'Enjoy Life: Learn to Meditate' 848 Community Space, 848 Divisadero; nadavland@yahoo.com. 5:30-7pm, free. Align your chakras at this free meditation workshop series.

'Job Fair!' San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market; www.sfcenter.org. 11am-3pm, free. LGBT job seekers are invited to meet queer-friendly employers.

'Mardi Gras/Carnaval' Get Lost Travel Books, 1825 Market; 437-0529. 7pm, free. Green Tortoise Adventure Travel does a presentation on the histories of the New Orleans and Central American festivals.

Benefits

'Front and Center' ODC Theater, 3153 17th St; 863-9834, info@triaxon.us. 7:30pm, $10. The ODC Musicians Corps, which performs at ODC Theater shows, takes the spotlight when Joe Venegoni, Karney, Jim Santi Owen, and other members play; proceeds support the corps. thursday 10
Around town

'Feria Urbana' Canvas Cafe and Gallery, 1200 Ninth Ave; 504-0060, www.feriaurbanasf.com. 6-10pm, free. Check out trinkets, jewelry, and clothing by dozens of local designers.

'Is Everything Old New Again?' Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis; 567-3327, ext. 704, library@bjesf.org. 7:30pm, free. Musicians Stuart Brotman and Josh Horowitz perform and discuss klezmer music and its revival.

Benefits

'Chair-ity Auction' Space 743, 743 Harrison; 441-3000, www.sfheritage.org. 5:30-8pm, $10-15. San Francisco Architectural Heritage hosts a fundraising auction of chairs transformed by local artists.

friday 11
Around town

'San Francisco Stamp Fair' Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness; (707) 792-2234, stampshows@hotmail.com. 11am-7pm, free. Browse, get your stamps appraised, and wheel and deal with professional collectors. Through Sun/13.

'San Francisco Tribal Arts and Textile Show' Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna; 455-2886, www.caskeylees.com. 11am-7pm, $12. The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and international galleries display indigenous art and textiles including African sculpture and masks, South American pottery, Middle Eastern jewelry, and more. Through Sun/13.

'The State of Baseball 2005' Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market; www.commonwealthclub.org. Noon, $8-15. St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa joins Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger in conversation.

Benefits

Pather Panchali benefit film screening San Francisco Media Archive, 275 Capp; RSVP to archive@sfm.org or call 558-8117. 8pm, $20. Help India's tsunami victims by attending this screening of director Satyajit Ray's classic Pather Panchali; the event includes a South Indian vegetarian dinner.

saturday 12
Around town

Anime City book-release party Super 7 Store, 1630 Post; 409-4700. 2pm, free. Pick the brains of anime experts Tomohiro and Bay Guardian contributor Patrick Macias, who sign copies of their new book, Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo.

'Carnaval Ball' San Francisco Gift Center, 888 Brannan; 334-0106, www.friendsofbrazil.org. 9pm, $35. Shake it Carnaval-style with the Aquarela Dancers, band Prefixo de Verão, and other performers of Afro-Brazilian music and dance.

Framing an Execution film screening New Valencia Hall, 1908 Mission; 864-1278. 7pm, $3-5. The Freedom Socialist Party screens this documentary about journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a prisoner on Pennsylvania's death row.

'Gay Marriage: State of the Heart' San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin; www.sfpl.org. 2pm, free. Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, assemblymember Mark Leno, and activists Betty Berzon and Molly McKay observe the one-year anniversary of the same-sex marriages at San Francisco's City Hall by discussing gay marriage.

'San Francisco Stamp Fair' Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness; (707) 792-2234, stampshows@hotmail.com. 10am-6pm, free. See Fri/11.

'San Francisco Tribal Arts and Textile Show' Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna; 455-2886, www.caskeylees.com. 11am-7pm, $12. See Fri/11.

Benefits

'The Dance Floor Benefit' Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, 701 Mission; 978-2787, www.ybca.org. 8pm, $20. Ten of the Bay Area's most acclaimed dance companies, including Axis Dance Company, Joe Goode Performance Group, and Robert Moses' Kin, perform at a benefit for Counterpulse's dance-floor construction project.

Bay Area

'Tsunami Relief Concert' Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont, Oakl; (510) 333-0474. 7pm, $20-30. Violinist Patti Weiss, pianist Francis Lockwood, soprano Katya Roemer, and many others perform jazz, world, and classical music at a benefit for the Red Cross.

sunday 13
Around town

'San Francisco Stamp Fair' Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness; (707) 792-2234, stampshows@hotmail.com. 10am-4pm, free. See Fri/11.

'San Francisco Tribal Arts and Textile Show' Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna; 455-2886, www.caskeylees.com. 11am-5pm, $12. See Fri/11.

Benefits

'A Day of Health, a Day of Caring' Motivity, Eighth St and Dwight Way, Berk; www.nccc-online.org. 8am-8pm, $55-100. Take part in an array of healing arts, from yoga to meditation, and attend dance presentations and panel discussions at this women's health event, which benefits the National Cervical Cancer Coalition.

'Dessert First' One Market Restaurant, 1 Market; 447-2416, www.openhand.org. 5-9pm, $60-75. Top pastry chefs such as Citizen Cake's Elizabeth Faulker serve sweet creations; proceeds benefit Project Open Hand.

monday 14
Around town

'Bebop: The New Language of Jazz' Cafe Royale, 800 Post; 441-4099, www.caferoyale-sf.com. 7-9pm, $5 donation. Marcus Shelby continues his lecture and listening series with his history of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Dizzie Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, and others.

tuesday 15
Around town

Bill Hayes Booksmith, 1644 Haight; 863-8688, www.booksmith.com. 7pm, free. The author reads from his new book, Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.