September 2008

Friday, September 5
FIRST FRIDAYS AFTER FIVE!
First Friday!
5–9 p.m.
Dance your way back to school with the Bernard Anderson and Old School Flavor band in the café; enjoy film, shopping, yoga, and a great chance to make new friends. Sunset Cinema is back. Bring a blanket and a picnic and watch a film from KQED's Truly CA documentary series-free in the gardens during First Fridays After Five. Tonight's film is Runners High. When teenagers from Oakland high schools sign up to train for a marathon, they begin the journey of a lifetime. Filmmaker Justine Jacob will be on hand for Q & A. For more information, visit www.kqed.org/trulyca or www.museumca.org. Full cash bar-museum store and café open. All ages welcome. Included with museum admission.
Sunset Cinema is sponsored by KQED Education Network, Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Film Office.

Tuesday, September 9
Shorebirds
Class
Tuesdays, September 9, 16, 23, 7-8:30 p.m. CLASS
Saturdays, September 13, 20, 27, 9-11:30 a.m.FIELD TRIP
In fall, shorebirds are migrating from their northern breeding grounds to southern wintering areas, many stopping to feed in the San Francisco Bay. Bob Lewis from Golden Gate Audubon will discuss world-wide species of shorebirds, their annual life cycle, migration and breeding behavior in the Tuesday evening classes and then lead the Saturday field trips. Fee: $70, payable to Golden Gate Audubon. Class limit is 25. To register, call 510-843-2222.

Sunday, September 21
Bike Tours of Oakland
Bike Tour
10 a.m.
Explore Oakland and its environs with the museum's bike-tripping docents the third Sunday of the month as we leisurely wend our way through downtown, Fruitvale, the Port of Oakland, West Oakland, Brooklyn, or Lake Merritt. Meet at 10th Street entrance at 10 a.m. Reservations preferred, but if you forget, come anyway: docentcenter@museumca.org or 510/238-3514. Free.

Sunday, September 21
Family Explorations! Gallery of Thingamajigs
Children and Family
1–4 p.m.
You never know what you'll hear at the Oakland Museum of California. Thingamajigs.org artists fill the museum's Natural Sciences Gallery with a collage of sounds produced by unusual instruments created from found materials. Follow your ears and discover amazing possibilities for making sounds. Learn about the California Library of Natural Sounds with Carson Bell. Make your own instrument from found materials. In conjunction with the 11th Annual Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival. Included with museum admission.

Wednesday, September 24
Chicago 10
Film
6 p.m.
Brett Morgen explores the buildup to-and unraveling of-the Chicago conspiracy trial after the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The film presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with archival footage and an explosive soundtrack. Chicago 10 features animated representations of all the key figures of the trial voiced by top independent film talent (Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan Baker, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schreiber, Nick Nolte and the late Roy Scheider). A discussion follows the film. The ITVS films will be shown captioned and the panel discussions will be ASL interpreted by DEAF Media. Free.

The ITVS Community Cinema Series at the museum features sneak previews of films scheduled for upcoming broadcast on the Emmy Award–winning PBS series Independent Lens; the series is presented by Oakland Museum of California and ITVS in partnership with the Oakland Film Office, KQED Education Network, DEAF Media, and Hands On Bay Area. Included with museum admission.