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Sheila E. and Ronnie Lott
Get a head start on celebrating Sunday’s big game with a Super Bowl party hosted by someone who’s been to more than a few Super Bowls himself: legendary 49ers player and NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott. Headlining the festivities will be Grammy Award-winning musician Sheila E. — another local legend. Though she’s sometimes called the “Queen of Percussion,” Sheila E. is multi-instrumentalist who melds Latin rhythms with pop, funk, R&B, jazz and more. The show features a special appearance from social justice nonprofit Oakland Rising. Lott and Sheila E. return to The Guild after a 2023 kickoff held there for Follow the Music, a Bay Area-wide organization that aims to support young musicians and bolster music education. A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit Follow the Music and Elevate Oakland, a nonprofit founded by Sheila E. to support arts education in Oakland schools.
Feb. 6, 8 p.m., at The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets are $115-$208. guildtheatre.com.
‘Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen’
Zareen Khan, the chef behind a well-loved Peninsula chain of eateries discusses her 2025 cookbook, “Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen: Recipes From a Well-Fed Childhood.” Along with her husband, Umair Khan, Zareen founded Zareen’s, which serves up casual Pakistani and Indian dishes in Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. Zareen and Umair Khan also wrote the cookbook together. The book features Pakistani dishes from traditional street food to comforting family favorites, but adapted a little bit to fit the ingredients available to American home cooks The book also explores common cooking methods for these meals.
Feb. 6, 6:30-8 p.m., at Fireside Books & More, 2421 Broadway, Redwood City; free admission firesiderwc.com/events.
The Viano Quartet
Coast Live Music kicks off its third season with a performance by The Viano Quartet. The string ensemble performs both classical masterworks as well as new repertoire, according to their bio, and has collaborated with contemporary composers such as Sir Stephen Hough, Kevin Lau, Chris Rogerson and Caroline Shaw. This summer, they plan to premiere a new string quartet by Indian-American composer Reena Esmail. In 2024, they became residents in the Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, and in 2025, they took home the Avery Fisher Career Grant, also from Lincoln Center. Coast Live Music is a Peninsula-based nonprofit focused on bringing music to a wider audience. It was founded by Portola Valley resident and violinist Livia Sohn.
Feb. 7, 7 :30 p.m., at Portola Town Center, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley; $75 front row, $55 general admission. coastlivemusic.com/event/vianoquartet.
‘An Afternoon of Dance and Music’ at Qualia gallery
Art is not only on the walls at Qualia Contemporary Art, but leaping, pirouetting and tickling the ivories throughout the gallery as well. As part of a dialogue with its two current solo exhibitions, “Hung Liu: Mixed Mediations” and “Guillermo Galindo: Tortoise,” Qualia is hosting an afternoon dance performance and piano recital. “Run All The Way Home” is a dance piece about a grandmother, mother and daughter that takes loose inspiration from Little Red Riding Hood. Pianist Victor Xie will perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Petites esquisses d’oiseaux,” that emulates birdsong and then explore that concept further with his own newly composed works for his series “The Phoenix.” “This performance — written, choreographed, and performed by an all Asian American team — continues this conversation by centering diasporic and intergenerational stories,” an event description said.
Feb. 7, 2 p.m., at Qualia Contemporary Art, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto; free admission; eventbrite.com.
‘10,000 Memories’
Nearly 80 years ago, the end of the British Indian Empire led to the formation of India and Pakistan as separate states, an event called The Partition, which displaced millions of people and led to violence. The Los Altos History Museum delves into this time of great upheaval with “10,000 Memories: Partition, Independence, and WWII in South Asia,” an exhibition that brings together photos, firsthand accounts and multimedia storytelling. The exhibit was developed as a collaboration with The 1947 Partition Archive, a nonprofit based in the East Bay and was curated by that group’s founder, Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla, a descendant of a Partition survivor, according to an announcement about the event. The exhibit will be on display through May 24 and the museum will host monthly events related to the show, including a poetry reading on Feb. 18.
Through May 24 at the Los Altos History Museum, 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos; losaltoshistory.org/exhibit/stories-of-partition.
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