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Calendar of Events & Activities
Saturday, April 29
Christmas in April
All Day
Volunteers from local organizations, businesses and institutions will spend the day refurbishing homes and community centers throughout Berkeley, Emeryville, Albany and North Oakland.
510-644-8979
Earth Week 2000
9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
UC Berkeley campus
This weeklong event features a series of activities and workshops each day. Call organizers to get a detailed list of each day’s program, or visit the group’s web site. The group’s office is in 303 Eshleman Hall.
510-643-9703; www.earthweek2000.org
Berkeley Farmers’ Market
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Center Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street
510-548-3333
The Summit Road - Selby Path Loop
10 a.m.-noon
Tour begins at the intersection of Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Summit Road.
Paul Grunland will lead this tour exploring Berkeley’s highest residential street, which serves as an interface between the Berkeley urban setting and Tilden Park. This walk will offer (on a clear day) commanding views of Tilden Park (and its golf course) and the San Francisco Bay region. This is part of the Spring Walking Tours sponsored by the Berkeley Historical Society. The price is $5 per tour or $20 per season ticket for Berkeley Historical Society members. The price is $10 per tour for non-members. Limit of 30 people on this tour.
510-848-0181
West Coast Live
10 a.m.
Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
Join the studio audience as Sedge Thompson hosts musical guests, authors and others for his live radio broadcast. This week’s guests will be authors Edna O’Brien and Diane Johnson, folk trio Rebecca Riots and actor Tanya Shaffer. Cost is $12.
415-664-9500
Adios! Plum City Players
10:30 a.m.
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave.
After more than 20 years of performing, writing, and recording songs, stories, and music games for children and families, The Plum City Players are bidding farewell to generations of audiences with a final show. Founded by Annie Hershey, Bonnie Lockhart, and Nancy Schimmel, The Plum City Players have woven storytelling, original songs, and multi-cultural music games into a unique entertainment for children and families. Tickets are $4 adults, $3 children.
UC Berkeley Pow-wow
11 a.m.-11:30 p.m.
North Field (behind Hearst Gym near Bancroft Way), UC Berkeley campus
The 16th annual pow-wow will feature open gourd dancing at 11 a.m., the grand entry at noon and 6:30 p.m. and a series of events and activities throughout the day. Sponsors for the event include the Native American Advisory Council, the Native American Recruitment and Retention Center, the Inter-Tribal Student Council, the American Indian Science and Engineering Association, the Cal Alumni Association, the Berkeley Pledge and ASUC.
510-643-6592; 510-642-6613
Asthma and Allergy Community Health Festival
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Lake Merritt Lakeside Garden Center, Oakland
The Alameda Alliance for Health is sponsoring this event, where people can learn how to manage asthma through interactive games, educational workshops and seminars. Music, entertainment and activities for kids of all ages will be offered, and the festival is free.
510-895-9355
Berkeley Bay Festival
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Berkeley Marina
The Berkeley Bay Festival has been an (almost) annual event at the Berkeley Marina since 1937. In the past 22 years that environmental education programs have been taught at the Berkeley Marina, the Festival has had an environmental education and boating theme. Exhibitors from recreational and educational organizations will be staffing booths offering games and activities, selling merchandise, and making presentations.
“Calling a truce to the War on Drugs”
11 a.m.-5 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
Speakers at this city forum include Alexander Cockburn, speaking on the “CIA, the U.S. Government and the Drug Trade;” Chris Conrad, co-author of “Shattered Lives;” Superior Court Judge James P. Gray of Orange County; and Robert MacCoun, professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
510-594-4088
Sense of Smell event
Noon-3 p.m.
Lawrence Hall of Science, Centennial Drive, above UC Berkeley campus
Explore the hows and whys behind your sense of smell with hands-on and “noses-on” fun.
510-642-5132; www.lhs.berkeley.edu
Open Mike Reading
2-4 p.m.
Arts Magnet Poetry Garden, Milvia and Lincoln streets
Young or older, everyone is welcome to read or listen to a poem written by you or a favorite author. The Poetry Garden is dedicated in memory of poet Allen Ginsberg, whose cottage was located across the street.
510-644-3971
World Trade for the People: Seattle, D.C., and Beyond
2 p.m. lunch; 3 p.m. forum
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave.
Forum and report back from Washington D.C. with Global Exchange Forum Speakers: Horace Small, Medea Benjamin and others. Tickets are $15-$25.
415-789-8497
“Celebrate the Children of Resistance”
7:30 p.m.
Berkeley Community Theater, 1900 Allston Way
This is a benefit for the Rosenberg Fund for Children and the Middle East Children’s Alliance featuring performances by Danny Glover, Ed Asner, Janice Mirikitani, Ani DiFranco with Utah Phillips, Holly Near, the Oakland Youth Chorus, and others. Tickets are $10 to $23.
510-548-0542
Authors event
7:30 p.m.
Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave., Kensington
Jaqueline Girdner will read from “Murder, My Deer: A Kate Jasper Mystery.” Joining her will be Lynne Murray, who will read from “Large Target: A Josephine Fuller Mystery.” This event is free.
510-559-9184; www.boadeciasbooks.com
Stoney Burke 20th Anniversary Film & Video Festival
8 p.m.
Berkeley Arts Festival headquarters, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Maverick street performer and UC iconoclast Stoney Burke will celebrate 20 years of free speech satire, as a prelude to the upcoming Berkeley Arts Festival. Tonight’s event will feature the award-winning PBS short “Stoney Does Houston.” The evening also will include live performances. Tickets are $5-$8, and the event is free for “Friends of the Festival” members.
510-665-9496; www.berkeleyartsfestival.com
Cal Performances: The John Scofield Band
8 p.m.
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus
The innovative jazz guitarist and band members headline the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival. Tickets are $16 to $26.
510-642-9988
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
8 p.m.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Under the direction of David Milnes, the University Symphony Orchestra, the University Chorus and the University Alumni Chorus will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection Symphony.” New works by Berkeley composers also will be performed.
“Canterbury Tales: Saints and Sinners”
8 p.m.
St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 2837 Claremont Blvd.
This performance of Geoffrey Chaucer’s work will feature cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Included are the tales of the Second Nun, the Canon’s Yeoman, and the Manciple. The Second Nun draws us into the story of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, whose faith is tested to the extreme by idolatrous authorities. Tickets are $20 general; $15 seniors; $10 students.
877-4CHAUCE; 510-601-TWEB
Sunday, April 30
Jack London Book and Paper Collectors Fair
10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina, 200 Marina Blvd.
This antiquarian book show features over 50 dealers with fine books, ephemera and paper collectibles. Admission is $6.
510-444-2159
Earth Week 2000
Noon-6 p.m.
UC Berkeley campus
This weeklong event features a series of activities and workshops each day. Call organizers to get a detailed list of each day’s program, or visit the group’s web site. The group’s office is in 303 Eshleman Hall.
510-643-9703; www.earthweek2000.org
People’s Park 31st Anniversary Festival
1-6 p.m.
People’s Park
Celebrate the park’s anniversary with a variety of bands, special guests and activities. Scheduled bands include “Chemistry Set,” “Nameless & Faceless,” “Funky Nixons,” “Tahazgha” and “All Nations Drummers. Special guests include Utah Phillips, the X-Plicit Players, the May Day Folks, Julia Vinograd, Carol Denney, Halle Hammer and more poets and speakers. Other activities will include skateboarding demos, animal petting zoo, facepainting, puppets, and a May Pole.
510-845-7194
Rhyme and Reason Open Mike Series
2:30 p.m.
UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Ave.
This free event will feature poet Max Schwartz. The public and students are invited. Signups for the open mike begin at 2 p.m.
510-234-0727
Cal Performances: Beaux Arts Trio
3 p.m.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
This is a program of works by Beethoven and Ravel. Tickets are $32.
510-642-9988
Monday, May 1
Berkeley Arts Festival kickoff
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Scheduled participants include Mayor Shirley Dean, The City Council and Friends Singers, the Crowden School’s Apollo Quartet, and pianists Sarah Cahill and Jerry Kuderna. This event is free.
510-665-9496; www.berkeleyartsfestival.com
Political Junkies
Noon
119 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Jon Bernstein will lead this gathering.
“Census 2000”
12:15 p.m.
H’s Lordships, 199 Seawall Drive
Ray Barton will be the featured speaker for this week’s meeting of the North Oakland-Emeryville Rotary Club.
Free Copwatch Class
6 p.m.
Copwatch office, 2022 Blake St.
Learn about police accountability, your rights when dealing with the police and how to stop police brutality. Sponsored by Berkeley Copwatch.
510-548-0425
Bringing Back Steelhead
7 p.m.
Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave.
Jeff Miller, founder of Alameda Creek Alliance, talks about challenges and successes in restoring runs of threatened steelhead in the East Bay’s largest creek.
510-848-9358; f5creeks@aol.com
Rent Stabilization Board
7 p.m.
City Council Chambers, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
The meeting is broadcast on KPFB 89.3 and televised on BTV Ch-25. The board will discuss a request from the City Council to provide increased protection to certain elderly and/or disabled tenants from owner/family move-in evictions.
Landmarks Preservation Commission
7:30 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
The commission will decide whether to continue a public hearing on a structural alteration permit for Civic Center Park and consider a recommendation for denial of a structural alteration permit for the “Kress Building” at 2136 Shattuck Ave. The commission also will discuss the Underhill Environmental Impact Report.
Write Your Own Story
7:30-9:15 p.m.
Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.
Published poet and journalist Reuben Halpern will lead this workshop on writing your own stories, including poetry, short stories, diary or prose. This Monday evening series continues through May 22.
510-848-0237, ext. 128
