Adult Program: Families Dealing with Dementia

Families Dealing with Dementia: A workshop to Empower the Family in Effective Caring

The same program will be held on 2 different dates:

Wednesday, September 9 at 5:30pm
and
Saturday, September 12 at 3:00pm

The discussion will include the following topics:
* An overview of the various forms of dementia.
* How to deal with behavioral challenges.
* How to hire help.
* When and how to look at placement options.
* Communicating with a loved one who has a dementia.

Computer Class: Basic Mousing

Tuesday, September 1 at 2:00pm

Join us for this introductory class on using a computer mouse. After the instruction you will have time to ask questions and to practice what you have learned. Please call 355-2858 to sign up.

Teen Gaming: Guitar Hero and other games.

Please join us on Thursday, August 13 at 4:00pm for Guitar Hero and other games.

Try your hand at Guitar Hero. Challenge your friends. Play chess, cards and checkers while you wait your turn to be hero. Ages 11 to 18. For more information, contact Marla at mbergman@sfpl.org or (415) 355-2858.

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life in Art

Wednesday, August 5

6:30 p.m.

From her sensuous flowers, to her expansive landscapes, to her soaring skyscrapers, Georgia O'Keeffe created a uniquely personal art with a vision that was clearly her own.

View over one hundred slides of the art of Georgia O'Keeffe: Poppies, roses, calla lilies. Skulls, shells, animal bones. Desert landscapes and dried waterfalls. Oil paintings, watercolors and drawings. Photographs of Ms. O'Keeffe, as well as her husband, noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz, places they lived and the artists she exhibited with, will also be shown.

Bonnie Lockhart

Tuesday, August 4

10:30 a.m.

Songs and music games for the young and old.

Children of all ages.

Boswick the Clown

Saturday, August 1

2 p.m.

Enjoy the antics of Boswick The Clown, a former Ringling Brother's Circus Clown. The show is a fun way to introduce youngsters to the joy of reading. There will be magic and juggling packaged in comedy.

For children of all ages.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: A docent lecture

Saturday, July 25

3 p.m.

This lecture complements the glorious exhibition of more than 130 great treasures from the ancient Egyptian tombs of King Tutankhamun, his royal predecessors, his family, and officials of the court, including four wonderful discoveries from his tomb that have been
added for the San Francisco venue.

The exhibition at the de Young Museum will be held from June 27, 2009 through March 28,2010.