-481-0765
Title: Edward Humes discusses Monkey Girl ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-23 19:00:00
Event Website: http://www.duttonsbrentwood.com
Activities:
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes will discuss his new book, Monkey Girl: Education, Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul. In Monkey Girl, Edward Humes tells the Science vs. Faith dispute through the eyes of characters on both sides of the conflict. There are Bryan and Christy Rehm, teachers and parents who sued the Dover, PA school district for bringing religion into the classroom, becoming outcasts in the process. There is Bill Buckingham, the school board member whose faith and inner demons compelled him to launch this crusade, and fellow board member Casey Brown, whose opposition led the board president to warn that she would be going to hell. There is Richard Thompson, the head of a law firm that bills itself “the sword and shield for people of faith,” who promised the school board he would use a newly reconfigured Supreme Court to “bring God back into the public square.” And, finally, there are the scientists and theorists who trooped to Pennsylvania to represent both sides of this epic and fascinating battle, from “Dr. Dino,” aka Kent Hovind, the former high school biology teacher and creationist who preaches to packed audiences that dinosaurs and man lived together in Eden, and that Charles Darwin was worse than Adolf Hitler to world-renown Berkeley paleontologist Kevin Padian (“Dinosaurs didn’t disappear,” he says, “we just call them birds now”).
Address:
Dutton's Brentwood Books, 11975 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Dutton's Brentwood Books
Contact: Lise Friedman, duttons@earthlink.net, (310) 476-6263
Title: Dodos Darwin Day: Screenings of "Flock of Dodos" ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-12 19:00:00
Event Website: http://www.flockofdodos.com/darwinday.htm
Activities:
Screenings and panel discussions of the documentary feature film, "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus," directed by Dr. Randy Olson at museums across the U.S.
Address:
See website for on-going list of locations,
Los Angeles, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Prairie Starfish Productions
Contact: Tyler Carlisle, Producer, info@flockofdodos.com, 323-960-4517
Title: UC Merced Darwin Day Celebration ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-16 10:00:00
Event Website: http://
Activities:
DARWIN DAY DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR:
"The Enigma of Disappearing Amphibians: A Global Biodiversity Crisis"
David B. Wake, UC Berkeley
Address:
University of California Merced, Classroom Building 116
Merced, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: University of California Merced
Contact: Mónica Medina, mmedina@ucmerced.edu, 209-228-7863
Title: Darwin Day at Humanist Hall ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-10 13:00:00
Event Website: http://www.HumanistHall.net
Activities:
Humanist Hall Tea House opens at 12:00 pm with organic snacks.
David Seaborg, renown evolutionary biologist, speaks about "The Principles and Controversies of Evolution" at 1:00 pm.
He will illuminate the principles of evolutionary biology and the controversies surrounding them. He will explain what natural selection -- the mechanism of evolution -- is and how it works; how new species originate; why some types of species evolve very rapidly, while others do not change for eons; why there are so many species of some types, such as insects, and less of others; which ecosystems (such as rain forests) have high species diversity and why; how much of evolution is due to natural selection and how much to random factors; how sex evolved and why this is so important to evolution; sexual selection and sociobiology; the evolution of co-operation and altruism as opposed to selfishness; the evolution of color patterns; and the meaning of variation in evolution. All in one fantastic -- and funny -- lecture!
Sterling Bunnell will contribute to the discussions of David Seaborg's lecture.
The Humanist Tea House resumes all afternoon.
Address:
390 27th Street, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
Oakland, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Fellowship of Humanity
Contact: Florence, HumanistHall@Yahoo.com, 510-393-5685
Title: The History of Life on Earth ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-11 11:00:00
Event Website: http://www.humanists.org
Activities:
Evolutionary biologist David Seaborg (dressed as Charles Darwin in honor of Darwin Day) presents a summary of the evolution and history of life on earth, including principles of evolution that guided it. He will discuss possible origins of life on earth, the evolution of bacteria, the Cambrian explosion, the evolution of invertebrates, the rise of fish, the invasion of land by amphibians, the age of dinosaurs, the evolution of reptiles, birds, and mammals, mass extinctions, and the evolution of humans and our future from an evolutionary point of view.
Address:
Mitchell Park Community Center, 3800 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Humanist Community in Silicon Valley
Contact: Paul Gilbert, paulpalo@yahoo.com, 650-964-7576
Title: Celebate Darwin's Birthday with The Opossums of Truth ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-03 19:30:00
Event Website: http://www.firstuusandiego.org/
Activities:
Come hear the band perform the Darwin birthday concert favorites that you have come to know well enough to sing along with the band. The Opossums will focus on the problems caused by Intelligent Design proponents. To fill out the program, the band will again sing Humanistic folk songs and perhaps throw in a political song or two.
Address:
4190 Front St., 202 Meeting House
San Diego, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
Contact: Vicky Newman, vinewman@ucsd.edu, (619) 298-9978
Title: Evolutionpalooza 2007 ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-09 19:30:00
Event Website: http://sfatheists.com
Activities:
6th annual Evolutionpalooza 2007 in San Francisco!
Time & Place TBA (But will be sometime during the weekend of Feb 9-11th, in San Francisco)
Volunteers needed!
For more info see sfatheists.com or e-mail Dave Fitzgerald at Fitz@sfatheists.com
Address:
TBD,
San Francisco, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor:
Contact: David Fitzgerald, fitz@sfatheists.com, 415.939.3043
Title: The Gospel According To Darwin ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-06 19:00:00
Event Website: https://northcoastrep.org
Activities:
The Opossums of Truth will continue their concert series with a tribute to Charles Darwin and evolution as they perform humorous songs about science and rationality. Included in this concert will be a series of songs harkening back to the days on the 1950’s and 1960’s when social consciousness was very important to songwriters and political satire was the food of stand-up comedians. Think: Tom Lehrer waxes scientific and Mort Sahl meets Mark Russell or the Weavers.
Address:
987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Suite D
Solana Beach, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: North Coast Repertory Theater
Contact: Karen Begin, karen@northcoastrep.org, (888)776-6278 x 10
Click here to go back to THOUGHTS section and Table of Contents for this issue.
Title: Darwin Day Bagel Brunch ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-11 10:12:00
Event Website: http://www.kolhadash.org
Activities:
Join our Bagel Brunch to celebrate Darwin Day with a talk given by Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the NCSE--National Center for Science Education. He'll address the present day challenges to evolution by the Creationists and "Intelligent Design" crowd. Suggested Donation: $5
Address:
Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue
Albany, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Kol Hadash, (S.F. Bay Area) Community for Humanistic Judaism
Contact: Basha Goddard or Bernie Rosen, programs@kolhadash.org, 510-848-6137
Title: Darwin Day at Cal ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-10 09:00:00
Event Website: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/museum/events/shortcourse2007/index
Activities:
Saturday symposium: "The Implications of Evolution: Evidence & Applications". A series of presentations and discussions covering research in evolutionary biology, including behavior and defense, primate evolution, and coevolution and its impact on biodiversity; followed by Eugenie Scott discussing current antievolution strategies, the intelligent design movement, and recent legal decisions concerning the teaching of evolution.
Sunday: Flock of Dodos starting at 2:00 pm hosted by the Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
Address:
2050 Valley Life Sciences Building,
Berkeley, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: University of California Museum of Paleontology
Contact: Judy Scotchmoor, jscotch@berkeley.edu, 510-642-1821
Title: Evolve! Darwin Day at Revolution Books ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-13 19:00:00
Event Website: http://www.revolutionbooks.org
Activities:
Celebrating the momentous breakthrough of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Discussion of the attacks on Evolution today, featuring the book "Science of Evolution and The Myth of Creationism" by Ardea Skybreak.
Talks - movie clips - discussion.
This FREE event is wheelchair accessible.
Address:
2425 Channing Way in Berkeley, ½ block west of Telegraph, under the Sather Gate P-lot
Berkeley, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Revolution Books
Contact: Reiko Redmonde, revbooks_event@yahoo.com, 510-848-1196
Title: "Sacramento's Darwin Day Educational Gala" ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-11 14:00:00
Event Website: http://
Activities:
Presentation, literature tables, exhibitors, camaraderie, cake (Happy Birthday, Charlie!)and refreshments -- Tickets $10 (students $5).
Main Presentation: "How Evolution Shapes History: Shells as a Window on an Evolving World".
Guest speaker: Geerat Vermeij, Professor of Marine Ecology & Paleoecology at University of California-Davis, formerly editor of EVOLUTION journal and a MacArthur Fellow . You can read Dr. Vermeij's bio at http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/explorations/bio_vermeij.html
Address:
La Sierra Community Center (John Smith Hall), 5325 Engle Road
Carmichael, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Several community orgs. (educational, civic, & freethought)
Contact: Mynga Futrell, ckprofessional@aol.com, 916-447-3589
Title: Darwin Birthday at UCSD School of Medicine ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-10 19:30:00
Event Website: www.scientificgospel.com
Activities:
In a series of festive songs, Dr. Stephen Baird and the Opossums of Truth will perform a tribute to Darwin, evolution and rational thought, but because of the upcoming Valentine’s Day, scientific love songs will complement the evening concert.
Address:
UCSD School of Medicine - Liebow Auditorium, 2nd floor, Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Scientific Gospel Productions
Contact: Carol Baird, carol@scientificgospel.com, 858-481-0765
Title: Edward Humes discusses Monkey Girl ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-23 19:00:00
Event Website: http://www.duttonsbrentwood.com
Activities:
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes will discuss his new book, Monkey Girl: Education, Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul. In Monkey Girl, Edward Humes tells the Science vs. Faith dispute through the eyes of characters on both sides of the conflict. There are Bryan and Christy Rehm, teachers and parents who sued the Dover, PA school district for bringing religion into the classroom, becoming outcasts in the process. There is Bill Buckingham, the school board member whose faith and inner demons compelled him to launch this crusade, and fellow board member Casey Brown, whose opposition led the board president to warn that she would be going to hell. There is Richard Thompson, the head of a law firm that bills itself “the sword and shield for people of faith,” who promised the school board he would use a newly reconfigured Supreme Court to “bring God back into the public square.” And, finally, there are the scientists and theorists who trooped to Pennsylvania to represent both sides of this epic and fascinating battle, from “Dr. Dino,” aka Kent Hovind, the former high school biology teacher and creationist who preaches to packed audiences that dinosaurs and man lived together in Eden, and that Charles Darwin was worse than Adolf Hitler to world-renown Berkeley paleontologist Kevin Padian (“Dinosaurs didn’t disappear,” he says, “we just call them birds now”).
Address:
Dutton's Brentwood Books, 11975 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Dutton's Brentwood Books
Contact: Lise Friedman, duttons@earthlink.net, (310) 476-6263
Title: Dodos Darwin Day: Screenings of "Flock of Dodos" ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-12 19:00:00
Event Website: http://www.flockofdodos.com/darwinday.htm
Activities:
Screenings and panel discussions of the documentary feature film, "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus," directed by Dr. Randy Olson at museums across the U.S.
Address:
See website for on-going list of locations,
Los Angeles, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Prairie Starfish Productions
Contact: Tyler Carlisle, Producer, info@flockofdodos.com, 323-960-4517
Title: UC Merced Darwin Day Celebration ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-16 10:00:00
Event Website: http://
Activities:
DARWIN DAY DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR:
"The Enigma of Disappearing Amphibians: A Global Biodiversity Crisis"
David B. Wake, UC Berkeley
Address:
University of California Merced, Classroom Building 116
Merced, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: University of California Merced
Contact: Mónica Medina, mmedina@ucmerced.edu, 209-228-7863
Title: Darwin Day at Humanist Hall ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-10 13:00:00
Event Website: http://www.HumanistHall.net
Activities:
Humanist Hall Tea House opens at 12:00 pm with organic snacks.
David Seaborg, renown evolutionary biologist, speaks about "The Principles and Controversies of Evolution" at 1:00 pm.
He will illuminate the principles of evolutionary biology and the controversies surrounding them. He will explain what natural selection -- the mechanism of evolution -- is and how it works; how new species originate; why some types of species evolve very rapidly, while others do not change for eons; why there are so many species of some types, such as insects, and less of others; which ecosystems (such as rain forests) have high species diversity and why; how much of evolution is due to natural selection and how much to random factors; how sex evolved and why this is so important to evolution; sexual selection and sociobiology; the evolution of co-operation and altruism as opposed to selfishness; the evolution of color patterns; and the meaning of variation in evolution. All in one fantastic -- and funny -- lecture!
Sterling Bunnell will contribute to the discussions of David Seaborg's lecture.
The Humanist Tea House resumes all afternoon.
Address:
390 27th Street, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
Oakland, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Fellowship of Humanity
Contact: Florence, HumanistHall@Yahoo.com, 510-393-5685
Title: The History of Life on Earth ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-11 11:00:00
Event Website: http://www.humanists.org
Activities:
Evolutionary biologist David Seaborg (dressed as Charles Darwin in honor of Darwin Day) presents a summary of the evolution and history of life on earth, including principles of evolution that guided it. He will discuss possible origins of life on earth, the evolution of bacteria, the Cambrian explosion, the evolution of invertebrates, the rise of fish, the invasion of land by amphibians, the age of dinosaurs, the evolution of reptiles, birds, and mammals, mass extinctions, and the evolution of humans and our future from an evolutionary point of view.
Address:
Mitchell Park Community Center, 3800 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Humanist Community in Silicon Valley
Contact: Paul Gilbert, paulpalo@yahoo.com, 650-964-7576
Title: Celebate Darwin's Birthday with The Opossums of Truth ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-03 19:30:00
Event Website: http://www.firstuusandiego.org/
Activities:
Come hear the band perform the Darwin birthday concert favorites that you have come to know well enough to sing along with the band. The Opossums will focus on the problems caused by Intelligent Design proponents. To fill out the program, the band will again sing Humanistic folk songs and perhaps throw in a political song or two.
Address:
4190 Front St., 202 Meeting House
San Diego, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
Contact: Vicky Newman, vinewman@ucsd.edu, (619) 298-9978
Title: Evolutionpalooza 2007 ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-09 19:30:00
Event Website: http://sfatheists.com
Activities:
6th annual Evolutionpalooza 2007 in San Francisco!
Time & Place TBA (But will be sometime during the weekend of Feb 9-11th, in San Francisco)
Volunteers needed!
For more info see sfatheists.com or e-mail Dave Fitzgerald at Fitz@sfatheists.com
Address:
TBD,
San Francisco, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor:
Contact: David Fitzgerald, fitz@sfatheists.com, 415.939.3043
Title: The Gospel According To Darwin ( Public )
Start Date and Time: 2007-02-06 19:00:00
Event Website: https://northcoastrep.org
Activities:
The Opossums of Truth will continue their concert series with a tribute to Charles Darwin and evolution as they perform humorous songs about science and rationality. Included in this concert will be a series of songs harkening back to the days on the 1950’s and 1960’s when social consciousness was very important to songwriters and political satire was the food of stand-up comedians. Think: Tom Lehrer waxes scientific and Mort Sahl meets Mark Russell or the Weavers.
Address:
987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive, Suite D
Solana Beach, CA UNITED STATES
Sponsor: North Coast Repertory Theater
Contact: Karen Begin, karen@northcoastrep.org, (888)776-6278 x 10
Click here to go back to THOUGHTS section and Table of Contents for this issue.
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