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2	3	4	5 United for Perú Artists from Perú, Chile, Mexico, Colombia & Bolivia Peruvian Earthquake Relief. $15 8pm	6 Salsa, Cumbia & Merengue Otro Mundo 10 piece band playing salsa, cumbias, and merengue. $10 8pm	7 Berkeley Premier of War Made Easy How Presidents & Pundits keep spinning us to death Film on how the media has disseminated pro-war messages-73min. $8 8pm	8 The Arab Cultural Initiative Presents: Georges Lammam Come for an evening of classical & contemporary Arab music. $13 adv. $15 dr. 8pm
9 Scatter My Red Underwear Milta Ortiz Reflection on the struggle of women & their search for love. $10 gen. $7 students w/ID 8pm	10	11	12 Voices from Puerto Rico and Hawaii: Women Resisting Militarism and Creating a Culture of Life. Discussion about communities affected by US militarism. $5-$10 donation 6:30pm	13 Lebanon, A Year Later: The Aftermath of Israel's War on Lebanon and the Sectarian Dilemma A lecture/slideshow presentation by Zeina Zaatari. Donations 7:30pm	14 Canto y Soneto Rafael Manriquez Songs composed from the book Hundred Sonnets of Love. $12 adv. $15 dr. (Concert+CD=$25) 8pm	15 Araucaria Celebration of Chilean Independence day with music and dance. 8pm - $10 adv. $12 dr. Fonda en Café Valparaíso! Comida Chilena y Baile!
16 Araucaria & Friends Celebration of Chilean Independence Day with music and dance. 7:30pm - $10 adv. $12 dr. Fonda en Café Valparaíso! Comida Chilena y Baile!	17	18 Café Valparaíso Celebrates Chilean Independence Day Chilean Restaurant @ La Peña open for dinner with a Special Menu and Dance! 5pm	19 Ama: La Memoria del Tiempo/Memory of Time Documentary on Jose Feliciano Ama & the 1932 genocide survivors. $5-$20 sliding scale 7:30pm	20 Tea Party Magazine's Issue #17 Michael Arcega, Craig Santos Perez, Sean Dorsey Magazine release. $10* (Suggested Donation) 7pm	21 Film Screening Special Circumstances Film on political prisoner Hector Salgado's return to Chile. $10 8pm	22 Direct from Chile!!! Cuarteto Latinoamericano de Saxofones Chilean saxophone quartet performing from baroque to folk music. $20 8:30pm
23 The Bay Area's Annual Grito de Lares Celebration: We Will Not Forget! Melissa Rivera, Aya De Leon, Rico Pabón & more Commemoration of Puerto Rico's struggle for independence. $10-$15 sliding scale 4pm	24	25	26 Film Screening Loving Maradona Documentary about Argentine soccer player Diego Armando Maradona $6 gen. $5 festival members 7pm	27 EXILIO: Creating Home Away From Home 30th Anniversary of 1st Chilean exiles' arrival to the Bay Area. Free. EXILE BY DEFAULT: CHILEAN YOUTH'S ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS 7pm	28 EXILIO: Creating Home Away From Home 30th Ann. of Chilean exiles' arrival. See also Sept. 27 Free. RECEPTION & VISUAL ART EXHIBIT 7pm	29 Ghanaian-American singer/songwriter Akosua Jazz inspired folk fused with West African and Latin rhythms. $12 gen. $10 students w/ID 8pm
30 World Music Fusion (Also Cafe Reading) Quinda Groove, Agent Double E, and more Come for a night of fusion and world music. $12 7:30pm