ALERTS

By Deborah Giattina

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15

Awareness through art

Watch artistic drama and spoken-word performances and let Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership teach you about education and violence issues that affect the underrepresented Pacific Islander community.

3–5 p.m.

YWCA

1515 Webster, Oakl.

Free

(510) 834-9455

www.actaonline.org

Fight for justice

Join Sen. John Edwards, Mayor Gavin Newsom, and actor-activist Danny Glover at UNITE HERE's commencement rally to educate the nation about the economic and physical exploitation hotel workers face as corporations buy out independent hotel owners.

4:15 p.m.

Parc 55 Hotel

55 Cyril Magnin, SF

Free

(212) 332-9376

acooper@unitehere.org

Medicare forum

Listen to panel members from the Senior Action Network and Self Help for the Elderly discuss issues relating to the new Medicare drug prescription plan at an event sponsored by the Noe Valley Democratic Club.

7:30 p.m.

Noe Valley Ministry

1021 Sanchez, SF

Free

(415) 285-1162

Zoning the Mission

The San Francisco Planning Department invites Mission District residents to discuss future zoning proposals, particularly for new housing, at a public workshop.

6 p.m.

John O'Connel High School

2355 Folsom, SF

(415) 558-6818; (415) 558-6810

THURSDAY, FEB. 16

Ticket sale party

Get your tickets for the March 18 LGBT Center's anniversary party at a wine social.

5:30–7 p.m.

Home Restaurant

2100 Market, SF

(415) 252-7239

SATURDAY, FEB. 18

Siren call

Watch Shipping Out: The Story of America's Women Seafarers projected on the sail of the 1886 ship Balclutha. The band Nauticus perform before the documentary, and after the screening director Maria Brooks leads a discussion on the role of women at sea.

7:30 p.m.

Hyde Street Pier

Jefferson and Hyde, SF

(415) 447-5000; reservations required

Ugandan orphan benefit

Enjoy a traditional African dance and music performance by Ugandan youth at a benefit for orphans whose parents died of AIDS.

8 p.m.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater

700 Howard, SF

$25/$35; $26/$18 members; $29/$21 seniors, teachers, and students

(415) 978-2787

SUNDAY, FEB. 19

Human rights film fest

The annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival kicks off in the East Bay today.

Through Feb. 26

Pacific Film Archive

2575 Bancroft Way, Berk.

$8; $4 members; $5 students, faculty, staff, seniors, youth, disabled