Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm Location: Chinese consulate Laguna at Geary, San Francisco

Date: Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 5:30pm to 9:00pm Location: Sundance Kabuki Theatre 1881 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94115 Tickets available at: http://www.universe.com/socuspremiere ABOUT THE FILM: Two American filmmakers go undercover in Tibet during a full scale media blackout. Entering the hot-bed areas in closed off regions of Tibet, they try to help get information out of the region. As they document heartrending stories of the Tibetan struggle for human rights, a

Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 3:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Mitchell Park Community Center, El Palo Alto Room3700 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Who? Organized by Jady Tian, Kelly Liu, Janis Iourovitski, Julia Huang and Ilana Silverstein, current juniors at Gunn High School, featuring other teen photographers. What? An exhibition where high-quality photos taken by teens are sold. The event will also feature a presentation of Braille Without Borders. Why? To fundraise f

Date: Friday, September 25, 2015 - 10:00am to 8:00pm Location: Dupont Circle and President's Park Washington, DC Tibetans and supporters from all over US headed to DC to protest Xi Jinping’s Visit Protesters call on Obama to publicly raise Tibet with Xi San Francisco Team Tibet* plans protest at SF Chinese Consulate (San Francisco) Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first ever state visit to the White House to meet President Obama. This comes at a time when at le

Date: Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 12:00am to Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 12:00am Experience a traditional Himalayan bazaar under towering oaks and redwood trees as Live Oak Park in Berkeley transforms into a vast market place of arts, crafts, traditional music, dance and food. Performances include the beautiful classical Indian dance forms of South India and of Orissa (Odissi dance by Jyoti Kala Mandir) will entrance viewers, as will colorful folk dances by local Nepali, Tibetan and

Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 7:00 pm Location: Opera Plaza Cinema601 Van Ness AveSan Francisco, CA 94102

Date: Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 7:00pm Location: Tibetan Association of Northern California Community Center5200 Huntington Avenue Suite 200Richmond, CA

Date: Friday, March 6, 2015 - 12:00am to Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 12:00am The Dharma Bums will be performing at the March 10 events, but if you want to catch them in other venues in the Bay Area, here is a schedule of their appearances. 1. Java Beach Cafe, Ocean Beach, Friday 3/6 2. Ashkenaz, Berkeley, Sunday 3/8 3. Sweetwater, Mill Valley, Open Mike Featured Act, 8pm, Monday 3/9 4 19 Broadway, Fairfax, Open Mike Featured Act, 10pm, Monday 3/9 5. March 10th Demonstration, S

Date: Friday, February 6, 2015 - 8:00 pm Location: Sacred Stream Center 2149 Byron St.Berkeley, CA 94702 Geshe Thupten Jinpa is the primary English interpreter for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and a world-renowned scholar. Join us for a talk on Buddhism, followed by a Q&A. Suggested minimum donation: $ 40. All proceeds go towards the building of dorms and a prayer hall for the monks of Gaden Shartse Dokhang Monastery. https://www.sacredstream.org/component/option,com_ev

Solidarity for Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians, Chinese and Hong Kong People (San Francisco, California) WHAT: On 10 December 2014, Human Rights Day, Tibetans across the world will join Uyghur, Southern Mongolians, Chinese and Hong Kong friends to demand the rights and freedom of our people who are collectively oppressed by China's dictatorship. We will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and pay tribute to

Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 12:00am to Sunday, July 6, 2014 - 12:00am Location: The Exploratorium Pier 15 on the Embarcadero San Francisco Dear Enlightened Friends, I am thrilled to announce that a sand mandala will be created at the Exploratorium every day this weekend starting Thursday July 3 and finishing Sunday July 6 by 1:30 pm. If you are in the area, please stop by and see the monks in action! Each day, the sand mandala will become more elaborate! The mandala is bei

Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 12:00am to Sunday, June 22, 2014 - 12:00am The Tibetan Center for Compassion and Wisdom and Tashi Thek Chok Ling warmly welcome His Eminence Jangtse Choje Rinpoche to the Bay Area for two days of events in June. Please join us for a rare and special opportunity to learn from this great master of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism. Saturday, June 21, 2014 Taking the Three Bodies of a Buddha as the Path 10am - 12pm & 2pm - 4pm TCCW Oakland Cent

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 7:00pm Location: Landmark Opera Theatre Cinema 601 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Poster for Little Tibet 2 in San Francisco Sonam Ajantsang Bay Area Friends of Tibet presents Little Tibet 2, a moving sequel to Director Nawang (Sonam) Anjatsang's original film, Little Tibet. Little Tibet 2 is the story of one man’s journey to discover his heritage and set eyes on a homeland he has never seen. With beautiful vistas and intimate encounter

Dear Friends, I wanted to share this letter I received from our friend, George Ge, President of Humanitarian China in the hopes that you, too, will be excited and join us in shared purpose and endeavors in the coming months. The presence of Bay Area Tibetans and friends of Tibet at the 6/3 event at San Francisco's Chinatown's Portsmouth Square was appreciated and applauded by many Chinese humanitarians and democracy advocates who attended. It is exciting to celebrate this spe

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2014 - 12:00am to Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 12:00am Location: Live Oak ParkBerkeley, California BAFOT will again be participating at the Himalayan Fair in Berkeley. Please come by and visit us at our booth near the stage. BAFOT will again be participating at the Himalayan Fair in Berkeley. Please come by and visit us at our booth near the stage. Himalayan Fair website

Date: Friday, April 25, 2014 - 10:00am to 12:00pm Location: Chinese Consulate of San Francisco1450 Laguna Street at GearySan Francisco, CA For Immediate Release Photo Opportunity 24 April 2014 TWENTY-FIVE YEAR OLD TIBETAN PANCHEN LAMA’S WHEREABOUTS REMAIN UNKNOWN AFTER 19 YEARS. DEMONSTRATION AT SAN FRANCISCO CHINESE CONSULATE TO ASK ‘WHERE IS THE PANCHEN LAMA?” Evening Vigil outside downtown Berkele

Date: Sunday, April 6, 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm Location: First Unitarian Center, Martin Luther King Room, 1187 Franklin St, San Francisco Amnesty International Local Group 30 invites you to a screening of "Leaving Fear Behind," a film by imprisoned Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen. The film will be introduced by his wife Lhamo Tso, who has been actively campaigning for his release. Dhondup Wangchen was arrested and imprisoned while making this film about ordinary Tibetan

Date: Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 9:45am to 1:00pm Location: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar St Berkeley, CA Photo of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche of Ligmincha Institute will be giving a talk on “Awakening the Sacred Body” here in Berkeley. The talk is organized in partnership with the Tibetan Association of Northern California and all the proceeds will go to our community center renovation project. (He has done this earlier for o

Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm Location: San Rafael High SchoolHayes Auditorium185 Mission AvenueSan Rafael The independent film, Nationless, will be screening at 185 Mission Avenue, San Rafael High School on Tuesday, January 14th at 7pm in the Hayes Auditorium. The screening will be followed with a Q&A of myself, the director. Nationless is a 45 minute long documentary which tells the story of Tibetans living in Nepal and the unique struggles they face. T

Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 11:00am to 1:00pm Location: Intercontinental Hotel888 Howard StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103 SF Team Tibet would like to urge everyone to join us for a silent protest on November 5th (Tuesday) from 11am-1pm outside the Intercontinental hotel in SF. On November 5th, Intercontinental will be taking part in World Responsible Tourism week events to promote the company as a 'responsible' business. Nothing could be further from the truth. Intercont