San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club year-round as well as various educational activities such as Learn-to-Curl sessions. In September 2017 the SFBACC announced they had signed a lease agreement for a building in Oakland with the intention of building California's only dedicated curling center. The facility will have five curling sheets and is expected to open in the fall of 2018. The SFBACC has hosted the Golden Gate Bonspiel annually each spring during Memorial Day weekend since 2008. The tournament is held at Solar4America Ice at Fremont. The club teaches Learn-to-Curl events throughout the year to expose new people to the sport. During the Winter Olympic
How Like a Winter (2003) How Like a Winter's debut CD "...Beyond My Grey Wake" comes out and the response was simply phenomenal". The band are currently working on new material. The band's name is taken from the first line of William Shakespeare's sonnet XCVII:- "How like a winter hath my absence been". How Like a Winter How Like a Winter is a gothic doom metal band from Italy that was formed in the mid-1990s, although their first recording wasn't until much later. The band's music, which can be described as atmospheric and melancholy, is composed using violins, various classical, acoustic and electric guitars,