40 things to do in Palo Alto over the next 14 days, gathered from local calendars and listings. Times and details can change — check the organiser’s page before you go.
Monday, October 26
- 9:00 AM — The Frontier Between Legendary Monsters and Verified Natural History, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning (stanford.edu)
- 9:00 AM — EH&S: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic (stanford.edu)
- 10:00 AM — A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford, Green Library, Bing Wing (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — Jan Karlseder - Escape from replicative crisis and immortalization precedes complex genome evolution, Stanford Neurosciences Building (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — Constructing Utopias: China’s New Town Movement in the 21st Century, Encina Hall (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — PATH+: Sherine Hamdy (Anthropology, UC Irvine): Landing in Place (stanford.edu)
- 12:15 PM — Artist Talk with Hiroyuki Murase (stanford.edu)
- 1:00 PM — Touch Me Not: 12th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery (stanford.edu)
- 1:00 PM — Green Library Book Display: Witches and Witchcraft, Hohbach Hall (stanford.edu)
- 1:00 PM — Tangling the Digital: Weaving, Printmaking, Computing, McMurtry Building, Coulter Art Gallery (stanford.edu)
- 4:00 PM — Alla Karpova | To think or not to think: the cost of cognitive offloading through the lens of a compositional construction framework in rats (stanford.edu)
- 4:00 PM — Being Muslim on Campus, Raikes Building, Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), Longview Meeting Room (stanford.edu)
- 4:00 PM — Alla Karpova | The mechanistic basis of compositionality in the prefrontal cortex (stanford.edu)
- 4:30 PM — Stanford Energy Seminar | AI, Energy, and Sustainability: From Innovation to Impact | Richard Newell, C3 AI (former), Shriram Center (stanford.edu)
- 4:30 PM — Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology – Joy H. Calico, UCLA, Braun Music Center (stanford.edu)
- 5:00 PM — Revolutionizing Privacy and AI with Meredith Whittaker, Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa (stanford.edu)
- 6:30 PM — Vintage Media Lab, Mitchell Park Library, Palo Alto (bibliocommons.com)
- 7:00 PM — BCAS Weekly Meditation, Old Union (stanford.edu)
- 7:00 PM — Bring Your Own PEER (Alcohol 101 training): Boba + Jellycat Raffle!, The Well House Lobby (stanford.edu)
Tuesday, October 27
- All day — Solid Pictures: Photosculpture and the Making of Modern Likeness, Cantor Arts Center, Pigott Family Gallery (stanford.edu)
- All day — Korean Indigenous Futures: The Art of Kim Bong-Jun 김봉준 판화전: 토착적 미래- K아트, 디아스포라, 세계, Lathrop Library (stanford.edu)
- All day — Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting, Palo Alto (paloalto.gov)
- All day — Alpha Palo Alto Open House, Grocery Outlet, Palo Alto (paloaltochamber.com)
- All day — Town & Country Village Halloween Hunt, Grocery Outlet, Palo Alto (paloaltochamber.com)
- 8:00 AM — Pediatric Grand Rounds (CME): When Governments Swipe Left: Australia’s Social Media Policy, Center for Academic Medicine , Grand Rounds Room (stanford.edu)
- 9:00 AM — The Frontier Between Legendary Monsters and Verified Natural History, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning (stanford.edu)
- 9:00 AM — EH&S: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic (stanford.edu)
- 10:00 AM — Drop in Tech Help, Rinconada Library, Palo Alto (bibliocommons.com)
- 10:00 AM — Vintage Media Lab, Rinconada Library, Palo Alto (bibliocommons.com)
- 10:00 AM — A Vision of Paris: The Roxane Debuisson Collection at Stanford, Green Library, Bing Wing (stanford.edu)
- 10:30 AM — Family Storytime, Children’s Library, Palo Alto (bibliocommons.com)
- 12:00 PM — After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age, Encina Hall, William J. Perry Conference Room (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — Sustainable Systems Seminar Lunch Series - From Reliability to Resilience: Risk-Informed Asset Management for the Energy Transition (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — materia Reading Session: Micropower and the Non-human (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — Maisha Winn, “Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination,” in conversation with Adam Banks (stanford.edu)
- 12:00 PM — Earth & Planetary Sciences Seminar - Dr. Ben Mirus “Quantifying controls on landslide potential, from a single tree to the entire nation” (stanford.edu)
- 1:00 PM — Touch Me Not: 12th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery (stanford.edu)
- 1:00 PM — Green Library Book Display: Witches and Witchcraft, Hohbach Hall (stanford.edu)
- 1:00 PM — Tangling the Digital: Weaving, Printmaking, Computing, McMurtry Building, Coulter Art Gallery (stanford.edu)
- 3:00 PM — Rooted! Black Graduate Student Support Group, Vaden Student Health Center (stanford.edu)
In the news
- Guest opinion: It’s time to stop mourning cyclists and start protecting them on Highways 84 and 35 — The Almanac, Oct 23. Opinion advocating for safety improvements for cyclists on Highways 84 and 35 in the local region.
- Trailblazing Uyghur restaurant Mrs Khan shutters in Menlo Park — Palo Alto Online, Oct 23. A pioneering Uyghur restaurant in Menlo Park has closed its doors after operating in the area.
- Portola Valley School District superintendent will retire — The Almanac, Oct 23. Portola Valley School District superintendent announces retirement plans.
- California Avenue Crosswalk Work Brings Parking Restrictions To Palo Alto — Palo Alto, CA Patch, Oct 23. Palo Alto installing stamped-asphalt crosswalks on California Avenue with temporary parking restrictions and potential driveway closures during the work.
- From crafts and ofrendas to live music and dancing, here’s how to celebrate Día de los Muertos in Silicon Valley — Palo Alto Online, Oct 22. Silicon Valley celebrates Día de los Muertos with crafts, ofrendas, live music, and dancing throughout the region.
- Coach, artist team up to create ‘The ABC’s of Basketball’ — Palo Alto Online, Oct 22. Local coach and artist collaborate to create an illustrated children’s book about basketball fundamentals.