SALA Competition
The South Asian Literature and Artwork Competition (SALA) returns to Montalvo Arts Middle Oct. 29-30, that includes panels and conversations that look at and have a good time all kinds of factors of view round a sure theme.
This 12 months’s occasion, introduced by ArtForum SF, focuses on a theme of “Humanity” by analyzing how the world tends to place individuals in bins, categorizing and generalizing communities of various shade, class, gender and caste. Audiences can take part in discussions with authors of South Asian descent, a few of whom will probably be promoting and signing their books
The competition additionally encompasses a market, kids’s craft actions, dance, music, poetry and portray. Meals will probably be out there for buy, and a bar will supply beer, wine and soda.
The competition runs noon-6:30 p.m. each days at Montalvo, 15400 Montalvo Highway, Saratoga. Single-day tickets are $30 and weekend passes are $50 at https://montalvoarts.org/expertise/community-events/sala.
Supes get fired up
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Sept. 13 took steps to bolster fireplace prevention and mitigation efforts.
The board directed county workers to establish funding essential to: develop and implement an aerial fireplace detection utilizing drones; improve coaching for the county’s Central Hearth District personnel; and pursue alternatives to step up gasoline discount efforts within the county.
The board in April directed the district to develop its Pre-Hearth Administration and Wildfire Resilience Program, together with the addition of a fuels crew devoted to clearing brush and vegetation alongside evacuation routes and roads to scale back wildfire ignitions and unfold.
The district’s boundaries embody Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and a portion of Saratoga and unincorporated lands in western Santa Clara County, an space largely contained in Supervisor Joseph Simitian’s District 5.