2009 PAHS Events
October
Sunday, October 25 – Flute Recital by Takashi Hidai.
Join us for this annual special fundraising benefit for PAHS. This year’s concert honors the memory of JP Blanchard, a local Palo Alto student who loved animals. Takashi is a four-time winner of the Best Performer Yamaha Award in Julius Baker's Master Class, and a longtime supporter and friend to PAHS like his wife Mitsu. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto, at 4 p.m.
October 12-18, World Rainforest Week
Tropical forests around the world continue to become endangered, and a chief reason for this is the expansion of industrial animal agribusiness. Now is a critical time to act on behalf of the world's rainforests; the lungs of the planet. Tell multinational corporations to stop altering the face of our world by becoming a conscientious consumer and voting with your dollar. Learn how industrial animal agribusiness directly impacts the destruction of our rainforests and what implications this has to the global health of the planet. Join us in celebrating the forests and their inhabitants by becoming conscientious consumers of food and product. Our Humane Planet initiatives will be providing more information on this issue.
October 4 – Humane Planet Expo
Join us on World Animal Day as we expand what it means to be humane in today’s world with our Humane Planet Expo. PAHS is partnering with several groups to connect current issues involving animals, people, and planet while enlightening solutions. Actors, face painting, puppet shows, a mobile pet vaccination and microchip van, and delicious vegan cuisine by certified partner Calafia Cafe will join information booths, speakers, and more. Some of the topics to be covered will include humane pet laws, water health and ecologic biodiversity, animal agribusiness and climate change, the power of food choices, and bees and colony collapse disorder. Stay tuned as more is announced! Humane Planet Expo, October 4, 12 P.M. to 4 P.M., Cogswell Plaza in Palo Alto (corner of Lytton and Ramona). Click here for a full schedule!
August
August 23
“Festival of the Arts” in downtown Palo Alto – come say HELLO and see our PAHS table on Emerson Street, near the corner of University Avenue
July
July 18
“Connoisseur’s Marketplace” in downtown Menlo Park – come say HELLO and see our PAHS table next to Left Bank restaurant off of Santa Cruz Avenue
June
June 8 - World Ocean Day
World Ocean Day
May
May 3 through May 9: Be Kind to Animals Week
PAHS enthusiastically supports this designated week of kindness to animals, while emphasizing the deep value and necessity of being kind to animals everywhere every single day of the year. We encourage the community to take this week as an opportunity to awaken humane impulses and become an ongoing example of compassion and inclusiveness.
APRIL
Thursday, April 9, 5 P.M. – 7 P.M.: Animal Art Gallery Open House
Join us for treats while shopping our collection of unique artwork and gifts. Palo Alto Humane Society and Animal Art Gallery, 520 Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park.
Saturday, April 18, 10 A.M.- 2 P.M.: Livin’ Local Earth Day ’09
Saturday, April 18, 10 A.M.- 2 P.M.: Come and visit our PAHS table at this celebratory event commemorating Earth Day and the importance of being mindful of our planet and all of the life it nurtures. Join us at the Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto.
Wednesday, April 22: Earth Day
PAHS encourages each within the community to become a voice or plan an activity which supports our Mother Earth. Being an awake, compassionate and involved steward of the planet is inherently humane.
MARCH
Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 P.M. – Environmentalist, activist, and rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman speaks
Environmentalist, activist, and rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman speaks at Kepler’s Books about animals raised as “product” in mega-large agribusiness verses animals raised in nature with direct, normal contact on small farms. PAHS is the co-sponsor. Remember to ask for 10% of any purchase made at Kepler’s to go to “community partner Palo Alto Humane Society”. You can now shop online to easily contribute 10% to PAHS while giving Kepler’s business support.
FEBRUARY
From February 9 through May 15 – “Springtime Arrives” Animal Art Gallery Installation
Come visit the coolest fundraiser ever. PAHS’ Animal Art Gallery is currently the home to original artwork, books, cards, gift items, prints and sculpture. All is for sale and highly affordable, earning PAHS’ humane programs between 30% to 100% of the purchase price. See what’s new!
Throughout 2009: ANNOUNCEMENT! Darren McClung Precious Jewelry is giving to PAHS!
Throughout 2009, DARREN MCCLUNG PRECIOUS JEWELRY
Throughout 2009, DARREN MCCLUNG PRECIOUS JEWELRY at the Stanford Barn is giving generously to PAHS. Designer Pedro Boregaard’s18kt gold bone shaped pet charm (also available in silver) is hand textured and accented with full round brilliant cut diamonds. PAHS is thrilled to be receiving10% of these sales. Created especially for PAHS, Designer Laurie Sinclair’s assorted silver animal charms even include a “Palo Alto Humane Society” banner and are not to be missed. Sales of these charms will earn PAHS a whopping 40% of the proceeds on an ongoing basis. Thank you, Carol and Darren! Darren McClung is located at 700 Welch Road in Palo Alto, (650) 321-5994.