Spring Fashion Show and Tea – Sunday, March 18 – noon at the Vi at La Jolla Village, 8515 Costa Verde Blvd, San Diego

Enjoy a traditional British tea and a fashion show with our own member models, featuring items from Weeds on Cedros and Satori Designs, a silent auction, and boutique vendors, all to benefit the BNC Sustaining the Mind Fund.

Tea, albeit early afternoon, will include assorted finger sandwiches, fruit, cheese with dry fruit and crackers, and dessert including assorted petit fours, scones with clotted butter and jam, and tea, iced tea, coffee.  Free valet parking (no tipping) included.

Mail your $40 ($15 is contribution) check made out to BNC to Suzie Kaplan, 6991 Batista St., San Diego 92111 by Mar. 12.

BNC Is a Community Sponsor of the Award-Winning Film  ‘Heather Booth: Changing the World’

       Director Lilly Rivlin will be guest speaker at this screening.

2:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11th at San Marcos Edwards Theater

This documentary, in English, won three Israeli Academy Award nominations and best cinematography award at the Haifa International Film Festival.  Heather Booth is the most influential civil rights organizer you have never heard of. Participants in this eye-opening documentary include Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Warren, and President Barack Obama. Wherever there was a fight for equality, Heather Booth was there: from her start as an organizer living on a kibbutz in Israel to helping create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.   Ms. Booth is, simply put, America’s conscience.  Mail your check for $11.75 (made out to BNC) by Feb. 2 to  Sue Berger, 7420 Magellan Street, Carlsbad, CA  92011. Please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope in order to receive your tickets.

This promises to be one of the most entertaining UOW presentations in years when Professor Ryan McKittrick, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts, presents The American Musical from the 19^th Century to “Hamilton”, illustrated with scenes from famous film adaptations and clips from recent productions.

Don’t miss this annual talk given by a Brandeis professor, Monday, January 8, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at The Crossings, 5800 The Crossings Drive, Carlsbad

Professor McKittrick will present the story of the American musical from its roots in the 19th century through the 20th century  including current Broadway hits, such as “Waitress” and “Hamilton.”

Ryan McKittrick teaches dramatic literature, American musical theater, dramaturgy and playwriting at Brandeis. He is also Director of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg at the famous American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, where he has served as lead dramaturg on more than 30 productions of plays, operas and musicals.

Please send a check made out to BNC for $55, $65, or $75 (which allows you to sit with Professor McKittrick) to Suzie Kaplan, 6991 Batista St., San Diego 92111 by Dec. 29. Watch for more information – the menu – and a reservation form.  Tax deductible amounts: $15, $25, $35;  all proceeds will support the Sustaining the Mind Fund.

As our DreamKeepers community service project, we will be collecting for the children living at the Family Recovery Center in Oceanside. Please be generous and bring a donation to the luncheon. Here is their partial wish list: diapers, formula, baby foods, layettes for newborns; clothing such as socks, underwear, pajamas for infants, toddlers and kids up to age 10; new toys, books, art supplies. Thank you!

Tour of the Family Recovery Center – Monday, September 11 at 1:00 p.m.

1100 Sportfisher Dr. Oceanside, CA  92054

Learn about DreamKeepers – this year’s community service project 

The chapter’s Board has adopted DreamKeepers as our community service project for this year. DreamKeepers is a volunteer organization, a support group, which helps provide for the daily needs of mothers and children who live at the Family Recovery Center in Oceanside.

For more information, to RSVP (by Friday Sept 8), or to arrange carpools or delivery of your contribution, please contact Community Service Chair Judy Winter at judithfwinter@hotmail.com  or (858) 794-0538.

Don’t miss our first event of the BNC year – The Annual Opening Meeting/Study Group Showcase Luncheon

Wednesday, August 30^th at 10:30 a.m. at the Lomas Santa Fe Country Club, 1505 Lomas Santa Fe Dr, Solana Beach

Guest speaker: Shelly Moses, San Diego Jewish Academy Legacy Heritage Teacher Leadership Fellow, just home from the Brandeis Campus, where she participated in the Brandeis University Teacher Leadership program. Read more about her in the July-August Bulletin online here.

Coordinators and leaders will briefly present their study groups.

Reserve your place with a $35 check payable to BNC, by August 23

Mail to Lenore Shapp, 12583 Montellano Terrace, San Diego, CA  92130  (858-792-6954)

Also:  Please choose a main dish______ Chicken piccata   ______ Grilled salmon and spinach salad  ______ Wine country salad mixed greens with Brie, grapes, mandarin oranges, etc.

Come to our Installation Party and Celebration June 14, 11:30 a.m., at at the home of Iris Kanter, 3703 Four Peaks Street, Carlsbad. Lunch will be catered by Soup Plantation. Honor the outgoing and welcome the new officers and committees with a party! Please send $25 (check to BNC) to Suzie Kaplan, 6991 Batista St., San Diego, CA  92111

Join us June 5, 10:30 till noon, at 5345 Armada Drive, Carlsbad, for a fascinating look at the GIA and the work it does. Established in 1931, the GIA is the world’s foremost authority on diamonds, colored stones, and pearls. The nonprofit organization does research, sets standards, and established the internationally used grading system for diamonds.  Tour is limited to the first 25, and don’t expect free samples!  Please send $10 (check to BNC) to Cynthia Birnbaum, 8515 Costa Verde Blvd. #702, San Diego 92122