The campaign launched in November to save the Stephen’s Meat “Dancing Pig” sign on Montgomery Street is off to a great start. Nearly $10,000 in donations have come in to the Preservation Action Council, and there should be more on the way thanks to a fundraising event planned for Feb. 25 at the Poor House Bistro, which is just a block away from the iconic sign.

Jay Meduri, who owns the New Orleans-themed restaurant at 91 S. Autumn Street, plans to donate 25 percent of the food and beverage sales that day to the cause, and there’ll be a Save Our Dancing Pig party from 2 to 6 p.m., with live music and a silent auction, too.

The effort to restore the sign and get the pig dancing again is expected to cost more than $30,000 — and that doesn’t include ongoing maintenance. If you can’t make the Poor House Bistro party, donations for renovating the Dancing Pig can be made at preservation.org/pac_donate.html.

HONORING THE REGION’S BLACK LEGENDS: Another class of groundbreaking African-Americans will be honored Feb. 10 at the third annual Black Legend Awards ceremony at the Hammer Theatre Center in San Jose.

This year’s honorees are former San Jose City Councilman Forrest Williams; Henrietta Burroughs, founder of the East Palo Alto Center for Community Media; Evergreen Valley College interim President Keith Aytch; retired Berryessa Union School District Superintendent Will Ector, Jr.; business owner John D. Dumas; NASA Ames Research Center Chief of Staff Karen C. Bradford; Oscar Battle, Jr., chair of the African-American Faculty and Staff Association at San Jose State; attorney David W. Epps; Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Rise Pichon; the Rev. Dr. Louis Jones, Jr.; Inez Jackson, the late founder of the African American Community Services Agency; James H. Payne; and the late engineer and educator Carl F. Ray.

Created by the Joyner/Payne Youth Services Agency, the Silicon Valley Black Chamber of Commerce and the African-American Community Service Agency, the ceremony is a fundraiser to develop a San Jose Black History Museum of Silicon Valley, which will include a Black Legends Hall of Fame. Tickets for the event, which begins with red-carpet arrivals at 5 p.m., are $150 a person. Go to www.blacklegendawards.org for more details.

MOVIE NIGHT WITH A CAUSE: Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez will emcee the annual Lunafest, a short-film festival and fundraiser at the San Jose Woman’s Club on Feb. 2.

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Virtual spin on San Jose’s Mexican Independence Day celebration This year’s program features nine films made by, for and about women. Event chair Lynda Sereno says the San Jose Woman’s Club is again hosting the event in honor of the late Lani Luthard, a longtime member and cancer prevention activist who first hosted the festival in her home in 2009 and brought it to the club in 2011. Proceeds will benefit several nonprofits, including Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, the Sempervirens Fund, Chicken and Egg Pictures and the Woman’s Club’s charitable giving program.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with a health and wellness boutique, followed by cancer prevention tips and the film screenings. Tickets are $20-$50 — with comfy “living room” seating being auctioned off to the highest bidder — and are available at sjwomansclub.org/lunafest.