24 South Bay Accent CALENDAR Brian Malarkey at Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival, April 21-23. Lady Antebellum, May 27, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View. Lectures APRIL Lunchtime Lecture: Water: Essential to Silicon Valley’s Past and Future. April 5, noon to 1 p.m. Among a trio of exhibitions dedicated to water, Marty Grimes, supervising program administrator at the Santa Clara Valley Water District, speaks on the correlation between prosperity and water supply for Silicon Valley and how to keep our supply safe and reliable for future generations. San Jose Museum of Art, 560 S.First St., San Jose, 408/283-8155. Gallery Talk with Jennifer Carty: Hope Gangloff Curates Portraiture. April 6, 6 p.m. Featuring selected works by Gangloff, this format of using the artist as a curator creates a conversation between past and present. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. 650/723-4177. Vivek Wadhwa: A Look Into the Future. April 6, 7:30 p.m. From self-driving vehicles to AIs and drones, Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadwa, distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering and author of “The Driver in the Driverless Car,” delves into the risks, benefits and rewards of the fast-changing world of technology. Tickets $10. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. 650/324-4321. Talking Art: Oliver Lee Jackson. April 9, 3-4 p.m The painter, sculptor and printmaker discusses everything from his career and technique to contemporary art in today’s society. Tickets $10 for non-members. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S. First St., San Jose, 408/283-8155. Robert Hass: An Education in Poetry. April 12, 7:30 p.m. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and San Fr a n - cisco native will be offering insight into the openness and instinctiveness of formal creation in poetry. Tickets $10. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. 650/324-4321. Literary Luncheon with Lalita Tademy. April 18, 11:30 a.m. The New York Times bestselling author of historical novels such as “Cane River” will be discussing the challenges, rewards and creative process involved in writing historical fiction works like hers, which mines her family’s history. Tickets $45. Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga. 408/961-5858. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal in Conversation with Angie Coiro. April 19, 7:30 p.m. Holding a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University, a M.A. degree in English Literature from Cambridge University, as well as an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, the New York Times senior writer will be decoding the medical doublespeak surrounding the healthcare system. Tickets $10. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. 650/324-4321. Public Talk: National Geographic’s Pete McBride. April 21, 6 p.m. Experience the remarkable adventures of the National Geographic photographer as part of Stanford Live’s “Imagining the West” series. McBride’s travels have taken him across some of the most stunning terrain over the American West. Bing Concert Hall. 327 Lasuen St., Stanford, 650/724-2464. Screening Memory and Reframing Loss in Contemporary Japanese Cinema. April 27, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Readings from “You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum,” “Love Letter” and “Dead or Alive” converge to examine the experience of loss as an orientation to the world and its meanings. Knight Building, 521 Memorial Way, Stanford, 650/723-3363. Art Practice Faculty Talk Series: Jenny Odell. April 27, 6 p.m. Jenny Odell has exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, YBCA in San Francisco and Apexart in New York, to name a few, and examines the infrastructural networks of everyday life through combining research, aesthetics and found online material. 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford, 650/736-9371. MAY Shannon Hale and LeUyen Phan. May 2, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Newbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham have collaborated on their graphic and acclaimed memoir “Real Friends,” which discusses the challenges of finding true friendship and why it’s worth all the struggle and effort. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. 650/324-4321. Lunchtime Lecture: Jeanne Falk Adams on Fragile Waters. May 3, noon to 1 p.m. The former director of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park discusses the conservation activism of Ansel Adams, Ernest Brooks II and Dorothy Kerper Monnelly. San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose. 408/271-6840. Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination. May 4, 4 p.m. Professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin moderates the discussion with author Vaughn R a s p e r r y . CCSRE Conference Room, Build-
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