Larkspur-Corte Madera Weekend Planner Sept. 30-Oct. 2

Friday:

The 2011 Marin Group’s Annual Awards Gala will be a stimulating evening of camaraderie, excellent food and wine, a terrific guest speaker and worthy awardees. The evening’s featured speaker will be Cecily Muldoon, the new Superintendent of the Point Reyes National Seashore, who will share some of her experiences in the National Park Service.

If you go: Gala tickets are $65 and can be bought by clicking here. The ticket includes wine tasting, buffet dinner by Delicious Catering, beverage and dessert. The wine tasting reception begins at 6p.m. and the dinner with the featured speaker and awards presentation begins at 7 p.m. at Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto in Mill Valley. For more information please visit www.sanfranciscobay.sierraclub.org/Marin.

Saturday:

Wine, Women & Song presents the 13th Annual Benefit for the Fight against Breast Cancer. Proceeds go to local breast cancer agencies, like Zero Breast Cancer of Marin, which is helping find the reason Marin has one of the highest rate of breast cancer in the world and To Celebrate Life Foundation, which is helping with education, awareness and patient services. Over twenty singers and a six piece band will perform songs by artists who’ve had breast cancer such as Nanci Griffith, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge and more. 

If you go: Tickets are $30, and tax deductible, click here for tickets. You’ll enjoy a fabulous night out, while giving to a worthy cause beginning at 9 p.m. at 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd. in Fairfax.

Sunday:

Yusef Komunyakaa says, “Seldom does beauty collide naturally with gravity, but that is what happens in Diane Kirsten Martin’s Conjugated Visits repeatedly.” In response to the unexpected death of her sister, Katharine Washburn, Mary Winegarden has taken on the challenge of translating their lives into living language with The Translator’s Sister. Winegarden will be joined by poets Jennifer Arin and Anita Cabrera.

If you go: This free reading begins at 4 p.m. at the , 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. in Corte Madera.

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