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Calendar of Events & Activities
Thursday, July 27
From Bears to Bigfoot
7 p.m.
REI
1338 San Pablo Ave
An Evening With California Wildlife Expert Tom Stienstra: San Francisco Examiner outdoors writer Tom Stienstra. Come find out how to best handle close encounters with bears, rattlesnakes, sharks and more.
527-7377
Tai Chi exercise with Brain
Omeki
1:00 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst at MLK Jr. Way
644-6107
Zoning Adjustments Board
Agenda
7:00 p.m.
Council Chambers
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Items on the agenda will include the request by Patrick Kennedy and Gordon Choyce to demolish the existing building at 2700 San Pablo Ave.
705-8111
Berkeley Art Center’s Salon
for the 16th Annual National
Juried Exhibition
7:30 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center
1275 Walnut St.
Three artist featured in the Berkeley Art Center’s 16th Annual National Juried Exhibition will present slide-lectures of their work.
Friday, July 28
“KPFA on the air”
7:30 p.m.
U.C. Theater
2036 University Ave.
A film reviewing KPFA’s history from the time community-sponsored radio was just an idea in the head of pacifist Lew Hill to July 13 of last year when KPFA staff were booted out of their studio by Pacifica managers and arrested by Berkeley police.
Teen Poetry at Berkeley
Public Library
7:15 p.m.
2940 Benvenue
Teen poets are invited to share their best work at Berkeley Public Library’s Claremont Branch. Doors open at 7:15 p.m., and sign-ups to read will be taken until 8:11.
All ages are welcome to attend, but poets must be at least 12 and no older than 19 to share their work in this venue. There will be prizes for those who turn in the best performances. This free event is sponsored by Teen Services and the Friends of the Library.
644-6100 x313
Conversational Yiddish
1:00 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst at MLK Jr. Way
644-6107
Disablity Awareness and
Outreach Subcommittee
Meeting
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
First Floor Conference Room
Public Works Office
2201 Dwight Way
Items on the agenda will include “Sidewalk Benches and Planters Design Guidelines,” and sidewalk seating and obstacles on the sidewalk.
665-3445 or 548-1351
The Berkeley Gray Panther
1:30 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst Ave.
Come to this forum, hosted by the Berkeley Gray Panthers, to discuss nursing house reform.
548-9696
Saturday, July 29
63rd Annual Bay Regional Golf Tournament
Saturday and Sunday July 29 and 30 and Saturday and Sunday August 5 and 6
Tilden Park Golf Course
The Tournament consists of 72 Holes with a cut made after 2 Rounds. NCGA player points awarded-over $5000 in Prizes
$115 Entry Fee-Entries Close July 19
925-253-0950
Berkeley State Health
Toastmasters Club
12:10-1:10 p.m.
State Health Building, Eighth Floor, 2151 Berkeley Way
Toastmasters International, a nonprofit educational organization, has been working for over 70 years to help people conquer their pre-speech jitters and improve communication skills. The local club meetings the second, third and fourth Thursdays of each month.
649-7750 or higgins_edie@hotmail.com
15th Annual Berkeley Kite
Festival and West Coast Kite
Championships
11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Cesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina
COmes see hundreds of kites take to the sky in the Berkeley Kite Festival, Saturday and Sunday July 29-30.
235-5483
Sunday, July 30
“Hammering it out”
7:30 p.m.
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave
“Hammering It Out” is the story of a community initiated laws that resulted in hundreds of women getting trained and working on a billion-dollar freeway in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s.
$7 donation
“The Secret Garden”
3:00 p.m.
Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
Recommended for ages 8+. Based on the classic children’s book by Francis Hodgson Burnett, this 1949 film version remains a classic in its won right.
Tickets $4
642-5249
Monday, July 31
Newly Diagnosed Breast
Cancer Support Group
Professionally facilitated support group allows members to share their feelings and to support each other in the healing process. Support group held every first, third and fifth Monday of each month.
Call 204-4330 or 204-1769 for time and location.
“Italy: The Land of the Renaissance” with the Julians
1:15 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst at MLK Jr. Way
644-6107
Tuesday, August 1
Genetic Engineering Teach-In
and Strategy Session
6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Ecology Center
2530 San Pablo Ave
From 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. there will be videos on genetically modified food issues followed by a feneral strategy session on local actions. There will be a detailed discussion of upcoming events by the Organic Consumers Association.
548-2220 ext. 233
erc@ecologycenter.org
www.ecologycenter.org
