shorts: bay area

National arts award

goes to Swig

Roselyne "Cissie" Swig will be presented with the Patron of the Arts award on Oct. 27 by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

The New York-based organization is honoring the San Francisco leader for her support and involvement at such institutions as the State Department's Art in Embassies Program, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Jewish Museum San Francisco.

Free concerts honor

slain reporter Pearl

Several Bay Area concerts will be held next week in honor of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter killed by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.

On Thursday, a free concert of classical music will be presented at Stanford University in Palo Alto, where the Jewish journalist earned his undergraduate degree in 1985. The performance starts at 8 p.m. at the university's Memorial Church.

The Cotati Philharmonic Orchestra will present two free concerts in Santa Rosa at 8 p.m. on Oct. 11 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 12. Both performances will be at Sonoma Country Day School, 441 Aviation Blvd.

Oct. 10 would have been Pearl's 40th birthday. Information: http://danielpearl.org.

Pilot project funds

trips for seniors

Some 30 seniors from Rhoda Goldman Plaza, an assisted living center in San Francisco, will head to the theater on Oct. 19, thanks to the Clo Merle Fund.

The outing to "Beach Blanket Babylon" is the first of four to six such outings planned each year for residents at Rhoda Goldman Plaza, Menorah Park and other local senior facilities.

The fund, created in memory of the late Clotilde Merle, is launching the trips as a pilot project through the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.

It's 'curtains' for

actress, philanthropist

Actress Carol Channing and San Francisco philanthropist Richard Goldman will be honored Oct. 30 at a fund-raising celebration for the Institute on Aging.

Dubbed "Curtain Call," the event will be held 6 p.m. at the Coronet, a theater at 3575 Geary Blvd. purchased by the nonprofit institute as a future home.

Proceeds from the $175-per-person evening will benefit the organization's development fund for the new center. Information: (415) 750-4180, ext. 142.