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Calendar of Events & Activities
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.
Family Reading Night
6:30 p.m.
Rosa Parks Elementary School, 920 Allston Way
The Berkeley PTA Council is sponsoring this event to encourage reading by all members of local families. The free event will include a reading workshop, a reading pledge a free dinner and treats. A prize drawing will be held, and prizes will include 11 computers.
510-647-5219; 510-849-2683; 510-644-6618
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
Saturday, May 6
Restore a Salt Marsh
9:30 a.m.
Meet on the south side of Buchanan Street, between the freeway and Golden Gate Fields
Join Friends of Five Creeks and the California Native Plant Society in clearing invasive ice plant from the salt marsh at the mouth of Codornices and Marin Creeks. Bring work gloves if you have them.
510-848-9358; f5creeks@aol.com
Berkeley Potters Guild Spring Show
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Jones and Fourth streets
This show-and-sale highlights work by clay artists, Ikebana demonstrations, one-of-a-kind bargains throughout the complex of art studios, and more. The event is free.
510-524-7031
Berkeley Farmers’ Market
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Center Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street
510-548-3333
Jefferson School PTA Mayfair
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Jefferson School, Rose and Sacramento streets
The fair will feature a cakewalk, carnival games and other booths, a benefit drawing for a quilt and many other prizes, plants and used children’s books for sale, art activities, entertainment, food, and more. Free admission and reasonable prices.
510-528-8191
John Muir School May Faire
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
John Muir School, 2955 Claremont Ave.
This annual event will include food, games, a yard sale and craft activities. The highlight of this year’s May Faire will be the annual PTA quilt raffle. The May Faire is free; tickets for the Quilt Raffle are available for $1 each, or six tickets for $5. The proceeds will be spent on projects at the school.
510-644-6410; 510-540-1028
The New School International Family Fair
11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Bonita Street between Cedar and Virginia streets
This block party will feature a handcrafts bazaar, games and activities for children, raffle, a Capoeira demonstration, Flamenco, African, and Philippine dance, Taiko drumming, Native American flute music, and more. The event is free.
510-548-9165
“The Rides of Spring”
11 a.m.
Meet at the Berkeley Farmers’ Market, Center Street between Milvia and MLK
The Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition is sponsoring this community bike ride, which may visit the Berkeley Marina, Cesar Chavez Park, the Ohlone Greenway, Cedar-Rose Park - the actual “destinations” will be decided as the bikes travel. The group expects to be back downtown in time to participate in the Berkeley Music Circus Festival.
510-601-8124
Cinco de Mayo Celebration, a family sing-along (Berkeley Arts Festival)
11:30 a.m.
Habitot Children’s Museum, 2230 Shattuck Ave. Children $6, Adults $3, FOF $5 & $2.
Downtown Music Circus (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1-5 p.m.
Hundreds of musicians of every tradition will gather on Shattuck Avenue between University Avenue and Haste Street, playing from streetside, stores, balconies, cafés, and a piano situated on the divider at Center St. You, too, can bring an instrument and join in the fun. Sponsored by the Downtown Berkeley Association and Amoeba Music.
For Fun, Ning Ying (China/Hong Kong, 1995 - Berkeley Arts Festival)
7 p.m.
On the Beat, Ning Ying (China, 1995)
9 p.m.
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Bus No. 7, 51, 64
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
Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra (Berkeley Arts Festival)
8 p.m.
St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St.
Bach, B Minor Mass. Free.
Bus No. 51
Liam Ensemble: Traditional Persian Music (Berkeley Arts Festival)
8 p.m.
Julia Morgan Theater, 2646 College Ave. $25.
Celebration of Spring: A Benefit for the Crowden School (Berkeley Arts Festival)
8 p.m.
St. John’s Church, 2727 College Ave.
Turtle Island String Quartet. Tickets: 658-2799.
California Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra
8 p.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2300 Bancroft Way
Warren Stewart will conduct the chorus and orchestra in their performance of J.S. Bach’s “Mass in A Major” and Cantata 21. Tickets $20 general; $15 seniors; $10 students.
650-299-8616; www.calbach.org
