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Calendar of Events & Activities
Tuesday, May 9
Cragmont School Instrumental and Choral Concert
9:30 a.m.
Cragmont Elementary School, 830 Regal Road
510-644-8810
Exercise to music with Doris Echols
10 a.m.
Community meeting about the senior center
1:15 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
510-644-6107
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
Berkeley Farmers’ Market
2-7 p.m.
Derby Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street
510-548-3333
Historical Institutionalism Seminar
4 p.m.
119 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Robert Kagan and William P. Nelson, both from UC Berkeley, will speak on “The Politics of Tobacco Regulation in the United States.”
City Council meeting
7 p.m.
Council Chambers, Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
The council holds its first regular meeting after its spring recess.
Wealth, Poverty, and Alan Greenspan: Social Policy and Macro Economic Policy
7 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, now Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University, will be the featured speaker. This event, sponsored by the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, is open to the public.
510-642-4408; swdean@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Camera Club
7:30 p.m.
Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda
Share your slides and prints with other photographers. Critiques by qualified judges. Monthly field trips.
510-531-8664
DAMO Disabled Advocates of Color presents “New Voices” Poetry Reading (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Avenue.
Disabled poets of color reading their poems of life, love, and surviving being disabled and minorities in America. Hosted by Gary Norris Gray, co-founder. $5, FOF (Friends of the Festival) free.
Wednesday, May 10
Demonstration against Secretary of State Madeline Albright
Noon
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley campus
Bay Area organizations, groups, students, and individuals representing a diversity of issues and viewpoints are organizing a regional response to protest Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s appearance as the Commencement Speaker for UC Berkeley’s graduation ceremony. At 1:30 p.m., protesters will march to the Greek Theatre, where Albright will be speaking later in the day. Demonstrators will be protesting Albright’s support for sanctions against Iraq, the embargo against Cuba, the drug war in Columbia and more.
510-343-2139 x1957; 510-548-0524
Low-vision support group
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
510-644-6107
Discussion of Globalization, hosted by the Berkeley Gray Panthers
1:30 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
Medea Benjamin from Global Exchange will be the featured speaker.
510-548-9696
Carefree, Carfree Tour to Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1:30 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
UC Berkeley Commencement Convocation
4 p.m.
Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley campus
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be the keynote speaker. This event is open to students, faculty and family, and a ticket is required.
510-642-7026
Special BUSD school board meeting
7 p.m.
Board/Council Chambers, Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
The board will discuss reports for the current and upcoming fiscal years. The board also will receive a more comprehensive overview of the Maintenance Report, which highlighted various maintenance problems around the district and funding proposals to address those problems.
Improvisational theater
7:30-9:30 p.m.
The “Improvsters” is a group of intermediate-level improvisational players who meet weekly. The group is looking for additional members; an audience is also welcome and there is no charge to join them. Call the group for specific location.
510-848-4357
Poetry Flash at Cody’s (Berkeley Arts Festival)
7:30 p.m.
2474 Telegraph Ave.
Hannah Stein, Sandra Gilbert will be the featured poets.
Buses No. 40, 64
Pianist John Wolf Brennan and flutist Diane Grubbe
7:30 p.m.
Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave.
Tickets are $12.
510-84-JULIA
New Music Bay Area (formerly 20th Century Forum – Berkeley Arts Festival)
8 p.m.
Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
This is a concert of music by Bay Area composers foreshadowing music of the 21st century. $8, FOF free.
Thursday, May 11
Orchestra concert with elementary students
9:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave.
The first part of the concert, at 9:30, will feature Oxford Elementary School students performing with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. Students from Washington Elementary School will perform at 10:45.
Men’s chorus performance
11:15 a.m.
Movie: Outbreak
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.
510-644-6107
Jazzschool BART Plaza Concert (Berkeley Arts Festival)
Noon
The Brazilian Ensemble, under the direction of Marcos Silva, will perform. The concert is sponsored by the Downtown Berkeley Association, Amoeba Music, BART and the Berkeley Daily Planet.
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
Berkeley Arts Magnet Instrumental and Choral Concert
1:30 p.m.
1645 Milvia St.
Carefree Carfree Tour to Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley Arts Festival)
1:30 p.m.
Meet at the Festival Gallery, 2216 Shattuck Ave.
Update on Haiti
7 p.m.
Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship, Cedar and Bonita
Members of a recent delegation to Haiti, including local activists Pierre Laboissiere, will be talking about their trip, the recent episodes of violence in that country and the upcoming elections. The event is sponsored by Global Exchange, the Bay Area Haitian American Committee and others.
The Plight of the Redwoods
7 p.m.
Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave.
Forest defender Redwood Mary, tree-sitter Nate Madsen (via live cell phone), and Chie Abad, human rights activist and former Saipan sweatshop worker will be on hand to explain the current campaign to focus attention on the connection between sweatshops, Fair Trade, and forest destruction. There also will be a screening of the 20-minute video “ Timber Gap” by the Headwaters Action Video Collective, about the efforts to save the last of Mendocino’s coastal redwood forest from overexploitation.
510-548-2220, ext. 233
