events

Art Exhibits

May 2013

May 4 & 5, 11 am - 5 pm
Silicon Valley Open Studio
Abilities United
525 East Charleston Road
Palo Alto, CA 
(650) 618-3319

Family Chiropractic Center
949 Sherwood Avenue
Los Altos, CA 94022
650-949-3636

Peets Coffee & Tea
2600 Broadway Avenue
Redwood City, CA
(650)362-1000

Milestones Preschool art exhibit
Palo Alto Children's Library
1276 Harriet Street
Palo Alto, CA
(650) 329-2134

Abilities United Aquathon

Abilities United Aquathon 

Save the date! Sunday September 8, 2013

Over $120,000 was raised in 2012! Many thanks to the swimmers, donors, and volunteers who made this possible!  See who raised the most money and swam the fastest!

Sunday afternoon, September 8, 2013

West Valley College
14000 Fruitvale Avenue
Saratoga, CA 95070

(650) 618-3331 or email

Now in its 35^th year, the Aquathon is a great community and team building event that benefits Abilities United.  Approximately 500 swimmers, volunteers, and supporters participate in the event.  

Swimmers of all abilities form teams that swim in continuous 30-minute relays to raise money for Abilities United services.  Participating companies are encouraged to enter more than one team and competitive heats are available.  Funds raised include a $20 registration fee per person.

To enjoy a fun-filled day of competition for a good cause, call (650) 618-3331, or email or register online.  

 

Abilities United Authors Luncheon

 

Save the date for the 22nd annual Authors Luncheon!
November 2, 2013

Please join us at one of the most important literary events in Northern California.

Saturday, November 2, 2013
10:30 am - 3 pm
Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel - Palo Alto

The luncheon will feature four acclaimed authors  (2012 authors) who will discuss their books, share stories about their writing experiences, and offer insight into their inspiration. Since it began in 1991, each year the Abilities United Authors Luncheon has drawn more than 650 guests who have been entertained by some of the world's most renowned authors.

Sponsorship tables of 10 provide you with preferred seating and promotional benefits at the following levels:

• Award Winner ($20,000+)
• Best Seller ($10,000 - $19,999)
• First Edition ($5,000 - $9,999)
• Choice Chapter ($3,000 - $4,999)

If you have any questions or would like to purchase a ticket or sponsor the Authors Luncheon, please call (650) 618-3330 or email.

Book sales benefit Abilities United and are managed by Books Inc.

Abilities United also benefits from any purchase you make through this link

 

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2012 Authors 

   Jon J. Muth

    Buzz Bissinger

   Arlie Hochschild

   Lee Woodruff

 

Sponsors of the 2012 Authors Luncheon

 "Award Winners" Sponsors ($20,000)  

Anonymous

"Best Seller" Sponsors ($10,000)            

Anonymous
Laurie Jarrett
Chris Kenrick
Carol and Mike Shealy

"First Edition" Sponsors ($5,000)

Carrie Anderson
Tom and Wallace Brunner
Ellen and Tom Ehrlich
Elizabeth Wolf 
Bill and Brenda Younger

"Choice Chapter" Sponsors ($3,000)

Media Sponsor

Book Sales Sponsor

 

Accomodations Sponsor

 

Print Sponsor

Art Showcase Sponsor

Wine Sponsors

J. Lohr Vineyards and Wine
Judi and Wilf Jaeger

Travel Arrangements 

Ladera Travel

 

2012 Author Information and Bios

   Jon J. Muth

 

Buy his children's books at Books Inc.

The Three Questions,Zen Shorts, Zen Ghosts , Stone Soup, Zen Ties 

 Jon J Muth's highly acclaimed picture books are beloved around the world and have been translated into more than ten languages. He was born and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He drew and drew and drew and drew, and painted. His mother was an art teacher and she took him to museums all over the US. He had his first one-man exhibit of paintings and drawings at the invitation of Wilmington College when he was eighteen. He studied stone sculpture in Japan; paintings, prints and drawings in Austria, Germany, and England and he was an English major at SUNY, New Paltz. But most of his education as an artist came from an informal apprenticeship with two fine artists. His comic books have been published by DC/Vertigo, Eclipse Books, NBM, Donald M. Grant Publishers, Inc. and in Japan, Kodansha.

All of Muth's work has received awards and critical acclaim. Zen Shorts was named a Caldecott Honor Book and spent 41 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The art for his first children's book, Come On, Rain!, written by Karen Hesse, won the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators in 1999. Gershon's Monster by Eric Kimmel, was an ALA Notable Children⊃;s book, winner of the Sydney Taylor Award, as well as a National Parenting Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Stone Soup also won a National Parenting Book Award. The Three Questions was a Book Sense book of the Year finalist and a NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. Muth also did the illustrations for Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, written by Douglas Wood, and I Will Hold You 'Til You Sleep, by Linda Zuckerman

 

   Buzz Bissinger

Buy his novels at Books Inc.

Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son ,Three Nights in August

BUZZ BISSINGER is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller Three Nights in August and Friday Night Lights, which has sold two million copies and inspired a film and TV franchise. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for the Daily Beast. He has written for the New York Times, The New Republic, Time, and many other publications.

 

   Arlie Hochschild

Buy her books at Books Inc.

The Outsourced Self, The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work , Global Woman

ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD is the author of The Time Bind, The Second Shift, The Managed Heart and the Commercialization of Intimate Life, among other books. A U.C.  Berkeley sociologiest, she has also contributed to the New York Times BookReview, Harpers and Mother Jones.

Hochschild has won Guggenheim, Fulbright and Mellon fellowships, and three awards granted by the American Sociological Association--the Charles Cooley Award (for her book The Managed Heart) the Jessie Bernard Award (for The Second Shift, The Time Bind and Global Woman), and the Award for Public Understanding of Sociology (for lifetime achievement). Within sociology she is known as the founder of the sociology of emotion and, outside of it, as a "public sociologist," having contributed to Mother Jones, The American Prospect, Harper's Magazine, and TomDispatch.com on issues of the day. Hochschild has received honorary doctoral degrees from Swarthmore College (her alma mater), Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Oslo, Norway, and the University of Lapland, Finland. Her work appears in 14 languages.

 

   Lee Woodruff

Buy her books at Books Inc.

Those We Love Most, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress, No Stone Unturned (with Joel Goldstein), In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing (Hardcover)

LEE WOODRUFF is the co-author, with her husband, Bob of the #1 New York Times bestseller, In an Instant, and the author of the essay collection Perfectly Imperfect. She is a correspondent for CBS's This Morning and has written numerous articles on
her family and parenting that have been published in publications including Parade,Health, and Redbook. Along with her husband Bob, she has founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation to assist wounded service members and their family. She currently resides in Westchester County, New York with her husband and four children.

If you have any questions or would like to purchase a ticket or sponsor the Authors Luncheon, please call (650) 618-3330 or email. 

 

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