SILENT AUCTION 2005

ARTS AND LEISURE - ITEMS CLOSE AT 7:20 PM

Item #301 Minimum Bid: $15.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
FOUR TICKETS TO CARTOON ART MUSEUM
Visit the Cartoon Art Museum located at 655 Mission in San Francisco’s Arts District and experience the only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation & celebration of all types of this uniquely American art form. Named 2004 Best Museum in San Francisco by SF Weekly!
Value: $24.00 Donor: Cartoon Art Museum

Item #302 Minimum Bid: $50.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
FOUR TICKETS TO CHABOT SPACE AND SCIENCE CENTER
Bring the entire clan and experience astronomical events, theatrical entertainment, environmental & planetary studies, inspiring exhibits at the Chabot Space & Science Center! Make sure to check out the Ask Jeeves Planetarium, Tien Megadome Theater, Challenger Learning Center, Observatory Complex & much more! Inspire those future Neil Armstrongs in your family!
Value: $84.00 Donor: Chabot Space & Science Center

Item #303 Minimum Bid: $7.50 Minimum Raise: $5.00
14 TICKETS TO PIXIELAND AMUSEMENT PARK
Bring the kids and those kids at heart at the Pixieland Amusement Park in Concord! The park has been providing fun and excitement to children & families in the Bay Area for over 40 years. Enjoy the new ride, Froghopper (children under 36” not allowed), antique cars, carousel, dragon roller coaster & much more!
Value: $14.00 Donor: Pixieland Amusement Park

Item #304 Minimum Bid: $20.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
FOUR TICKETS TO OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA
Opened 36 years ago in 1969, the Oakland Museum of California is one of the country’s most architecturally interesting museums with a blend of three-tiers of galleries, patios, sculpture gardens & ponds. Visit current exhibitions including “Baseball as America”, organized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame which examines the relationship between the national past time and the American culture.
Value: $32.00 Donor: Oakland Museum of California

Item #305 Minimum Bid: $50.00 Minimum Raise: $15.00
TWO TICKETS FOR 05/06 SEASON AT BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
An opportunity to see a brilliant production from one of the country’s top-ranking resident theater companies. Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Berkeley Repertory is one Berkeley stop you don’t want to miss! Check out current production, “Honour” with Broadway veteran and OBIE Award-winner Kathleen Chalfant & John Doman of HBO’s The Wire.
Value: $85.00 Donor: Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Item #306 Minimum Bid: $40.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
TEN GUEST PASSES FOR BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM
Discover the Bay Area Discovery Museum where children and families play & learn together in a breathtaking setting North of the Golden Gate Bridge! Check out their permanent exhibits: San Francisco Bay Hall, Tot Spot, Science Lab & Art Lab.
Value: $80.00 Donor: Bay Area Discovery Museum

Item #307 Minimum Bid: $25.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
FOUR DAY-PASSES TO AMERICAN CENTER FOR FOOD, WINE AND THE
ARTS (COPIA)
Enjoy a day trip to the Napa Valley with your day pass to COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts. Named after the Goddess of Abundance, stroll its lush gardens with its vast array of fresh produce, herbs & botanicals. Don’t forget to visit the Core Exhibition Gallery and pay homage to Julia Child’s copper cookware collection. Purchase a picnic lunch at the American Market Café or enjoy lunch or dinner at Julia’s Kitchen. This might just inspire you to cook more often!
Value: $50.00 Donor: COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food
and the Arts

Item #308 Minimum Bid: $40.00 Minimum Raise: $15.00
TWO TICKETS FOR SHOTGUN PLAYERS THEATER
Grassroots theater at its best! The Shotgun Players have performed in pizza parlor basements, churches, prisons (yes!) and apparently, 40 other spaces in 13 years! Come and see what it’s all about! Current & upcoming productions include Arabian Night, Cyrano de Bergerac, Owners & Cabaret.
Value: $60.00 Donor: Shotgun Players

Item #309 Minimum Bid: $10.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
TWO TICKETS TO ASIAN ART MUSEUM
After many years at their original location in Golden Gate Park, the Asian Art Museum opened to the public in its new location at San Francisco’s Civic Center in 2003. Designed by Italian architect, Gae Aulente who also designed the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, enjoy one of the most extensive collections of Asian art in the world spanning 6,000 years of history! Watch out for the upcoming exhibit, Tibet: Treasures from the Roof of the World, from June 12 to September 11, 2005.
Value: $20.00 Donor: Asian Art Museum

Item #310 Minimum Bid: $12.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
HABITOT CHILDREN’S MUSEUM TICKETS
Bring your infants, toddlers & preschoolers at Habitot Children’s Museum. The museum offers hands-on exhibits, drop-in art studio, and special weekend events for children from age 0-6 years. Founded in 1992 by parents & educators, Habitot Museum is located at Kittredge Street in Berkeley.
Value: $22.00 Donor: Habitot Children’s Museum

Item #311 Minimum Bid: $250.00 Minimum Raise: $25.00
FIVE ONE-HOUR BEGINNING GUITAR LESSONS FOR UP TO THREE PEOPLE PER
LESSON
Whether you’re an aspiring Jimmy Hendrix or Carlos Santana, or hoping to form a rock band, you have to start somewhere. Enjoy guitar lessons with your friends (or whomever you wish)! Who knows? You might just give U2 a run for their money!
Value: $500.00 Donor: Heather M. Fine

Item #312 Minimum Bid: $250.00 Minimum Raise: $50.00
SPECIAL EVENT USE OF PRO-ARTS GALLERY
Host your next reception at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, next to Bed, Bath & Beyond and across the street from Cost Plus in Jack London Square. Pro Arts is a nonprofit artist membership organization founded in 1974. Enjoy a vibrant display of art from talented artists from all over the Bay Area while you enjoy your glass of merlot and prosciutto-wrapped asparagus!
Value: $500.00 Donor: Pro-Arts Gallery

Item #313 Minimum Bid: See sheet Minimum Raise: see sheet
BLACK AND WHITE PRINT
Black and white print from ACMC employee, artist George Lazar
Value: See sheet Donor: George Lazar

Item #314 Minimum Bid: $25.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
HANDMADE CERAMIC TEA BOWL BY FORT APACHE STUDIOS
A stunning handcrafted ceramic teabowl perfect for adorning your mantelpiece or display armoire!
Value: $50.00 Donor: Fort Apache Studios

Item #315 Minimum Bid: $60.00 Minimum Raise: $15.00
JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BY SHOTEI, CA. 1930’S
Own this Japanese woodblock print by Takahashi Shotei called “Pagoda”. Born in 1871 in Japan, Shotei designed magnificent numbers of prints, more than any other shin hanga artist. Shin Hanga, which literally means, “new prints” was an art movement for a new style of Japanese prints from 1910 to 1960 inspired by European Impressionism. The movement integrated Western elements without giving up the old values of Japanese, traditional woodblock prints. The artist Shotei died in 1945.
Value: $120.00 Donor: Carolyn Seriguchi

Item #316 Minimum Bid: $125.00 Minimum Raise: $25.00
ONE MONTH OF SUNDAY DANCE LESSONS FOR TWO (IN A GROUP SETTING)
Learn East Coast Swing at Lake Merritt Dance Center! One month of Sunday Swing for two. Discover your inner Fred & Ginger!
Value: $250.00 Donor: belindyhop.com

Item #317 Minimum Bid: $150.00 Minimum Raise: $25.00
PRINT FROM THOMAS KINKADE MUSEUM
Thomas Kinkade is America’s most collected living artist. Own one of his most personal collections, “Hometown Morning” of the Hometown Memories Series. This gracefully framed print is the sixth & final look at the artist’s boyhood hometown of Placerville, California where he used to deliver morning paper as a boy.
Value: $295.00 Donor: Thomas Kinkade Museum

Item #318 Minimum Bid: $5.00 Minimum Raise: $1.00
GIFT CERTIFICATE FROM ASHKENAZ MUSIC AND DANCE
Dance to the rhythm of live world & roots music featuring African, Balkan, Brazilian, Cajun/Zydeco, Carribbean, Middle Eastern, Reggae, American roots from Bluegrass to Swing, and more at the Ashkenaz Music & Dance Center.
Value: $10.00 Donor: Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center

Item #319 Minimum Bid: $5.00 Minimum Raise: $1.00
SECOND CHANCE - GIFT CERTIFICATE FROM ASHKENAZ MUSIC AND DANCE
Dance to the rhythm of live world & roots music featuring African, Balkan, Brazilian, Cajun/Zydeco, Carribbean, Middle Eastern, Reggae, American roots from Bluegrass to Swing, and more at the Ashkenaz Music & Dance Center.
Value: $10.00 Donor: Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center

Item #320 Minimum Bid: $15.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
GIFT CARD AT BOOKS INC.
According to Sir Richard Steele, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”. Books Inc., is the West’s oldest independent bookseller. Check out their vast selection of books as well as author events.
Value: $25.00 Donor: Francis P. Boyle

Item #321 Minimum Bid: $25.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
PLANT OR FLORAL ITEM FROM GLENVIEW FLORISTS
Make someone’s day (or better yet, make YOUR day!) with a dazzling floral arrangement from Glenview Florists!
Value: $50.00 Donor: Glenview Florists

Item #322 Minimum Bid: $15.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
GIFT CARD AT COST PLUS WORLD MARKET
For your home, garden & culinary needs with selection of products from 50 countries, visit Cost Plus World Market!
Value: $25.00 Donor: Cost Plus World Market

Item #323 Minimum Bid: $15.00 Minimum Raise: $5.00
GIFT CERTIFICATE FROM MAGIC GARDENS
Time to rediscover your green thumb! Visit Magic Gardens in Berkeley for your perennials, shrub & tree needs.
Value: $25.00 Donor: Magic Gardens

Item #324 Minimum Bid: $25.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
GIFT CARD AT COST PLUS WORLD MARKET
For your home, garden & culinary needs with selection of products from 50 countries, visit Cost Plus World Market!
Value: $50.00 Donor: Cognisa Security

Item #325 Minimum Bid: $250.00 Minimum Raise: $50.00
JABULANI AFRIKA ART
Jabulani Afrika take great pride in sourcing handcrafted sculptures of the highest quality from all over Africa and showcasing them in a unique and beautiful manner. The sculptures are taken to South Africa where they are skillfully framed in stylish shadow boxes with beautiful matching colors specially chosen to enhance the beauty of the uniquely handcrafted piece. Jabulani Afrika is owned and managed by people who love and appreciate the unique beauty of handcrafted African art.
Value: $500.00 Donor: Vernon Smit of Jabulani Afrika Art

Item #326 Minimum Bid: $30.00 Minimum Raise: $10.00
FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT
Fun for the whole family - Pizza gift card, Blockbuster gift card, bottle of wine, bottle of Coke, and three bags of popcorn.
Value: $55.00 Donor: Owens & Minor