by Tina Woo, Membership Chair
Check out this great list of happenings for August!
The Palo Alto Buddhist Temple Obon Festival – August 7
Recorded Sessions, Videos & Photos – www.PABT.org for more information
The event is not fully back this year, BUT they will be holding a Bento Dinner and T-shirt Fundraiser. In lieu of the annual Obon festival, you can order takeout bentos and pick-up on Saturday, August 7. Any questions and ordering, please email 21OBON.Bento@gmail.com
Yu Ai Kai Veggielution’s First Saturday Event on Saturday, August 7 (and September 4 & October 2)
There will be free brunch from YAK’s Food Truck; visit the Farm Stand and pick up some farm fresh veggies, fruits and herbs for your kitchen; learn all aspects of farming and join YAK’s chefs in a community cooking class. Events from 10 am to 12:30 pm. More information available at www. veggielution.org or Yu Ai Kai, 588 N. 4th St, San Jose, 408-294-2505
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Opening July 23 – teamLab: Continuity
Tokyo-based international collective teamLab is renowned for its interactive, interconnected digital artwork between artwork and viewer, inside and outside, and art and technology. Step into an experience like no other. You become part of an interactive landscape of blooming flowers, fluttering butterflies and darting fish and Sketch Ocean. Senior tickets are $20, children under 12 free.
Fine Art in the Park, Lincoln Park,Los Altos, August 14-15, 10-5:30
Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Altos, the 46th year of this real walk in the park for 2021 allows you to enjoy the summertime joy of the annual Fine Art in the Park. One of our members’ partner, Mark Stephenson, is a participating artist.
100% of Rotary Fine Art profits will go toward projects such as providing emergency help for victims of COVID-19, providing local scholarships and supporting sustainable projects both locally and internationally.
Rotary is dedicated to improving lives, creating a better world and ending polio forever. With fighting disease as one of our causes and the current state of COVID-19 in our communities, we encourage you to participate in our 2021 Fine Art Show to support Rotary while also supporting our amazing featured artists.
Live music festivals coming to the Bay Area in the next few months
- Stern Grove Festival (sterngrove.org)
- Yerba Buena Garden Festival (ybgfestival.org) 12:30)
- 14th Annual Petaluma Music Festival – petalumamusic festival.org
- San Jose Jazz Summer Fest – sanjosejazz.org
- Golden Gate Jazz Festival – goldengatejazzfestival.com
- 64th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival – montereyjazzfestival.org
The power of Korean television dramas. If you’re searching for some dramas, aim your streaming device at South Korea, some are funny and some are horrifying.
- The Kingdom (Netflix 2019)
- Mystic Pop-up Bar (Netflix 2020)
- Stranger from Hell (Netflix 2019)
- Black (Netflix 2017)
- Strong Woman: Do Bong Soon (Viki 2017)
8 New Peninsula Restaurants to check out
The Bay Area is open again and there is a ton of varied new food to try on the Peninsula!
- The Mandarin, Menlo Park 1029 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
- Refuge, San Mateo – pastrami favorite located at the Hillsdale Shopping Center, refugesc.com
- Left Wing, Mountain View – Korean fried chicken has touched down in Mountain View, leftwingbar.com
- Pizzone, Palo Alto – Milan-style pizza, 700 Welch Road #110, pizzone.com
- Tasty Mob, Sunnyvale, permanent food truck, 1255 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, tastymobmarket.com
- Asian Farm, Redwood City, fast-casual Asian fusion, 3176 Middlefield Road, Instagram.com/Asian_farm/
- Vivi + Livy, Sunnyvale, food bakery mahjong tile candies and Kona coffee shortbread cookies, pickup and delivery, viviandlivy.com
- Wild Onion Bistro & Bar, Palo Alto, hotel dining option in Hotel Citrine 750 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, hotelcitrine.com/dining
