Arts Listings

‘CLOWN BIBLE’  

This is the last weekend for Ten Red Hen’s innovative Clown Bible, the very original show at Willard Metalshop Theater behind the Middle School on Telegraph Avenue, in which a troupe of clowns pluck red noses, not apples, from the Tree of Life, and re-enact Biblical stories as a vaudeville-like musical comedy revue, in a rather literal rendering of chapter and verse, anointed with circus shtick. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 2425 Stuart St. $15-20. www.brownpapertickets or tenredhen.net. 

EN POINTE DANCE CO. 

EnPointe Youth Dance Company performs at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Roda Theater in downtown Berkeley. These talented high school students not only dance classical ballet, modern and hip hop but choreograph their pieces, design their costumes and lighting, and do all their own fundraising and publicity. $8-12. 2015 Addison St. enpointedance@gmail.com or EnPointe Youth Dance Company on My Space. 

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 

Mary Mackey, Rochelle Ratner, Corrine Robins, and Eileen R. Tabios read at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center St. 525-5476.  

Poets Lisa Fishman and Richard Meier read at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave. 649-1320. Deborah Vinograd and Jan Steckel read at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lakeview Branch Library, 550 El Embarcadero, Oakland. 238-7344. Small Press Distribution hosts poets Juliana Spahr, Will Alexander, Dodie Bellamy and Albert Flynn DeSilver at 2 p.m. Saturday at 1341 Seventh St. 524-1668. Linh Dinh and Graham Foust read at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Evie Shockley and Barbara Jane Reyes read at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave. 649-1320.