The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is extremely grateful for the volunteers who "Joined the Movement” and are working toward a world free of MS through these community events and fundraising activities.
Upcoming Events:
Join the Movement & Shop for the Cure!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Lounge ON20
1050 20th Street, Suite 100, Sacramento
7:00-8:00 Champagne reception
8:00-9:00 Fashion Show, hosted by Couture Connection
9:00-11:00 Open Shopping
Join Kimberly Daya, wife, mother of two, and owner and founder of Couture Connection, a web and mobile boutique specializing in personal private shopping for a unique personal shopping experience with proceeds benefitting the National MS Society.
Featuring the following designers:
Sky, True Religion, Miss Me Couture, Frankie B. Rock Revival, Ed Hardy and more still coming will be on sale at this event.
MS Concert in Redding, CA
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Redding Christian Fellowship
2157 Victor Ave
Redding Calif. 96002
Join us for a benefit concert in Redding California in association with Hope 4 MS support group. This concert is a group of local well known musicians who have all been touched by the effects of MS in one way or another. Music styles range from jazz to blue grass to gospel, all are welcome to attend. Donations will be accepted, all funds raised go directly to the National Muliple Sclerosis Society. For more information you can contact Jerry Mapes at 530-604-7583 you can also go to www.hope4ms.org or www.nationalmssociety.org/goto/javasong
Charles Fox: Movement
Opens at the Commonweal Gallery in Bolinas on November 21, 2009, and will run through January 8, 2010
Commonweal Gallery is delighted to exhibit the photographs of Bolinas writer Charles Fox, entitled “Movement.” Fox stopped making photographs thirty years ago when he was legally blinded and disabled by MS. Since the mid-70s the negatives in this exhibition were haphazardly stored in the writer’s studio until a photographer came to work with Fox as a caregiver. She resurrected the negatives and made large wall-size black and white gelatin silver prints that constitute the exhibition ‘Movement.’
Fox photographed most intensely the five years prior to the loss of his hands and becoming blind. During this period he made a habit of wearing a camera around his neck. “When people equate you with a camera in action,” he says, “they tend to forget themselves.” His principal subjects were his children. “They were,” he says, “so often before my eyes, always in motion, as children are. It was this movement in them I tried to capture.” Using a small hand-held camera, Fox gets very close to his subjects in seemingly impossible situations. In one photograph three young girls approach on horseback, accompanied by three dogs. Fox makes a picture in the last instant before a collision. Unseen, he is clearly involved in these photographs with a tenacity that seems to represent his love of life. “To catch movement is to capture life,” he says. “This is what I set out to do with a camera.”
The photographs were made primarily in Northern California. They have an unreal quality: horses inside houses, children at play by the sea, in the desert, apparently on the moon. There is energy in these photographs rarely found in still photography.
The public is invited to meet the artist at the opening reception on Saturday, November 21 from 3 to 5 PM in the Commonweal Gallery, Main Building, 451 Mesa Road, Bolinas.
The gallery is open to the public Monday – Friday from 11am to 4pm or by appointment. For questions, please contact Jacqueline Mallegni at gallery@commonweal.org or call 415-868-0970.
17th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
December 24th-December 27, 2009
New Asia Restaurant
772 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco's Chinatown
Thursday Dec 24, Friday Dec 25, & Saturday, Dec 26: Dinner Show @ 6pm and Cocktail Show @ 9:30pm
Sunday, Dec 27 (Early Bird): Dinner Show @ 5pm, Cocktail Show @ 8:30pm
Come celebrate Christmas the Jewish Way - in a Chinese restaurant with Jewish comedy. Now celebrating its 17th year, Kung Pao Kosher Comedy continues to provide an answer to the age-old question, "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?" What started out as a joke by San Francisco-based Jewish stand up comic, Lisa Geduldig, has become an institution in San Francisco, annually giving 3000 comedy aficionados and those escaping "Christmas-mania" an alternative to Jingle Bells. It's the Bar Mitzvah you never had -- and you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy it.
Over the past 16 years, Kung Pao has raised 10's of 1000's of dollars and awareness for different organizations. This year, partial proceeds will benefit: National MS Society, Northern California Chapter.
Featuring:
• Jonathan Katz (Dr Katz, Professional Therapist)
• Brian Malow ("science comedian," Kung Pao 2000)
• Hilary Schwartz (NY comic)
• Lisa Geduldig (your hostess)
Tickets are available at www.koshercomedy.com or at 925-275-9005. Dinner show costs $62 and includes a 7-course Chinese banquet; cocktail show tickets are $42 and include veggie egg rolls.
Want to volunteer at the event and see the show for free? E-mail Dana at kungpaovolunteer@gmail.com.
Conversations with Myself: A Brain Journey
Opens at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 12, 2009, and will run through January, 2010
The resulting creations are quite literally a visual record of the artist's conversations with herself.
Elizabeth Jameson's CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF: A BRAIN JOURNEY will feature solarplate etchings, silk paintings, textile art, mixed media pieces, and digital work.
"I start with these stark, intimidating pieces of dark plastic that have defined and delineated the most challenging facets of my life for the past twenty years,' according to Elizabeth Jameson. "And I attempt to transform them into something beautiful.'
"In what most people would find formidable, Elizabeth finds an astounding beauty", according to Lynn Curtis, curator at The Commonwealth Club. "The result is a series of paintings and prints that are absolutely radiant, and I am honored to bring this amazing and life-affirming exhibition to the Commonwealth Club."
Elizabeth Jameson's CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF: A BRAIN JOURNEY uniquely re-contextualizes medical images into something else entirely.
"By using art to understand her own brain, Elizabeth has found new layers of meaning - and beauty - in oft-seen medical images," according to Dr. Stephen L. Hauser, neuroimmunologist and Chair of the Department of Neurology at UCSF, whose research has dramatically advanced our understanding of the genetic basis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of multiple sclerosis. "I’ll never again look at an MRI scan in the same way.”
ABOUT ELIZABETH JAMESON--Bay Area artist Elizabeth Jameson creates artwork that celebrate the beauty and remarkable adaptive abilities of the human brain. Jameson lives with multiple sclerosis and uses her own MRI brain scans to create art that explores her life, complete with emotional, physical and spiritual complexity.
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, November 12
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm; Admission is free
The exhibit will be on display, November through January 7, 2010
Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street , San Francisco
The Beat Rolls On!
On Saturday, March 21, 2009, local musician Chris Anthony smashed the Guinness World Record™ for the Longest Individual Drum Roll! while raising more than $12,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Chris turned his passion into an inspiring and productive accomplishment.
Chris isn't done yet-- his fundraising to end the devastating effects of MS is still rolling. Check out his website at http://www.thebeatrollson.com/ for more information about how you can be a part of helping Chris reach his goal of $50,000. Great work, Chris!
The Terry Rossman MS Golf Experience
Friday, May 21, 2010
Rocklin, California
Terry's Friends have organized this event in hopes that it becomes and annual fundraiser to honor Terry's memory and to continue her battle to free the world of MS. Bring your sticks, your checkbook and a warm giving heart for a fun filled experience!
Past Events:
Corvette and Camaro
Park and Shine Car Show
The California Corvette Club and Camaro Generations Sacramento present the 1st Annual
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
10:00 - Registration
12:30 - Judging begins
3:00 - Awards presented
Celia's Mexican Restaurant, 9584 Micron Ave., Rancho Cordova, CA
All raffle and registration proceeds benefit the National MS Society. See a 2009 Corvette ZR1 and a 2010 Camaro SS on display courtesy of Mike Daugherty Chevrolet. Awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place Camaros and Vettes, Club attendance, and people's choice best of show.
Cost: $10 / car, plus raffle donation
DuskBuster
Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 7pm
A 5k run | 2 mile walk to wipe out Multiple Sclerosis
Golden Gate Park
South Tunnel of Polo Fields, San Francisco