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Calendar of Events & Activities

Saturday May 06, 2000

Saturday, May 6

Restore a Salt Marsh

9:30 a.m.

Meet on the south side of Buchanan Street, between 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.

510-848-9358; f5creeks@aol.com

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory open house

10 a.m.-6 p.m.

LBNL campus

This is the first open house at the Lab since the fall of 1997. Free parking and shuttle service will be offered from the Downtown Berkeley BART station and from UC Berkeley campus parking lots along Hearst Avenue. The event is free.

510-495-2222; www.lbl.gov/OpenHouse

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. 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. 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. Highlight will be annual PTA quilt raffle. Tickets for 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 – the actual “destinations” will be decided as the bikes travel.

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. Anyone can bring an instrument and join in the fun. Sponsored by 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

Cal Performances: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

8 p.m.

Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus

“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.

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

Chorus and orchestra will perform 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 free concert will feature new music by graduate student composers.

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. 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.

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

BAHA’s 25th Annual House Tour and Reception

1-5 p.m.

This year’s tour and reception will focus on the “Claremont Country Houses and their Gardens: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmstead and Duncan McDuffie.” Tickets are $25 for Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association members and guests, $32 for public.

510-841-2242

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

Share stories of the Park’s rich history of activism. Bring ideas for creating a People’s Park Archive. Sponsored by 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.

Three Tenors

4:30 p.m.

Jazzschool/La Note, 2377 Shattuck Ave.