Citizenship Prep San Francisco

SFFD CPR and Stop the Bleed: Be Ready to Save a Life

Empower yourself to act in an emergency. Presented by the San Francisco Fire Department, this workshop teaches Hands-Only CPR and Stop the Bleed techniques. Learn simple, life-saving skills that boost confidence and preparedness, so you can help safely and effectively when every second counts. **Space limited. Reservations required: [register for this program](https://outlook.office365.com/book/CPRStoptheBleed@SFGOV1.onmicrosoft.com/?ismsaljsauthenabled)**[.](https://outlook.office365.com/book/CPRStoptheBleed@SFGOV1.onmicrosoft.com/?ismsaljsauthenabled) If you need any help with registration, please call the Business Science Technology Desk at 415-557-4488. For questions about the presentation, email SFFD Outreach at fireoutreach@sfgov.org **MeetUp RSVP does not guarantee registration for SFPL in person programs.**

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Language Exchange (Spanish and/or French) at Muddy Waters Cafe

Join us for a fun and free\* language exchange event at **Muddy Waters Coffee House** in the heart of San Francisco! Whether you're a beginner or fluent, this is the perfect opportunity to practice your language skills in a relaxed and friendly environment. Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of the Mission as you meet fellow language enthusiasts and native speakers. Engage in conversations, exchange cultural insights, and enhance your language fluency through real-life interactions. it's **not** necessary to practice both Spanish and French, we always have speakers of either language ready to converse. Muddy Waters offers wine, beer, food, and nonalcoholic drinks to keep you energized throughout the event. So grab your friends or come solo, and let's have a fantastic time discovering new languages and making lasting connections! \*The event is free. Please support our local bars by purchasing at least one item as they let us use the space for free. We accept tips to cover a few hundred dollars in annual expenses that the group incurs. Tipping the group is not required.

Marintrepreneur Meetup

Join the May 26, Meetup, 6:30-8:30 at Venturepad. 1020 B Street, San Rafael. Network, meet other entrepreneurs, ask and offer, find potential partners and co-founders, fill in your team. Guest speakers are a highly successful founders who founded, grew and recently sold a software firm.

Grand Loop of Redwood RP / 3,100' EG & 13 miles / Dogs ok

Business Acceleration Group Mastermind - CoBiz Richmond (Entrepreneurs)

**Richmond Entrepreneur Mastermind \| Business Acceleration Group \(BAG\)** Are you a business owner, entrepreneur, or professional in the Richmond area looking for more than just another networking event? Join us for the Richmond chapter of the Business Acceleration Group (BAG), a dynamic mastermind experience where growth-minded professionals come together for real conversations, fresh ideas, and practical business support. Hosted at **CoBiz Richmond**, this event takes place in a vibrant coworking and business incubator environment that’s all about entrepreneurship, collaboration, and community. It’s the perfect setting for meaningful conversations and business growth. ([CoBiz Richmond](https://www.cobizrichmond.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "CoBiz Richmond | Coworking Space & Business Incubator")) BAG is designed for people who want meaningful connections, smart strategy, and collaborative problem-solving, not just exchanging business cards. Our meetings are structured, engaging, and focused on helping each other move forward in business. **Reserve your spot here:** [https://businessaccelerationgroup.net/revenue/](https://businessaccelerationgroup.net/revenue/) You’re welcome to RSVP on Meetup too, but completing the registration form on our website helps us plan well and send you event details. *** **What You Can Expect** • Warm introductions and business updates • A focused discussion around business growth, sales, marketing, or strategy • Mastermind collaboration to help solve real business challenges • New ideas, fresh perspective, and practical takeaways • Genuine connections with other motivated professionals You’ll leave with more than contacts. You’ll leave with insight, encouragement, and momentum. *** **Who Should Attend** This event is a great fit for: • Entrepreneurs and small business owners • Consultants, coaches, and service providers • Sales and business development professionals • Real estate and finance professionals • Anyone who believes collaboration and relationships accelerate growth If you’re looking for deeper conversations and stronger business connections, you’ll feel right at home here. *** **First-Time Guests Are Welcome** If you’ve been curious about mastermind groups or want to experience the BAG community, we’d love to have you join us as a guest. *** **Hosted By** **Business Acceleration Group (BAG)** A collaborative community of entrepreneurs helping each other grow through strategy, relationships, and accountability.

Online Spanish Bilingual SF Toastmasters Weekly Meeting

During the Shelter in Place, we will be celebrating meetings through Zoom. You can submit your request to attend here or on our website. Join us every Thursday for this unique Toastmasters meeting in two languages! Every meeting is two meetings in one: an English segment, followed by a Spanish segment. Each segment is approximately 30-45 minutes, or 90 minutes total, adjourning promptly at 8:00pm. Each segment includes: * 1-2 prepared speeches (5-7 minutes) * Formal speech evaluations (2-3 minutes) * Impromptu speaking opportunities (Table Topics, 2-3 minutes) * Reports: Grammarian, Ah Counter, Timer (1-3 minutes) * After meetings, many of us go to a nearby restaurant for food and drinks. Learn more and request a visit at https://www.clubbilinguesf.org/visit LOCATION: Wells Fargo Museum, 420 Montgomery Street, San Francisco

🧫 Wet-Lab Bioreactor Fundamentals — Cell Culture Scale-Up Workshop

Join us at **Counter Culture Labs** (549 48th Street, Oakland, CA 94609) for an interactive **Wet-Lab Cell Culture Scale-Up Workshop**. Cells can produce a variety of molecules from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. They can also be used as lab-grown meat! Large volumes of cells are needed for production of desired biologicals, which can be achieved through scale-up of cell cultures and growth of cells in bioreactors. In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up a bioreactor culture. We will cover hands-on techniques from all stages of scale-up from thawing a cell sample to growing cells in flasks in incubators to inoculating a bioreactor and determining the appropriate bioreactor settings. We will practice setting up gas spargers, agitation rotors, a pH sensor probe, and a feeding pump. Participants will learn how to use a serological pipette, an autoclave, a micropipette, an incubator, and a bioreactor control panel. ***The workshop fee is $100. Venmo @ccl-plantbio (Message the event organizer via Meetup if you need an alternate payment method).*** This covers instruction and the materials and equipment used in the class. **About the Instructor** This workshop is taught by Anthony Neil Tan, a BioTech professional and graduate from UC Berkeley in Bioengineering. He is currently an independent research scientist and his projects center on biomass production of plant cells for harvest of high-value plant-derived chemicals. He has worked in the bioprocessing division at a cell-based meat company where he optimized the bioreactor cultures to maximize the yield of pork cells. *Unable to attend? Interested in other classes like plant genetic engineering, bacterial culture, microscopy? Join our mailing list to hear about upcoming workshops!* [https://tinyurl.com/wet-lab-bio-mailchimp](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tinyurl.com/wet-lab-bio-mailchimp&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1737581426807945&usg=AOvVaw3cAKe4offdqh3RXxiCtr3t)

IN-PERSON Podcast Club Meeting in SF: What is Courage?

**WE NEED TO FINALIZE OUR PIZZA ORDER! IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE MESSAGE SALINA ASAP TO LET HER KNOW IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN IN ON PIZZA. If you’re joining, say whether you want veg, non-veg or a mix. You can put your response in the Comments below instead. See below for more info on dinner.** **THIS WILL BE AN IN-PERSON PODCAST CLUB EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO!** It will *not* be on Zoom. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN 3-D! Please read all the details below! If you rsvp and your plans change such that you can't attend, **please** cancel your Meetup reservation as soon as possible. **The Podcast and What We'll Be Discussing:** What is courage? What elements need to be present for a person to be courageous? Does feeling great fear in acting (say, running into a burning building to save someone) mean a person isn’t courageous in that act? Or is it courageous to push through the fear and act? What about if a person acts unthinkingly and without fear? Can that be courageous, or is the person too simple-minded to be worthy of being deemed courageous? This week’s podcast, (unfortunately-named, imho) *The Art of Manliness*, considers these questions and many more in looking at courage. William Ian Miller, the podcast guest, a historian, professor of law, and the author of the book *The Mystery of Courage*, guides us through viewing courage from many angles. He discusses the thoughts, beliefs, or acts of great philosophers, the Vikings, literary characters, French duelers, soldiers in battle during the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, the 9-11 terrorists who flew the planes that crashed, and more. Miller also looks at moral courage, whether there can be “lonely courage,” and reveals how he thinks courage has changed in the modern age. Miller is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He is also Honorary Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews (UK). He has also taught at Harvard University, Yale University, The University of Chicago, and the Universities of Bergen and Tel Aviv. Miller’s area of specialty is the sagas of medieval Iceland, but he also has written extensively on human responses like revenge and courage. He is the author of many books. PLEASE NOTE: We require that attendees listen to the podcast below before attending the meeting to optimize discussion. https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/manly-lessons/podcast-1111-the-mystery-of-courage/ or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mystery-of-courage/id332516054?i=1000758399731 (57 min.) **The meeting venue:** We will be meeting at Groundfloor (see map and address on this page) at 3:30pm. For those who attended our last in-person meeting, it's the same venue in the Mission. Thank you to Clint for making this fantastic venue available to our group! **Dinner:** **Please join us for dinner and a relaxing, fun evening following our meeting!** We're trying something different this time. We'll order pizzas (both veg and non-veg, from Yummy Pizza Valencia) and have a nice salad to enjoy together at Groundfloor. All attendees should have received a message about food preferences. Please respond with your info asap by directly messaging Salina. If you haven't gotten that message, please let her know! Right now, we don't know the cost of the meal but it will be below $20. We'll let you know the final amount before the meeting and will collect it when we gather -- Venmo or cash please. Alternatively, you're welcome to find takeout or brown-bag your dinner -- a microwave oven should be available. Some drinks will be available, but feel free to bring your favorite beverage. Looking forward to a fabulous time! **Questions**: Please contact Salina if you have any questions! Allow some time for a response, as Meetup doesn't inform her of messages. **What's a podcast club?** It's like a book club for podcasts. Each week we discuss an interesting and currently-relevant episode from podcasters like Ezra Klein, Michael Shermer, or Russ Roberts. We start off as a large group and spend most of the time talking in small break-out groups, which we remix 3 times over the course of the evening. Our conversations are casual and open. We ask that everyone speak respectfully at all times, and we encourage free and concise discussion relevant to the week's podcast topic. To do this, we try to adhere to Grice's Maxims: [https://bit.ly/2p4uSQm](https://bit.ly/2p4uSQm) Ultimately, the idea is to help each other think a little differently, learn a thing or two and have some fun.

Monday Language Exchange Spanish-English

**Practice languages, make new friends, and have fun with us every week!** We're a group of people keen to improve our second language of all levels and meet new friends in the bay area. We're catered primarily to Spanish & English speakers but may expand to other languages in the future. If you've wanted to travel abroad and speak Spanish fluently or are a native Spanish speaker looking to improve your English, this group is for you! We meet on Mondays at 6:30 PM at Jupiter’s upstairs on the second floor in Berkeley. Address: 2181 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California, USA This is a free event although we encourage attendees to purchase food and drinks to support the business. This event is open to everyone.

Backpack in Spectacular Palisades Creek Trail

4 beautiful waterfalls! This is the Yosemite of Northern California without the crowds. After you RSVP. text 530-450-5768 to coordinate a call to discuss the trip, your experience, fitness etc. Please include your phone number and times that work for you for a call. We will meet at trailhead at Cascade Lake on 5/22 and camp there. On May 23rd we will backpack from the trailhead of Palisades Creek trail at Cascade Lake to the North Fork of the American River, 7 miles, all downhill and camp by a wonderful waterfall. https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/palisades-creek-trail--2 (Note that there are two Palisades Creek trails. We are doing the one from that is all trail NOT the one that has scrambling. ) On May 24th we will enjoy the river and the waterfalls. We will camp another at beautiful waterfall one mile 500 gain above the river. On May 25th we will backpack out 6 miles and 2,000 gain. I Kathi Simonsen reserve the sole right to modify the trip itinerary as I deem necessary at any time. * PARTICIPATION IN THIS MEETUP AFFIRMS THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREED TO THE FULL LEGAL DISCLAIMER AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY on [Meetup’s Backpackers of the American West's website](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5vagycqs7imueqnm4foud/Backpackers-of-the-American-West-Rules-and-Regulations-3-9-25.pdf?rlkey=q84l4kchrawlfa0yyugvkhvjo&st=zm3zzw76&dl=0).

Uvas Canyon Community Camp