Arts Listings

Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Tuesday April 17, 2007

CAHILL, KUBERA PLAY RILEY’S ‘WALTZ’ 

 

Duo pianists Sarah Cahill and Joseph Kubera perform vibrant, playful four-hand music by the innovative Bay Area composer Terry Riley, including the premiere of his  

Waltz for Charismas, at 8 p.m. Wednesday.  

This concert is part of the Berkeley Arts Festival, which continues for the next two months.The festival’s new home is the 1925 Walter Ratcliff-designed Fidelity building at 2323 Shattuck Avenue. Tickets for the Wednesday event are $10-$20. 665-9496. 

 

ANGER RISING: THE RESTORATION OF WORKS BY  

KENNETH ANGER 

 

Ross Lipman will present and discuss restorations of the avant garde films of cult icon Kenneth Anger at 7:30 p.m. today (Tuesday) at Pacific Film Archive. The program will include  

Fireworks (1947, 15 minutes), Rabbit’s Moon (1971, 16 minutes), Scorpio Rising (1963, 29 minutes) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965, 3 minutes), all courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. 

 

AYA DE LEON AND POETRY FOR THE  

PEOPLE 

 

Oakland writer/performer Aya de Leon, director of Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley, will read from her poetry at 7:30 p.m. today (Tuesday) at Moe’s Books. 2476 Telegraph Ave. 849-2087.