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Calendar of Community Events
Saturday, September 7
Watershed Environmental
Poetry Festival
Noon to 5 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Park
A day of poetry, music and environmental activism. Exhibits. Open poetry readings.
Strawberry Creek Walk starts at 10 a.m. at Oxford and Center streets.
526-9105 or www.poetryflash.org
Free
Sick Plant Clinic
9 a.m. to noon
University of California Botanical Garden, 200 Centennial Dr.
UC plant pathology and entomology experts will diagnose what ails your plant.
643-2755
Free
Travel Careers Seminar
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Vista Community College
2020 Milvia St., Room 306
The day’s program will include travel industry speakers covering a variety of career possibilities: Cruise specialists, tour leaders, tour operators, adventure operators, home-based travel agents and more.
981-2931
$5.50 for California residents
Sunday, September 8
Lifelong Medical Care First Annual 5K Fun Run/Walk Fundraiser
9 a.m. to noon
West Berkeley
Individual and team participation. Event includes a health fair, food, prizes, live music and free insurance eligibility screening.
704-6010
28th Annual Solano Avenue Stroll
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Solano Avenue
A mile-long block part featuring “Journey of a Thousand Cranes’ Parade” at 11 a.m.
527-5358 or www.solanostroll.org
Free
Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Berkeley Farmers' Market
Center Street at Martin Luther King Prostate Cancer Lecture
2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Maffly Auditorium, Herrick Campus
2001 Dwight Way
Understand the risk of prostate cancer and how to detect early symptoms from a survivor.
869-6737
Free
Tuesday, September 9
Arts Education Network
6 to 8 p.m.
James Irvine Foundation Conference Ctr., 353 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
208-0842
Free
Berkeley Gray Panthers Home Owners Meeting
3 p.m.
1403 Addison St.
All welcome.
548-9696
Free
Tuesday, September 10
Brown Bag Career Talk
Noon to 1 p.m.
YWCA Turning Point Career Center, 2600 Bancroft Way
Cynthia Weekly, Senior Recruiter with UC Berkeley Office of Human Resources will provide information on the process of seeking temporary and permanent employment at UC Berkeley.
848-6370
Free
Michael Newdow: Lecture
8 p.m.
2050 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley Campus
Michael Newdow is a Sacramento physician with a law degree whose case against the common procedure of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools fueled national uproar last summer.
USE-SANE, sane@ocf.berkeley.edu, http://www.BerkeleySANE.org
Free
Wednesday, September 11
One Year Later, a Peace Vigil and Meditation
6 to 7:30 p.m.
West entrance of UC Berkeley Campus near the corner of University Ave. and Oxford St.
The Buddhist Peach Fellowship invites people of all traditions to bear witness to the continued suffering related to Sept. 11, 2002.
223-0683, www.bpf.org
Thursday, September 12
The 14th Small Business
Development Trade Fair
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Pauley Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, near Telegraph Ave. and Bancroft Way, UC Berkeley
The event will introduce small businesses to the UC Berkeley community and give campus departments a glimpse of the services and products small businesses have to offer.
Caterina Rando discusses her new book “Learn to Power Think: A Practical Guide to Positive and Effective Decision Making”
Boadecia’s Books, 398 Colusa Ave.
559-9184, www.bookpride.com
Friday, September 13
Lecture by Dr. Paul Farmer
7:30 p.m.
St. Joseph the Worker Church, 2640 Addison St.
Dr. Farmer will speak on Health Care and Human Rights: Solidarity with the Haitian People. Benefit for Partners in Health. Music by Vukani Mawethu Choir.
558-0371
$5 to $15 donation
Saturday, September 14
Basic Personal Preparedness
9 to 11 a.m.
Fire Department Training Center, 997 Cedar St.
Learn five critical steps to take care of yourself, your family and your home. Classes open to those 18 or older who live or work in Berkeley.
981-5605, www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/fire/oes.html
Free
Congressman Dennis Kuchinich Appearance
7 p.m.
Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley Campus, near University Ave.
Chair of the House Progressive Caucus will speak. Keith Carson, Country Joe McDonald and performance artist Shelly Glaser will also be on hand.
http://www.bfuu.org/rscongress
$10 in advance, $12 door
Heritage Day
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
4th and University Ave.
International BBQ and beer festival
Free
Spin for the Stars Fund-raiser
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Spieker Aquatics Complex, Recreational Sports Facility on UC Berkeley campus
Noncompetitive swimming and stationary cycling event. Proceeds will help Cal STAR enhance its facilities and programs for the disabled.
$20 registration fee, $35 for biathlon challenge
West Berkeley Open Air Market
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
University Avenue between 3rd and 4th St.
West Berkeley celebrates Neighborhood Heritage Day with crafts, food, live music, art and family entertainment.
841-8562 or sfbayshellmounds@yahoo.com
Free
Sukkot Holiday Workshop
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut St.
Join Dawn Kepler, director of Building Jewish Bridges, for hands-on crafts, food projects, creative sukkah decorations and tips for making your own sukkah (hut).
848-0237 Ext. 127
$10 BRJCC members/$12 public
Monday, September 16
Berkeley Ecological and Safe Transportation (BEST) Coalition meeting
6 to 8 p.m.
Central Library, Kitteredge Street and Shattuck Avenue
Group joins pedestrians, bicyclists, mass transit users and land-use advocates. Topics of discussion include: Berkeley height initiative, pedestrian issues and employer incentive plans. Potluck.
652-9462, imgreen@jps.net
Thursday, September 19
Berkeley Path Wanderers’ Meeting
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St.
Annual fall meeting, titled “The East Bay Waterfront: Visions for the Future” will include a panel discussion introduced by Sylvia McLaughlin, founder of Save the Bay.
524-4715
Free
Breast Self Exam for Seniors
10 to 11:30 a.m.
Maffley Auditorium, Herrick Campus, 2001 Dwight Way
Workshop to educate women with physical limitations about accessing breast health care and do-it-yourself exam education.
869-6737
Free
Freedom From Tabacco
6 to 8 p.m.
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis St.
A quit smoking class. First of six Thursday evenings through Oct. 24. Free to Berkeley and Albany students, residents and employees.
981-5330, quitnow@ci.berkeley.ca.us
Free
Simplicity Forum
7 to 8:30 p.m
Claremont Branch Library
2940 Benvenue Ave.
A panel of people who will share their experiences and ideas for living inexpensively but richly.
549-3509, www.simpleliving.net
Free
Saturday, September 21
Do-It-Yourself all-Natural Body Care from Your Kitchen
Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. Learn how to make your own all-natural skin care from products you might already have in your own kitchen.
548-2220, ext. 233, erc@ecologycenter.org
$10 for members, $15 for non-members
Third Annual David Brower Youth Awards
6 p.m.
Schwimley Theater, 1920 Allston Way
Celebrate the next generation of environmental activists at Earth Island Institute’s award ceremony. R.S.V.P.
(415)788-3666, ext. 260, www.earthisland.org/bya
Coastal Cleanup Day
10 a.m.
Work at the outflow of Strawberry Creek to clean up the San Francisco Bay coastline.
info@strawberrycreek.org or 848-4008
Free
Saturday, September 21
Fall Plant Sale
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
200 Centennial Dr.
Annual plant sale featuring rare and unusual plants. Members-only preview and auction from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
643-2755, www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/
Free admission
Saturday, September 28
Free Legal Workshop: “Crossroads: Health and the Law.”
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
514 58th St. at Telegraph Ave.
Navigate your way through legal issues when living with cancer or any serious illness. Panel presentation on employment, insurance and public benefits and one-on-one sessions with attorneys. Please, pre-register.
601-4040 ext. 102(info.), ext. 103(reg.)
Free
