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Calendar of Events & Activities

Friday July 14, 2000

Friday, July 14

Conversational Yiddish

1 p.m.

Opera: “La Gioconda”

1 p.m.

North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.

510-644-6107

Airport System Plan Update

1:30 p.m.

MetroCenter Auditorium, 101 Eighth St., Oakland

The public will have a chance to make public comment on the Draft Final Plan at this time. Copies of the draft are available in the main libraries, on MTC’s website, www.mtc.ca.gov, or can be requested from MTC by calling ahead.

510-464-7815

Berkeley Folk Dancers Beginners’ Try Outs

7:45-10:30 p.m.

Live Oak Park Social Hall, 1301 Shattuck Ave.

Cost for non-members is $5.

510-525-3030

aturday, July 15

Light Search and Rescue

9 a.m.-noon

Fire Department’s Emergency Operations Center, 997 Cedar St.

This summer, Berkeley’s Office of Emergency Services will offer a set of free training classes to help families prepare for emergencies. The classes, open to Berkeley residents at least 18 years old, will be taught by retired firefighters. The classes give hands-on training in how to put on a splint, extinguish a fire, use a fire hose, and more. Call ahead to register. The next class will be held on fire suppression (Aug. 12).

510-644-8736

Berkeley Farmers’ Market

10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Center Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Milvia Street

510-548-3333

Kites

12:30-3:30 p.m.

Lawrence Hall of Science

Centennial Drive, below Grizzly Peak Bld.

Come to the LHS for children’s kite making activities and Indonesian coffee.

510-642-5132

www.lhs.berkeley.edu

Sunday, July 16

People’s Park Rally

1 p.m.

People’s Park

Emergency rally on the future of People’s Park and the 133rd anniversary of the United States’ great strike of 1877. Come hear Gina Smith, Carol Denney, Thunder, Gerald Smith, Roger Wilkins, Folk This, Leon Stevens, Clifford Fred, Michael Diehl, Michael Delacour and more.

510-841-7460

Rent Board nominations

1 p.m.

North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave.

Progressives will nominate a slate of candidates for the November election.

“In Our Own Hands”

2-4:30 p.m.

Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.

This film, part of the Sundays at the BRJCC Cinema series, features lively interviews and rare archival footage telling the story of a group of Jewish volunteers from Palestine who battled to become a fighting unit in the British army during World War II. A $2 donation is suggested.

510-848-0237

“Oliver!”

3:00 p.m.

Pacific Film Archive

2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch

Recommend for ages 8 and up. This musical adaptation of Dickens’ Oliver Twist combines a superb cast, wonderful music and breathtaking choreography to recreate the journey of a young orphan from a paupers’ workhouse to the rough-and-tumble city life of London where he is introduced into a gang of thieves.

Tickets $4.00

510-642-5249

Free Meditation Seminar

2:30 p.m.

St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave.

Experience the Awaking of the soul through mediation on the Inner Light and sound. This event is free of charge.

510-845-9648

“Endangering the Species”

4:30 p.m.

Berkeley Community Media

Cable Channel 25

“Endangering the Species” a video tells the story of homeless people from the perspective of a homeless producer, ASUC Art Student Ken Moshesh.