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Thursday, Nov. 8

Shakespeare and Canonicity 

4:10 p.m. 

UC Berkeley 

Geballe Room, The Townsend Center for the Humanities 

220 Stephens Hall 

Seminar and Discussion with Sir Frank Kermode, literary critic and Shakespeare scholar. 643-7413 www.grad.berkeley.edu/tanner 

Community Health Commission 

6:45 - 9:30 p.m. 

South Berkeley Senior Center 

2939 Ellis St. 

New Business: Bioterrorism Presentation by Public Health staff. 644-6500 phd@ci.berkeley.ca.us 

Women’s Cancer Resource  

Center Gallery Reception 

1- 3 p.m. 

WCRC Gallery 

3023 Shattuck Ave. 

Opening reception with the artists Rowena Halligan and Margaret Herscher. Exhibit runs through Dec. 13. 548-9286 

Long Term Care Coverage 

1 - 3 p.m. 

Herrick Campus 

Maffley Auditorium 

2001 Dwight Way  

Lecture outlining various options for long term care coverage. 869-6737 

Grandparent Support Group 

10 - 11:30 a.m. 

Malcolm X School, Rm. 105A 

1731 Prince St. 

For grandparents or relatives raising their grandchildren and other relatives. 644-6517 

Town Hall Meeting on Standardized Testing 

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. 

Elihu Harris State Building Auditorium 

1515 Clay St.  

Assemblymember Dion Louise Aroner convenes this meeting to discuss the money and effort spent each year on standardized testing. 540-3660 

The Teaching of Gurdjieff,  

7 p.m. 

Claremont Branch Public Library 

2940 Benvenue 

A lecture by Kevin Langdon. Gurdjieff’s teaching puts into question all that we think we know about our own nature and the nature of the universe. Free. 524-0345 www.polymath-systems.com/phenomen/gurdj/index.html 

UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Forum on Nuclear Danger and Global Survival 

7 p.m. 

Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium 

Exploration of nuclear weapons after Sept.11th in terms of terrorism, geopolitics and international responses. Open to the public. Questions for panelists may be e-mailed to: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/nuclearform 

Baguette Quartette 

7:30 p.m. 

North Branch Berkeley Public Library 

1170 The Alameda 

Performance of music heard on street corners, cafes, and dance halls in Paris between 1920 and 1940. Free. 649-3913 TDD 548-1240 www.infopeople.org/bpl 

Latin Dance Class 

7:30 p.m. 

Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center 

1414 Walnut St. 

Salsa, Cha-cha, Merengue... $10, No partner necessary. All ages and levels welcome. 508-4616 

Journeys Along the Arctic’s  

Edge: A Rower’s Odyssey 

7 p.m. 

REI 

1338 San Pablo Ave. 

Join Jill Fredston for a slide presentation on their remarkable adventures rowing more than 20,000 miles along the shores of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Sweden. Free. 527-4140 

– Compiled by Guy Poole