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May 3-5
Wednesday, May 3
New Music at Berkeley (Berkeley Arts Festival)
Noon
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
This free concert will feature music from the graduate composition seminar of Cindy Cox.
Cinco de Mayo and Birthday Party Celebration
1:15 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
510-644-6107
Carefree, Carfree Tour to MusicSources (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1:30 p.m.
Meet at Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
A tour/demonstration by founder Laurette Goldberg of the early music resource center.
Lecture/demonstration by German composer Georg Graewe (Berkeley Arts Festival)
2 p.m.
UC Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT), 1750 Arch St. Free.
Buses No. 8, 65
Youth Arts Festival (Berkeley Arts Festival)
3 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St.
Youth Jamboree! Led by Greg Gomez, two school bands run the gamut from cool chamber music to hot jazz. Free.
“MAS 2000 Climbing School”
6 p.m.
REI Berkeley, 1338 San Pablo Ave.
Mountain Adventure Seminars offers an introductory rock climbing school with instruction on equipment, fundamental climbing techniques, basic anchoring and safety procedures. Registration required. Cost is $110. Wednesday’s in-store session will be followed by an outdoors session on Saturday morning.
209-753-6556
Quartet+1: 5 Berkeley artists in various media (Berkeley Arts Festival)
6-7:30 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
This is a reception for the artists participating in an exhibit at the festival’s headquarters. The artists work in a variety of ideas and medium. The artists – Carol Brighton, Corrine Innis, Mary Laird, Sylvia Sussman, and Audrey Wallace Taylor – cover a lot of territory in range of expression and representation. The scenes range from paintings of seascapes by Sussman and Wallace Taylor, to the mysterious rooms of the stupas of Tibet in Laird’s pastels. Brighton’s images of imaginary maps and mandalas in handmade paper and Innis’ expressive faces expand the range of media and image making in the show.
Transportation Demand Management Study public workshop
7 p.m.
Trinity United Methodist Church, 2362 Bancroft Way
This is Workshop #2 for the Transportation Demand Management Study being done by the City of Berkeley and the University of California. The study area includes Downtown Berkeley, the Southside, and the University. The meeting is accessible by AC Transit lines F, 7, 40, 51, 52, and 64, and UC Perimeter Shuttle. Parking on-site and in nearby garages (including Sather Gate).
510-705-8136
BUSD school board meeting
7:30 p.m.
Board/council chambers, Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Poetry Flash (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 p.m.
Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave.
The featured poets this week will Norman Fischer and D. Nurkse.
510-845-7852; 510-525-5476
“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
Senior Recital
8 p.m.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
This free concert will feature performances by 2000 graduating class audition winners.
Thursday, May 4
Jazzschool BART Plaza Concert (Berkeley Arts Festival)
Noon
The Advanced Jazz Workshop, under the direction of Mike Zilber, will perform. Sponsored by
Downtown Berkeley Association, Amoeba Music, BART, Berkeley Daily Planet.
Harris Seminar
Noon
119 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Rod Gould, city manager of San Rafael and the Stone &Youngberg California Local Executive-in-Residence, will speak on “Semi-RationalExuberance: The Outlook of a City Manager Facing the New Century.”
UC Students Poetry Reading (Berkeley Arts Festival)
12:10-12:50 p.m.
Morrison Room, Doe Library, UC Campus. Free.
Buses No. 7, 51, 64
Free computer class for seniors
1-4 p.m.
South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis St.
This free course offers basic instruction in keyboarding, Microsoft Word, Windows 95, Excel and Internet access. Space is limited; the class is offered Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Call ahead for a reservation.
510-644-6109
Movie: “Notting Hill”
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
510-644-6107
Draft Southside Plan: Public Safety
7 p.m.
Trinity United Methodist Church, 2362 Bancroft Way
This will be a discussion on the public safety element of the Southside Plan.
Youth Arts Festival (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St.
Poetry with Rita Davies & Katie Johnson Oxford Elementary School students read their original poems. Free.
“Best Bay Area Day Hikes”
7 p.m.
REI Berkeley, 1338 San Pablo Ave.
Author Ann Marie Brown gives a slide presentation from her book “101 Great Hikes of the San Francisco Bay Area.”
510-527-4140
Residential Street Sweeping Meeting
7:30-9:30 p.m.
St. John’s Church, 2727 College Ave.
The city is considering changes in its residential street-sweeping program. The public will have a chance to give input to the changes at the meetings.
510-665-3440
Friday, May 5
Historical Institutionalism Seminar
Noon
119 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Paul Pierson from Harvard University will be the featured speaker.
U.K. Seminar
Noon
201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Robert Peirce, counsellor, Political and Public Affairs for the British Embassy, in Washington, D.C., will discuss “Modern Britain: An Examination of Devolution and the Revitalization of Britain’s External Relationships – Europe, U.S. and the Commonwealth.”
Opera: Queen of Spades, Part One
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
510-644-6107
Carefree Carfree Tour to KALA Art Institute (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1:30 p.m.
Meet at Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Mr. Zhao, Lu Yue (China, 1998; Bay Area Premiere – Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 & 9:30 p.m.
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Buses No. 7, 51, 64
The Sounds of Berkeley: A Vibrating Experience (Berkeley Arts Festival)
8 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Helen Holt, Sherry Burke, Debra Dooling-Sherman, Dress, Aidan McIntyre, Art Peterson, Waldir Sachs, Robert Sherman, Steven Strauss, John Zalabak. $5, FOF (Friends of Festival) free.
Trinity Chamber Concerts
8 p.m.
Trinity Chapel, 2320 Dana St.
UC Berkeley’s Collegium Musicum, conducted by Anthony Martin, and the University Chamber Chorus, conducted by Marika Kuzma, will perform Venetian music from St. Mark’s for violins, recorders and voices. Tickets $10 general; $8 seniors and students.
510-549-3864
Cal Performances: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
8 p.m.
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus
This program will feature Cunningham’s “Summerspace” and the West Coast Premiere of Cunningham’s “Interscape,” set to music by John Cage. Tickets $20 to $40.
510-642-9988
Marcus Shelby Orchestra, big band, Ellington-inspired jazz (Berkeley Arts Festival)
8:30 p.m.
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. $10, FOF $8.
Bus No. 43
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