ADVISORY/``Around the World in 80 Ways'' Disabled Adventurers Land in San Francisco; Star in Special Life Game Benefit Performance at SomArts, Nov. 13th.Assignment Desks/Lifestyle, News, Entertainment Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Nov. 13th) SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2002 Travel Via Burning Man Art Cars, Cable Car, The Alma The four "Around the World in 80 Ways" adventurers have landed in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden from Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and will star in Fratelli Bologna's special showing of The Life Game(TM) Nov. 13th to celebrate their global adventures using 80 unique means of transportation. Performed at SomArts Cultural Center on Nov. 13th, the "Life Game(TM)" will spotlight the British adventurers and their journey around the globe which started in London in September. This special performance in San Francisco benefits the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors SAILORS. Seamen, mariners. Vide Mariners; Seamen; Shipping Articles. (www.baads.org). The team, who will arrive to the performance onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard. a fleet of Burning Man art cars, includes Caroline Casey and Miles Hilton Barber who are blind, Mike Mackenzie who uses a wheelchair, and their leader, Robin Dunseath, the modern day Phileas Fogg Phileas Fogg is the main fictional character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Protagonist Phileas Fogg lives at 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, a fashionable upmarket area of London in the 1870s. who challenged them to circumnavigate cir·cum·nav·i·gate tr.v. cir·cum·nav·i·gat·ed, cir·cum·nav·i·gat·ing, cir·cum·nav·i·gates 1. To proceed completely around: circumnavigating the earth. 2. the globe using 80 different modes of transportation. In San Francisco, their first U.S. city, they will travel on board the Cable Car, sail boats to the Hyde St. Pier and board the Alma to sail to Oakland's Jack London Square Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, hotels, an Amtrak station, a ferry dock, the historic Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, . The team will return to London on Dec. 3 in time for the United Nation's International Day for people with disabilities. For more information visit www.aroundtheworldineightyways.com.
WHAT: "Around the World in 80 Ways" - A Special Life Game(TM) Benefit
Event for Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors featuring
Burning Man Art Cars Display
WHO: The four disabled Adventurers
Fratelli Bologna and the Life Game cast
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Depart Ramada Plaza Hotel (1231 Market) at 6 p.m. aboard
Burning Man Art Cars, arrive SomArts at 6:15 p.m.
Performance from 8-10 p.m.
WHERE: SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St.
(between 8th and 9th Streets) in San Francisco
TICKETS: $25 general seating at the door or buy online at
www.lifegamesf.com
INTERVIEWS: To set up interviews with and/or to photograph the
adventurers during their Bay Area visit contact
Susan Arthur at 415/824-0663
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