Dia de Portugal Festival. Food, information, vendors, music, a parade, children’s activities. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. June 14. History Park, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose. Free admission, $6-$10 parking. www.diadeportugalca.org/festival. Free Friday Night Bands on the Beach. Each Friday the Boardwalk will feature a band performing two shows, 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. beginning June 13 with Smash Mouth through Aug. 29. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St. 831-423-5590. www.beachboardwalk.com. Juneteenth in the Park in San Jose. A celebration of the spirit of African-American independence. Noon-8 p.m. June 14. St. James Park, First Street and St. James Street. 408-978-5176, www.bayareajuneteenth.org.

Chinese New Year Celebration: Ring in the Year of the Horse with an afternoon of festivities including dragon and lion dances and other traditional live performances, Feb, 22, 1- 4 p.m, Santana Row, Stevens Creek and Winchester boulevards, San Jose, 408-551-4611, Lego Club: Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month, 4 p.m, Cambrian Library, 1780 Hillsdale Ave., San Jose, sjpl.org/cambrian, Preschool Storytime: With “Stay and Play.” Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m, Cambrian Library, 1780 Hillsdale blush princess bridal ballet shoes, blush pink fancy bridal ballerina slipper, blush pink flat wedding shoes, blush pink bridal Ave., San Jose.sjpl.org/cambrian..

“We started this with zero dollars,” says Brittany Blum, co-owner of yoga studio Ritual San Francisco. Ritual opened earlier this year in a 1,000-square-foot studio that is inside a large gym. Ritual’s owners negotiated a deal with the gym, paying it a percentage of sales instead of a monthly rent. Ritual charges $25 for its classes. Yoga moves are set to the beat of bass-heavy songs, such as Ginuwine’s “Pony” and 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop.” The studio is lit only with candlelight, and clients get a head massage before leaving. “You feel like a better version of yourself; calmer, happier, more energized,” says Anne Faricy, a brand strategist in San Francisco, who goes to Ritual’s classes about four times a week.

For Clark, an expert in the music of the pioneering 12th-century composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval devotional texts sung by Vajra Voices evoke a world in which spirit and flesh “comingle with such sensuality, I don’t know how Hildegard von Bingen gets away with it, Her ‘Antiphon to the Virgin’ is a very graphic text about how God chose to enter the docile female, You see that throughout her poetry.”, In addition to Petaluma-based contralto Clark, Vajra Voices features Allison Lloyd, Amy Stuart Hunn, Cheryl Moore, Phoebe Jevtovic Rosquist, and founding members Lindsey McLennan Burdick and Celeste Winant, The vocalists will be joined on vielle, medieval harp, recorder and psaltery by Kit Higginson, a founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz, and Shira Kammen, who’s blush princess bridal ballet shoes, blush pink fancy bridal ballerina slipper, blush pink flat wedding shoes, blush pink bridal recorded extensively in an array of early music, Sephardic and Celtic music settings, including Camerata Mediterranea, Ensemble P.A.N, and Ensemble Alcatraz..

The program, which repeats through Sunday in Palo Alto, San Francisco and San Rafael, continues the ensemble’s search for a new leader (music director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has announced that she will leave the New Century group at the end of the 2016-17 season.). The latest entry is Ray Chen. Serving as the orchestra’s guest concertmaster, leader and soloist, the Taiwanese-Australian violinist, a winner of the Queen Elizabeth and Yehudi Menuhin competitions, made an appealing first impression. Boasting youthful energy and keen musical intelligence, the violinist plays the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius instrument (yes, that Joachim: Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, who inspired Brahms’ Violin Concerto.) At Thursday’s performance, it sounded gorgeous. “After 300 years of playing,” he said of the instrument, “the notes are already in there.”.