Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair is a non-profit organization that has been in production for the last 28 years. It is dedicated to celebrating the diversity and cultural history of the Haight-Ashbury District. The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair provides musical entertainment, arts & crafts, food booths, mercantile vendors and community interaction. The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair was created in response to the re-birth of the residential spirit in the late 70s and has since been set for the second weekend in June, every June.Sunday, June 11, 2006: 11am-5:30
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3rd Annual Berkeley World Music Weekend
Saturday, June 3rd and Sunday, June 4th, from noon-9PM, the free 3rd Annual Berkeley World Music Weekend will be going on throughout the Telegraph Avenue district between Bancroft Way and Parker Street. This festival is meant to showcase the plethora of world music artists that live in and amongst the Bay Area. While there, you can experience didgeridu performances, Chilean music, New Balkan music, reggae, hammer dulcimers, Indian folk songs, acoustic steel guitars, South African music, Greek music and much more. telegraphberkeley.com

Let Go, Go Inward: Restorative Yoga
Are you always tired? Do you feel as though you’re lacking energy? This Restorative Yoga Workshop promises to help you cultivate, “the fine art of surrender.” Through various supported poses that cleanse the organs, strengthen the immune system and invigorate the body, this workshop promises to be, “deeply restful and rejuvenating.” Poses are held anywhere from 5-30 minutes, depending on how long the practitioner is comfortable. Still not convinced? Then ponder this – “Studies have found that 20 minutes in a Restorative pose can be as restful as 2 hours of sleep!” Join Brit Fohrman and Yoga Tree for this Restorative Yoga workshop ($35), Sunday, June 18, 2006.
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Harmony Festival
June 9, 10 and 11, come out to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds and join the Harmony Festival’s 28 year long tradition. Not only is the Harmony Festival the “largest music and camping festival in the Bay Area,” but it’s also an all-inclusive progressive lifestyle festival. Within the Harmony Festival there is a music festival, an ecological festival, a health and healing festival, arts and crafts festival and mind, body and spirit festival. This year, they’re proud to promote their newly introduced feature of being able to camp throughout the entire fairgrounds all weekend long. Tickets run from $25-$30 depending on whether or not you purchase them in advance or at the gate. There is also a special admission price for kids, 6-12 at $5 per day and teens, 13-16 at $10 per day.harmonyfestival.com

Climate Change Film Opens
An Inconvenient Truth
The long-awaited documentary on climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” featuring former Vice President Al Gore, opens in Bay Area theaters in June. This fascinating, life-changing film makes the scientific issues understandable in an apolitical way. The film is winning awards all over the world, but in the U. S., its longevity in commercial theaters depends on attendence in the early weeks. It opens June 2 in San Franciso (Embarcadero theater), Berkeley (Cal theater), Mill Valley (Sequoia theather) and Palo Alto (Century Cinearts); June 16 in Emeryville (Bay Street) and Santa Clara (Mercado).
For theaters around the nation, more information about the film, and background on climate change, go to
climatecrisis.org

Swami Kriyananda Visits the Bay Area
Swami Kriyananda, one of the few living direct disciples of Yogananda, will be 80 this spring. He teaches in India now, but is visiting the United States in May and June for what may be his last public appearance in the U.S. His only Bay Area satsang will be Saturday, June 3 to celebrate the release of The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita. Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Avenue. Kriyananda has just completed a 700-page Gita commentary which will be published in America in June.
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