SAVE THE DATE!           

Celebrate Brandeis San Dieguito!    

Annual Opening Meeting/Study & Social Group Showcase Luncheon, Wednesday, August 28^th at 10:30 a.m.  Lomas Santa Fe Country Club,  Solana Beach

 Join us for the annual first event of the Brandeis year. Re-connect and meet new members. Hear coordinators and leaders present their plans. Celebrate the installation of new officers. Choose your study & social groups.  

Invite your friends. It’s a great time to welcome new members.

$36   Details, menu, and mail-in form in the bulletin.

 ‘Summer Special’ on Study Groups

Open to All Members for just $10 each

 Tea and Topics, Movies and Munchies, Contemporary Literature, and Couples   Enjoying Food, Fun and Friendship

 All Meet through August

Take advantage of a special offer as these popular study groups are open to all Brandeis members for the summer bargain price of just $10 each (plus possible small additional costs for some events).  Join for summer and ‘test drive’ all four.  The three mainly social groups are a great way to meet the people you often don’t get to mix with at traditional study groups.

Send your $10 registration fee (check made out to BNC) to Barbara Howard, 1140 Pasadero Drive, Escondido, CA  92029.

Don’t miss our chapter’s most fabulous event of the year – The Book & Author Luncheon, featuring three authors, to be held at the beautiful Crosby Club on April 4, 11:30 a.m. See reservation form in the Bulletin, March – April 2019. All proceeds will go to Magnify the Mind in support of research into neurodegenerative diseases. 

Chin’s Szechuan Cuisine, 625 Encinitas Blvd., Encinitas – December 6 at 12:30. Don’t miss the party! Entertainment by Cara Freedman with her guitar singing from the Great American Songbook and favorites from the 1920’s through the 1970’s.  Please bring an unwrapped holiday gift for the children at the Family Recovery Center.

 Here Come the Robots!

Wednesday, June 27    10:00 – 11:30 a.m.  at Seacrest Village 

Our own Stan Schatt, author of over 40 books, Renaissance man, and Brandeis study group leader extraordinaire, will present a special program featuring his latest book,  Here Come the Robots! From industrial helpers to women working in brothels (!)  will robots become a danger or a help, and will they change American society and culture?

RSVP with a $10 check (made out to BNC) sent to Sharon Kroopkin, 2322 Masters Road, Carlsbad  92008  by June 22. Come enjoy coffee, tea and bagels and a fascinating talk.

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.