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Arts & Entertainment Calendar
Thursday, June 6
Our Spanish Heritage
Music, History and Literature of the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Presented by His Majestie's
Musicians
5 p.m.
International House Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Bancroft Way and Piedmont
Reserve tickets at 528-1725
$12 general, $10 SFEMS members, children free
Friday, June 7
Tropical Vibrations and Shabang with Harry Best
A multi-cultural quintet playing a mix of Caribbean styles
Doors at 8:30 p.m. Show at 9 p.m.
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo at Gilman
Wheelchair accessible. All ages.
$11
Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party
Every Friday, with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man.
10 p.m.
Eli’s Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland.
655-6661
$10
Free Early Music Group
Singers needed for small group of 15th- and 16th-century music Fridays
10 a.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
Hearst at MLK Way.
Contact Ann, 665-8863
Saturday, June 8
Kotoja
Bay Area's leader in the World Beat and Afro-beat scene
Doors at 8:30 p.m. Show at 9:30 p.m.
Dance lesson with Comfort Mensah at 9 p.m.
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo at Gilman
Wheelchair accessible, All ages.
$12
Sunday, June 9
Band Works
Student recital featuring members who range in age from 12 to 50
Doors at 4:30 p.m. Show at 5 to 10 p.m.
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo at Gilman
Wheelchair accessible, All ages.
$3
Wedendsday, June 12
Norma Cole and Robin Caton
Authors read from their poetry and prose
7:30 p.m.
Cody's Books
2454 Telegraph Avenue
845-7852
$2 donation
Saturday & Sunday, June 8 & 9
Artists C.P. Fairburn
& Donna Montgomery
Painting & Jewelry
2315 San Jose Avenue, #1, Alameda
814-9017
ProArts East Bay Open Studios
497 artists will open their studios to the public for this 20th annual self-guided tour
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
West Berkeley Senior Center
1900 6th Street (University and Hearst)
705-8183
Tuesday, June 11
Art for the Earth!
A celebration of Eco-Art opening and slide show
6 to 8 p.m.
Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Avenue
548-2220 x233, www.ecologycenter.org
Free
Ongoing through July 14
Focus on the Figure
An outdoor show of contemporary figurative sculpture
Wed. to Fri. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A New Leaf Gallery
1286 Gilman Street
525-7621
Ongoing through June 9
What Cats Know
Lisa Dillman's comedy about four 30-something city dwellers
Thurs., Fri., & Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sun. at 7 p.m.
Transparent Theater
1901 Ashby Avenue
883-0305, www.transparenttheater.org
Wednesday, June 12
Cloud Nine
Caryl Churchill's play about race, class, history and sex set in 19th century colonial Africa
8 p.m.
The Rhoda Theatre
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2015 Addison Street
RSVP by Friday, June 7
647-2917
Saturday, June 8
West Coast Live
Radio Show marks Oakland's 150th Anniversary
10 a.m. to noon
91.7 KALW San Francisco, 91.1 KRCB Sonoma
