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Local poets read at Villa Montalvo

The Literary Arts Committee of Villa Montalvo hosts a poetry reading by two Santa Cruz-area poets, Dona Luongo Stein and Joseph Stroud, on Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Stein teaches writing at Cabrillo College and UC-Santa Cruz. She has received several prizes and fellowships related to writing and poetry and has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She also wrote an opera libretto.

Stroud just released a new poetry collection titled Below Cold Mountain. A teacher of writing and literature at Cabrillo College, he has lived in Spain, Greece, the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. His work has been published in magazines and journals and in a poetry anthology.

Villa Montalvo is located at 15400 Montalvo Road in Saratoga. Admission to the reading is $5. Proceeds benefit Montalvo's art- and music-related programs and community outreach activities. For information, call 961-5800.

Public invited to Shir Hadash play

Congregation Shir Hadash, located at 16555 Shannon Road in Los Gatos, presents a free one-act play, The Irish Hebrew Lesson, on Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. Set in Cork, Ireland, in 1921 and written by Wolf Mankowitz, the play relates a late-night encounter between an Irish boy fleeing from the Black & Tans and an elderly Jewish man studying during the Sabbath. The meeting turns into a learning experience for both.

Following the play is a dessert reception at 9:30 p.m. and a Slichot service at 10 p.m., featuring the High Holiday Choir. For more information, call 358-1751.

World Travelers offer 'Pedal for the Planet'

British athlete Steve Smith will be at the Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) store at El Paseo de Saratoga on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. to give a free slide presentation on the multi-year adventure he and fellow Brit Jason Lewis began in July 1994. The men are circumnavigating the globe strictly by their own muscle power, crossing bodies of water in pedal-boats and kayaks and traversing land on bicycles and in-line skates.

Smith will share some of the pair's most exciting and challenging experiences. For information, call 871-8765.

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