The 38th annual Stanford Spring Faire is a regional fine arts and crafts faire held every year on the Stanford campus on Mother’s Day weekend. More than 100 artisans exhibit and sell their work during this three-day event, which also features food and free entertainment including the Bay Area Morris Dancers, a capella singing groups, and a swing dancing performance. The Faire is free and open to the public.

The Stanford Powwow is a three-day festival held every Mother’s Day Weekend in the Eucalyptus Grove on Stanford campus. A Pow Wow is an American Indian celebration of dancing and drumming that normally starts at noon until sunset. People wear traditional tribal regalia and there are dance contests in many different categories. The drummers compete to sing the longest or drum the best. (more…)

West Bay Opera closes its 2008-09 season with a new, fully staged production of Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman). Der fliegende Holländer is the last of Wagner’s Italianate operas and his first major success. For centuries, the Flying Dutchman sailed the seas, condemned to live until he could find salvation in the love of a truly faithful woman. Senta, a young girl in a Norwegian fishing village, proved herself faithful to the death. This event is a free preview. The full production opens May 23rd (more…)