Coming Up

* S. David Freeman, Stephen Hillenburg, Dustin Hoffman and Joel Reynolds will be honored at Heal the Bay’s 10th annual benefit dinner, “Bring Back the Beach,” on Thursday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Tickets $300. Call (310) 453-0395, Ext. 111.

* Members of the Mannequins of the Assistance League of Southern California will honor Ruth Lockwood, Ottilie Laybourne and Beverly Thrall at their annual Afternoon With Eve luncheon on Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Tickets $90. Call (323) 469-1973, Ext. 480.

* The Southern California Auxiliary of the Patriarch Athenogoras Orthodox Institute in Berkeley is hosting a luncheon with children’s author and illustrator Aliki in the San Marino gardens of Helen and Jerry Stathatos on Saturday.. Tickets $45, $5 for children. Call (323) 877-4696.

* Walt Kingsley, Bob Kommerstad and Richard Kline will be inducted into the Big Brothers of Greater Los Angeles Hall of Fame at the Commitment to Youth 2000 Awards Dinner on May 31 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Tickets $250. Call (323) 258-3333.

* The California Philharmonic Orchestra hosts its third annual “Wine and Strings” party and auction June 2 at Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museum. Tickets $75. Call (626) 300-8200.

* The first celebrity sailboat race and auction to benefit the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation will be held June 2 at the Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club in Marina del Rey. Tickets $125-$150. Call (818) 985-6220.

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Information for Social Circuits can be directed to Patt Diroll in Los Angeles or Ann Conway in Orange County. Diroll is at pattdiroll@earthlink.net; Conway at (714) 966-5952 or, by fax, (714) 966-7790.