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The Alameda Public Affairs Forum is a voluntary non-profit,non-partisan educational group whose purpose is to educate the public in Alameda and the wider San Francisco-East Bay Area about issues of local, national, and international concern.

The APAF presents forums, discussion meetings and seminars to which the public is invited free of charge.

Voluntary donations to cover the costs of presenting the meetings and publicity are solicited at the meetings.

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FORUM LOCATION

Unless otherwise noted, the Forum is held every second Saturday evening from 7 to 9:30 pm in Conference Rooms A/B at the Alameda Free Library, 1550 Oak St., Alameda, California.

Map/Directions

On Public Transit:

From Fruitvale BART, take AC Transit 50 to SW Corner of Park St. at Santa Clara. Walk NW one block to Oak St. Turn right; one block down is the library. Enter through rear entrance at parking lot.

ABOUT ELISABETH ELIASSEN

Eliz Eliassen photoElisabeth Eliassen, Administrator for the Alameda Public Affairs Forum and the Center for Global Peace and Democracy, is a singer who performs regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay region as a soloist and chamber musician.

She is a freelance editor for independent writers and a poetic diarist currently at work on a new collection of poems and a novel. Ms. Eliassen’s work from Songs of a Soul Journey and unpublished manuscripts is being set to music by an increasing number of local composers.

She brings to her work a love of community and a desire to nurture healthy activism at a local level.

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