CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND HEROIC COMPASSION WILL TAKE PLACE ON DECEMBER 8, 2012 (9 AM-10 PM) AT BERKELEY ADULT SCHOOL, 1701 SAN PABLO AVE, BERKELEY, CA MAP In effort to preserve the art and culture of Tibet, Bay Area Friends of Tibet (BAFoT) and Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC) are pleased to invite you to the 27th Annual Tibet Day Festival: A Celebration of Community, Culture and Heroic Compassion. This is the largest annual celebration day of Ti

Date: Saturday, September 8, 2012 - 6:00am Location: Bay Area Friends of Tibet1310 Fillmore Street #401San Francisco, CA 94115 Please RSVP to giovanni@friends-of-tibet.org or 415-264-3264

Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 7:00am to Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 4:00pm Location: Live Oak Park in Berkeley, California

Date: Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 11:00pm to Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:00pm Location: SF International Film Festival Old DogDir: Pema Tseden From the leading filmmaker of the New Tibetan Cinema comes this mesmerizing, emotionally gripping story about an old sheepherder and his grown son, a visually stunning portrait of rural anomie that takes a completely modern approach to narrative, patiently accumulating detail by telling detail. (China/Tibet 2011, 88 min). http://fes

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm Location: 350 Sansome Street, Suite 210, San Francisco Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 - 5:00pm Location: Bermann Hall, University of San Francisco Date: Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 6:00pm Location: Tibetan Community Center 5200 Huntington Ave, Richmond, CA Come and hear first hand Lhamo Tso, a mother of four and the wife of imprisoned film-maker Dhondup Wangchen, talk about her husband and his documentary "Leaving Fear Behind"

Bay Area Tibetans & Supporters Commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day March 10, 2012 Vow to intensify efforts to secure government action, as instances of self-immolation in Tibet escalate By San Francisco Team Tibet San Francisco, CA - Some 500 Tibetans and Tibet supporters took to the streets of San Francisco on March 10th to mark the 53rd anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising, when thousands of Tibetans rose up against China's invasion and

Rally Commemorating the 53rd anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day! Saturday March 10 2012 9 AM - 8 PMBerkeley City Hall, Justin Herman Plaza, U.N. Plaza,Chinese Consulate, Union Square 9 - 10 AM: Tibetan Flag raising ceremony at the Berkeley City Hall, Berkeley, CA 10:30 - 11 AM: Rally at Justin Herman Plaza Then March along Market St. toward City Hall. 11:45 - 12:30 PM: March to U.N. Plaza 12:30- 2:30 PM: Protest/Rally in front of the Chinese consulate 4:30 - 8 P

Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm Location: Chinese Consulate Laguna & Geary in San Francisco STAND UP FOR THE MARTYRS OF TIBET (San Francisco, CA) San Francisco Team Tibet, a coalition of Tibetan organizations in the Bay Area, will hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 in front of the Chinese Consulate, 1450 Laguna Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. The vigil is part of a worldwide effort by the international community

Date: Friday, January 20, 2012 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm Location: Chinese ConsulateLaguna & Geary in San Francisco STAND UP FOR TIBETCandlelight Vigil for Tibet in front of the Chinese Consulate 20 January 2012 - 6:30-8:30 PM --Laguna & Geary Blvd., San Francisco Self-immolations continue and spread into Tibet in 2012 (San Francisco, 19 January 2012). In 2012, four Tibetans have set themselves on fire in a new form of protest and sacrifice in Tibet. All four have died. 12 of the