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Calendar of Events & Activities
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 between 2 and 3 p.m., 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.
Bus No. 51
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.
Bus No. 51
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
Berkeley New Music Project
8 p.m.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
This concert will feature new music by graduate student composers. The concert is free.
Sunday, May 7
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’s Cinco de Mayo Celebration
10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Civic Center Park
This free event will feature mariachis, salsa bands, Latin jazz and Tex-Mex music, dancers, clowns, face painters, a petting zoo, vendors of arts and crafts, and more.
510-549-0192
Jazz on Fourth Street (Berkeley Arts Festival)
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
A benefit for the Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble with Mingus Amongus, Charanga Tumbao y Cuerdos, Kemp Generation, Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble.
Bus No. 51
Carefree Carfree Tour to Bernard Maybeck’s First Church of Christ-Scientist (Berkeley Arts Festival)
11:30 a.m.
Meet at Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Crowden School Community Music Day (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1-5 p.m.
Crowden School, 1475 Rose St.
A family affair with an instrument “petting zoo” for children of all ages. Performances by the Kairos Youth Choir, the Arethusa Woodwind Ensemble, and the Rose Street Players Musical Theater. Free.
510-559-6910
Bus No. 67
Kimi Kodani Hill Lecture on Berkeley’s Ethnic Diversity (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1 p.m.
1931 Center St.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Historical Society. Free.
510-848-0181
History/Storytelling Day
1-4 p.m.
People’s Park
Come, and share your stories of the Park’s rich history of activism. Bring ideas for creating a People’s Park Archive. This event is sponsored by the People’s Park Community Gardening Collective.
510-601-8643
Youth Arts Festival (Berkeley Arts Festival)
2 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St.
Washington School Student Concert and Dances from Sri Lanka. Free.
Sketches on a Windy Afternoon
3 p.m.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Robert Calonico and Jonathan Elkus will conduct the UC Davis Concert Band and University Wind Ensemble in this performance of works by Sousa, Holst, Jerome Rosen, Franz Von Suppe, Bach, Percy Grainger and Fisher Tull.
Three Tenors
4:30 p.m.
Jazzschool/La Note, 2377 Shattuck Ave.
Tenor saxophonists Tony Corman, Dave Tidball and Jim Norton will be joined by Matt Clark, piano, Jeff Massinari, guitar, Fred Randolph, bass, and Phil Hawkins, drums. General admission $12; students/seniors $10; Jazzschool Students/Children under 13, $6. Limited seating; reservations recommended.
510-845-5373
China: Fifty Years Inside the People’s Republic (Berkeley Arts Festival)
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Berkeley Art Museum Theater
Slide Show and Panel Discussion: Other Views, with photographers Jeffrey Aaronson and Xing Danwen, moderated by Robert Templer.
Himalayan Fair Concert (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7 p.m.
King Middle School, 1781 Rose St.
This concert will feature Ali Khan, Ancient Future, Stephen Kent and Eda Maxym, Viviana Guzman, Techung and Jeff Greenwald. Proceeds benefit grassroots projects in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Tibet. Tickets $15.
510-848-6767, ext. 609; www.himalayanfair.net
Buses No. 15, 67
Cal Performances: The Kronos Quartet
7 p.m.
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus
The quarter will be joined by soprano Dawn Upshaw in a program of 20th century music. Tickets $20 to $42.
510-642-9988
News from Native California Magazine presents ShadowLight Productions (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Tales from Native California, a lecture/demonstration of California Indian stories. Free.
Poetry Flash at Cody’s (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 p.m.
2454 Telegraph Ave.
Performance poet Sandy Diamond, Quraysh Ali Lansana.
Buses No. 40, 64
Works in the Works 2000 (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 p.m.
Eighth St. Studio, 2525 Eighth St. $8, FOF $7.
Bus No. 65
