Max Maven: Thinking in Person, City Hall Theatre, Church Street, 8 p.m. Tickets: adults $55, students $25. Available: Festival box office adjacent ferry terminal building, Front Street, noon to 2 p.m. daily except Sunday. Phone bookings during box office hours: 296-5774. Website: www.bermudafestival.org

Masterworks is holding Studio 183 for teens. Block Printing Workshop from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. Session of three classes - $90 non-members, $81 members. Studio 183 is a new offering designed especially for teens to explore various alternative art techniques. To register contact The Masterworks Foundation on 236-2950 or e-mail edumworkslogic.bm or go to www.bermudamasterworks.com and click events. is holding its 23rd annual reading conference at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess. It is open to anyone. The speakers will be Dr. Timothy Shanahan, president of the International Reading Association, Dr. Rachael McCormack, professor at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, Wendi McDonald, senior education officer at the Ministry of Education for primary schools. Two education students who are members of the future teachers of America will give a presentation for parents, ?Parents and Children Reading Together?. Tickets are $35. Available at the Youth Library on Church Street 295-0487.plant and bake sale at Waterville in Paget from 8.30 a.m. until noon. There is a race for Under-12s and Over-13s. Nobody under Primary Three. All proceeds go to the BUT Youth Development Projects.Members? opening, Winter exhibitions, 6 p.m. is holding its Annual General Meeting at 7.30 p.m. at the Horticultural Hall, Botanical Gardens, Paget. Telephone 238-0112.Lunchtime lecture, Bermuda National Gallery, City Hall. Walk-through of Winter exhibitions with BNG curators David Mitchell/Sophie Cressall, 12.30 p.m. Admission: general $5, members free. PartnerRe lecture: Twins of the Chonin: Kabuki Woodblock Prints, by Noel Chiappa. Reception 5.30 p.m. Lecture 6 p.m. Tickets: members $10, others $20.

Opera ? la Carte presents ?La Boheme? (set in 1960s), City Hall Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets: adults $55, students $25. Available: Festival box office adjacent ferry terminal building, Front Street, noon to 2 p.m. daily except Sunday. Phone bookings during box office hours: 296-5774. Website: www.bermudafestival.org

La Leche League of Bermuda is holding a meeting at 10.30 a.m. on the First Floor Conference Room at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The meeting topic is ?Preparing for childbirth and the new baby at home?. Free literature and a lending library will be available. Light refreshments will be served. Call 236-1120.

The Bermuda National Trust is holding a museum chat at Verdmont with Michael Darling who will talk about porcelain and its place in daily life. He will talk about different types of porcelain and how it may have fit into life at Verdmont. Telephone 236-6483 to reserve a seat. $10 for BNT members and $20 for non-members. 19th Annual sponsored walk. Dockyard to Albuoy?s Point for individuals and or teams. High seas date, February 18. Free ferry to Dockyard leaves the Hamilton Ferry terminal at 7 a.m. and walkers leave Dockyard at 7.30 a.m. Register at the Washington Mall, in St. George?s at the Bermuda National Trust Museum or the PALS office at 18 Point Finger Road in Paget. You must have a registration number to participate. Telephone 236-7257 for more information.Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, City Hall Theatre, Church Street, 8 p.m. Tickets: adults $55, students $25. Available: Festival box office adjacent ferry terminal building, Front Street, noon to 2 p.m. daily except Sunday. Phone bookings during box office hours: 296-5774. Website: www.bermudafestival.org

L?Alliance Francaise des Bermudes invites everyone to its monthly French film evening at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. In memory of French actor, Philippe Noiret, the film shown will be ?Cinema Paradiso?. English sub-titles. Members $4 and non-members $7. 8 p.m. For the pre-movie dinner at Le Bistro (formerly La Coquille) 6.30 p.m. Please book the day before (292-6122. Dinner $29.75 + grats.

The Bermuda National Trust is holding a jumble sale and auction at Whitney Institute. The preview starts on February 15 at 8.30 a.m. and the auction is on February 17 at 9 a.m.ACE Global Headquarters, 17 Woodbourne Avenue, Pembroke. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Admission free. Groups welcome by appointment ( 295-5200 for all information. ?Opposites? (juried members? show). Until February 10. Admission free. Further information: ( 234-2809 www.artbermuda.bm/home1.html.

Winter exhibitions (February 7-April 5): 1. New Acquisitions (recent gifts to our collection). 2. The Art of Drama: Kabuki theatre through Japanese woodblock prints. Ondaatje Wing:Revolving exhibition ?The Bermuda Collection: 350 years of art in Bermuda? - history traced through the development of fine/decorative arts. Admission free. Further information: ( 295-9428 or visit www.bng.bm

Bermuda Schools art exhibition (paintings, sculpture, papier mach?by public/private school students aged five to 18. Until February 16. Upper level, City Hall. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. Admission free. Further information: ( 292-3824. Hand-carved African sculptures by master Shona artists of Zimbabwe, including stone heads, animals, abstracts. Second floor, Crisson Building, 71 Front Street.