Arts & Events

Worth Noting:

Monday is absolutely packed with meetings.

The big meeting on Monday is the special City Council meeting at 5 pm with one agenda item – Fair Workweek. Recall that Taplin, Kesarwani, Droste and Wengraf filibustered the passage of the Fair Workweek on November 3, by running out the clock and declining to extend the council meeting to vote on the Fair Workweek ordinance. Fair Workweek applies to workers earning less than twice the minimum wage. See Activist’s Diary for full description. https://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2022-11-06/article/50047?headline=A-Berkeley-Activist-s-Diary-Week-Ending-November-6-2022--Kelly-Hammargren

The Disaster and Fire Safety Commission recommendation for control of vegetation in fire zones with Measure FF funds is up against the City Manager companion report from Chief Sprague to resubmit a year from now at the Public Safety Committee at 10:30 am.

The Civic Center meeting is at noon.

The Agenda Committee at 2:30 pm covers the council draft agenda for December 6.

After the unraveling of the appointment of the police chief last week, the Police Accountability Board meeting at 3 pm is worth considering.

Unless you are an artist or festival organizer skip the 2 pm Civic Arts Commission subcommittee meeting.

Tuesday the Land use Committee at 9:30 am is an amendment to the COVID eviction moratorium. Property owners with rentals and tenants should take a close look at the amendment.

The November 29 council agenda is available for comment. Redesign of Adeline at Ashby BART is item 15.

Happy Thanksgiving, refresh, rejuvenate and reconnect!

Monday, November 21, 2022 -more-

Right from the outset, indeed, beginning with the overture, this new production of Orfeo ed Euridice, staged by Matthew Ozawa and choreographed by Rena Butler, strikes boldly at the heart of this drama — the grief of Orpheus at losing his Eurydice to a deadly snakebite on their wedding day. As acclaimed early music interpreter Peter Whelan conducts Gluck’s vigorous overture, dancers in flowing costumes perform harrowing break-dances emphasising the writhing, tortured expressions of grief as couples embrace then are violently separated. Included among the break- dancers is none other than Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, himself an accomplished break-dancer who sings the role of Orpheus in this production. As that rare phenomenon a distinguished opera singer who is also a remarkable break-dancer, Jakub Józef Orliński has been the subject of feature articles in the New York Times, New Yorker and Polish Vogue. -more-