Kiwanis Fourth of July Parade: 9 a.m.-noon, Hartz and San Ramon Valley Boulevard. Theme: Celebrating Danville’s Heritage. www.srvkiwanis.org/parade/. WorldOne Festival: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. with music on the main stage until 6:30 p.m. Cerrito Vista Park, 950 Pomona Ave. Live entertainment, children’s fun area with carnival games, jump houses and rides, arts and crafts, art show and sale, food, and business and service booths. www.el-cerrito.org/july4. Related Articles7 great ways to view Bay Area fireworks this Fourth of JulyHelpful airport tips for Fourth of July travel5 fantastic Fourth of July desserts for that patriotic potluck or BBQ3 sizzling hot new barbecue cookbooks from an Iron Chef, Food52 and moreFourth of July Parade: 10 a.m. Along Texas Street. Pancake breakfast, 8-10:30 a.m., Fairfield Moose Lodge, 623 Taylor St. $6. www.fairfieldmainstreet.com.

KCI Summer Camp: Silicon Valley middle and high school students age 11-16 can explore the latest technologies in virtual reality, 3D printing, video production and more in KCI’s new makerspace, led by instructors with professional engineering and teaching expertise, July 3-Aug, 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m, Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, $699 per session; $50 early bird discount before May 1, bit.ly/kcisummercamp, Family Concert: The Palo Alto Philharmonic presents peacock black handpainted women flat shoes ballet flats handpainted khussa juti ethnic painted shoes brooch handpainted mojari i “Humor in Music,” a program featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, Strauss, Prokofiev, Peter Schickle and Lee Actor, May 20, 3 p.m, Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, $5-$10, paphil.org/performances..

Friends Bookstore: The Friends of the Saratoga Libraries have opened another used bookstore, offering a constantly changing inventory of approximately 500 hardcover and paperback books for adults, children and teens. All proceeds directly benefit the Saratoga Library. Joan Pisani Community Center lounge, 19655 Allendale Ave., Saratoga. Saratoga Village Certified Farmers Market: Local farmers with fresh fruit and produce, fresh fish, food specialties and handmade crafts from local artisans. Wednesdays, 2:30-7 p.m. Blaney Plaza, Saratoga Village. saratogachamber.org or 408-867-0753.

Black Diamond troupe presents ‘Nutcracker’, PITTSBURG — The nonprofit organization Black Diamond Ballet will present “The Nutcracker” Dec, 13 and 14 at the Pittsburg Creative Arts Building, 250 School St, This production features professional ballerinas and dancers, along with more than 40 Bay Area-trained student dancers and peacock black handpainted women flat shoes ballet flats handpainted khussa juti ethnic painted shoes brooch handpainted mojari i community performers from Brentwood to Vacaville, Artistic Director Sharon Sobel is a Pittsburg native and graduate of Pittsburg High, Showtimes are Dec, 13 at 7 p.m, and Dec, 14 at 2 p.m, Tickets are $10, and can be purchased by visiting http://www.blackdiamondballet.org/..

The tango, actually. It was 2000, and she’d just finished her first grueling year at Stanford. She’d aced her courses but felt overwhelmed and socially isolated. She was alarmed at the rate her fellow first-years were dropping out and was freaking out about the rough road ahead. In short, she was majorly stressed out. “(The instructor) was demonstrating these ideas in the class,” McGonigal says in a recent phone interview while in New York promoting her latest book, “The Upside of Stress,” the fourth in her field of health psychology. “So he grabbed me in a sort of tango hold and started dancing with me. (The symbolism) was that you can work with stress, use it to your advantage. It doesn’t have to be a bad thing.”.